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post #61 of 107
6/22/10 at 3:23pm

I remembering hearing in regards to Warner releases- the studio has a finite, pre-determined number of release slots per any given year. In other words, they just don't release whatever they suddenly feel like releasing. If great elements to something they've long wanted to release suddenly show up, that new disc doesn't get added to the release sched- it move in and something else gets pulled.

 

So assuming that all studios work with a fixed number of release slots, it makes perfect sense that slower moving, on going titles would get placed on hold while new titles get folded into the mix to see how well they do. If they take off, they get fast tracked. If they don't sell any better- or sell worse- then the older titles come back and more seasons get released- and so on.

 

Eventually this show will continue on DVD. The rest of it can't come fast enough for me, but at least in the mean time other stuff I also enjoy is getting folded into the mix (like Sgt. Bilko, hopefully more Barnaby Jones, etc).

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post #62 of 107
6/24/10 at 3:21pm

The third season being released on Region 2 in the UK in September all depends on whether the BBFC add listings to their website for the 23 third season episodes. And if they do add listing pages to their website for all of the 23 third season episodes, then the boxset should or will be released on Region 2 in the UK. The interesting listing will be for "Mask of Death". If the total running time is around the same as the other episodes in the third season, it will be interesting if the episode has the music intact or has been substituted.

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post #63 of 107
8/18/10 at 3:07pm

I think it's very unlikely the third season is going to be released by CBS DVD (UK) on Monday 20th September (the release date given on Amazon.co.uk). The BBFC haven't passed anything yet for the third season (season three of The Untouchables is still coming out on Monday 13th September though).

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post #64 of 107
8/24/10 at 12:08pm

This is another series I am trying to compile a list of the composer on each episode of and am wondering if any kind fans here can help -- even if just five episodes.

 

The list so far, culled from three different sources:

 

TVScores.150m.com/TSOSF.html

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post #65 of 107
8/11/11 at 9:13am
Sorry to bring up this old thread but I was wondering if there is any further news on the the rest of the seasons being released on DVD?
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post #66 of 107
8/11/11 at 9:22am
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Originally Posted by brian MC View Post

Sorry to bring up this old thread but I was wondering if there is any further news on the the rest of the seasons being released on DVD?



I wish. I loved this show so much even if it was expensive to buy I still want more. Maybe they could start it back up and release both VOL of Season 3 sep and let those who want to buy both VOLUMES at once. Would be nice.

 

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post #67 of 107
8/21/11 at 12:47pm
I have S1/S2 on dvd and would love to see this set completed. It has been over 3 years since S2 came out. I am starting to wonder if we will see this set completed.
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post #68 of 107
8/21/11 at 1:20pm
It's really too sad that nothing seems to be happening with this, or appears to be in the pipeline at all, as it's the last truly great season with several excellent episodes in my opinion anyway. Like one more with Leslie Nielsen, for example. The last two seasons to be perfectly honest weren't that hot, in particular season 4 made it painfully clear why Michael Douglas left shortly after. Some pretty weak stories there for the most part except for only a handful of very good ones, like another heavy turn for Bill Bixby.
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post #69 of 107
8/22/11 at 1:37pm
Henry I'd honest like to see all the seasons released Streets of San Francisco released even the Richard Hatch year I just loved Karl Malden's Mike Stone character it was fun for me to watch and it was one of my favorite shows to as a kid 1970's along with great fun shows like Adam 12 , Kojak , Columbo , Mccloud, Mannix, Five-o , etc... to name a few. And from what I read Micheal Douglas didn't leave the show poor scripts it was his long term project "one who flew over the cuckoo's nest" was finally come to fruition and 1974 season he was been run ragged back and forth between TSSF and working on Cuckoo' nest he left the show. If he didn't have the movie project he would not have left the show. I think it was split season format and charging full price for the half seasons is what damage the sales of the sets killed the sales figures and lead paramount putting season three on hold. I'd be happy with a Mannix style full season release. STSF are finally back in re runs here In the L.A. tv market ota on channel 56.3 me tv . So maybe it will drum up more interest. Who knows frown.gif
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post #70 of 107
8/22/11 at 3:45pm

Bob, are they showing the third season at the moment? I ask, because I'd be interested to know if "Mask of Death" has the music intact or not.

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post #71 of 107
8/26/11 at 1:45pm
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Originally Posted by WaveCrest View Post

Bob, are they showing the third season at the moment? I ask, because I'd be interested to know if "Mask of Death" has the music intact or not.


