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That is literally the only remaining western series I had a shred of interest in seeing make it. So I will be getting that.

Speaking of UCLA, some years back, they did a restoration and screening of the Playhouse 90 adaptation of the apocalyptic novel "Alas Babylon" that I have long wanted to see made available. Since UCLA put up some episodes of the "US Steel Hour" on their YT channel from videotape masters, I'm...

Annie Farge guesting on "I've Got A Secret" shortly after the debut of "Angel".

A *really* weird thing happened. I have never seen "Ben Casey" before. I decided to finally use Amazon points to get Season 1, Volume 1. When I watched a couple episodes I found it odd that Sam Jaffe was in neither and couldn't understand why they would have debuted the show without...

I used to keep charts but I don't anymore ever since my move forced me to scale back parts of my collection where the shows that weren't getting watched much had to go. I don't think that affected the B/W percentage too much but I did part with "Addams Family" and "Munsters" as well as the...

Kindle proved to be a godsend for paring down the number of books I own. If there's a Kindle version of something I have, I get it. And then I just donate the books through a book drop. The next time I move I'm likely going to get rid of all my CDs once I make sure all are digitized at max...

When you find yourself moving into smaller quarters, whittling down shelf space becomes just as important.

I never had any qualms throwing out something if I'd been able to upgrade it. Whatever I paid for something else in the past is a long-ago cost that I just consider the payment made to enjoy it at the time. Hanging on to an obsolete format in low quality would be like hanging on to an old...

I haven't purchased a new vintage series in several years at least and after giving away a lot of the 'deadweight' titles in my collection because of my move last year I never thought I'd end up getting one again, but this one I've always wanted to see because of the presence of Joanna Barnes...

VEI episodes are sourced from the R4 releases and have PAL speedup.

The show was pleasant disarming fun, aided by the great chemistry and byplay between Warden as the private eye causing trouble for his upscale lawyer son John Rubenstein by getting him involved with his cases. Great location shooting in San Francisco helped and the show usually had some...

The only post-70s show at this stage I'd splurge for (other than a R1 release of "Law and Harry McGraw" to replace the R4 one I have) would be "Crazy Like A Fox" (1985-86).

What also slows things down for us as we get older is the fact that we want to do less collecting and take the time to enjoy what we've got. When we're younger, there's the thrill of collecting to say, "I have it whenever I want to see it" but as time becomes more limited to us, the...

I've reached the point where unless a true Grail title is announced (Sheena, the unreleased S2 of "Burke's Law") there's no point in my doing a blind buy on anything any longer. Circumstances in my life are forcing to me move and downsize and while I treasure my collection, I have been...

My most wanted remains "Burke's Law", S2 but alas I know it will never come and I'll never forgive Timeless for not doing it when they could have (instead of shoving a third release we didn't need of "I Spy" down our throats and more westerns).

That recording dates to about 1983 which was when WPIX went back to the "Circle 11" logo and started to phase out the "11 Alive" logo. But yeah, New York local TV recordings prior to the mid-70s is just about non-existent for a lot of stations. I've seen more surviving Chicago and LA...

A Three Stooges ending seguing to the beginning of the Sunday Morning A&C movie on WPIX.

The Abbott and Costello TV series was a staple item on WPIX for a lot of years in the late 70s much in the same way the WPIX "Sunday Morning Movie" was always an Abbott and Costello movie. Seinfeld always credited the show with being an inspiration for his show.

And from outside Warner, the failure to see "Burke's Law" completed on DVD will forever remain the biggest blight in my collection as far as B/W shows are concerned. It's the failure to see that completed that I confess makes me resent a bit more the overdoing of lesser known titles from the...

Overall I think the ones I regret not having seen emerge from Warner would be Season 2 of "The Eleventh Hour" (there's an interrupted crossover story with "Dr. Kildare" I've never been able to see the finish of!), plus "Cain's Hundred" (since FSM did release the music for that show). "The...

I shun all of the episodes that I know are seriously compromised, the top of the list being "Strike Up The Band Or Else" and the senseless removal of "Cocktails For Two."

Current generations with their freak-out standards that even result in Kate Smith's rendition of "God Bless America" being banned only prove their intellectual vapidness.

Kildare is entirely released but we're still waiting on the second and final season of "The Eleventh Hour."

I got a chuckle over this description. "Other familiar faces include Morey Amsterdam and Richard Deacon of The Dick Van Dyke Show, an early role for Stacy Keach of Mike Hammer and Titus fame." Uh, no that was Stacy Keach, SENIOR. It's commendable that a non-western title is making it at...

Edited "20th Century" episodes were part of the "World War II With Walter Cronkite" VHS series that was also released at a bargain price on DVD.

The term "illicit" or "illegal" may be melodramatic but it is in the narrow technical sense "illegal" to get stuff that way so I have no quibble with that term (I've had to do it myself, especially in my early days of building a vintage TV sports collection). Also, I am among those who...

"Alice" is a rare case where Warner Archive did start a title and then stalled it (and the later seasons have a LOT of music in them), but I think at the same time they may have figured that as long as they got to the end of the Flo era of the show, they probably figured that was all that was...

Never mind those musicians. What about those who favor the era of the "Great American Songbook?" and the "Make Believe Ballroom" sound that WNEW Radio in New York used to be the home of in the 1980s? Or the "beautiful music" easy listening formats? And unless you live in a major city...

It was a good run while it lasted. Considering how the MOST optimum time for shows of that era would have been if DVD technology had been available in the 1980s, that we got as high a volume from this era as we did (and until very recently there have been a higher volume of shorter-run B/W...

But for that unfinished business with "Burke's Law" I could be more accepting of this development (along with "Alfred Hitchcock Presents")