Hot Topic #1: What TV shows would you like to see on DVD?

[Calhoun07]

This will hopefully be the first of a new and regular feature on the DVD Discussion board, updated from time to time when we think of a new question! I was asked to take honors of going first...so here it goes!

I want to start off with a rather simple question, "What TV shows would you like to see on DVD?" It seems TV shows on DVD is becoming massively popular, and I can state for myself that the majority of releases I want in the future are of TV shows being put out on DVD. But, still, there is quite a bit not being put out. So let's discuss them! And if you know of any good petitions to get your favorite shows on DVD, post links to the petitions so those interested here can sign the petitions too.

[Brian Cruz]

I would sell my soul for complete collections of these shows:

The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Mary Tyler More Show
Get Smart
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Dobie Gillis
The Adventures of Superman
I Love Lucy
The Honeymooers
Police Squad
...and many more!

Here are the TV Shows I'm already buying on DVD:
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Twilight Zone
Star Trek

[PlopKat]

To Brian's excellent list I add:
the rest of Bob Clampett's "Beany & Cecil" cartoons
The Phil Silvers Show a.k.a. Sgt. Bilko
Car 54, Where Are You
Batman (1960s live action)
Batman The Aniated Series
SCTV
The Ben Stiller Show
Mr Show


For SCTV, I would especially like the 90 minute episodes done for NBC and the shows done for Cinemax (particularly Happy Marsden's Happy Hour).

-PlopKat

[Robin2099]

I'd love to be able to see Tales from the Crypt(HBO version) on DVD. I'm also still waiting for the Buffy/Angel DVD's.

[TServo2049]

I want to see The Adventures of Pete and Pete on DVD, as well as The Raccoons (obscure Canadian cartoon from the 80s)

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Brian Cruz
I would sell my soul for complete collections of these shows:

The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Mary Tyler More Show
Get Smart
Petticoat Junction
Green Acres
Dobie Gillis
The Adventures of Superman
I Love Lucy
The Honeymooers
Police Squad
...and many more!

Here are the TV Shows I'm already buying on DVD:
Monty Python's Flying Circus
The Twilight Zone
Star Trek

You might get your wish, Brian! Many of these shows you listed are basically public domain so some video houses will be putting out many of your favorite older shows on DVD. In fact isn't Dick Van Dyke on DVD now? (DVD on DVD!)

Image Entertainment is one to keep an eye on, and New Video (part of A&E, so you know they will do their DVDs right!) has the Mary Tyler Moore Show and the Bob Newhart Show (I will most certainly buy the latter! I love Bob Newhart!) and "dozens of others" according to the article I read (in Video Store magazine). And Rhino and Good Times may also come to the rescue to get some of your favorite classics out on DVD!

[Joker85]

Batman 1960s(REALLY want to see this happen)
Batman:TAS
The Carol Burnett Show
Star Trek:TNG & DS9
ER

[Calhoun07]

Oh, man, I forgot about the Carol Burnett show. Harvey Korman and Tim Conway rocked hard in that show. The cast was really good, and it was perhaps the first comedy show I really remember watching. Does anybody remember the episode with Vickie Lawrence playing Mama (the same role she reprised for Mama's Family, another show that would be cool to have on DVD) and her family sitting around playing Monopoly and the family fights that ensued over that table? Man, it was the funniest skit I had seen in my life (probably cuz it was so close to home!). Mama was always my favorite character on the show. I still remember the episode that was the one that spun off into Mama's Family where her husband had died, and it was this quite moment with her and you could see they gave that character such heart. That show totally rocked.

[Joker85]

Originally posted by calhoun07
Oh, man, I forgot about the Carol Burnett show. Harvey Korman and Tim Conway rocked hard in that show. The cast was really good, and it was perhaps the first comedy show I really remember watching. Does anybody remember the episode with Vickie Lawrence playing Mama (the same role she reprised for Mama's Family, another show that would be cool to have on DVD) and her family sitting around playing Monopoly and the family fights that ensued over that table? Man, it was the funniest skit I had seen in my life (probably cuz it was so close to home!). Mama was always my favorite character on the show. I still remember the episode that was the one that spun off into Mama's Family where her husband had died, and it was this quite moment with her and you could see they gave that character such heart. That show totally rocked.

Wow, I'm glad to see someone else who loved The Carol Burnett Show. I forgot about Mama's Family. I would LOVE to see that show on DVD. All of the "Family" sketches were good and all of the "Ms. Wiggins and mr. Tudball" sketches. :D

[The Clown Prince]

He-Man, She-Ra and any other 80's cartoon series. Also....

Family Guy
Gargoyles
Macgyver!!! :) Loved that show growing up!

Eh, that's all I can think of at this late hour.

