Bumping this because “Moonlighting” is now available on Hulu.
I just thought of a Three Stooges movie I saw when I was a little kid, and liked, and to my surprise it was available on YouTube: 3 Stooges meet Hercules
Interruptions from commercials but still…
It’s available on DVD.
I’m sort of ashamed to admit that I have a copy.
I, too, was looking for this forever. I had fond memories.
Then I found it on youtube, I should have stuck to my memories! Only six episodes, and only the first I thought was that good. Nice idea, weak execution. Watching them all, I may have actually not seen them all when they were new. The final couple were not familiar at all.
Funny though, how Waterston was already perfecting the wild eyed unstoppable fanatic characterization of Jack McCoy, even then. 
Funny thing, I may be conflating two different shows here. The series I was thinking of had a contemporary setting, may or may not have been a Waterston vehicle (but after reviewing his IMDB I doubt it). The main character was a genius type and the only episode I remember featured an intelligent monkey that committed a murder. Said monkey actually framed himself because it watched a lot of TV and concluded that the first suspected party is never actually the guilty party. Sure thought that was “QED” but given that the first episode opens with the title character explaining the theory that would lead to television, that blew the theory wide open. Now I’m really stuck. Still, thank you for pointing this out. I’ll give it a go.
You’re thinking of Probe, with Parker Stevenson. That was episode 5: “Metamorphic Anthropoidic Prototype Over You”.
Probe was created in part by Asimov, but he must not have had much input. The show was yet another “not-genius TV writers try to write genius characters, and failing” show. The science, or even grasp of reality, was seriously lacking. Eight episodes total.
For example. one episode revolved around a sentient AI taking over, and it could manipulate electronics, such as turning on a manual “pull out the button” TV! I don’t think they work that way!
Footrot Flats: The Dog’s Tale
DVD in Region 1 NTSC format. I’m not sure it was ever released in anything other than PAL.
Back when I was kid in the 1980s I watched Life on Earth: A Natural History --a 13 part nature series by David Attenborough. In fact it was first documentary that Attenborough did and established his reputation as a British cultural institution.
Unfortunately it is NOT available in the United States on DVD or Blu-Ray. Copies of episodes HAVE been uploaded to YouTube unofficially but they are NOT high quality.
One thing I can’t figure is, why is there no complete set of Lassie? You’d think it would sell, both to the olde farte nostalgia viewers as well as kids. But all they have is limited episode collections. You can get Lassie movies that I’ve never heard of, but finding the ranger years, or the alone years, or the ranch years, is impossible on DVD. Many are available on youtube though, so they exist and get broadcast somewhere.
That’s because all the DVD copies of Lassie fell down a well.
God’ll get you for that.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
The series I have been looking for is “Prisoners of Gravity”, a long-running (139 episodes) series on Ontario public television discussing science fiction and fantasy. Each episode would have a topic (e.g. crime in SF/F, love in SF/F, humour in SF/F, etc.) and the host, comedian Rick Green (from The Frantics and The Red Green Show), would have interviews with authors and critics. I discovered some interesting books through that show, like Towing Jehovah.
I contacted TVOntario and they confirmed that they no longer have the broadcast rights for it. According to Wikipedia, “Due to contractual restrictions made with interviewees at the time of the show’s production, there is no commercial release on video or DVD”.
Similarly, the late 70s film Rich Kids is not streamable.
(It’s not a great film, but the time, place, and situation are reminiscent of a part of my childhood, and I wanted my kid to see it just for that.)
The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd, a 30-year old dramedy starring Blair Brown, has been unavailable for decades. One of my favorite shows in the past, to my joy I learned full episodes are on Youtube!
Northern Exposure is now on Prime. It sounds like they took care of the Music Rights also.
The show has held up really well.
LA Law is on Prime also
The Frantics 4 on the Floor series is in a frustrating rights situation as well. Rick Green was at FanExpo a while back (jeez, maybe a decade or so) and I asked him about it, and he said that the group didn’t have the rights to the show and weren’t able to reissue it. A few years after that, the Frantics went ahead and put them all on YouTube in a solid eff-you to the rights holders. I’m not sure if it’s still there, haven’t checked recently.