ChrisCook

Still no word on Legend...

What is taking CBS/Paramount so long to release this short-lived cult series that aired on UPN in 1995, and starred Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie? This sci-fi western series doesn't have any music rights issues from what I recall and "MacGyver" is about done on DVD. Besides the fact this was a one-season wonder with only 13 episodes, I'm amazed this hasn't been released yet. I can't quite understand why the studio doesn't have this one on their schedule.

Disney/Buena Vista/Miramax: Please put Beautiful Girls on Blu-ray with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer in 1080p, and an anamorphic re-release with bonus features and the original theatrical trailer day-and-date on DVD. Thanks!

A massive letter-writing campaign to ABC is being timed each Thursday. October Road co-creator/Beautiful Girls screenwriter Scott Rosenberg has recently told fans on the ABC.com message board to "fight on." Got drumsticks? We're targeting for them to arrive on Monday, December 15th. Please help in the fight to bring his Beautiful Girls spin-off, October Road, back to the airwaves.

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Jake S.

Re: Still no word on Legend...

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Originally Posted by ChrisCook What is taking CBS/Paramount so long to release this short-lived cult series that aired on UPN in 1995, and starred Richard Dean Anderson and John de Lancie? This sci-fi western series doesn't have any music rights issues from what I recall and "MacGyver" is about done on DVD. Besides the fact this was a one-season wonder with only 13 episodes, I'm amazed this hasn't been released yet. I can't quite understand why the studio doesn't have this one on their schedule.

Yeah, I agree that Paramount should release "Legend".
All 13 episodes aired here in Norway in 2004 (uncut and without commercial breaks), so I already have the series on DVD, but it would be great to have an official release as well, of course.

Actually, Richard Dean Anderson himself only owns 9 of the 13 episodes, so I'm sure he would also be very interested in a DVD set.

He mentioned this in an interview with Starlog in October last year:
Lest anyone forget that show business is a business, there's Legend to consider. Anderson discussed the SF/Western series - in which he co-starred with Star Trek's John de Lancie - in STARLOG #216. UPN axed the show back in 1995, after just a handful of episodes aired. Anderson loved the project and hopes it will one day turn up on DVD, though he seriously doubts that will happen.

"I wish," he sighs. "Who knows if it's even in their archives? Hopefully, it has all been saved over there at Paramount. My former business partner, Mike Greenburg, sent me all the episodes he had. He could only find nine of them, and we shot 13. So I'm craving them myself. But, no, there has never been any talk about a DVD. I don't think anyone is interested in it, other than those of us who were involved in Legend and people with a keen eye for a fun romp, like STARLOG, and I thank you for that. But I don't even know what it would take to get something like that launched."

The whole interview can be found on rdanderson.com.

As for music rights issues, there was a song by the Crash Test Dummies that was played in the episode "The Life, Death, And Life Of Wild Bill Hickock".
But I don't think there were any other songs.

AlexF

Re: Still no word on Legend...

You'd think that this would have been prepped during the MacGyver releases. Or possibly tied into the SG-1 stuff. Or the Star Trek Q box set. I know that it'll appeal to fans of each of those. Heck, I've never seen it, and I'd get it as a blind buy. Just for those two actors.