Vince Edwards' board is wanted

[amyb]

Hi. I am a huge Vince Edwards fan and would love to see at least one of his tv shows on dvd. I have been trying to get his tv series Matt Lincoln released. In this series Vince played a psychiatrist who ran a walk-in clinic and a telephone hotline for mostly troubled teenagers. Universal produced it in 1970. There were sixteen episodes plus the pilot film titled Dial Hot Line. This series was prematurely cancelled by ABC because it was on opposite Flip Wilson at 7:30 pm. This was much too early for a show like Matt Lincoln to air. Thus people do not remember it..
This does not reflect the quality of the show. If you feel as I do and are a Vince Edwards' fan you can e-mail Universal Home Entertainment and request that Matt Lincoln be released on dvd. It is not right that neither of Vince's two shows the other one being the great Ben Casey is out on dvd. e-mail address for Universal is USHE.consumerrelations@bydeluxe.com. I spoke with them and was told the more requests the better the chance for release. Also Shout!Factory does license Universal owned properties. Their e-mail is info@shoutfactory.com I would love to hear from other Vince fans. Thanks.

[ROCKHUNTER]

Originally Posted by amyb

Hi. I am a huge Vince Edwards fan and would love to see at least one of his tv shows on dvd. I have been trying to get his tv series Matt Lincoln released. In this series Vince played a psychiatrist who ran a walk-in clinic and a telephone hotline for mostly troubled teenagers. Universal produced it in 1970. There were sixteen episodes plus the pilot film titled Dial Hot Line. This series was prematurely cancelled by ABC because it was on opposite Flip Wilson at 7:30 pm. This was much too early for a show like Matt Lincoln to air. Thus people do not remember it..
This does not reflect the quality of the show. If you feel as I do and are a Vince Edwards' fan you can e-mail Universal Home Entertainment and request that Matt Lincoln be released on dvd. It is not right that neither of Vince's two shows the other one being the great Ben Casey is out on dvd. e-mail address for Universal is USHE.consumerrelations@bydeluxe.com. I spoke with them and was told the more requests the better the chance for release. Also Shout!Factory does license Universal owned properties. Their e-mail is info@shoutfactory.com I would love to hear from other Vince fans. Thanks.

Re: VINCE EDWARDS
It's about time this fine actor got some recognition. For those of us old enough to remember when BEN CASEY first premiered in 1961 Vince Edwards was on the tip of everyone's tongues. Unlike the debut of DR KILDARE which was more of a romantic show BEN CASEY was, from the first, treated as an adult, "state of the art" medical drama. A booming success, it lasted 5 full seasons. Vince was nominated for a best actor Emmy and was known as a demanding professional who took his work seriously and wanted the medical show to, "get it right."
After the show was canceled Vince went on to appear in 50 more productions. His feature films included THE DEVIL'S BRIGADE co-starring with William Holden, THE DESPERADOS and the cult film HAMMERHEAD wherein he played "Charles Hood" a secret agent hero in a series of James Mayo popular novels. Eager to return to more meaningful work Vince made a "way ahead of it's time" TV movie called DIAL HOT LINE. This was so well reviewed and received that the ABC network took pains to have him to commit to a TV series based on the movie. Thus was born MATT LINCOLN. In 1970, the time of it's debut, it could not have been more topical. In a time of LAUGH-IN, HERE'S LUCY, etc. and a bounty of sitcoms ruled the air here was a show that addressed real mental health issues. We lived "in interesting times." With the assassinations of the Kennedys and Martin Luther King and the Viet-Nam War and the MARCH ON WASHINGTON and the newly coined fiscal term, "Stagflation," no wonder we had issues. But today as a practicing Psychologist and Senior Psychiatric Therapist I can report that MH issues were kept in the closet back then. While today it seems in vogue to be "Bi-Polar" or "Obsessive-Compulsive," and live in a world where it seems everyone has some kind of "syndrome." (None recognized by the DSM I hasten to add) my current favorite is "By-Stander Apathy Syndrome," where we are relieved from personal responsibility all of which does injustice to those suffering from serious Pervasive Personality Disorders....... there was a time 38 years ago where serious Mental Health issues were brought out into the open and on a fictional TV series no less. MATT LINCOLN was that show. ABC, after going through all the effort to recruit Vince Edwards, who put his heart and soul into it, in it's infinite wisdom scheduled it on early Thursday evenings at 7:30 opposite two top ten variety shows, FLIP WILSON and the second season of THE JIM NABORS SHOW. They couldn't have picked a worse time. MATT LINCOLN typically dealt with college age students often reluctantly coming to a "walk-in" MH clinic desperately seeking help. Now I was a college student myself at the time and as most people in college I was rarely home to watch TV at 7:30 on a Thursday night.
I expected nothing when this show began but I made an effort to watch because I really liked Vince Edwards. I was more than amply rewarded and fixed my schedule to see this show. If you wonder what people were worried about in 1970, what caused anxiety and much worse; clinical depression you would do well to learn from MATT LINCOLN. The point being that these same root causes exist today and make the show just as vital now as it was then. ABC may have killed MATT LINCOLN but at least we had 16 episodes! In an age of the GAMESHOW NETWORK where Allen Ludden lives again, plus a network devoted entirely to Bass Fishing(no offence to Bass Fishers..it is a worthy channel) plus a channel that re-runs "reality shows," can't we find room for Vince Edwards and MATT LINCOLN. I just purchased a UNIVERSAL-NBC collection of a "nobody ever heard of" show called TATE which ran....16 episodes. The audience is waiting.
Warmest Regards,
Rock Hunter