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Wow, thanks for this list. I was aware of some of them, and have watched eps. of Yancy Derringer and My Living Doll, but I wasn't aware of most of these being available on Amazon Prime. I watched a Yancy Derringer episode that had Jock Mahoney's wife, Maggie Mahoney, aka Margaret Field, on it...

"Death Valley Days" has been running on the Encore Western Channel, two episodes in the early evening every Monday to Friday, since early in 2015.

I've added still another entry in this series, this time focusing on the first color episode of "Laramie," which aired on Encore Western this past Tuesday, Season 3 / #1: "Dragon at the Door," about a troupe of traveling Japanese entertainers who become overnight guests of Slim and Jess when...

Another entry in my ongoing series (on my blog) devoted to Asian Stars in TV Westerns: https://briandanacamp.wordpress.com/2015/09/23/asian-stars-in-tv-westerns-lisa-lu-in-cheyenne/ This one's about Lisa Lu in "Pocketful of Stars" from "Cheyenne."

A Machiavellian piano player! Did he plot against the host?

As if I don't have enough western box sets to watch, now you're all compelling me to go out and get another one. WB Shop has it for $38.09. Amazon is more expensive. Any place cheaper?

At my local FYE this weekend, I bought four box sets of TV shows that added up to 135 episodes (1950s-early '60s) for a total of $22. Granted, three of them were Mill Creek and may all be p.d., but I guess I was going for quantity over quality. 103 of the episodes are b&w. When my daughter...

I'm looking forward to Science Fiction Theatre. I've seen some color episodes on YouTube and liked what I saw. This series is unusual in that its first season was in color and its second season in b&w. I hope the color is good in the first season episodes on the DVD set. Here are some shots I...

There are various film archives devoted to preservation of classic films and the Library of Congress has a National Film Registry. Why is there nothing like this for television? I know of the Museum of Television and Radio in NYC (or whatever name it goes by now), but it has very limited...

I watched Part 2 after I did my post and, yes, it's an amazing piece of television--writing, directing and acting all superb--and a strong and honest depiction of the rigors of combat and the difficulties of making life-or-death decisions in a command structure while under fire. It doesn't make...

I appreciate the larger context provided in your responses, Jack and Bob. I was just going off of first impressions from having watched four eps. this week for the first time in nearly 50 years. I watched two more eps. of "Combat!" last night, including "The Enemy" with Robert Duvall as a Nazi...

I've been on a WWII kick and have been watching episodes of "The Rat Patrol" and "Combat!" on DVD and episodes of "McHale's Navy" on YouTube. So far, every episode I've watched has been a winner. I find the McHale episodes hilarious. I'm astounded by how irreverent "McHale's" is toward the...

When I went on my "Dragnet" kick a while back, both '50s and '60s versions, I was amazed at the small stable of actors that kept turning up: Eddie Firestone, Vic Perrin, Virginia Gregg, Olan Soule, and a few others I can't recall right now. And they were always good, no matter what roles they...

We need a film/TV equivalent of this Brazilian millionaire record collector: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html?_r=0

In my household, every first run broadcast was in black-and-white until 1978--when I bought my first color TV! (My parents didn't have a color TV until I got a new one in the mid-1980s and gave my 1978 one to them.) Still, since baby boomers are the ones who are buying most of the DVDs and...

I'm not a big sitcom fan, but the Bilko show is easily the funniest sitcom I've ever seen. Just great writing and acting in every episode.

I remember taping an episode of "National Velvet" off of TNT some 20-odd years ago and being initially pleasantly surprised that I'd discovered another early color series from MGM based on one of their classics, just like "Northwest Passage." Yet, for some reason, the credits sequence was in...

I want to take advantage of the Gunsmoke sale on Amazon, but I'm just curious if anyone has any recommendations for which seasons to prioritize. I'm interested in the b&w hour-long shows, but I only want to buy one or two seasons. Thanks.

Back on April 16, 2010, in the "Sitcoms with 2 or more full seasons that are not on DVD" thread, you said: A lot can happen in four years... :D

I was out boosting the local economy yesterday and decided to take a stroll into FYE, just on a whim, to see if they had any more used TV box sets I might want. And what did they have? The exact sets of "The Fugitive" and "The Rat Patrol" that went missing on the visit in January cited above...

On a whim, I stopped in at my local FYE last night just to see if they had any new used sets on their TV on DVD racks. Sure enough, there was the complete set of "Wanted: Dead or Alive"--94 eps. for $13.99! I already had Season 2, which I'd picked up at another local store for $4.99 over a year...

I ordered the 20-episode set of 26 Men for $4.16 from Timeless, so we'll see what it looks like when it arrives. In the meantime, I was in Book Off last night checking out their Classic TV section to see if anything desired had been added since I was last there. I picked up a box set of Season 4...

Does anyone here own any sets of "26 Men" starring Tris Coffin? I just watched the first two episodes last night for the first time as found on the Mill Creek Ultimate Westerns set (where their titles are listed properly in the booklet, but mislabeled on the menu) and was so impressed with how...

This is why I've stocked up on enough VCRs and DVD players to last me well into my retirement. I've got enough physical media (tapes and discs) to last me the rest of my life as it is. And enough books to read as well. Sure, I may have to rely on the "cloud" every so often for something very...

Would you by any chance remember if Lisa Lu (as Hey Girl) had a significant role in any of those episodes? Or did she just do glorified walk-ons? I watched one of the episodes in question (I taped them off the Western Channel), "The Tax Gatherer," and she had only one scene right at the...

That's very helpful. I need to start consulting that site. Thank you very much. P.S. I just compared prices between B&N and Amazon. Amazon's prices are at least $10 cheaper. Also I noticed something strange in the B&N listings for "Have Gun Will Travel." They call it "DVD (Pan & Scan)." That...

I meant Season 4, sorry. So, Season 4, Vol. 1 has eps. 1-20? Thanks.

I was in Barnes & Noble looking over their TV on DVD section and I resolved to look up a number of titles on Amazon to compare prices, but also to see how many episodes were in each set--and which episodes. I'm particularly interested in getting Season 3 of "Have Gun Will Travel" because Chinese...

So I've been checking out the TV on DVD section in my local FYE. Lots of purchases to consider, but most over-priced. On one trip, I bought a used Perry Mason Season One Vol. One box set for $15 and on another I bought a complete set of Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot over-priced at $39.99. (I...

I've bought more b&w box sets in the past month than I ever have. (Perry Mason, Naked City, Adventures of Robin Hood, The Buccaneers, Whispering Smith, etc.) Granted, some were used sets, one even out-of-print (and costing only $10 for 39 eps.!). Now I just need the time to watch them.