Ok Ok here is some VERY VERY good news....at least for some of us anyway. I talked to Columbia House just a few minutes and got some definitve news finally....here it what they told me


Shows coming that CH will offer

WKRP--February 2003
Dragnet--April 2003
Get Smart--February 2003

Shows that are in negociations

Silver Spoons
Mamas Family
The Waltons
Hogans Heros
Prisoner of Cell Block H

That is all she told me and she was not sure if any of these would be available on DVD or just VHS but it sure is great news for some of us!!!!

Originally posted by Ericguy
Ok Ok here is some VERY VERY good news....at least for some of us anyway. I talked to Columbia House just a few minutes and got some definitve news finally....here it what they told me


Shows coming that CH will offer

WKRP--February 2003
Dragnet--April 2003
Get Smart--February 2003

Shows that are in negociations

Silver Spoons
Mamas Family
The Waltons
Hogans Heros
Prisoner of Cell Block H

That is all she told me and she was not sure if any of these would be available on DVD or just VHS but it sure is great news for some of us!!!!

Wow! I really hope those happen, the negotiation ones and the definitive ones. I hope it's DVD as well; I'd honestly buy the DVDs instead of spending money on blank tapes to record edited to death programs with voiceovers and split credits. I just wish more shows were released faster than what they are now (yes, I know, DVDs take a while to create, you have to get certain rights, etc.). I'm pretty excited... Hope it's all true

I can only go by what she told me. I don't count on anything until it happens but maybe you can call and see if you get the same info and let me know.

Originally posted by Ericguy
I can only go by what she told me. I don't count on anything until it happens but maybe you can call and see if you get the same info and let me know.

Well, after hunting down the number, I did get a hold of someone, who only mentioned WKRP, Dragnet & Get Smart. She told me they were definately in the works, but could make no promises. So, hopefully they'll be out on the months you were told, but I guess things could change.

I'm with you though, I certainly don't count on anything until it happens either. And good place to check would be Amazon.com. They have huge lists of DVDs and videos (some I personally didn't even know existed) of TV shows, coming soon, as well, but I don't know how far they list information; tvshowsondvd.com would be a good place to see if DVDs are being released as well, although I'm pretty certain those shows will only be on VHS; the woman I talked to told me she was certain they would be on VHS (if they came out) but said she hadn't heard anything - yet - about them also being released on DVD.

Ericguy,

Please go the WKRP board and post your info.

There are a lot of people who are waiting for the show.

Any info on the music changes or if the show is uncut?

Originally posted by Ericguy
Shows that are in negociations

Hogans Heros


They better give us more than 5 DVDs!!

I am not sure if the music will be the same but I have three complete series from Columbia House and every one is the complete version as it aired so WKRP should be the original as well. They are so authentic that in some cases you hear an announcer at the end tell you that the show is moving to a new time slot next week. As I said before, I think when you pay for the series it includes a portion to the music owner so it is not a sticky as airing it for free. By the way, in response to another message on this board the worst music change ever was when NAN replaced one of Johnny's songs with Achy Breaky Heart. I mean it never made any sense to play that a classic rock station. I suppose looking back we were lucky. At least then WKRP was still being shown.

Hogan's Heroes is already being offered on VHS and DVD.

From Columbia House?

Originally posted by boechsner
Hogan's Heroes is already being offered on VHS and DVD.

They only have the first 20 episodes though.

Columbia House has already been offering "The Waltons" on VHS for years.

Well she did not have as many details as I wanted so maybe she meant that they were going to get the rest of Hogan and The Waltons is maybe coming to DVD.

I thought I read some months ago that Columbia House was actually being bought by Paramount Home Video and some current titles will be unavailable and they will be adding new titles. Is this true?

Originally posted by Brenton
I thought I read some months ago that Columbia House was actually being bought by Paramount Home Video and some current titles will be unavailable and they will be adding new titles. Is this true?

Is it just me or wouldn't that mean all they offered was Paramount shows? That stinks.

WKRP will probably not have the original music because someone at Fox (who inherited the MTM library) told Home Theater Forum that the rights were too expensive.

I said they'd be worth it. I will pay exactly $0.00 for WKRP without the original music. Why not just colorize I Love Lucy?

Silver Spoons (a Columbia/TriStar property) and Mama's Family (a Warner Bros. property) I might get unless they get released in season sets on DVD (anything could happen). I've been spoiled by season sets on DVDs. The one-tape-per-month, four-shows-a-tape CH model is outdated. Bad enough they co-opted it for DVD. And the DVDs they DO offer are too expensive.

But Columbia have not yet done more than first seasons of the shows they have done (leaving myself and other buyers hanging on for news on whether subsequent seasons will ever come), and Warners have not done ANY pre-1990s TV (their library is not as strong as Columbia's, IMO).

Consider the fact that the presence on TV shows on DVD has gotten newspaper puff pieces on the subject. Columbia House (not affiliated with Columbia Pictures, BTW) may be the only refuge for some TV shows, but they'll probably come out eventually.

I agree that the tape a month idea is outdated. As far WKRP, I think that changing the music is awful. I mean it aired for years with that music itact and besides, don't they have to pay the people that they substitute for anyway. If Johnny plays Ted Nugent instead of James Taylor, don't you still have to pay Nugent? Anybody that would buy WKRP would gladly pay more for the set if the music was original...at least I would anyway. But if it comes down to owning the set on DVD with fake music and not seeing at all, I would rather have the fake music. The music added to the show but its the comedy that counts. What I think does the show a worse disgrace is cutting out huge minutes of dialouge like NAN did when it aired it. I would rather have the full show intact, even with fake music.