Shows, movies that don't seem to be available anywhere: not on streaming, DVD, or tv

Party Monster. I have it on dvd but have never seen it on streaming. Also Forbidden Choices. I’ve only seen it on European dvds

The TV movie about Frances Farmer, Will There Really Be a Morning?, is hard to find

That episode of Graham Norton where Lindsay Wagner was supposedly a complete bitch. I really want to watch it.

St. Elsewhere, the 80s t.v. series.

200 Cigarettes

A Hatful of Rain (1957 Fred Zinnemann film about junkies w Don Murray, Tony Franciosa) Joshua, Then and Now (1985 great James Woods and Alan Arkin in the Duddy Kravitz vein) The Line King (1996 documentary about legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld) Room Service (1938 Marx Bros film. Very funny) Andy (1965 Richard Sarafian. Moving film about a mentally disabled, middle aged New Yorker living with his elderly parents)

DVDs exist for some of these, but have never found bluxrays or torrents. A partial, truncated one seems to be floating around for The Line King.

Reformatting for my previous post:

A Hatful of Rain (1957 Fred Zinnemann film about junkies w Don Murray, Tony Franciosa)

Joshua, Then and Now (1985 great James Woods and Alan Arkin in the Duddy Kravitz vein)

The Line King (1996 documentary about legendary caricaturist Al Hirschfeld)

Room Service (1938 Marx Bros film. Very funny)

Andy (1965 Richard Sarafian. Moving film about a mentally disabled, middle aged New Yorker living with his elderly parents)

DVDs exist for some of these, but have never found bluxrays or torrents. A partial, truncated one seems to be floating around for The Line King

R4, St. Elsewhere is on DVD and Amazon Prime

77 Sunset Strip

Empty Nest! I’ve been dying to see it for years.

Frank's Place.

[quote]Empty Nest! I’ve been dying to see it for years.

It's not a show worth dying over, r10.

Would like to see Frank's Place

Pan-Americana (1945). RKO romantic comedy film that showcases the cultural exchange between the United States and South America, featuring a mix of musical performances and a light-hearted love story.

Contact (1997) with Jodie Foster is almost never streaming.

Crossroads staring Britney Spears.

WKRP in Cincinatti

St Elsewhere

Song of the South

[Quote] Contact (1997) with Jodie Foster is almost never streaming.

Thank God

Netanyahu condemning the Muslim Pulse nightclub shooter and declaring his support for the gay community.

Frank Perry's Last Summer 1969

Fright Night 2

Day of the Dead (1978)

Sibling Rivalry

The Kiss

Streets

Dogma

Clownhouse

Undercover Blues

Lady in White

Masters of the Universe

Party Monster is streaming on Tubi.

R15 I have the blu-ray.

China Beach, Molly Dodd.

Yield To The Night aka Blonde Sinner with Diana Dors

Mike White’s show Pasadena

R6 , A Hatful of Rain is available on a sketchy Russian site that has a ton of copyrighted material. If all else fails in trying to find a title, add "ok.ru" to your Google search and might get it.

A Hatful of Rain is on YouTube.

China Beach was released on DVD a while ago.

I can’t find this weird Russian movie called Brother anywhere

Scruples with Gene Tierney

You can buy or rent Contact, the Jodie one, on Apple and Amazon.

Check www.reelgood.com for your streaming needs.

There's an episode of Urban Myths about Michael Jackson, Elizabeth Taylor and Marlon Brando fleeing NYC immediately after 9/11. IRCC, the evil Jackson family complained and the episode never aired. I haven't been able to find it anywhere.

Homefront (1991-1993) the TV series with Kyle Chandler and John Slattery. Never released on DVD and only available in potato quality on archive.org

The Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor films High Society Blues (presumed lost), Tess of the Storm Country, Merely Mary Ann and The First Year (presumed extant in archives)

The Russian Hooker Piss Tape

The complete Facts of Life with Charlotte Ray and The Swimming Pool with Charlotte Rampling.

The documentary about gay singer Kent James, aka Nick Name And The Normals. The DVD is out of print and copies are on eBay but cost a lot to import to the UK.

Off topic, but Cleo Laine's incredible album "I am a Song."

Hulu has St. Elsewhere

Empty Nest

WKRP in Cincinnati is probably the most famous example of a show with music rights issues. The show was broadcast before they were thinking about future use issues like home video and streaming.

r43 Please elaborate. (I'm not being snarky at all). Do you mean because they played real radio songs in the original?

R24, I was at the premiere!

[quote]R22 Day of the Dead

I thought this said “Day of the Bread” and wondered if it was a baking documentary I never heard of.

YIELD TO THE NIGHT (56) is on DVD and Blu-Ray from Studio Canal (at amazon.co.uk). I bought it last year. And it's a new restoration.

On the other hand, the American ripoff made the following year, THE UNHOLY WIFE (57) has never been transferred to DVD or BluRay, and the print that used to be shown on TCM is quite poor.

R47 It's available on Internet Archive, thanks for reminding me about it.

