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post #1 of 29
Thread Starter 

What’s Left is a simple thread with a simple question for everyone.  If you could only choose one (or at the very most 3) titles in any given genre, what would you like to see released.  This does not concern stalled shows.  We are talking only about shows that haven't had any season set releases in R1 up to this point.  So what's your favorites by Genre?  Here are mine.

 

Sitcom – Ozzie and Harriet, Wonder Years

 

Family – Lassie

 

Western – Stagecoast West, Wide Country, Rifleman

 

Anthology – Fireside Theater

 

Medical Drama – Dr. Kildare

 

Drama – The Millionaire

 

Adventure – Tarzan

 

Sci-Fi – Six Million Dollar Man

 

Mystery – Hec Ramsey

 

Animated Series – Harlem Globetrotters

 

Crime Drama – In the Heat of the Night

 

Detective – Adventures of Ellery Queen (50’s), 77 Sunset Strip

 

Legal Drama – The Defenders

School Drama - Mr. Novak (easy choice here for me)

Newspaper Drama - Big Town, The Roaring 20's (I know, but it fits here too)

War/Military Drama - Navy Log, 12 O'Clock High

 


Anybody else?


Gary "try to really narrow down your choices to one show if possible" O.
Edited by Gary OS - 2/5/10 at 6:58am
post #2 of 29
Family - Wonderful World of Disney

Medical Drama - Medical Center

Animated Series Hot Wheels/Skyhawks (Sorry, these are my HOLY GRAILS! Consider it a DEAD HEAT.)
post #3 of 29

These are mine, though I dropped a few categories...

Sitcom
– It's a Living/Making a Living, The Brady Brides, Filthy Rich

 

Family – The Kids from C.A.P.E.R.

 

Anthology – Darkroom, Cliffhangers

 

Drama – The Bradys

 

Adventure – The Powers of Matthew Star

 

Sci-Fi – The Bionic Woman

 

Mystery – Mrs. Columbo/Kate Columbo/Kate Loves a Mystery

 

Animated Series – Gilligan's Island/Gilligan's Planet

 

Detective – Tucker's Witch

 

 

post #4 of 29
SCI/FI  -  Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman (do you really want one without the other?)

WESTERN - Maverick / Young Maverick / Bret Maverick

ADVENTURE/ACTION - Swords of Justice

SITCOM - Sanford / Grady

MISC - Batman

SERIAL - Flamingo Road
post #5 of 29
Sitcom: The Tycoon, Hank, Many Happy Returns

Family: Lassie

Western: The Road West, Legend of Jesse James, Temple Houston

Anthology: Playhouse 90, Great Ghost Tales, Dupont Show of the Week

Medical Drama: Breaking Point, The Eleventh Hour, Medical Story

Drama: Bus Stop, Slattery's People, The Lieutenant

Adventure: The Islanders, Greatest Show on Earth, The Alaskans

SciFi: Science Fiction Theatre, The Immortal, The Sixth Sense

Mystery: Coronet Blue, The Investigators, Man Who Never Was

Animated: Calvin and the Colonel, Super Six, Crusader Rabbit

Crime Drama: The Lineup (a/k/a San Francisco Beat), Tightrope, Dan August

Detective: Target: The Corrupters, The New Breed, The Outsider

Legal Drama: The Young Lawyers, Sam Benedict, Trials of O'Brien

School Drama: Mr. Novak, Lucas Tanner, Sara

War Drama: Convoy, Blue Light, Jericho

Newspaper Drama: The Reporter, Saints and Sinners, Lou Grant
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Sitcom – The Pruitts of Southampton, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir

 

Family – Second Noah, Eight is Enough, Life is Wild

 

Western – The Rifleman

 

Anthology – The Krofft Supershow (does that count? lol)

 

Medical Drama – Trapper John, M.D.

 

Drama – The Colbys, Central Park West

 

Adventure – Daktari, The Quest

 

Sci-Fi – The Bionic Woman, The Fantastic Journey, Logan's Run

 

Mystery – The Snoop Sisters (come on, Universal--it's only 4 or 5 episodes!)

 

Animated Series – the Banana Splits

 

Crime Drama – Cop Rock

 

Detective – The Magician

Variety -- The Carol Burnett Show

post #7 of 29
Mine would be the following -

Sitcom: -  My World And Welcome To It, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Nanny and the Professor.

Family -  Daktari, Circus Boy, Lassie

Western -  The High Chapparal,

Legal:   The Defenders

Action Adventure -  Search/Probe/Search Control; Amos Burke - Secret Agent; The C.A.T.

Science Fiction -  Logan's Run; The Fantastic Journey; Otherworld

Medical Drama :  Trapper John M.D.  Doctor Kildare, Ben Casey. 
post #8 of 29
Here you go, Gary . . . . .

Sitcom - Car 54, Where Are You?

Western - (tie) Stoney Burke and Wide Country - really want to see those "modern" (circa 1960s) Westerns

Anthology - Thriller (Karloff); hopefully this will be released

Medical Drama - Ben Casey

Drama - 12 O'Clock High (Cannot believe this hasn't been released yet . . . oh yeah, Fox has ownership)

Adventure - Adventures in Paradise

Sci-Fi - Project UFO

Mystery - Colonel March of Scotland Yard (Karloff)

Crime Drama - N.Y.P.D.

