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The first dozen shows are all classics, except maybe the clip show. And all of season 1 was strong. "Hoodlum Rock" might have been my favorite if Scum of the Earth had played anything resembling punk rock. "Bailey's Show" was great. "Turkeys Away" was deservedly famous but it's become so...

The movie Gigi was about a May-September romance, but not about pedophilia. Leslie Caron was 26 years old when she filmed that movie, and her character was of marriageable age.

Yeah... the joke was that Venus was clueless what was going on and freaked out by Carlson's choice of music... the double meaning of "thank heaven for little girls." The joke flops with a different song. IIRC this song replacement happened very early, even in the original re-runs, right? Maybe...

I remember a couple of times while watching the Shout DVDs, I heard some song playing in the background that I liked and referred to the checklist to see what it was, only to find out it was a replacement song. They did a really good job of finding generic music that sounded right.

I had that Richard Pryor album too... Yeah, I can say that, with just two or three exceptions, there are no compromises in this set that will bother you unless you watched the episodes when they originally aired, and you have a photographic memory. WKRP is my favorite sitcom of all time and...

I just re-watched "Baby, If You've Ever Wondered." The episode prominently features Supertramp's "Goodbye Stranger," and in the hallway outside the DJ booth you can see a cardboard standee promoting the Breakfast in America album that song came from. Further down the hall is a poster for Randy...

I just re-watched "Goodbye Johnny" and noticed one music bit we might add to the master list: when Johnny goes in to Andy's office to tell him about his job offer, he sings a few lines of Irving Berlin's "It's a Lovely Day Today" (from the Broadway show Call Me Madam).

I watched the two versions of "The Contest" one after the other a couple days ago. I hope somebody gets to ask Hugh Wilson about it sometime. But if I had to guess, I'd say they decided the original version of the Fake Don Pesola just wasn't convincing enough. He sounded absolutely nothing like...

I assume the season sets are exactly the same as what's in the complete series set? I was wondering if they might put the other version of "The Contest..." on the season set, which would have annoyed me.

This set is currently going for $75 on Amazon, for anyone who hasn't picked it up yet.

I still wonder about those first 2 things Johnny played in the pilot episode.

I wish I had the time, patience, and video editing mojo to do that kind of thing.

I wonder if they'll use the same version of "The Contest Nobody Could Win" in the individual season set.

I'm not sure if it's cheaper to license lyrics without the music. Probably is, but I'm not sure. It's done quite often... people quoting lyrics in TV shows and movies, or using them in novels.

I don't think there is any fair use exception for quoting a single lyric, at least in a commercially released product like this. It seems to me there was a big controversy, maybe back in the 90's about rap artists taking samples (sometimes pretty big samples) from other songs and using them...

So they kept the Pink Floyd but replaced the Cocker and CCR? That seems pretty bass ackwards. I watched this episode today with the Pink Floyd scene intact. I appreciate Shout doing all they could to preserve the scene, but the unedited version is just classic. "What's the name of this orchestra?"

Was it a completely unedited episode?

Man, I wish there were still radio stations like this around. Which may be a difficult task, as Tim Reid's copy may be the only known one in existence. :-)

Compared to the typical "banter" on 70's variety shows, that was actually pretty sharp.

But we STILL don't get to hear "Lotta Love." :(

What bothers me the most is this recent trend of bloggers and "journalists" to claim that every new technology means the approaching death of everything that came before. MP3's will kill CD's, and streaming will kill MP3's. Smartphones and tablets will kill PC's despite the fact that pretty much...

I feel the same way... if I pay for media I want to own it, not rent it, and I want to be able to hold it in my hand. I don't think physical media is going anywhere soon. it still offers too many things streaming doesn't... DVD extras, the ability to watch without an Internet connection, the...

"Mike Fright" is definitely one of the handful of episodes where I'm gonna leave the DVD on the shelf and watch the original instead.

Both great shows, but both occasionally took themselves too seriously and both ran longer than was good for them. IMO. For sheer unapologetic funniness and laughs per minute, nothing matches WKRP except maybe The Simpsons in its single-digit-season prime. But WKRP wins out because The Simpsons...

It's my favorite comedy TV series of all time. So yes, minutiae is good.

On the "home-made" DVD set I have, the episodes are mostly only 20-21 minutes long, although they have the original music.

So "Sh-Boom" was another song they had to clear, too. Sigh... all these alternate version and mysterious pre-syndication cuts are really challenging my OCD.

So those scenes were edited without there being any music that needed to be cut? Too bad. Looks like a syndication cut snuck in there...

That commentary track is probably owned by Fox. I don't think we're allowed to discuss ripping DVD's here... sorry.

Yeah, there were automated stations as far back as the early 70's. Maybe earlier.