Once a certain Sitcom has all seasons released on DVD, do you see the point of that

[TVFactFan]

show still being in syndication? For example, if all 8 seasons of Three's Company are avaiable on DVD will N@N or any network still air the show? Would anyone see the point of a sitcom still being in syndication once all seasons are on DVD?

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
show still being in syndication? For example, if all 8 seasons of Three's Company are avaiable on DVD will N@N or any network still air the show? Would anyone see the point of a sitcom still being in syndication once all seasons are on DVD? Yes, for several reasons, if the show was popular enough to be released on all eight seasons that means there is still an great interest in the show, and another reason not everybody can afford to buy DVD's...

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
Yes, for several reasons, if the show was popular enough to be released on all eight seasons that means there is still an great interest in the show, and another reason not everybody can afford to buy DVD's...


But we the viewers would have the FULL LENGTH version of all episodes like the networks so I figured it may not be any interest into watching N@N and TV LAND.

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
But we the viewers would have the FULL LENGTH version of all episodes like the networks so I figured it may not be any interest into watching N@N and TV LAND. Yes, that is true for you and I, since I have purchased 3 seasons worth of Sanford and Son, I never watch the program on Tv Land; but still there is a lot of people that prefer to watch their favorite shows on syndication like Tv Land and N@N...

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
Yes, that is true for you and I, since I have purchased 3 seasons worth of Sanford and Son, I never watch the program on Tv Land; but still there is a lot of people that prefer to watch their favorite shows on syndication like Tv Land and N@N...

I just can't see a Station picking up a sitcom that has all seasons on DVD. If that happens, I think the sales for DVD players wil GO UP and viewership for that particular sitcom in syndication would go down.

[barwars]

I would never watch a show on TV.... if I owned every episode on DVD.

For example.... once "The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season 5" comes out June 29th.... I could care less if it were on TV or not.
All I really care about is what I get to see.





But I think some shows deserve to be in syndication for the ever, long after the DVDs are released.


Especially classics such as I Love Lucy, All in the Family, Cheers, Happy Days, The Odd Couple, Taxi.



Blah.... what am I saying.... all I care is about the DVDs.
And, hopefully, in a couple of years -- any form of Classic TV I watch will be through my DVD player.

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
I just can't see a Station picking up a sitcom that has all seasons on DVD. If that happens, I think the sales for DVD players wil GO UP and viewership for that particular sitcom in syndication would go down. Hmmm, that is true too, but it seems there is a lot of shows in syndication that also have Complete Seasons DVDs out as well...I know if I had the complete six seasons of Sanford and Son on DVD I would not waste my time watching the editied version of TV Land...

[barwars]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
I just can't see a Station picking up a sitcom that has all seasons on DVD. If that happens, I think the sales for DVD players wil GO UP and viewership for that particular sitcom in syndication would go down.




But some series may do very well on DVD.... but fail miserably in syndication.

Say there are 100,000 fans willing to buy a show on DVD.... thats good money for a company.
But (at least i dont think) not good numbers for syndication.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
Hmmm, that is true too, but it seems there is a lot of shows in syndication that also have Complete Seasons DVDs out as well...I know if I had the complete six seasons of Sanford and Son on DVD I would not waste my time watching the editied version of TV Land...


I have ll 3 seasons of S&S on DVD and i sill don't watch TV LAND-LOL Is there any sitcom on DVD that is near completion?

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
I have ll 3 seasons of S&S on DVD and i sill don't watch TV LAND-LOL Is there any sitcom on DVD that is near completion? Good question; the only show that I have that is near completion is Sanford and Son by April, I will have four seasons worth and only two seasons to go....But there is a lot of shows that I wish were either going to be release on DVD or in syndication...Maude is one of them...

[barwars]

The Dick Van Dyke Show will be complete on June 29th.


Season 3 comes out Tuesday.
Season 4 comes out April 27th
and Season 5 comes out June 29th.




And Im getting them all.



And I might be getting S&S:Seasons 1-3 from my uncle for free (he's some head-honcho-accountant for the "Home Entertainment Department")
Hopefully he can get me The Jeffersons: Season 1 too.

[Lady T]

Originally posted by barwars88
The Dick Van Dyke Show will be complete on June 29th.


Season 3 comes out Tuesday.
Season 4 comes out April 27th
and Season 5 comes out June 29th.




And Im getting them all.



