Which short-run (1 season or less) show would you MOST like to see on DVD? - Page 8

Don't think I've suggested these two before:

Sleepwalkers - an NBC series which starred Bruce Greenwood, Abraham Benrubi and Naomi Watts. A few episodes of it were released on DVD in the UK, but not the complete series

Glory Days - shown in the US on The WB, this short-lived series was released on DVD in the UK, but not the whole series.

I'd like to see Swift Justice with James McCaffrey and Strange Luck with D. B. Sweeney.

Since I just posted a review of 'The Rich Little Show,' I will cast my vote for 'The Copycats,' featuring Little, Frank Gorshin, George Kirby and Marilyn Michaels, a never to be equaled all-star team of celebrity impressionists.

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Since I just posted a review of 'The Rich Little Show,' I will cast my vote for 'The Copycats,' featuring Little, Frank Gorshin, George Kirby and Marilyn Michaels, a never to be equaled all-star team of celebrity impressionists.

LOL! I just wrote about this in your Rich Little thread. Here's another vote for this series!

Mine would be -

1.  Search/Search Control/Probe.

then it would be -

2.  My World and Welcome To It

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Mine would be -

 

1.  Search/Search Control/Probe.

then it would be -

2.  My World and Welcome To It

Two of my favorites.

Doug
 

The Dakotas

The Islanders

The Green Hornet

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and Strange Luck with D. B. Sweeney.

Another vote for Strange Luck.

An updated list, this time mentioning how many of these series actually have unaired episodes! Maybe they were all flops, but I'd like to see what we missed at least. By the looks of the list, we missed a lot! Shows get cancelled all the time, but it's baffling how some of these had only one episode left to show and the networks didn't even bother to do that for the fans. Well now's their chance to make it for it...all of these shows would be good MODs:

Angie (36 episodes, unaired series finale!)
Central Park West (21 episodes, 4 unaired)
The Charmings (21 episodes, unaired series finale!)

Cliffhangers (10? episodes, 1 unaired)
The Colbys (49 episodes)
Get Real (22 episodes, 2 unaired!)
Good and Evil (11 episodes, 5 unaired!)

Hail to the Chief (7 episodes)

It's About Time (26 episodes)

Joanie Loves Chachi (17 episodes)

Life is Wild (13 episodes)
Logan's Run (14 episodes, 3 unaired!)

North Shore (21 episodes; unaired series finale!)
Pacific Palisades (13 episodes)
The Pruitts of Southampton (26 episodes)

Push (8 episodes; 5 unaired!)

The Quest (9 episodes, 4 unaired!)
Reunion (13 episodes, 4 unaired!)

Savannah (34 episodes)
Second Noah (21 episodes)
Summerland (26 episodes)
Three Moons Over Medford (8 episodes)

Titans (13 episodes, 2 unaired!)

Veritas: The Quest (13 episodes, NINE unaired!!)

Young Americans (8 episodes)

Thanks for posting that updated list Ethan. One or two of those shows I've never heard of. Out of those which I've heard of, I'd very much like to see The Colbys released (I'm keeping optimistic about this series being released on DVD). I've heard of Summerland, but never saw it when a UK channel showed it a few years ago.

Also would like to see the following short-lived series released on DVD:

Push, Nevada

Vengeance Unlimited

Delta House

Markham

Probe

Lady Blue

Mariah

Something Is Out There.

I would throw out Mortal Kombat. It was a syndicated show and the ratings were actually strong enough for a second season. Unfortunately it fell prey to the same financing issues that doomed the Lost World. As a result, it ended with Shao Kahn  seemingly having killed his enemies, including the good guys, and Rayden as his prisoner. Obviously this was a cliffhanger but it ended up with the bad guy winning. Perhaps the most unusual ending in television.

Dear Ethan:

A few other series with unaired episodes:

Salvage 1 (4 unaired episodes)

Spy Games (4 unaired episodes)

James

Adding to the list of short-lived TV series I'd most like to see released on DVD:

The Long Hot Summer - starring Roy Thinnes

The Psychiatrist (NBC) - starring Roy Thinnes (based on it's TV.com episode guide there is 1 x feature length pilot movie and 6 x 60 minute episodes)

San Francisco International Airport - starring Lloyd Bridges and Clu Gulager (based on it's TV.com episode guide, possible 1 x feature length pilot and 6 x 60 minute episodes).

I haven't checked all the other entries to make sure I'm not duplicating, but I'd love to have all 19 episodes of Norman Lear's political satire

THE POWERS THAT BE, with John Forsythe, Holland Taylor and an hysterically suicidal David Hyde Pierce.

