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Wow, I guessed it would be spring of '65 when Jethro started his double-noughting, and I hit it about on the button. (Insert "proud" smilie here.) Another thing Jethro did which always got me a-laffin'was when he'd say he was working on his gazintas. Jed would say, "Gazintas?" And...

Well, to be exact, Dr. No opened in England in 1962, but it didn't open in the U.S. until May of 1963. The spy craze seems to have really ignited after the release of the third Bond film, Goldfinger, at the end of 1964, although it's true that "The Man From UNCLE" premiered a few months...

I'd say yes... it's odd we got "Green Acres" before the billies. Of course, some are in public domain, but that's true of Andy Grittith, too, and it didn't stop them from starting official Griffith season sets. As of now, The Bev. H'billies is the highest rated TV show not to start having...

Paul -- David VP was writing with his tongue in his cheek. They talked about being hit, but there was no violence on LItB -- except ONCE. Yes, in full view, Eddie socked Wally in the puss. Here's something I'd like to ask the Beaver experts. What was the filthy word Beaver used in the hall...

People then vs. people now, when it comes to sitcoms... They did 39 episodes a year and each episode ran about 26 minutes (including opening and closing credits.) Now they do 22 episodes a year and each episode runs about 22 minutes. And they want $1,000,000 per episode to be happy --...

Now that this thread has been resurrected, I can say, "What difference does it make?" We know now how disappointing the first two releases were -- cut prints of Make Room for Daddy and sub-standard ones for Joey Bishop -- with the credits only once at the beginning. Have they cancelled the...

And Connelly and Mosher satirized the "head stuck in the fence" episode in an episode of "The Munsters" ... one of TV's greatest in-jokes.

What is Boomerang showing now for their "Mr. Magoo" show? The credits include Magoo saying "Road hog" and "Magoo -- you've done it again!" Is that taken from the syndicated series we're talking about here? It seems to me the cartoons Boomerang is showing are panned and scanned, but maybe...

About this being a "quality" release... These TV shows were made up of cartoons which were originally released in theatres. If I'm not mistaken, several of them were made in CinemaScope. Of course, they were shown "pan and scan" on television. If this were to be truly a quality release...

The color musicals where the Kramdens and Nortons go to Europe were actually remakes of shows from the 1956-57 season. If I remember correctly, Gleason never released anything from that last season of his original CBS series because they were musicals and many people (not ME, though) don't...

About it being pulled -- I've been wondering... could it be that "seeing-impaired" people complained about it? I know they complained about the live-action movie a few years ago. I just got through watching some Magoos on Boomerang, and there's no question that these cartoons are based on...

This sounded "too good to be true." Apparently it was.

To Joe Karlosi-- I'm sorry, too. I misinterpreted what you meant. I get it now! By the way, I love your name. It seems besides "corny" shows and movies, we both love the classic horror movies! :)

Once again, I totally agree with Mark To! I wondered at that comment calling a story "corny" if it was about a kid getting into trouble about smoking. If anything, kids should get in MORE trouble now than fifty years ago -- back then, the dangers of smoking weren't quite as well understood...

You're ascribing a totally backwards reason for my dislike of THE BRADY BUNCH. I don't dislike it because it's wholesome. I dislike it because it gives wholesome shows a bad name! I love the "wholesome" shows. If FATHER KNOWS BEST were to come out on DVD, I'd pay top dollar for it. And...

You're not going to believe this, but SNOW WHITE AND THE THREE STOOGES actually received a nomination from the Writers' Guild for "Best Written American Musical." Shockingly, it lost to WEST SIDE STORY. Seeing is believing: http://www.goldderby.com/lostmind/year/1961/1961wga.htm

I seem to always agree with Mark To -- and here I totally agree, again! In fact -- I would say "The Brady Bunch" was the very worst of all the successful shows (those that had long first runs, long lives in syndication and DVD releases.) Yes, the very worst. Other shows had unrealistic...

Remastered -- uncut. I should hope so! That's really all I ask from Season Sets -- show us the best possible print -- show them complete. Extras are nice -- but if they screw up my two major requirements, all the extras in the world won't matter to me. By the way -- these shows not only...

That's certainly true, but I think the greatest art (Shakespeare, for instance) made us think about the basic human condition -- about those things that all people in the world have in common (love, hate, jealousy, ambition, frustration, death, etc.) I think so-called art that takes a...

I used to say that I wanted all movies and TV shows to stay the way they were when they were originally shown. But I have to modify that to, "the way they were originally FILMED." There were a few movies filmed in color, but only released in black and white (for economic reasons.) Even...

Every time this subject comes up, someone says, "You can always turn the color off." And every time someone says that, someone replies (and this time, I'm the one): Just turning the color off doesn't result in getting a black and white picture that looks the way the ORIGINAL black and...

I can tell you one thing that's wrong with colorizing, and it involves "Bewitched." There's a B&W episode where Samantha gets some witch's disease which covers her face with big green spots. They keep saying in the episode, "Oh, my goodness, look at those big green spots." Since this...

I had a crush on Patty Lane, not her mother. :) But I will say that Jean Byron was a very good actress and did much more with her role than her equivalent on shows like "Hazel," "Mr. Ed," "Dennis the Menace," etc. did. Of course, MTM was the greatest in the 1960s "wife and mother" role.

Well, I'll take a crack at it. I hope my explanation is at least somewhat on the mark. I think the hate comes from the way he was quite far on the left when he was president of the Screen Actors' Guild in the 1980s. You know how it is -- when any "celebrity" takes a political stand...

I agree with Mark, and would like to add that the worst thing about them is that I'd rather have "Season Sets." And since I want Season Sets, I go around hoping they'll have them some day -- so I skip the "Best Of" sets, because I don't want to have to buy them all over again if they DO get...

You want to see "Sybil" even though it's been admitted that the story was a hoax?

If I'm not mistaken, they go back farther than that, at least in terms of what they own now. I'd like to see: Father Knows Best Dennis the Menace Hazel But, I don't know if that'll ever happen. At least the last four (of five) seasons of "Hazel" were in color, so maybe that's in its...

I can tell you this right now. If they release "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" in those terrible sped-up versions we've been subjected to for years now, it'll be just about the end of the line for me. It would be the most clueless thing they could do, but I wouldn't put it past them.

Maybe Herman Munster could rest in piece(s). I hope the rest of them are intact. Actually, you've killed off a few of them. Yvonne DeCarlo is still alive (she's 82), as is Al Lewis (94 -- almost as old as Dracula now!) Everyone else seems to be wiped out, except Tabitha, Little Ricky and...