Hmm right now their showing early season 2 in some crazy out of order fashion ,(accord to the IMBd episode order) showing episodes 4 and 5 before 3? LOL tongue.gif . So far they have not skip over any episodes and there haven't been any obivous musical deletions . Yeah so I will be watching to see what they do with the John Davison episode too I've got the Streets on a season pass on my Tivo so I give it a close going over when it shows . I remember watching "mask of death" as kid and it creep me out big time LOL but it was a great episode.biggrin.gif
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post #72 of 107
4/2/12 at 4:24pm
Finally:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Streets-San-Francisco-Season-3/16758

Yay! Thought we'd never see this. Now I can quit rationing S2V2...
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post #73 of 107
4/2/12 at 4:28pm
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Originally Posted by Guy Foulard View Post

Finally:
http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Streets-San-Francisco-Season-3/16758
Yay! Thought we'd never see this. Now I can quit rationing S2V2...


I will be ordering both Volumes! I imagine they will be just in a standard plastic style keepcase, but I have been waiting a LONG time for more episodes! I wanted to start re-watching the first 2 seasons but was afraid I'd be angry that there would be no news for season 3 

 

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post #74 of 107
4/2/12 at 6:05pm
Great news. Its funny but watching this and watching Ironside, how much of a better show this is all around. Great location shooting all over one of the best cities in the world while Ironside is done as all Universal shows, on the cheap and shot on the back lot. This is like the SF version of Hawaii Five-O. Not to mention the better guest stars. Funny the stuff you see as an adult that you never paid any attention to as a kid. But I watch these Universal series now and they look so hokey. Now, only a matter of time before we hopefully get the official word on the last seasons of Have Gun and Untouchables.
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post #75 of 107
4/2/12 at 6:06pm
Wonderful news at last. The covers may be less cool looking but what counts is that it's finally continuing and remastered according to their Bible, with seasons 4 and 5 in progress.
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post #76 of 107
4/2/12 at 8:42pm
Agreed, this is excellent news--I had given up to the point where I made homemade DVDs of the last 3 seasons from a local station that has been running them virtually uncut, but the prints were very lousy. The CBS prints have been remastered in HD according to the syndication bible, so this is a no-brainer. Someone had reported a while back that the sales were pretty weak for the first 2 seasons, so I'm thrilled they're giving this show another go.

Much as with Hawaii Five-O, I love the easy-going chemistry between Malden and Douglas, I love the location shooting, I love the top-notch guest stars, and many of the stories are very entertaining.

If I recall, the syndication bible indicated that all of the remaining 3 seasons are being remastered in HD, so this bodes well for seasons 4 and 5 coming to DVD. Even watching some of the season 5 shows, Richard Hatch and Malden manage to have chemistry as well, but Hatch simply lacks the sheer talent and charisma of Douglas, despite his best efforts.
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post #77 of 107
4/3/12 at 4:05am
Unbelievable.....-I´ll pick up both volumes. I´ve never thought that CBS/Paramount will continue with the series.

I thought it has been stalled!
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post #78 of 107
4/3/12 at 5:27am
This is great news! I have S1-S2 on dvd and love this show, especially how well karl malden and michael douglas worked together. I had heard there was issues with music and that is why the set was delayed. In any case it is good to see S3 is being released!
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post #79 of 107
4/3/12 at 7:35am
Hatch guested in other Paramount shows before like Cannon, and I always thought he did fine as Inspector Robbins. Problem was he just wasn't given much to do but follow Malden around, whom the show had now become all about. Even Douglas had less to do in season 4, which in my opinion's the weakest season with somewhat soapy plots. Hatch did get an episode though with more substance, the extraordinarily excellent "Who Killed Helen French?" much revered for the brilliant performance by guest star Marlyn Mason, incredibly it's among the whole series' best episodes which is quite remarkable considering the lesser stories after season 3. But season 5 of course, had a great rare starring role for a young Arnold Schwartzenegger as a disturbed bodybuilder so much can be forgiven.
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post #80 of 107
4/3/12 at 8:46am
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Originally Posted by Neil Brock View Post

Great location shooting all over one of the best cities in the world while Ironside is done as all Universal shows, on the cheap and shot on the back lot. This is like the SF version of Hawaii Five-O.

I totally agree here! Even in a weakly-plotted episode, it's a visual treat to get an eyeful of the HD transfers of that terrific early-seventies SF. Really fascinating to me--sometimes I get distracted by what's going on in the background. Compared to earlier QM shows like The FBI, the lack of backlot shooting really opens it up.
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post #81 of 107
4/3/12 at 9:51am
Yes, location shooting does help boost a series a good deal overall by just making the plots *seem* better. Streets is indeed much like Five-O in that regard. I'm very happy this is getting unstalled, and I hope there's similar good news for "Barnaby Jones" in the near-term as well.