Can’t get a legal, digital copy of Rebecca anywhere. It’s Hitchcock and it won the Best Picture Oscar. I’m not sure why you can’t buy it off Amazon or Apple. I’m terrible with dvds and don’t have a player. The YouTube versions now have ads galore.

Big Business (1988) is never in TCM. Neither is The King of Comedy (1983). The latter is probably streaming.

John Waters "Pecker" (although it may be in some box set?)

And, not dissimilarly, "Meet The Applegates" (just for the line: "I hate men, Gail")

R31 Mosfilm is a Youtube channel that carries Russian films with English subtitles for free. You might look there!

For years, it was impossible to find Foul Play with Goldie, Chevy and Dudley. I had to watch a bootleg version on YouTube in 2021!

But now it’s available to rent on Amazon and Apple. Catch it while you can.

[quote]WKRP in Cincinnati.

Shout Factory did a DVD release some years back, they managed to get 80-90% of the original music.

Run (1991) with Patrick Dempsey and Kelly Preston.

The Larry Sanders Show also had lots of music rights issues.

R47, I wish they would release it in the USA

Two Whit Stillman films are impossible to find. I may have to buy a multi-region DVD player (it's in theory available, but not especially easy to find in DVD.)

Barcelona

Metropolitan

However, fans of Looking for Mr. Good at can find it on multiple streaming services and as a regular TV film now and again.

For R22

Jodie Foster’s “Nell”. Every time I find it, it seems to be a wonky transfer where Jodie seems to be speaking gibberish.

R8, thanks for letting me know!

r60 Took me a second - before I noticed your signature :)

Night Moves - Gene Hackman, Melanie Griffith

Bigger Than Life starring Jeff Stryker

R58 Metropolitan is streaming in several places like Amazon for a rental fee.

R6 Like so many movies from the 50s and 60s they were shown a lot of commercial television back in the day and A Hatful of Rain is really dull and dated

[quote] WKRP in Cincinnati

You can stream the episodes from the Internet Archive.

“Fame” (the 80’s TV series) has pretty much vanished, hasn’t it? Saw it briefly on cable about 15 years ago (on the Ovation channel I think) but haven’t seen it anywhere since.

Four Nights of the Full Moon (1963) with Gene Tierney.

R4 St Elswhere is streaming on Hulu/Disney+ included with subscriptions and Apple TV, Fandango & Amazon Prime for $1.99 an episode.

Both Barcelona and Metropolitan are available in a Criterion box-set along with The Last Days of Disco

Also r63 Night Moves got released by Criterion in 4K a few months ago

Moonlighting

The Fixer, Alan Bates’ only Oscar nomination, and Huston’s Freud. Both are on YouTube but with foreign subtitles.

Moonlighting has been on Hulu for a while. I barely got through season 3 before I gave up (and it was one of my favorites growing up).

I know it'll never be available, but Kate and Allie. It was like my babysitter after school when I was little and Id like to rewatch.

Room Service used to be on TV a lot when I was a kid. It is very funny. Kino Lorber should release it on bluray.

Warner Brothers should release he unedited The Devils. Considering all the schlock disgusting horror films that are out there why this kept hidden I have no idea.

It's truly wild that The Devils remains buried r77

Mad Movies - Unlike Mystery Science Theatre and Rifftrax, Mad Movies overdubbed classic movies; hilarity ensued.

Thanks R65 and R71 for the White Stillman films suggestions.

The complication for me is living in the EU where there is hasn't been any streaming/rental access to the "Metropolitan" and "Barcelona," (or "Last Days of Disco"). I can order the 3-titke Criterion box set from an Amazon in another EU country easily enough for €90, but it's the U.S. Region 1 edition shipped via Amazon.uk with and added €20 in Brexit duties. Then I would have to buy a multiregion player.

In short, I've been a cheap fuck in not wanting to spend €200 to see the films again. But having waited for good news for JustWatch for some years now, I ready to prevail upon some visiting American friend to mule the DVDs in a suitcase.

There are no other titles I long for but cannot find in a streaming service, so I've put off starting a ridiculously small and expensive DVD collection of 2 or 3 titles and player that I might watch once every five years or so.

*Whit Stillman

Empty Nest

I doubt there's much interest in Empty Nest. I don't understand how Dear John is even on anywhere. I guess networks like Antenna can get these shows cheap.

“The Amazing Spider-Man” TV series from the 1970s (the one starring Nicholas Hammond from “Sound of Music”).

r149 I have Rebecca which I bought when it was released in 1999 - that's the year on the jacket. It was distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment if you want to hunt for it.

^That's for r49

Hot L Baltimore (the series). I still remember the line about keeping earthworms as pets: "You can neuter them yourself"

Owning movies digitally to me seems like such a waste. Not to turn this into a pros and cons of physical media thread but the quality is so much shittier, watching a stream, than putting a blu-ray into the blu-ray player and watching it that way. Anyway that's my response to r49, who wants to own Hitchcock's Rebecca digitally, and to r85, who suggests buying the DVD. You can actually get Rebecca as a Criterion blu-ray which is the correct way to go

I am bitter at least once a week that In Living Color still isn't streaming anywhere.

Also, Shear Genius

R88 Well smell you.

