# Movies/shows you can't find anywhere **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, movies\ **Created:** [June 18, 2022, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420 "2022-06-18T05:25:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/21 "2022-06-18T16:02:03Z")
> [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > For me: The 1986-1988 TV series “Crime Story”. Theme song “My Little Runaway” by Del Shannon. This was released on DVD way back, I have a copy of both series having been a fan. Looking at [amazon.com](https://www.amazon.com/Crime-Story-Complete-Dennis-Farina/dp/B01KBIOH0E/) you can find a copy for $9 second hand. ---
**Author:** ![Chad\_Sudan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chad_sudan/32/4509_2.png) [@Chad\_Sudan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chad_Sudan)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/22 "2022-06-18T16:27:23Z")
Sometimes it’s not the movie or show that you can’t find, it’s the English subtitles to accompany it! I’d really like to watch [_An Officer and a Spy_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Officer_and_a_Spy_(film)), the 2019 historical drama on Alfred Dreyfus, with English subtitles. And there’s a 2014 Iranian historical drama series set in the 1950s that has been internationally acclaimed – [_Shahrzad_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shahrzad_(TV_series)). But reportedly, no English subtitles (yet). ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/23 "2022-06-18T16:29:26Z")
I’m aware. The player in our RV is 12 years old and replacing it would have been more money than I wanted to spend. Likewise, our home player was a VHS/DVD player, which gives you an idea of how old that was. I’m planning to buy a multi-region to go with our new LG TV, though. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/24 "2022-06-18T16:38:13Z")
> [@ParallelLines](#): > > It’s a big issue for a lot of series, yes. Indeed. [There’s another current thread here in CS about _Wiseguy_](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/wiseguy-remember-that-series/966209), the crime drama from the late '80s. All of the episodes appear to be available to watch, except for the “Dead Dog Records” story arc, very likely due to music rights. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/25 "2022-06-18T17:18:20Z")
Third Watch is on the Roku channel ( and you don’t need an actual Roku to watch it) ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/26 "2022-06-18T17:24:07Z")
_La_ _Law_ was on IMDB tv a year or so ago - but every season had a few missing episodes. I don’t think it was the music , but I couldn’t figure out why they were missing. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/27 "2022-06-18T17:33:49Z")
FYI: IMDB TV was very recently rebranded freevee or fv or Amazon freevee. It is free and available on most smart devices. Commercials are better than Hulu but worse than Roku. They are rolling out their own original programming now like Leverage and Alex Rider. ---
**Author:** ![Julius\_Henry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8797f3/32.png) [@Julius\_Henry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Julius_Henry)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/28 "2022-06-18T19:25:51Z")
_Between Time and Timbuktu._ It was made in 1972, I saw it a few years later when I was in high school and was reading Kurt Vonnegut. Apparently Mr. Vonnegut would not allow the film to be re-released. I have no idea how well it would hold up after way-too-many years, but I’d like to see. > [@Bonum\_Legatum](#): > > I suspect that this thread is going to become one where a poster mentions a show and then several others jump in stating where the show can be found. So this would be a good question – where to look before posting? I have an app called **Just Watch**. You enter the name of your film or TV show and it will tell you which (if any) streaming service has it and whether it free or paid. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/29 "2022-06-18T19:57:31Z")
_Green Eyes_ starring Paul Winfield, about adoption of mixed-race orphans in Vietnam. ---
**Author:** ![Lamoral](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lamoral/32/16078_2.png) [@Lamoral](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamoral)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/30 "2022-06-18T20:15:37Z")
> [@XOldiesJock](#): > > **Homicide: Life on the Street** was an excellent series that aired on NBC in the 1990s. It is not available for streaming anywhere that I can find. A very expensive DVD set was released many years ago, but by accounts I’ve read, the quality is very poor and doesn’t include the episodes done in conjunction with Law & Order, which leaves some story lines just hanging without conclusion. I opened this thread specifically to mention this. I constantly read about how groundbreaking and interesting this show supposedly was. It always gets mentioned when people talk about the careers of David Simon (The Wire) and Tom Fontana (Oz). The way critics describe it, it’s like some amazing and trailblazing production that was the precursor to all of the dramatic series that were ushered in by HBO. I’m 35 years old, so even if I had seen this show when it actually aired, which I didn’t, I probably wouldn’t have “gotten” it. I’d love to watch it. I guess I gotta shell out for the DVDs if I want to do so, which seems like an archaic option in an age where every-fucking-thing is available to stream. Still, though, this doesn’t really fit the OP because I CAN in fact find these DVDs for sale. I just don’t want to pay for them. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/31 "2022-06-18T20:16:28Z")
