MH, MH complete series coming!!!

[WGaryW]

Originally Posted by retroTVfan4ever

My order from Deep Discount has been shipped. According to current tracking info, I should probably have the package in a day or two. This is a large DVD set with 38 discs. I hope everything will be good with the discs when I receive them. There is a chance some discs will be loose and sliding around inside the case, a chance some discs will be scratched and damaged, a chance some discs will be faulty and won't play, also a chance a disc or two could be missing. That's what I don't like about ordering big DVD sets like this. But hopefully everything will be OK.

I don't think you need to worry about the packaging-- separate jewel cases with 6 discs each, totally safe storage and very compact. I ordered mine direct from Shout! Factory, so I've had it a month already and have watched every show on every disc, with no problems at all.

(and yes, I clearly have no life to have gone through 325 episodes in a month!)

[1960'sTVfan]

If this Mary Hartman set ends up being a big seller, then I see no reason why Shout Factory wouldn't want to release Forever Fernwood. There are 130 episodes, they could release it as a 13 disc set, 10 episodes each disc.

I started watching the Mary Hartman DVD's, I'm just a few episodes in but enjoying everything so far. Much of it looks familiar as I watched the series in 1976-77 when it originally aired. It was on Monday thru Friday at 10 PM in my area. Just too bad about the two edited episodes, but nothing we can do about that. Some episodes contain teasers for the next episode, some episodes don't have the teasers. The closing credits on some episodes are very brief, I don't remember if the closing credits were this brief during the original telecasts, perhaps the closing credits have been tampered with, I don't know for sure.

[WGaryW]

Originally Posted by retroTVfan4ever

Some episodes contain teasers for the next episode, some episodes don't have the teasers. The closing credits on some episodes are very brief, I don't remember if the closing credits were this brief during the original telecasts, perhaps the closing credits have been tampered with, I don't know for sure.

I've noticed that the length of the closing credits varies considerably from episode to episode-- sometimes as short as 15 seconds, sometimes a couple of minutes. I don't think they were tampered with-- I'm sure that like the previews, this was just a way for the original producers them to standardize the episode length. Other than the two shorter episodes already noted (#174 and 204), all episodes in the DVD set are close to 22:30, which is the correct running time.

The closing credits are a bit frustrating for me because I'm trying to document the cast members for my blog and I can't use the imdb (it has only very partial info, and only on the first 30 episodes or so). Sometimes guest actors are credited at the end of episodes they're in, often not. But if you look at the credits of enough episodes with a particular actor in it, eventually you'll see the name pop up in the credits.