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Ordered KOJAK - Season 5 a few days ago from eBay. That will complete my collection of the Telly Savalas versions of both of the first 2 series ( the second series being the 5 ABC Mystery Movie two hour episodes). The Ving Rhames version in 2005 was an unfunny joke that never should have...

Where is KOJAK Season 5 ?? It was supposed to be in stores here in San Diego 12 days ago. Fry's Electronics told me their distributor is missing that and a number of other titles. Best Buy doesn't have it either, Shout Factory is up in Los Angeles. It would be an under 2 hour drive to get...

Actually it was a TV-movie pilot, which is why it's longer. :)

Carol's hair was almost always fairly short, even in the years before her most famous TV series that we're discussing here......and it still is. I think she looked a lot better whenever she put on a wig, most noteably when she played Jane in a Tarzan sketch on The Jack Benny Program in 1964. On...

Since I usually skip over the dated / Broadway-style finales, I wouldn't mind if the 22-disc set collection is missing the Harold Arlen tribute at the end of the Sammy Davis Jr. episode that opened Carol Burnett's 9th Season. Yet I have that one in its entirely in AVI form, which came from one...

I was surprised to see Starsky & Hutch re-released -- the same sets that were once $50 are now in Fry's stores at $13 and $14 each....but Season 3 is missing. The Virginian they have as well, and the first 2 years are $20 apiece in the tin cases, and the same goes for The Men from Shiloh! Great...

No, as I said I don't know where my source got his copies from. They are DVD-quality and were pressed from the master NBC tapes.

Well, you were close! The Ed Sullivan Show switched from B & W tape to color tape in 1965 with the Sept. 26 season opener with Milton Berle. It was the week after The Beatles made their last in-studio Sullivan appearance. Although they were filmed, several of CBS' sitcoms went color that...

Being Jack Benny was on CBS then and not NBC during those years, it must have been on black & white videotape. That's what Jackie Gleason used starting with his failed variety series at the end of the 1950s (the one with Buddy Hackett that nobody in my generation ever saw) and his very...

I posted based on the approximately 114 episodes I've seen, Joe. If Jack and the gang did any shows live after 1953, it's possible but all those I've seen were filmed including the European episodes ( Jack gets trapped in the Tower of London and accidentally falls into in a canal in Florence...

Just so we're clear, The Jack Benny Program was done live (several of which were captured from the studio monitors via kinescope films) during the first 3 years, which really weren't seasons because from 1950 to 1955, Jack was still doing his radio show ... on which he promoted his...

Seen them all before anyway in cable reruns, but still worth another viewing.

In 2003 I bought all 3 Image Entertainment box sets -- several episodes of which were first released in 2001. There was one for each season, including Robert Culp's episodes that he directed and / or wrote -- which are isolated from the season ordering elsewhere. Culp also recorded 2 & 1/2...

I saw "The Iron Horse" on CBN Cable back in the early 1980s. It was one of many 1960s (as well as 50s) classic series aired on that channel at the time. This series was much better than Tales of Wells Fargo, but not a success for co-stars Dale Robertson, Gary Collins, or totally forgotten actor...

I just bought the first full previously "missing" season in that very familiar metallic tin, after spotting it in a Fry's Electronics store earlier this month. 5 of this group of 37 episodes were originally filmed in color. We know this from the end credits where it reads "Color Consultant ...

Sorry I don't want to read through all 29 pages, but I had to ask.... WHY would the original music of The Fugitive even be an issue? For the first 3 years of this ABC series it was mostly from the CBS music library (particularly their westerns) and ABC (The Untouchables often heard in The...

I'm a fan of much of Darren McGavin's work, but not Mike Hammer. That series was primitive even by late 1950s standards! The narration also dates it badly. Darren was much better on "Riverboat" and of course as Kolchak, the Night Stalker. But if you want to see him in a quality private detective...

The rest of the 4th Season -- even though I haven't seen those yet, isn't much different considering that Robert Horton was still part of the show. So were Terry Wilson as Bill Hawks and Frank McGrath as Charlie Wooster -- both of whom were part of this series for all 8 years. I read that a year...

Here is an old TV GUIDE cover of an issue I once had from June 1961. I bought it used in the early 1990s:

Thanks for sharing that -- I wasn't aware Timeless Media Group had a separate WAGON TRAIN release just with John McIntire B & W episodes. For some reason I suspect that "The Ah Chong Story" has white actor Arnold Stang in dark makeup, playing a Chinese man. Is that correct? If so it would be no...

Do you mean famous talk show host and game show producer Merv Griffin, James? Mike Griffith played cricket according to Wikipedia. :D

In July 2011 I ran into the same problem on Encore Westerns as I once did back in 1983 (when I first viewed this and many other great old shows on CBN Cable) : The syndication package ends about 24 episodes into the 4th season!! Next Thursday Encore is going back to the beginning of the series...

I don't receive RTV on my cable system either. :( More than 20 years ago I saw a few of the 39 First Season (30 minute) episodes. They are rare for some reason! The series came back after a full year off the air with a slightly different cast for the 2nd Season as an hour show in 1960, and it's...

I would get it just for Eastwood! RAWHIDE worked just as well without Eric Fleming. Somehow I don't think Eric turning up as the lead guest star on an episode of BONANZA that season (and a 2-part BONANZA the following year) had anything to do with RAWHIDE's lower ratings. There are...

The order for much of this series doesn't really matter is why. "Incident of El Toro" I remember from watching in the 90s on the fX channel. It was filmed in 1962, which would be early in the 5th Season. CBS delayed its original airing until early 1964, which is late in the 6th Season. The...

Both of my DVD recorders have been Panasonic. The reason I respect that brand so much is because Panasonic decks can still use DVD-RAM. I've recorded over programming I don't save literally 300+ times on the same disc. I've gone through maybe four or five RAM discs in the past 6 years.

Ernie was the best! I used to laugh at his old ABC TV specials on my local PBS station when I was a kid in 1977. Jolene Brand was one of the most beautiful women on TV in the early 1960s, and her girl in the bathrub bits were as much fun to watch as her parody of "The Perils of Pauline"...

I wasn't expecting this to go into a full discussion on recording speeds. Nonetheless we can agree that with DVD-R recorrding XP is the best of the 4 speeds, however my decision to use LP is a logisitical one: It's more affordable to get 3 shows to a disc instead of two on all but one of...

My mistake then. :) Then it must be the American release that has that episode where it should be. I've seen most of these episodes before and that includes all of the early years. So I didn't buy any of these for my collection. Why did the Australian release mess that up, delaying...

OK, I wasn't aware that was put on the 5th Season set here in the U.S. The Australian release had it on the 4th Season set, which is what I was referring to.