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Longest Running Series Not on DVD in Season Sets - SH Forums
All of these shows ran at least 3 seasons or longer.
Of course many shows have come out with a season or two and stopped, but just listing those that have not even seen one full season set yet.
1950s: Adventures in Paradise, Gale Storm Show, Ann Sothern Show, Sea Hunt, Dragnet, Tales of Wells Fargo, Highway Patrol, December Bride, Dobie Gillis, Zane Grey Theatre, Our Miss Brooks, Maverick, Bat Masterson, People's Choice, Dennis the Menace, Ozzie and Harriet, Bachelor Father, Love That Bob, Jack Benny Program, The Millionaire, 77 Sunset Strip, Burns and Allen, Hennesey, The Lineup (aka San Francisco Beat), Hawaiian Eye, Lawman, The Detectives, I Led 3 Lives, Sheriff of Cochise/US Marshall, State Trooper, Bonanza, Death Valley Days, Beulah, Rin Tin Tin, Fury, Kit Carson, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry Show, Wild Bill Hickok, Private Secretary, My Little Margie, I Married Joan
1960s: Ben Casey, The Defenders, The FBI, The Bold Ones, Marcus Welby MD, The Virginian, Dr.
Kildare, The Nurses/The Doctors and the Nurses, The Patty Duke Show, The Lucy Show, Daktari, Mayberry RFD, Name of the Game, Farmer's Daughter, Run for Your Life, High Chaparral, Julia, Medical Center, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
1970s: Owen Marshall Counselor at Law, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Trapper John MD, Barnaby Jones, Alice, Police Story, Six Million Dollar Man, Chico and the Man, Grizzly Adams, Lou Grant, Switch, Eight is Enough, Vegas.
1980s: Matt Houston, Falcon Crest, Scarecrow and Mrs.
King, Webster, Spencer for Hire, Valerie/Hogan Family, Head of the Class, Amen, Midnight Caller, In the Heat of the Night, The Wonder Years, China Beach, Empty Nest, Major Dad, L.A.
Law, Family Matters.
1990s: Dear John, Sisters, Suddenly Susan, Nurses, ROC, Cosby, Clueless, Step By Step, Love and War, Chicago Hope, Cybill, Unhappily Ever After, The Parent 'Hood.
As you get closer to the present, there are fewer and fewer shows that don't have at least 1 season out yet.
Unfortunately, most of those 50s shows will likely be buried forever.
Just probably not enough of an audience left for them anymore and too many of them were never transferred to tape.
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Gee, you have a great memory.
China Beach and the Wonder Years were great.
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Plus as time marches on a lot of these series are no longer run in syndication.
I always liked Barnaby Jones and Marcus Welby MD was a guilty pleasure but I haven't seen these on TV in many years.
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The Wonder Years was one of those shows where music rights could be an issue.
The music was woven into the storylines so well that generic replacements would hamper the flow of the episodes.
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I would love to see LA Law season sets.
Darryl
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I know we really love our TV, and really love to save and collect things we loved from our past.
I just have a quandary about a need in our lives for programming such as these, where the only way to justify making such a product, is the production of so many boxes and discs as to make them virtually worthless in collectibility, and rarely enjoyed.
As nice as it is to be able to wander through these box sets whenever we wish...DO WE?
Or do they just grace the shelf, Time Tunnel lovingly seated next to Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and Lost In Space .
I can look at any of those offerings listed in the OP, and have trouble justifying purchase of any of them.
Although, I would want to give quite a few of them a curious spin, and re-capture my memories of watching them in my younger days...there's a ton of stuff on my DVR right now that I don't have time to watch as it is.
I would feel satisfied knowing sets of these series were happily sitting in some other collection, perhaps that of my local library or NetFlix' basement, awaiting the occasion when I found the time to view something that was surely second-best to a number of other series and films from those eras.
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Because of the slimming of profit margins on DVD sets, I predicts many of these shows will come out, but as downloads and not DVDs, to fulfill that niche market and save costs.
This is certainly true of Lou Grant, one of the best shows ever made, and the first three seasons are out on Amazon downloads.
I see this as the future, not one that I prefer, but a reality.
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Quote: : trees The Wonder Years was one of those shows where music rights could be an issue.
The music was woven into the storylines so well that generic replacements would hamper the flow of the episodes.
I'm pretty sure the music is THE reason there aren't any "Wonder Years" DVDs.
People really want them, if just to see Marilyn Manson as a kid.
The music rights must be a nightmare for that series, as they were for "WKRP" - and look how poorly THAT situation turned out...
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Quote: : 1950s: Adventures in Paradise, Gale Storm Show, Ann Sothern Show, Sea Hunt, Dragnet, Tales of Wells Fargo, Highway Patrol, December Bride, Dobie Gillis, Zane Grey Theatre, Our Miss Brooks, Maverick, Bat Masterson, People's Choice, Dennis the Menace, Ozzie and Harriet, Bachelor Father, Love That Bob, Jack Benny Program, The Millionaire, 77 Sunset Strip, Burns and Allen, Hennesey, The Lineup (aka San Francisco Beat), Hawaiian Eye, Lawman, The Detectives, I Led 3 Lives, Sheriff of Cochise/US Marshall, State Trooper, Bonanza, Death Valley Days, Beulah, Rin Tin Tin, Fury, Kit Carson, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry Show, Wild Bill Hickok, Private Secretary, My Little Margie, I Married Joan It would be nice to have a set with just 2 episodes each of all of these shows.
