Our protests have a least registered to the point where it looks like CBS/Paramount will not be releasing another Fugitive volume this year. I hope this doesn't mean that they have abandoned the series though. The Fugitive is so good, it shouldn't be allowed to die on DVD.
CBS/Paramount should just hire an expert and eliminate the Capitol music cues while keeping the rest of the original score entact. Then they should release the second season of the Fugitive as a complete set, by-passing the split into volumes this time. Only through something like this can they earn back the respect of the fans and restore a tarnished reputation. I hope someone over there is beginning to realize this.
...CBS/Paramount should just hire an expert and eliminate the Capitol music cues while keeping the rest of the original score intact. Then they should release the second season of the Fugitive as a complete set, by-passing the split into volumes this time. Only through something like this can they earn back the respect of the fans and restore a tarnished reputation...
Well said! They brag about putting their programs "on a pedestal". Now it's time for them to back up their words with action.
Our protests have a least registered to the point where it looks like CBS/Paramount will not be releasing another Fugitive volume this year. I hope this doesn't mean that they have abandoned the series though.
I suspect we won't see Season 3 or Season 4 unless/until gold hits $3,000 an ounce.
You'd think, however, they'd at least kick out S2 V2 before they slammed the door on Dr. Kimball.
You know... could CBS/P be intentionally sabotaging their product so they only have the produce half a season, then say sales were poor and kill it?
What exactly would be the point of that? No company releases something saying "I hope this doesn't sell so we don't have to keep making money from it."
What exactly would be the point of that? No company releases something saying "I hope this doesn't sell so we don't have to keep making money from it."
No one ever accused TPTB of logic. But think about it, how many shows got abandoned thanks to sub-standard releases? I sometimes wonder if they deliberately half-ass some releases just to shut us up and bury the title.
Maybe CBS assumed they could just write off a show like Fugitive or My Three Sons anyway since shows like CSI and more recent fare sell better anyway, I dunno.
I sometimes wonder if they deliberately half-ass some releases just to shut us up and bury the title.
Basically, you're saying that instead of spending nothing and ignoring fans of a series, the studios spends money in the hopes that it fails so they lose the money they invested in releasing the DVDs?
EDIT: I'm not trying to belabor this or make it an issue but I just can't see any studio doing what I described above.
If CBS spent money to re-score the entire Season 2, I find it puzzling (whether they want it to fail or not) that they don't release the second half of S2.
Maybe they're waiting for the smoke to clear, thinking that memories are short and a Q2 or Q3 2009 release will make it through the general public.
You'd think it would be easy to get inside the head of a CBS/Paramount executive...there's a lots of room!
I don't think you invest in a new music library, however hideous and idiotic the idea may be, if you're not looking to go the distance.
I think they're going to eventually release season two volume two with butchured music. Nothing they have said or done has indicated the contrary. M3S S1V1 made me go dig back through and look at reconstructing more FUGITIVE episodes. Seems to me the writing is clearly on the wall at this point.
You know... could CBS/P be intentionally sabotaging their product so they only have the produce half a season, then say sales were poor and kill it? At this point, I wouldn't put anything past these guys.
According to some people, everything in the world is a conspiracy of some sort. Hilarious.
Let's take time now to re-visit "The Fugitive" once again (and with the proper Pete Rugolo music accompanying him):
Not to support unauthorized sets or anything, and I'd much rather have the official release...but have any Fuge fans here ever gotten any of the "complete uncut" entire series sets hawked online? I wondered how the pic quality is....are they time compressed etc. hey if Paramount wants to screw up the music and we want the real thing what other choice do we have than to get the series elsewhere?
