Professor Echo
Senior HTF Member
At the beginning of the massive DARK SHADOWS DVD set, they have as a bonus feature, the original first episode complete with original network commercials intact. Watching it that way I was immediately transported not just into the era from when the show was broadcast, but the day and time. It was a very strange, yet fascinating experience for me, tapping into an atmosphere in my imagination that was part real, part myth. I was too young that June day in 1966 to have seen the show when it first aired, yet here I was taken back to its "world," the space and time where others were old enough to have been a part of it. For me, it made the experience of seeing it so much more meaningful, even though I had no personal connection to it.
It doesn't matter what the show is, there is history in it beyond the series itself that I long to see on DVD releases of vintage programs. So I decided to start this poll to see if anyone else feels the same way and why.
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IF YOU HAD YOUR CHOICE ON ANY TV SERIES ON DVD, WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE THE ORIGINAL NETWORK PRESENTATION AS INTACT AS IT COULD POSSIBLY BE?
1. YES, include a branching option to watch with all original network broadcast material within the episodes themselves; commercials, sponsor's tags, station breaks, trailers, product on end credits.
2. YES, include all original network broadcast extraneous material, but only as EXTRAS.
3. MAYBE, but only cast commercials and trailers as EXTRAS.
4. NO, just the episodes themselves.
It doesn't matter what the show is, there is history in it beyond the series itself that I long to see on DVD releases of vintage programs. So I decided to start this poll to see if anyone else feels the same way and why.
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IF YOU HAD YOUR CHOICE ON ANY TV SERIES ON DVD, WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE THE ORIGINAL NETWORK PRESENTATION AS INTACT AS IT COULD POSSIBLY BE?
1. YES, include a branching option to watch with all original network broadcast material within the episodes themselves; commercials, sponsor's tags, station breaks, trailers, product on end credits.
2. YES, include all original network broadcast extraneous material, but only as EXTRAS.
3. MAYBE, but only cast commercials and trailers as EXTRAS.
4. NO, just the episodes themselves.