"It's Garry Shandling's Show"

Why has this brilliant sitcom been ignored for the last fifteen years? I haven't seen it in reruns since Comedy Central dropped it in the early '90s, and there's no talk of it coming to DVD any time soon.

I really wish Shout! Factory or someone would look at releasing this series.

 

Great show! I'm sure that I have almost every episode on videotape. I'd love to have this series on DVD.

Cheers,
Chris

 

Heck, i can't even find bootlegs of it - it's that underground.

Here's a link to the them song: http://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/itsgarryshandlingsshow.wav

 

Lillywu (Instead of Hollywood)

 

It's Wikipedia entry says it will be part of TVLand Canada's schedule this coming September. Of course that doesn't help me any.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_Garry_Shandling's_Show

One of the video boards says it's rumored to come out within the year but that probably doesn't mean anything!

 

I saw the thread title and got all excited, thinking a DVD set had been announced. Phooey.

Agreed, this was a brilliant, sadly overlooked gem. I'd give anything to see the Gilda Radner episode again.

 

We're almost to the part where I will start to whistle...

Why not suggest the show to Shout! Factory?

[email protected]

 

I loved this show! I can't believe it's not on DVD yet. :thumbsdn:

dan c

 

Jennifer Tilly!

 

As much as I love this show, I doubt it will ever come out on DVD. Seeing that the much better known and highly praised Larry Sanders Show never got past the first season set (recent compilation not withstanding) chances are sadly slim.

 

Yeah, you're probably right on that one. Such a shame. But you never know. It's cult status might push it over the edge. Also, didn't it have shorter seasons? Maybe a single box with both seasons 1 and 2 could be possible. Or maybe I'm dreaming.

dan c

 

From epguides.com:


Garry Shandling as Garry Shandling
Molly Cheek as Nancy Bancroft
Michael Tucci as Pete Schumaker
Scott Nemes as Grant Schumaker
Bernadette Birkett as Jackie Schumaker
Barbara Cason as Ruth Shandling
Paul Willson as Leonard Smith
Ian Buchanan as Ian [ 3-4 ]
Jessica Harper as Phoebe Bass [ 4 ]
Paul Feig as Chester Bass [ 4 ]

Original
Episode # Prod # Air Date Episode Title
____ _______ ________ _______________________________________________________

1st Season 1986

1- 1 101 10 Sep 86 The Day Garry Moved In
1- 2 102 17 Sep 86 Grant Gets Broken
1- 3 103 24 Sep 86 Garry Throws a Surprise Party
1- 4 104 1 Oct 86 Foul Ball
1- 5 105 8 Oct 86 The Graduate
1- 6 106 15 Oct 86 It's Garry's Problem, But it's JoJo's Show
1- 7 107 23 Jan 87 Garry Met a Girl Named Maria
1- 8 110 30 Jan 87 Grant's Date
1- 9 111 6 Feb 87 Pete Has an Affair
1-10 109 13 Feb 87 Fate
1-11 112 20 Feb 87 The Morning After
1-12 108 6 Mar 87 Sarah
1-13 113 13 Mar 87 Laffie
1-14 114 20 Mar 87 Dial L for Laundry
1-15 115 3 Apr 87 Dinner with Garry
1-16 116 10 Apr 87 Force Boxman

2nd Season 1987

2- 1 201 25 Oct 87 Who's Poppa?
2- 2 202 6 Nov 87 No Baby, No Show
2- 3 203 13 Nov 87 The Fugitive
2- 4 205 20 Nov 87 The Schumakers go to Hollywood
2- 5 204 27 Nov 87 Nancy Gets Amnesia
2- 6 207 4 Dec 87 Anjelica (1)
2- 7 208 11 Dec 87 Anjelica (2)
2- 8 209 17 Dec 87 It's Garry Shandling's Christmas Show
2- 9 206 8 Jan 88 Killer Routine
2-10 210 15 Jan 88 Mr. Sparks
2-11 211 22 Jan 88 The Soccer Show
2-12 212 29 Jan 88 Our Town
2-13 213 5 Feb 88 Save the Planet
2-14 214 12 Feb 88 The Grant Shuffle
2-15 215 4 Mar 88 Go Go Goldblum
2-16 216 11 Mar 88 Garry Falls Down a Hole
2-17 217 18 Mar 88 Mr. Smith Goes to Nam

