What TV on DVD are you still waiting for?

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TV DVD box sets are deadly - I'm struggling to find time to watch them all.

But even though there's such a lot of shows now out on DVD, they've really barely scratched the surface in terms of what's in the archive.

The following shows are all scheduled or rumoured to make their digital debuts sometime during 2007:

US - Alias Smith And Jones, Beauty And The Beast, Bosom Buddies, Boston Public, Cagney And Lacey, CHiPS, Designing Women, Falcon Crest, Family Ties, Flipper, Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, LA Law, Land Of The Giants, Mary Hartman Mary Hartman, Maude, McHale's Navy, One Day At A Time, Picket Fences, The Practice, Silver Spoons, The Streets Of San Francisco, Thirtysomething, The Untouchables, WKRP In Cincinnati.

UK - Artemis 81, Cardiac Arrest, Ghost Squad, Grafters, Harry Enfield's Television Programme, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Return Of The Saint, Shelley, Shine On Harvey Moon, Strangers, Victoria Wood - As Seen On TV, The XYY Man.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Monty Python's Flying Circus,

hasn't this been on dvd like 15 times already/

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

are seasons 2 & 3 of arrested development available in the UK? I can't recall ever seeing them?

― wogan lenin (dog latin), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

"The State" could finally get released.

Monty Python definitely out on DVD in the US.

― John Justen waitin to get his W2s back so he can file his tax and ball out (john, Monday, 29 January 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

Louis will be along shortly to describe each episode in loving detail for you.

Yeah, I know that you can get complete series sets of Monty Python in the States, but for some reason not in the UK.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

The Maxx in non-bootleg form.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

and Undressed.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

and Undressed.

-- milo z (wooderso...), January 29th, 2007. (mlp)

― 69 (plsmith), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

and Undressed.

-- milo z (wooderso...), January 29th, 2007. (mlp)

OH GOD SO TRUE

― 69 (plsmith), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Maxx seconded.

― John Justen waitin to get his W2s back so he can file his tax and ball out (john, Monday, 29 January 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

"I know that you can get complete series sets of Monty Python in the States, but for some reason not in the UK."

Until now, us Brits are finally getting the whole series out this year.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

twin peaks season 2 already!!

― joseph (joseph), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

LARRY FUCKING SANDERS

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

"are seasons 2 & 3 of arrested development available in the UK? I can't recall ever seeing them?"

Season 3 is out in the UK in April.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

The State, yes totally the Maxx, and WTF with dribbling out a 6-episode Dr. Katz disc and then stopping? Just drop a damned Complete Dr. Katz box on us already.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

"twin peaks season 2 already!!"

Currently scheduled (in the US) for April.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's only been a 10 year wait...

Have they ever released the Twin Peaks pilot on DVD? I have season 1, but no pilot episode in that set. (I do have it on tape, though, so it's not that big of a deal.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I know that at least Season 2 of Dr. Katz (with 13 episodes) is out.

No, the Twin Peaks pilot is still not on DVD.

― The Yellow Kid (The Yellow Kid), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Ben,
Aretmis 81 you say:

http://www.raretv.co.uk/artemis-81-1981-dvd-p_169.html

― JohnFoxxsJuno (JohnFoxxsJuno), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Yellow Kid, that is what I thought. (I'm good as long as they keep making VCRs, I guess.)

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

My Dad wouldn't let me stop up to see the second half of Artemis 81, the git.

― God Bows to Meth (noodle vague), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

the twin peaks pilot is widely available on DVD, it's not really "official" and it runs slightly fast so voices sound a bit highpitched, but you can buy it on Amazon and stuff. Also, it was included in the UK box set of season 1, officially.

Season 1 is OOP in the US now, just as season 2 is comin gout. WTF>

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

the UK version + a cheap region-free player is cheaper than buying the OOP US ones, and then you get the pilot too

― 69 (plsmith), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for great info - I will consider this!

― Sara R-C (Sara R-C), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

i'm assuming seasons 1&2 will be out in some box later this year but then I assumed season 2 would have come out years ago and it didn't, so what do I know

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

The correct answer is, of course, TMWRNJ. (although we all have our UKN0v4 dvds to tide us through)

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

The Muddy Winding Rivers of New Jersey?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Man Who Rode Norah Jones?