Detective - Richard Diamond, Private Detective (David Janssen)

Legal - The Defenders

I had no choices for the Family and Animated categories.
post #9 of 29
Very few for me as I don't watch Westerns or some of the other categories...
 

Sitcom – It's A Living

 

Medical Drama – Trapper John, M.D.

 

Detective – It Takes a Thief

 

post #10 of 29
Thread Starter 
This was really tough for me in the beginning because there are surely many more than 3 shows in each category I'd be interested in getting.  I just tried really hard to narrow it down to one if I could.  A few times I just had to list more than one, but I tried real hard to force myself to narrow things down.

You guys have listed some great shows.  Always impressed with Neil's lists, as well as Bob's.  As usual, after reading other people's lists I see things that make me rethink my list.  But in spite of that I'll keep mine where it is and not add to it (except maybe to add a couple more genres that Neil came up with).

Gary "there are still so many classic shows that haven't gotten a release - I'd love to sample many that folks here are listing" O.
post #11 of 29
For me it would be the first two seasons of SCTV. Shout Factory really screwed fans when they announced that they would be releasing the show in it's entirety and then decided to pull the plug when the ridiculously expensive sets they created didn't sell very well. The sad thing is they even released the awful Cinemax stuff and a very weak 'early years' compilation featuring stuff that had already been released plus a few really weak bits and pieces from season 3 when John Candy and Catherine Ohara had temporarily left the show. So no Moe Green, no John Fistinyourface fix-it show, just a lot of fun stuff that never has been, and according to Shout Factory, never will be, released on DVD. Sucks! 
post #12 of 29
Sitcom - Two Guys, a Girl, and a Pizza Place, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Valerie/Valerie's Family/The Hogan Family

Western - Peacemakers, Legend
 
Family - Flash Forward (1996), Blue Skies (1988) - I'm very surprised this rarely seen gem hasn't been released, as it had a very short summer run on CBS with 8 episodes and it starred Tom Wopat, Season Hubley, Pat Hingle, and Brooklyn Bridge's Danny Gerald.  Who owns the DVD rights?
 
Medical Drama - 3 lbs.
 
Drama - Promised Land
 
Adventure - Danger Bay, Spellbinder (mini-series - Disney Channel version)
 
Sci-Fi - Jake 2.0, Mysterious Ways, John Doe
 
Mystery - Father Dowling Mysteries

Science/Technology - Beyond 2000, The Next Step

War - China Beach, Homefront

Dramedy - The Wonder Years, Ed

Music - A&E's Live by Request: Phil Collins

Teen Sitcom - Student Bodies

Cooking - Jamie's Great Italian Escape (R1), The Naked Chef (R1), Jamie at Home (R1)

Edited by ChrisCook - 2/6/10 at 12:17pm
post #13 of 29

I'm glad I wasn't the first to this party   Without you guys, I couldn't have received a memory reboot of shows I want on DVD.

Adventure: Cliffhangers, Batman (guess which one)


Animated: The Herculoids, Shazzan


Family: Lassie, Eight Is Enough


Medical Drama: Dr Kildare


Crime Drama: Amy Prentiss (part of NBC Mystery Movie series)


Detective: The Magician


Legal Drama: And the Sea Will Tell (miniseries), Owen Marshall


SciFi: Dark Skies, Bionic series in R1


Serial: Flamingo Road


Sitcom: The Ghost and Mrs. Muir


War: 12 O'Clock High


Western: How the West Was Won (miniseries), The Rifleman

(compl remastered - no MPI prints)


What do you think, Gary?  Not bad for someone that couldn't come up with much earlier this week

post #14 of 29
Crime Drama -- Harry O, Nero Wolfe (William Conrad/Lee Horsley)

Drama -- Slattery's People, The Great Adventure
post #15 of 29
I wanna add a medical drama to my list

Medical Drama - CHICAGO HOPE

Best years were the Mandy Patinkin years, including near the end when both he and James Garner were featured in the series.
post #16 of 29
Detective - Harry O

Drama - The Defenders

Western - The Loner
post #17 of 29

Sitcom - Made in Canada, Less Than Kind, The Larry Sanders Show (complete)

Western - Maverick

Detective - Harry O, The Magician
Anthology - The Alfred Hitchcock Hour
Sci Fi - The Six Million Dollar Man, The Bionic Woman

 

post #18 of 29

Sitcom – The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

 
Action –  The Green Hornet

 

Western – Maverick

 

Sci-Fi – Batman (1966)

 

Animated Series – The Mighty Hercules (1963)

post #19 of 29

Western - Maverick

Sci Fi - The Six Million Dollar Man, The Fantastic Journey

Sitcom - Mayberry R.F.D.

