Something new and B&W is being released next month (apologies if this has already been posted):
"Lost and forgotten in a garage in New Jersey for over 50 years, the Deadline TV series (1959-61), which dramatized stories drawn from actual newspaper headlines of the 1950's, has been rediscovered...
This is encouraging. The CBS MOD DVDs for The Young Lawyers were unremastered, but uncut and watchable, so hoping they have full-length, un-sped versions of Ben Casey in the vaults.
I ordered my Series 1 from DeepDiscount -- $43.11, plus tax, no shipping cost. I'm gambling these will be pressed discs, so I'm willing to pay a little more than Amazon.
I can't believe this stinkin' series is finally being released. So psyched! I'd actually stopped checking this thread...
The death of Burt Reynolds reminds me that I'd love to see a DVD set of the one-season Dan August ("A Quinn Martin Production"). I'd settle for an Amazon MOD set (a la The Young Lawyers) at this point.
A couple of new B&W TV era listings I just stumbled across on Amazon. I'm assuming these are classified as Public Domain. VCI is saying they're restored, and they're releasing them on Blu-Ray:
Television's Lost Classics Volume One (2 Prime Time Specials): "This is a special series of lost...
ClassicFlix is planning to release the TV version of Blondie (1957) on DVD...and maybe Blu-ray?
Not quite my thing, but figured some here would be interested!
I originally saw this on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in the 90s: http://www.shoutfactorytv.com/mystery-science-theater-3000/mst3k-code-name-diamond-head/54bd4f7a69702d070c4c6400
For me, the complete four-season Naked City for $25.49 (inexplicable pre-release price at Amazon). I'd been anxious to get the whole series after getting the mixed early releases a few years earlier, so I would have happily paid $100 or so for it. (Now can someone do that with The Defenders?)
This stuff never really bothers me. There's so much artifice in older movies and television that after a lifetime of seeing it, I just take it as part of the suspension of disbelief you have to bring to things from the studio-bound era. It's also fascinating to track the changes from location...
The video quality is pretty so-so, and I don't think either series is a huge classic--but I bought them. ;)
One thing they have in common with each other: a complete change in supporting cast with the first proper episode.