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

"Have they ever released the Twin Peaks pilot on DVD? I have season 1, but no pilot episode in that set."

The pilot is on the UK release.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

That Monkey Was Ridiculous, No Joke!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 29 January 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

"Season 1 is OOP in the US now, just as season 2 is coming out."

I suspect that Paramount will bring out the whole lot out in a big box set later in the year.

― Ben Mott (Ben Mott), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

WKRP In Cincinnati.

With original music, thanks.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have The Maxx VHS release but it's edited for time I think. :/

Rocko's Modern Life.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I need me some Melrose Place - although I'm not sure it will stand up to the test of time as well as my imagination.

― aimurchie (aimurchie), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Larry Sanders is the correct answer. Did they ever finish putting out Pete and Pete?

― A B C (sparklecock), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

dunno...but a non-shitty version of the first season would be welcome.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Alias Smith And Jones, ..., Land Of The Giants, ...

You must be about my age, Ben. I love to see these again but I suspect my memories of them are much better than they actually were.

Also, David Steinberg's Music Scene, and the companion show The New People (both 45 minutes per episode, thay played back to back on ABC, I think). The New People was kind of a proto-L O S T, without the Dharma mumbo Jumbo (IOW, Lord of the Flies without the savagery). Steinberg's Canadian made show is on Rhino, and I have a sampler disk of 6 episodes, and it's unfortunately not that great.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have The Maxx VHS release but it's edited for time I think. :/

Really? I wondered about this too.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

WKRP In Cincinnati.

With original music, thanks

which reminds me, apparently the Northern Exposure dvds don't have the original music, and in fact have something really awful and bad and bland in its place. So getting those would be nice, because I miss that show.

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

I've read in a couple different places it is. Allegedly the parts cut out weren't major. xpost

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

nabisco, TMWRNJ stands for This Morning With Richard Not Judy, a series by British comedians Lee & Herring which aired live on Sunday lunchtimes in 1998/1999 but has never been repeated despite being considered largely brilliant by several ILXors. i doubt it will ever make it to DVD myself.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've been trying to think of the title of The New People for years. Thanks, nick.

― The Redd And The Blecch (Ken L), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think Samurai Jack ever came out in the UK.

― chap (chap), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman would be good to, though I think I'd rather TVLand or somebody would just run them again. That's a lot of viewing time, I don't think I'd want to watch the whole thing.

More candidates:
He and She with Paula Prentiss and Richard Benjamin was a good show that I didn't discover until it was off the air, I think I've only seen one or two episodes.

Mel Brooks' When Things Were Rotten, a Robin Hood/Sherwood Forest setting for Brooks' usual stuff.

Love, American Style Best trash TV ever!

Did The Comic Strip ever come out in the US? Or even in the UK?

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

NEW WAVE THEATRE

― Edward III (edward iii), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Perfect Strangers deluxe box

― A B C (sparklecock), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

CAST

Garry Shandling............................... Garry Shandling
Mrs. Shandling................................... Barbara Cason
Nancy Bancroft..................................... Molly Cheek
Pete Schumaker................................. Michael Tucci
Jackie Schumaker........................ Bernadette Birkett
Grant Schumaker .................................Scott Nemes
Leonard Smith .......................................Paul Willson
Ian (1989-1990)................................... Ian Buchanan
Phoebe Bass (1989-1990)...................Jessica Harper

― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 29 January 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

I need me some Melrose Place - although I'm not sure it will stand up to the test of time as well as my imagination.

Series one is out, series two is supposed to be out in the US in a couple of months. I hope they don't forget to release it in the UK by the time the decent seasons come out though.

― Cressida Breem (neruokruokruokne?), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

I was tempted to buy series 1 of That Girl, but decided it's better left in the ol' memory banks, especially since I have a huge backlog of DVDs I've bought but not yet watched.

― nickn (nickn), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think the Maxx VHS set (and DVD boot) is missing a couple of episodes too.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 29 January 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

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I think Rhino put out some "New Wave Theater" episodes, but these are long out of print.

