Now there's a DVD I'd like to get my hands on! I have an episode of SC on VHS on a double bill with Caniff's other comic "Terry and the Pirates". While T&P had its eyes on the kiddie market, SC was definitely aimed at the adults with all its Dragnet-like technical jargon and aerial...
Maybe ... and this might be a long shot here... but maybe, if the CBS archives have a few of the live episodes in their vault, they might lease "Mama" to a small distributor, like they did with "Suspense"... already a second volume of that show is already being planned for release. Stranger...
A little history on this show... "Tate" played on a double bill with a rather lame sitcom called "Happy" as the 1960 summer replacements for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall; both came from Como's Roncom Films company, and they even shared the same sponsor, Kraft Foods. "Tate", of course, didn't...
Add "Jefferson Drum", "Destry", "The Americans", and "Dundee and the Culhane" to the really obscure list. Those, along with "Two Faces West", are shows I'd really like to see again.
I'm with you on that, Bob. This is a really rare show that I never thought would see the light of day, mainly because of its 90-minute running time. Now, if only "Virginian" and "Name of the Game" will finally come out of those Universal mothballs and on DVD someday during my lifetime :laugh: ...
Actually, Joe, some of the first season's episodes were produced on film from New York by Pictorial Productions. I have an Ethel Waters episode on VHS tape that was definitely shot on film. It was at the start of the second season that filming shifted to Hollywood. Roland Reed Productions ("My...
I can think of a few more really obscure Universal TV shows that I would love to see again PERIOD, even if they will never see the light of day on a DVD disc... I don't know if any of you have seen or heard of these shows, but I definitely have seen an episode or two... Pride Of The Family...