How can I watch (or purchase) all episodes of Mayday (Air Crash Investigation)

MaverocK · January 29, 2014, 11:02am

There are not all episodes of the program on Youtube; some of them are missing. I also checked iTunes, but only first 3 season were available to be purchased. I also don’t own a TV because I live on campus of an university.

I really want to watch all of them. Is there any way to do this?

Hail_Ants · January 29, 2014, 11:50pm

A quick Google search seems to show that only seasons 1, 3 & 4 have been officially released on DVD, anything else is a bootleg/homemade. According to Wikipedia the show appears to have very complicated rights issues:

*Cineflix started production for Mayday on 13 August 2002, with a CDN$2.5 million budget, after Channel Five commissioned the six-part one-hour series.[3] To keep the costs down most of the production was kept at Cineflix’s Toronto offices in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.[4] While in production the series was sold to France 5, Discovery Channel and Canal D.[5] On 2 June 2003, Cineflix announced that they sold the series to TVNZ, the Seven Network and the Holland Media Group,[5] later on 22 October 2003, a month before the airing of the first season, Cineflix announced that they secured a major international deal with National Geographic Channel to take Mayday to 144 countries and 26 languages.[6]

On 25 January 2012, Cineflix Rights announced that they would be selling Seasons 8, 9 and 11 (23 episodes) to Smithsonian Networks.*

I hope it gets resolved, I think the show is great too!

Cugel · January 30, 2014, 1:35am

I saw this on a local website
https://shop.abc.net.au/products/air-crash-investi-31dvd-s1-s1

Despite the 7-15 days claim, perhaps it fails to materialise if ordered.