That's a theory I've heard a lot about TV shows, and in many cases it is true. Not always. The Fugitive on DVD is a hard case. On the one hand, I hate to see a show butchered (and needlessly, as it turns out), and it's really inexcusable. On the other hand, if the choice was what we got or...
Glad to see a date scheduled for the final volume of the show. It's been a long haul, and I wasn't always sure we'd get there, but the end is in sight.
I don't claim to know every piece of music that belongs in each of these episodes as originally broadcast. But I do know that the Heyes music in so many of them was so out-of-place that as I was watching, the episode(s) just felt wrong. Perhaps the worst example is season 2's Brass Ring. You...
I don't think just switching the monitor to black and white will do the trick. Color shows are filmed differently - lit differently, framed, etc. It's not a matter of just bleeding out the color.
It's a mood. Black and white presents a more grim mood, and it is Kimble's dire circumstances that keep us interested. The fourth season episodes look fantastic, but they lack the feeling of the earlier seasons that comes from the starkness of black and white photography.
Glad to hear this is on it's way, although I kinda hoped we'd get the whole season together. But I guess it makes sense to end the series in the fashion in which it was put out all along. Hopefully, we will see the last volume early next year.