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What is your 'Holy Grail' tv on dvd?

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Sunday, August 7, 2011 7:11 AM

OPPYH


What is the 1 television show that you are waiting impatiently for a release on dvd? And why?
Note: If your 'Holy Grail' tv show has already been released, you can still share your thoughts.


I am on a mission to see LASSIE released on dvd.

What a fantastic tv show it is. A relic of a bygone era of strong family values, and pure innocent delight. Perhaps this is the reason the 'escapist' quotient is off the charts.
There is no gritty reality....no this is about as fantasy as you can get without a dragon involved. It makes The Andy Griffith show look like Hill street Blues.
I have been hounding Brian Ward of Shout Factory about a release. This is what he had to say:

"It's not something we're able to acquire, at this time. Doesn't mean it won't happen down the road, but it's not something for which we currently have plans."

The middle sentence gives me hope.

Long live the "Golden Age" of television.




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Sunday, August 7, 2011 7:59 AM

KWICKO

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Mine, at least thus far, is one I'm lucky enough to own: The Wire, the acclaimed HBO series. It is, simply put, some of the best television ever created.

Other gems, already released, include:

Freaks & Geeks
Dexter
The Shield
and some half-season show called "Firefly" or something like that. ;)

I'm waiting on Boardwalk Empire (saw the first episode, and it was epically amazing) and A Game of Thrones.

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Sunday, August 7, 2011 8:14 AM

OPPYH


Quote:

Originally posted by Kwicko:
Mine, at least thus far, is one I'm lucky enough to own: The Wire, the acclaimed HBO series. It is, simply put, some of the best television ever created.

Other gems, already released, include:

Freaks & Geeks
Dexter
The Shield
and some half-season show called "Firefly" or something like that. ;)

I'm waiting on Boardwalk Empire (saw the first episode, and it was epically amazing) and A Game of Thrones.



Freaks and Geeks is a favorite of mine as well, and I love "marathoning" Dexter whenever the latest season is released on dvd.



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Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:15 AM

CYBERSNARK


I've got two (well, three, but one of them I know is legally impossible).

StarCom, from the 80s, was that rarest of animals; an American-made animated space-opera (it was pimping a toyline, but the show was as "hard" as American TV sci-fi has ever been --made with the cooperation of NASA, back when it was in the business of inspiring younger generations).

Roswell Conspiracies: Aliens, Myths, and Legends is a 90s-era animated series, the spiritual cousin of Men in Black, M.A.S.K., and the X-Files.

And of course, I know that Macross Frontier will never see a legal NorAm DVD release, as awesome as it is (ever since the 80s, the Macross franchise as a whole has been caught between several different clans of lawyers, all equally deadly).

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Sunday, August 7, 2011 9:21 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


My World and Welcome To It, starring William Windom as John Monroe, a cartoonist and writer based on the real life James Thurber. It aired on NBC in 1969-70.

Also, The Senator segment of The Bold Ones, also on NBC, 1970-71. It starred Hal Holbrook. There were only nine episodes.



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Monday, August 8, 2011 3:15 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


BRIMSTONE.
Thriteen unlucky episodes of genius.


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Monday, August 8, 2011 3:16 AM

VERASAMUELS


ALL of 'Tarot, Ace of Wands'

The lost episodes of Dr Who

ALL the 'Goodies' episodes



Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

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Monday, August 8, 2011 4:19 AM

PENNAUSAMIKE


The 1992 NBC summer replacement series,
"MANN & MACHINE".
Starring Yancy Butler and David Andrews.
Detective Bobby Mann is partnered with a cyborg, Eve Edison.
Eve is all knowledge and little social understanding.
Mann is not a fan of machines, from the interactive vending machines to his new partner.

One of my favorite dialog bits:
Eve and Mann are about to enter a dangerous situation.
Eve: I'll go first.
Mann: No, I'll go first. You're the brains, I'm the muscle.
Eve: I'm the brains AND the muscle.
Mann: What does that make me?
Eve: The one that can get killed.

