# What would you buy the moment it came on DVD if it was ever released? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2011, 6:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180 "2011-01-19T06:41:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![YogSothoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/8edcca/32.png) [@YogSothoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YogSothoth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/61 "2011-01-20T21:44:00Z")
All 2 seasons of Exo-Squad ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2011, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/62 "2011-01-20T21:49:25Z")
Massacre at Central High a great horror film. The vhs tape was rare even 15 years ago. Never been released on dvd. > **[Massacre at Central High](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_at_Central_High)** > > Massacre at Central High (released as Blackboard Massacre in the UK) is a 1976 American thriller film directed by Rene Daalder and starring Derrel Maury, Kimberly Beck, Robert Carradine, and Andrew Stevens. The plot follows a series of revenge killings at a fictional American high school, after which the oppressed students take on the role of their bully oppressors. Despite its title, it is not a slasher film but an unusual blend of political allegory, social commentary, and low-budget exploita... trailer Note the terrible quality. All the vhs rental tapes I’ve seen are totally worn out. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XKvgOpf9SWM/hqdefault.jpg "Massacre at Central High") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKvgOpf9SWM) I always hope it will be digitally restored someday. ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/63 "2011-01-21T01:32:26Z")
Buy? Season Three of The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Crazy House by Olson & Johnson. There is a site claiming they have it, but the same site claimed to have Hellzapoppin’ and didn’t, so I’d want a legit release. Get from Netflix right away Seasons 4 & 5 of The Muppet Show, which are supposed to be coming. The short lived series **No Soap, Radio** which I remember being much stranger than **Police Squad.** ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Credible](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a8b319/32.png) [@Justin\_Credible](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Credible)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/64 "2011-01-21T01:44:30Z")
Remember Flash Forward with Ben Foster and Jewel Staite? I would love to see that on DVD. ---
**Author:** ![Jormungandr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@Jormungandr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jormungandr)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/65 "2011-01-21T02:23:51Z")
[“Wings”](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0018578/), which has never been released in Region 1. I’ve only seen once by accident when it appeared on a local station on late night. ---
**Author:** ![Andrew\_Trezise](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Andrew\_Trezise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andrew_Trezise)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/66 "2011-01-21T02:28:37Z")
I think I’d buy Winter’s Bone, a recent US indie film. Very raw. ---
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/67 "2011-01-21T02:51:25Z")
Second City in Chicago has some film of performances from the very beginning in the early 60s, including “Football Comes to the U. of Chicago”, and “Museum Piece” with Barbara Harris and Alan Arkin. If they ever put this on DVD I’d buy it in an instant. There was a recent documentary that included some clips, but I want whole sketches. _Becket_ was on my list, and I did buy the DVD as soon as I found out about it (from the SDMB, as a matter of fact). I had not known a video of “Beyond the Fringe” from 1964 even existed until I saw the DVD was available, and I ordered it instantly. The 4th and 5th seasons of “The Muppet Show” are on my list, but they will be available in the near future. ---
**Author:** ![Student\_Driver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3da27b/32.png) [@Student\_Driver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Student_Driver)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/68 "2011-01-21T12:31:18Z")
> [@YogSosoth](#): > > All 2 seasons of Exo-Squad When the first season was released, I bought it the week of release and followed-up with an e-mail to Universal to seriously consider putting the second season out in at least a limited edition or through a burn-on-demand provider if sales of the first were less than expected. I’m thinking that sales were indeed disastrous, and doubt the second season (or the single third-season episode produced) will get released. ☹ Speaking of burn-on-demand providers, Warner Archive has been releasing a _lot_ of stuff that I’d been hoping to see for years. Perennial “when will it get released?” favorite _The Fox_ finally came out a while back, they’ve been releasing full-series sets of cult/obscure Hanna-Barbera TV series like _Josie and the Pussycats in Space_ and _Pirates of Dark Water_, and massive shorts collections mining Warner Bros. and Turner-owned MGM vaults; I’ve picked up the Robert Benchley, Ripley’s Believe It or Not, Big Band/Jazz/Swing, Our Gang, Joe McDoakes, Dogville Shorts, and MGM musical short collections, and am waiting for a good sale to put in an order for the new Vitaphone shorts collection, all of which is stuff that a lot of us old laserdisc collectors had been begging for (a lot of these had been released in LD box sets that were massively expensive in the aftermarket). I’d like to see the Pac-Man cartoon get a full series/Christmas special release, as well as the other early video game series (Pole Position, Dragon’s Lair, Saturday Supercade. Additional shorts collections of any type would be an immediate sale, but I’d especially like to see the other major studios step up and begin mining their vaults. The WB and MGM shorts are out because they’ve already been remastered for use on Turner Classic Movies, so it probably wouldn’t be viable for the other majors, but I can wish. ---
**Author:** ![stegon66](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee59a6/32.png) [@stegon66](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stegon66)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/69 "2011-01-21T13:47:31Z")
Island of Lost Souls. There are several other region releases but I hear they are of dubious quality and hard to find anyway - probably not worth the trouble to track down. Why this hasn’t been releasedin R1 is beyond me. The Magnificent Ambersons. Why is it taking so long to be released in R1? ---
