Has Warner Archive given up on vintage TV shows (1950s-1970s)?

I'm trying to think of the last thing that they've released from that era. I think its been at least a couple of years. First season Mr. Novak maybe?

Meanwhile, aside from the detective shows, which they'll never be able to put out because of the music, they still have a bundle of shows in their library:

Many Happy Returns
No Time for Sergeants
Mr. Roberts
Room for One More
Temple Houston
Colt .45
Adam's Rib
Doc Elliot
Cain's Hundred
The Islanders
Asphalt Jungle
The Thin Man
National Velvet
Father of the Bride
Please Don't Eat the Daisies
The Rounders
Wendy and Me
Warner Brothers Presents/Conflict

Also, 2nd season of Eleventh Hour and Mr. Novak

 

Add The Little People (aka The Brian Keith Show.

 

Perhaps they've given up on completing every video geek's wishlist-checklist with no reasonable profit motive. In light of the recent plethora of nostalgia channels added to digital tv stations these days, I would think they're doing better-off licensing them to venues like these, rather than making niche products for niche customers.

That of course means a helluva lot more instances of Gilligan's Island than Car 54, and of course a lot more digital compression for geezer commercials, but that's the world we allowed ourselves to live in...

 

Save for the former MGM/Turner shows, which Ted transferred to one-inch back in the mid 80s, many of these series have never been mastered to tape. Besides, I don't see them stopping with the releases of every MOVIE video geek's wishlist with no reasonable profit motive.

 

Sure ya do. Just look at the ones they still have never mastered to tape. Like all businesses, it has to do with both supply and demand. Not supply, "and while we're at it...".

 

It'd be an incentive if these were series with some level of popularity. Never heard of any of them.

 

Many of the shows are unfamiliar to me, but I'd be in for Colt .45, Temple Houston, and especially The Islanders because of Diane Brewster. She made everything that she appeared in better, and much like Anne Francis in Honey West, I'd like to see Brewster in a series where she played the same character week after week--even though they were both short-lived shows.