Other CBS Shows VEI could release (1 Viewer)

[ian McLachlan]

I would be delighted if more TV projects were planned especially dramas and comedies from the 1960s or 1970s.

 

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

Do VEI have any other tv projects planned? There are so many one season or short lived series that deserve their shot on DVD.
Really.

If they do, here is what I am hoping for from them in 2021 or 2022:
December Bride (1954-59)
Trackdown (1957-59)
Pete and Gladys (1960-62)
The Baileys of Balboa (1964-65)
The Cara Williams Show (1964-65)
The Reporter (1964)
Slattery's People (1964-65)
Barefoot in the Park (1970 TV series) (1970)
Funny Face (1971)/The Sandy Duncan Show (1972)
Love Story (TV series) (1973-74)
Paper Moon (TV series) (1974)
Archer (1975 TV series) (1975)
Caribe (U.S. TV series) (1975)
Kate McShane (1975)
Serpico (TV series) (1976-77)
Busting Loose (1977)
Blansky's Beauties (1977)
Szysznyk (1977)
Mulligan's Stew (1977)
Who's Watching the Kids? (1978)
Brothers and Sisters (1979)
Makin' It (1979)
Out of the Blue (1979 TV series) (1979)
Working Stiffs (1979)
Struck by Lightning (1979)
A Man Called Sloane (1979)
The Associates (U.S. TV series) (1979-80)
Goodtime Girls (1980)
Foul Play (TV series) (1981)
Making the Grade (1982)
Madame's Place (1982-83)
Star of the Family (1982) (RIP Brian Dennehy)
The New Odd Couple (1982-83)
The Renegades (1983)
Ryan's Four (1983)
Mr. Smith (TV series) (1983)
Brothers (1984 TV series) (1984-89)
Mr. Sunshine (1986)
All is Forgiven (1986)
The Cavanaughs (1986-89)
Gung Ho (TV series) (1986-87)
The Tortellis (1987)
Bronx Zoo (1987-88)
Duet (1987-89)/Open House (1989-90)
Marblehead Manor (1987-88)
Day by Day (1988-89)

~Ben

 

[bmasters9]

Star of the Family (1982) (RIP Brian Dennehy)
The New Odd Couple (1982-83)
Ryan's Four (1983)
The Cavanaughs (1986-89)

Those four I'd purchase, most likely!

 

[JamesSmith]

For our wish list, can we add non-CBS shows?

Anyway,
I'd go for the:
The Associates
Foul Play
Out of the Blue
Love Story

Does anybody know if Dirty Sally was a CBS show? Ken Howard's The Manhunter? Project UFO?
Detective in the House (with Judd Hirsch)?
Three

 

[Neil Brock]

If they do, here is what I am hoping for from them in 2021 or 2022:
December Bride (1954-59)
Trackdown (1957-59)
Pete and Gladys (1960-62)
The Baileys of Balboa (1964-65)
The Cara Williams Show (1964-65)
The Reporter (1964)
Slattery's People (1964-65)
Barefoot in the Park (1970 TV series) (1970)
Funny Face (1971)/The Sandy Duncan Show (1972)
Love Story (TV series) (1973-74)
Paper Moon (TV series) (1974)
Archer (1975 TV series) (1975)
Caribe (U.S. TV series) (1975)
Kate McShane (1975)
Serpico (TV series) (1976-77)
Busting Loose (1977)
Blansky's Beauties (1977)
Szysznyk (1977)
Mulligan's Stew (1977)
Who's Watching the Kids? (1978)
Brothers and Sisters (1979)
Makin' It (1979)
Out of the Blue (1979 TV series) (1979)
Working Stiffs (1979)
Struck by Lightning (1979)
A Man Called Sloane (1979)
The Associates (U.S. TV series) (1979-80)
Goodtime Girls (1980)
Foul Play (TV series) (1981)
Making the Grade (1982)
Madame's Place (1982-83)
Star of the Family (1982) (RIP Brian Dennehy)
The New Odd Couple (1982-83)
The Renegades (1983)
Ryan's Four (1983)
Mr. Smith (TV series) (1983)
Brothers (1984 TV series) (1984-89)
Mr. Sunshine (1986)
All is Forgiven (1986)
The Cavanaughs (1986-89)
Gung Ho (TV series) (1986-87)
The Tortellis (1987)
Bronx Zoo (1987-88)
Duet (1987-89)/Open House (1989-90)
Marblehead Manor (1987-88)
Day by Day (1988-89)

