"The Fugitive" (1963): Season 1; Volume 1 Rumored To Be In The Works! - Page 7

Mark-P · 07-26-2007, 09:35 PM

Regarding the Bosom Buddies theme song, to the best of my memory, "My Life" was ALWAYS a cover version even during the original broadcast.

MatthewA · 07-26-2007, 09:39 PM

Even a cover version would have required payment to Billy Joel's publishing company; he wrote the song.

Mark-P · 07-26-2007, 09:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Corey3rd

The theme song was yanked.

Just out of curiosity, what theme song is used on the DVD set?

Jeff# · 07-26-2007, 11:55 PM

The running times to an official, major DVD release of The Fugitive is irrelevant, because not all episodes of any series are going to run exactly the same length. Even if a piece of music heard in the show was changed (very minor in this case), I don't believe they would cut any dialog or action scenes at all.

Colin Jacobson · 07-26-2007, 11:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MatthewA

There's a dispute about whether the Bosom Buddies theme used on the original run ("My Life") was the originally intended one or the one that has been heard since.

Okay, NOW I see the change for The Fugitive: Billy Joel now plays the theme song!

Jeff# · 07-27-2007, 12:06 AM

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Originally Posted by Mark-P

Regarding the Bosom Buddies theme song, to the best of my memory, "My Life" was ALWAYS a cover version even during the original broadcast.

To offer a serious response, you're correct. But there's a bit more to it than that. The original Billy Joel theme song to Bosom Buddies was always there, but the producers shortened it for the second / final season. ABC may have had something to do with that decision to allow for more commercial time.

Hank Dearborn · 07-27-2007, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff#

The running times to an official, major DVD release of The Fugitive is irrelevant, because not all episodes of any series are going to run exactly the same length. Even if a piece of music heard in the show was changed (very minor in this case), I don't believe they would cut any dialog or action scenes at all.

And you know this how?

Corey3rd · 07-27-2007, 10:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Hank Dearborn

And you know this how?

Please refer yourself to WKRP.

Also they clipped Fall Guy to remove two music numbers from Paul Williams and Don Ho.

If a scene features a lounge singer in a bar and they can't get the rights to "Feelings," they might just snip out any cutaways of the singer at the mic so that we don't realize there's supposed to be singing to the replacement music.

MatthewA · 07-27-2007, 12:36 PM

Paramount is getting worse and worse. They're not even trying to clear music, they're just cutting it automatically without inquiring as to exactly how much it would cost.

Exhibit A: "Put on a Happy Face". Buena Vista didn't mind clearing it for a Golden Girls episode ("Beauty and the Beast," season 7), but for Gomer Pyle it was apparently too great an expense.

Exhibit B: The first episode of Family Ties: contained a Phil Ochs song that was intact on the Columbia House VHS, but cuts the scene in question on the DVD.

Exhibit C: The second seasons of the Garry Marshall/Milwaukee trilogy (Happy Days, Laverne & Shirley, Mork and Mindy). Need I say more?

TravisR · 07-27-2007, 12:51 PM

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Originally Posted by MatthewA

they're just cutting it automatically without inquiring as to exactly how much it would cost.

Unless you work at Paramount, you're making quite an assumption.

Corey3rd · 07-27-2007, 02:08 PM

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Originally Posted by TravisR

Unless you work at Paramount, you're making quite an assumption.

My dealings with trying to get publishing rights has shown that this market has gone out of control on its pricing structures. The music publishing industry has taken a major hit in the past years. People aren't buying CDs. They aren't getting their cut of the pre-recorded action anymore. They're trying to fill in these profit holes by charging outrageous prices to producers. A lot of time they're used to selling their songs for commericals. Madison Avenue doesn't mind writing a lot of zeros when they can nail down the "right" song. And the publishers don't want to consider a major studio a charity case. They want fat cash for their songs - no matter how many scant seconds of the song appeared in the show. They also don't like to work fast so while you're on a production deadline - they don't give a crap cause it's not like you can go somewhere else to get the rights to that song.

I have no proof of how hard Paramount works to clear these titles or what they're budget is for getting these rights, but it almost comes off as a self-defense mode to remove aspects of these shows that allow others to profit and block their releases.

Hank Dearborn · 07-27-2007, 09:34 PM

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Originally Posted by TravisR

Unless you work at Paramount, you're making quite an assumption.

Well, we do know for a fact that that's how Stephen Cannell does business. So why can't we make the assumption that any other studios might take his lead and do the same thing?