Most people I know want no part of buying older TV shows on DVD

[BuddyHinton]

The strange part of this is they are my age of 39 and older, like 60's, and still only buy CSI's and X-Files, Lost, etc. I'm sure you now the ilk of shows. They look at my collection of Starsky and Hutch and my recent import of the Six Million Dollar Man almost in disgust or embarrassment (and my other 50+ sets).

The rational here seems to be "they've seen it" "it's old" and do not have the nostalgia pull to it that I have. I watch these shows and sometimes reminisce about these simpler times, other shows like MASH and All in the Family are just flat out better than anything on today and am amazed at the general disregard by my friends and family for ANYTHING that is old. Sure you've seen it but I wonder why so many do not want to "relive it" as I do?

Of course I have a few newer shows like Alias, Supernatural, and Millennium that I like but my heart is in Mayberry and am shocked at the total disregard for the older stuff.

[robby76]

I know what you mean, but it's just different people at different stages in their lives. Who knows, in another 10 yrs time they may be hankering to relive their youth and only then get into retro dvds. Similarly, you may tire of the old shows and want something more recent - you never know. It's swings and roundabouts and I wouldn't pigeonhole someone as "anti retro-dvd" too soon.

Similarly, I went into a phase of buying retro Britcoms... which I've now got tired of and am now back into US sitcoms from the 70s and 80s.

[Dean Winchester]

well, I think it's a double edged sword. Companies only wish to release shows on DVD that have been played to death in reruns, but a lot of consumers don't want the shows that are played to death and would rather have the lesser seen shows. I have a friend who loves shows like Roseanne and Three's Company and she has yet to get those on DVD because she sees them so frequently (well, not so much Roseanne now) but yet shows like Gimme A Break, One Day At A Time, Life Goes On and other shows she loves as well but aren't rammed down your throat in syndication, she owns

[robby76]

well, I think it's a double edged sword. Companies only wish to release shows on DVD that have been played to death in reruns, but a lot of consumers don't want the shows that are played to death and would rather have the lesser seen shows. I have a friend who loves shows like Roseanne and Three's Company and she has yet to get those on DVD because she sees them so frequently (well, not so much Roseanne now) but yet shows like Gimme A Break, One Day At A Time, Life Goes On and other shows she loves as well but aren't rammed down your throat in syndication, she owns

I agree! Seeing a show every day just makes me hate it. Seinfeld has been ruined by tv stations putting it on morning noon and night. I used to love it but now can't stand it and wouldn't even dream of buying it on dvd. :lol:

And I echo your sentiments on the rarer shows being released! I love all the one /two season wonders from the 80s like Mr Smith, Just Our Luck, Double Trouble, Seven Brothers for Seven Brides, Whiz Kids, Rags To Riches, Misfits of Science, Edison Twins, Code Red... you get the point. :)

[tv star collector]

The strange part of this is they are my age of 39 and older, like 60's, and still only buy CSI's and X-Files, Lost, etc. I'm sure you now the ilk of shows. They look at my collection of Starsky and Hutch and my recent import of the Six Million Dollar Man almost in disgust or embarrassment (and my other 50+ sets).

The rational here seems to be "they've seen it" "it's old" and do not have the nostalgia pull to it that I have. I watch these shows and sometimes reminisce about these simpler times, other shows like MASH and All in the Family are just flat out better than anything on today and am amazed at the general disregard by my friends and family for ANYTHING that is old. Sure you've seen it but I wonder why so many do not want to "relive it" as I do?

Of course I have a few newer shows like Alias, Supernatural, and Millennium that I like but my heart is in Mayberry and am shocked at the total disregard for the older stuff.

I just turned 60 this year and have always felt a strong pull by nostalgia, as
far back as I can remember. Nearly every day I watch old shows on video
(although, to be honest, I also watch a selection of new shows); and I keep
my radio tuned to an "oldies" station. But not everyone feels that way. I
recall once that comedian Jack Benny said, "I don't give a damn about last
week's show. I only care about my next show." He didn't want to relive the
past; he was only interested in the present. To each his own.

[coffield3]

Most of the shows i like haven't been played to death on tv over here, for example two of my favorite shows Roseanne and I love lucy never get played here anymore so i have no choice but to buy them on dvd. Hardly any of my friends like the shows that i do, they are into prison break desperate housewifes and csi shows like that. I rarely watch new shows.

[Corolla]

I buy loads of older TV on DVD sets. I love seeing what shows were around before my time and also experiencing what I watched when I was younger in the process. I just ordered Looney Tunes Golden Collection to relive those Bugs Bunny shorts. :lol:

[BuddyHinton]

I can see the ones beaten into the ground (count me in on Sein) but there are waaaaaaaaay more that haven't that are on dvd and they still would NEVER buy them. As far as not judging them too soon I have been buying these shows for 10 years now and they have never bought even one old show. I have tried and tried to tell them how shows progress and how you just don't get that from "TV" epsiodes, about the lack of edits in most cases, the extra's, but still no dice.

Why a 70 year old lady, wild about Elvis and buys his music, wouldn't rather watch any show she had watched in her "day" over CSI: Miami is just a mystery Columbo needs to solve.

[Dean Winchester]

Why a 70 year old lady, wild about Elvis and buys his music, wouldn't rather watch any show she had watched in her "day" over CSI: Miami is just a mystery Columbo needs to solve.

maybe she has the hots for the Hispanic guy on there? :lol:

My dad is in his 70's and rarely does he ever watch old shows in reruns but yet he does watch Law And Order: SVU and Without A Trace (he used to watch CSI but got bored after so many years of the same thing). When my mom was alive tho, she would watch Hunter, The Odd Couple, Andy Griffith Show, MASH, All In The Family and other reruns of "older" programs. I think there is a "been there done that" feeling towards most older shows by a great deal of viewers. Only the real "TV fans" really care about watching a show that aired 20, 30, 40 years ago for the most part. People are generally far more "current minded" towards television than they are towards music.

