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I don,t remember what store I was in, but I say the Rat Patrol on DVD. I really liked that series.

I got Rat Patrol. Not as good as I remember, but still fun.

So much for my take on April Fool's Day. I guess either it was over the head of VicenzaHS, and John P, or I'm just the only fool yesterday.

What was the joke?

I checked the link yesterday and I didn't see anything unusual.

I second what Brent said.

Never mind.

:tongue: :tongue: :tongue: Alrighty then.

I got Rat Patrol. Not as good as I remember, but still fun.

I say.....get em' while you can. We'll probably never see shows like those of the 60's again. Today's tv audiences are too caught up in shows like "Friends" and Prince of Bellaire as well as a number of others that I just can't stomach. Even some of the trash that the Sci Fi channel puts out is better than the mainstream crap we see today. I personally long for shows like:

The Invaders
Star Trek
Twilight zone
Original Outer Limits
Rat Patrol, Combat,
Land of the Giants.
etc.

These shows used really great actors and intelligent scripts (if you're into fantasy and sci-fi) instead of the really, really lame "dumb look" comedy of today that needs a laugh track to let the audience know that something funny was just said. . I don't believe we'll ever see a variety of genres like we had in the 60's and 70's again. When you think of shows that range from Rat Patrol, Combat! to Lost in Space, Batman, Green Hornet, etc. there really was a variety to suit every taste. Today, I almost have to turn to the BBC channel to see something different. Benny Hill is even looking good with the un-rated girls. :thumbsup:

What do I want to see come to DVD?

1) It takes a Thief (Al Mundy)
2) The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
3) The Invaders
4) Secret Agent
5) UFO

They didn't have laugh tracks in The Sixties? On really "intelligent" comedies like Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie, etc? I would argue that there are more "intelligent" scripts and great actors on TV today (cumulatively) than there have ever been. There's also more crap. The problem is, there is so much out there - it's hard to wade through it all and not miss a lot of the "good" stuff. Things were a whole lot easier when most of us had only three networks to choose from. I think if you were to sit down and watch every episode of Combat, Rat Patrol, Land of The Giants, etc you would find some real lame "filler" material where the writers were just killing air time. Of course, you don't really notice that kind of thing when you're 10 years old.

They didn't have laugh tracks in The Sixties? On really "intelligent" comedies like Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie, etc? I would argue that there are more "intelligent" scripts and great actors on TV today (cumulatively) than there have ever been. There's also more crap. The problem is, there is so much out there - it's hard to wade through it all and not miss a lot of the "good" stuff. Things were a whole lot easier when most of us had only three networks to choose from. I think if you were to sit down and watch every episode of Combat, Rat Patrol, Land of The Giants, etc you would find some real lame "filler" material where the writers were just killing air time. Of course, you don't really notice that kind of thing when you're 10 years old.

Yea, they did have laugh tracks and even shows like Star Trek had a few filler episodes. Still, knowing that those old shows like "I dream of Jeannie" and "Gilligan's island" are being copied and/or being aired over and over on various channels is a tribute to how good they were and still are. My main point was that the variety of genres such as war, spy, sci-fi, mystery, and westerns are becomming fewer and fewer in mainstream primetime viewing. I honestly don't believe we'll ever see another Rat Patrol, Invaders, UFO, or even another Star Trek for a long time to come. Heck, even the good animated stuff like Batman, Superman and Justice league are gone from the Cartoon channel having been replace by really bad japanese animations. :(

I just don't like the theme of a lot of today's choices. For example: "It takes a thief". once a really great show with Robert Wagner taking on mission impossible type capers with some really cool ideas on how to do the job. Today, there is a show using the same name where they basically just go in and trash a house. Reality?...... you bet. Entertaining?.....not by a long shot. It's just a "how to" show for real burglars like we really need that.

I hate Japanese animation too....

I'd like:

Family Ties
Silver Spoons
A year in the life
More Different Strokes
Wife Swap

I'd really like to see Sam Peckinpah's TV series "The Westerner" on DVD but it's not likely to happen.

I'd really like to see Sam Peckinpah's TV series "The Westerner" on DVD but it's not likely to happen.

You and me both, I see them occasionally on ENCORE/STARZ (they seem to often have John 'the voice' Dehner as guest star) and find them really good.

MY WORLD AND WELCOME TO IT is something I'd love to get. I bet HE&SHE is worth at least a viewing.

I remember ROOM 222 fondly, but I have a feeling it isn't as good as I recall (NICK ran a few shows years back and they all seemed to have the unwatchable young Bruno Kirby in them, something I didn't remember.)

