# Stuff you can't wait to come out on DVD **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2005, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866 "2005-03-16T19:41:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/61 "2005-03-17T17:09:45Z")
[QUOTE=unclviny **GRAPES** a mini series I saw years ago that was a **DALLAS** parody, some of the best TV I have ever seen.[/QUOTE] Perhaps you’re thinking of **FRESNO** (the raisin capital of the world, according to the mini-series.) I would like to see that again. ---
**Author:** ![Rodd\_Hill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/3ab097/32.png) [@Rodd\_Hill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodd_Hill)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/62 "2005-03-17T17:41:38Z")
Oh, I would gladly sacrifice any number of little old ladies for a **Police Squad** release! And ditto on a Region 1 release of **Black Books** , to which I’ll add the two seasons of **Spaced**. I’ve got the Brit DVDs, and they’re hilarious! Another (slightly less hip) Britcom I really want: **Goodnight, Sweetheart** , the WW2 time-travel thingy. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/63 "2005-03-17T19:15:25Z")
OK, it’s not a complete answer but I found this on the IMDB message board: > [@](#): > > To answer all the questions I had a parlay with the creator of “The Tick” a bunch of years back. It basically goes that the creator has creative rights while the studio (FOX) has marketing rights. This means that if Fox in anyway wanted to try to market it, syndicate it or do anything with it, they have to pay. Now when this show came out in 1994 syndication had just caught on. But a show of "The Tick"s caliber would make it a masterpiece. This means that Fox would have to pay through the nose for the show. If someone remembers the show did get a run on Cartoon Network for 1 season. So we have to sit on or laurels and wait to see what happens. Does that make sense to anyone? ---
**Author:** ![booklover](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/85f322/32.png) [@booklover](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/booklover)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/64 "2005-03-17T19:21:39Z")
Another one here for **Animaniacs** and **Amazing Stories**. Plus, I’m dying for seasons 2-4 of L&O: Special Victims Unit. The idiots released season 1, then season 5. What’s up with that? ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/65 "2005-03-17T20:01:55Z")
I was very happy to see WKRP mentioned in the #2 post. FWIW, there has been a VHS release, but it’s just dreadful as all of the real music was overdubbed with “stock” music that didn’t need licensing. Of course, this meant that a lot of dialog was clobbered and also had to be dubbed in. I also found that Fox Home Entertainment acquired the program from MTM. Let’s start writing letters to them and asking for WKRP to be released on DVD: (I found the address at [Amazon](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/076701135X)) [Amazon will also take pre-orders for the DVD](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005JO43) - in reality, they’ll count up however many votes they get for it and use that to help persuade Fox to release it. So start voting! 20th Century Fox ATTN: TV/Videos 10210 W. Pico Blvd. Century City, CA Remember to ask for all episodes to be released. ---
**Author:** ![cmkeller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmkeller/32/118_2.png) [@cmkeller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmkeller)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/66 "2005-03-17T20:55:33Z")
Future seasons of Night Court and of South Park. The next seasons of Simpsons and MASH are already on the schedule. I do hope that despite its unpopularity, that Fox releases AfterMASH on DVD after they run through all the MASH seasons. Just for the sake of completeness. ---
**Author:** ![yosemite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/3ab097/32.png) [@yosemite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yosemite)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2005, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/67 "2005-03-17T21:05:50Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > The NBC miniseries of Taylor Caldwell’s CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS Whoa! That’s a good one. I got the VHS tape set, for which I am glad, because now it’s [out of print](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004WMLU/) and selling for a pretty penny. > [@](#): > > NBC miniseries FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY Dude, you’re scaring me! That’s another I should have thought of—_great, GREAT_ cast. Agnes Moorehead, David McCallum, James Mason, post “Romeo and Juliet” Leonard Whiting, Jane Seymour . . . and written by Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy! You can still get a butchered [VHS tape](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303491022/) of it, but a DVD would be so much better. > [@](#): > > NBC’s two versions of Aldous Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD (the Bud Cort version mostly!!!) You mean [this one](http://imdb.com/title/tt0080468/)? I remember that one. I liked it. Would like to see it on DVD too. ---
**Author:** ![Annie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/858c86/32.png) [@Annie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/68 "2005-03-18T02:35:24Z")
[It’s the Mr. Hell Show!](http://www.toonhound.com/mrhell.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Euthanasiast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Euthanasiast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Euthanasiast)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/69 "2005-03-18T04:35:09Z")
