6os tv show dennis the menace ever on dvd?

Tony Zannikos · 07-14-2006, 03:16 PM

With the avalanche of old tv shows coming to dvd the last couple years, im surprised this hasnt hit yet. Id bet it would sell as good as leave it to beaver.

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marcSo · 07-14-2006, 03:24 PM

I for one would love to see this show come to dvd.hopefully with sony releasing hazel season one and the flying nun this year hopefully dennis the menace won't be far behind.I would definatly purchase all 4 seasons.

Tony Zannikos · 07-15-2006, 09:04 AM

I want this so bad id even get a best of collection of episodes, if they would release it.

Nick=Ma · 07-15-2006, 10:56 AM

I saw this show when TVLand reran it a few years back, but they only showed the first season and some of the second. I would love to see the entire series be released.

Joe Lugoff · 07-15-2006, 11:32 AM

If "Hazel" does OK, I'd expect "Dennis the Menace" to come along -- after all, that comic strip is still running in many newspapers, whereas "Hazel" came to an end (in the Saturday Evening Post) many years ago.

The only thing is that "Hazel" became a color show for its last four seasons, where "Dennis" stayed black-and-white all the way through -- maybe Sony is giving preference to "Hazel" because it was mostly in color.

Gary OS · 07-15-2006, 12:14 PM

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Originally Posted by Joe Lugoff

The only thing is that "Hazel" became a color show for its last four seasons, where "Dennis" stayed black-and-white all the way through -- maybe Sony is giving preference to "Hazel" because it was mostly in color.

I'd say there's no "maybe" about it, Joe. Sony has definitely demonstrated that they have an aversion to releasing black & white television shows in their library - with the only exception being if the show quickly moved to color. Even then, they had to offer colorized versions of black and white seasons (see Bewitched and Jeannie).

Gary "I think it's pathetic that Sony execs seem to be so scared of their black and white catalog - they have one of my favorites, 'Father Knows Best', and I'm not sure they'll ever release it" O.

Jeff# · 07-15-2006, 12:26 PM

I saw the Dennis the Menace sitcom in 1980s basic cable reruns. It wasn't particularly good or worth buying, although Joseph Kearns (a cast member on The Jack Benny Program on the radio in the late 1940s and early 1950s) gave the performance of his career as Mr. Wilson, whom Dennis drives crazy. When Kearns died in 1962, he was replaced for the final season by another veteran -- Gale Gordon as Mr. Wilson's brother John.

marcSo · 07-15-2006, 12:51 PM

If sony has no interest in releasing their catalog of black & white shows.Then hopefully they would sell the distribution rights to someone else and have them release those shows.Perhaps a company like mpi home video.shows like dennis the menace.the donna reed show and father knows best need some kind of a dvd release.

Michael Alden · 07-15-2006, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by Jeff#

I saw the Dennis the Menace sitcom in 1980s basic cable reruns. It wasn't particularly good or worth buying, although Joseph Kearns (a cast member on The Jack Benny Program on the radio in the late 1940s and early 1950s) gave the performance of his career as Mr. Wilson, whom Dennis drives crazy. When Kearns died in 1962, he was replaced for the final season by another veteran -- Gale Gordon as Mr. Wilson's brother John.

Well, thanks again for more threadcrapping. Maybe if we can find a show that you are actually looking forward to we'll see if you like folks trashing it. But then again, it doesn't seem that that's ever the case.

Jeff# · 07-15-2006, 09:57 PM

And once again Michael Alden needlessly reacts like a lamb to the slaughter!

Joe Lugoff · 07-15-2006, 11:58 PM

Does anyone know if "Hazel" is going to be offered in b&w and colorized versions like "Bewitched" was?

As for the quality of "Dennis the Menace" -- like all Screen Gems shows of the era, it was a very well-done show. However, they did tone Dennis down after the first season. He became much less of a menace and more a do-gooder who caused trouble by trying to help people and making things worse. I suspect they got some complaints from parents who thought they might have been making a hero out of a bratty kid. Dennis the Do-Gooder was a little nauseating.

I like Gale Gordon as much as the next guy, but whether he's Mr. Conklin, Mr. Wilson or Mr. Mooney, he's always exactly the same.

Jeff# · 07-16-2006, 08:56 AM

Gale Gordon was also quite good on the radio as Mr. Scott, the Rexall sponsor in The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

As for nasty kids, it was on that series in which Julius was always causing problems for Phil and Frankie and he did it intentionally. That boy was the devil incarnate and the writers never toned him down.

Joe Lugoff · 07-16-2006, 11:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Jeff#

Gale Gordon was also quite good on the radio as Mr. Scott, the Rexall sponsor in The Phil Harris - Alice Faye Show in the late 1940s and early 1950s.

As for nasty kids, it was on that series in which Julius was always causing problems for Phil and Frankie and he did it intentionally. That boy was the devil incarnate and the writers never toned him down.

Yes, I think Julius was the meanest kid in the history of radio or television.

However, that show was aimed at adults, while "Dennis the Menace" was very popular with children (I was one of them at the time.)

Some of Dennis' first-season shenanigans could be downright dangerous if kids copied them. On the very first episode, he sneaks out of the house at night to go to the movies -- alone! -- and he's all of six years old. Can you imagine a kid doing that nowadays? He'd never be seen again. :-(

Tony Zannikos · 07-16-2006, 12:02 PM

Joe, that is 1 of the main reasons it needs to come on dvd, because you never see stuff like that happening today.I remember watching these episodes in syndication as a kid in the 80s , the first 2 seasons were my favorite, but id still get them all.