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No, I think Neil’s assent means it’s Joey Bishop.

Would I be likely to put this man on if my Johnny Carson DVDs suddenly fell ill?

I know I’m just missing the obvious, but can anyone explain why 16mm film is a useable source for a set of Deadline which will cost about $13, but 35mm films of The Name Of the Game, The Defenders, Switch, and Hec Ramsey are so expensive to transfer that announced plans were abandoned rather...

The Adoption is included on the Honeymooners blu-ray set. Excellent show.

I think that in some cases, like Hawaii Five-O, the pilot was produced as a pilot, but the network wanted to use the movie to generate interest in close proximity to the premiere. It would have been done earlier but held back if the network decided to buy the show upon seeing the pilot and not...

I haven’t received it yet, but my package was shipped and is supposed to arrive tomorrow. I ordered it on September 27th also. Perhaps that was the last day for which they have received enough stock to cover orders? (Also, when I ordered it, it was about $50, and I received one of those...

Extra disc? That is a surprising bit of good news. What have they said about that?

It is. The Barnaby Jones set has the full original two-part episode (uncut, as opposed to most of the episodes on the set.) The Cannon set has the one-part re-edit used in syndication. It’s actually an interesting opportunity to compare them and to see how the two-part show was cut down.

Thanks for making those inquiries, even if the news isn’t good. I don’t understand the mention of music clearance, though. I feel as though there is much less music to clear than in other shows of the period, shows which do air in reruns. The cost of film transfers might indeed make the show...

It’s still Fox. They own the entire MTM library.

I got to meet Richard Rodney Bennett once, and I told him it was my favorite film score. He seemed pleased and said it was a lot of fun to do.

The original reviews were generally, though not uniformly, good. I suppose I just thought the movie’s reputation had gotten better over the last forty years, but that doesn’t necessarily seem to be the case.

I’m curious to see the new version, but I have to say an unexpected disappointment is reading all the reviews that disparage the original version, which is one of my all-time favorite movies. I don’t care so much about individual critical opinions, but it does make it less likely that people...

Time-Life has released the episode, and it does include the Laura parody.

No, it was from New World, so Fox owns it now. Great show, meaning terrible news about Fox...