Which short-run (1 season or less) show would you MOST like to see on DVD? - Page 10

I'm sure there are many but these shows come to mind immediately that may not have been mentioned (apologies if they have)...

WAY OUT (1961)
BREAKING POINT (1963-64)
UNDERMIND (1966)
THE MEN (ABC 1972-73)
Comprising of: ASSIGNMENT: VIENNA, JIGSAW and THE DELPHI BUREAU
MAKE ROOM FOR GRANDDADDY (1970-71)
NANCY (1970-71)
SEARCH (1972-73) I'm happy to see others here have not forgotten this unique show!
ANDRA (1976)
Edited by PatrickGoodluck - 11/18/11 at 11:06pm

Pretty good choices. I've been able to see Way Out, Breaking Point and Nancy at various archives and I like all 3 shows very much. I also saw a couple of Assignment Viennas, which I had never watched originally, and thought it was pretty good as well. MRFG I watched when it aired and liked but if the original series couldn't release more than 2 seasons, its unlikely to ever come out. Don't know Undermind and Andra, must be foreign series.

Couple of suggestions:

 

 

Nightmare Cafe - NBC series which ran for 6 episodes between January and April 1992, and starred Robert Englund and Jack Coleman

No Exit - anthology series which ran on the BBC in 1972

The Partners - NBC series which ran during the 1971-72 season for 20 episodes, and starred Don Adams.

Edited by WaveCrest - 11/19/11 at 12:01pm

The Great Adventure, an American history anthology series with a Richard Rodgers title theme that ran for a half year on CBS.

Thanks for your positive reply.
I assume when you say "foreign" you meant not American made. (I just corrected my typing as I first wrote "un-american" but that has a different connotation altogether )
Yes, Undermind is a U.K. sci-fi show (which you now know because I noticed you replied to my last thread about this) and Andra was an Australian sci-fi production. It was a sequel to another show that was broadcast 2 years earlier called "Alpha Scorpio". You can view the first epsode of that show here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7QOln0fro

I was contemplating writing more about "Andra" in a new thread but not sure if anyone would be interested as it seems to have been a largely forgotten show, even in the annals of Australian TV history. Sad as that is, I do have fond memories of watching this show as kid.

I've never seen The Men before but I've heard a lot of great reviews about the 3 shows, particularly Assignment: Vienna starring Robert Conrad.

Way Out I've seen has been mentioned on this forum before (http://www.hometheaterforum.com/t/138394/i-would-love-to-see-way-out-1961-tv-series-on-dvd) and have only seen the 5 episodes that have been circulating amongst collectors.

Breaking Point is an interesting show. It is very slow paced but that didn't bother me at all as the subject matter or the "psychiatric analysis" was a more integral part of the show. I can see why television audiences weren't ready for something so deep at a time when action westerns were all the rage.

There were 17 episodes of Nancy. It didn't help that it was up against The Odd Couple on ABC in the same timeslot. It was another creation of the great Sidney Sheldon. I've never seen the show but would be very interested in seeing it. I just recently bought a U.S. TV guide from November 1970 which had the cast of Nancy on the front cover. This is largely the reason why this show sprang to mind.

Another show that lasted only one season that I just thought of that I would dearly LOVE to see on DVD is the Australian/U.S. anthology series The Evil Touch. I think this would be very marketable as the show has a remarkable array of American guest stars including: Darren McGavin (2 episodes); Carol Lynley (2 episodes) and Leslie Nielson (2 episodes). I guess it was more worth the actors time and expense to appear in more than one episode considering the long travel to Oz and back. The series was brilliantly hosted by Anthony Quayle. The opening sequences with him talking amidst the smoke scared the living daylights out of me as a kid!

"Frank's Place" the great Hugh Wilson/Tim Reid series from 1987. Unfortunately it's one of many shows we will never see because of the prohibitive cost of securing music rights and for this show the music was very important.

I would really love to see the short-lived fantasy series The Wizard on DVD. It starred David Rappaport from Time Bandits. Unfortunately, it has never been rerun once since its original run, and it's owned by Fox, a company that ignores many of their even more popular properties.

Neil, I'm not sure if this is the right topic to put this question in, but here's a question I have (I'm asking this question to the best of my ability).

Let's say there's a show you like (it can be long-running and successful, or short-lived and unsuccessful) that you've been taping regularly. Unfortunately, the series gets canceled, and any episodes that haven't aired are immediately shelved. And if they do show up in syndication, you have no choice but to end up with the edited versions of them, and unless the unaired episodes resurface on DVD sets, you're SOOL. Is there anyway to get the unaired episodes in their full-length, never aired on network TV form?

I suppose you could hope that some "insider" might hi-jack the unaired episodes, and bootleg them.

