MUNKB

I an happy to report that Warners as part of 50 years of WB TV will be releasing 'MAVERICK' Could Cheyenne,Bronco, 77 Sunset Strip be forthcoming on DVD. One can only hope.


Warner Home Video Celebrates 50 Years of Television History from Warner Bros. Television with a Year-Long Promotion Featuring Today's Hit Shows and All-Time Classic Series


BURBANK, Calif. -- Dec. 27, 2004 -- In 2005, as Warner Bros. Television (WBTV) celebrates 50 years as the leader in television entertainment, Warner Home Video (WHV) is launching a year-long promotion featuring first-time-available and catalog DVD releases of WBTV hits. The studio-wide campaign will include DVD releases of series that date back to Maverick, one of WBTV's earliest series, continuing through to recent hits, and will feature special promotions for retailers and consumers.

chente

Halle-fucking-lula

Cameron

when and to what end...specs? pics? source? give us something

Max Bottomtime

Maybe they'll release a better version of the Mel Gibson/James Garner film.

Walter Neff

Will this spur Universal to finally release that other great James Garner television series on DVD? (I've complained about this so many times in so many threads that I won't even name the series this time.) Probably not, but a guy can dream, right?

Wannabe

I think Walter Neff and I are the only people on this board who really want Rockford on DVD. I don't care about extras, commentary, deleted scenes... all I want is good clean uncut episodes of Rockford. This is one of the few television shows I NEED to own. Come on Universal!

Paul Drake

I want Rockford also....I think you'd be surprised at how many people would buy it. James Garner has a very large fan base and many people consider Rockford to be one the best of the late 70s/early 80s crime shows.

Back to the topic...Maverick would also be an attractive purchase, particularly if it's reasonably certain Warners would continue with future volumes.

77 Sunset Strip was mentioned in a USA Article some months ago about various titles Warners was going to release over the next several years. No date or details was given though. I don't recall hearing about Cheyenne or Bronco.

Max Bottomtime

I've been waiting for Rockford since it was first announced...two years ago!!!
TV Guide once said James Garner is like Sarah Lee; nobody doesn't like him.

Cameron

from the bits

Finally, some details on the release later this year of the TV series Maverick have also appeared and if correct, Warners seem to be in the process of dropping the ball on this popular series. Rather than a season set, it looks like we'll be getting a disc containing merely three episodes of the series. No specific release date has been revealed as yet.

will travel

If No Season sets then No Sale.

Warners have been doing great on their Classic movies, Don't short change your classic TV series.

I think season sets of Have Gun, Will Travel have been doing well for Paramount.
Hope the upcoming Wanted: Dead or Alive also has strong sales.

rw2516

This whole WB tv promo seems to have vanished into thin air. Supposed to run throughout 2005 and hasn't started yet. All seasons of Adventures of Superman were also included. This was heavily promoted in trade magazines. What happened??? As for Maverick and Rockford. Garner sued both WB and Universal over residuals of the shows, and won. I'm willing to bet neither show can be released to dvd unless the studio can make a deal with him for his cut of the dvd sales.

Cameron

09.27.05 is the date...9.99 is the price

rdclark

So this is, what, two or three episodes? A TV movie/pilot? Don't they know by now that people want season sets?

RichC

Cameron

I think they are testing the waters for this one...as well as F-Troop. Seeing if they have some interest to merit releasing multiple disc box sets for 40-60 bucks

chente

I'll buy it but would really prefer season sets. I love this show.

obscurelabel

Great to see all of the love for James Garner, but remember that Jack Kelly was Bart Maverick for the entire series run. The (relatively) few shows that I have seen featured either Kelly (brother Bart) or Garner (brother Bret) but not both. Garner left after the 1960 season and Roger Moore of all people was brought in as cousin (I think) Beauregard Maverick.

I believe that one episode of Maverick, where Bret buys into a poker game that turns out to be rigged, was redone almost scene-for-scene as a Rockford Files episode twenty or so years later. I'm relying on memory for this, so you guys can tell me if I'm completely delusional about this.

MUNKB

Does anyone have any info on how many episode on the single disc are being released?

Cameron

3 episodes

Shady Deal at Sunny Acres
Gun-shy
Pappy

B5Erik

I'll buy this in a heartbeat.

Warner Brothers still seems to have some skepticism about TV on DVD for some reason. They did the same thing with Babylon 5 - released a couple of TV movies first to see if there was a market or not, and only after sales exceeded their expectations did they release the full season sets.

Looks like the same thing here - if it doesn't sell, no full season box sets.

So I'm buying it. The price is right anyway.

johnbook

I was thinking the same thing...Great movie, i beleive that movie was the last hurrah for the late great Denver Pyle, aka (Uncle Jesse)...

johnbook

I'm buying when they decide to release season sets, by the way how many seasons of rockford files were there...

Walter Neff

It aired for six seasons, I believe...

Lepus Rex

Speaking of Rockford, did anyone else see this at tvshowsondvd.com?

Here's a crappy screenshot from the trailer:



Yay.

---Lepus Rex

Walter Neff

I'll believe it when I have it in my hot little hands. I hope it's true, but Universal already got my hopes up once before by announcing a "Rockford Files" DVD set and then never actually releasing it. The existence of cover art gets my hopes up, but I'm not holding my breath...

bacigalup

Finally! The complete 1st season is to be released 5/29/2012:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/news/Mav...Season-1/16528