What TV shows should be on DVD that are not currently?

The post WWII drama, “Homefront” and the fun late-60s treat, “The Name of the Game”!

St. Elsewhere and The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

The Mothers In Law. Eve Arden? Kaye Ballard? Comedy gold!

I’ll Fly Away

Jack and Bobby

Veronica's Closet

R3 “The Mothers in Law” was released several years ago by MPI

China Beach

Roc and Freddy's Nightmares

Project UFO

I’ll Fly Away

Homefront

Cold Case

The entire run of St Elsewhere. Only season one is available on DVD.

The Charmings and Sledgehammer! I miss that lineup.

The entire run of Falcon Crest.

Life With Lucy

The Mitzi Gaynor Specials (box set)

Broadway Musicals on The Ed Sullivan Show (box set)

The Liza Minnelli Specials (box set)

Bachelor Father

December Bride

Private Secretary/Susie and The Ann Sothern Show

Aloha Paradise

You Can’t Do That on Television

r15 I loved that show! With Moose and the slime buckets and Luke's arm in the wastebasket. My parents thought we were watching too much TV at the time and so they cancelled cable. By the time I saw it again, the cast had all changed and it looked different. It was never the same!

Santa Barbara

Out of This World

The New Gidget

California Dreams

Knots Landing

Swans Crossing. Shout Factory has all the episodes on their website. I don't know why they don't release them!

Judging Amy.

Bakersfield P.D.

Another vote for "Jack and Bobby". I still love that show!

Passions

A vote for the final season of Once and Again. They released the first two and then never finished the run.

R2, I finally caved a few years ago and bought a bootleg set of the complete series of The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd. I'm glad I did - the show is all but forgotten and will probably never even see the light of streaming, much less dvd. I started watching when it was rerun on Lifetime and have loved it ever since, even though I was just a kid then.

It's my understanding that what has always kept New York Undercover from a dvd release was the music rights. If it ever does make it to dvd, they will almost certainly switch out the music, which would be a huge shame, as it was such a big part of the show.

Cold Case has the same problem with music rights.

Sledgehammer! has been out for years.

“I’ll Fly Away

Homefront”

Ermagerd!! I forgot about those shows. I loved them as a kid, although I don’t even remember what the second one was about.

I’ll add Picket Fences and raise you an “it should be streaming,” since who wants to buy DVDs these days?

The Golden Palace

Silence Please the old Erin Kovacs series on silent movies.

It’s torture that only the first 2 seasons of Knots Landing are on DVD when the show didn’t hit its stride until season 3 and peak Knots was seasons 5-10.

Another vote for The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd and the rest of Knot's Landing.

The Wonder Years - Obviously

The Path- with commentary track explaining all the symbolism

Ed- SO underrated and so good

Picket Fences- great show, miss it, can't find it anywhere.

[quote]The Wonder Years - Obviously

Also already out on DVD.

R33 What?!! This is great news!

1. I'll Fly Away

2. A Year in the Life

3. Molly Dodd

4. St. Elsewhere

5. Knots Landing

6. Homefront

7. Falcon Crest

Knots Landing is one of the first shows I binge-watched, long before that was a phrase. I made friends with someone who'd watched, and taped, every episode from the beginning. I started watching it in season 5 or so, then over one summer, I watched the tapes of the first four seasons. What a treat.

Central Park West

Relativity

Trinity (NBC Short lived series)

Early Edition - seaons 3 & 4. They had only released seasons 1-2.

Trinity was great!

The Wonder Years includes the music.

Strange Paradise

Sightings

The entire series of "Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction"

Freddy's Nightmares

I loved Sightings! And Relativity is another one that I bought a bootleg of years back. Honestly, there are places all over to obtain many of these series - no, it's not an official release, but it's better than nothing. With so many of these shows never making the transition to dvd, it seems unlikely that many will make their way to streaming either...

R39 If I recall correctly some of the original songs/music from Wonder Years was replaced. The same as with the WKRP DVD release.

Mindhunters & Feud

You may well be right, r42. I remember seeing an episode at some point that didn't even play the Joe Cocker theme song. But this is what it says on amazon:

[quote]Music: Part of the appeal of this award-winning searies was the soundtrack! Hear over 300 classic period songs as they were featured in the original broadcasts, including artists such as Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, The Byrds, Simon & Garfunkel, Aretha Franklin, James Taylor, and of course, Joe Cocker's unforgettable theme song.

Relativity

I wish Amazon would put Transparent out on DVD.

Flamingo Road!

The Trials of Rosie O'Neill (2 season CBS series with Sharon Gless)

The Powers That Be (2 season NBC series with John Forsythe and Holland Taylor. Created by the team behind Friends and produced by Norman Lear)

Nightingales (single season trashy soap from Aaron Spelling and starring Suzanne Pleshette)

The 5 Mrs. Buchanans

Savannah

The Bradys

The Beverly Hillbillies!