And I might be getting S&S:Seasons 1-3 from my uncle for free (he's some head-honcho-accountant for the "Home Entertainment Department")
Hopefully he can get me The Jeffersons: Season 1 too.

I highly recommend both those shows DVD, I have them in my collection and enjoyed them tremendously:)

[barwars]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
I highly recommend both those shows DVD, I have them in my collection and enjoyed them tremendously:)

By both shows do you mean S&S and The Jeffersons??
I already have "The Jeffersons - Season 2", even though theres no special features.... I love it.


Im a sucker for George shouting "honky".
No matter how racist it is.

[Lady T]

Originally posted by barwars88
By both shows do you mean S&S and The Jeffersons??
I already have "The Jeffersons - Season 2", even though theres no special features.... I love it.


Im a sucker for George shouting "honky".
No matter how racist it is.

yes, the first season of The Jeffersons was great:)

[barwars]

I hate the second Lionel though.
I thought he was such a bad actor.


The first Lionel is 10x better.

[Lady T]

Originally posted by barwars88
I hate the second Lionel though.
I thought he was such a bad actor.


The first Lionel is 10x better.


:lol: Amen, I could not stand the second Lionel; he was horrible..He looked like a duck while the first Lionel Jefferson (Mike Evans) was a good actor and handsome...

[dawsongirl]

Yeah...1) Because to a lot of people, these DVD sets are too expensive. 2) Some people don't even have a DVD player. 3) Sometimes it's nice to just turn the TV on a watch the show without digging out the DVD.

[dawsongirl]

Originally posted by barwars88
The Dick Van Dyke Show will be complete on June 29th.


Season 3 comes out Tuesday.
Season 4 comes out April 27th
and Season 5 comes out June 29th.




And Im getting them all.


Didn't that show have 6 seasons? Where's the last one?

Disregard. It does only have 5.

[storrs19]

The Dick Van Dyke Show will be complete on June 29th.


Season 3 comes out Tuesday.
Season 4 comes out April 27th
and Season 5 comes out June 29th.


And Im getting them all.


Damn !!!

I wish shows like What's Happening, Green Acres, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and All in the Family would come out that fast and close togther. I get tired of waiting a year for the next season.

Who puts out the Dick Van Dyke Show, and has anyone heard if Mary Tyler Moore is coming out on DVD. My vhs tapes are starting to wear out and they are the hacked up versions from N@N anyway :(

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by storrs19
The Dick Van Dyke Show will be complete on June 29th.


Season 3 comes out Tuesday.
Season 4 comes out April 27th
and Season 5 comes out June 29th.


And Im getting them all.


Damn !!!

I wish shows like What's Happening, Green Acres, The Jeffersons, Good Times, and All in the Family would come out that fast and close togther. I get tired of waiting a year for the next season.

Who puts out the Dick Van Dyke Show, and has anyone heard if Mary Tyler Moore is coming out on DVD. My vhs tapes are starting to wear out and they are the hacked up versions from N@N anyway :(




Shows like the Jeffersons and All in the Family will take forever to be complete on DVD. But Shows like Sanford and Son and What's Happening are two seasons away from being completed.

[Brent88]

Why does it take forever? I wish Columbia House would move faster too. Once a year means it will be EIGHT years at least before the 11th season is released of The Jeffersons. That's AT LEAST the year 2012! :eek:

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Brent88
Why does it take forever? I wish Columbia House would move faster too. Once a year means it will be EIGHT years at least before the 11th season is released of The Jeffersons. That's AT LEAST the year 2012! :eek:

Another thing that stinks about the Columbia House tapes is that they do edit some of the episodes...

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
Another thing that stinks about the Columbia House tapes is that they do edit some of the episodes...


WHAT?????- ARE YOU SERIOUS??? How did you find that out?

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
WHAT?????- ARE YOU SERIOUS??? How did you find that out?

Believe it or not Solomon it is very true; several barney Miller tapes some of the episodes have been editied

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
Believe it or not Solomon it is very true; several barney Miller tapes some of the episodes have been editied


How did you find out?

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
How did you find out?

Comparing the episodes from the Columbia House to the episodes I have in my collection

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
Comparing the episodes from the Columbia House to the episodes I have in my collection


Tara are you saying that some of the episode lengths from Columbia House was shorter than the EDITED versions you had in your collection? If that's what you are telling then I"M SPEECHLESS.