That said, I tend not to be quite as harsh on the Universal shows of this era if they date from the late 60s period, when backlot shooting was more the norm. LA based shows of course could be location with no problem like "Adam-12" and "Columbo", but its when I see next to no pretense at giving us a SF feel in later seasons of shows like "McMillan And Wife" or when obvious LA locations are always in plain sight in the supposed Washington setting of "Six Million Dollar Man" that it does start to wear a thin a bit and you have to rely entirely on your interest in the actors and storyline itself.

One Universal exception in this era is "Kojak" which did step up its level of NY location shooting as it went on even though it also has its share of backlot shooting.
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post #82 of 107
4/3/12 at 4:41pm

Not much more to say at this moment, other than...excellent news. One of the best bits of TV on DVD news I've read so far this year (and the year is still young, sort of). Didn't think it would be unstalled. Hopefully "Mask of Death" will have the music intact.

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post #83 of 107
4/4/12 at 5:13am
Isn´t it odd that they´ll release Volume 1 and 2 on the same day?

But I appreciate it, of course.....
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post #84 of 107
4/4/12 at 5:54am



I believe they released season 2 that way or I could be thinking of the past season of Dynasty, they have done it with some other shows. I think One of the seasons of Vegas was released like that also both volumes out on the same day. Oddly enough the upcoming Season of Vegas i believe they only announced VOL 1 only.  :-(

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Isn´t it odd that they´ll release Volume 1 and 2 on the same day?
But I appreciate it, of course.....


 

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post #85 of 107
4/4/12 at 10:56am
Thread Starter 
I love the great location footage on all the QM shows like Streets Of San Francisco, Cannon, and Barnaby Jones. I am a fan also of Ironside despite its extensive use of the Universal Lot, stock footage for San Franicsco scenes, and its very few location scenes actually in San Francisco. Martin was a great producer. Martin spent more money on his shows and the results show up on the screen. Martin insisted on lots of location footage on his shows. While I love Ironside too, there is no comparison between watching beautiful locations footage scenes in San Francisco, and Universal backlot, stock footage, and outdoor scenes not in San Francsico. Quinn Martin and Karl Malden considered the city of San Francisco to be one of the 3 stars or the show-- Malden, Douglas, and San Francisco! Someone else said the Streets of San Francisco provides a great time capsule to 1970's San Francisco and they are right! Since there were not many, if any tv shows shot in San Francisco in the 1970's, if Streets of San Francisco would not have been made think .of the "time capsule" that would have been lost! You wouldn't have seen the city of San Francisco by watching Ironside! LOL Someone else said and I agree you sometimes can just watch the beautiful locations in San Francisco and get caught up in them! Quinn Martin shows like Streets of San Francisco, Cannon, and Barnaby Jones are superior television!

God Bless!
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post #86 of 107
4/4/12 at 10:58am

the amazon Pre-orders are up for Season 3 Volumes... I ordered both. Dynasty you can choose to get the fill season on pre-order as opposed to the two Volume releases.

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post #87 of 107
4/4/12 at 11:07am
Strange about that sole Vega$ volume yes, but maybe it's a whole new strategy from them with the same date for both volumes. Making it even stranger of course Streets is not a one set season release in the first place, but hey that's less important now. And Robert's correct, chapter master Quinn was the King of captivating storytelling TV in the 1960s and 1970s.
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post #88 of 107
4/4/12 at 12:39pm

Have asked TVShowsOnDVD about the music in the third season episode "Mask of Death". They've asked CBS/P and the answer is...Season 3 - Volume 1 will have the episode ("Mask of Death") with the music intact. Great stuff!

 

 

 

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Was the 1992 TV movie Back to the Streets of San Francisco shot on film and edited on videotape? Just wondering if that could be transferred to HD, with the fourth and fifth seasons being transferred to HD.


Edited by WaveCrest - 4/4/12 at 2:25pm
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post #89 of 107
4/5/12 at 2:52am
I´m surprised that CBS/Paramount will release Season 3 after three years.

Hopefully other CBS/Paramount shows such as "Matt Houston(Season 2), Barnaby Jones(Season 2), Cannon(Season 3), Jake and the Fatman(Season 3) will released as well someday...
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post #90 of 107
4/5/12 at 9:43am
There's always hope so anything could happen, if they can resurrect Streets of San Francisco after a substantial break maybe we can all look back at a very good year come December. It's a pretty good Paramount year so far I think with Mannix, Vega$ and Streets. But of course they all have one thing in common, they've been HD transferred and that could play into it. However, I'm not sure how up-to-date their CBS Syndication Bible really is.
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