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OK...I give up. What aired 9/30/06?

My understanding is that the rights are divided for this show, even varying from season to season as far as who controls the distribution rights. That in itself doesn't mean it's impossible for the show to be released, but it does tend to put it at the bottom of the list when potential DVDs are...

As far as you know, has the recent loosening of the old Fox barn door increased our chances of seeing the rest of Burke's Law?

I see what you did there. Thank you for the sneak peek. I hope they come to pass also. I'm not familiar with Black Saddle, but it sounds like it's worth seeing. And Trackdown was at the top of my most wanted westerns list, so this prognostication is very welcome!

Recalling my misspent youth wasted on logic puzzles, Black Saddle appears to be the correct guess for the first series. Still multiple possibilities for the second, but it seems like either Wichita Town or Trackdown are the likeliest suspects.

I never had a VHS collection to rival Neil's, but I did have somewhere in the 1500-2000 episode range in those days. It was certainly a lot more trouble to obtain shows then, but my biggest complaint was that they were almost all edited. Perhaps my greatest pleasure in having so many television...

I would be surprised if they don't put out the last season of Dr. Kildare in the next year or so.

Also, there is the difference of population scale. The equivalent amount in the U.S. would be about 5,000-6,000. I do wish that there was a little more transparency about sales so we could know what the realistic expectations should be. VCI touted Burke's Law and Honey West as big sellers, but...

My memory was faulty. In fact, both halves of the season are even at 19 episodes each.

I think you are referring to Season 4, not Season 3. Season 3 was not split into two sets, as it was released in the older era, along with the first two seasons. Also, Ms. Lu appeared in fourth season. The two sets are split almost evenly, with 20 episodes in one and 19 in the other. If you need...

To go waaay back up the page, I think I Dream of Jeannie was better when it switched to color.

I believe CBS's color efforts were slowed down by their pursuit of a color TV technology that would have been incompatible with black and white sets. The compatible NBC technology was obviously going to win that format war, and it delayed CBS's full participation in the early days of regular...

Didn't Wagon Train go from b/w to color and then back to b/w for one last year also?

Trying to get a handle on the scope of color programming before 1965...how many regularly scheduled, scripted, non-animated network series were in color as of, say, 1962? I know Bonanza and The Virginian were. How many others?

Thanks for the stats, Bob. They provide an interesting perspective on that transitional year. One series that seems to have undergone the soul-searching you suggest was Perry Mason. A tenth season was a possibility and they filmed one episode in color toward the end of the 1965-66 season as a...

The 1965-1966 season (when both Get Smart and Hogan's Heroes premiered) was the transitional one. The season before that, there were just a few color series. The following season, all three networks went full color (apart from some news stuff). But I imagine that in the 1965 pilot season, there...

Just the pilot episode was black and white. The rest of season one was shot in color.

I am also puzzled about their not releasing season 3 of Bat Masterson, but they did include some season 3 episodes on the 24-hour set they released, so they must have rights and access to at least some of those shows. Maybe it will just be part of another wave of releases, as they are doing with...

I saw that too. I think it was a wish, as it came right after the sentence about how Slattery's People should be released on DVD also.

Not pushing for anything too specific from the ol' crystal ball, but are the remaining two b/w releases of shows that have already had releases this year?

I'm looking forward to it. Before the DVDs, I had only seen a couple of episodes but I have really enjoyed the series. It's an interesting case for me in that I am not crazy about the lead performance, but the scripts and the wonderful guest performances almost always impress me. I've heard that...

Come back to the trivia thread...you can belong again...

Yes to both questions, but they really had little in common as a practical matter. The movie character was a lot shadier than the interesting, but obviously upstanding, TV hero. Good show as I remember, though. I'm eager to see it again after watching reruns as a kid in the 80s.

Jack, it might be worth your while anyway then. The set is on sale for $25 at Shout's website and they are offering an exclusive bonus disc with, I think, seven more episodes of the game show.

Good catches, Jack. And there was the Columbo that wasn't used and then rewritten as a McMillan, only to be used again on the revived Columbo!

I agree. Shakespeare borrowed nearly all of his plots from other sources (as was common at the time); it is indeed all in the execution. At the same time, I would prefer that some of the more detailed plots that are borrowed would be credited. I realize that financial considerations make that...

The Golden Girls borrowed at least four distinct plots from The Mary Tyler Moore Show. And I can think of numerous "stock plots" on various comedies and dramas, e.g. hero goes temporarily blind, hero suffers temporary amnesia, two characters are stuck in a room/elevator/basement, one character...

I believe it was Neil Brock who suggested that Timeless might be pursuing The Name of the Game. Any ideas whether that would be the kind of title that would survive the merger? That's the kind of title I see as borderline. It has a certain name value and it's in color (Shout likes those), but...

Any chance of a lovably corrupt master sergeant reappearing in the crystal ball, Gary?

I actually feel that the political slant added a layer of depth that would have been otherwise absent. From the show's point of view, Archie is generally wrong and Mike is generally right. However, Archie is often portrayed sympathetically and Mike is often portrayed unsympathetically. That...