No friggin kidding! They release season one and you never here about it again. By the time I get the final season on DVD i’ll be dead.
There is a TV miniseries that was never released on videotape that I am praying will be released on DVD; I’d pay any price within the broader rings of reason for it as it’s one of my favorite things ever on television. Elizabeth Montgomery and Hal Holbrook were Sayward and Portius Luckett, an oddly matched couple on the Ohio Frontier ca. 1790-1820, in The Awakening Land (based on a trilogy of books by Conrad Richter) and it was amazing. The miniseries avoided all of the cliches of the John Jakes style bodice ripper historical miniseries: historical figures sprinkled in like name dropping and played by a TV show actors, way overdecorated sets, ridiculous accents, people thoroughly out of sync with their time in terms of worldview and actions, etc… The sets, the dialect (by dancer Marge Champion no less), the plot, the wardrobes and of course the acting and the writing and the characterization were all perfect. Ahhhhh…
I also wish African Queen would come out and most irritating of all I wish they’d release Paradise Lost: the Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills on DVD. (The latter is odd: its sequel is out, a third documentary is in the making, but the original isn’t even available in VHS- wtf? When a probably innocent guy’s life is literally on the case needs as much visibility as possible and not to release this due to some petty concerns over provenance would seem unconscionable.)
I would like to give another vote for The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. and also the TV series Dinosaurs with the Sinclair Family (which I think was a Disney program)
I was wishing for the old animated movie Wizards by Ralph Bakshi but I recently found it for those of you who didn’t know it was finally out.
GET SMART yes, I have signed.
OGGY AND THE COCKROACHES more please.
ANIMANIACS and
GRAPES a mini series I saw years ago that was a DALLAS parody, some of the best TV I have ever seen.
Unclviny
Count me as another that wants Animaniacs on DVD. There’s no excuse that it hasn’t been released yet. What’s the hold up?
All TV shows:
I’d like to see the entire series of Get A Life released, although I doubt there’s much demand for it. Also The Adventures of Pete & Pete (which may be out, but I’ve never seen it). And the 2nd season of Twin Peaks.
And, of course, WKRP, which is not likely to happen.
That was a great show. I know I taped some of the episodes, but damned if I know where they are. (They’re somewhere . . . safe. Where I’ll never find them! But they’re safe.)
I own the first two seasons of Doctor Finlay and have just finished seeing the next to the last episode. Damn, I love this show. I know that they made a third and fourth season, and will pounce on them whenever they are made available.
I’d also love to see all seasons of Alias Smith & Jones. (I have the VHS tape and have taped other episodes when they’ve been on TVLand, but by no means have a complete set.) I’d also love to see the entire series of Wagon Train—they’ve only got a few episodes on DVD.
And why is not VR-5 not on DVD? I taped them as they aired, and I have some of the VHS commercial tapes, but I’d like to see them on DVD. And supposedly (maybe, perhaps), The Magnificent Seven (link is fan site for TV series) is supposed to come out on DVD. Eventually. And last but not least, I’m still hoping that they’ll release At Play in the Fields of the Lord. I have a cheesy old VHS tape, but that’s not enough.
A Bit of Fry and Laurie - the best British comedy you’ve never heard of. It’s a sketch show starring Steven Fry and Hugh Laurie that’s right up there with Monty Python or Black Adder, and the only commercial release that it’s ever had was a crappy “Best Of” VHS tape. Criminal.
Black Books - it’s out in the UK, but there’s still no Region One release that I’m aware of. Another great Britcom.
Speaking of Fry & Laurie and Brisco County, I would like to see the latter just to see Fry’s portrayal of Oscar Wilde (which predated by years the movie bio in which, imo, he was absolutely brilliant).
Well, yeah, but it did not predate his real life tour of the west, in which, imo, he was absolutely brilliant.
Another vote for:
The adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
Duckman
The Tick
also I’d happily get Mythbusters
The NBC miniseries of Taylor Caldwell’s CAPTAINS AND THE KINGS
NBC miniseries FRANKENSTEIN: THE TRUE STORY
Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA with extras (I hear there were a lot more Renfield scenes & a more detailed Harker escape from the Castle)
NBC’s two versions of Aldous Huxley’s BRAVE NEW WORLD (the Bud Cort version mostly!!!)
a mass-market edition of ERASERHEAD
TWIN PEAKS Season 2
HAROLD AND MAUDE with extras (mainly Bud Cort commentary)
Hammer DRACULA films with Chris Lee commentary
The John Hurt-Richard Burton ORWELL’S NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR
Also the Peter Cushing version from 1950’s BBC.
Police Squad!
[sup] IN COLOR[/sup]
Barney Miller, second season.
Samurai Jack, second season.
And the Tick, yes.
I’ll second this. “Your cockfights suck, you bastard!”
The 1935 Ronald Colman version of A Tale of Two Cities is also MIA, as well as the original King Kong.
Sifl…and…Ol-ly! Sifl and Olly Show!
Ok, I aksed my question in the Tick thread (although, some may not be aware it’s the Tick thread, I didn’t get the stalin reference immediately, I mus tbe a bad Tick fan.) Anyways…
So what’s the story with the Tick DVD? I know there’s a market for it. Is there some rights issue or something? Surely a doper here knows…
What ever the reason, it probaley has to do something with why they couldn’t use the name “American Maid”
YES! I can’t believe I’ve forgotten about that wonderful, marvelous masterpiece! Now I MUST have the DVD!