Stuff you can't wait to come out on DVD

[QUOTE=unclvinyGRAPES 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.

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.

OK, it’s not a complete answer but I found this on the IMDB message board:

Does that make sense to anyone?

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?

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)

Amazon will also take pre-orders for the DVD - 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.

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.

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.

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 of it, but a DVD would be so much better.

You mean this one? I remember that one. I liked it. Would like to see it on DVD too.

It’s the Mr. Hell Show!

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.

**Whose Line Is It Anway?" Image the stuff that couldn’t get on the air.

Plus, I can drool over Wayne Brady.

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

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.

That’s been out for over a year now.

I want Dave Allen’s stuff out on video.

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.

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.

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)

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.

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.

I think I have some of those original eps on tape. Wasn’t there a sexy scene with a cow in one? :eek: :confused:

I’m waiting for Friends and Lovers (Paul Sand, Penny Marshall, Steve Landesberg, Craig Nelson) and The Duck Factory (Jim Carrey, Jack Gilford), both worthy of another look. Unfortunately, both are very unlikely to come out on DVD in my lifetime.