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Dear Ethan:

 

A few other series with unaired episodes:

 

Salvage 1 (4 unaired episodes)

Spy Games (4 unaired episodes)

 

 

James

Salvage One had unaired episdoes? I loved that show! I'm dying to see "new" episodes!! Of course the pilot was the greatest tv movie of its day, but the series was fun too. I do love adventure-type shows but they never seem to last too long... :(

Some more suggestions:

Dear Detective (CBS)

Gunslinger (CBS)

Key West (FOX)

Longstreet (ABC)

Nakia (ABC)

Paris 7000 (ABC)

Rebound (ABC & DUM)

Sam (CBS)

The Telltale Clue (CBS)

Tequila & Bonetti (CBS)

Three for the Road (CBS).

I'd really like to see "Partners in Crime" with Lynda Carter and Loni Anderson. Also "The Amazing Spider-man" with Nicholas Hammond. Campy but fun!

Add me to the list that would love to see THE POWERS THAT BE!!!   That was the first time that I remember seeing Holland Taylor and she was hysterical!!  Great, fun show!

I would also add:

BRET MAVERICK

YOUNG MAVERICK

HUMAN TARGET ( the original series from the 80s with Rick Springfield)

GREEN HORNET

the rest of my choices have at least two seasons, so I will leave them for another thread!

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Also "The Amazing Spider-man" with Nicholas Hammond. Campy but fun!

Knew there was something else. The Nicholas Hammond Spiderman TV series was shown/repeated on BBC2 some years back (probably in the early 90's). Good, entertaining fun.

I'd like the see The Smothers Brothers Show again. This was their sitcom (with Tommy as an angel) that ran for a season a couple of years before they came back to TV with their hit variety series.

I didn't go through all the posts, but I'm sure I'm not the first to mention My Mother The Car.

And with short run shows like Car 54 and I'm Dickens, He's Fenster getting DVD releases, My Mother The Car doesn't seem too farfetched.

Oh, and Fantasy Island 1998.

Wizards and Warriors.

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Wizards and Warriors.

Bless you! I thought I was the only one who remembered that series. Great theme song, and a fairly different fun series that really deserved a full season to find its niche.  I thought Julia Duffy was a hoot as Ariel.

James

With the popularity of BETTY WHITE at an all time high, why don't they release her
14 episode 1977-78 series THE BETTY WHITE SHOW with her and John Hillerman
and Georgia Engel.  Seems the right time to do it!

APPLE PIE -- I've also always been fascinated by this 7 episode series.
It seemed ABC had no confidence in it right from the start.  First they
scheduled it on Saturday night, then aired it only twice -- and one of those
airings was opposite a baseball playoff game.  It was something different,
that's for sure.  The star was Rue McClanahan, a woman in 1930's Kansas City
who wanted a family, so she assembled one by way of the want ads.  They
included actors Dabney Coleman and Jack Gilford.   It was based on a play
by Steve Tesich, who won an oscar for writing the film "Breaking Away" at
about this same time. 

I actually saw three studio tapings of this series and I loved them!
So I saw the first two that aired and three others.  So I've seen 5 of the 7.
One of them guest starred Mae Questal (the voice of Betty Boop) and another
had an actor who would go on to more fame in his future -- James Cromwell.

I also second the motion for THE POWERS THAT BE, an extremely funny show
that NBC totally mishandled.  Would love to see that one.

And call me crazy, but I've always been interested in those shows that have
gotten notoriety for one reason or another, but no one has ever really seen, like:

MY MOTHER THE CAR has been noted as one of the worst series ever, but if
we watched it now, would we think so?  I mean, it's about a talking car, but so was
Knight Rider.

TURN ON!   -- Only aired ONCE and was cancelled because of  immediate complaints
of being too sexual and etc.  But they did several episodes never aired.

SNIP! -- A series starring David Brenner who played a hairdstylist.  A show that
was cencelled before it even went on the air; I've heard because it featured a gay
character that NBC (again) was just too nervous about.  But they did at  least 5 episodes.
Would love to see it.

And because I like All in the Family, I'd love to see the 21 episodes of GLORIA
and the 6 episodes of 704 HAUSER ST. (1 never aired) that were related to it.

