What old TV series would like to have the Whole series of.

My wife loved Night Court and she would love to get the whole series but it seems they only came out with half the seasons than stopped.


Another series Designing Women.

I don't know, perhaps the power of myth on PBS

Or Steve Allen's Meeting of the minds...

I heard it completely ruined the series to that point.

And I LOVED the final episode.
The last season was a bit loopy, and the show needed to end when it did, but the last season was enjoyable. It proved that money does indeed make people do silly things.

I wanted to believe that she really did win all of that money, and that DJ really did find a girlfriend, and that Jackie really did meet her prince.

I like happy endings, and that one sure didn't deliver.

the phrase "jumped the shark" should be changed to "won the lottery"

"Columbo", "Starsky & Hutch".

I only wanted & got the first season of "Charlie's Angels".

And, get this...we ordered the entire set of "Wings" for $100; it turned out to be episodes that were taped from "Nick@Nite" -- the N@N logo is seen in the bottom right corner on each episode, probably from a "Wings" marathon period. A further ripoff is that the audio at the end of every episode is cut off by N@N voice-over promotions of other programming. They were bad about that & it was very irritating since the endings were always clever.

Edited to add "The Bob Newhart Show" is on our list.

a problem with it? I seem to recall something like that.

I'd catch it every once in a while and I thought it had incredibly good writing and acting

you can order it from The Second City in Chicago, online, iirc.

Peoples Choice--a real oldie Matlock The very brief clips of Hot L Baltimore Fractured Flickers Lucy Desi Comedy Hour to name just a few and almost all impossible to get.

Guess I'm sort of an Anglophile in that regard.

Also Mash. Also modern family which I have never seen.

Even though it declined after the first four seasons.

I still have a thing for Donna Moss.

But I haven't seen it since it was first broadcast and summer re-runs. So it's a possible disappointment.

I had totally forgotten just how consistently funny that show was. I agree with you 100% on this one.

Show fell apart after he passed on.

Not as much after Phil Hartman...but still a good show.

My all time favorite show.

:applause:

probably Designing Women, that was such a funny show, maybe Miami Vice, Hawaii 5-0, the Monkees.

for someone in my family.

Then she made me give it back. :-(

That one was fun. I also wish I had:

Boston Legal
Absolutely Fabulous
The Carol Burnett Show
Emergency!
Benny Hill
The Muppet Show
The Smothers Brothers
Carnivale--How I HATE that they canceled that one.
The Bob Newhart Show
Newhart (the second series--Best series finale EVER!)

Not having the original music is crappy, though.

I miss Les Nessman.

With music indeed,
And TAXI, also Night Court.

Nardo's date with Louie STILL makes me laugh, thinking of it.

Tikki

Including the missing episodes.

Yeah, it has been canceled and restarted a few times. But, damn that would still be A LOT of episodes.

Wikipedia lists 769 episodes and 213 serials. Probably about 161 DVD cases in total, assuming all lost episodes are found (without a real TARDIS, very doubtful).

Would NYPD Blue qualify as old? If so that one too.

Maybe 6 Million dollar man

I already have Star Trek:TOS

many people may not have even heard of it. It only lasted a season. Apparently it was repackaged into 'Murder, She Wrote'
I loved the period (1940s) settings.

I loved that show when it was on, but it'll probably never make it to DVD. The music licensing would be a nightmare (read: unbelievably expensive) if they wanted to use all the original songs by the original artists. :(

The original obviously, with the original music intact, which I know will never happen due to rights and $$$ issues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb-gdaHkbmM

Big Guy: "Do I hear dogs barking on that thing?"
Johnny Fever: "I do"

And the best line in sitcom history(IMHO)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4FXSnoy71Q4

Although I don't think it is scary :)

WKRP in Cincinatti - The Phone Cops!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPzTG1Lx60

That show always cracks me up, and even my brother enjoys it.

I'm partly to blame. I only bought seasons 1&2 cause they were in the bargin bin.

But then there's always Hulu for that.