_Bluestone 42_ for viewing here in the US. It’s a Bomb Disposal sitcom by the BBC, that I have found only on DVDs with UK/European regional coding. There are some YouTube knockoffs, but the quality is terrible. _Amerika_, from '84 or '86, with IIRC Sam Neill and Kris Kristofferson. I wanted to watch the miniseries as a kid, being the embodiment of a ‘Cold War child’, but we had some stupid cousin’s wedding to go to in Arizona. 😠 Tripler Stoopid cousin. ---
**Author:** ![Crafter\_Man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crafter_man/32/458_2.png) [@Crafter\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crafter_Man)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/32 "2022-06-18T20:27:27Z")
[The Hitcher](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitcher_(1986_film)) (1986). I love this film, but the DVDs that are out there suffer from terrible quality. They’re almost unwatchable. [Jumbo](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumbo_(2020_film)) (2020). A French movie about a woman who falls in love with in amusement park ride. (Couldn’t find it for a long time. But I just checked, and it looks like it’s available on Amazon Prime.) [The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Times_of_Grizzly_Adams) (1974). I remember seeing this in the theater as a child. The TV series can be found on DVD, but I don’t think the original film can be found anywhere. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/33 "2022-06-18T20:28:01Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > “Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe?”. Also with George Segal, “Roller Coaster”. The last time I saw it was at the Cinerama Dome in Hollywood, in glorious Sensurround. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/34 "2022-06-18T21:04:15Z")
I’d love to watch a few episodes of Tom Chapin’s ABC kids’ show [Make a Wish](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126165/), to see if it’s as trippy as I remember. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/35 "2022-06-18T21:13:16Z")
_The Star Wars Holiday Special_ has never been broadcast again or released anywhere on video or streaming services. I managed to watch once when it was briefly posted on a video hosting site but it got pulled for copyright reasons. George Lucas said he would destroy every copy of it if he could. I am not sure if Disney owns the rights to it when Lucas sold Star Wars to them or if Lucas managed to keep it from been included. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/36 "2022-06-18T22:47:28Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > _The Star Wars Holiday Special_ has never been broadcast again or released anywhere on video or streaming services. I managed to watch once when it was briefly posted on a video hosting site but it got pulled for copyright reasons. It’s on YouTube, including a [RiffTrax version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyykN8e_WXw). ---
**Author:** ![Ziberian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/919ad9/32.png) [@Ziberian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ziberian)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/37 "2022-06-18T22:52:43Z")
American Hot Wax. From the 70s, it was the story of Alan Freed, Rock-n-Roll pioneer DJ. Good story & good music, but never released on DVD & not on any streaming service I know of. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [June 18, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/38 "2022-06-18T23:49:20Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > It’s on YouTube, including a [RiffTrax version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyykN8e_WXw). Do yourself a favor, watch the Riffed version - otherwise you have to have your mind melt at the unspeakable horribleness of a Donnie and Marie meets He-Haw variety show that is the X-mas Special without a lifeguard as it were. And watching it makes it damn clear why Chewie is willing to spend decades (all the way through the new generation of Star Wars movies) hanging out with skeevy Han rather than go home to his family. ---
**Author:** ![DWMarch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwmarch/32/1010_2.png) [@DWMarch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DWMarch)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/39 "2022-06-19T00:08:01Z")
I would pay actual money to see a show called **Flying Blind** again. It was a comedy on Fox and Tea Leoni starred in it. It was just before the DVD era and I don’t think it exists anywhere outside of my memory. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2022, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420/40 "2022-06-19T02:02:00Z")
I’ve never been able to find James Burke’s series **Connections** anywhere, but I just found the whole series is up on Youtube. It’s been there for a few years, so I assume it’s legit. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/movies-shows-you-cant-find-anywhere/966420.md?page=3)