Shows you missed the chance to own - You thought they'd be on forever and when they stopped, it's like they never existed at all

[basil marceaux.DOTCOM]

What are some shows from your past you couldn't love more, couldn't watch more, but you never thought to record as they were airing, since they would always be on in your mind?
I feel like we all have them.

And then of course your favorite shows never get DVD releases or only get 1/10 of them available, usually in low quality, or are held hostage for outrageous prices on streaming services (think Amazon).

I think for me the biggest one is Wild West Tech on History. Hosted at first by Keith Carradine, then David. I've always liked anything to do with gadgets or inventions, and the west setting made it even better. I had so much fun with this show and learned so much watching it.

And now that I want it either on tape or DVD or whatever (physical copy), you only have a few episodes held hostage on Amazon for 2 bucks a pop, absolutely insane INDIVIDUAL DVDs released by History (Yes, one episode per DVD at 20 a pop. Are you kidding me? It's not complete either), and since it wasn't a well known smash hit, no torrents, virtually no free uploads, not reshown on TV anymore, so might as well be nothing.

I remember thinking how disappointed I was when I first encountered streaming services and their claim of "WE HAVE EVERYTHING" and being so disappointed when I would search for stuff like this and turn up nothing.
"Everything" means "All the popular shit that is everywhere else." What's the point?

"It lives now, only in my memory."

What are some of yours?

 

[SSF2T Old User]

And then of course your favorite shows never get DVD releases or only get 1/10 of them available, usually in low quality, or are held hostage for outrageous prices on streaming services (think Amazon).

Pretty much the situation with anything Looney Tunes or Tom & Jerry related. You would need to do some deep heavy research to figure out which dvd/box-set would be the best one to get that has most (if not all) the episodes, and even then it's a gamble on whether or not the episodes themselves are edited out for "current times".

Ren & Stimpy got fucked in a similar way. First dvd boxset had "uncut & uncensored" on it, yet they were the edits that SpikeTV/MTV used that took away a lot of stuff and added commercial fade-outs when there weren't any in the original Nickelodeon shows.

 

[JonIrenicus]

There was a show on UK TV called Time Commanders where a team had to reenact battles in history against AI, and their decisions were shown and acted out on the Rome Total War engine.

It was cool because there was a military historian on the show who talked about how the actual battle unfolded, and it was hilarious watching British members of the public try to wrap their heads around military strategy and a computer game and nearly always lose to the AI.

I don't know if it's available anywhere but it was good.

 

[Syaoran Li]

Streaming media and its consequences have been a disaster for the entire human race

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Streaming media and its consequences have been a disaster for the entire human race

Okay, who gave Uncle Ted an iPhone in a birthday cake?

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

Nothing is truly gone forever if you know how to navigate the high seas of the internet, matey.

 

[Joe Swanson]

There was a show on UK TV called Time Commanders where a team had to reenact battles in history against AI, and their decisions were shown and acted out on the Rome Total War engine.

It was cool because there was a military historian on the show who talked about how the actual battle unfolded, and it was hilarious watching British members of the public try to wrap their heads around military strategy and a computer game and nearly always lose to the AI.

I don't know if it's available anywhere but it was good.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL05012F0E0C42D0B5

found a playlist on youtube with some, archive as you please

 

[Irrelevant]

There was a show on UK TV called Time Commanders where a team had to reenact battles in history against AI, and their decisions were shown and acted out on the Rome Total War engine.

It was cool because there was a military historian on the show who talked about how the actual battle unfolded, and it was hilarious watching British members of the public try to wrap their heads around military strategy and a computer game and nearly always lose to the AI.

I don't know if it's available anywhere but it was good.

I was randomly recommended this video on YouTube a while back and I knew from the title alone it was about Time Commanders: "The TV Show that didn't want you to know it was a Video Game"

It was actually multiplayer against Creative Assembly staff and not against AI.

 

[basil marceaux.DOTCOM]

Nothing is truly gone forever if you know how to navigate the high seas of the internet, matey.

100% disagree that not everything is pirated. Past experience talking.

Everything might be available online if you search hard enough, perhaps, but locked behind quite a few paywalls; they know you have no other choice and dangle it over you.

 

[Emperor Julian]

Their was a series called the hunger on sci-fi channel back when the channel had some teeth, plenty of creepy sexy violence horror. David bowie was the narrator in season 2

 

[sparklemilhouse]

Craig Kilborn Daily Show.

 

[Pokemonquistador2]

For the longest time, I remember watching a weird sci-fi movie that took place on a 1/2 light, half-dark planet. It was a pilot for a crazy TV show that was never picked up. I fell in love with it, but it seemed to disappear as quickly as it had appeared. I can sadly, only find a badly cropped version of it on Youtube:

Do we have a thread for fascinating TV show pilots that never got developed into series? because I feel that would be an interesting subject....

 

[sparklemilhouse]

So far I’ve missed out on getting Kate & Allie cheap on dvd, moonlighting season 3, and pretty much king of the hill. Shit just went out of print.

my local library got different strokes recently — except for season two, because it’s way out of print.

 

[White Devil]

The Drew Carey Show. I have some shitty 440p rips of every season but it's not the same as an actual DVD or blu ray release that it deserves because that show was fucking hilarious. Yeah nowadays, sjws would get up in arms over it because of the humor, but they lack humor in their very souls.

Like Malcolm in the Middle, the reason why The Drew Carey Show doesn't have a US release on home video is because of all the music licensing in it. That also almost stopped Married with Children from getting a DVD boxset.

 

[Autumnal Equinox]

They stopped making SNL box sets after season 5. I torrented the rest of the series but the quality varies

There were Beavis and Butthead DVD’s, but they’re only a handful of the shorts and no music video riffing which was the best part. I did download the King Turd collection which is complete but it would have been nice to have an official release

 

[murdered meat bag]

The Drew Carey Show. I have some shitty 440p rips of every season but it's not the same as an actual DVD or blu ray release that it deserves because that show was fucking hilarious. Yeah nowadays, sjws would get up in arms over it because of the humor, but they lack humor in their very souls.

Like Malcolm in the Middle, the reason why The Drew Carey Show doesn't have a US release on home video is because of all the music licensing in it. That also almost stopped Married with Children from getting a DVD boxset.

It only got 1 season released due to music licenses i believe.

They stopped making SNL box sets after season 5. I torrented the rest of the series but the quality varies

There were Beavis and Butthead DVD’s, but they’re only a handful of the shorts and no music video riffing which was the best part. I did download the King Turd collection which is complete but it would have been nice to have an official release

The dvd releases were all edited too.

Things like the uk versjon of Gordon ramsays f word and james and oz adventures.