~Ben

Other that Day By Day, tell me one show on your list that would sell more than 25 copies. Better question, what has VEI told you when you sent this list to them, which I assume you did, since no one here is going to be getting them released.

 

[dstrong]

VEI has always been good with me about replying to my emails for suggestions of other releases. They always tell me that my email has been forwarded to the acquisitions department. I requested "Dan August", and about a year later there it was for sale.

 

[JamesSmith]

VEI has always been good with me about replying to my emails for suggestions of other releases. They always tell me that my email has been forwarded to the acquisitions department. I requested "Dan August", and about a year later there it was for sale.

Good for you. I write to some companies as well. Don't often get responses, but sometimes my requests show up. I am grateful.
--james

 

[ClassicTVMan1981X]

I read that because of some of the songs heard here, that a DVD release might not be possible unless they are replaced. This series was also the lowest-ranked of the three that had capitalized on the success of the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House (ABC's Delta House and CBS's Co-Ed Fever being the other two).

I do hope Shout! Factory can win the rights to this one!

~Ben

 

[JoshuaB.]

There aren't too many CBS/Paramount shows I'd want, but a complete set of ONE STEP BEYOND would be fantastic. CBS only released the 1st season and the multitude of PD sets are less than desirable (which likely impacted sales for CBS, dooming the other seasons).

 

[Wiseguy]

Probably not if the Scott Baio-era Happy Days isn't coming out even if Charles in Charge did get finished. Then again, Joanie Loves Chachi was considered worthy of release. Outside of giving Laverne & Shirley theme song singer Cyndi Grecco another Gimbel & Fox theme song to sing, it also explains why Nancy Walker left Rhoda.

Nancy Walker left Rhoda to do The Nancy Walker Show. Blansky's Beauties came later.

 

[Neil Brock]

Nancy Walker left Rhoda to do The Nancy Walker Show. Blansky's Beauties came later.

The Nancy Walker Show, which was a Norman Lear production, was very funny. Blansky's Beauties was typical Garry Marshall drek.

 

[dstrong]

I read that because of some of the songs heard here, that a DVD release might not be possible unless they are replaced. This series was also the lowest-ranked of the three that had capitalized on the success of the 1978 film National Lampoon's Animal House (ABC's Delta House and CBS's Co-Ed Fever being the other two).

I do hope Shout! Factory can win the rights to this one!

~Ben

That show featured the daughter of Bing Crosby and the son of Jack Lemmon.

 

[MatthewA]

The Nancy Walker Show, which was a Norman Lear production, was very funny. Blansky's Beauties was typical Garry Marshall drek.

The irony of Nancy's first ABC show failing is that Bud Yorkin lasted longer at ABC without Norman Lear the same year. What's Happening!! premiered the same year, ran three seasons, and got rebooted* in the 1980s.

VEI will probably never get anything from Sony. They seem to be happy where they are letting their TV library out to Shout! and Mill Creek. I only wish the MOD/archive program was more ambitious with the more niche TV stuff they owned. Maybe the presence of a gay character (Nancy's secretary Terry, played by the late Ken Olfson) will get it moved up for consideration so they can call it a "landmark" of some kind.** That and the previous year's Hot L Baltimore are the short-run Lear shows I most want to see. Even the later Embassy-era flops where Lear's involvement was limited to a corporate level got cable reruns, but these never did.***

As for Garry Marshall, I think he was a human barrier against the most obviously stupid ideas ABC threw at him. I still say, for the most part, Miller and Boyett's work without him was worse and makes Marshall's work look like Masterpiece Theatre by comparison. They used the same actors as Lear/Yorkin/Perenchio yet traded script quality for production values.

