FINALLY! MAYBERRY R.F.D. The Complete Series is going to be released DVD only on 6/13/2023 along with Night Court. Details below. (1 Viewer)

[rmw650]

Just spotted this wonderful news from Bill Hunt's website The Digital Bits, by which Mayberry R.F.D. and the original Night Court series will finally be released in completed form on June 13, 2023 and here is the proof of this but no cover art as of yet but will post an update when I spot it at my end...(On DVD only, just for the record)...

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Warner Bros. has announced a pair of new TV DVD sets for release on 6/13, including Mayberry R.F.D.: The Complete Series and Night Court: The Complete Series. These are DVD only.

 

[Jeffrey D]

Night Court might be worth getting. If memory serves, Thursday night on NBC in the 80s was a popular night- Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court.

 

[bmasters9]

Are these being done akin to the Maverick and Growing Pains releases?

 

[Randy Korstick]

Good News I have been waiting for Mayberry RFD Season 2 and 3 for a long time.

 

[RobertMG]

Good News I have been waiting for Mayberry RFD Season 2 and 3 for a long time.

64.99 on Amazon!

 

[John*Wells]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mayberry RFD YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JamesSmith]

FINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mayberry RFD YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Glad for you, John.

--jthree

 

[dstrong]

I hope "Mayberry" is the complete uncut episodes, not the butchered syndicated prints that are currently floating around online. Next up, we need the UNCUT "The Real McCoys". The compete series released years ago was butchered syndicated prints.

 

[RobertMG]

I hope "Mayberry" is the complete uncut episodes, not the butchered syndicated prints that are currently floating around online. Next up, we need the UNCUT "The Real McCoys". The compete series released years ago was butchered syndicated prints.

On Amazon streaming they are 26 mins might be rounded off so the episodes should be uncut - can anyone explain how WB owns this and not CBS???

 

[timk1041]

Just spotted this wonderful news from Bill Hunt's website The Digital Bits, by which Mayberry R.F.D. and the original Night Court series will finally be released in completed form on June 13, 2023 and here is the proof of this but no cover art as of yet but will post an update when I spot it at my end...(On DVD only, just for the record)...

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We have just a quick update for you today here at The Bits with some interesting release news, plus a few odds and ends related to titles we’ve learned from our industry sources are likely forthcoming in the months ahead. First of all, the big news: Paramount has officially set Peter Weir’s The...

thedigitalbits.com

Warner Bros. has announced a pair of new TV DVD sets for release on 6/13, including Mayberry R.F.D.: The Complete Series and Night Court: The Complete Series. These are DVD only.

Well, it isn't April 1st so this can't be an April Fool's Day joke like a certain member on April 1st posted about a couple shows that would be released. I actually fell for it at first like a few others This is on the level then. Great news!

 

[sjbradford]

On Amazon streaming they are 26 mins might be rounded off so the episodes should be uncut - can anyone explain how WB owns this and not CBS???

Mayberry RFD was not a CBS production. Andy Griffith and his production partners produced it independently and contracted with Telepictures to distribute it in syndication. For the original Andy Griffith Show, I don’t know if CBS had an ownership stake or just got distribution rights to the reruns. But presumably they had more clout to dictate those terms to the producers in 1960 than they did in 1968 when Mayberry RFD premiered.

I think it’s somewhat akin to the Paul Henning shows. CBS coproduced both Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction and still has distribution rights. But CBS was not a production partner in Henning’s Green Acres, so they have never distributed it in syndication or on home video.

 

[RobertMG]

Mayberry RFD was not a CBS production. Andy Griffith and his production partners produced it independently and contracted with Telepictures to distribute it in syndication. For the original Andy Griffith Show, I don’t know if CBS had an ownership stake or just got distribution rights to the reruns. But presumably they had more clout to dictate those terms to the producers in 1960 than they did in 1968 when Mayberry RFD premiered.

I think it’s somewhat akin to the Paul Henning shows. CBS coproduced both Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction and still has distribution rights. But CBS was not a production partner in Henning’s Green Acres, so they have never distributed it in syndication or on home video.

Thank you --- Andy Griffith is owned by CBS I do think

 

[RobertMG]

 

[jayembee]

can anyone explain how WB owns this and not CBS???

Mayberry RFD was not a CBS production. Andy Griffith and his production partners produced it independently and contracted with Telepictures to distribute it in syndication.

And Telepictures ended up merging with Lorimar, just a few years before Lorimar was taken over by Warner Bros.

At any rate, I can live without Mayberry, R.F.D., but I'm definitely in for Night Court.

 

[The Obsolete Man]

RFD definitely, Night Court... depends on how badly I want pressed copies of seasons 4 and 5.

 

[oldtvshowbuff]

I do recall as an adolescent teen in the early 70s that Metromedia had the syndication rights to Mayberry RFD, because I've seen the repeats on what was then NBC affiliate KSTP-5 in Minneapolis-St.Paul, MN. They switched to ABC in 1979.

 

[rmw650]

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64.99 on Amazon!

Thanks for spotting the artwork o this, Robert, but that price is a tad steep for just three seasons though.

 

[JoeDoakes]

Are these both previously Warner Archive shows?

 

[Randy Korstick]

Are these both previously Warner Archive shows?

Night Court was released by Warner Archive. Season 1 of Mayberry RFD was released by WHV and after it went out of print it was reissued by WAC. Seasons 2 and 3 have never been released.

 

[RobertMG]

Thanks for spotting the artwork o this, Robert, but that price is a tad steep for just three seasons though.

I think Deepdiscount has it about 57.00