**Author:** ![Dante](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dante/32/9673_2.png) [@Dante](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dante)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/70 "2011-01-21T14:06:55Z")
I’d love to get a lot of the early 80’s fantasy movies on Blu-Ray. **Sword and the Sorcerer** , **Hawk the Slayer** and **Krull** are three that spring to mind. ---
**Author:** ![ministryman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f6c823/32.png) [@ministryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ministryman)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/71 "2011-01-21T14:15:34Z")
> [@tpatsfan](#): > > That is on DVD. I got it as a gag gift ( long story) a year or so ago. It is not a legal release; It is a copy from VHS/Laserdisc from outside the U.S. The funny part is that Disney uses the characters and music from that movie on Splash Mountain. For those who do not know, _Song of the South_ portrays a happy, birds-are-chirping, all-massas-is-good-to-der-slaves vision of slavery. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/72 "2011-01-21T14:25:08Z")
> [@](#): > > For those who do not know, Song of the South portrays a happy, birds-are-chirping, all-massas-is-good-to-der-slaves vision of slavery. That’s not _quite_ right. The movie is vague about whether it’s taking place before or after the Civil War. But the black folks, who clearly aren’t in the highest social or economic bracket, and happy and singing all the time, which fits in with the stereotype. And the guy playing Uncle Remus makes/repairs his own shoes and befriends the white kid, who clearly _is_ upper class (and probably the plantation owner’s kid, if this is antebellum) and tells him the stories of Br’er Rabbit. That last part is pretty consistent with Joel Chandler Harris’ books, which inspired thjs whole thing. Harris was white, but the stories are identifiable black folktales, with roots in African tales. It’s all told in excruciatingly rendered phonetic Southern Black dialect that I can’t take more than a few pages of. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/73 "2011-01-21T16:05:31Z")
MTV’s Oddities: The Maxx. I’m a fervent Maxxhead, and own just about everything ever made with the characters from the Maxx on or in it. I’m been working on an overly ambitious Maxx cross-stitch project for several years. I’ve made myself a Maxx halloween costume. But I can’t watch the darn show because I no longer have a VCR. So the VHS tape sits there decaying. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/74 "2011-01-21T16:17:01Z")
> [@Hirka\_T\_Bawa](#): > > The young Indiana Jones Chronicles. Is that different than [this](http://www.amazon.com/Adventures-Young-Indiana-Jones-One/dp/B000VDDDVE)? ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2011, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/75 "2011-01-21T16:27:39Z")
I own Young Indiana Jones on DVD. It is, without a doubt, the most bonus-filled set of DVDs ever released. Each EPISODE gets its own entire disc, chock full of behind the scenes stuff. That show was treated like a blockbuster movie every week. I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did with a budget like that… At this point, I think anything back catalog that is going to come out on DVD already has. It would be more appropriate to ask what you’re waiting for on Blu-Ray… ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/76 "2011-01-24T14:24:10Z")
> [@gonzoron](#): > > MTV’s Oddities: The Maxx. > > I’m a fervent Maxxhead, and own just about everything ever made with the characters from the Maxx on or in it. I’m been working on an overly ambitious Maxx cross-stitch project for several years. I’ve made myself a Maxx halloween costume. > > But I can’t watch the darn show because I no longer have a VCR. So the VHS tape sits there decaying. ☹ > **[Amazon.com: The Maxx: The Complete Series : Michael Haley, Glynnis Talken, Amy...](https://www.amazon.com/Maxx-Complete-Michael-Haley/dp/B002WJHDJI)** > > In the murky alleyways of New York City, homeless Maxx huddles in his box and dreams of crushing evil villains. But when he bursts into the colorful netherworld of the Outback, the Maxx is a hero, in full purple splendor. His friend Julie, a... ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/77 "2011-01-24T15:08:43Z")
[Amerika](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_(TV_miniseries)) ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/78 "2011-01-24T15:12:45Z")
> [@CandidGamera](#): > > [Amazon.com: The Maxx: The Complete Series : Michael Haley, Glynnis Talken, Amy Danles, Barry Stigler, Sam Kieth: Movies & TV](http://www.amazon.com/The-Maxx-Complete-Series/dp/B002WJHDJI/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1295879028&sr=8-1) OK, I officially am in your debt. Guess the last time I checked was over a year ago. THANKS! ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/79 "2011-01-24T15:29:22Z")
There was a TV series called _That’s Hollywood!_ hosted by Tom Bosley that highlighted different aspects of Hollywood movies – one episode might be a particular genre or a particular theme or might just be a retrospective of some less-well-known actor’s career. Man I loved that show. There is a DVD for _The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby_ (you know, the 8 1/2 hour stage production from the early '80s with Roger Rees), but Amazon reviewers say that it is weirdly, badly formatted. The performance was aired in two-hour pieces on PBS, with Peter Ustinov doing intros and outros and trivia about the book or the production or whatever, and some genius decided to put all of this stuff on the DVD just as it aired on TV – so the entire performance is broken up into pieces with all this other stuff (including the credits, I guess). If they came up with a “cleaner” version with options, then I’d buy that in a second. ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2011, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180/80 "2011-01-24T15:31:27Z")
> [@gonzoron](#): > > OK, I officially am in your debt. Guess the last time I checked was over a year ago. > > THANKS! You’re welcome! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-would-you-buy-the-moment-it-came-on-dvd-if-it-was-ever-released/568180.md?page=5)