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Frank Soyke

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Slow time right now so let's have some fun.


You might be a classic TV DVD Fan if:


1) You have ever had to explain to a friend or family member the concept of masters or usable prints when they ignorantly ask, "Why don't they just put out ____ already.?


2) You don't want to convert your VHS copy of your wedding video to DVD cause you are concerned about the music licensing right issues.


3) You have thrown away at least one other persons property in your home to make room for a Time/Life box set.


4) You got very excited for a minute when you heard this week that Empire was being released only to get the wind let out of your sailed when you found out it was the current Fox show and now the Richard Egan 60's western.


5) The most disasterous historical fire that did not affect your family and friends directly was not the 1906 San Francisco Fire, Chicago Fire, or London Fire, but the Universal Fire.


6) You don't even bother reading press releases involving Mill Creek cause you already know you most likely own the show already.
 

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I loved Richard Egan, that was a great show, great cast.
 

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Frank Soyke said:
6) You don't even bother reading press releases involving Mill Creek cause you already know you most likely own the show already.

6a) And you wouldn't want the Mill Creek version anyway because you already know it will cram, roughly, 17.365 episodes onto one single layer disc.


7) "Flippers" should only ever refer to the dolphins who portrayed the beloved title character in the 1964-1967 TV show, and should never refer to a TV on DVD release. And if they do happen to refer to the discs in a set, there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
 

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The Obsolete Man said:
6a) And you wouldn't want the Mill Creek version anyway because you already know it will cram, roughly, 17.365 episodes onto one single layer disc.


7) "Flippers" should only ever refer to the dolphins who portrayed the beloved title character in the 1964-1967 TV show, and should never refer to a TV on DVD release. And if they do happen to refer to the discs in a set, there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Per 6a: I know not why Mill Creek puts so many episodes on a disc, but I do know that it's just plain stupid.


And per 7: "Flippers," or "doubles" as I like to call them, have been, IMO, one of the most stupid things that television disc releasers have ever done.
 

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A few additions:



Streaming means little to you because it's own the physical media or nothing at all.


You recognize the value of a good "alternate set."


At one time, you used the old Critics Choice "Big Book" as a personal inventory
 

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BobO'Link said:
9. You're thrilled when your kids/grandkids ask to watch episodes of a old BW series.
That's how it is with my nephew Eli: he likes I Love Lucy, so much so that I gave him the first two releases (I had those before), and bought him three more (two for his Christmas last year, and one more for when he visited a few months back. He can't get enough of it!
 

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10. When you go on and on about your favorite character from The Avengers, your friends think you're talking about Black Widow, but you're actually talking about Emma Peel.


11. When you can name-check Dabbs Greer, Reta Shaw, Parley Baer, Jo Ann Pflug, Percy Rodriguez, Sandra Gould, Sorrell Booke, and the voices of Paul Frees and Marvin Miller, at any given moment, even when half-asleep.
 

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bmasters9 said:
That's how it is with my nephew Eli: he likes I Love Lucy, so much so that I gave him the first two releases (I had those before), and bought him three more (two for his Christmas last year, and one more for when he visited a few months back. He can't get enough of it!
That's my oldest grandson (he's 11). I Love Lucy is one of his favorites and he'll regularly ask to watch a few episodes. His oldest sister (age 7) just discovered My Favorite Martian so we spent most of the day yesterday watching some S1 episodes of that one. Their little sister (age 4) liked it too but her current favorite is Batman. She asks to watch a few episodes almost every day. All three love the Three Stooges (say what you will... I saw 'em on TV), Dennis the Menace, Leave it to Beaver, Dobie Gillis, and several others. I can't think of a single series I've shown them from the 50s/60s that they do not like.
 

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BobO said:
That's my oldest grandson (he's 11). I Love Lucy is one of his favorites and he'll regularly ask to watch a few episodes. His oldest sister (age 7) just discovered My Favorite Martian so we spent most of the day yesterday watching some S1 episodes of that one. Their little sister (age 4) liked it too but her current favorite is Batman. She asks to watch a few episodes almost every day. All three love the Three Stooges (say what you will... I saw 'em on TV), Dennis the Menace, Leave it to Beaver, Dobie Gillis, and several others. I can't think of a single series I've shown them from the 50s/60s that they do not like.
I just ordered S3 of My Favorite Martian and my 17 year old is hooked!
 

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The Obsolete Man said:
7) "Flippers" should only ever refer to the dolphins who portrayed the beloved title character in the 1964-1967 TV show, and should never refer to a TV on DVD release. And if they do happen to refer to the discs in a set, there will be much wailing and gnashing of teeth.
Ding. Ding. Ding. We have a winner!


The worst of all possible worlds when season 1 of Flipper was released only as a flipper.
 

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davidHartzog said:
I loved Richard Egan, that was a great show, great cast.
Anyone knows what's keeping this series from being released? It was in color, it had two future stars -Charles Bronson and Ryan O'Neal- as coprotagonists and, above all, was a great, serous drama.
 

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12) You catch one of your family members watching an old rerun on TV, and you inform them that you already have that episode in your DVD library, and they should watch it because it is not edited and it has a clearer picture.


This actually happened to me when my mom was channel surfing, and paused during a Twilight Zone marathon.
 

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jperez said:
Anyone knows what's keeping this series from being released? It was in color, it had two future stars -Charles Bronson and Ryan O'Neal- as coprotagonists and, above all, was a great, serous drama.

You answered your own question: "was a great, serious drama."
 

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Ron Lee Green said:
12) You catch one of your family members watching an old rerun on TV, and you inform them that you already have that episode in your DVD library, and they should watch it because it is not edited and it has a clearer picture.


This actually happened to me when my mom was channel surfing, and paused during a Twilight Zone marathon.
I've been somewhat like that, but not with stuff I've had-- I always wonder why my sister-in-law Jenn and my brother Mike will not watch Little House on The Prairie from the DVD releases that they have of it. Granted, these are the older ones that do not have a clear picture (IOW, these aren't the Blu-Rays/remastered DVDs), but they do not have commercials either.
 

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Frank Soyke said:
You recognize the value of a good "alternate set."
When you get an "Alternate Set" in the mail, you jump for joy when you fire up your player and discover the episodes have Canada's "Maple Leaf" Rating on the upper left of your screen for the first few seconds. :dancing-banana-04:
 

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Ron Lee Green said:
12) You catch one of your family members watching an old rerun on TV, and you inform them that you already have that episode in your DVD library, and they should watch it because it is not edited and it has a clearer picture.


This actually happened to me when my mom was channel surfing, and paused during a Twilight Zone marathon.
Happens with my wife on a regular basis. She just gives me a blank stare. She'd rather just "stumble" across something on "live" TV than simply put a disc in the player. I just don't get that mentality. I will not watch *anything* on "live" TV if I own the physical product. It makes me happy she watches TV in her own area so I don't have to put up with it unless I join her.
 

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