There are a few B&W shows I'd like to see be released or finished...
December Bride (1954-1959)
Trackdown (1957-1959)
Pete and Gladys (1960-1962)
Ben Casey (1961-1966) (seasons 2-5)
Breaking Point (1963-1964)
Slattery's People (1964-1965)
The Cara Williams Show (1964-1965)
~Ben
Here are the following B&W TV shows I still want on DVD or Blu-Ray:
* December Bride (1954-1959)
* The Millionaire (1955-1960)
* Circus Boy (1956-1958)
* Trackdown (1957-1959)
* Casey Jones (1958)
* Pete and Gladys (1960-1962)
* Ben Casey (seasons 2-5) (1962-1966)
* Breaking Point (1963-1964)
*...
My B&W want list:
December Bride (CBS, 1954-59)
The Millionaire (CBS, 1955-60)
Trackdown (CBS, 1957-59)
Pete and Gladys (CBS, 1960-62)
Ben Casey (ABC, seasons 2-5, 1962-66)
Breaking Point (ABC, 1963-64)
The Baileys of Balboa (CBS, 1964-65)
The Cara Williams Show (CBS, 1964-65)
The Reporter (CBS...
Still on my black-and-white want list:
Father Knows Best (Blu-Ray)
The Donna Reed Show (seasons 6-8)
December Bride
Trackdown
Pete and Gladys
Ben Casey (seasons 2-5)
Breaking Point
The Cara Williams Show
The Reporter
The Baileys of Balboa
Slattery's People
~Ben
Other black-and-white shows I'd still like to see be released on DVD, or streaming (Paramount+):
December Bride
Trackdown
Pete and Gladys
Ben Casey (seasons 3-5)
Breaking Point (1963-64 season spin-off of Ben Casey)
The Baileys of Balboa
The Reporter
Slattery's People (first Bing Crosby...
Yes, I too am for the Cara Williams Show! Only the first episode ("Top Secret Groom") used a different theme tune (composed by Frank Comstock), while the other 29 episodes used a different tune by Kenyon Hopkins (perhaps best known as the musical supervisor for Paramount Television from 1970 to...
Jeff,
This means there may still be hope for some of these to be out on DVD, because not all of us believe in having to pay monthly for a streaming service to see stuff like this.
~Ben
So if not only if they won't release it on DVD, then it will not be available for streaming, either? This means whatever is not released is also "censored" from further reruns.
~Ben
I am hopeful they may release at least one of these following CBS shows on DVD:
December Bride (1954-1959)
The Millionaire (1955-1960)
Trackdown (1957-1959)
Pete and Gladys (1960-1962)
The Baileys of Balboa (1964-1965)
The Cara Williams Show (1964-1965)
Slattery's People (1964-1965)
The Reporter...
I think the other issue surrounding getting The Cara Williams Show and two other CBS series (The Reporter and The Baileys of Balboa) out on DVD, besides a general decline in buying DVDs, is the scandal surrounding James T. Aubrey, Keefe Brasselle, and the mob...
~Ben
I wonder if that means any of those shows not digitally remastered will be purposefully destroyed or are simply blocked from release??? I hope not!
~Ben
I still think there will be DVD releases of more lesser-known properties, but through Shout! Factory and VEI...
If VEI already released such second-rate or third-rate shows as Angie and The Powers of Matthew Star, then I think they still might release these following CBS/Paramount properties...
I hope CBS/Paramount will release the spin-off Breaking Point on DVD in the future.
Since it was first out in the 1963-64 season, it was the first Bing Crosby Productions TV series to have the "Crashing Cars" logo, its jingle composed by Gerald Fried. It looked like this...
~Ben
I also remember my brother ordering on my behalf Here's Boomer (The Complete First Season) and Paw Paws, and they too were not shipped together, but they both still arrived!
~Ben
They still have to work on it, but I know the last three seasons of the series have an extended version of the Bing Crosby Productions closing logo audio, which goes from the logo sequence to the notice saying...
"BING CROSBY PRODUCTIONS and the AMERICAN BROADCASTING COMPANY wish to thank the...
With Ben Casey and Our Miss Brooks having now seen the light of day on DVD, it may not be too much longer before The Millionaire's first season (early 1955) gets a DVD release...
~Ben
Yeah, that engine was not just too small but performed no better than any of the other smog-era small-block V8s; the subsequent 305 had a lot more power potential.
~Ben
I also think, besides the numerous edits made for syndication and other reasons which affect these releases, that shows like this may not sell well on DVD unless the original commercial breaks were included as well, obviously only leaving out the spots for station IDs and the like.
What I mean...