A pity this will never happen. At least as long as Sandy Frank is alive.
Ditto on The Tick.
The Twilight Zone- Late 80’s incarnation.
Season One will be out in December and seasons 2 & 3 in March 2005.
I’ve screamed and screamed for a Home Movies DVD until I lost my voice, but it looks like I’m finally going to get it. Season one is coming to DVD in either November or later this month, depending on who you believe.
Now we need Dr. Katz. It had some poor episodes, but the good ones were absolute gold.
Last I heard, Moonlighting was due to be released around the end of this year.
Another vote for Night Court and Scrubs.
I’ve said this before in similar threads, and I’ll say it again here.
Cupid, the 1998 series starring Jeremy Piven. I still have not seen a series yet that was a better blend of comedy, drama, sharp acting, and glorious writing. It was perfection. It was nirvana. It was killed in its crib by ABC after they put it in a dreadful time slot opposite NBC’s show about an emergency room.
Heh. Ever wonder what the song playing over the end credits is, or try to figure out what lyrics are being sung? It sounds vaguely like a rock song, but it’s really just gibberish being sung. Because there are no actual lyrics, there were no royalties to be paid to a songwriter.
When the producers of Roswell were preparing the season 1 set, they had to replace a lot of the music with covers or generic alternatives because the liscensing fees would have made the cost astronomical. If you watch the Sci-Fi reruns and compare them to the DVD’s, you’ll find a lot the music is vastly different from how it originally aired.
Also, ever notice that syndicated versions of tv shows that open with a theme song will often either skip it or greatly truncate it? This is to avoid paying the liscensing fees. The only people guarateed royalties for sydicated tv shows are the song writers. Paul Williams is a rich man from the royalties he got from writing The Love Boat theme, and Alan Thicke, in addition to his wealth from producing and starring in Growing Pains, made a fortune from the theme songs to The Facts of Life and Diff’rent Strokes.
Kelsey Grammer probably had the best gig in tv. He was paid as the star of Frasier, got a share of the show’s profits as producer, and got royalties for both writing and singing the theme song.
One more. The screenwriter for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds made the most money of anyone involved in the picture in the long run. During a key scene outside the school, one of the characters sits down to wait in front of a jungle gym, which slowly fills up with birds while the children inside are singing a traditional children’s rhyme. The song wasn’t long enough for the scene, so the screenwriter, who wasn’t a songwriter of any kind, wrote a couple of extra verses. As a result, he got a songwriting credit, and his royalties for that have amounted to many times what he was actually paid for writing the movie.
For Matt Frewer fans:
Max Headroom
Doctor! Doctor!
Many of the shows mentioned here are forthcoming. Season 1 of Golden Girls, for example, is due around Thanksgiving. Family Ties (which I’ll second, though I forgot to mention it in my initial post) is reportedly coming in early 2005.
TV Shows on DVD is an excellent resource for this subject.
Yes. I’ve got to admit that Bailey is why I mostly want a copy.
Now that it seems that Eerie, Indiana is really coming out, my list is now:
So Weird
Herman’s Head
Picket Fences
The Young Riders
Joan of Arcadia, One Tree Hill…
Do the Best Brains folks even have copies of the KTMA episodes any more? I thought they now existed only on poor-quality off-the-air VCR tapings.
Word has it that Jim Mallon (one of the co-creators) has every KTMA episode, including the three not available to the fans AND the 30-min pilot in his personal collection. Fresh, shiny, unadulterated episodes.
[Homer]Mmmmmm…fresh MST3K episodes…droooollll[/Homer]
Remember WENN
The cult favorite from 1984-85, It’s Your Move. Maybe Jason Bateman’s series winning the Emmy will spark interest.
The news of Home Movies and Scrubs coming to DVD just made my day!
I second Daria.
I want The Adventures of Pete and Pete and season 2 of Upright Citizens Brigade.
I just barely remember that show.
Jog my memory. What was it about and stuff?
The New Twilight Zone from 1986, which is the best modern Sci-Fi anthology series to ever appear on television.
I got excited this weekend when I saw a couple of Twilight Zone disc sets at Wal-Mart. They were very similar, except that one was in color and the other in black and white. I was thinking my wife was going to kill me, but I must have this. Then I saw that the newer set was the series hosted by Forrest Whittaker from a couple of years ago, which was quite bad, and not the inspired greatness of the 86 version. Let’s hope both sell well so that CBS will try to capitalize by releasing the 86 version.