The Clown Prince

[Lonestarr]

Daria
Downtown
Undergrads
That's My Bush!
The Kids in the Hall
Duckman
The Critic
Dr. Katz
That '70s Show
The Drew Carey Show
3rd Rock from the Sun
Spin City
Wings (don't laugh)
Ned and Stacey
Batman: TAS
Weird Science
The John Larroquette Show
Fantasy Island (1998 version)

[The Clown Prince]

Can't forget "The Tick" animated series either!!!

The Clown Prince

[Calhoun07]

Originally posted by Joker85


Wow, I'm glad to see someone else who loved The Carol Burnett Show. I forgot about Mama's Family. I would LOVE to see that show on DVD. All of the "Family" sketches were good and all of the "Ms. Wiggins and mr. Tudball" sketches. :D

Isn't Time Life putting out VHS tapes of this series? I don't recall who is doing it, but I've seen commercials for it, and if it's Time Life, we might get to see this on DVD after all since they have the Muppet Show on DVD now.

I'd actually like to see Nick at Nite head up some of these classic shows on DVD, with all the little cute commercials they have for the shows that shows all the times Mrs Brady told the kids not to throw a ball in the house, for example. Or the I Dream of Jeannie commercial they did to the tune of that popular Suzanne Vega song (NOT Luka) was cool too. Nick at Nite could add some awesome bonus features for these shows on DVD.

[Lonestarr]

Animaniacs
Tiny Toon Adventures
Pinky and the Brain
Freakazoid!
Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular
The Chimp Channel
Eek!stravaganza
Toonsylvania

[Calhoun07]

I hadn't posted my want list yet! And I don't want any best of sets, season sets only!

Cheers
Night Court
Boston Public
St Elsewhere
The Wonder Years
Duckman
The Critic
Daria
....and quite a bit of other MTV animated shows
V, the series
Crime Story
Twin Peaks (all of them, not just the first seven episodes)
On the Air
and there is one more David Lynch TV show I'd like to see
Carol Burnett
Newhart
the Bob Newhart Show

[Joker85]

Excellent choices Calhoun!! :D

[don Jaime]

The B&W Andy Griffith Shows
WKRP in Cincinnati
MST3K - all of them, dammit!
Barney Miller
All in the Family, up to the exit of Mike and Gloria

As for toons on DVD, the complete Termite Terrace run would reign godlike over the elements.
Rocky and Bullwinkle and their friends, too.
Subtitled Digimon would be nice (does Disney own them now?)
Gargoyles, so I can know how it ended.
Rocko's Modern Life
Ren and Stimpy
Darkwing Duck

[Lonestarr]

Digimon (subbed and dubbed; I've developed a taste for it; sue me)

[Eraserhead]

Max Headroom

[James]

Homicide: Life On The Street.

In particular, the seventh series which Channel 4 in the UK refused to show. They said it didn't have the ratings. NOt surprising as they played the old network trick of moving to time slots to those in the early morning. (While on late night, it earned respectable figures).

After two years of messing with the schedule, giving in no promotion and even switching timeslots in the night shift, Channel 4 declared the fact that the audience wasn't interested in watching the show anymore and they would buy no more from the US counterparts.

What was more irritating was that the other reason that they said they'd axed it was that Channel 4 was cutting back on American shows to free up money for home grown programmes.

What did they announce the following week. A massive multi million pound deal to buy up ER and Friends before the non terrestial channels could. Suddenly again, Channel 4 has been on a mass buy up of American TV programmes (Will And Grace started just a few weeks ago with a massive advertising campaign). Still no Homicide. Not even repeats - despite the protest against it's removal has been one of the largest the channel has received.

Life sucks - and so does Channel 4.

Some DVD's would be nice in the meantime of this award winning drama....

[LOGAN5]

Of course I would want all of these to have special edition type features like creator/actor commentery, production art, model sheets, etc...
Batman TAS/Superman TAS-these should go without saying
Superfriends-hey, at least the ones with the Legion of Doom!
Thundarr the Barbarian-I loved this cartoon as a kid, in fact with all this Transformers/GIJoe/Thundercats nostalgia I wonder why Thundarr's been left out...just 'cause there are only 22 episodes and it was never in daily syndication?
Filmation's Tarzan and Flash Gordon cartoons-yeah, I know...the late 70s are nowhere near as hip as, say, the mid-80s...but these are really cool cartoons...folks who dig the realism and serious tone of things like Batman TAS should check 'em out
Ren and Stimpy-I'm talking about the John K episodes...you know, the GOOD ones.
Beavis and Butt-head-brilliant social satire and they say "butt" a lot
Star Trek Animated-also from Filmation...VHS is on moratorium, and paramount has tried to "disavow" this show before...
Spider-man-The 60s version, with the *****in' theme song...Ralph Bakshi worked on this show, man!

