I am aware of series such as The Wonder Years, Beverly Hills 90210 and WKRP in Cincinnati that are being delayed because of the immense task/cost of obtaining the music rights. Does anyone know of any other shows experiencing the same difficulties?

Also, what shows (like 21 Jump Street, Dawson's Creek and Married With Children) have been released with changes made to the music?

This would be a good place to post such info as original music is very important to some people (re: me) and it would place a slight premium on those recordings that contain the original music.

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EDIT - Here's a list of shows that are being hampered by music rights issues or have been commercially released with different music.

WKRP in Cincinnati
Happy Days
The Wonder Years
Beverly Hills 90210
Dawson's Creek
China Beach
Life Goes On
Married With Children
The Cosby Show
Northern Exposure
Tour of Duty
Wiseguy
Profiler
Providence
Ally McBeal
Roswell
Quantum Leap
The Muppet Show
Saturday Night Live
Second City TV
Las Vegas
Square Pegs
American Dreams
American Bandstand
Felicity

Happy Days is another series being delayed (or possibly cancelled) partly due to music rights issues.

Happy Days? Wow, that's too bad. I guess the good thing about Happy Days though is that the music was from the 50s which means it will enter the public domain sooner than the music from a lot of other shows.

I just found out Northern Exposure has some original songs replaced with generic music.

Tour Of Duty, Wiseguy and Profiler. I am sure that China Beach will never come out with the original music either.

Life Goes On has a totally different theme song on the DVD release.

Providence has a different theme song and different music and they
only came out with a collection of eps, not even a full season or anything....

Life Goes On has a totally different theme song on the DVD release.


Wow, that is almost tragic. Very odd considering they named the show after the theme song.

The Song Doesn't Remain the Same (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/thr/music/feature_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001525959)

Vintage TV Faces the Music (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06125/687802-237.stm)

Happy Days is another series being delayed (or possibly cancelled) partly due to music rights issues.

In the immortal words of Reginald Denny..."Can't we (they) all just get along"?....and I'll add my own note: "There's plenty of money in this for all of them".

It's absurd these people don't reduce the cost so they can get some money for the rights, instead of no money at all with no release.

How much money is being lost because they outprice themselves?

And I have to tell you, if Freaks and Geeks can license 118 songs, anyone can figure out a way to get 95% of their music back.

No way in hell did WKRP have 118 songs in one season.

I heard Quantum Leap had some music replaced in their DVD releases after Season 1.

well the blame falls on those who did the contracts originally
for instance most shows licenesed the music rights for the show and also for syndication deals----
some even mentioned for possible VHS releases
BUT AT THE TIME noone knew about dvd coming i guess
so some of these shows NEVER HAD PROVISIONS for dvd releases
so its a loophole that allows more $$$$ to be paid out

some shows like HAPPY DAYS always had TONS OF era music in the background and so its just too difficult and costly to reedit them all
and the sales were not strong enough to pay the licensing fees again

To be fair, no one knew the TV on DVD market was going to explode like it did. Until then, TV video collectors were a small niche market. I think music rights are considered more now, but even a year ago, the market hadn't taken off as it has now.

And then there's Cold Case, which will likely never be released on DVD because of the music rights. The production team made a decision to secure broadcast rights for the music, but opted not to add the considerable additional expense to secure DVD rights as well. From what I've read, the difference in cost was prohibitive, and they would have been able to license only a fraction of the music they do use. Contemporary music is a key component in the series, so the production team opted for the music for broadcast only.

On Profiler, there's an entire episode missing from the first season (Someone to Watch Over Me) - the title of the episode is a song, and the song figures prominently throughout, so the entire episode was pulled when the DVD set was released. I think I prefer that to what happened on Quantum Leap and Georgia on My Mind.

Another thing that frosts me is captioning tracks not being included on commercial releases (A&E releases especially). Apparently that's another expense, as the caption track actually belongs to someone else, at least in the US. I don't find captions to be missing from UK and Australian releases.

Deb, if you need that Profiler episode, I have it clean from a sat feed.

http://www.rarevideosfortrade.com

To be fair, no one knew the TV on DVD market was going to explode like it did. Until then, TV video collectors were a small niche market. I think music rights are considered more now, but even a year ago, the market hadn't taken off as it has now.

And then there's Cold Case, which will likely never be released on DVD because of the music rights. The production team made a decision to secure broadcast rights for the music, but opted not to add the considerable additional expense to secure DVD rights as well. From what I've read, the difference in cost was prohibitive, and they would have been able to license only a fraction of the music they do use. Contemporary music is a key component in the series, so the production team opted for the music for broadcast only.

On Profiler, there's an entire episode missing from the first season (Someone to Watch Over Me) - the title of the episode is a song, and the song figures prominently throughout, so the entire episode was pulled when the DVD set was released. I think I prefer that to what happened on Quantum Leap and Georgia on My Mind.

Another thing that frosts me is captioning tracks not being included on commercial releases (A&E releases especially). Apparently that's another expense, as the caption track actually belongs to someone else, at least in the US. I don't find captions to be missing from UK and Australian releases.

I came across this list (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/alterations.cfm) which indicates alterations made to TV series when released commercially.

Yeah great resource, I often refer to it to check on any shows I'm interesting in buying.