Here is a wish list of what I hope CBS DVD may release in 2019 through its MOD program…
TV SHOWS
Barefoot in the Park (1970)… also includes the 1982 HBO special of the same name
Me and the Chimp (1972)
Love Story (1973-74)
Kate McShane (1975)
Busting Loose (1977)/The Ted Knight Show (1978)
Blansky’s Beauties (1977)
Having Babies (1978-79)
Grandpa Goes to Washington (1978-79)
Who’s Watching the Kids? (1978)
Brothers and Sisters (1979)
$weepstake$ (1979)
Makin’ It (1979)
Out of the Blue (1979)
Working Stiffs (1979)
Struck by Lightning (1979)
Goodtime Girls (1980)
Foul Play (1981)
Star of the Family (1982)
The Renegades (1983)
Ryan’s Four (1983)
Mr. Smith (1983)
Mr. Sunshine (1986)
All is Forgiven (1986)
The Tortellis (1987)
Marblehead Manor (1987)
TV MOVIES
Seven in Darkness (1969)
The Silent Gun (1969)
Quarantined (1970)
Weekend of Terror (1970)
Assault on the Wayne (1971)
Dr. Cook’s Garden (1971)
Escape (1971)
Terror in the Sky (1971)
Women in Chains (1972)
Night of Terror (1972)
The Heist (1972)
The Weekend Nun (1972)
Poor Devil (1973)
Call to Danger (1973)
A Time for Love (1973)
Egan (1973)
Delancey Street: The Crisis Within (1975)
Red Alert (1977)
Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night (1977)
True Grit: A Further Adventure (1978)
The Clone Master (1978)
Almost Heaven (1978)
Flesh & Blood (1979)
Act of Violence (1979)
The Gift (1979)
Top of the Hill (1980)
The Girl, the Gold Watch and Everything (1980)
The Girl, the Gold Watch and Dynamite (1981)
Little Darlings (1982)
The Final Eye (Computercide) (1982)
Space (1985) (a miniseries, based upon the book by James A. Michener)
Shooter (1988)
~Ben
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Foul Play and Ryan's Four I would definitely love to see, even if they are MODs!
In fact, I think the CBS MOD team could do better on these two than VEI would, as they would be sourced directly from the original 35mm masters.
~Ben
Like Best of The West?
Yes, and also The Young Lawyers.
~Ben
I still want The New Adventures of Perry Mason with Monte Markham.
The only shows I really want completed from CBS are “Petticoat Junction” and “The Beverly Hillbillies”.
The only shows I really want completed from CBS are “Petticoat Junction” and “The Beverly Hillbillies”.
If there's one program that still deserves to be released, it's gotta be the original Love, American Style. Both volumes of season 1 (1969-70) had been released on DVD a decade ago (all these 24 episodes restored to their original 1-hour length), but it's seasons 2-5 that are crying for help to be pieced back together the way they were when on ABC Friday nights (especially those occasional 90-minute affairs, including the 1974 series finale and a rough-draft version of the pilot that had been intended to be the first ABC Movie of the Week).
The season 2 (1970-71) run was odd in that 2/3rds of the run was 1/2-hour long (just as it is in present reruns). It was not until January 22, 1971 (episode 17) that it was restored back to 1 hour. I think it was a bad move for the first two seasons to be re-ran on ABC's daytime schedule too early (September 6, 1971).
~Ben
Why were most of the second-season episodes only a half-hour, before the remainder of that sophomore year went back to an hour?
Probably a test run, to see how well it might do under that length.
~Ben
And probably the same kind of test that would be done on The Powers of Matthew Star, wherein Paramount experimented with videotaped post-production for 2 or 3 outings of that 1982-83 NBC sci-fi series.
However this is not CBS. It's owned By Fox
I had NO idea! No wonder we haven't seen it! 🙁
3: "Winning," "Experiments" and "Fugitives."
~Ben
Why would TCF be behind that short-lived 70s Markham Mason, while CBS itself was behind the longer-running 1957-66 Burr series?
Probably because CBS's rights to the franchise expired and Fox bought the rights with the idea that re-booting it with a new cast might breathe new life into it.
Ben,
You're in luck as DECADES Channel (if you get that channel) will be running a LAS Marathon from Noon CT (12/8/2018) – 6 AM CT (12/10/2018), so set your recorder to tape all those episodes if you are so inclined to do as such.
That's how I got mine, from the pre-launch Decades marathon of the whole series. Missed 2 segments but unfortunately I don't have access to the network anymore. Thanks, CBS.
You're dreaming. CBS doesn't spend the money to do 35mm transfers for MOD. That take whatever is available and already existing on tape. If there's no Betacam or one-inch tape of a series, it ain't coming out on MOD.
I have them from the original airings, so I'm good on those shows.
Those older movies-of-the-week, especially the horror ones, will sell just fine as MOD DVDs. There is an audience for those, albeit a niche one.
Perfectly fine– I've just never seen either one before, so that's why I want them.
As of right now, the only non-videotaped title I could see them releasing in the future on my list might be Out of the Blue (1979), when you consider that the series, in addition to being a spinoff/crossover of Happy Days and Mork & Mindy, has a fantasy theme (like The Powers of Matthew Star, The Magician, I Dream of Jeannie and Bewitched).
~Ben
Short as the run of that ABC comedy was, I don't doubt it'll sooner or later be released!
You're delusional. A failed series on 2-inch videotape has ZERO chance.
You got a point there! Never thought of it that way.
As much as you might think that, for me my motto is "never say never."
~Ben
Don't toss those Betas or VHSs or whatever you have them recorded on, if you were so inclined to record them when they aired.
Here are a few videos to make my point about Blansky's Beauties and Goodtime Girls possibly also being available on 1" tape:
(Blansky's Beauties intro)
(Blansky's Beauties partial outro)
(Goodtime Girls partial outro)
Both of these came from vintage TV Land airings (circa 2000), and thus have the 1995 Paramount Domestic TV logo at the end.
~Ben
Any shows which aired on TV Land were remastered to DigiBeta. There isn't an elements issue, just a lack of sales potential issue. There's isn't a big market for 40-year old failed series that lasted a half season or less.
I'd been following this binge, and two of the season 2 (1970-71) episodes they're showing keep their original (pre-ABC Daytime run) opening and closing credits.
These are episodes 2×14 ("Love and the Only Child" and "Love and the Wig") and 2×15 ("Love and the Kidnapper"), both of which were part of the short 16-episode half-hour run (handy for easier digestion in syndication), although they were aired out of order. I also think episodes 2×09 ("Love and the Young Executive") and 2×13 ("Love and the Man Next Door"), also from the same run, keep the original as-first-aired opening and closing credits.
In fact, these 16 episodes alone would constitute a perfect volume 1 DVD release of season 2 (once the other segmental elements are found and then put back together for the other episodes outside of the four I mentioned earlier)!
~Ben