I want to see the rest of the Gummi Bears. They’ve only released one box, of the first season and a half, and am disappointed that no more seem to be forthcoming. Disney is usually so greedy for cash, you’d think they’d make everything available that they could.
On the contrary, Warner Home Video claims they do not have the rights to the 60s TV Batman. In an online chat on March 29, 2005, Warners representatives made statements such as
This could be true as Warner Brothers didn’t own DC Comics in the 1960s. Fox may have exclusive non-transferable rights to the TV series that excludes Warner Brothers from making any decisions concerning rebroadcast and reproduction rights. Although Warner Brothers owns Batman now, it’s possible they have no control over deals made before 1976, when they assumed ownership of DC. For example, all of Paramount’s Superman cartoons from the 1940s are in the public domain. Warner Brothers owns the original masters and can issue impeccable home copies, but that doesn’t prevent anyone else from issuing those cartoons on DVD.
I’m a little scared that it might not be as good as I remembered. The article Lute linked to is interesting. Tim Reid will not release it without the proper music and is planning to record a new score with the proper New Orleans feel for the DVD release.
I was going to nominate Saved by the Bell: The New Class in a terrible attempt at humor, but then I discovered that it is on DVD … all seven seasons. Seven seasons? What were they thinking? What were the people who have all seven seasons on DVD thinking?
There was an Australian series called The Games that’s one of my all-time favorites. I got Season 1 a few years ago. On John Clarke’s[sup]*[/sup] website last spring was a notice that they knew of the demand for season 2 (aired in 2000) and hoped to have it released by the end of the year. I even sent an e-mail saying the demand stretched as far as Boston. No DVD, and last I looked the notice was gone from the site, too.
Of course, my DVD player that did PAL->NTSC conversion has gone toes-to-the-moon, so I’m not in a huge rush.
- Clarke and his collaborator Bryan Dawe were the driving forces behind the show. Some might recognize them from the The Front Fell Off video.
I was going to say Darkwing Duck, but I checked and it came out a couple of years ago. Now I know what I’m getting for my birthday; I loved that show. “Who’s a purple traitor?”
They’ve also been released in several movie packages. I have them included in The Superman Ultimate Collecter’s Edition.
Yes, Warner used them as special features when they rereleased the Superman films as a tie in with Superman Returns- half on Superman, half on Superman II (theatrical version, not Richard Donner Cut).
“I am the terror that flaps in the night!
I am that show you like that never comes out on DVD!
I am Darkwing Duck!”
Kim Possible
Why aren’t they releasing them in season box sets?
I question this. I watched a couple of episodes last Sunday and there wasn’t a single original song used.
I was going to say that The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, the seminal youth show, with Bob Denver indelibly as Maynard G. Krebs (the G. stands for Walter), doesn’t have a full DVD release.
Some rip-off crew did a bizarre partial release last year of only 36 of the 147 episodes on 18[!] DVDs. They were also said to be recorded off of cable, with the network logos visible. There’s one new. At $129[!].
However, just because Amazon doesn’t have it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. I found a 31-DVD collection through Google that’s complete. Off to order it.
It’s probably a bootleg, no doubt. I guess the adage could be changed to “just because it doesn’t exist legitimately doesn’t mean there’s a bootleg that exists.”
“I am the batteries that are not included!”
Yep. After doing some serious clicking almost all the hits appear to be versions of the same seller. There was one very odd site that has it for $9.99. However, there was nothing that would click on that page. I checked into the site and found that none of their pages had anything clickable with which to buy. However, Google ad boxes appeared in the middle of the description with the Buy Now arrows pointing toward them. Apparently, you’re meant to click on those and think you’re doing an order. A whole fake site set up to do nothing but gather Adsense revenue.
Monkey torture for everybody at MTV until those DVD’s are released. :mad: :mad: :mad:
If miniseries count, I always used to post about wanting to the complete Masada movie on DVD, but they released it a couple of years ago, so I guess I can’t complain about that anymore.
As far as TV shows go, I’m only waiting for Eek! the Cat. I don’t watch new stuff anymore, so I won’t be able to whine about the TV shows anymore.
Here’s a good link all about bootleg DVD scams. They even have a link to check whether a site is selling bootlegs. There are also some scammers who advertise bootleg DVDs only as a basis for phishing or other criminal activity.
Brandy and Mr.Whiskers
I don’t know what Disney thinks about their under rated cartoon here, but it had SOLID writing, giving what it tried (and accomplished) to do. I want Brandy and Mr.Whiskers on DVD. Like most people, I have my money waiting.
KGS, if I give you a shoehorn, the kind with teeth, will you stop bashing Malcolm and or TMBG?
Is there a US version of Are you Afraid of the Dark? out yet?
That sounds right. I can’t seem to find the details now, but I remember reading that the RPG creators complained and the series creator did say that he had played the game at one point in his life.
Is thirtysomething out on DVD yet?