What classic TV show would you like to see on DVD?

It's amazing to me how many complete seasons of TV shows are poppin' up on DVD. It seems like every time I walk into Best Buy I'm amazed to see some of the stuff that's making its way to disc.

Of course, the vast majority of TV shows are more recent, like CSI, Friends, etc.

What classic TV show would you buy on DVD? There are probably many that I would consider, but one that I think would be a lot of fun would be 'The Munsters.' After all, it only ran 2 seasons, so collecting every episode would be painless. Can you imagine owning every season of something that ran for years and years, like 'Gunsmoke?'

 

Does the 80s count as "classic"?
"St. Elsewhere"
"Late Night with David Letterman"
The second and third season of "Soap"

And from the early 90s, two brilliant but short-lived animated series:
"Duckman"
"The Critic"

 

The B&W "Dragnet" series
M Squad
San Francisco Beat

mud-

 

Good news on The Critic, it's coming out - I think in January. The complete series in one set.

 

That's great news!

Dan C

 

I've been hoping for The Critic on DVD almost since I got my first player.

Now, how about the first season of the ANIMATED version of The Tick?

 

I'm surprised at how some marginal TV shows make it to DVD, while other good ones fester. For me, "classic" will have to be anything up through the mid 80's or so. Here's what is on my own personal want list:

1. Peter Gunn, more for Mancini's music than anything else. Since Blake Edwards had a hand in it, it's bound to be good. (I've only seen a couple of episodes.)

2. Max Headroom. I don't think it ran more than a couple of seasons here. As long as it makes Amanda Pays look good, I'm there!

3. Crime Story. This was sort of a "cult favorite" among my friends and I. The pilot and the following two episodes made it to Laserdisc, but it sold so poorly it was cancelled. Columbia House has it on VHS.

4. WKRP. Alas, the music rights to this would be a nightmare to renegotiate all these years later.

 

Twin Peaks 2nd Season

Hootenanny - although I don't think tapes exist anymore

 

Get Smart
I Dream Of Jeannie
F Troop
Wild Wild West
Bob Newhart Show (the 1st one)
Barney Miller
Taxi
Lou Grant
WKRP In Cinn.

Probably more that I can't think of just now.

Jeff

 

Excellent choices.

Some others on my wish list:

"Barney Miller"
"Taxi"
"Hill Street Blues"
"The Bob Newhart Show"
"Newhart"
"Fernwood 2-Night"
"WKRP"
"The Tracey Ullman Show"
"Get A Life" (complete)
"It's Garry Shandling's Show"
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" (Season 2 and beyond)
"Happy Days" (Season 1 only)
"The Wonder Years"
More "MST3k" episodes

 

Ah, great choice, Ken!

I assume you mean the original show, and not the '80s remake version.

 

What about the obvious ones:
Midnight Special
ABC's In Concert
Don Kirshner's Rock Concert
Shindig(if better scources can be found)
Upbeat
Hy Lit Show (out of Philadelphia)
Soul! (PBS)
Soul Train (70's only)
Smothers Brothers
Playboy After Dark
Anything Dick Clark is sitting on
Top Of The Pops (UK-whatever's left)
And whatever else I may have forgotten

As for non music shows:
St.Elsewhere
An American Family (hell,I'll settle for a rebroadcast,and while they're at it:Welcome To The Fillmore East...etc.etc.)

 

I'm with you on that one - that show was hilarious.

I'd also vote for more MST3K epsiodes, as well as Miami Vice, but both of those have extra liscensing hurdles that make things difficult.

I'd also like to see:
Six Million Dollar Man
The Misadventures of Ed Grimley (I think that was the title - it was a cartoon)
Magnum P.I., which I believe is in the works

 

Complete seasons of SNL 1975-80

And maybe some through best of's after that. 1 for each year or 2.

Seinfeld

Simpsons- complete Tracey Ullman shorts

I would also like them to reconfigure the I Love Lucy DVD's. You have to buy 9 (!) DVD's to get the first season. Absolutely stupid!!

 

Stupid...but also shrewd. If there are enough undemanding "Lucy" fans out there willing enough to shell out for the sets, why should Paramount Home Video do it any other way?

 

And Checkmate. (Sebastion Cabot, Doug McClure)
Addams Family too.

 

Combat
Then Came Bronson
Gallant Men

Cheers-
Norm

 

Johnny Cash Show
Quark (anyone remember that one?)

 

Brady Bunch
Gilligan's Island
Dennis The Menace
Emergency
Adam-12
Dragnet