Will they release more on dvd?

[Robert 13]

Originally Posted by stevea

If your unedited episodes were in color, you could remaster the edited episodes that SFM did, if you had a DVD recorder. But they'd look pretty strange bouncing back and forth from black and white to color.

On the other hand, if all that was missing was an opening segment and/or a tag scene, it would probably be worthwhile, and you could keep the commercials.

I wouldn't know the first thing about doing that and it would look very amateurish if I tried. I may watch them out of order sometime for fun but it just isn't the same as a nicely produced dvd release. I keep referring to Car 54's dvd release which was done nicely. The first season, they did not put the episodes in order BUT they were all there, remastered and complete and even with some sponsor bumpers. They also did not cover up the sponsor on the closing credits like was done on Joey Bishop. That was a very odd thing to do. So many other releases are able to leave those in. What was the big deal here?

[1960'sTVfan]

It's a shame that this complete series DVD turned out to be such a huge disappointment. The set should have had uncut episodes, there was no reason for the same edited episodes that Antenna TV is running to end up on the DVD set. Whoever's job it was to put the set together, either they didn't know what they were doing or didn't care, it's probably a little of both, it's very sad.

And to make it worse, they used burned DVD's for the set instead of pressed discs, seems like they used DVD+R's instead of DVD-R because the discs don't play in my one DVD player but they do play in the other one. If I wouldn't be able to play the discs at all, I would just toss the set in the garbage. I did throw away season 2 because I have season 2 from Questar and that set has uncut episodes.

So I kept seasons 1, 3, and 4, but most of the time I'll probably watch my homemade DVD's from the Antenna TV airings because those are on DVD-R discs and don't have playback problems.

[Svenfan1234]

Originally Posted by retroTVfan4ever

It's a shame that this complete series DVD turned out to be such a huge disappointment. The set should have had uncut episodes, there was no reason for the same edited episodes that Antenna TV is running to end up on the DVD set. Whoever's job it was to put the set together, either they didn't know what they were doing or didn't care, it's probably a little of both, it's very sad.

And to make it worse, they used burned DVD's for the set instead of pressed discs, seems like they used DVD+R's instead of DVD-R because the discs don't play in my one DVD player but they do play in the other one. If I wouldn't be able to play the discs at all, I would just toss the set in the garbage. I did throw away season 2 because I have season 2 from Questar and that set has uncut episodes.

So I kept seasons 1, 3, and 4, but most of the time I'll probably watch my homemade DVD's from the Antenna TV airings because those are on DVD-R discs and don't have playback problems.

I would get this set because if I recorded it, it would end up in a horrid letterbox format and I don't see why I should do that if there's a full screen set out. Too bad it wasn't Shout Factory or another company doing it that would've released uncut episodes.

[1960'sTVfan]

Originally Posted by Svenfan1234

I would get this set because if I recorded it, it would end up in a horrid letterbox format and I don't see why I should do that if there's a full screen set out. Too bad it wasn't Shout Factory or another company doing it that would've released uncut episodes.

If you would record The Joey Bishop Show episodes from Antenna TV and make your own DVD's, the episodes wouldn't be letterboxed because Antenna telecasts in full screen. RTV telecasts in widescreen/letterbox, so I don't recommend recording from them although they edit the episodes a little less compared to Antenna TV.

[Svenfan1234]

Originally Posted by retroTVfan4ever

If you would record The Joey Bishop Show episodes from Antenna TV and make your own DVD's, the episodes wouldn't be letterboxed because Antenna telecasts in full screen. RTV telecasts in widescreen/letterbox, so I don't recommend recording from them although they edit the episodes a little less compared to Antenna TV.

I don't record from a DVR or VHS, I record from a video card in my laptop. That may or may not have something to do with it.

[1960'sTVfan]

Originally Posted by Svenfan1234

I don't record from a DVR or VHS, I record from a video card in my laptop. That may or may not have something to do with it.

OK, so you use a different recording method. I record and save on my DVR, then transfer to DVD.

[Robert 13]

Just an update as I have begun watching Season 3 dvds...
The glitch I had mentioned in an earlier post (jittery motion in certain scenes in episodes of Season 1) does not occur in Season 3 episodes. I am now thinking that this may have occurred in the restoration process of Season 1?!
The episodes of Season 3 look very much like Questar's Season 2 release episodes. It's a shame that Season 1 has that problem. It would be nice for a company to re-release Season 1 in full uncut episodes. It really seems so different than the rest of the series.

[1960'sTVfan]

Originally Posted by Robert 13

Just an update as I have begun watching Season 3 dvds...
The glitch I had mentioned in an earlier post (jittery motion in certain scenes in episodes of Season 1) does not occur in Season 3 episodes. I am now thinking that this may have occurred in the restoration process of Season 1?!
The episodes of Season 3 look very much like Questar's Season 2 release episodes. It's a shame that Season 1 has that problem. It would be nice for a company to re-release Season 1 in full uncut episodes. It really seems so different than the rest of the series.

Seasons 1, 3, and 4 all need to be re-issued and released properly, on pressed discs and with uncut episodes. But I don't expect that will happen anytime soon if at all.

RTV is currently airing the season 3 episodes, they show more of the episodes than Antenna TV does. RTV airs the opening scenes and the tag scenes, Antenna usually cuts those out. In fact, the RTV airings seem pretty close to uncut, not that much is edited out.