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I imagine ego may have played a role, but I do think some of it was Danny Thomas being angry at Hagen for pulling out just when the show was starting to develop roots. If you think about it, it's really pretty miraculous that the show survived. By leaving the show with (what we can presume to...

The Danny Thomas Estate owns the first 9 seasons outright, and as per Thomas' wishes the first four years have not been syndicated or released on an official DVD. SFM handles syndication on behalf of the estate. There appears to have been a change in ownership for the final 2 seasons...a lot of...

Seasons 1 thru 3 starred Jean Hagen as Danny's wife, with Rusty and teenage Terry as their two kids. Hagen bailed on the show after season 3, and so season 4 was kind of a "rebuilding year"--by that season's end Marjorie Lord was introduced as Danny's new love interest, with her own cute little...

Anything with Korman and Conway kills me, but I think my favorite is the sketch where Conway tortures Lyle Waggoner with the Hitler puppet. Conway is just merciless in that one...

Actually, I saw a Viacom trade ad in a "Broadcasting" magazine from 1970 ('69?) advertising the 13 hour-long shows for syndication to local stations as "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour." Not sure if any local stations ever picked up the show, but the episodes were offered under that title decades...

I received "The Best of Carson" volume 1 yesterday and was pertrubed to see the following note on the back of the box: "Features Material Previously Available Only To Carson Club Members!" A quick scan of the contents inside reveals that ALL of this material (save for the "bonuses") was...

What are a couple of your personal favorites to be released so far? My favorite TV show to be released on DVD would have to be either The Simpsons or SCTV. My favorite "TV on DVD" release...that's tough! Shout Factory did an outstanding job on a "Here's Lucy" special edition. "Here's Lucy" is...

Excellent point--it may very well be pirated. I guess this one Mister Ed episode stuck out to me because of its picture quality, especially compared with the "usual suspects" on the rest of the DVD set...if they were going to pirate one episode of "Mr. Ed", why not just pirate a whole bunch...

Okay, apologies if this has been covered before...I'll be shocked if it has. I got a DVD set of old TV shows for Christmas....it's a Dollar General style cheapie, all public domain stuff like Our Miss Brooks, I Married Joan, etc. But there are 2 Mister Ed shows on there--one is a "payroll...

Yes! The '7? version of "Miracle" is one well-remembered, loaded with 70's names like Tom Bosley, David Hartman, Sebastian Cabot & Roddy McDowall. This would be a nice "extra" on a 2-disc treatment of the black-and-white original. Not sure how many would buy it as a stand-alone. It is on...

Here's my simpleton knowledge of the whole thing. When we refer to licensing issues or music clearances, we're generally referring to payments that have to be made to the writer of a given song. The average variety show or variety special will include plenty o' tunes, including the variety...

At some point, "DVD and the Other Woman" was supposed to be an extra on one of the "Dick Van Dyke Show" season. Music licensing issues made it either prohibitively expensive or impossible to include. The best they could do was to include a music-less chunk of the special relating directly to...

I would love to see season releases of all the shows you listed, but it just isn't possible. Taking Saturday Night Live as an example--you're not just clearing the music of the weekly musical guest star. You're also clearing the music the SNL band plays throughout the show, the music used in...

As a fan, I share your anger and frustration at the way some of these shows were burned, tossed in the dumpster, dumped in the East River, bulk-erased and taped over, etc etc etc. There's an entire network's worth of destroyed television episodes--the DuMont network, which folded in 1955...

Wish I had more specific info...but in Barry Williams' "Growing Up Brady" they reference an episode where the Bradys leave the house in a car and return in a station wagon (or vice-versa). Lloyd Schwartz takes the blame--apparently he called up the wrong piece of file footage in the editing process.

I imagine so....very few variety shows have had full episodes released. "Carol Burnett" (by subscription), Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, upcoming Tony Orlando set... Were you aware of the "Best Of" Dean Martin Show DVD series? I think Guthy-Renker puts it out....some 15 or so volumes, an hour...

I don't think music rights are an issue here, because they preformed their own versions of popular songs. If they used the original version with the original artist, that is different story. I think the people the own the rights to the cartoons, own the rights to the music. So I don't that would...

In the last season of "Green Acres" (assuming Sony/MGM stays with it) there's a spin-off attempt with a super-ditzy secretary and her slow-burning boss (played by "Dick Van Dyke" cast member Richard Deacon. It must have been clear to the "Acres" producers that CBS was swinging the ax on the...

The first two seasons of Bewitched ('64-'65, '65-'66) were in black and white. I'd like to think that by offering season one in color and B&W, Sony is setting a precedent for season two, regardless of how the final numbers turn out.

Thanks for the info, all. FWIW, I see that Paul Brownstein controls the Benny specials...I know variety TV is a clearance nightmare, but they've already done a very nice Sonny and Cher boxset, and that was loaded with music and guest stars. So maybe we'll see some of those come out in a box...

A little background....some episodes of "The Jack Benny Program" were shot on film and others were done live...at some point late in the run they went all-film, exactly when I'm not sure. The filmed episodes were later syndicated to local stations by Universal, who also put out a nice set of 4...

From the home office, my top 10: 1. SCTV. The complete (or as complete as we'll ever see)90-minute shows, the holy grail of comedy. 2. All 5 seasons of "The Dick Van Dyke Show." Think about it: ever since it went off the air local TV stations (and later Nick at Nite and TV Land) have paid...

Books. Lots and lots of books. "The Lucy Book" is a priceless gem that chronicles every episode of the redhead's series, specials and guest appearances with trivia and inside info for each individual episode. I have found myself spending hours just reading the entries. "Desilu" is also an...

Moving the show to Hollywood and dumping the kids was, IMHO, shark-time. In the original "I Love Lucy" series, they did a season in Hollywood and some multi-episode plotlines in exotic locales, to inject some star value into each season. But each season also included the classic moments with...

Excellent points! Another thing that brought down the lack of quality in post-Viv seasons of "The Lucy Show"--confounding lack of character and plot continuity. Guest stars would be given life-changing roles in Lucy Carmichael's world (remember Lucy giving up her gig at the bank to be a...

The first season (6 episodes?) did indeed air on ABC's TGIF lineup. I wanna say summer of '90, maybe '91? After the initial 6-ep order, a new batch was made-but these aired only on Nick at Nite. I LOVED this show! The boy in the "modern" house reminded me of myself...someone who has way...

We weren't even going to put out complete shows until we realized that enough people wanted that and that more of them played well from start to finish then we had anticipated. I have always felt that most people desire not just the funny moments from a series like "Candid Camera" (or...

I just ordered it--and "best of" doesn't do it justice. Lots of complete episodes, 2 different anniversary specials, representation of every different era of the series (including the 70s show I remember as a kid, with that saucy Joann Pflug!) THIS is how long-running series should be...

you know, as soon as i sent that i started thinking i might be wrong on that.:b

Hear hear! This is one of those titles that's just sitting around waiting for one of those really good Guthy-Renker, Shout Factory or Respon2 sets to be made. Let's get it on, while Art Carney is alive for interviews and commentary. At the very least, a set of the "Trip to Europe" 60's...