[Brent88]

*not surprised*

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
Tara are you saying that some of the episode lengths from Columbia House was shorter than the EDITED versions you had in your collection? If that's what you are telling then

I"M SPEECHLESS.

no, Not shorter, Columbia House DID cut out very small scenes..But compared to Stupid TV Land, which I noticed CUT a lot of scenes out, sometimes comparing the episodes on the TV Land version to the Columbia House version is almost like watching an entire differnet episode...But as I mentioned earlier, YES, Columbia House did a small amount of cutting on some of the Barney Miller episodes....BUT nothing compared to the HACK job that TV Land does to it's shows....

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
no, Not shorter, Columbia House DID cut out very small scenes..But compared to Stupid TV Land, which I noticed CUT a lot of scenes out, sometimes comparing the episodes on the TV Land version to the Columbia House version is almost like watching an entire differnet episode...But as I mentioned earlier, YES, Columbia House did a small amount of cutting on some of the Barney Miller episodes....BUT nothing compared to the HACK job that TV Land does to it's shows....


So you are saying Columbia House has some scenes TV LAMD don't have and TV LAND has some scenes that Columbia House don't have. Correct?

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
So you are saying Columbia House has some scenes TV LAMD don't have and TV LAND has some scenes that Columbia House don't have. Correct?


In a way, exactly..I am not saying that Columbia House CUT all the episodes, they did not, but in some scenes they did, I guess to save time on the tape....I am not really an expert on this field, So I apologize for the confusion...

[vashti1999]

Originally posted by barwars88
Blah.... what am I saying.... all I care is about the DVDs.
And, hopefully, in a couple of years -- any form of Classic TV I watch will be through my DVD player.

My thoughts exactly. My dvd interest lately has almost gone exclusively from movies to tv series. I know for me, there'd be no reason to watch a show on tv that I have on dvd, but there'll always be a tv audience for those shows. I have family members for example who'd like checking out episodes of Good Times or What's Happening, but they wouldn't buy it to own. The dvd world is mostly about movies to them, they don't have to have season sets of a particular series. Being the tv junkie I've been since a kid, being able to own all my favorite shows in a collectible format like dvd is something I always dreamed about, so that's what I'm doing now, pretty heavily. So basically to answer the question, I wont watch stuff on tv that I already own, but there's still gonna be an audience of non-dvd owners who will.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
In a way, exactly..I am not saying that Columbia House CUT all the episodes, they did not, but in some scenes they did, I guess to save time on the tape....I am not really an expert on this field, So I apologize on the confusion...



Well I know i would be extremely pissed if i bought a columbia house tape and the episode was cut. I received a Three's Company Tape today and compared to N@N, I was So relieved. Also All in the Family eps was satisfactory aLso. As long as i get to see the tag scenes i'm satisfied

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
Well I know i would be extremely pissed if i bought a columbia house tape and the episode was cut. I received a Three's Company Tape today and compared to N@N, I was So relieved. Also All in the Family eps was satisfactory aLso. As long as i get to see the tag scenes i'm satisfied Not is was still way worth it; when I first purchased the Columbia House vidoes I was amazed on how much cutting TV Land does, I mean I am talking about GREAT scenes that I have never seen before, so to me it is well worth purchasing The Columbia House videos...

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
Not is was still way worth it; when I first purchased the Columbia House vidoes I was amazed on how much cutting TV Land does, I mean I am talking about GREAT scenes that I have never seen before, so to me it is well worth purchasing The Columbia House videos...


Did Barney Miller have Tag Scenes?

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
Did Barney Miller have Tag Scenes? The same Tag scene was was shown on Tv Land was shown on Columbia House videos as well as the DVD; TV Land did not change that..(thank God)..Tv Land kept the original music, which changed on each season..and Tv Land did not even audit or touch that...which was the only cool thing I think the network did, except for showing Barney Miller for three years....

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
The same Tag scene was was shown on Tv Land was shown on Columbia House videos as well as the DVD; TV Land did not change that..(thank God)..Tv Land kept the original music, which changed on each season..and Tv Land did not even audit or touch that...which was the only cool thing I think the network did, except for showing Barney Miller for three years....


That's very surprising

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
That's very surprising

I know...I love the hack job that they did to the Tag scene for All in the Family

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by Mrs. R.N.HARRIS
I know...I love the hack job that they did to the Tag scene for All in the Family


I know. TV LAND had me calling Edith stupid for 3 months until someone told me The Tag scene was cut. And that particular Tag was important to the storyline-LOL

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
I know. TV LAND had me calling Edith stupid for 3 months until someone told me The Tag scene was cut. And that particular Tag was important to the storyline-LOL Another thing I do not like what Tv Land did was to skip epsiodes; they were infamous for skipping certain episodes of Barney Miller because they were not politically correct, i.e. the theme of the episode was based about bombs, etc...especially after 9/11....