The growing relationship between ingenue Eve and shopworn Bobby Mann was warm and funny,
and the "future" LA was filled with comments on our "current" society of 1992.

My videotapes no longer function properly,
but I found a pirate DVD that will have to do until there is an official release.

Mike

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Monday, August 8, 2011 4:43 AM

MENDUR


Speaking of MANN & MACHINE, does anyone but me remember a failed pilot which was shown as a TV movie, named "CONDOR"? Starred Ray Wise and Wendy Kilbourne.

Quote:

Detective Bobby Mann is partnered with a cyborg, Eve Edison.
Eve is all knowledge and little social understanding.
Mann is not a fan of machines, from the interactive vending machines to his new partner.



CONDOR operative Christopher Proctor is partnered with a cyborg, Lisa Hampton.
Lisa is all knowledge and little social understanding.
Proctor is not a fan of machines, from the interactive vending machines to his new partner.

Sounds familiar, doesn't it? 6 years before MANN & MACHINE ... but 10 years after HOLMES & YOYO.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. But I liked CONDOR.

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Monday, August 8, 2011 6:45 AM

GWEK


If you guys just want to SEE the shows rather than have the released, most of them are out there on bootleg. It took me all of two minutes to find (just to pick one randomly) MANN & MACHINE. Heck, I've got two sets of BRIMSTONE on DVD myself!

I think some of them have later been released as legit, but I've got most of my "TV wishlist" on DVD already: The Quest, Brimstone, Veritas: The Question, Space: Above and Beyond, Drive... Probably a half dozen others.

Most of the other ones I might want are readily available (Automan, Casablanca: The Series, Frank Buck: Bring 'em Back Alive!).

I guess MY holy grail (and I'm sure it's out there if I look) would be the complete YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES on DVD.. unedited, the way they aired (ie, WITH the "Old Indy" framing sequences). That, or maybe WKRP IN CINCINATTI with the original music intact.

I find that grown-up stuff is much easier to track down than kid stuff. When I wanted DRIVE, it took less than 10 minutes to find multiple sources, but when I wanted to get JACK'S BIG MUSIC SHOW for my daughter, we had to bootleg the series ourselves!

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

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Monday, August 8, 2011 9:06 AM

CLJOHNSTON108


Well, Gwek, you didn't find Mann & Machine through BitTorrent, that's for sure! And I'd like a nice, pristine DVD transfer anyway, not a fuzzy, hissy VHS rip with commercials.

As for my other Holy Grails... there's really not many left, since the majority of titles that had been on my list have been released in the past few years, like Space: Above and Beyond, Max Headroom, Dark Skies, Stingray, Total Recall 2070, etc.

All that's really left is...

Mann & Machine/South Beach
Strange Luck
Cupid (the Jeremy Piven version)

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Monday, August 8, 2011 10:26 AM

GWEK


Nope, not Bittorrent. If you're willing to go for lower quality, check out Google and it'll probably take about five minutes to find something.

www.stillflying.net: "Here's how it might have been..."

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Monday, August 8, 2011 12:17 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


Quote:

Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
BRIMSTONE.
Thirteen unlucky episodes of genius.


I should have mentioned that one too, but I have a fairly good quality DVD-R of that from when Chiller ran it a couple of years ago. As far as I was able to tell it was not edited down for more commercials as a lot of older shows are these days. Unfortunately, my DVD recorder no longer works, and my computer won't read the disc, or else I'd offer to make you a copy.



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Monday, August 8, 2011 12:51 PM

RIPWASH


For me it would have to be if they ever came out with "The Wonder Years" on DVD.

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Monday, August 8, 2011 8:34 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Originally posted by ecgordon:
Quote:


I should have mentioned that one too, but I have a fairly good quality DVD-R of that from when Chiller ran it a couple of years ago. As far as I was able to tell it was not edited down for more commercials as a lot of older shows are these days. Unfortunately, my DVD recorder no longer works, and my computer won't read the disc, or else I'd offer to make you a copy.



Cheers EC. That's most generous of you all the same. I have a strange thing at the moment where discs that used to play on my computer no longer do. Most notably seasons 1-4 of Buffy? No idea why?

