classic tv

There is a thread going about Life Goes On, the 1989 to 1993 network drama, started by someone who found episodes uploaded to YouTube and realised the show has almost no home video presence. Season one came out on DVD in 2006 and then the releases simply stopped. That pattern shows up often...

There is a thread doing the rounds again asking Disney to reopen the anthology vault, the Disneyland and Wonderful World of Disney and Wonderful World of Color material, and floating a retro line to sit where the Treasures tins and the Movie Club exclusives used to be. I would buy it tomorrow. I...

Been going through upcoming release lists and it hit me the same way it hit a thread I was reading: nearly everything getting announced now starts in the 70s. Timeless is still putting out early material, Shout has clearly swung toward 70s shows, you get the occasional MPI or Warner title, but...

Two BFI discs turned up in the announcements this week and one of them raises a question I would genuinely like an answer to. The Goons at Rediffusion collects four mid-fifties Associated-Rediffusion comedies - The Idiot Weekly Price 2d, A Show Called Fred, Son of Fred and Yes It's the...