“My Mother, The Car” now on DVD!*

And still no PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMPTON. Life is so unfair.

 

yea, I feel your pain...
No:
Bronk
It's About Time
The Outlaws and others.

 

If we turned the show into a Stephen King story, then it'd be happening. "My Mother the Car meets Christine!" That's a high concept idea.

Howcha do,howcha do, howcha do, my dear?

Probably not, but ya know... I don't have a problem with the studios going through their vaults and digitizing every sing short, TV show, special, and feature film ever commercially released, then making them available as high-quality downloads and streaming at a small fee. It's better than letting the film and tape elements completely disintegrate to dust, which is what they're doing now.

 

"Coming up next, on FOX...." .

 

I have this same problem with all supernatural shows. We need to have a scene where the living characters accost the dead/fantastic characters and ask them the hard questions.

Noted author J.K. Rowling actually did this in the Harry Potter novels, where Harry buttonholes one of the castle ghosts to ask whether the ghost could find a way to let him talk to his (recently-deceased) Uncle, but the ghost explains there are rules about what he can say and can't say, and also that there are lots of things he doesn't know. At least that's a partial explanation.

 

Add these to your list:

Batman
The Green Hornet
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir
Nanny & The Professor
The Good Guys

And many, many more...

 

I guess we could come up with so many more.

 

I liked The Ghost and Mrs. Muir when I last saw it in the 1970s, and wouldn't mind seeing it again. The only Green Hornet I've seen is a horrible public domain set.

Batman is a whole other problem; they'll be fighting over the rights to that one until we're all long dead.

 

I think you are digging too deep...those 60's shows were topical and mainly focused on the lead characters...the relatives were guests... they didn't need to prove their worth it was just known they had the powers as well. ah, such great times and memories of 60's and 50's television.

 

maybe after releasing them on DVD box sets! please no MOD or streaming! I want to own it! Ssssh don't put logs on the fire!

 

Good lord I could use some Jerry Van Dyke in my life right now!

 

We mastered both for Fox in component digital standard-def, so great-quality master tapes are out there. I did all the Ghost & Mrs. Muir shows myself.

 

I'm surprised it took this long--there is more of a market for things that are legendarily awful than for mediocre/forgotten titles (I'm not holding my breath for a DVD of "The Little People" aka "The Brian Keith Show"

 

I can think of 5 or 6 short lived UPN shows I worked on for which I hope they burned the master tapes and all the films. But there are a few that were funny, but were uncerimoniously cancelled. The Secret Life of Desmond Pfeiffer was a good example--a much funnier show than it was given credit for. No way in hell that will ever be seen again.

 

I'm in total agreement. I want them on DVD. I'm enthused that MY MOTHER THE CAR is coming out. I'll bet if anyone would actually see it, they would find it quite enjoyable. Same with PRUITTS OF SOUTHAMTON. I also was a viewer of SECRET LIFE OF DESMOND PFEIFFER and consider me a fan. Somewhere in my VHS archives is taped the first episode. All three of those are funnier than many modern excuses for sitcoms. Like the new Robin Williams effort that everyone is praising as if it were The Emperors New Clothes. Yawn!

 

nice to know we are not alone! I love having my TV Shows on real pressed DVDs...screw that MOD junk!

 

well after reading this I'm guess my assumption is right...they used crap masters...well at least I don't have to rebuy them! WHEW! I thought I missed newly remastered editions! Ah....

 

No way they ever showed all 30 eps of My Mother the Car in Australia. After the one about the drive in I think they gave up on it.

 

30 episodes! Can you imagine getting 10 shows in, and everybody in the cast realizes, "oh, crap! We're in a huge bomb show, and we still have 20 more to go!" That's a bad feeling.

That's my problem with some of the Shout Video releases: they just grab old 1980s-1990s 1" analog videotapes, slap them up on a machine, and hit play. That's not remastering -- that's just a straight-across dub.

 

With the obscure stuff Shout releases, frankly I'm just glad to have some of it at all in whatever format I can get it in.

 

I used to love it when it first ran.I think I was five years old.I hadn't seen it since.I recently came across an episode on the web,and was impressed again by how awful it was.

Sammy's version of the theme is great though.

 

I only ever saw one episode of this when Trio was running it about ten years ago, but I thought it was hilarious. It was definitely my sense of humor, and the list of contributing writers (Chris Hayward, Allan Burns, James L. Brooks, etc.) makes that hardly a surprise. I assume its bad reputation is in light of the ludicrousness of the premise, but that kind of ridiculous deadpan is why I like Get Smart and the '60s Batman so much.

 

I can't see My Mother, The Car as and worse than Here Comes Honey Boo-Boo. Frankly, these lists of "bad" television shows are going to have to be revised with all of the reality crap that we've had for the last decade plus.

 

most of the 60's sitcoms are better than the crap we are subjected to today as comedy...