LETTERS TO LAUGH-IN; at the height of the popularity of the variety series, this
game show was tried by NBC to counteract the afternoon hit Dark Shadows and
the popluar syndication of Gomer Pyle, USMC.  It got trounced in the ratings and
only lasted three months.  (About 60 shows?)  But when I could get home from
school in time, I remember it was like coming home to a party every afternoon,
with celebrities galore, many from the variety show, in a format that had them
telling jokes sent in by viewers and the studio audience rating them.  Lily Tomlin
appeared on this show before her actual first Laugh-In appearance.  Would love
to see this somehow. 

"I can dream, can't I?"

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The Psychiatrist (NBC) - starring Roy Thinnes (based on it's TV.com episode guide there is 1 x feature length pilot movie and 6 x 60 minute episodes)

 

Richard, did you know that Peter Duel guest starred on one episode of this series? He played a very dramatic role as a junkie and was so taken with it that he determined this was the type of acting he wanted to do and the type of roles he wanted to play, not the light comedy parts he had on GIDGET and LOVE ON A ROOFTOP. Some say it was the impression this part made on him that caused him to become despondent during the making of his third series, ALIAS SMITH AND JONES, and may have been a contributing factor in his suicide.

It would be interesting to see that episode.
 

Pete Duel was in the 2-hour pilot of "The Psychiatrist" (also distributed as a movie under the title "God Bless the Children") and in the first one-hour episode of the series. I'd love to see a decent transfer of the series, as well as several of his other guest appearances from around the same time, such as on "The Young Lawyers," "The Interns," "The Bold Ones," and "Matt Lincoln."

I'd love to see "LOVE ON A ROOFTOP" get a dvd-set. It played at the Paley Centre not too long ago from restored prints. It was assumed this meant it was going to have some sorta release, but so far nothing.

Also would love to see:

HIGHCLIFFE MANOR (1979) with Shelley Fabares, Audrey Landers, Jenny O'Hara, Stephen McHattie and Chris Marlowe

ONE IN A MILLION (1980) with Shirley Hemphill

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Pete Duel was in the 2-hour pilot of "The Psychiatrist" (also distributed as a movie under the title "God Bless the Children") and in the first one-hour episode of the series. I'd love to see a decent transfer of the series, as well as several of his other guest appearances from around the same time, such as on "The Young Lawyers," "The Interns," "The Bold Ones," and "Matt Lincoln."

Thanks for the clarification, Mary. Did he play the same part in both the pilot and the first episode? Also, was the pilot ever released as a feature on home video?

As for a short-run series I'd love to see again, last night I was thinking how much I used to love THE DELPHI BUREAU from the early 70's. I had a chance to see the pilot for it a few years ago, but the series itself is nothing but a fading memory. If I remember right, it was about a reluctant secret agent played by Laurence Luckinbill who was more the intellectual type than a rough and ready hero. His gimmick was that he had a photographic memory and could call upon anything he had ever read to help him navigate all sorts of nefarious situations.

When it started out, I believe it was a show in a broadcast format like the one used for THE PSYCHIATRIST, though on a different network. Here each show was an adventure show and it alternated on a weekly revolving basis. The only two other shows I remember being part of it were ASSIGNMENT: VIENNA and JIGSAW. Were there more?

(And, yes, I know I can just look all this up right now, but sometimes it's more fun to have one's memory tested and corroborated/corrected by others, i.e. this is supposed to be a FORUM!).

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Richard, did you know that Peter Duel guest starred on one episode of this series? He played a very dramatic role as a junkie and was so taken with it that he determined this was the type of acting he wanted to do and the type of roles he wanted to play, not the light comedy parts he had on GIDGET and LOVE ON A ROOFTOP. Some say it was the impression this part made on him that caused him to become despondent during the making of his third series, ALIAS SMITH AND JONES, and may have been a contributing factor in his suicide.

 

It would be interesting to see that episode.
 

 

It rings a bell (I'm sure I've read that somewhere recently, that Pete Deuel appeared/guest starred in another TV series other than Alias Smith and Jones). I'd be interested in seeing The Psychiatrist released on DVD, as I very much enjoyed Roy Thinnes' work on The Invaders and his appearances on The X Files (as Jeremiah Smith).

And whilst it didn't get turned into a TV series, a TV pilot called The Norliss Tapes (starring Roy Thinnes) is available on DVD.

Regarding Gidget, in the A-Z of US network and cable TV shows, it says it ran on ABC during the 1965-66 season and was based on a series of movies, the first of which starred Sandra Dee. In the mid to late 80's there was a syndicated series called The New Gidget. That show's pilot was Gidget's Summer Reunion, a 1985 TV movie.