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Apples and oranges. Bonanza was specifically commissioned in color by NBC's parent company to encourage people to buy new color TV's. Those WB shows, on the other hand, all aired on ABC which had the stature among networks then that something like ION has today. It was 1964 until WBTV could...

The regular DVD releases weren't exactly, shall we say, official.

Another complication to that one is the fact that California National Productions was another partner in the show's production. CNP was a division of NBC Films. Ironically, I believe the CNP properties, at least the ones that aren't in public domain, are now owned by CBS...

Prior to being absorbed into Shout Factory, Timeless had released the first and second seasons, as well as the final hour-long color season.

Sheriff of Cochise and US Marshal are different seasons of the same show: Sheriff of Cochise was the first season; U S Marshal was the remaining seasons. After the first season, the lead character Frank Morgan (John Bromfield) was offered a post in the US Marshals Service office in Arizona...

Works for me, along with Sky King, Roy Rogers, and Fury.

What got Robert Reed his high score in that time frame was "The Defenders".

Tales of Wells Fargo (most of S1 with a couple of episodes from S2-3, and a separate set with all but a couple of episodes from the final color season) were put out a while back by Timeless. It would be a question of what decade since the first set would have been in the 50s, while the other...

One of the few movie commentaries I enjoyed was the one to Henry Fonda's "My Darling Clementine", which was Fonda playing Wyatt Earp. The commentary was from Earp's grandson. In one particular scene where Earp came in and clobbered a disorderly person over the head with a pistol stock...

And that is so. Christian movie studios have formed a consortium of sorts to offer blanket licensing to churches for a fee for these purposes. This would not cover some church showing "The Passion of the Christ", for instance, because 20th Century Fox would not be covered by that blanket license.

You mean to tell me that Kit Carson and Della Street gave birth to The Greatest American Hero? Wow.

I'm not big on streaming per se. I don't mind digital downloads, but those would be saved to some form of hard drive for the same reasoning you state.

Timeless Media put the entire series out in 2010. Not sure what the source material was, but the episodes looked quite good quality-wise. Like most TMG, they just tend to fade out at commercial breaks, though. That, and the fact that the second season episode title sequences were clipped from...

Martin's exclusive deal with ABC came in part due to Desi Arnaz. Martin's first wife, Madelyn Pugh, was one of the chief writers for "I Love Lucy". Arnaz financed the pilot for "The Untouchables", and the Desilu studio coproduced the series with Martin as Exec. Producer. This is where things...

The later "Police Squad!" parody with Leslie Nielsen managed to mash up this QM trademark (even including the announcer for those QM shows) with the opening credits from "M Squad", with everyone in the cast whipping out a snubnose revolver ala Lee Marvin and blasting away. The "and...as" was...

Whoever owns "Wichita Town" is EXTREMELY proprietary about the show. I put up an episode from a trader on You Tube and got two or three nastygrams in short order demanding I take it down.

More likely than not, since "Life of Riley" was produced by NBC television through (in the later years) the California National studios they owned, "Life of Riley" is either owned by NBC/Universal or out in limbo somewhere...

For that matter, while Wichita Town was a Mirisch production, it was filmed by Four Star TV.

Interesting to read this thread five years down the road and see how many of the shows listed here did make it. I'll list them with their "released or not" status and who probably owns them now... Top Tier 1. Ben Casey (unreleased, CBS Television Dist.) 2. Dr. Kildare (pretty much all released...

More or less. That "Eleventh Hour" pilot was originally shot as an S1 episode of "Kildare" but never aired. They ended up reshooting a number of scenes to remove Richard Chamberlain, but it's the same story. The scene where Wendell Corey hypnotizes Kildare is redone with a nameless intern...

Since Warner Archive's video channel is showing "The Rounders" now, I'd guess a release is in the works.

"The Detectives" was a Four Star show, which puts it in Fox's ownership.

It seems that Shout!, especially since their acquisition of Timeless Media, are the go-to people for classic TV. It would be great if they could get ahold of the masters of some of the older Fox shows. If they can release "My Friend Flicka" which was one of Fox's earliest TV shows, surely they...

They're showing it on Warner Archive's streaming channel. What few eps I've seen is enough to get me to buy it.

No, the first (AFAIK) would have been Margaret on "Make Room for Daddy". In this case, it was also due to contract disputes, as Jean Hagen got tired of working with Danny Thomas.As for Kate McCoy, Kathy Nolan got into a contract dispute as well (and Danny Thomas produced the show, coincidence?)...

Guns of Will Sonnett were being rerun on either Antenna TV or MeTV as recently as last year.

If "Don't Call Me Charlie!" was lost in a fire, that means "Hennesey" is probably gone too; as producer Don McGuire had kept prints of his shows in a tight grasp.The Joel McCrea western series "Wichita Town" is gone except for seven or eight episodes as well.

Some of these shows have shown up on new digital side channels like MeTV which runs The Fugitive, Route 66, Peter Gunn, and 12 O'Clock High. Granted, they're shown at odd hours of the night, but they are there.Some of the westerns like Cheyenne and Rawhide have recently aired on Encore's...

Navy Log is likely controlled by Paramount since CBS Films was one of the production companies involved. As for "Silent Service", many of the series produced by California National have fallen into public domain, so there may be hope yet.

Probably hands down, the best would have to be "Firefly". I'd only seen one episode during its network run; so I borrowed a copy during the run-up to the "Serenity" film release and I was hooked. The worst would have to be the WWF compilations done from all the wrestling promotions whose...