It Takes a Thief - Page 3

 Or Wagner could play the role that Malachi Throne played.

You guys are talking as if there is a DVD release on the books. Did I miss something?

And put me down as another -1 for Wil Smith. He failed in Wild Wild West. Can't they just leave well enough alone and let it go? Any remake, as mentioned above is going to be mindless action.

that makes two of us

So, any word on what company is putting this out? I hope this rumor is correct. I had someone recording the show for me off RTN and I told him to stop. Hate to have this turn out to be bogus.

Okay, so we are now over a half a year later from when we had the rumor of a release and still nothing has been confirmed. Did this turn out to be nothing more than a false alarm?

I hope not but no news is perhaps "hope" news....one thing I've seen in this business, anything's possible.
 

I'm hoping this was more than a rumor as well.  But I have to admit it looks a tad gloomy at the moment.

 

Gary "but as Jeff said, you really never know so I'll keep hoping" O.

Season one is being released in Germany over two sets. The soundtracks are English and German

 

http://www.amazon.de/Ihr-Auftritt-Al-Mundy-Staffel/dp/B003JXVT6Y/ref=pd_sim_d_1

 

http://www.amazon.de/Ihr-Auftritt-Al-Mundy-Staffel/dp/B003JXVT7I/ref=pd_bxgy_d_text_b

 

3 Discs per set - If I figured the runing times right, the pilot movie should be on box 1.

     Wow, great pickup. We should start a separate thread on shows that have come out in Germany but not here. For instance, Mr. Terrific, Bionic Woman, Six Million Dollar Man, mutltiple seasons of Bonanza. That's just off the top of my head as I'm sure there is much more.
 

Good info!  I think "Fury" is also available from Ama Germany, the complete set with English language option. 

 

I nearly bought that BW S3 German set but since the R1 is coming, I decided to wait.
 

I have the Fury set and I've seen some of the Bonanza episodes.  Both are very nice.  There's also High Chaparrel.  Probably a few others I can't think of.

 

Gary "it definitely pays to have a Region Free player" O.

with the shipping from Europe that comes to almost $43 per half season set.  I think Amazon Germany charges nearly $19 for shipping.  Is there somplace else that charges less for shipping?

Didn't know about Fury. I picked up the first release of that from the recent release in England. Are all 114 episodes out in Germany?

I don't have the set but Gary does.  It's advertised as the complete set with English language tracks.  The prints are good Q.  The set contains 19 discs with 2825 total minutes according to the product page.  Link is here

 

I haven't bought it yet as the price is a little more than I'm willing to pay at present (99.95 Euros = $121.12 US) the last time I looked at Amazon Germany's page. 
 

whats taking so long for it takes a thief to get released on DVD

I can confirm Madman Entertainment has been prepping a Region 4 release for a while - we're looking at a November release date at present, but it may slip to 2011 if there's a delay with some elements.

That's cool news, Grant!  Is Madman looking at any other unreleased Universal properties?

 

Hi Jason,

We are, but have to wait until materials issues are sorted before we can announce.

Cheers

well if there are no region 1 releases, looks like my money will go Down Under again.

I´ve just read that they have remastered the first season for their German release.

 

We don´t know whether the Aussies remastered the series as well?

 

I´m German and I will definitely pick it up in two weeks.

 

Then I´ll give you a review how the picture quality of the first season is........

 

It would be great if Madman would put out some of the Universal shows that are unlikely to see a U.S. release. Things like Name of the Game, Bold Ones, Run For Your Life, Owen Marshall, Bob Hope Chrysler Theatre, etc.

Well, I guess that would depend on if those shows ever aired down under and if there's another interest to release them.

 

I'd personally like to see the Kenneth Johnson series Cliff Hangers! Now that Madman have released Darkroom, they're probably our best chance for a release Cliff Hangers!

 

I know Cliff Hangers!, at least aired there in 1980 or 1981. My "off-air" recording of the final episode (which wasn't shown on NBC) comes from the 1980-81 airing on Australian TV.

To anyone that has been watching this on RTN over the years, I just decided to start DVR'ing it this past weekend based on fond memories of it from my youth. It turns out (without knowing it) I ended up beginning at season 1, episode 2 "It Takes One to Know One". From posts it looks like it has been playing on RTN for a few years now. Hopefully, it will continue for at least one more complete run.

 

My question is, does RTN show the (pilot) season 1 episode 1 "A Thief is a Thief"? I know sometimes networks are reluctant to show the starting episode when they are going to continue cycling through a series. Just curious so I'll know if I will catch it the next time around or should seek an alternate source.

 

Also, is the TV movie version "Magnificent Thief" significantly better with the additional 24 minutes added?

I think I saw it when RTN first came to my then location. Unfortunately, that RTN has pretty much scrapped away all of the classic programming and mostly show Judge shows now. You can't always trust the ads on that station, they say a classic is coming on and a Judge show comes on or maybe a more recently made series. Not all RTNs are the same. Perhaps ratings were bad but what did they expect? Rather than tell anyone it was there with ads on its parent station or bill boards or newspaper ads, they just quietly became it for two to five weeks then switched back to pretty much the same format they had before they became it but keeping the name RTN. Most of their ads were for NBC programing, the local affiliate's parent station, it should have been that local NBC and their press pushing it like they do with their all news stations or all weather station. This saddens me, so much potential here and local markets are not even trying to garner interest.

 

  

      If you are expecting RTN to run a series complete and in chronological order, good luck. Their program schedule seems to be whatever tape gets pulled off the shelf gets aired, meaning the amount of duplication is enormous. I've had a friend recording some shows for me off RTN for almost 2 years and I have some episodes of shows that I've gotten 10 copies of. They have no rhyme or reason to what they air.
 

 

I guess it is more likely a coincidence that I started on episodes 2 and 3 more then anything else. That may also explain why they have no synopsis of the episode to be played on any given day, just a generic paragraph about the show. With no help from the network (no synopsis or logical ordering), at least "It Takes a Thief" has the episode title within the show itself.
 

any more news on the Madman release?

RTN plays the episodes in somewhat order, but messy, and they tend to skip episodes. It took me a long time (multiple run throughs) to get almost all of the episodes - some were skipped for several cycles. Now, it appears that they don't air it on weeknights and instead show the A-Team, though the weekend afternoon broadcasts I think are intact.

 

They have never aired the pilot and I noticed that when the series was on Hulu, it never had the pilot either. I don't know what happened to it, but I did find parts of it online to watch, but annoyed that I couldn't catch it on RTN.

 

It took me, I think, three full runs on RTN before I had all the episodes. There were a few they kept skipping but eventually they turned up. Quality is only so-so of course. They never did play the pilot, but the movie version ('Magnificent Thief') can be found on VHS.

More information and a review of the German DVD set here.