3rd Season 1988

3- 1 301 21 Oct 88 Goin' Places
3- 2 302 28 Oct 88 Pete's Got a Secret
3- 3 303 4 Nov 88 What's Happening to Me?
3- 4 306 11 Nov 88 Live Election Show
3- 5 305 2 Dec 88 The Natural
3- 6 309 30 Dec 88 Home Sweet Home
3- 7 307 6 Jan 89 Vegas (1)
3- 8 308 13 Jan 89 Vegas (2)
3- 9 310 3 Feb 89 Mr. Peck's (1)
3-10 311 10 Feb 89 Mr. Peck's (2)
3-11 312 10 Feb 89 Mr. Peck's (3)
3-12 304 17 Feb 89 Ruth's Place
3-13 313 24 Feb 89 Garry Acts Like a *****
3-14 314 3 Mar 89 Kramer vs. Grant
3-15 315 10 Mar 89 Grant Goes to the Dogs
3-16 316 17 Mar 89 Big Brother
3-17 317 31 Mar 89 Going, Going, Gone
3-18 318 7 Apr 89 Garry Goes Golfing
3-19 319 14 Apr 89 Mum's the Word
3-20 320 21 Apr 89 Worry Wart

4th Season 1989

4- 1 401 10 Nov 89 First Show of the Fourth Season
4- 2 403 17 Nov 89 Take My Wife, for Example
4- 3 405 24 Dec 89? Nathan's Sure Madness
4- 4 402 1 Dec 89 SuperGrant
4- 5 404 8 Dec 89 Dinner at Eddy King's House
4- 6 406 12 Jan 89 The Proposal
4- 7 407 19 Jan 90 Firehose
4- 8 408 26 Jan 90 The Day Howard Moved In
4- 9 409 9 Feb 90 The Wedding Show
4-10 411 16 Feb 90 The Honeymoon Show
4-11 410 9 Mar 90 Shandling vs. Mull
4-12 412 23 Mar 90 Leonard Gets Metaphysical
4-13 413 30 Mar 90 Chester Gets a Show
4-14 414 6 Apr 90 My Mother the Wife
4-15 415 13 Apr 90 Family Man
4-16 416 4 May 90 Mad at Brad
4-17 417 11 May 90 The Last Show
4-18 418 18 May 90 The Talent Show
4-19 419 25 May 90 Driving Miss Garry

 

Somewhere in this 40 or so minute interview last month on Fresh Air, Terry Gross and Gary Shandling discussed this show, which provided me a lot of insight (i.e. The show was supposed to be on NBC, but the network had issues with Gary talking to the camera, etc.):
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=10045518

 

I had no idea Paul Feig was on the show. Awesome.

 

I loved the Ping-Pong episode that played out like The Natural. What a great show.

 

I loved it. I noticed the name "Alan Rafkin", of "Love American Style" et al. fame as director!

Is Mike Tucci related to Stnaley ("The Devil Wears Prada","The Terminal","Beethoven") Tucci?

Great show and I saw it on Fox each ep.six months AFTER Showtime originally aired it.Much (appropro!) fourth wall breaking from Shandling ("You're not gonna use me for your "(self-gratification) "purposes"!)

 

Who hoo...


Out on DVD 20th October, but only region 1.

 

20 years since it was on, and I still ermember and laugh about the theme song

"this is the theme of garrys show, how do you like it so far,"

 

The "Laffie" (Lassie) episode with special appearence by June Lockhart makes the set worth buying on its own. Also, the guest appearence of The Turtles (Flo & Eddie) singing a "Happy Together" version of "This Is the Theme From Garry's Show" is priceless. Also, the Chinese chef singing the theme song in Mandarin (except for the words "Garry's Show"). Shall I go on? Every episode of this show is utterly stupendous and I am looking forward to viewing it on a superior quality legitimate copy!

 

Excellent news! (Does anybody outside of Region 1 not have a multi-region player?)

The bit that I still remember about 20 years later is from the episode where nude pictures of Garry's mother at something like Woodstock surface in some magazine. He's distraught about this, although she couldn't care less, so he goes to his father's grave to 'talk' to him about his misgivings. Of course he 'hears' his father's ghostly voice and gets some advice.

Then, as Garry's walking away, some other random guy walks up to his dad's grave, looks down at the headstone and says into the air "Mr. Shandling, I just lost my job and I don't know what to do. Can you help me?"

Brilliant stuff!

Geoff

 

Exactly.

My concern about region 1 was the price - oh, and customs... But I have a friend heading to the States in a few weeks.

Now can we have "Larry..." as well?

I fear though the music clearance is the stumbling block.

 

Best TV theme song ever!

 

Here's Flo & Eddie's (Turtles) version of the theme song

Flo & Eddie Version Of The Garry Shandling Theme Song

 

God bless Shout! Factory.

I wish it wasn't so expensive, but it's understandable why it's priced that way.

dan c