TV shows that STILL aren't available on DVD!?!?

[Jayson1]

Wasn't Ronald D. Moore one of the writers on that show? I seem to recall that he worked on it during that brief gap after his abrupt departure from the Star Trek: Voyager writing staff but before he became the head writer during the 2nd season of Roswell.



Awwwww. Thanks!

After looking up Jake 2.0 and Special Unit 2 on the VEI website, I saw that they also put out Deadly Games and Legend! I remember seeing part of a few episodes of Deadly Games back in the day. It was a show about a guy who made a video game but then something went wrong and all of the villains from the game started appearing in the real world. Christopher Lloyd was the main villain and I remember that one of the one-off villains was played by Brent Spiner. I never saw Legend but I probably should given that it's a western that teams up Richard Dean Anderson & John DeLancie. Based on the premise, it kinda sounds like it's part Wild Wild West and part Remington Steele.

BTW, I don't know if any of you are familiar with Kenny Lauderdale's YouTube channel but his videos are mostly about uncovering obscure Japanese anime & live action shows from the 1980s that have never been released in English. They all look pretty awesome to me, particularly The Laughing Salesman and all of the delinquent schoolgirl shows.

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Legend was pretty good. It was created by Michael Pillar and is one of the reasons he left Star Trek. I also use to watch Deadly Games. It was okay. Spiner did play a villain. I believe he was a nerdy character who was even a fan of Star Trek. LeVar Burton was also another villain playing a ex-boss who fired him and his video game double like tried to kill him with deadly paper or something he would throw at him. Shirley Jones also played a villain as his Mother in Law.


Jason

 

[dupersuper]

That's what I've heard. The dreaded music licensing! That's also what's stifled releases of other moderately popular series like The Drew Carey Show, Malcolm in the Middle, & Murphy Brown.

...and made WKRP releases less awesome...

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

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Fantastic Journey (1976-1977) set in the Bermuda Triangle

Love the groovy music. I have never heard of this one.

Animated series based on the movie Fantastic Voyage

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[dupersuper]

Blake's 7 was shown on PBS. It was more towards the latter half of the 80s as I recall which caught the tail end of the GenX demographic that got turned on to Who some time earlier.

Maybe it was in a bad time slot? I watched the others on PBS as a kid (was in love with Red Dwarf), but hadn't even heard of Blakes 7 until SF Debris reviewed it.

 

[RJDiogenes]

Animated series based on the movie Fantastic Voyage

This was one of my favorite cartoons. Around the same time there was another good one based on Journey to the Center of the Earth.

 

[dupersuper]

Earth Star Voyager, was a two part pilot for a TV show, was rather nice for the time.

I remembered watching and liking that on Wonderful World of Disney when I was a kid, then not knowing what it was called for over a decade (yaay internet!).

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

This was one of my favorite cartoons. Around the same time there was another good one based on Journey to the Center of the Earth.

Oh yes I remember that one, over here they paired that show back to back with Defenders Of The Earth on one of our local channels but the shows were butchered with tv ads

 

[RJDiogenes]

Thank goodness for streaming and DVD. Old shows are half commercials now.

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

I seem to remember an old TV show, not sure if an Australian production but they sailed around the world on a replica of the Endeavour and had a mini submarine and had various adventures.

 

[The Borgified Corpse]

Maybe it was in a bad time slot? I watched the others on PBS as a kid (was in love with Red Dwarf), but hadn't even heard of Blake's 7 until SF Debris reviewed it.

I don't know that there was that much overlap between the Blake's 7 era and the Red Dwarf era, although your mileage may vary depending on your PBS station. I didn't start getting into Red Dwarf until the very early 2000s. I know that it had to be around then because Season VIII was already over and I was pretty convinced that that was all that we were ever going to get. I have very fond memories of that glorious half a year when PBS's late night Saturday line-up consisted of Robot Wars, The Red Green Show, Red Dwarf, & The Industry (a.k.a. Made in Canada).

 

[diankra]

I don't know that there was that much overlap between the Blake's 7 era and the Red Dwarf era, although your mileage may vary depending on your PBS station. I didn't start getting into Red Dwarf until the very early 2000s. I know that it had to be around then because Season VIII was already over and I was pretty convinced that that was all that we were ever going to get. I have very fond memories of that glorious half a year when PBS's late night Saturday line-up consisted of Robot Wars, The Red Green Show, Red Dwarf, & The Industry (a.k.a. Made in Canada).

I was in the States in summer 89, when B7 had just been run, as had season one of Dwarf, but not Star Cops.

 

[Jax]

The Practice (can't even find it via other means bar the last season.)

I want to watch it but can't.

 

[valkyrie013]

Wasn't it a vacuum cleaner salesman make the liberators from Blake's 7? They DREAMED of Dr Who budget

 

[Marc]

Wasn't it a vacuum cleaner salesman make the liberators from Blake's 7? They DREAMED of Dr Who budget

Think that's urban myth in terms building the Liberator model but yes the show's budget was pretty small.

Found this article which puts the SFX budget at £50 per episode (basically the money had come from a police show that had been cancelled). By the end of the first season they were over budget by £4443 for materials and 1898 hours of labour.

https://www.pressreader.com/australia/sfx/20180103/283648235262867

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

The Liberator was a lovely design.. Very different and somewhat unique.

 

[cardinal biggles]

The Practice (can't even find it via other means bar the last season.)

I want to watch it but can't.

I'm trying to remember where you're from, Jax. If you're in the U.S., all eight seasons are available via Hulu.

If you're outside the U.S., it could be available sometime next year; Disney is planning to expand Hulu internationally (under the brand name "Star"); content would be entirely stuff that Disney owns outright via various production arms like ABC Studios, 20th Century Studios, and 20th Television. The Practice was a 20th Century Fox TV production, so it should potentially be included under that umbrella.

 

[Jax]

Sadly I'm from the UK though have been thinking about using a *Cough* VPN *Cough* lately.

 

[diankra]

Think that's urban myth in terms building the Liberator model but yes the show's budget was pretty small.

Found this article which puts the SFX budget at £50 per episode (basically the money had come from a police show that had been cancelled). By the end of the first season they were over budget by £4443 for materials and 1898 hours of labour.

https://www.pressreader.com/australia/sfx/20180103/283648235262867

B7 effectively replaced Softly Softly in the BBC drama schedule (it's often said to be Z Cars, but that continued till late 78, after B7 season one; Softly Softly was a Z Cars spin-off).

 

[Gingerbread Demon]

Ooh here's one that brought back a lot of happy memories........ I never saw the movie but did watch the TV show.

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[John Clark]

The Practice (can't even find it via other means bar the last season.)

I want to watch it but can't.

The Dylan Mcdermott show about a law firm?
Amazon (Uk) have the first two seasons on dvd (region 2) or prime (and the last season on region 1 dvd). - They also have some of the other seasons