On Thu, 01 May 2008 12:54:28 -0500, Alric Knebel wrote:
> Anim8rFSK wrote:
>
>> In article <010520081015194546%takebackamerica@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>> Audie Murphy's Ghost <takebackamerica@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>In article <ANIM8Rfsk-8470F2.06192701052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
>>>Anim8rFSK <ANIM8Rfsk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>In article
>>>><57c4e0d7-edac-438c-8f8b-9ee12590b3d6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>> Sci-Fi Guy in the OC <spaceforce2000@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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>>>>>I just thought I'd mention that a few of us Irwin Allen enthusiasts
>>>>>have been sending a steady stream of letters to Fox Video urging them
>>>>>to release on DVD Season 4 of "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE
>>>>>SEA" (Episodes 85-110). Season 4 was the Final Year of the series.
>>>>>Fox released the first 3 seasons of "Voyage" over 6 volumes during a
>>>>>two year period--but the DVD release of Season 4 appears to be in
>>>>>limbo. If anyone here purchased the previous seasons on DVD and
would
>>>>>like to see Season 4 of "VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA" released on
>>>>>DVD, PLEASE write to: Mr. Peter Staddon, Executive Vice President,
>>>>>20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 2121 Avenue of the Stars, Los
>>>>>Angeles, CA 90067. Every letter counts. Thanks.
>>>>
>>>>It's possible that the reason they're holding them back is that
they're
>>>>unbelievably bad but, yeah, I'd like a complete set as well.
>>>
>>>
>>>Did the first three seasons sell?
>>
>>
>> No data. Voyage is interesting in that unlike other shows that have
ups
>> and downs in quality, such as LOST IN SPACE that has 5 great eps at the
>> start of season one, tanks when Peter Packer starts writing it, gets a
>> tiny boost season 2 and then bottoms out, and then gets better season 3
>> and then peters out, VOYAGE has a straight linear decline from the
first
>> episode of season one to the last episode of season 4. It just gets
>> worse and worse and worse the whole time.
>>
>> I assume season one sold well enough to justify season two (well,
>> actually I assume season one volume one sold enough to justify season
>> one volume two) and two well enough to justify three. If they're
seeing
>> a decline in sales that matches the decline in quality though . . .
>
> I don't think that'll be the case, when you get right down to it. The
> tendency to buy these things is less sophisticated than that. If it was
> more sophisticated, you wouldn't be buying them at all, because the
> production values aren't that great. I know what the impulse is,
> because I've bought M:I (season one) and three seasons of THE WILD WILD
> WEST. Once you start buying those things, you just start doing it for
> the collectability, and you can't say an entire season was bad, in ANY
> show. So a collector who's got this nostalgic affection for it is going
> to overlook the bad episodes just to be insure he gets all the good
ones.
>
> That's just my take on it.
That's a good enough take. And I kind of agree with you. I didn't buy any
of the MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE stuff, because I happened to catch it in
syndication back in the 1980s, I think. Already, with an ever shorter
passage of time from the original airdate, it didn't stand up. Too much
karate-chopping across the neck to knock people out, just to cut corners
on
the writing, when really the plot and schemes could have used a bit of
tightening up. I lost interest in VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA even as
a kid, when you'd see the same splice of film used over and over and over.
The flying sub, especially, was shoddily presented, with that same clip.
The show was cheaply done and it showed in the most insulting way. But
they did one time REVERSE the splice, so it looked like it was flying the
other way.
I saw where you mentioned LOST IN SPACE further up -- that was another
abysmally bad example of 1960s sci-fi. But we gobbled it up, right,
because that's the best we had. Nobody took it seriously in those days.
Now sci-fi of all sorts (including comic book adaptations) gets the full
treatment.
But, yeah, you're right. If someone gets a nostaligic hankering for one
of
these shows, they'll collect every box set, good, bad, and everything in
between.
--
M. Ramey
Director of Human Resources
"You don't have to be crazy to work here,
but it helps."
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