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Re: Classic 50s cop show on the way from Timeless!
As someone who has been collecting TV shows for almost 30 years now I've learned to accept various quality. To me, it's more important to have the show than to fret over whether or not it's pristine. Yes, it's great when a company does it's due dilligence and comes up with great elements. But I'm also realistic as well. As I have documented in numerous posts, Universal does not give a damn about the majority of it's library pre-1980 and with the exception of a couple of shows (Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Leave it to Beaver) has no interest whatsoever in their 1950s properties. The only reason a show like M Squad is even coming out is that Universal doesn't have to do any work. They let a company like Timeless accumulate the episodes on their own, from 16mm prints that fell off the back of a truck and landed in collectors' hands. And Universal just gives them the rights and collects a paycheck. You are never going to get beautiful, remastered from 35mm print episodes of the majority of 1950s shows. The companies don't care, the 26 year olds working there never heard of the shows and the in-house costs are prohibitive. So if you need to see something on your 100 inch TV in perfect quality, you might as well forget seeing almost any show from the 50s. I wish that wasn't the case but that's not the reality.
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