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  1. Eric Paddon

    Damnation Alley coming from Anchor Bay....

    Still no info on when the release date for this is going to be? The TV scenes would be good as a supplement. They're the only scenes that still have Murray Hamilton uttering any dialogue at all.
  2. Eric Paddon

    Can Anyone Recommend a Good "Jack Benny" release?

    The one to avoid then is Madacy which edits all the live commercials.
  3. Eric Paddon

    Can Anyone Recommend a Good "Jack Benny" release?

    I think with the Beach Boys one it could depend on the elements. The one we have seen circulated for years on PD videos is a B/W kinescope of a program that originally aired in color. I can confirm that the original color videotape of this program still exists in NBC's vault at least...
  4. Eric Paddon

    Can Anyone Recommend a Good "Jack Benny" release?

    I'm facing the same problem myself because I'm finding to my distress that a lot of the PD releases of live Benny shows are cutting out the integrated Lucky Strike commercials whereas they were always left intact on the PD VHS releases. I won't even take a chance on them any longer until I...
  5. Eric Paddon

    Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 2 coming in July (CONSOLIDATED DISCUSSION)

    One of the commentaries mentions that another reason why they had to do a new open for Season 2 was because in the Season 1 montage, Mary is wearing a fur coat and suddenly between Season 1 and 2 she went on an anti-fur kick and wouldn't let that shot be used any more. I always hated the fact...
  6. Eric Paddon

    Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 2 coming in July (CONSOLIDATED DISCUSSION)

    At the very least, even if we don't get another season past this one, I'll at least have a season of the standard opening theme music on DVD! I can only take so much of just hearing the first season theme music over and over again.
  7. Eric Paddon

    Mary Tyler Moore Show: Season 2 coming in July (CONSOLIDATED DISCUSSION)

    Okay, just how much of the song is missing from the episode? Because you can still hear Mary singing "May your days be merry and bright..." on the DVD so was a whole chorus originally there that got edited down? And if this were a music rights issue, then how could a line get left in?
  8. Eric Paddon

    NASA DVDs?

    We've already had released in the past DVD boxed sets devoted to the Gemini and numerous Apollo missions that contain all of the film shot in space and live TV transmissions. I have the one for Apollo 11 and it's an impressive assembly of documentary materials.
  9. Eric Paddon

    Twilight Zone Definitive Edition

    BB is clearly starting from the premise that $119.95 is the MSRP and discounting it from that assumption, when they haven't gotten it through their heads that $99.95 is the MSRP and thus they should be selling it for about $84.95 I would think.
  10. Eric Paddon

    Warners-Time To Release "Shoes Of The Fisherman"

    As we honor the life and memory of Pope John Paul II, it seems to me that Warners should consider more strongly to giving this 1968 film a DVD release at last. Though plodding in many areas, it is a fascinating look at the inner workings of the Vatican and also tells an eerily prophetic tale of...
  11. Eric Paddon

    Twilight Zone Definitive Edition

    Ordered from Amazon on Wednesday night, arrived on Friday. Well done! :)
  12. Eric Paddon

    Best Buy To Alter DVD Layout To Emphasize TV on DVD

    I don't know about you, but this reads like an esoteric April Fools thread if you ask me.
  13. Eric Paddon

    List Your TV show DVDs

    Newly revised list: Twilight Zone-Season 1 (Definitive) Twilight Zone-Season 2 (Definitive) Dick Van Dyke Show-Seasons 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Outer Limits-Seasons 1 and 2 (Original) Avengers (All Diana Rigg and Linda Thorson episodes) Gilligan's Island-Seasons 1 and 2 Hogan's Heroes-Season 1...
  14. Eric Paddon

    Twilight Zone Definitive Edition

    Yes, $51 for season 2 ($12 of that from one day shipping). For a five disc set to cost $104 has no justification IMO.
  15. Eric Paddon

    Twilight Zone Definitive Edition

    Walking in to Best Buy and being greeted by a $104 price was a very rude shock today. And it didn't take me long to walk right out the door! How they can sell it at that price is absolute insanity. I ordered via Amazon and signed up for the Amazon Visa so I could get an extra $30 off and...
  16. Eric Paddon