It's a real pity BRIMSTONE hasn't had a DVD release. I guess 13 episodes just wont sell? •Shrugs•

Thanks again though.

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Monday, August 8, 2011 8:38 PM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Quote:

Originally posted by RIPWASH:
For me it would have to be if they ever came out with "The Wonder Years" on DVD.



My girlfriend looked into why they haven't and apparently it's down to the licensing of all the music within the show. There's just so much of it that it's proving a logistical nightmare to sort out. This also delayed the relase of all seasons of Northern Exposure and eventually they had to just tag different music on the areas which were proving difficult.

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Monday, August 8, 2011 9:40 PM

MOOSE


Quote:

Originally posted by GWEK:

I guess MY holy grail (and I'm sure it's out there if I look) would be the complete YOUNG INDIANA JONES CHRONICLES on DVD.. unedited, the way they aired (ie, WITH the "Old Indy" framing sequences). That, or maybe WKRP IN CINCINATTI with the original music intact.




Those are the exact two I came in here to post.

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Tuesday, August 9, 2011 1:18 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


Quote:

Originally posted by THESOMNAMBULIST:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Quote:


I should have mentioned that one too, but I have a fairly good quality DVD-R of that from when Chiller ran it a couple of years ago. As far as I was able to tell it was not edited down for more commercials as a lot of older shows are these days. Unfortunately, my DVD recorder no longer works, and my computer won't read the disc, or else I'd offer to make you a copy.



Cheers EC. That's most generous of you all the same. I have a strange thing at the moment where discs that used to play on my computer no longer do. Most notably seasons 1-4 of Buffy? No idea why?

It's a real pity BRIMSTONE hasn't had a DVD release. I guess 13 episodes just wont sell? •Shrugs•

Thanks again though.


Luckily I do have another DVD player that will read the discs of Brimstone, I confirmed that yesterday before I posted my comment about it. When I get the chance I'll check out my DVD recorder to see if it has decided to work again. The last couple of times I've tried it would not read a disc recorded on it, nor would it initialize a new disc, and it wouldn't even load my laser lens cleaner disc.



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Tuesday, August 9, 2011 1:38 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
Quote:

Originally posted by THESOMNAMBULIST:
Originally posted by ecgordon:
Quote:


I should have mentioned that one too, but I have a fairly good quality DVD-R of that from when Chiller ran it a couple of years ago. As far as I was able to tell it was not edited down for more commercials as a lot of older shows are these days. Unfortunately, my DVD recorder no longer works, and my computer won't read the disc, or else I'd offer to make you a copy.



Cheers EC. That's most generous of you all the same. I have a strange thing at the moment where discs that used to play on my computer no longer do. Most notably seasons 1-4 of Buffy? No idea why?

It's a real pity BRIMSTONE hasn't had a DVD release. I guess 13 episodes just wont sell? •Shrugs•

Thanks again though.


Luckily I do have another DVD player that will read the discs of Brimstone, I confirmed that yesterday before I posted my comment about it. When I get the chance I'll check out my DVD recorder to see if it has decided to work again. The last couple of times I've tried it would not read a disc recorded on it, nor would it initialize a new disc, and it wouldn't even load my laser lens cleaner disc.





That there is a DVD recorder without a purpose in life.

:D


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Tuesday, August 9, 2011 3:53 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST


Originally posted by GWEK:
Quote:

If you guys just want to SEE the shows rather than have the released, most of them are out there on bootleg. It took me all of two minutes to find (just to pick one randomly) MANN & MACHINE. Heck, I've got two sets of BRIMSTONE on DVD myself!


Ah thing with Brimstone though it was the first show I watched where I was actually taking note of the technical aspects of it as well as being engaged with the stories. They did this thing where they'd knock out the red, so everything had this blue/green tinge to it. Especially with the earlier episodes, and being a bit of a geek with things like this I'd want a top notch looking release and ideally a sh*t load of extras! As many as possible with commentaries from everyone. Even the dolly grip guy if it's possible.



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