All 2 seasons of Exo-Squad
Massacre at Central High a great horror film. The vhs tape was rare even 15 years ago. Never been released on dvd.
trailer
Note the terrible quality. All the vhs rental tapes I’ve seen are totally worn out.
I always hope it will be digitally restored someday.
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.
Remember Flash Forward with Ben Foster and Jewel Staite? I would love to see that on DVD.
“Wings”, 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.
I think I’d buy Winter’s Bone, a recent US indie film. Very raw.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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:
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.
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. 
Is that different than this?
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…
OK, I officially am in your debt. Guess the last time I checked was over a year ago.
THANKS!
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.
You’re welcome!