Doctor Who: The Movie, at least on this side of the Atlantic
Titles unavailable for any form of home release
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"The Osiris Chronicles" AKA "Warlord: Battle For The Galaxy."
Melinda Snodgrass's "Star Command" pilot.
Melinda Snodgrass's "Star Command" pilot.
Not to mention all the Brer Rabbit stuff on the Splash Mountain ride in Disneyland.
I think Disney should just release the damn thing already. Don't give it a big hullaballoo. Just release it for those who want to see it. I mean, other studios have gone ahead and released some of their less P.C. material. A few years ago, Columbia put out a DVD of their 1940s Batman serial with all the really racist anti-Japanese WWII propaganda in it.
Are we sure this isn't just some dream/acid trip you had?
Earlier this year, I heard rumors that Universal was finally going to release the 1st 2 seasons of Earth: Final Conflict. Now, it seems they've been taken off the schedule again.
I'm waiting for Hex Season 2. From the early Season 2 episodes included on the Season 1 set, it looked like a huge improvement. (OK, killing off Cassie kinda sucked but at least the plots didn't feel quite so pointless. And they still had Thelma, who is practically the only thing about the show worth watching anyway.)
Paramount/CBS has frequently kept 7 Days in their daytime rerun rotation on SpikeTV but has yet to do a DVD release.
There was a short lived NBC sitcom in the late 1990s called Stark Raving Mad where Tony Shaloub played an eccentric horror novelist and Neil Patrick Harris played his editor.
Made in Canada is one of the funniest sitcoms ever made. It's a Canadian satire about unscrupulous TV producers. I first saw it when it aired late Saturday nights on PBS after Red Dwarf. It ran for 5 seasons in Canada. Unfortunately, my PBS affiliate only aired the first 2. Even worse, only the 1st season (which was only 6 episodes) has been released on DVD. Shortly after Season 1 came out on DVD, Salter Street Films went broke and was bought out by Alliance Atlantis. Seasons 2-5 are still waiting.
Does anyone else remember the early 1990s CBS sitcom Love & War with Jay Thomas & Annie Potts? I was a fan at the time. I don't remember why.
I wish that the BBC would release Chris Barrie's other sitcom, Brittas Empire in Region 1. I've never seen it but I'm quite intrigued. Mostly, I'm just enough of a Barrie fan that I'll buy anything.
One of my favorite comedy TV series that last three seasons on ABC, "The Norm Show".
Go to YouTube.com and search:
"Norm Show" 1x01
And watch. It takes a few episodes to get it's footing, and about that time the new boss takes or (the dad from ALF; he does a wonderful job).
Go to YouTube.com and search:
"Norm Show" 1x01
And watch. It takes a few episodes to get it's footing, and about that time the new boss takes or (the dad from ALF; he does a wonderful job).
Orson Welles' The Chimes at Midnight isn't totally unavailable, but you have to arrange for the purchase of Brazilian DVDs through a middleman (like I did).
There was at least one studio (I forget the name of) that was throw away masters to shows and music, to make room. And another that recorded over stuff.
Some things just may not exist anymore.
Some things just may not exist anymore.
A few places have done that. One of the most infamous instances is the BBC in the 1970s, which destroyed the masters of dozens of old Doctor Who episodes from the William Hartnell & Patrick Troughton years. Some episodes currently exist only in audio format. Some are lost entirely except in the Target novelizations. (One really interesting thing I've seen recently is the DVD release of the Troughton story "The Invasion." It's a 7 episode story but episodes 1 & 4 were lost. However, super-fanatical Doctor Who fans back in the 1960s would hold tape recorders up to the TV and record the audio. So they were able to reconstruct the audio of those 2 episodes and then they created new animated episodes to take the places of the lost episodes in the story.)
In cases of studio stupidity like that, fans and bootleggers are the heros.
Few yeasr bakc when the "Lawrence of Arabia" DVD was being put together, they ran into one itsy, bitsy tiny problem: they threw away the masters to the score. Oops.