    Will Sony continue with these titles? Or are they a lost cause

    The lack of momentum on "Barney Miller" is still driving me up the wall because when all you've got is 13 episodes out and nothing for more than a year since, that is almost as bad as not having anything out at all!
  17. Eric Paddon

    DVD Review HTF REVIEW: Hogan's Heroes - The Complete First Season

    I won a "buy it now" option on another one so it looks like we all won ultimately. :) If I hadn't found myself having so much fun with the regular set I wouldn't have been compelled to do this just for completeness sake but seeing these episodes looking this great has enhanced my ability to...
  18. Eric Paddon

    Tabitha

    I take the view that Chuck Cunningham, like all characters who disappear without explanation from TV shows, was transported to that unknown region in the great beyond that spirited Colonel Forbes and Colonel Harrington away in the Twilight Zone episode "And When The Sky Was Opened". :D (You can...
  19. Eric Paddon

    Fat Albert set appears to be PAL sourced

    There is now no question of this set becoming a permanent "No Sale!" with me.
  20. Eric Paddon

    DVD Review HTF REVIEW: Hogan's Heroes - The Complete First Season

    Are you the one who aced me out in the bidding? :) Hopefully another one will emerge later on the trade market, but in the meantime I am impressed with the quality of the regular episodes and restoring the "CBS presents this program in color" opening I thought was a nice touch.
  21. Eric Paddon

    KOJAK on DVD????

    BTW, people were wondering why Universal didn't include "The Marcus-Nelson Murders" in the DVD set, and after watching a very old off-air recording recently I think that if Universal didn't forget it about it, they may have felt that the focus of the movie clashed too much with how the series...
  22. Eric Paddon

    Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries coming 3/22

    Going through the first HB episode, I wonder if some of the music replacement the packaging implies is for the scene where they go into the Haunted House club and there's a band playing music there. It doesn't sound like anything particularly distinctive, as if it were generic "replacement music."
  23. Eric Paddon

    Twilight Zone Definitive Edition

    The presence of original production slates for the videotaped episodes I think should allay any concerns that they weren't going to use the tape masters and stick us with kinescopes. I shall be getting mine Wednesday.
  24. Eric Paddon

    It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman!

    The original Broadway cast album was released on CD in the early 90s and you can still find it in most stores to get a sense of what the score is like (though a couple songs were dropped from the condensed TV version and some PC alterations were made by changing a group of Chinese acrobat...
  25. Eric Paddon

    It's A Bird, It's A Plane, It's Superman!

    I have seen it (VHS copies circulate in the trade market) and while Lesley Ann Warren is quite appealing in the part of Lois Lane (this was how she got to screen-test for the part in the movie and was ultimately the second choice behind Margot Kidder), the production itself is very cheap overall...
  26. Eric Paddon

    The Avengers: any advice which season is the best?

    The two Diana Rigg (Emma Peel) seasons are the quintessential Avengers episodes. Start with those and then decide if the older Honor Blackman or later Linda Thorson episodes are worth adding.
  27. Eric Paddon

    Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries coming 3/22

    William Schallert played Nancy Drew's father, not Fenton Hardy as I recall.
  28. Eric Paddon

    KOJAK on DVD????

    Actually, Columbo Season 2 doesn't have the old Universal tag either, nor did Night Gallery Season 1. Only Columbo Season 1 still had them. I have no idea why Universal is doing this.
  29. Eric Paddon

    Help me choose my next couple of SCIFI TV series to watch

    When judging the original Galactica, try not to judge it according to the standards of today's TV shows in terms of production etc. The whole point of understanding Galactica is the ability to see the deeper themes in its conception, the early use of story arcs and character development that had...
  30. Eric Paddon

    Which shows have you abandoned?

    The last few seasons of the Jeffersons are not worth getting. The two part episode of Lionel and Jenny divorcing to kick off Season 11 was a disgrace, and then even more ridiculously the show forgot its roots when there was a Sammy Davis, Jr. guest episode and Louise didn't bring up their...
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