That would satisfy me.
I could store it next to my barely watched Clutch Cargo, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Heroes Season 2, Murphy Brown & other sets I just had to have!
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"Ed" - which I heard was being held up due to quibbles over music rights.
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Is there a complete "boston legal" DVD set yet?
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Quote: : I know we really love our TV, and really love to save and collect things we loved from our past.
I just have a quandary about a need in our lives for programming such as these, where the only way to justify making such a product, is the production of so many boxes and discs as to make them virtually worthless in collectibility, and rarely enjoyed.
As nice as it is to be able to wander through these box sets whenever we wish...DO WE?
Or do they just grace the shelf, Time Tunnel lovingly seated next to Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea and Lost In Space .
I was wondering a similar thing - it's hard to justify a lot of what is already out there, let alone some of the stuff that the OP mentions.
I mean, is there really a demand for a complete set of, say, The Nanny ?
Or Blossom ? I don't think either of those qualify as popular classics or cult faves.
Having said that, I do have some TV box sets - mainly sitcoms, like Scrubs, Seinfeld , and Arrested Development , which I think usually hold up better to repeat viewing than dramas - and they make entertaining diversions for, say, those lazy Sundays when you don't feel like doing anything else.
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Quote: : "Ed" - which I heard was being held up due to quibbles over music rights.
Shows like Ed and The Wonder Years aren't a concern for me as I recorded them when they aired.
They'll never be seen that way again.
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Quote: : Because of the slimming of profit margins on DVD sets, I predicts many of these shows will come out, but as downloads and not DVDs, to fulfill that niche market and save costs.
This is certainly true of Lou Grant, one of the best shows ever made, and the first three seasons are out on Amazon downloads.
I see this as the future, not one that I prefer, but a reality.
How does that work?
Can I burn it to a DVD or can I just store it on my computer and that's it?
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And let's not forget the many multi-season variety shows, like Perry Como, Milton Berle, Garry Moore, Steve Allen, Ed Sullivan, Dinah Shore, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye, just to name a few...
-Kevin
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Quote: : Cairo And let's not forget the many multi-season variety shows, like Perry Como, Milton Berle, Garry Moore, Steve Allen, Ed Sullivan, Dinah Shore, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye, just to name a few...
-Kevin Not forgotten but there's zero chance those things will ever see the light of day again in any significant number.
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Quote: : Cairo And let's not forget the many multi-season variety shows, like Perry Como, Milton Berle, Garry Moore, Steve Allen, Ed Sullivan, Dinah Shore, Red Skelton and Danny Kaye, just to name a few...
-Kevin Are shows of that nature even recorded and kept?
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Quote: : All of these shows ran at least 3 seasons or longer.
Of course many shows have come out with a season or two and stopped, but just listing those that have not even seen one full season set yet.
1950s: Adventures in Paradise, Gale Storm Show, Ann Sothern Show, Sea Hunt, Dragnet, Tales of Wells Fargo, Highway Patrol, December Bride, Dobie Gillis, Zane Grey Theatre, Our Miss Brooks, Maverick, Bat Masterson, People's Choice, Dennis the Menace, Ozzie and Harriet, Bachelor Father, Love That Bob, Jack Benny Program, The Millionaire, 77 Sunset Strip, Burns and Allen, Hennesey, The Lineup (aka San Francisco Beat), Hawaiian Eye, Lawman, The Detectives, I Led 3 Lives, Sheriff of Cochise/US Marshall, State Trooper, Bonanza, Death Valley Days, Beulah, Rin Tin Tin, Fury, Kit Carson, Roy Rogers, Gene Autry Show, Wild Bill Hickok, Private Secretary, My Little Margie, I Married Joan
1960s: Ben Casey, The Defenders, The FBI, The Bold Ones, Marcus Welby MD, The Virginian, Dr.
Kildare, The Nurses/The Doctors and the Nurses, The Patty Duke Show, The Lucy Show, Daktari, Mayberry RFD, Name of the Game, Farmer's Daughter, Run for Your Life, High Chaparral, Julia, Medical Center, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour.
1970s: Owen Marshall Counselor at Law, The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Trapper John MD, Barnaby Jones, Alice, Police Story, Six Million Dollar Man, Chico and the Man, Grizzly Adams, Lou Grant, Switch, Eight is Enough, Vegas.
1980s: Matt Houston, Falcon Crest, Scarecrow and Mrs.
King, Webster, Spencer for Hire, Valerie/Hogan Family, Head of the Class, Amen, Midnight Caller, In the Heat of the Night, The Wonder Years, China Beach, Empty Nest, Major Dad, L.A.
Law, Family Matters.
1990s: Dear John, Sisters, Suddenly Susan, Nurses, ROC, Cosby, Clueless, Step By Step, Love and War, Chicago Hope, Cybill, Unhappily Ever After, The Parent 'Hood.
As you get closer to the present, there are fewer and fewer shows that don't have at least 1 season out yet.
Unfortunately, most of those 50s shows will likely be buried forever.
Just probably not enough of an audience left for them anymore and too many of them were never transferred to tape.
Great post and thread!
BTW, you probably already know this, but apparently Zane Grey Theatre is coming out in full season sets soon.
I'm optimistic that other sets of rare 50's and 60's shows will eventually see light of day if there's sufficient interest and good prints are archived (Kinescopes are always iffy, like aging videotape, but many shows were filmed and archived).
Cat
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