True, but while this has been released on DVD on two occasions, I mentioned this because the DVDs in both instances are reportedly abysmal quality, have no captioning, and are quite pricy to boot. I think the series deserves more respect than that. Perhaps the rights are complicated and that is preventing the series being available for streaming. What would Peacock, for example, have to lose by making it available?
Should you ever get to see it, Lamoral, you will not be disappointed. My older brother had a career in law enforcement in Washington DC in the 1960s to the 80s. Like Baltimore, a tough city. Though he wasn’t in Homicide (he was in Vice) he loved the series and said it was the most accurate portrayal of daily police work he had ever seen on TV.
Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London is what I’d like to find. There was a variety show from 1965 to 1974 was The Dean Martin Show. It wasn’t on during the summer. However, at that time, the hosts of variety shows not showing in the summer would, in effect, control that timeslot on that network, so instead there were some summer-only substitutes without Dean Martin. One was a show (in 1968 and 1969) called Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers, where the Golddiggers were a group of women who hosted the show. In 1970, to do something a little different, the summer replacement show was shot in London. Among the people who regularly appeared on the show were Charles Nelson Reilly and Marty Feldman. Reilly and Feldman did some screamingly funny skits. Remember, this was just before the Monty Python sketches were shown on American television or movie theaters, so for me, this was wildly different from any comedy I’d ever seen before. One of the Reilly and Feldman sketches was an adaptation of the sketch “The Four Yorkshiremen” (one of the funniest comedies sketches ever, I think). That sketch was first done on At Last the 1948 Show, a British show from 1967 that Feldman was on. No, the sketch was never done on Monty Python’s Flying Circus, although some people mistakenly think that it was because the Monty Python members recreated the sketch for several one-time shows they did after the running of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. A few people I’ve talked to remember Dean Martin Presents the Golddiggers in London, but not many. I’d love to see it again.
There was a show I watched with my wife sometime in the early-to-mid-2010s that I can’t remember the name of or even what channel we saw it on. It was a cooking competition show but it was unusual.
It was purported to be filmed at Chef Ludo Lefebvre’s actual home with a bunch of young chefs. It was like a combination competition/cooking school sort of format. He would demonstrate and teach them something, then there would be a related challenge afterwards that didn’t always actually involve cooking. I specifically remember a feature of the show was the Chef messing with the contestants in various ways, like mind games kind of stuff. There’s no mention of any such show on his IMDb page or Wikipedia entry, and only my wife and I appear to remember this show.
It’s entirely possible we’re just misremembering who the Chef was and it was a different guy, but I swear this was a real show that we watched. The Chef was a younger guy and definitely had a very heavy accent that I’m certain was French or Italian. I want to say it was just called something like “Chef [name]'s Cooking School” possibly with some adjective in the middle.
Dogma (1999) is a relatively recent movie which is essentially unavailable.
The Weinstein brothers own the distribution rights which they decided to hold on to when they sold off most of their other rights.
So no streaming service carries the movie. There are old copies on dvd, bluray, and even vhs floating around, in some cases never watched, but they sell for large sums.
My list shows several at the 20 dollar range, although they’re “all region” dvd import, so we may well be looking at different versions. Even at $40, I’d be saying pricey, but not ‘large sums’.
But we can agree to disagree on what is or is not excessive. I will also grant that I’d expect that a semi-popular comedy that’s over 20 years old to be in the $10-15 range maybe +$5 for a blue ray edition especially if a digital copy was included.
I still buy dvds and blurays so I know what the market is for both new and used movies in both formats. And forty dollars is a high price for a dvd.
For comparison, here are the prices for dvds that were released this week. I’ve listed the MSRP and the cheapest price available for new copies on Amazon.
Welcome to Paradox. It was only available on Australian media, and now it’s available in the U.S. on Amazon Prime, but I still can’t watch it. Have I mentioned how much I despise regional restrictions?
Decent version of Max Headroom. We bought the DVDs. The quality is horrible, meaning it is basically unwatchable.
I looked this up - seems to be a free version, plus an option for a subscription. Assuming you have the free version, is it enough?
I remember that show. It was right around the time of shows like Ned & Stacey (starring Thomas Hayden Church and Debra Messing). I never really got into it, but I remember Tea Leoni, as it was my first exposure to her.
If you get CHCH out of Toronto, they strip old series (sitcoms and dramas) ad infinitum (and sometimes ad nauseam) from 10:00 until 18:00 on weekdays. Mork and Mindy just finished its run and was replaced with Gilligan’s Island.
Where music is concerned, I remember watching the episode of St Elsewhere in which Mark Harmon got his face slashed during the series’ original run. The music playing in the background when it happened was the APP’s “Eye in the Sky.” Watching it on CHCH a few years back, I was shocked to hear the music had been replaced with some nameless generic tune that had no lyrics. A HUGE disappointment for me!
I would love to watch WB’s WWII series The Gallant Men again. Set in Italy instead of France, it was ABC’s Saturday night bookend to Tuesday’s Combat! in 1962–63. Episodes of Combat! are on YouTube, but I can’t find The Gallant Men anywhere.
I definitely remember this show! I was 15 at the time with raging hormones, and it was the brightest spot on my summer TV schedule. (I was infatuated with the Golddigger on the front left with the long blonde hair. )
I also made many trips to a friend’s house to watch The Dean Martin Show in color during the school year, before we finally got a color set at ours.
Not available on dvd though. Well, not the 3-6th season.
I found it on the torrents. It was VHS quality for half the episodes. Even the DVD ones aren’t great, I was watching Star Trek DS9 which was made before that and those look as if they were filmed yesterday.
It’s also a mass of guest stars, half The Wire is on there, Giancarlo Esposito,
Roy Scheider, James Remar, Tom Berenger, Mia Farrow, Henry Winkler, Ann Dowd, Paul Michael Glazer, Kirk Acevedo, Kate Jackson, J.K.Simmons, Khandi Alexander, WIlliam Sadler, Rosie O’Donnell, Ethan Suplee and Peter Dinkelage (this is me giving up with 50 more pages of cast list to go).
Nothing Lasts Forever, the 1984 sci-fi film that was infamously never released to theaters or home media. It’s been broadcast on European TV and occasionally shown in special theatrical screenings (and briefly uploaded on YouTube).
I wonder if Homicide is another victim of music rights. I remember they used to have some pretty interesting and edgy music – that is where I first fell in love with the band Morphine, for example.
My entry for this thread is a movie called “Conquest”, starring Tara Fitzgerald. I caught about half an hour of it on HBO in a hotel room on a business trip many years ago. The thing that made it stick in my memory was Fitzgerald’s resemblance to my wife. Unfortunately the thing that didn’t stick was the name of the movie, but folks here on the boards were able to identify it for me in an old “what was the name of that movie” thread. I really enjoyed the small part of it that I saw, and would love to see the whole thing. I check HBOMax every so often but it’s never there. Pretty sure I have also looked for it on Prime with no luck.
I spent a long time looking for Alien Nation the Series because I lost my copy of the DVD in my move. It finally showed up on Tubi with ads but not the sequel TV movies.
I wasn’t aware of a subscription. So I just checked and I see there is a pro version available for $2.49. I have no idea what you get with that. So, yeah, the free version gives me what I need to know.
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