[Dragonflies]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
show still being in syndication? For example, if all 8 seasons of Three's Company are avaiable on DVD will N@N or any network still air the show? Would anyone see the point of a sitcom still being in syndication once all seasons are on DVD?

For me it works both ways, because I would buy Friends on DVD, but I still like to watch it on TBS, there's just something about it on tv too :D Does that make sense?

I have almost every episode of Boy Meets World on video(excluding the ones Disney channel banned :mad: ) and I still love to watch the show on Disney, and when I get it on DVD when it's released in August I'll probably still watch it on whatever channel picks the show up once it's gone from Disney

[Skywalker]

When I got a free Barney Miller DVD from Total cereal, 1 episode was unedited. The other episode had at least 3 minutes cut out.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by jpnoyes
When I got a free Barney Miller DVD from Total cereal, 1 episode was unedited. The other episode had at least 3 minutes cut out.


I wonder why you were able to get a free Barney Miller DVD with Total Cereal?-LOL I think i know why.

[barwars]

wait.... why??

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by barwars88
wait.... why??


Because it's not that funny. You would never see a All in the famly, Sanford and or Jeffersons DVD given away with Total cereal-LOL

[barwars]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
Because it's not that funny. You would never see a All in the famly, Sanford and or Jeffersons DVD given away with Total cereal-LOL



whatever.
Im not a fan.
But Im not a fan of All in the Family either.

[TVFactFan]

Originally posted by barwars88
whatever.
Im not a fan.
But Im not a fan of All in the Family either.



Always remember any TV show on DVD that is Free is not worth having in your collection-LOL

[AKA]

Originally posted by dawsongirl
Yeah...1) Because to a lot of people, these DVD sets are too expensive. 2) Some people don't even have a DVD player. 3) Sometimes it's nice to just turn the TV on a watch the show without digging out the DVD.

Yep, and:

4.) If a show's no longer on TV, it's garnering less fans. More fans=more DVD purchases. 5.) A lot of people don't realize that TV shows are cut for syndication and/or couldn't care less.

[barwars]

Originally posted by Jen1989
Not only can some people not afford to buy all those DVD's, but some people don't want to. I, for one, don't like DVD's. So, for me, I'd watch tv. I only have some episodes of one show on video tape, Family Ties. I prefer video tapes over DVD's. I would not rent or buy a movie on DVD, but I would if it were on VHS. I don't even have a DVD player, and I don't want one. I have a VCR though.


You're being foolish, IMO.
DVDs are so much more than "vhs on discs".
The fact that movies are widescreen alone is worth it.
Special features are great for any true movie or TV show fan.


I think you're being biased.
And that your arguement is the same as "cassettes are just as good as CDs"
.... when the whole world knows they're not.

[vashti1999]

Originally posted by Jen1989
.

That's a matter of opinion. While I have both CD's and cassette tapes, I like cassette tapes better, but that's my preference. The difference though, is I'd buy a cassette or CD, but when it comes to VHS and DVD's I wouldn't buy a DVD. I might "seem" foolish, but I'm entitled to buy or not buy what I want to. While I'm sure the "extras" are nice, they aren't necessary. For example, I don't need all the movie extras, I just want to watch the movie.
Why spend hours on end with special features when the point of the whole thing is the movie itself? Some people like special features, and that's great, if that's what you want.

The thing is though you said that you wouldn't even rent a dvd, but you'd rent vhs. If all you're doing is watching the movie, and not all the extra features, etc. what difference would it make? Of course, you're entitled to buy or not buy what you want, but it's curious that someone would not be for a format that's been a catalyst for making all these tv series available to the public.

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
I wonder why you were able to get a free Barney Miller DVD with Total Cereal?-LOL I think i know why. They were selling two episodes of the show, two crappy episodes..that were not funny at all; but the show was not meant to be a very funny show to begin with, it was more of a drama-comedy genre type show to begin with...

[Lady T]

Originally posted by Sitcom Analyzer
Always remember any TV show on DVD that is Free is not worth having in your collection-LOL Not the first and second season of that show..But the third season was very good...I have to agree to a point since I am a fan of the show that the first few seasons were pretty horrible, but the third season was excellent...