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When the show was running on one of the nostalgia subchannels they aired all five parts. It looked pretty good but there were downsides. For one they trimmed a few minutes out of each episode to squeeze in the commercials. And another issue: one part (i think part four) ends in a climactic fight...

I remember something about these pilots that I posted years ago... "Nine to Five" was intended as a pilot for an anthology series. Each week a different cast of characters and what happens to them over the course of a work day. If they focused it on that same office building they could have...

Our cable guide's synopsis for the first S6 episode began with something along the lines of 'Stuart Bailey starts his own agency...'

I think I posted on this the last time it aired. It was intended to be an anthology series: each week would be the story of what happened to a different cast of characters over a 9 to 5 work day. It's possible they even intended to use the same office building each week, with maybe the...

I remember reading somewhere that when they were making the pilot somebody (the director maybe) would refer to him as 'the kook' and that was the inspiration for 'Kookie'. There's so much PR and legend in Hollywood history that we'll probably never know for sure.

I was skeptical about the whole music-rights excuse because the Warner shows were careful to use Warner-owned songs wherever possible, so there should be no rights problems. But someone posted earlier in this thread that 'Warner' owns the songs, but Warner Entertainment no longer owns the Warner...

This is interesting relative to the continuing issue of music rights for tv shows on DVD. This is from an interview with Cybill Shepherd. If this is anywhere close to accurate the music costs for 77 could be astronomical unless a special agreement is worked out for a limited-release type deal...

Started watching Bosch on Amazon and a couple of scenes were shot in the picturesque Bradbury Bldg in LA. According to this clipping (unfortunately I can't find the source) 77 Sunset Strip, in particular Jack Webb's radical reboot for season six, may have been partly responsible for the Bradbury...

On McMillan & Wife the the commissioner's first name appeared as Stuart in one episode, Stewart in another.

Both.

I don't think it's been pulled. It was shown a year or two ago on Decades, I believe during one of their Christmas season binges.

I have posted this before, but maybe some haven't seen it. There was a pretty interesting site devoted to 77 sunset strip that included quite a lot of background on the show including this bit of info: J. L.'s parsimonious ways influenced all the Warner series. The exteriors were strictly...

Yes they have. But I believe selling tv downloads is something new for Warner Archive, and I'm hoping that it might represent a way to deal with the detective shows with less investment cost than creating physical sets and trying to sell them in a declining dvd market. I'd prefer DVD sets myself...

I posted this in a Warner Archive thread in the streaming/digital forum but it may of interest here so I'll duplicate it: While poking around the iTunes store I found a 'Warner Archive' section tucked into the 'classic' genre of films. This offered a selection of Warner titles arranged by...

I do remember it because of the unusual scheduling; it aired on alternate weeks with The Sid Ceasar Show. The latter was an attempt to recapture the success of his teaming with Imogene Coca only this time with Giselle MacKenzie. I can still remember the themes to both of these obscure shows...

Maybe that's make up for the most important address - the show's title - being a phony.

They've done that with CD releases of film soundtracks, negotiated a lower price for the rights based on a limited number of pressings. Theoretically should be possible for DVDs too.

Official title: "New Sunset"

The first Disney Hardy Boys was issued on DVD in one of those 'tin can' Mickey Mouse Club releases. Copies can still be found at exorbitant prices. I recently re-watched the second serial for the first time since it originally aired. It's not as good as the first: talky, not much action or...

Here's something for the season that fans of this thread may enjoy: There's more detailed information on this here.

There's a website devoted to Pacific Ocean Park, very extensive with lots of photos etc. Last time I checked it did not include any mention of the 77SS episode .

There was definitely some other motivation for the change other than just trying a new title sequence. In the last episode when the door to Stu's office opens, instead of the Bradbury building backdrop seen in earlier episodes, there's a brick wall. If they went through the expense to make a new...

After a run of episodes with no ongoing voice-over narration it was back in 'Dead as in Dude'. With only one chance left, I sure hope Stu gets that date with Hannah.

Last night's 'Alimony League' is one of the best of an uneven season. All the clichés I love: stranded on an island, thunderstorms, power failure, mysterious deaths, a vanishing corpse, howling dog, even a secret passage. The central figure is Lloyd Corrigan (Boston Blackie's millionaire pal...

And time-compressed, with several minutes edited out. An amusing scene between Stu and his secretary Hannah was completely excised from 'Paper Chase' Wednesday night. That's a fairly good ep by season six standards, when key scenes aren't cut.

William Conrad shows up in a few S06 episodes where he's not officially credited...as a voiceover. In one he's doing play-by-play for a baseball broadcast. In another he dubs the voice for a smallish fellow with a peg-leg. The latter sounds weird because today we know that voice so well, but...

After the excellence of "Five" and a very moving episode with Elizabeth Montgomery, the rebooted 77 has been rather uneven to say the least. The teen angst episode must have been filmed in cliché-o-rama. The investigatory element was minimal as misunderstood kids and a stubborn, ignorant parent...

In addition to Lee van Cleef, 77 last night had both Dr Bones McCoy and Grace Lee Whitney. Not a bad story either though the twist wasn't too hard to see coming.

Seeing "5" for the first time since it aired and I still found it an impressive accomplishment: it's almost like a precursor of the tv mini-series. I was also struck by how wrong my recollections were. I completely forgot the whole WW2 Nazi angle, plus I remembered a 'final scene' that wasn't...

Odd thing about the part four transfer. In the last scene the episode ends with a standoff between Bailey and a group of knife-wielding evildoers. The left out the music track! It supposed to end with a crescendo of tense music which can be heard on 16mm copies, but what is probably going to...