[Tubehead]

i buy mostly old shows. i got my favortie martian, i love lucy the hooney mooenrs, and welcome back ,kottoer. i try not to get to many that come on tv. i do have quatam leap. it comes on tv a lot but its one of my favoriteshows. i also have family ties and smallville.

[BuddyHinton]

"Only the real "TV fans" really care about watching a show that aired 20, 30, 40 years ago for the most part. People are generally far more "current minded" towards television than they are towards music."

This I think sums it all up, it just doesn't make sense in my brain. I also don't think most viewers realize the evolution of shows, even ones w/o season long story arcs and the like. The difference and feel between the Andy Griffith Show season 1 and season 5 are like night and day to me. I can tell merely by interaction which season it is, I don't think most viewers care enough about the characters to WANT to see this type of evolution, which can't be had by network tv's "jump around" methods.

so, I guess all of the above is why this message board is HERE! Thank GOD!

a conversation:

friend: hey have you seen a show called Dexter?

me: no, right now I'm on Season 3 of the A-Team:)

[Dean Winchester]

"Only the real "TV fans" really care about watching a show that aired 20, 30, 40 years ago for the most part. People are generally far more "current minded" towards television than they are towards music."

This I think sums it all up, it just doesn't make sense in my brain. I also don't think most viewers realize the evolution of shows, even ones w/o season long story arcs and the like. The difference and feel between the Andy Griffith Show season 1 and season 5 are like night and day to me. I can tell merely by interaction which season it is, I don't think most viewers care enough about the characters to WANT to see this type of evolution, which can't be had by network tv's "jump around" methods.

so, I guess all of the above is why this message board is HERE! Thank GOD!

a conversation:

friend: hey have you seen a show called Dexter?

me: no, right now I'm on Season 3 of the A-Team:)

well, I think much like how a lot of people who watched Columbo and Starsky And Hutch 30 years ago are indifferent to it now, I think the same will apply 30 years from now with CSI, Law And Order and the sort. The true tv fans will still care but Joe Sixpack will have moved on to whatever has come on since.

Seriously tho, you should check Dexter out, I finished the first season in three days, it's some GREAT television

[BuddyHinton]

Seriously tho, you should check Dexter out, I finished the first season in three days, it's some GREAT television

Not you toooooooooooooo!!! lol

[Dean Winchester]

Seriously tho, you should check Dexter out, I finished the first season in three days, it's some GREAT television

Not you toooooooooooooo!!! lol
Michael C. Hall should've won an Emmy for the first season. How quickly he went from David on Six Feet Under to the sociopathic Dexter in no time shows how talented an actor he is

[comedyfreak]

I love buying the old tv shows, infact I prefer them to the newer ones. The only newer TV Show I have is Smallville seasons 1-5. I still need season 6.

[djcapote]

Classic Comedies in my opinion are timeless. Some of the newer shows are ok, but the day of the television sitcom have been over for awhile. To me, I'll wait a few seasons & let a show establish itself before getting in to it. While I did buy the Everyone Loves Raymond Collection, I didn't start to watch until a couple of years ago. I still prefer to pick up classic sitcoms instead...Beaver, Jeanie, Bewitched not including the collections recorded off tv that's floating around.

[bmasters9]

Classic Comedies in my opinion are timeless. Some of the newer shows are ok, but the day of the television sitcom have been over for awhile. To me, I'll wait a few seasons & let a show establish itself before getting in to it. While I did buy the Everyone Loves Raymond Collection, I didn't start to watch until a couple of years ago. I still prefer to pick up classic sitcoms instead...Beaver, Jeanie, Bewitched not including the collections recorded off tv that's floating around.

The only comedy currently in my collection is a classic-- that being the CBS Saturday classic "Mary Tyler Moore." I have the first two seasons' worth of it from 1970-72. I haven't bought any comedies from the '90's or today, because I didn't think they were funny at all. "Mary Tyler Moore" stands in a class by itself. Every one of the 30 episodes that I have seen so far is truly, no doubt, hilarious. The '90's comedies ("Seinfeld", "Friends", "Raymond") don't even come close.

[ClassicComedyFan2]

I'm 22, and caught interest in a lot of classic TV shows back in the days when TV Land and Nick at Nite were actually good. :lol:

I have a lot of classic TV shows on DVD--ranging from 60s sitcoms like Hogan's Heroes and Green Acres to 80s shows like Murder She Wrote and The A-Team and more. I merely mix present and past programming--although its primarily animated series from the present that I like (Pokemon, Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, etc.)--there aren't really any good first-run sitcoms or dramas that have caught my interest since the ending of Frasier and Star Trek: Enterprise respectively.

60s Sitcoms, 80s Mystery and Action Shows, Classic Cartoons, Anime, Star Trek--it's all in my collection. :) Simply put, if its a good show--I'll buy it, doesn't matter when it was made.

[bmasters9]

I buy loads of older TV on DVD sets. I love seeing what shows were around before my time and also experiencing what I watched when I was younger in the process. I just ordered Looney Tunes Golden Collection to relive those Bugs Bunny shorts. :lol:

You and I have something in common, then, ~NeonFire372~. In addition to all the '80's series that I have ("St. Elsewhere," "Moonlighting", "Hardcastle and McCormick", etc.), I have a few '60's and '70's series as well-- some of the best of which are "Hawaii Five-O" and "Mary Tyler Moore," both of which I have at least 2 seasons' worth of. There was a lot of good television then-- in fact, more then than now.