You and me both, I see them occasionally on ENCORE/STARZ (they seem to often have John 'the voice' Dehner as guest star) and find them really good.

Darn! I don't get that channel and have never actually seen an episode, but I've read a lot about the series. Some say it was the best TV Western ever made.

I hate Japanese animation too....



Hey!
What's wrong with that stuff?

I grew up watching anime in the very early 70's
Shows like Kimba the White Lion (memories are so much better than the show actually was)
Speed Racer
Marine Boy

Then as I got older, shows like
Voltron
Battle of the Planets
G-Force

Right up to present day
Samuri Champloo
Cowboy Bebop
Full Metal Alchemist (I dare anyone to watch this entire series and then try to say anime can't be as riveting and as emotional as a regular show)
Inuyasha
Ghost in a Shell (talk about involved and very cerebrial.)

Don't write of an entire genre just because you haven't tried the good ones yet. Don't judge them all by shows like Dragonball.

As for TV series I would love to see on DVD
Top of my list would be Special Unit 2
It's not that old, but it will probably never see the light of day.
Short lived series on UPN back in the mid/late 90's
I have a homemade DVD set of the show, but would kill for an official release with some extras. Especially commentaries or behind the scenes stuff.

Next would be Hilarious House of Frightenstein
Canadain kids show from the 70's starring Billy Van and Vincent Price.
Great stuff, and still holds up well.
There has been one official DVD release, but unfortunately is is only 4 of the US version eps that are only half an hour long and have a laugh track added. The hour long Canadian eps are so much better (I have about 30 on homemade VCD). It's airing again in Canada on Drive-in. But there were rights issues with the music, so those parts are cut for now until some of those can be worked out.
Would love to have a complete DVD boxset with all the original music.

What do I want to see come to DVD?

5) UFO


Been out on DVD for several years now, the whole series (one season) in two volumes of thirteen episodes each.


What I want to have is the drama series ABC made for Max Headroom.

Hey!
What's wrong with that stuff?



The Big eyes....The winking all the time....I hate it. I hate what Teen Titans became...I've never liked Japanese animation.

The Invaders

Land of the Giants

The original black and white 1960's "Outer Limits" IS ALREADY AVAILABLE ON DVD. I picked up the entire first season on sale during Christmas week at HMV here in Canada. The second season is also available.

Huzz

"The Amos n' Andy Show". I'm serious. A great, funny, historic TV series that is way past due to emerge from the darkness imposed by wrong-headed political correctness.

Hey!
What's wrong with that stuff?

I grew up watching anime in the very early 70's
Shows like Kimba the White Lion (memories are so much better than the show actually was)


My first two cats were named after Kimba.

José

God I loved that show when I was about kindergarden age.
One of the great members of the boards was nice enough to send me a few eps on dvd.
My memories were so much better than the show actually was.
I never realized just how kiddie it actual came across as.

Yeah, the show wasn't the type that one would appreciate as an adult (unlike Sesame Street, where there are enough subtle grown-up jokes to make it entertaining for parents to watch it with the kids). But I'll always appreciate it because of the entertainment it brought me as a kid.

José

"The Amos n' Andy Show". I'm serious. A great, funny, historic TV series that is way past due to emerge from the darkness imposed by wrong-headed political correctness.

http://www.amosandy.com/images/i-aacast.jpg

I'm with you, Scott! "Amos n' Andy" deserves to take it's righful place as a comedy classic! It was a whole different story back when it was the only show on tv dictating people's perceptions of black America... But, if audiences today could see it, they would be surprised to see how tame and un-controversial it really is! Not only that, but... they would be thoroughly entertained! Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Alvin Childress and the others were comedy geniuses! They deserve to be honored as such!

- GJS

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I'm with you, Scott! "Amos n' Andy" deserves to take it's righful place as a comedy classic! It was a whole different story back when it was the only show on tv dictating people's perceptions of black America... But, if audiences today could see it, they would be surprised to see how tame and un-controversial it really is! Not only that, but... they would be thoroughly entertained! Spencer Williams, Tim Moore, Alvin Childress and the others were comedy geniuses!

- GJS

Yeah. People who've never seen it might be surprised by all the black lawyers, black doctors, black policemen, etc. who populated the show. Anyone who thinks it plays to negative stereotypes would have to say the same thing about "Sanford & Son" or "Good Times". Nobody ever thought of Ralph Kramden or Ed Norton as "representatives" of the white race. They were just very funny characters. So were Kingfish, Sapphire, and Algonquin J. Calhoun. Very funny characters!