Yeah, there are best of vols 1 and 2 on VHS. I'm talking full episodes, the whole shebang, on DVD. I seriously doubt it will ever happen...

― Edward III (edward iii), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Liquid Television?

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

the entire run of larry sanders appears to be on youtube, btw

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Steve, there is a "best of" Liquid Television DVD called Wet Shorts, but no true collection, which is bullshit if you ask me, if only for the mere fact that LT is where Beavis & Butthead got their start.

― blotter Budweiser Hackeysadk (nickalicious), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

Snub TV. One volume came out on video yonks ago, but if The Tube can get the DVD treatment and a million Later DVDs can fill out the Nice Price shelves of HMV, then why not this?
It'll save me time trawling YouTube for clips if nothing else.

― DavidM* (unreal), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

sticking with the Def II voib, wish there was a Dance Energy (first 2 series only) DVD.

― vita susicivus (blueski), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

is sifl and olly on dvd yet?

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

good catch, answer is no.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

more votes for Parker Lewis Can't Lose and especially It's The Garry Shandling Show... altho I do share Tiki's fear that my memory eclipses the actual quality of these shows (that happens when you don't see something for 20 yrs)

Also I'd like more of Dennis Potter's stuff to be available over here - especially Lipstick On Your Collar and Frozen Lazarus or whatever that last sci-fi one is called. Criminal that we can't get that shit in the US.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

oooh also Don Kirschner's "Rock Show" or whatever that was called. Sly!!! Black Oak Arkansas! Rufus!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

xpost
yeah i liked Garry Shandling Show at the time but even then it was just about 'amusing', not the best show ever. Hearing the theme song on one of those VHI 'I love the 80's' things recently was a joy though, maybe it was better than I remember but that never happens.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I remember catching reruns on it somewhere in the late 90s and still finding it funny - walking through the Christmas Tree Lot to get to the beach, chiding the audience not to steal change from the set while he was away, etc. The whole conceit of the studio audience and the THIS IS A FAKE SHOW" schtick has never really been done better, if ever again...?

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

... or the one where he falls down a well and can't make it to the set in time for the opening credits, so they just play the theme song a bunch of times.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

(also "Laffie")

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

we're almost to the part
of where I start to whistle

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

oooh also Don Kirschner's "Rock Show" or whatever that was called. Sly!!! Black Oak Arkansas! Rufus!

Even better was ABC's In Concert. Steely Dan! Todd Rundgren (when he was good)!

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

Eff yeah, The State.
Dance Fever and Solid Gold.

― Valoss (valoss), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

never understood the adulation for the State. an endless string of non-sequitur in-jokes.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://ilx.wh3rd.net/newanswers.php?board=1

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

The State & Upright Citizens Brigade = that alt-comedy that isn't funny.

When The Levees Broke is out btw.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

I seem to remember enjoying the first season of Ed when it originally aired. I've not seen it at all since, but I wouldn't mind checking out the DVD if it ever came out.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

andy richter controls the universe

― and what (ooo), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

I seem to remember enjoying the first season of Ed when it originally aired. I've not seen it at all since, but I wouldn't mind checking out the DVD if it ever came out.

they rerun this constantly during the day in the UK. its a really likeable show.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:15 (eighteen years ago)

they do?
thought C4 had ditched it forever (do they still show Judging Amy?).

― vita susicivus (blueski), Thursday, 1 February 2007 11:20 (eighteen years ago)

Third and four series of At Home With The Braithwaites please...

― ailsa (ailsa), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

OMG SIFL & OLLY YES

GUESS THIS MEANS WE WON'T BE ROCKIN' AT DUDE'S HOUSE

― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

they do?
thought C4 had ditched it forever (do they still show Judging Amy?).

they're 'screening' the last series on C4 lunchtimes now.

― i am not a nugget (stevie), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's been so long, that I sometimes forget that I'm waiting for Frank's Place to show up on DVD, ideally in some fancy Criterion Collection kinda deal.

