Another analogy would be like with collecting baseball cards. It is easier to go to a dealer or convention and buy a complete set that's been put together. However it's more fun to put it together bit by bit and IMO opinion nothing matches the feel of finally getting that last card. While DVD...
Which part is so sad, having a hobby or collecting TV shows? Some people only buy stamps to mail letters while others collect them. So, because you see collecting or calling it a hobby one way therefore anyone who sees it another way is "sad"?
Sorry that you don't want the "challenge". You'll never understand the fun of collecting. I wouldn't trade all the fun I had in the hobby for a DVD set of every series ever made. And, don't worry, I don't think you ever have to be concerned with ever having any "super collector" have any...
Perhaps you could tell me why you find that to be the case? Or does it being in disagreement with you constitute that? I don't know how long you've been collecting but obviously you don't have the perspective of many years in the hobby. Sorry if pointing out to you that things cost far more...
Here's a simple solution. Take your VHS records of the shows and then edit in the missing music into the DVD versions. Then you can create your own complete versions of the show. Odd Couple is one show I don't have on tape so I can't do this but if the show was as important to me as it is to...
You know what, if you really think this is expensive then you really shouldn't be in the hobby. I don't mean that to be cruel but give me a break. When I started in 1980 my take-home pay was $120 a week and blank tapes were $15 if you found them on sale. If you taped in SP, 4 shows a tape for...
The same way I discovered shows that aired before my time that weren't heavily syndicated. It's called INITIATIVE and PERSEVERENCE. That's what made the TV collecting hobby fun. That you had to put in an effort to find shows and actively pursue them. I'm aware that 98% of the people who are on...
Is it just me or do other people not find it dumbfounding that anyone who calls themself a TV fan could have never seen this show. I mean, it's definitely the best drama in TV history and maybe the best show period. That would be like someone being a movie buff and then saying they never saw...
Still laughably cheap. Let's see, when I recorded all of the My Three Sons off Nick at Nite around 1985, high grade VHS tapes were about $10 or so. 4 episodes on a tape so the first 20 shows cost $50 in 1985 dollars. That would be what today, about $150? Tell me again how this set is expensive.
I got this email about TV shows being available to download so I rushed over to check out what they had. Most of it I already have the DVDs of but a couple of things looked interesting like first season Nanny and the Professor, 3 seasons of Lou Grant, etc. So I asked my friend how you go about...
The one thing that no one is mentioning is that who is going to pay to restore any of these things? I can't really think of much in the way of shows that were only preserved on black and white kinescope that have the commercial value that anyone would go to the expense of putting it back in...
Dark Shadows episodes are preserved on black and white 2 inch tape, not kinescope, until they went to color 2-inch tape. Don't know where you get the idea they are kines. Just because something is in black and white doesn't mean it's a kinescope. Personally, I LOVE black and white tape.
When all of the Universal black and white 16mm prints hit the collectors' world about 20 years ago I don't recall The Deputy being one of them that came out. However, if I'm not mistaken, the show did run off tape transfers some time in the 90s, either on TV Land or syndication. So there may be...
Even though Fonda was the big name star, The Deputy didn't really focus on him. He very well might not have been in that many episode. Can't believe I forgot the Smith Family, one of my favorites. Very odd show, neither comedy nor drama but more like an early version of a dramedy. Probably more...
Some additions to your list, none of which are ever going to be released. The Jean Arthur Show The Debbie Reynolds Show Cade's County and The Family Holvak (Glenn Ford) The Ray Bolger Show The Ray Milland Show and Markham (Ray Milland) The Rogues (Charles Boyer, David Niven and Gig...
I'm not sure if they had one. If they did, it would have been the last show of the fifth season. But she did return for a few appearances, including in the 200th episode. Which made sense - she was away at college and would come home from time to time to visit. Much more logical than what they...
I am talking to some of my inside sources and this is way worse than Universal is telling anyone. They are really spinning this big time. Anything that they had 2-inch masters on, those are gone forever. For instance, the show Don Adams Screen Test, gone. Any specials, such as the Herb Alpert...
I really, really love this quote from the press release: "In the 1960s, before we lived with computers and cable TV with over 200 channels of mostly junk, the Stone family showed what love, respect and support for one another looked like." I couldn't have said it better myself. Just this...
That's what they are claiming anyway. Who knows where the truth actually lies. I'm hearing from some of my sources that Andy MacKay, the head of Universal music is supposed to be completely distraught over what was lost. Somehow if it is as minor as they are trying to spin it, I doubt he would...
From what I'm hearing, Fox, which is now the distributor for the MGM shows, isn't going to bother with any of them themselves. Which isn't really a surprise since they don't even bother doing anything with their own shows anymore. They are, however, open to farming out the MGM shows. At what...
The big, major acts are probably looked after with backups elsewhere and in other countries. What is going to be lost forever are the many smaller, less popular artists whose material may not have been released overseas. I'm currently working on a CD release for one such act and I fear their...
Motown is stored in New Jersey as are the Polydor labels that are part of Universal music, like Mercury. What I'm hearing was destroyed was Decca, Dot, Kapp, ABC, Dunhill, Uni, A&M and many of the other Universal owned labels. And unlike film/video, they don't have backup master tapes.
Yet another reason why I won't be getting a high-def set any time in the near future, if ever. And remember one thing about format switches - a very small percentage ever makes it to the next format. That was true when music went from 78s to 45s and then to LPs and then CDs. I think I heard the...
To me, my dividing point is, taping era, pre-taping era. Almost every show that has aired on the networks since VCRs came about around 1978 or so, is around in someone's collection. And once came into popular usage, lets says 1983 or 1984, then they are definitely around. So to me, the stuff I...
I really hope that we get that 3rd set as well. I know one of the problems Infinity was having with Man with a Camera was that they couldn't get stores to stock it, limiting sales to online orders. I wonder if they are having the same problem with Suspense. I've never bought a DVD in a store in...
A - I'm not "punishing" anyone. I waiting a good long time before seeking another source. And I didn't buy a pirated set, I traded, something I've been doing since before you were born (or close to it). Which by the way, until a few short years ago when it dawned on the geniuses who run the...
I've already done so. Sorry, not that important a show for me to double dip on. That's what happens when they wait four years between sets. You lose customers and I'm sure I'm far from the only sale they've lost.