 

post #20 of 29

Situation Comedy: The Brady Brides, Life with Lucy, Three's a Crowd

Drama: The Bradys

Dramedy: The Wonder Years

Variety: The Carol Burnett Show, Muppets Tonight

Reality TV: Big Brother, Fear Factor and For Love or For Money

Family: (Season sets) of all three Lassie series: Jeff's Colie, Timmy & Lassie, and Lassie, Honey I Shrunk the Kids

Sci-Fi: Batman

Documentary: Inside Television, Intimate Portrait

Police/Cop: Cops, Rescue 911, Top Cop

Soap: 90s Young and the Restless, late 90s/early 2000s Guilding Light

Adventure: Ocean Girl, Danger Bay

Animated Series: Aladdin, Timon & Pumbaa

Original Series: Inside TV Land, ET In TV Land, TV Land Moguls
 


Edited by Theodore J. Mooney - 2/5/10 at 6:37pm
post #21 of 29
There are only TWO "Reality" Shows I'd get if they were on DVD.

1. Real People

2. That's Incredible!

BTW All three Lassie Series were actually ONE Show. When it was syndicated it was divied up into three. Many Stations never aired the "Transition" Episodes that "Linked' them. (They occurded during the Fourth and Eleventh Seasons). Only recently was I able to see the "Missing' episodes and put the pieces together!
post #22 of 29
Sitcom – Pruitt's Of Southampton, Paul Lynde Show, Maybe It's Me

 
Britcoms -  Upper Hand. Murder Most Horrid, 


Family
 – Shirley (with Shirley Jones), Second Noah, Peaceable Kingdom

 

Western – The Monroes, 

 

Variety - The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, Cher, Carol Burnett Show

 

Drama – Flamingo Road, A Year In The Life, 

 

Adventure – Tarzan (Ron Ely), Cliffhangers

 

Sci-Fi – Bionic Woman, Six Million Dollar Man, Jake 2.0

 

Mystery – The Snoop Sisters, Mrs. Columbo, Devlin Connection

 

Animated Series – Pinky, Elmyra & The Brain,  Family Dog,  New Woody Woodpecker Show (1999-2002)

 

Crime Drama – Jessie, One West Waikiki, Hunter (with James Franciscus, Linda Evans)

 

Daytime Soap - Another World, Home & Away(Australian), Paradise Beach(Australian)

Legal - L.A. Law

 






 

post #23 of 29
Daytime Soap - All My Children are patients at General Hospital, where The Doctors are rumored to have come from Another World!

Sorry, I Couldn't resist!
post #24 of 29
Still so much out there that hasn't been released. The only thing in this thread that's coming out at the moment is Boris Karloff's Thriller. I think the only chance 99% of these shows have is MODs and the occasional direct sales titles from Shout. But I'd like to see each and every one of these shows released within the next decade, and many more besides!
post #25 of 29
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Originally Posted by Ethan Riley View Post

Still so much out there that hasn't been released. The only thing in this thread that's coming out at the moment is Boris Karloff's Thriller. I think the only chance 99% of these shows have is MODs and the occasional direct sales titles from Shout. But I'd like to see each and every one of these shows released within the next decade, and many more besides!

      You can also add Hec Ramsey to the list as that will be coming out this year as well.
     
post #26 of 29
Far too many to list, but thanks to alternate sets out there, I have managed to fulfill a lot of my want list and, in some cases, discovered that some of them weren't worth being on the list in the first place, haha. 

Still though, lots of stuff from Gary and Neil's lists that I too would like to see and are tough to find.  Here's some I would add:

Crime Drama:  HAWK

Western: THE OUTCASTS

Adventure: BEARCATS / THE AQUANAUTS / PRIMUS

Sci-FI: SEARCH
post #27 of 29
Adventure: T.H.E. CAT / BATMAN (Adam West) / Q.E.D. (a.k.a. MASTERMIND)

Animated:
THE NEW ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN / PIXIE & DIXIE / 8TH MAN

Comedy-Variety:
THE KOPYCATS / THE DAVE THOMAS COMEDY SHOW

Crime Drama:
87TH PRECINCT / THE F.B.I. / N.Y.P.D.

Detective:
HARRY O

Drama:
BUS STOP

Family:
DR. SHRINKER

Horror:
WAY OUT / JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN / DARKROOM

Mystery:
CORONET BLUE

Sci-Fi:
ULTRA Q / THE IMMORTAL (1970) / WORLD OF GIANTS

Sitcom:
I'M DICKENS, HE'S FENSTER / THE MANY LOVES OF DOBIE GILLIS

Suspense:
SUSPICION / THE ALFRED HITCHCOCK HOUR / PANIC!

War:
BLUE LIGHT

Western:
MAVERICK / THE WESTERNER / STONEY BURKE
post #28 of 29
Action/Adventure Fantasy:

Batman (66')

The Green Hornet

The Six Million Dollar Man

The Bionic Woman

Saturday Morning Cartoons:

The Herculoids

Frankenstien Jr. and the Impossibles

The Mighty Heroes
post #29 of 29
 Animation: Spicy City, Dexter's Laboratory, Cow & Chicken

Sci-Fi: Land of the Lost (1990s)

Sitcom: Family Matters

Action-Adventure: Batman (60s), Green Hornet
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