If someone wanted to, s/he could make a fortune putting out the other seasons on DVD.

I always loved the series.

I thought he was a babe!!! LOL

Looks like they stopped with the DVD reissues at Season 4.

My hope is that within the next few years, Netflix or something similar, will have an even greater selection of old TV shows and movies that weren't issued on DVD or even VHS.

This is happening in small ways with music on iTunes (Verve released a number of old albums as digital downloads that they never issued on CD) but I think it could go a lot further.

I loved that show. Fortunately you can see many of them on YouTube (isn't the internet great?!).

My favorite show ever. Brilliant.

The Paladin series with Richard Boone was one of the best of the westerns with many episodes written by Gene Roddenberry (pre Star Trek) and directed by Andrew McLaglen.

The release of DVD sets is finally catching up with public demand. The fifth season will be available later in November 2010.

i loved that show

No wonder that show was a good one!

I would also like to have the original Wild, Wild West.

My two all-time favorite series.

:D

Actually, I have the complete Father Ted series on DVD. I love FT!

I love "The Gilmore Girls"! I'm now brave enough to admit it, thanks to you!

Biker's Old Lady

I'm also a wrestling nerd and even though WWE has recently released a "Best of" of the first two-three years of Raw, I want the whole damn series. All the matches, all the angles. Same with pretty much any wrestling show; Nitro, World Class, etc.

1. The original Forsyth Saga (the first British drama to appear on PBS. It's popularity led to Masterpiece Theater)

2. Rumpole of the Bailey

3. Upstairs Downstairs

4. Cracker

5. Tenko

6. The Prisoner

7. The Emma Peel episodes of The Avengers

8. Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister

9. Sergeant Cribb

I have all the paperbacks based on the series; took me years of garage sales to collect them!

I caught a couple of re-runs a few years back and the acting, writing and direction seemed absolutely terrible, but I loved that show as a kid and would absolustely love to see the whole series again.

Sure the production values were slipshod, and the special effects are laughable by today's standards, but it was an incredibly ambitious venture as well. Plus, it had young Kate Jackson!:loveya:


Of course, with over 1200 or so episodes, it might take a while to sit through!:)

The draw for me was Barnabas. :loveya:

Funny, as a kid I loved Jonathan Frid, who was old enough to be my dad, and now I love Alex O'Loughlin and Aidan Turner, both young enough to be my sons. There's just nothing like a vampire.

I could probably devote an entire vacation to watching. It was only a half hour, and minus the commercials it couldn't be too bad.

1200 episodes? Really? Gosh, I didn't realize it ran that long!

I used to ride my bike to school, and I can remember when the bell rang at the end of the day, making a dash for the bike and peddling like mad to get home in time to see Dark Shadows!

Ah, the memories!!!

Barnabus Collins in the movie version!

watched the first episode and i was hooked

I'm getting the discs one at a time from Netflix and going through them with my daughters.

Cheesy comedy genius.

Andy Griffith Show (I like the black and white early years better than the later color ones, but I'd like to have the entire series).

I Love Lucy

Brady Bunch (yeah, I know, but I can't help it).

Second City TV

Frank's Place

What a show that was!

You did say old! :D

I used to love watching that when I was a kid.

It would be cool to have the complete series, even though a couple of the shows were a little boring.

I really loved Judith and Martin.

I Love Lucy
Northern Exposure
The Prisoner
Dexter
True Blood
The Closer
Mad Men

the show was really good the first 3 seasons and then started a decline on the 4th season. I didn't even bother to get Showtime for the 6th season, figured I can wait until that is on Netflix.

I mean it was a great premise - Widow mom deals pot in order to pay the bills after her husband died unexpectly. But it seems each year they tried to dig her into the next level of dealing. Season #2 she was a grower. Season #3 she was working for gangs. Season #4 she was involved with the Mexican Cartel. Season #5 she was married to the drug kingpin. I mean they were running out of levels for her to go. It just ran out of levels for me.

But those first seasons were really great!