The complete first season of THRILLER is supposed to be coming out
9/28/04 from A&E Video from what I have read in the release
information.
--- In Midnight_Movies@yahoogroups.com, Eric Hoffman
<e_hoffman@s...> wrote:
> I wouldn't count on it. Remember that their concern is the money
they
> can make for the least possible expenditure. I hope I'm wrong.
Hell,
> they also have the THRILLER series hosted by Boris Karloff which
they
> only turned loose six episodes of and it's still sitting in the
vaults.
> But that's the sort of thing that happens when the bean-counters
are in
> charge or people who really don't give that much of a damn about
the
> legacy they are in charge of. Just how much money they can make.
>
> Eric
>
> lilwubberducky@a... wrote:
>
> > This is very disconcerting. Many people are not even aware of
the fact
> > that
> > Night Gallery was originally aired as a 60 minute program. When
it was
> > later
> > syndicated some imbeciles got together and decided to MASSACRE
the
> > entire series
> > by editing each story down to acceptable 30 minute formats. This
> > included the
> > re-editing of stories as well as in some cases the complete
exorcising of
> > many of the smaller vignette type stories that the show became
known
> > for. And any
> > syndicated episodes that include Gary Collins are from a
completely
> > different
> > series he starred in called The Sixth Sense which was used to
flesh
> > out the
> > total syndication package requiring Rod Serling to come back
into a
> > studio and
> > tape the usual Gallery opening for these episodes. The ONLY way
I would
> > consider investing in the DVD release of this series is if
Universal
> > made the wise
> > decision to use newly remastered prints using the original one
hour
> > episode
> > format. Hopefully Universal will realize this is the wish of the
> > possible buyers
> > and wise up before it is too late.
> >
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