What is your 'Holy Grail' tv on dvd?

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OPPYH

Sunday, August 7, 2011 5:11 PM

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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KWICKO

Sunday, August 7, 2011 5:59 PM

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.

OPPYH

Sunday, August 7, 2011 6:14 PM

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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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CYBERSNARK

Sunday, August 7, 2011 7:15 PM

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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ECGORDON

Sunday, August 7, 2011 7:21 PM

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.

THESOMNAMBULIST

Monday, August 8, 2011 1:15 PM

BRIMSTONE.
Thriteen unlucky episodes of genius.

Cartoons - http://cirqusartsandmusic.blogspot.com

VERASAMUELS

Monday, August 8, 2011 1:16 PM

ALL of 'Tarot, Ace of Wands'

The lost episodes of Dr Who

ALL the 'Goodies' episodes

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

PENNAUSAMIKE

Monday, August 8, 2011 2:19 PM

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

MENDUR

Monday, August 8, 2011 2:43 PM

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.

The Codex Menduri: http://mendur.blogspot.com

GWEK

Monday, August 8, 2011 4:45 PM

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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