ALL MEMBERS: Tell Columbia/TriStar Which Shows YOU WANT released to DVD - Your vote COUNTS! (1 Viewer)

[Ben Phillips]

I had trouble narrowing it down to five. I finally settled on "Just Shoot Me," "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman," "Newsradio," "Benson," and "Bewitched."

 

[Jeff Jacobson]

[T]he guys at F[ox ]K[ids] prevented Sonnenfeld's guys from using Die Fledermaus and American Maid [in the live action "The Tick"]... .

Why did they do that?

 

[Steve_Knutzen]

Any chance we'll see the eventual results of this poll before anything's officialy announced?

 

[David Lambert]

Any chance we'll see the eventual results of this poll before anything's officialy announced?

Given Columbia's history of such things, my guess is that the answer is "no". This is just research for them, and the results probably go straight to the files. They don't look at it like American Idol voting results or anything, with a "victor" to be announced.

 

[MatthewA]

There were more than five shows that I wanted. :b

 

[Jason Seaver]

[T]he guys at F[ox ]K[ids] prevented Sonnenfeld's guys from using Die Fledermaus and American Maid [in the live action "The Tick"]... .
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Why did they do that?

Presumably, Columbia-TriStar and Sonnenfeld/Josephson didn't want to pay Haim Saban for every episode - since those characters (along with Sewer Urchin and a few others) were created for the animated series, "Fox Kids" owned them, but not the characters who had appeared in the original New England Comics, um, comics.

I gather that Saban is somewhat mercurial. He might very well have wanted an Executive Producer credit of some sort on the live-action series and CTS didn't want the ownership situation to get murky.

 

[Joel C]

I *love* Newsradio! If they release ala Mad About You I'l definately buy it. I nearly bought MaY, which I liked early on.

 

[John Kwong]

Soap for sure!!! Billy Crystal playing a gay son, What more do you want????

Anyone know who owns the rights to WKRP in Cincinnati??

 

[JohnRice]

As I recall, WKRP has severe rights problems with the music in the show and will probably never be released

 

[MatthewA]

But if it is, it would be by Fox.

 

[David Lambert]

Yes, Fox has stated that WKRP has too high a music rights cost, and would therefore likely never see the light of day. Check Peter Staddon's last chat.

 

[Seth_S]

The only show on that list that I'd even consider buying if the price was low is "News Radio" (I loved the show, but not really enough to buy it).

Here's what I want which of course isn't on that list: "Married with Children", more "The Larry Sanders Show", "The Critic", and of course, "Seinfeld" (which I'm sure we wont' see for a long, long time).

 

[Greg_S_H]

I'm glad they're doing this but, like others on this thread, none of these are among my favorites. I voted for I Dream of Jeannie, Diff'rent Strokes, Silver Spoons and two other filler shows. But, I'm not sure I would commit to those. Eh, if I Dream was cheap enough, I probably would. Would much rather have Paramount's Brady Bunch and Universal's Airwolf and Leave it to Beaver.

 

[Joseph S]

How about:

"The Karate Kid" in Anamorphic Widescreen + making of TV featurette

 

[Aaron Cooke]

I have been hoping, praying, waiting intently for Newsradio on DVD for years. It is the only show, in my opinion, that even came close to The Simpsons. I too voted for The Tick basically just in the hopes that it might prompt release of the animated version. I didn't really care for any of the others.

 

[JasenP]

I voted #1 for The Tick in season sets... I don't care about the others really.

 

[Adam Brandner]

I would buy Newsradio as soon as it hit the shelf. As for everyone asking for the Critic, it really was a great show, but who owns the rights to it? Didn't it start out on CBS or something before switching over to FOX? So does FOX own the rights to the original season or two that they didn't produce? I'd love to own the Critic, but not if I can't have the show's entire run.

 

[Jason Seaver]

The Critic first aired on ABC, and moved to Fox, but neither network owns the program. Columbia Pictures Television does, although they didn't include it on this survey.

 

[Scott D S]

Does anyone know who owns the rights to Get Smart? I want to say Paramount but I'm not sure. That is one show I'd love to own.

 

[John Berggren]

I chose as follows:

1) The Tick
2) Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
3) Facts of Life
4) Dilbert
5) Designing Women

I've sent it on to friends.