Few yeasr bakc when the "Lawrence of Arabia" DVD was being put together, they ran into one itsy, bitsy tiny problem: they threw away the masters to the score. Oops.
I am pleased to report that three of the titles mentioned here : Popeye Meets The Man Who Hated Laughter, Flash Gordon : The Greatest Adventure Of All, and Porky and Daffy Meet The Groovie Goolies, will soon be mine, bought off ioffer.com.
Now, if I could just find footage of Belushi as Godzilla intro'ing Godzilla vs. Megalon.
Fans of the show - classic Who, that is, back in the 60s when VCRs didn't exist, never mind PVRs or anything else along those lines.
People used to do the same thing with Trek episodes during the original run of TOS.
I don't know if the Beatles film Let It Be counts, as it was available on Betamax way back when.... 
Fans have been looking forward to this since the Anthology days, when VHS was still dominant, with the hope that they'd restore it to its original aspect ratio. It had been filmed for TV, then they cropped it at top and bottom for theatrical release. When they made the Betamax tape, they further cropped the sides of the theatrical crop (!!!), rather than just going back to the original, TV-formatted footage.
It looks like somebody is hawking a low-budget DVD out there on the basis that the copyright has expired...don't know anything about that, but it would probably be the horrid Betamax crop.
Apple is infamous for not getting off their asses and rereleasing official releases like this. Audiophiles have been bitching since the '90s that they should remaster the CDs, which were done in '87.
Fans have been looking forward to this since the Anthology days, when VHS was still dominant, with the hope that they'd restore it to its original aspect ratio. It had been filmed for TV, then they cropped it at top and bottom for theatrical release. When they made the Betamax tape, they further cropped the sides of the theatrical crop (!!!), rather than just going back to the original, TV-formatted footage.It looks like somebody is hawking a low-budget DVD out there on the basis that the copyright has expired...don't know anything about that, but it would probably be the horrid Betamax crop.
Apple is infamous for not getting off their asses and rereleasing official releases like this. Audiophiles have been bitching since the '90s that they should remaster the CDs, which were done in '87.
Indeed, back in the day, kiddies, that was the only way to reexperience the show whenever you wanted. You couldn't watch it again and again, but you could at least listen to it. Stone knives and bearskins! Can you imagine what the world was like before we even had portable tape recorders...?
^Well, that's portable, isn't it?
I'm acquainted with an old-timer who happens to be one of the major voice-over artists for movie trailers and TV promos. He told me the amusing anecdote of how, back ca. 1950 when he was doing TV and radio announcer work, he used to have to lug a wire recorder around NYC to play samples of his work for potential employers!
I'm acquainted with an old-timer who happens to be one of the major voice-over artists for movie trailers and TV promos. He told me the amusing anecdote of how, back ca. 1950 when he was doing TV and radio announcer work, he used to have to lug a wire recorder around NYC to play samples of his work for potential employers!
Well, it had a handle, yeah.^Well, that's portable, isn't it?
"Got an air check we can listen to, son?"
Who was it, btw?
Actually, there's no Who episode that's missing entirely. For every episode that doesn't exist on film, there is an audio recording of some quality.
My understanding is that McCartney is the roadblock in a DVD release of Let It Be. He's said that reopening the issue is "painful," and Neil Aspinall said, before his death, that restoring the film was "controversial." (Also note that the least thorough portion of The Beatles Anthology is the segment on 1969. It's almost as though the Beatles didn't want to talk about it. The book isn't much better on that front.)I don't know if the Beatles film Let It Be counts, as it was available on Betamax way back when....
What's sad is that there's a lot of potential to a Let It Be DVD release. Michael Lindsay-Hogg's first cut of the film (which was significantly longer, by about an hour), for instance. There's the entirety of the Twickenham sessions on film. There's the entire rooftop concert. The potential for extras on Let It Be is nearly endless.
Maybe, once the remastered CDs come out next year, Apple will revisit releasing Let It Be on DVD. But I'm not entirely hopeful -- Let It Be... Naked was a misguided effort (and didn't represent what Glyn Johns' Get Back album would have been).
Time will tell.