Scott, check this out: http://www.amosandy.com/

HOLY MACKERAL!!

Anyone who thinks it plays to negative stereotypes would have to say the same thing about "Sanford & Son" or "Good Times".

In fact, I've found those 'modern' programs to be a lot more gulity of negative racial stereotyping than "Amos n' Andy". You could probably throw in "The Jeffersons", "Family Matters", "Fresh Prince of BelAire", and others as well.

About the only show I've seen that really transcended the 'racial' stereotypes was "The Cosby Show".

- GJS

I'd love to have "The Johnny Cash Show" on DVD but it'll never see the light of day due to rights issues.

You got that right! I still have a few of them recorded (audio) on an old cassette recorder. If you didn't like the style of music then come back after the commercial and it would be completely different. Tony Joe White, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dillon and even Jose Feliciano playing Earl's Breakdown on a guitar. And then you got to "come along and ride this train" with ol' Johnny himself. It just don't get no better than that!

.... not to mention Joni Mitchell, Roy Orbison, Chet Atkins, Ray Charles, Carl Perkins, Kris Kristofferson, Eric Clapton, and a whole slew of others.

Scott, check this out: http://www.amosandy.com/

HOLY MACKERAL!!

$300.00?!!!!!!! I'm sorry but that is insane!

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$300.00?!!!!!!! I'm sorry but that is insane!

Like I said. HOLY MACKERAL!! Obviously, not an "official" release.

I was genuinely disapointed when I saw the price, my Dad has raved about Amos & Andy for years, he was a big fan as a kid. I've only seen clips here and there, thought I might surprise him for christmas, but not for 300 bucks!

I was genuinely disapointed when I saw the price, my Dad has raved about Amos & Andy for years, he was a big fan as a kid. I've only seen clips here and there, thought I might surprise him for christmas, but not for 300 bucks!

Yeah. I watched it in syndication in the mid-sixties right before it was pulled off the air and had fond childhood memories of it. Then, in 1987, PBS aired a documentary called "Amos n' Andy: Anatomy of a Controversy" which featured extensive clips from the series and which proved that my memories weren't incorrect. I've still got that documentary on VHS but it's in poor shape. Looks like someone went to the trouble to transfer original 16 mm syndication masters to DVD which is not a cheap process on a small scale. Still, I think they would be smart to break up the set. I can't imagine that they sell very many at that price.*

* I went back and read the Forum comments and it appears that the DVDs may have been dubbed from VHS. Too bad we'll probably never see an official release.

Did someone mention that Get Smart was coming to DVD?

the odd couple. bj and the bear, movin on, get smart ,hawaii 5-0 and mission impossible are a couple of shows i liked to see

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/G/htmlG/getsmart/getsmartIMAGE/getsmart.jpg get smart is hilarious
Maxwell Smart (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/): I'm getting complaints from the landlord about the gun battles in the hall, and the bombs in the lobby, and the knife fights in the elevator.
Chief (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686857/): Well, when you rent an apartment to a secret agent, you've got to expect those things.
Maxwell Smart (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/): But he doesn't know I'm a secret agent.
Chief (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0686857/): Well, how do you explain people attacking you and shooting at you?
Maxwell Smart (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/): Well, I told him I work for the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
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Senator: Mr. Smart, how many arrests did Control make last year?
Maxwell Smart (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/): I don't know.
Senator: Who's the number one man in your organization?
Maxwell Smart (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/): I don't know.
Senator: How many cases were assigned to Control last year?
Maxwell Smart (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/): I don't know.
Senator: What would you do if you were fired, Mr. Smart?
Maxwell Smart (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0010915/): They can't fire me. I know too much.

I didn't see Frankenstein Jr. and the Impossibles on that list nor the Herculoids. Surely everyone remembers these choice Saturday morning cartoons?

http://www.wingnuttoons.com/frankimp2.jpg

Who could forget?!

New Johnny Cash music rollin' 'round the bend

Fri Apr 7, 2006 3:43 PM ET



By Dean Goodman

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Johnny Cash may be gone, but he will be a constant presence in the new-release bins at record stores throughout the year, thanks to several projects being overseen by his son.

Already this year, the Man in Black has logged time in the top-10 of the U.S. pop charts with a hits package tied in with the Oscar-winning film "Walk the Line," which dealt with his forbidden love for future wife June Carter Cash. When they died within months of each other in 2003, it marked the end of one of music's most enduring partnerships.