Only the first four seasons have been released so far. The fifth season is scheduled to come out this fall.

I agree with everything R23, R32, R40 & R49 posted.

I'd like to see more soaps released in sets of 182 episodes at a time (about the same as a single Star Trek series with 7 seasons).

As The World Turns, One Life To Live & Days Of Our Lives would be at the top of that list.

Also some rare cartoons like Buford, Tiger Sharks & finally Manta & Moray.

The British series The Cafe

Nanny and the Professor

Chico and the Man

One more vote for ‘Jack and Bobby’. In addition to the beautiful Matt Long who played Jack, the show also featured Bradley Cooper in a recurring role.

WHET Matt Long?

r7 China Beach was issued on DVD. However, like Wonder Years, WRKP and Square Pegs, the music was changed for some episodes.

The worst offender is the episode where Murphy visits Dodger after the war. There were some beautiful songs by Willie Nelson... that are no longer used. Shameful as they made the episode.

Alvin & The Chipmunks has never been fully issued on DVD, just handful of episodes.

The problem with a lot of these shows is that the first season was released and then that's it. Either the distributors didn't continue due to poor sales of the first season or just gave up. Picket Fences, Murphy Brown and 227 all have this problem in addition to Falcon Crest and Knots Landing.

Beggars and Choosers, the Showtime series about executives at a fictional TV network. Aired 1999-2001, starring Brian Kerwin, Charlotte Ross, Tuc Watkins.

Only season 1 of Malcolm in the Middle has been released. The other season have not due to...music rights.

I thought Freddy's Nightmares was released on dvd??

Now that they've finally (!) released the 1960s Batman series on DVD, I wish they would release The Green Hornet series. Bruce Lee as Kato!

R60 You can get DVD of Green Hornet but they are bootleg and probably poor quality.

Seasons 3-5 of Tabitha’s Takeover.

Murphy Brown will probably get a renewed interest with the reboot. Music rights were also a reason as to why they didn't bother releasing more.

Providence. I know it's a "frau" show, but I liked it. It sucks that it never made it to dvd.

[quote]China Beach was issued on DVD.

The sound quality sucked, and they didn't bother with closed captions. I made it through a couple of episodes, fast-forwarding through a lot of it, but ultimately gave up.

The Munsters Today

Life Goes On

That's Life!

another vote for The Trials of Rosie O'Neill

Holby City

I saw that The Power of Matthew Star starring Peter Barton, Louis Gossett Jr. and DL fave Amy Steele is now on DVD. It's nice to see rare, forgotten series still being released.

Anyone else hate that TVShowsOnDVD shut down? It was such a great resource.

No votes for Midnight Caller, yet?!

I'd also like to see Dynasty: The Reunion mini-series, The Trials of Rosie O'Neill and It's a Living released someday.

The hilarious mock reality show, “Barely Famous”. Sara and Erin Foster were on last night’s “Pyramid”, still funny, and reminded me of their VH1 show.

Just Shoot Me, the entire series.

Bare Essence.

I'd love to see the 2nd and 3rd seasons of American Dreams released on DVD. I discovered it when the first season was released on DVD, but by that time, they had already begun airing Season 3 so I'd missed all of Season 2 and the first quarter of Season 3.

Ummmmmmmm, really bitches? 73 replies and this wasn't said?

This is a "gay" site, no?

Models Inc.

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It's a Living

r72 Just Shoot Me entire series was issued on DVD last year.

I thought Who's the Boss had been released on DVD in full but seems only the first season.

Perfect Strangers needs to be released in its entirety so we can do the Balki Dance of Joy.

Two years ago, Get TV, a digital cable channel airing content from the Sony library, aired uncut episodes of The Ghost and Mrs. Muir and Nanny and the Professor. They aired them in 40 minute time slots to allow for the full episodes to air.

Having seen both of them for the first time in 45+ years, I laughed and I cried. I felt like I was five years old again seeing Ghost, eight seeing Nanny. Both series held up well. Both had strong acting and timeless plots

So, yes, both should come out on DVD. However, having said that, I don't know how much of an audience there would be for DVDs of Ghost and Nanny since neither aired much in syndication. Few people under 45 are going to have even heard of these two shows.

Any Day Now

And yes, I'll Fly Away

Baby, I'm Back

Jack & Bobby

The Fosters

Passions (I wanna see Jesse Metcalfe's pecs in HD)

It's a Living The Donna Reed Show *later seasons* Phyllis My Three Sons *only 2 seasons are out* Valerie/The Hogan Family Private Secretary/The Ann Sothern Show Julia just the Ten of Us The Powers That Be It Takes Two *with Patty Duke, Richard Crenna, Helen Hunt and Anthony Edwards* The Trials of Rosie O'Neill *this was rumored to be coming out a few yrs ago, but hasn't*