Is collecting excessive amounts of TV shows on DVD a hobby OR an obsessive-compulsive disorder? (1 Viewer)

[Bryan^H]

Ah, but I didn't quit. I have those five set titles written on a sheet of paper stored in the Holy Grail. If and when those sets are released, I will throw my money at them. I'm still game to buy. I'm just being selective. Plus, as long as I am actively watching sets I previously bought, I am still a player!

Out of curiosity, could you list the five sets you want most (Holy Grail). Most everything I want most has been released with exception of Lassie complete. Now I'm hoping for upgrades from DVD to BD.

 

[Ron Lee Green]

Out of curiosity, could you list the five sets you want most (Holy Grail). Most everything I want most has been released with exception of Lassie complete. Now I'm hoping for upgrades from DVD to BD.

Unfortunately, Alan (Carabimero) hasn't posted here in over 2 years. I hope he's okay. He did wonderful work on The Fugitive set.

 

[Bryan^H]

Unfortunately, Alan (Carabimero) hasn't posted here in over 2 years. I hope he's okay. He did wonderful work on The Fugitive set.

I think I asked him a question a few months ago, and he didn't respond then. Weird. I hope he is alright, he was such a staple here, and had such informative posts. I hope he returns.

 

[HubbaBubbaKid]

i was just thinking about Carabimero the other day bc i don’t recall him posting since i joined and thought that was odd. he’s the reason i found this place a couple of years ago . i had heard that there were music problems with the fugitive sets when i first started collecting but i didn’t know the specifics and a search led me to his thread on this site. he also had a good thread on the Barnaby Jones set which helped me to decide to go ahead and pick up.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

What I found interesting was the interactions with the locals, the consummate acting of the guest stars as well as Janssen himself.

I’m not well versed on The Fugitive but I think in general that’s what separates a memorable procedural worth revisiting from something that just serves as filler. I’m in the middle of my first go around with Have Gun Will Travel and even though the show only had two or three different premises for episodes, they’re all well written and the guest cast is uniformly excellent. In a brief time these actors tell you all you need to know about the characters they’re playing and that gives the episode the illusion of life outside the confines of the script pages.

 

[Bryan^H]

i was just thinking about Carabimero the other day bc i don’t recall him posting since i joined and thought that was odd. he’s the reason i found this place a couple of years ago . i had heard that there were music problems with the fugitive sets when i first started collecting but i didn’t know the specifics and a search led me to his thread on this site. he also had a good thread on the Barnaby Jones set which helped me to decide to go ahead and pick up.

He also wrote deep discussions on the original Hawaii Five-0 DVD set...amongst other subjects. I know I'm not alone in saying his presence is greatly missed.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

I miss his visits here as well. It’s my hope that he’s happy, healthy and working on some exciting, fulfilling project with an NDA that won’t allow him to talk on the forum.

 

[rjd0309]

I chat with him on Facebook quite often. He's fine, just really busy.

 

[MatthewA]

I tend not to binge-watch sitcoms simply because I like to mix them up a bit. Even with the more "adult" ones I only watch one episode at a time and not six or seven. If I have a show on disc, then there's less of a pressure to watch as much of it as you can before it disappears. Cartoons are the same way, sketch comedy even more so.

 

[Tom St Jones]

I consider owning entire seasons and, in certain cases, entire series on disc fairly excessive. However, the relative lack of decent* "best-of" releases of many series for the more-casual collectors -- myself included -- has made it (in a manner of spkng) a necessity.

*By "decent" I mean either a single-volume comprehensive overview containing mostly well-regarded episodes (or handpicked favorites of the actors +/or producers etc) along with some nice bonus features (such as what TimeLife has done with many of their releases) or multiple best-of volumes --- all uncut and in the best possible quality, with subtitles for the hearing-impaired.

 

[BobO'Link]

I've found "Best of" collections, be it TV series or music, tend to be missing the *one* title I really want making the purchase somewhat a bust. I regard them more as samplers to find out if I really like something well enough to spring for it all.

 

[TJPC]

I am an "all or nothing" person. I remember getting a 2 record set called "This is Broadway's" best. It made me a crazy to buy all the cast recordings featured and later replace them with CDs when they came out.

 

[ManW_TheUncool]

I do often get "best of" music compilations, but don't quite see the point of "best of" TV episodes compilations on disc though -- well, I don't generally get long running, 20-plus-episode-per-season TV shows on disc at all, so... And now that you can get many shows via streaming (whether subscription service or to own on iTunes, Vudu, et al), I see even less point in "best of" compilations on disc...

_Man_

 

[Lecagr]

I have a collectors mind and when I buy DVD's of a classic TV show that I like, I usually want to have the whole series and don't like it if a season or seasons are unreleased.

For example, seasons 1 and 2 of The Flying Nun were released on DVD but season 3 has not been released and this continues to be a source of irritation for me.

With regards to Alfred Hitchcock Presents and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, if I have it correct, both series were released in full on DVD but on region 2. The only region 1 DVD's are seasons 1 thru 6 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents although season 6 was a MOD release, now out of print and not easy to find. And as far as I know, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour has not been released as of yet on region 1 DVD.

 

[BobO'Link]

In 2016 Universal did a re-release of S6 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on pressed discs. I own a copy of that one - pressed and official - and also currently OOP.

 

[Lecagr]

In 2016 Universal did a re-release of S6 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on pressed discs. I own a copy of that one - pressed and official - and also currently OOP.

I have seasons 1-5 of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. I'll probably live without season 6 because sets that are offered on line are usually overpriced due to the OOP status.

 

[Bryan^H]

I just started watching my M*A*S*H DVD set (Medicine and Martinis) and both discs I tried locked up and will not play in multiple BD players I own. Discs are near perfect, and I tried cleaning both with no success. Discs are shot.

I thought about getting a new DVD set, but aren’t those discs the same recycled discs that have been used for years…so in essence the same discs I’m working with now? Prone to failure.

I don’t even think the current set is still in production. So time to act may be very limited.

Double dipping on a massive DVD set like this, may be proof I have OCD when collecting tv dvd.

 

[Josh Steinberg]

If you have to rebuy, check out this set in less packaging for less money:

Amazon.com

If you get it from Amazon, you can immediately check that the discs you’re looking for work in the new set, and if not, returns should be easy.

MASH is one I’m happy to keep a viable set around because I prefer the “no laugh track” audio option that the streaming version does not offer.

 

[Bryan^H]

Thanks. That is the best option. Same recycled discs going back well over 20 years (shelf friendly case) is a scary place to start. A BD set OAR is what we need...but very unlikely.

 

[Bryan^H]

You expect there to be a certain amount of repetition in sitcoms and procedurals. There’s a reason that shows in those formats that catch on really catch on - it’s comforting to have familiar characters behaving in reliable ways. It makes you feel like you know them, it makes you interested in their sitcom hijinks or makes you root for them to always solve the crime/mystery/emergency surgery case. You don’t watch I Love Lucy hoping to see Lucy accept whatever reasonable suggestion Ricky is making. You don’t watch Law & Order hoping this is the week they don’t get the bad guy. And yet... the best of these shows and the ones that I think hold up best under close scrutiny are the ones where the strike that perfect balance between the familiar and the just-different-enough.

Yeah, on paper a show like "Murder she Wrote" is madness. Is Jessica Fletcher trapped in an alternate universe where she just happens to stumble on a murder (and successfully solve the crime) once a week for years? Figure the odds on that.