Alan Smithee

My prayers have been answered- I have a bad-quality copy of this taped from cable as it's never been issued officially before, and now it'll be on Blu-Ray!

Still hoping for a complete series set of The Gong Show, but this is great news!

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hanshotfirst1138

And yet I can't get Mighty Max . Come on Shout!

Josh Z

The TVs show was shot on standard-def video. It can't be remastered into high definition.

Adam Tyner

Looks like there were 501 episodes. What's the record for the most episodes in a boxed set?

Whiskey Warfield

THE Mabel King?

Boba Fett

Dark Shadows.

120 odd DVDs, 1200 episodes.

hanshotfirst1138

Is SD video basically like VHS or Betamax? What's it's resolution? 480i if it's NTSC?

You could actually probably cram TONS of episodes of an SD show onto a single Blu-ray Disc, thing I can't imagine it'd be a good idea from a manufacturer's perspective?

Disappointingly few of which are streaming or show up on TV.

Alan Smithee

I meant that I'd take it on ANY format. I actually have a few Betamax tapes from an early VCR owner who was a fan of the show, but they usually just recorded segments and not the whole shows. Here's a few of them:

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Brian T

Shout should add at least a few clips from the TV show. No one would expect anything other than standard TV quality, but the added context would certainly be valuable.

Barris is still around, but at 87-ish and having been long out of the spotlight, I can't imagine Shout got him to participate. Perhaps they can rummage up a doc about him, or maybe that TV Land bio I vaguely recall.

Amazon has the listing up. Love the original art:
www.amazon.com/dp/B018WQBNBS/

Josh Z

I don't have any specific information about The Gong Show, but given the time period, my assumption is that it was probably shot on Sony's U-Matic format (the predecessor to Betacam), which had about 250 lines of resolution. So, roughly comparable to VHS quality.

JOE29

I'm in.

davidh777

I watched the show as a kid but never knew there was a movie.

digidoh

Wasn't some/a lot of the movie taken from the TV episodes and thus on standard-def video transferred to film?

Alan Smithee

Some of it was, but most of it's a story about Chuckie going nuts. It likely won't make much sense to anyone who never saw the show.

shepster

Hey, i'm trying to track down a specific act from the gong show. two kids doing a magic trick with swords. The trick where one kid wears a box over his head and the other kid sticks swords through the box, looking like the sword goes all the way through but of course not injuring the kid wearing the box. Has anyone seen this episode in any of their DVD or VHS sets or online anywhere? The act came in second place but I don't remember who won.