[James]

Originally posted by LOGAN5
Of course I would want all of these to have special edition type features like creator/actor commentery, production art, model sheets, etc...Filmation's Tarzan and Flash Gordon cartoons-yeah, I know...the late 70s are nowhere near as hip as, say, the mid-80s...but these are really cool cartoons...folks who dig the realism and serious tone of things like Batman TAS should check 'em out
Star Trek Animated-also from Filmation...VHS is on moratorium, and paramount has tried to "disavow" this show before...
Spider-man-The 60s version, with the *****in' theme song...Ralph Bakshi worked on this show, man!

Filmation has a whole source of cartoons I'd like to own. I used to love Space Sentinels, Tarzan and the orginal Flash Gordon.

As for Star Trek TAS, I think that was unfairly hammered by critics and studio alike. I thought it was an excellent bit of work which tried to keep as faithfull as it could to the TV series without turning into a bog standard toon affair. I was very impressed with some of the story lines and deserves far more respect than it ever received!

[Keith]

Who holds the home video rights for the Filmation cartoons these days? While I'm asking, does anyone know a good source for this kind of information? I know Cartoon Research lists some of the more "classic" cartoons, but it is hard to find out who holds the rights to some of these more obscure cartoons.

[James Harvey]

I'd love to see some of that old FIlmation stuff. I thought that RHINO held the rights to some of that classic stuff.

[LOGAN5]

I read at some He-Man site that french makeup company L'Oreal bought Filmation studios...they just wanted the rights to the existing library of stuff and shut the place down...I don't know if this is true, or why a makeup firm would decide to get into the cartoon business, maybe someone has more details? Rhino has released Flash Gordon on tape in the past, and so has some other company, too...Paramount seems to own the rights to Star Trek, and the Filmation Aquaman (voice of Ted Knight) was shown in these weird half hour blocks made up of edited down Superfriends episodes and Superman and Batman 'toons from the 60s- Filmation may have produced these as well, I'm not sure. I'm sure there have been other minor surfacings here and there, so we know SOMEBODY's dolling out permission. I'd love to know who owns these gems...God, I haven't even mentioned Filmation's live action triumphs, SPACE ACADEMY and JASON of STAR COMMAND

[Frozen]

Originally posted by Eraserhead
Max Headroom

Amen to that! I'd also love to see the following:

The Equalizer
Due South
Quantum Leap
Batman animated
Ulysses 31

I know it's a short list, but I've never really seen much TV. It stunts your growth ;)

[Calhoun07]

When you say Max Headroom, I am assuming you mean the ABC series, but I would love to see both the American series and the British series released in one box set.

[Sveven Dvorking]

Pokemon (only the Indigo League), in order, including the lost episodes.

Wheel of Fortune, the first five seasons.

[BourgeoisBuffoon]

Lonestar29 said most of the Silver Age WB shows I wanted, but I add (naturally ;) ) Histeria! to the list.
I'd also like to see The Fairly Oddparents, Dexter's Lab, and as soon as enough eppys are made, Samurai Jack seasonal DVD sets. I would only wonder what extras they would have...:)

And I bet they will do this, but I'd like a DVD set featuring ONLY the Simpsons Halloween specials. That'd be nice as well!

[Leaping Larry Jojo]

If Belch hasn't mentioned it, DARIA.

[Sveven Dvorking]

the complete set of Tiny Toon Adventures. I really like that show and I am ashamed that CN took it off the air. Why did they, anyway? To make room for more Cartoon Cartoons?

[Thad Komorowski]

Originally posted by Sveven Dvorking
the complete set of Tiny Toon Adventures. I really like that show and I am ashamed that CN took it off the air. Why did they, anyway? To make room for more Cartoon Cartoons?

Not to worry, Sveven, TTA will be back on NICK early next year.

-Thad:D

[Kal-el]

This would be my list:

Dukes of Hazzard
Battlestar Galactica
Buck Rogers
Cheers
MST3K
Robotech (already beginning to be available on DVD)
Transformers
both Newhart series
M*A*S*H
B:TAS, TNBSA (including Superman: Legacy)
Mighty Orbots
All Star Trek series
Spiderman (live action series, Amazing friends, etc.)
Wonder Woman (w/ Linda Carter-both time frames...why not?)
Ren and Stimpy

[Firefly]

Mine are:

Inspector Gadget
Spider-Man (1993)
BTAS
STAS
Batman Beyond
Lois and Clark
X-Men Evolution
Futurama
Family Guy
Simpsons (I know it's coming out)
Seinfeld (I'm suprised it's not alredy out)
Friends

...and many more