A lot of good shows mentioned, but I must be the only one who likes The Andy Griffith Show. The first season DVD comes out Nov. 16.
I noticed several people mentioned WKRP, another great show. Here is a link to lots of sound bytes from the show, including opening and closing themes.
I’ll add my vote to animated Tick and Max Headroom.
And a massive Doctor Who box set (every episode avialable) on 150 DVDs
(not really, but it would be cool. and I was too lazy to find exactly how many episodes there were, tho I know it was more than 500)
A couple of old shows I’d really really like to see on DVD: The Life of Riley
Also: The Bickersons. It predated The Honeymooners and is basically the same concept, except not quite so sugar-coated.
Both of these shows began on the radio (and as far as I know I have all the extant episodes.) The Life of Riley ran for years and there are lots of episodes still floating around. The Bickersons – I’m not sure how many episodes survived. I’ve only ever seen one – I hope there are more, because it’s pants-wetting material.
The eighties’ Married: With Children is mostly a direct copy of The Life of Riley, but they borrowed a few things from The Bickersons, too. It doesn’t hold a candle to either.
Most of Due South is available on DVD. The first two sets–covering the years when David Marciano was played Detective Vecchio–have been out for some time. The pilot was not included, there were no “extras” whatsoever, and the packaging was extraordinarily cheesy. But the excellent episodes are there.
The “third season” has just been released. This includes the first half of the episodes featuring Callum Keith Rennie, plus the pilot. Don’t know any details about features or packaging, but the set is on its way from Amazon.ca. (The others are still available as well.)
And Brisco County is among the shows that must be released on DVD! I was a fan from the first & caught most episodes multiple times on TNT. Witty & original.
Did anybody here see Twitch City? It was a weird Canadian comedy with Don McKellar, Molly Parker & Callum Keith Rennie (again). Plus two guys from Kids in the Hall, playing a talk show host. The explanation for a different guy playing the role in the second series involved a head transplant–even Due South did not get that weird. It was seen briefly in the USA on Bravo TV (with all the “bad words” bleeped out). Extremely media oriented (the “hero” was an agoraphobic who spent all his time watching TV), it would be ideal on DVD.