Yea, I know what you mean Steve. I love the show and all, but I can't say I'll be standing in line to pick up Season 6 the day it's released. Don't get me wrong, picking it up eventually is gonna happen, but this might be a good one to store away in my "Wish List" at DDD and wait for a summer sale.
Gary "of course this info isn't official yet anyhow, but it sure looks like a legit release date" O.
I give Paramount credit for following through on this series. Fans tend to not like the color years, but perhaps seeing restored full length episodes will give a new appreciation for this era of TAGS.
That's good news about Season 6 (less than a three-month turnaround from S.5; nice).
BTW....here's the back cover of the S.5 release (due Feb. 14th). No mention of "edits" in tiny letters on this package. So, that's a good sign anyway. Let's just hope some technician hasn't arbitrarily decided to needlessly strip away some of the laugh tracks for the S.5 set. ......
I like the color episodes, it's a totally different show without Don Knotts but still worthy of release. I just wish they get the Gomer Pyle USMC season sets started.
I believe Andy (and Don) had initially only signed to do the show for five years. As the fifth season was winding down, Don was very hot and looking at other offers. By the time Andy decided to continue with the show, Don had already signed with Universal to do films.
There was some speculation that season six would not come out on DVD since that's the season after Barney left and the show went color.
Seasons 6-8 have not been as well loved by fans. Although the quality did drop without Barney it still had some good moments-better than most shows.
Maybe they'll entice people by finally putting some decent extras on there like some commentaries and featurettes. Probably not since these will have less sales, but it would help get more sales.
Ok, I'm still trying to resolve the Season Four audio glitch. Tvshowsondvd's website says the contact number for the Paramount Consumer Line is 323-956-3010.
I'm gonna try to call. Those of you who have watched the whole set of Season Four already, which discs need to be replaced?
Here's the info for season three and four problems.
12/04/05 - More errors on Season 4! What's going on, Paramount? I recently received this DVD set and have confirmed what others had reported. There are no laugh tracks on four episodes: "Opie The Birdman", "A Black Day For Mayberry", "Opie's Ill-Gotten Gain", and "Up In Barney's Room." I don't need to be told when to laugh, but the shows have been timed to include space for the laughter. It just seems kind of weird without it. This is just another kick in the pants for me to get to work on a supplemental DVD with the corrected episodes.
11/06/05 - Well, folks... I'm back. It looks like there were a few ommisions from the Season 3 DVD set. The epilogues are missing from the episodes, "The Darlings Are Coming" and "Barney Mends A Broken Heart." And not only is the epilogue missing from the Darling's episode, but other dialog and even a song have been cut, as well. Of course, this episode is complete on just about every disc listed on this site (Yay!) so keep those public domain DVDs if ya got 'em. The epilogue for the above mentioned Barney episode can be found on an old out-of-print VHS tape from UAV Home Video. I'm considering creating a supplemental DVD that will include the complete versions of these episodes, but it may take a while as I'm in the process of moving.
Thank you Scott. I'll be calling first thing next week.
Just watched "Up in Barney's Room" and it was simply weird. I hate that this happened. One of my favorite TAGS scenes of all time is when Barney is trying to remember the preamble to the Constitution in "Opie's Ill-Gotten Gain." The scene just doesn't play well without the laugh track.
Scott, please don't take up our bandwidth like that. I've changed the filename to eliminate that. If you want to link to the news with the picture in it, we would much prefer that. Thanks for understanding!
My attempt at defending Season Six, to some extent:
There's no question that TAGS did some serious shark-jumping when Don Knotts left and, like Dorothy over the rainbow, things turned to color. But Season Six has its moments:
Am I the only one who thinks Warren is funny? He's no Barney, but maybe if he had been in it from the beginning, he'd be a TV legend today. He just had a very tough act to follow.
Also, a great Season Six moment is when the family goes to Hollywood to see them film Andy's story. Aunt Bee doesn't like what's going on one bit -- until she sees the attractive actress they hired to play her. Then all of a sudden, everything's fine.
Well, in Season Six we take our laughs where we find them. I think things really fell apart in Seasons Seven and Eight -- I mean, Howard Sprague and Emmett Clark really depress me. And while Ronny Howard was one of the greatest child actors of all time, after puberty started kicking in, there was nothing special about him at all. It's a good thing he turned his interests to directing.