Cash sings a previously unissued track on a newly released album of old gospel tunes, while a collection of songs he recorded in the early 1970s will come out for the first time in May as a two-disc package.

In addition to overseeing these releases, John Carter Cash is working on an album tribute to his mother. Reese Witherspoon won an Academy Award for playing June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line."

As if that were not enough, work is progressing on the DVD release of highlights from "The Johnny Cash Show," the groundbreaking CBS series that premiered at the peak of Cash's career in the late 1960s.

First up is "Voice of the Spirit: The Gospel of the South" (Dualtone Music Group), a collection of nuggets newly recorded by the likes of Mavis Staples, Vince Gill, Rodney Crowell and Mighty Clouds of Joy.

NEW "DAY" DAWNS

Johnny Cash contributes a version of "Unclouded Day," which he recorded four days after his wife's funeral. As he once recounted on an episode of "The Johnny Cash Show," where he sang "Unclouded Day" while his mother, Carrie, accompanied him on piano, the gospel classic was the first song he learned as a youngster working in the cotton fields of Dyess, Arkansas.

John Carter Cash produced the album as a way of exploring the early 20th-century musical roots of his maternal forebears, the Carter Family, country music's first superstars.

"It was recorded, of course, with modern technology, but the instrumentation was similar, focusing on the song and the voice first and foremost," he told Reuters.

Many of the tracks are relatively obscure, such as a trio popularized by Washington Philips, a Texas gospel blues singer from the 1920s. And they are all more than 75 years old, with the exception of the Johnny Cash-written "Over the Next Hill We'll Be Home," performed by Connie Smith.

"That's been part of my quest in my musical education. I want to find these great songs, these beautiful compositions that not many people have heard, because they're out there," he said.

Some are better known, such as "Ain't No Grave Gonna Hold My Body Down," covered here by the Fisk Jubilee Singers, while Staples and Marty Stuart, a former son-in-law of Johnny Cash, came up with a bold reinterpretation of the Rev. Gary Davis' "Twelve Gates to the City."

NEWLY DISCOVERED TRACKS

A new double-disc Cash set called "Johnny Cash: The Personal File" will come out on May 23 via Legacy Recordings, the archival arm of Sony BMG Music.

"It's stuff that we found in the vault. There's just him and the guitar, beautiful recordings that were done in the early 1970s," John Carter Cash said.

He said its purity and strength were very reminiscent of the first "American Recordings" album his father made with producer Rick Rubin in 1994, a work that helped introduce the country legend to a young rock 'n' roll crowd.

The 49 tracks include covers of 1940s pop hits that Cash loved as a youngster, gospel and folk tunes, and original material such as a children's song called "Tiger Whitehead."

He is currently working on a tribute to his mother, which will boast a duet by his half-sister, Carlene Carter, and Ronnie Dunn of Brooks & Dunn, as well as contributions from Emmylou Harris, Kris Kristofferson, Alison Krauss, Brad Paisley, and Patty Loveless. The as-yet-untitled set is tentatively set for a fall release via Dualtone.

There is no release date yet for the "Johnny Cash Show" home video, which requires a lot of legal paperwork, but "We're gonna make it happen," Cash said.

The show, which taped in Nashville, introduced artists such as Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Merle Haggard and Kristofferson to a mainstream TV audience, kept alive the memory of the Carter Family by employing Mother Maybelle and her three daughters as backing singers, and allowed Cash to indulge his love of old gospel tunes and railroad ballads.

Reuters/VNU



© Reuters 2006. All rights reserved.

There have been some good suggestions posted so far. For me, there aren't many TV programs I watched growing up that weren't disappointing when I saw reruns as an adult. There is one show, however, that never gets old. I'm hoping to see it on DVD sometime soon...

The Addams Family

Zorro, thank you so very ,much for the news about the forthcoming Johnny Cash releases, especially the Johnny Cash TV show. Looks like I better start saving and cutting back on unimportant stuff like food. LOL

Zorro, thank you so very ,much for the news about the forthcoming Johnny Cash releases, especially the Johnny Cash TV show. Looks like I better start saving and cutting back on unimportant stuff like food. LOL

No problemo!

I'm really looking forward to the U.N.C.L.E. and The Wild, Wild West sets, and the Superboy series. The first season of Superboy was good from what I remember, but I really enjoyed the following seasons.

I liked the Bizarro episode and the one where Superboy meets an alternate Earth's Superboy who had finally had it with Luthor and said he sliced Luthor in two with his heat vision. Now THAT'S the way to handle Lex Luthor. Not to mention the Joker and basically all of Batman's other bad guys.