― mark 0 (mark 0), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

did that even last an entire season? I wonder if something like that would survive today, given the WB's investment in black sitcoms (all of which are shittier and flimsier than Frank's Place)

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 February 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

Not even a whole season — IMDB sez 15 episodes. I can't imagine it being on network TV today, plus it was probably too nuanced and non-edgy to be welcome on cable nowadays.

― mark 0 (mark 0), Friday, 2 February 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

State haters = no sense of humor.

How can you compare The State to Mr Show? Mr Show was good, but nowhere near as brilliant as The State. And no one on The State was nearly as obnoxious as David Cross. Not even Michael Ian Black.

― Spine Swine (Roger Fidelity), Friday, 2 February 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

PS I am now being subjected to Victoria Wood. She has just described herself as looking like a horsebox with highlights.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Friday, 2 February 2007 08:22 (eighteen years ago)

nine months pass...

Norm Show.

― svend, Friday, 30 November 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

is sifl and olly on dvd yet?

Just the unreleased season 3 (which is 4 episodes and some early sketches). Not their best stuff by any means.

But, I live in a college town and at the video store here someone made a DVD for season 1 & 2 with an original interface/menu. I got my friend to make a copy. Crescent FRESH! MTV will probably never release the real thing.

If you really want the show, try the yahoo Sockheads forum.

― CaptainLorax, Friday, 30 November 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

China Beach for me as well. DVD bootlegs are easy to come by and I may just go that route.

― Spencer Chow, Friday, 30 November 2007 10:30 (eighteen years ago)

robbery homicide division
-- the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Tuesday, January 30, 2007 9:13 AM (10 months ago) Bookmark Link

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Friday, 30 November 2007 10:50 (eighteen years ago)

herman's head

― artdamages, Friday, 30 November 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

out of this world

― artdamages, Friday, 30 November 2007 12:48 (eighteen years ago)

the chevy chase show

― artdamages, Friday, 30 November 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://fortheimpossible.ytmnd.com/

SIGH.

― Duane Barry, Friday, 30 November 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

five years pass...

China Beach for me as well. DVD bootlegs are easy to come by and I may just go that route.
― Spencer Chow, Friday, November 30, 2007 4:30 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So apparently a legit (and v.expensive) complete series box was issued earlier this year (with all the original music!) by Time-Life/WB, and now Season 1 has just been issued separately for the low list price of about $23.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 08:18 (twelve years ago)

Peter Tinniswood's The Home Front is never gonna happen, not even on bootleg. i can't think of any other show i'm so desperate to re-watch

― Bap & Ounge (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 08:21 (twelve years ago)

Going by some of the esoteric ITV stuff that Network have issued in the last few years, I wldn't give up entirely, NV

― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 08:27 (twelve years ago)

anything past the first season of the equalizer.

― licorice om source (get bent), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 08:38 (twelve years ago)

Network you say? Gonna do some enquiries.

― Bap & Ounge (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 08:41 (twelve years ago)

The Cops. Brilliantly gritty drama of police in a Northern English town.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 09:05 (twelve years ago)

Also, The Mysteries (Channel 4 broadcast of 1985 National Theatre production). Got a download of it on shaky VHS but DVD would be most welcome.

― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 09:12 (twelve years ago)

More Austin City Limits episodes, including the Top 2 Most Requested eps (Leonard Cohen from '88 and the Tom Waits one from '78, which is like THE GREATEST HOUR OF TV EVER)
― The Homeliness of The Long Distance Punner (Charles McCain), Monday, January 29, 2007 6:49 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Wanted to reiterate this, as the the Waits one is airing again, but it's been cropped and/or stretched to 16:9 and it's been poorly upscaled as well. Really weird shit going on with the color now.

New West was doing official dvds from the series, but they've really slowed down the output.

― A Made Man In The Mellow Mafia (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 9 October 2013 09:28 (twelve years ago)

Terriers

― some dude, Wednesday, 9 October 2013 11:31 (twelve years ago)

three months pass...

Just saw China Beach Season II on the rack at Wal Mart.

― ...out of that weakness, out of that envy, out of that fear.. (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 11 January 2014 02:44 (twelve years ago)

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