Its been ages since I've been on the forum other than updating my watched episode list. So putting up a new list of one season or less shows I would like to see on dvd

Adventures in Wonderland (1991) Starring Elisabeth Harnois
Against the Law (1990) Starring Michael O'Keefe
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1992) Starring Evan Richards
Bodies of Evidence (1992) Starring George Clooney
Bull (2000) Starring Elisabeth Rohm and Malik Yoba
The Burning Zone (1996) Starring James Black
Century City (2004) Starring Viola Davis and Hector Elizondo
Class of 96 (1993) Starring Jason Gedrick
The Client (1995) Starring JoBeth Williams
Courthouse (1995) Starring Annabeth Gish and Michael Lerner
Cupid (1998) Starring Jeremy Piven
DAG (2000) Starring David Alan Grier and Delta Burke
E-Ring (2005) Starring Benjamin Bratt
Eerie Indiana: The Other Dimension (1998) Starring Lindy Booth
The Expert (1999) Starring Paget Brewster (Pilot)
Eyes (2005) Starring AJ Langer and Eric Mabius
Fast Times (1986) Starring Patrick Dempsey
First Monday (2002) Starring Joe Montegna
FreakyLinks (2000) Starring Ethan Embry
Gary the Rat (2003) Starring Kelsey Grammar
Gemini Division (2008) Starring Rosario Dawson
Get Real (1999) Starring Anne Hathaway
Ghost Cop (1998) Starring Paget Brewster (Pilot)
Glory Days (2002) Starring Eddie Cahill (Demontown the UK release seem hard to find can only find the first one and out of stock)
The Good Guys (2010) Starring Colin Hanks
Grapevine (2000) Starring George Eads
The Great Defender (1995) Starring Kelly Rutherford
Heist (2006) Starring Dougray Scott
Help Me, Help You (2006) Starring Ted Danson
Hot Springs Hotel (1997) Starring Samantha Phillips
Ink (1996) Starring Ted Danson
Inside Schwartz (2001) Starring Breckin Meyer
Jack and Bobby (2004) Starring Bradley Cooper and Christine Lahti
Journeyman (2007) Starring Kevin McKidd
The Jury (2004) Starring Adam Busch
Karen Sisco (2003) Starring Carla Gugino
Karen's Song (1987) Starring Teri Hatcher and Patty Duke
Kate Brasher (2001) Starring Mary Stuart Masterson
Kevin Hill (2004) Starring Taye Diggs
Laws of Chance (2006) Starring Viola Davis
LAX (2004) Starring Blair Underwood and Heather Locklear
Lifestories (1990) Starring Robert Prosky
Lifestories: Families in Crisis (1992) Starring Jorja Fox and Calista Flockhart
Line of Fire (2003) Starring Leslie Bibb
Love & Money (1999) Starring Paget Brewster
Loving (1983) Starring Susan Keith
The Lyon's Den (2003) Starring Kyle Chandler and Rob Lowe
Madman of the People (1994) Starring Cynthia Gibb
A Man Called Hawk (1989) Starring Avery Brooks
Mancuso FBI (1989) Starring Robert Loggia
Mann and Machine (1992) Starring Yancy Butler
Miami Medical (2010) Starring Elisabeth Harnois (don't think its getting a second season, seeing as she now a regular on CSI)
Midnight Patrol: Adventures in the Dream Zone (1990) Starring Elisabeth Harnois
Miss Match (2003) Starring Alicia Silverstone
Missing Persons (1993) Starring Jorja Fox
Mowgli: The New Adventures of the Jungle Book (1998) Starring Sean Price McConnell
MythQuest (2001) Starring Meredith Henderson
Night Visions (2001) Starring Henry Rollins
North Shore (2004) Starring Brooke Burns and Shannon Doherty
Now and Again (1999) Starring Heather Matarazzo
Partners (1999) Starring Melissa Sue Anderson
Pearl (1996) Starring Carol Kane and Rhea Pearlman
Raising Dad (2001) Starring Kat Dennings
Rock Me, Baby (2003) Starring Dan Cortese
Scoundrels (2010) Starring Virginia Madsen
Secret Agent Man (2000) Starring Dina Meyer and Paul Guilfoyle
Shell Game (1987) Starring Marg Helgenberger
Standoff (2006) Starring Ron Livingston and Gina Torres
Strange Luck (1995) Starring D.B. Sweeney
Threat Matrix (2003) Starring Kelly Rutherford
The Trouble With Normal (2000) Starring Paget Brewster
Tucker's Witch (1982) Starring Alfre Woodard
Vanished (2006) Starring Ming-Na
WIOU (1990) Starring Wallace Langham and Helen Shaver
Women's Murder Club (2007) Starring Angie Harmon

Well, what time frame are you talking about? I can tell you that up until several years ago, Canada would usually air the episodes, even if the show was yanked off the air here. I remember being in Australia when they picked up the run of American Embassy, which Fox pulled with a couple of shows still to run. Frequently foreign markets get a show, regardless of its been yanked off the air in the U.S. or not, and they air the full run of the shows, uncut. So, other than trying to somehow finagle screeners out of the producers or production companies, your best bet would be contacts in overseas markets to record them for you. Hope that helps. If you mentioned some shows specifically, I might be able to give you more info.