I have to have physical media. I really didn't start major collecting until blurays. I just got the 4k Funny Girl for $15 on Amazon. But if the truth be told I have watched a few movies on youtube for free that I do not plan on buying like Peeping Tom, A Double Life and Born Yesterday. I rented a movie once Almost Love. It was the beginning of covid and I knew it would look just as good on a tv as in a theater. Don't remember his name but lead actor was excellent. Only problem there should have been a fair amount of male nudity and there was none. Unfortunate for a gay movie that straights aren't going to watch anyway. And Mike couldn't keep his clothes on when he was on stage. He would have had to be bound and gagged.

I wouldn't mind giving Murphy Brown another go. Sure, it would be dated but still funny.

Stranger Days

Near Dark

Even though you can’t rent or buy it on the usual services like Amazon and Apple, Strange Days is available to stream on Hulu right now.

Unsolved Mysteries

Unsolved Mysteries is on Pluto.

Unsolved Mysteries was on Amazon Prime. Not sure if it still is

[quote] Can’t get a legal, digital copy of Rebecca anywhere. It’s Hitchcock and it won the Best Picture Oscar. I’m not sure why you can’t buy it off Amazon or Apple.

Because The Criterion Channel has the rights to it.

R44 this article describes the situation better than I can.

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

Archive link for R100

Don’t be afraid of the dark 1973 without paying for it.

Gimme A Break

Wkrp is on meTV. Not exactly streaming but it’s on air.

Kate and Allie is on the Roku channel r76.

…and empty nest on YouTube.

This doesn't really count, because they're available on DVD/Blu-ray, but the James Bond films are very rarely available to stream within existing packages.

Sometimes Prime will have them all to stream at no extra cost, but it's always got a time limit imposed on it, even now that Amazon owns them all.

You can buy each one individually but there's no option to buy them all in one transaction at a reduced cost (which exists for other movie series). So if you hypothetically want to buy them all on Prime - to ensure you can always watch them - you have to click on each one individually and buy it, which adds up across 25 films.

R104, Gimme A Break still pops up occasionally on the retro channels like Antenna and COZI-TV (though it’s not on either at the moment).

I recently wanted to rewatch At Home with Amy Sedaris, and it’s no longer on any of the streaming platforms. That I could find.

A first-rate British telefilm called "Close Relations," about a brother and sister who meet as adults and begin to fall in love. I saw it as a gayling on A&E in the early 90s, when the network would show movies like "Maurice" after midnight, with commercials but often uncensored and unedited.

I never could find "Jack and Bobby", but that was short-lived. Also there's no streaming of the hilarious "Fashion Police" w/ Joan Rivers.

Fashion police (not complete)…

Ghostwriter

[quote] Gimme A Break still pops up occasionally on the retro channels like Antenna and COZI-TV (though it’s not on either at the moment).

Then I'm gonna make them eat dirt!

I’d like to watch old episodes of The Gossip Show from the 90s

The Troublemaker (1964 film).

The film was shot in the West Village.

"Jack Armstrong (Tom Aldredge) gives up his career as a chicken farmer to open a coffee shop in Greenwich Village."

It starred Tom Aldredge and Joan Darling. Written by Buck Henry (with others).

I cannot find it. Nothing. Not even a clip or trailer on YouTube.

I only know about the film because I saw it years ago on Italian television (dubbed into Italian). And I've always wanted to see it again (and in English!)

The English language version of De Sica’s “The Condemned of Altona” starring Sophia Loren, Fredric March, Robert Wagner and Maximilian Schell. Only the Italian dubbed version appears to now exist

R115, by the ‘90s, do you mean the version that aired 2012-2017?

The reboot was 2021.

The Untouchables (1959 Robert Stack TV series)

Tension at Table Rock (1950s western)

Tension at table rock

Lady Sings the Blues

The late 80s FOX series Werewolf that starred John J. York

The original British sitcom Sirens (Region 1 Blu-ray or streaming; I have the Region 2 DVDs and a player that makes them all but useless)

Lady Chatterley's Lover (2015 TV movie version)

Gimme an F (schlock 80s sex comedy that was near and dear to my heart)

Upstream Color in a streaming option (it's available to buy, but I'm not sure I'll want to rewatch it)

Werewolf

Gangland Undercover. It was a History Channel show. I managed to find S1 on YouTube (poor quality) but not S2.

An American Tragedy 1931 film

I couldn't find Pan-Americana streaming anywhere so have to order a pirate DVD from Pakistan!

An American Tragedy is on DVD - I own it

R128, how's the quality?

Days and Nights of Molly Dodd.

r129, good

Numb3rs is availabe if you're willing to pay which I'm not. I was addicted to that show, it's a great one.

The B-noir masterpiece, "The Devil Thumbs a Ride" (47). Once on VHS in the early 90s in the USA, and on an obscure and OOP DVD from Spain. Apparently locked down over rights issues for the forseeable future.

Lawrence Tierney is "The Devil".

I saw The Devil Thumbs a Ride on YouTube a while ago but I guess it was taken down. I love that one, Lawrence Tierney is so evil!