Alias Smith and Jones

Barbara,G · 12-12-2006, 11:40 AM

We are finally getting this Febuary 20th. This is another great show I am looking forward to.

Mary_P · 12-12-2006, 11:50 AM

Wow, is it Christmas already?!?! What great news!

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=6714

P.S. Gord -- fix the spelling! It's "Heyes" and Curry!

JeffWld · 12-12-2006, 12:03 PM

Good to see that they are including the 90-minute pilot movie in this set. Let's hope that this doesn't wind up being another one on Universal's ever-growing list of "one and done".

Jeff Willis · 12-12-2006, 12:36 PM

Barbara, you beat me to the "post"

This is another one on my list. Ironic, but recently my nephew and I had a conversation about TV/DVD. He's mainly a movie DVD guy, but we were talking about the recent slow-down during the 2nd half of '06 in 60's-80's TV/DVD's and I said "Maybe the market has peaked". He said "Nope, I wouldn't be surprised if in time most TV series will see a release." Normally I'd have said "What do 'Millinium Kids' know?" Now, with several series' announcements posted on TSoD for Q1 '07, it's looking

for next year. That signature's getting smaller

Doug^Ch · 12-12-2006, 01:16 PM

So much for the thread about the demise of classic TV on DVD. I can't even keep up with the deluge of product.

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Mary_P · 12-12-2006, 01:19 PM

No kidding. My shelves (note plural!) of stuff waiting to be watched are entirely full now and I'm sure I'll be adding more to it in the next couple of months, including, very happily, this release. Except that they won't take up long-term residence on the waiting-to-be-watched shelves, 'cause that puppy's going straight into the player the moment I have it in my hot little hands!

Jeff Willis · 12-12-2006, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Doug^Ch

So much for the thread about the demise of classic TV on DVD. I can't even keep up with the deluge of product.

Doug, I was thinking the exact same thing. We tend to "give up the ghost" too soon when it comes to the older series getting released.

Gary OS · 12-12-2006, 07:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff Willis

Doug, I was thinking the exact same thing. We tend to "give up the ghost" too soon when it comes to the older series getting released.

As one who was leading the chorus of "Classic TVonDVD has been abandoned" I have to come clean and say I was at least partially wrong. The studios, especially Paramount, have shown that this isn't the case. The only thing I'm concerned about at this point is continuations of classics. And again, most of the studios are doing a decent job on this. At present, the only series I'm really interested in that seem to have hit a snag are LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL, MY FAVORITE MARTIAN, and THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY. Each of these seem to be in limbo and that does concern me somewhat. I'd hate to see all these newly announced classic titles fall victim to the done-in-one syndrome (even though all four have had more than one season released, I trust you know what I mean).

If any one of the four series I mentioned above are announced by year's end, then I'll completely and unabashedly say I was 100% wrong about the trend. But until I see at least one of these shows continue, I'll still be slightly reserved about the future of Classic TVonDVD.

Gary "just my two cents" O.

Liz*I · 12-12-2006, 09:26 PM

My own dvd-rs of this series is crap so what a great surprise. I honestly didn't think I'd ever see this any time soon.

Cees Alons · 12-13-2006, 04:20 AM

Great news!

I waited for this a very long time (only have the pilot and first episode on VHS). Yes, I do hope they bring out the complete series (even with the change in the Hayes-actor).

(Next wish is the original The Virginian.)

Cees

Jeff Willis · 12-13-2006, 09:18 AM

Ditto, Cees

Your post brings up a good question for "Alias Smith & Jones" fans. Which did the other posters prefer in the role, Pete Duel or Roger Davis? My vote is for Pete Duel.

Cees Alons · 12-13-2006, 09:53 AM

My vote is Pete Dual too. He is Hannibal Hayes (silver tongue and all

).

I'm not sure of this, but I always believed that Roger Davis (didn't know his name, BTW) was a guest star in one of the previous episodes.
In my memory, he was the one gun-slinger who was almost as fast as "Kid" Curry and was the one person who had to shoot it out with him. The gunner-with-the-smile, or so. Or the smiler-with-the-gun.

(They used the famous visual "click-trick", as I called it, for him too.
You know, if it's Curry: Curry is seen facing a villain and has his hands in an almost impossible position to draw - e.g. holding his reigns in two hands, often advising the other guy not to draw his gun - and then we see the villain starting a quick draw, close-up of villain, but while he's only half-way we hear "click": a gun getting cocked, next image shows Curry with his cocked gun pointing straight at the surprised villain who only has his own pistol half-way out of the holster. Very funny effect.)

N.B.: "Villain" = not Hayes or Curry, but anyone opposing our heros.)

Cees