I can tell you that I really like Nancy but its not a very good show. Really, the only selling point, to me at least, is that Renne Jarrett is absolutely gorgeous and is so adorable. She plays the epitome of the wholesome, girl next door type that you would love to bring home to mom. Beyond her appeal, there's really not a heckuva lot to recommend the show. Its rather boring actually. Sony has never done anything with this show, even in the 80s when they were pulling almost everything they had off the shelves and selling them to cable. But if you ever get to DC, they have a full set of them at Library of Congress.

It actually ran for a full year. Interesting show, from the ones I've seen from film and from TV Land.

Thought The Great Adventure only ran half a season. Shows how the memory plays tricks. In any event, I'd love to get any episodes of it. As noted, however, it stands no chance of a release. A google search shows up no trace of any source.

For this thread, I offer up:

Players (1997-8)--ran for a season on NBC-TV, with an inconsistent airing schedule and not all episodes aired as filmed: the final two episodes were pulled and did not air in my town.

The Hoop Life (1999-2000)--ran for a season on Showtime. 22 episodes aired over a course of seven months.

And I did try to tape each of these episodes--as many as I could in knowing the schedule beforehand. However, I did not get them all but I got as many as I could. I still have these tapes in my library to this day.

What fun times those were. These TV series each remind me of the fun I had in those days.

Oh, and I also recorded Snoops as well, the old Gina Gershon series from 1999. Another fun show in a fun time that clearly was.

Neil, an example of this would be the unaired episode of married with children from season 3. I know that nowadays its on DVD, but back then, if you lived in America, it was very hard to get it.

Room 222, during iTs final season had 1 unaired episode.
Edited by vnisanian2001 - 11/25/11 at 6:53pm

Yes, I collected MWC and that episode was a tough one to get, I agree. The unaired Room 222 is in the syndication package. Its when a show doesn't make it into syndication ever that the unaired episodes are really tough.

I would really, really, really love to see "Living With Fran" on DVD.

Nikki, back.

, that's an impressive list. Hope you see some of your favorites released soon.

I think I posted this one before here but one short-season show that I'd like to see released is

"A Peaceable Kingdom" (1989 / Lindsay Wagner) 12 episodes.

Higher Ground (2000) Starring AJ Cook
Open All Night (1981) Starring Bubba Smith

Open All Night sounded like a good comedy series (also starring George Dzundza).

 

Good to see you on here again Nikki.

Thanks and thanks Jeff

One show I forgot was

New Amsterdam (2008) starring Nicolaj Coster-Waldau

Another vote for the series Occasional Wife. Found out about this Michael Callan-starring series in the last few weeks, after the Scorpion release of Double Exposure (1983). Thought he had guest starred in a few episodes of Murder, She Wrote, but checking his IMDb filmography found out he had starred in a one season only comedy series called Occasional Wife.

 

Could this possibly be released by Shout! Factory, as Screen Gems Television is listed as it's production company on the series' IMDb company credits page?

Edited by WaveCrest - 3/24/12 at 10:39am

It was an enjoyable series, and the two leads had great chemistry together. I don't believe I watched every episode, but I saw enough of them to have left with a great fondness for Michael Callan especially. (He was the original Riff in West Side Story on Broadway for those who didn't know.)

THE POPCORN KID.  Nothing like six episodes of kids working in a movie theatre with Penelope Ann Miller, Faith Ford and Bruce Norris.   

Here are a few more that haven't been mentioned:

• Everything's Relative (Kevin Rahm, Jeffrey Tambor, Jill Clayburgh)
• The Good Guys (Bob Denver and Herb Edelman)
• Doctor in the House (UK)

And I'll add my vote for the following:

• My World and Welcome To It
• He and She
• Ellery Queen
• Frank's Place (it really was too good to last)
• I'm Dickens, He's Fenster
• Nichols

Finally, although it ran for four seasons, I really want a proper set of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis. There are a lot of bootlegs floating around the net, but I suspect their quality isn't very good.

Ellery Queen (the Jim Hutton series) was released last year in a superb package.

That's a good show. I just watched them all a few months ago and I liked it a lot.

My Walker, Texas Ranger Collection will not be complete until CBS/Paramount releases the Trial by Fire Movie along with the short-lived Spinoff Sons of Thunder.

How about, It's About Time. It was one season. Look I know it is not Masterpiece Theater but it would be a nice piece to add to my 1960's collection.