*And without ABC's help, Columbia pushed him out of What's Happening Now!! just as ABC pushed Eric Monte out of the not-even-in-name TV adaptation of Cooley High. Monte accused Michael Eisner, who had just jumped ship for Paramount the same year, of locking him out of the show.
**It also partly explains why Webster's Jerry Silver never actually declared his sexual orientation even during the show's final years in first-run syndication.
***I even heard they reran Hello Larry in Brazil as late as the end of the 1990s.

 

[dstrong]

I doubt VEI would release any black and white series from pre-1965. So far they have focused on post-1970 series in color.

 

[Neil Brock]

There aren't too many CBS/Paramount shows I'd want, but a complete set of ONE STEP BEYOND would be fantastic. CBS only released the 1st season and the multitude of PD sets are less than desirable (which likely impacted sales for CBS, dooming the other seasons).

Being worked on by another entity.

 

[Ron1973]

I'll say it again. I know this is against the grain of the actual subject matter, but something needs to be done with The Beverly Hillbillies. Constantly Being Stalled started releasing it in 2008, 12 years ago. That should have long been completed. There isn't any major music to be cleared other than a Petticoat Junction crossover, one Roy Clark appearance, and the Pat Boone appearance. Those are readily available unedited on VHS anyway.

 

[shoeshineboy]

Other that Day By Day, tell me one show on your list that would sell more than 25 copies. Better question, what has VEI told you when you sent this list to them, which I assume you did, since no one here is going to be getting them released.

Saying 25 copies was a pretty low blow; about half of those on the list could reach that bar, but besides the sarcasm, I'm guessing possibly 5 or 6 could reach the 500-600 units sold mark, if there is any reasonable means of advertising support. I'm thinking of Slattery's People, Paper Moon, Bustin' Loose, the Associates, Madame's Place, The Cavanaughs... That's not to say 500 would be viable. Most of these were not worth remembering, and there are a lot better choices and wants out there however (Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, Cade's County etc) I give ClassicTVman credit for coming up with a list. Who knows, maybe a couple of them will get their time to shine...

 

[jcroy]

I'm guessing possibly 5 or 6 could reach the 500-600 units sold mark, if there is any reasonable means of advertising support.

Besides putting a press announcement on here and on their own website, are there other advertising venues which could reach the hardcore classic tv fan crowd?

 

[jayembee]

An early post to respond to, but...

Excellent list, Neil. While I know the lack of existing usable tape elements ground Shout's release of the remaining seasons of The Defenders to a halt, do you know if usable tape elements exist for the following CBS shows:

East Side/West Side
The Nurses (a.k.a. The Doctors and the Nurses)
'Way Out

Thanks in advance for your help.

I always wondered why Shout never got past S1 of The Defenders. I figured it was lack of sales on that first set. It's a show I loved back when, and I've been interested in the other shows of that era from Plautus/Herb Brodkin. I've got the Kino release of Coronet Blue, and the Network (UK) release of the UK co-pro series Espionage, and would love to see the others that I never caught back when they were first on, like the one you mentioned above, [The Doctors and] The Nurses. I've never seen any episodes of Brenner (I know there's a DVD release of a bunch of episodes that I need to get), and only one of For the People.

East Side/West Side is another one I was fascinated by as kid, and would love to see again. I've only seen one episode of Way Out and I would love to see more.

 

[jayembee]

Some half-season shows do get DVD releases every now and then. I know VEI did release the 1981 version of Nero Wolfe (only 14 episodes, plus the 1979 pilot) and The Immortal (15 episodes, plus the 1969 pilot) on DVD in 2017.

~Ben

I'll have to see about getting those sets. The Immortal I saw back when it was first on, and never since. I never saw that version of Nero Wolfe (or the late 70s telefilm with Thayer David) and I would be interested to see it.