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I'd love to know what's going on with The Fugitive Complete Series. I haven't heard anything since it was withdrawn at the 11th hour...
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So many debacles these days: M-SQUAD, THE SIX MILL, IT TAKES A THIEF, THE FUGITIVE, this and that.
Universal wins the game as the worst studio doing licenses with abysmal materials.
Universal behaves like a common bootlegger selling expensive crap to a brotherhood of blind devotees who are afraid to criticize their con game.
Be very careful in the future with any titles from their back catalogue!!!
Even Amazon is embarrassed concerning those sub-licenses.
Everybody know now that they are known as "Univers Sale".
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The Fugitive situation I confess to the ultimate "What, me worry?" syndrome since I was one of the lucky few who got a set shipped before the recall!
And I disagree completely regarding the titles Universal has licensed. They give out the best source materials that are available to labels willing to take a chance on them, and there has always been candor from the get-go that these will not be the top of the line remastered stuff because the costs would be too prohibitive. I applaud Universal for doing something with their catalog in that sense which is more than I can say for Fox which won't release anything themselves and has even stopped licensing titles to others completely leaving me with another year of "Burke's Law" hanging that I want to see released more than any other stalled title (not to mention Fox's disgraceful abandonment of "The Big Valley")
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The Fugitive situation I confess to the ultimate "What, me worry?" syndrome since I was one of the lucky few who got a set shipped before the recall!
And I disagree completely regarding the titles Universal has licensed. They give out the best source materials that are available to labels willing to take a chance on them, and there has always been candor from the get-go that these will not be the top of the line remastered stuff because the costs would be too prohibitive. I applaud Universal for doing something with their catalog in that sense which is more than I can say for Fox which won't release anything themselves and has even stopped licensing titles to others completely leaving me with another year of "Burke's Law" hanging that I want to see released more than any other stalled title (not to mention Fox's disgraceful abandonment of "The Big Valley")
Not to mention "12 O'Clock High", "The Felony Squad" (my holy grail) and "The Green Hornet". However, I did get word from Twilight Time that they may put some television series out on D.V.D. (though I'm not sure they're from 20th Century-Fox).
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And I disagree completely regarding the titles Universal has licensed. They give out the best source materials that are available to labels willing to take a chance on them, and there has always been candor from the get-go that these will not be the top of the line remastered stuff because the costs would be too prohibitive.
Your theory doesn't hold because Paramount restores their back catalogue and nevertheless the price is acceptable. Shame on Universal.
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The Fugitive situation I confess to the ultimate "What, me worry?" syndrome since I was one of the lucky few who got a set shipped before the recall!
Damn, that's pretty awesome luck on your part. I wish I was able to act that quickly on it. Hopefully it's a good set and will eventually get a release without too many negative changes. I just hate the "no news" aspect. TVShowsonDVD.com is a great resource, but if you ask them something, you invaribly get the "if we had news we'd have posted it" answer, which is non-helpful.
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I vote for Sony as the studio who has caused me the most grief on the classic TV front. Too many Season 1 releases of various shows that never get another season, and too many edited/syndicated prints instead of uncut broadcast episodes (I Dream of Jeannie is a butchered mess, as is Soap and several others).
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(I Dream of Jeannie is a butchered mess).
I'm curious about your comment, because I never noticed anything missing from I Dream of Jeannie. The only thing that does stand out from those prints are the occasional weird replacement sound effect in some second season episodes that were on the syndicated prints in the 90's. Also the subtitles of what Jeannie was saying in her native language are not on the pilot episode on the DVD sets.
Otherwise, the episodes appear to be intact (although I miss the Screen Gems "S from Hell" missing from most episodes).
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I agree that the screwed up releases outnumber the "just right's" but there are a number of TV shows from my youth that have been released quite nicely. Such as…
The Incredible Hulk
Twilight Zone
Gilligan's Island
The Man from Uncle
Get Smart
Battlestar Galactica
Planet of the Apes
The Time Tunnel (the only Irwin Allen series released without some sort of screw up somewhere)
There have been some good ones. It's just that these days, it's the norm to do something maddening, like the prints of It Takes a Thief….
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I guess ALL of the studios have been negligent regarding their back catalogs
of various tv shows. There hasn't been one instance of any studio not
screwing up at least one of their shows for dvd.
Notice how they don't do these same screw ups with more recent shows
(shows produced over the last 15 - 20 years). It's always our beloved
classics from the 50's, 60's, 70's and sometimes even the 80's.
Den
Not true. Roseanne, That '70s Show and Will & Grace all had syndication cuts released, with the former two now being corrected for fans who graciously get to re-purchase without any discount if they bought the previous, heinous sets. Luckily, I'm not really a fan of any of these shows. Don't hate 'em, just didn't ever invest in the sets.
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