SydLexia.com - The Forums :: View topic - What is your holy grail nonreleased Movie or Television show

Posted: Sep 11 2009 10:10 pm

I have been a scavenger of the internet for years looking for rare and unreleased video from my childhood (80's kid), and very few things have eluded me.

For example I got all of YCDTOTV (excluding the majority of season 1), Captain power, Nelvanamation volume's 1 and 2, The adventures of Mouse and Child and a real rarity that most haven't heard of "Arajin to maho no ranpu" otherwise known as "Aladdin and his wonderful lamp" in the english version release, all of these in good to DVD quality. So I finally got these gems for myself.

Back to my point of posting: If you could have one show or movie and only one released onto DVD perfectly with all the extras what would it be?

Mine is Definitely the old Nickelodeon show " Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea" (english version) I only have a few episodes off of youtube and feel lucky I got those. Very Happy

Found a bootleg source but frankly I don't trust it and it is over $100 for an incomplete set

The theme song still invades my head weekly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48NaLR8V9fE

Whats yours?

Posted: Sep 12 2009 02:36 am

I'd love to pick me up some Rocko's Modern Life.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

"Stunt Dawgs" is definitely one I want to have, it was hilarious.

Also, "Cowboys of Moo-Mesa".

Posted: Sep 12 2009 11:38 am

Pretty much all of the early 90s Nickelodeon shows; Hey Dude, Salute Your Shorts, Clarissa, etc. I've found some private sellers online that sell DVDs of those shows recorded from TV, but damn, I'd pay a lot of money to have official releases of all of those series I loved as a kid.

A Saved By The Bell box set would be pretty sweet too.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

Clarissa season one is availible though second season was never released so it would be nice to see that. Also season 3 of pete and pete would be nice.

Posted: Sep 12 2009 01:35 pm

Megas XLR, no doubt.

Posted: Sep 12 2009 01:42 pm

Traci Lords joke.

Posted: Sep 12 2009 06:09 pm

The Wonder Years. I've given up hope for that one though.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

The remaining seasons of malcom in the middle

Joined: Feb 16 2008 Posts: 832

daria and the extreme ghostbusters

Posted: Sep 12 2009 08:29 pm

Tyop wrote:

The Wonder Years. I've given up hope for that one though.

i think Douche has that series. he told me once he could burn it for me, but i never got back to him.

Posted: Sep 13 2009 01:30 am

Why wouldn't they release the Wonder Years? Everyone likes the Wonder Years! Confused

Posted: Sep 13 2009 03:15 am

The big hurdle is the cost of securing the rights to the period music that was used on the show. This didn't pose a problem back during the show's original run, since broadcasting rights differ from distribution rights and are less expensive. Most shows nowadays negotiate distribution rights prior to broadcasting, but back then nobody anticipated that an entire TV series could be released on digital media. So they ended up using about three hundred songs that are now hugely expensive to get the rights for.

If The Wonder Years ever ends up on DVD it will most likely be with different music. The two Best Of DVDs that have been released so far both used replacement music. In order to release the whole series they'd have to go through each and every episode, see which songs are exchangeable and which other less expensive songs can be used instead. That's both a time and money-intensive process, so it's uncertain if we will ever see box sets of the entire show.

Posted: Sep 13 2009 03:54 am

Well that fucking blows. Sad

Posted: Sep 13 2009 12:19 pm

Yeah more or less the same reason we will never see a legit Muppet babies DVD release, except with them they used more video clips, etc if I remember right.

Joined: May 05 2007 Posts: 40

Tyop wrote:

The big hurdle is the cost of securing the rights to the period music that was used on the show. This didn't pose a problem back during the show's original run, since broadcasting rights differ from distribution rights and are less expensive. Most shows nowadays negotiate distribution rights prior to broadcasting, but back then nobody anticipated that an entire TV series could be released on digital media. So they ended up using about three hundred songs that are now hugely expensive to get the rights for.

Same sort of thing with Daria

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

It will be interesting to see what they do with the daria dvd release next year.

Joined: May 05 2007 Posts: 40

Quote:

The Daria TV movies Is It Fall Yet? and Is It College Yet? are the sole two authorized DVD releases as of 2009. Each DVD also includes two episodes from the series, from seasons 4 and 5 respectively, with licensed music removed. The latter disc uses a second-showing MTV version that was shortened by approximately seven minutes, rather than the original cablecast version.

Title: Titlating Joined: Dec 17 2007 Posts: 5042

hobojoe44 wrote:

Quote:

The Daria TV movies Is It Fall Yet? and Is It College Yet? are the sole two authorized DVD releases as of 2009. Each DVD also includes two episodes from the series, from seasons 4 and 5 respectively, with licensed music removed. The latter disc uses a second-showing MTV version that was shortened by approximately seven minutes, rather than the original cablecast version.

Well on the state DVD you get this

Posted: Sep 13 2009 11:09 pm

Dilbert the Complete TV show... Only two season and it's on HuLu now but DAMNIT I want Scott Adams angry rants on the Commentary!

Posted: Sep 14 2009 02:33 pm

Hey, Beavis and Butthead got to keep a lot of the videos in DVD releases, I don't see why they can't do the same for Daria. Either that, or it's torrent and DVD burning city for me.

RobotGumshoe wrote:

Megas XLR, no doubt.

Have my babies.