Movies and TV Shows on DVD
Each Saturday morning
I usually go to Bob Evans for breakfast,
and since Wal-Mart is so close
I go there just to nose around.
While at Wal-Mart, I'm always on the lookout
to see for what's just been released on DVD.
TV shows, movies, it doesn't matter...
I'm always looking every week.
This week I bought the first season of
The Wild, Wild West on DVD.
It was $37, but it has 28 episodes,
and it's a total 22 1/2 hours long.
I remember it as a kid
and I was too young to appreciate it then
but I know I'll enjoy it now.
But over time I realized
that so many TV shows and movies
that have always been popular for years
have never been released.
At all.
Not on DVD, not on VHS video,
never in any format.
At the theatres,
the newest Mission Impossible movie is very popular
as was the original and it's sequel.
But for some reason,
whoever owns the rights to the '60s TV series
won't release it to be sold on DVD.
And, like The Wild, Wild West
I didn't appreciate it then
(I was too young to understand it fully)
and I've love to have the Mission Impossible series now.
The same with The Invaders.
Petticoat Junction has come out on DVD,
but only a few select first-season black & white episodes.
Remember the old campy Batman show of the '60s?
It's never been released on DVD or VHS,
but a cartoon version recently has.
Most years of Bewitched has come out on DVD.
I Dream of Jeannie has, too
even though you can see both series on TV Land.
In a Q & A movie/TV show column in our local paper,
people frequently ask why this or that
has never been released in any format.
I realize a lot of old shows were just never very popular,
but many were, and they're unavailable to the public.
Are there any TV shows or movies
that - like me - some of you have been dying to watch
but they've never been released to buy?
posted by t @ 5:34 AM
7 comments
7 Comments:
I'd be interested in renting Wagon Train, like you, I think I would appreciate it even more now as an adult. The only old series I have on DVD is I love Lucy.
Umm... The only television show that I saw as a child and didn't appreciate until I was much older was probably Star Trek: TNG, and I have that on DVD already.
i don't follow dvd releases. you know, because of the whole money pit, i.e., new house. i haven't bought a book or a cd in ages. and the thing is, once i kinda broke the habit, it became much easier to just think about renting something once or borrowing it from the library.
mission impossible used to scare the hell outta me. it was my brother's favorite show and he would convince my mom to let me watch it with him. then i'd have to go upstairs to bed and i was still all weirded out by that match and the smoking tape recorder.
Tornwordo;
Wagon Train is a series I've never seen before. Not one episode. Not that I wouldn't like it...no one in our family ever watched it and as you know, that's usually how it gets started when you're a kid.
Do you have the entire I Love Lucy series? That would be a lot of episodes! Have you ever seen the movie Rat Race? There's a segment in that you'd enjoy regarding I Love Lucy. Otherwise, the movie is mediocre and silly at times. But I'll bet you'd like that part.
Doug;
You mean there's no other series or movies you can't find that you'd like to have?
Patricia;
Like you with Mission Impossible, The Outer Limits used to scare me so bad it would give me nightmares. TNT had marathons on 2 or 3 years in a row between Christmas and New Years' (why then, I'll never know...) and doing so they managed to show every episode and I taped them all! Unfortunately, even though it has some cheesy special effects, The Outer Limits still scares me to this day and I have trouble watching it. Must be the acting, stories and music that gives me the creeps real bad. Some of the stories involve weird secret experiments the government was doing and it always looked like the sort of things they'd so.
I, too, have seen Rat Race. I know of the scene in which you speak. (It is a stupid movie, but I loved so many parts from it!)
Well, in terms of movies from my childhood, it would just be Star Trek, but I do also have every I Love Lucy episode on DVD. Yes, it is quite a large collection. (It helps to know someone who works for Paramount if you want these things. Unfortunately, my brother is no longer an employee at the Paramount studio.) In terms of any other television I like in DVD format, well, I've got Scrubs, House, M.D., Lost, Quantum Leap (almost forgot about that one!) and Monk. That's about it. I feel as though if I add anything else, I won't have time to do anything but watch television!
A friend of mine has the movie of the original Batman TV series on DVD.
But as for the individual episodes, I haven't seen them on DVD either
Yes, for some strange reason they made the original theatrical movie available, but not the series.
Probably so they wouldn't have to commit to the entire series.
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