**Sopranos**. Season 5. **NOW!** I don’t watch television so I never saw an episode on HBO. I’ve only seen them as they came out on DVD. I’m getting tired of the waiting. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2005, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/70 "2005-03-18T13:15:27Z")
\*\*Whose Line Is It Anway?" Image the stuff that couldn’t get on the air. Plus, I can drool over Wayne Brady. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/71 "2005-03-19T00:54:56Z")
> [@amarinth](#): > > Perhaps you’re thinking of **FRESNO** (the raisin capital of the world, according to the mini-series.) I would like to see that again. You’re right, it’s **FRESNO** , I had remembered the name wrong for all these years. My favorite gag is the “smoky bar” Saxophone riff that plays everytime **TORCH** walks into a scene. Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/72 "2005-03-19T04:25:25Z")
> [@](#): > > The NBC miniseries of Taylor Caldwell’s CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS > [@](#): > > Whoa! That’s a good one. I got the VHS tape set, for which I am glad, because now it’s out of print and selling for a pretty penny. I had no idea. The six copies listed for sale range from $145 to $210. I bought my copy at a flea market last year for twenty bucks. A few more suggestions: _Reilly, Ace of Spies_ - Another good British mini-series. I should have bought the video box set for around forty bucks as it’s now out of print. _Crusader Rabbit_ - It’ll probably never happen. The rights are tied up in legal disputes. _A New Leaf_ - I just mentioned this one in another thread. Used VHS copies go for astronomical sums. _The Simpsons_ shorts - The original Tracey Ullman Show run. I’m amazed this one wasn’t released years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 4:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/73 "2005-03-19T04:49:09Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > The John Hurt-Richard Burton ORWELL’S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR That’s been out for over a year now. I want Dave Allen’s stuff out on video. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/74 "2005-03-19T15:17:35Z")
> [@Little Nemo](#): > > _The Simpsons_ shorts - The original Tracey Ullman Show run. I’m amazed this one wasn’t released years ago. For that matter, what about the actual _Tracey Ullman Show_? ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/75 "2005-03-19T19:44:22Z")
> [@Kaspar Hauser](#): > > For that matter, what about the actual _Tracey Ullman Show_? Probably not going to happen, and neither are the Simpsons shorts, either. Ullman and Fox got in a nasty lawsuit over royalties for the Simpsons when it became a big hit. Ullman ultimately lost, but there was plenty of bad blood to go around. ---
**Author:** ![Kaspar\_Hauser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@Kaspar\_Hauser](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kaspar_Hauser)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/76 "2005-03-19T20:01:46Z")
That’s a shame, because that was a funny show. I had just assumed that there were copyright problems with all the music they used in the sketches, but this is worse. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/77 "2005-03-19T20:42:13Z")
I’ll gladly second (or third, fourth, whatever) **The Rockford Files** **Animaniacs** **Freakazoid** **Police Squad** (the TV show) and add **Pinky and The Brain** (Animaniacs spinoff) **Maverick** (the James Garner TV show only) **Illegal in Blue** (the unrated version of the movie starring Stacey Dash of **Clueless** in some really steamy sexy love scenes) ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/78 "2005-03-19T20:52:29Z")
> [@Tuckerfan](#): > > That’s been out for over a year now. > > I want Dave Allen’s stuff out on video. Dave Allen himself never wanted his older material on on Video/DVD. Alas, since he just passed away, maybe his estate will feel differently. And, also waiting for. **It Takes a Thief** with Robert Wagner **The Wild Wild West (the series not that shite movie)** with Robert Conrad **Intruders** , two part mini-series about alien abduction that was actually disturbing. ---
**Author:** ![Jman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jman/32/4416_2.png) [@Jman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jman)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/79 "2005-03-19T23:00:10Z")
I absolutely can not wait until **The Wonder Years** is on DVD. I’ll buy the whole series. I still can’t understand why they haven’t released it. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2005, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866/80 "2005-03-19T23:35:25Z")
> [@unclviny](#): > > You’re right, it’s **FRESNO** , I had remembered the name wrong for all these years… I think I have some of those original eps on tape. Wasn’t there a sexy scene with a cow in one? :eek: 😕 I’m waiting for [Friends and Lovers](http://imdb.com/title/tt0071031/) (Paul Sand, Penny Marshall, Steve Landesberg, Craig Nelson) and [The Duck Factory](http://imdb.com/title/tt0086702/) (Jim Carrey, Jack Gilford), both worthy of another look. Unfortunately, both are very unlikely to come out on DVD in my lifetime. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-you-cant-wait-to-come-out-on-dvd/294866.md?page=5)