[78-L] For old timey TV fans..slight 78RPM connection

[Jeff Sultanof]

Timeless is issuing a Medic box with 44 episodes on November 15th; eighty
six episodes were made. Based on other boxes from Timeless, the quality is
going to be variable.

Jeff Sultanof

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 9:27 AM, David Lennick <dlennick at sympatico.ca>wrote:

> I picked up a MEDIC set a few years ago. Only 8 episodes, I think, one of
> those
> supermarket sets. Quality was what you'd expect from old TV prints, but
> watchable (lousy audio). The same for a 5-disc set of DRAGNET from Madacy
> that
> Costco sold. I'd love to have more of those.
>
> dl
>
> On 10/27/2011 9:23 AM, Jeff Sultanof wrote:
> > Timeless Media issued two 'best-of' boxed sets of Checkmate, and they are
> > putting out the complete box. I rented the DVDs of the  'best-of ' boxes
> > from Netflix, and the quality was decent to very good. What is sad is
> that
> > Timeless paid a license fee to Universal (the boxes are so credited) but
> > Universal probably did not supply prints. I can understand that for them
> it
> > would have been expensive to make new prints of these shows, but the
> quality
> > is still variable; certainly better that the pirated stuff that is out
> > there, but not what it should be. The same problem is evident for M-Squad
> -
> > some prints are so bad that Timeless has a card at the beginning that
> this
> > is the best quality they were able to find for that particular episode;
> some
> > even come from VHS copies. BTW, a piece of trivia: Checkmate was produced
> by
> > Jack Benny's production company.
> >
> > I have my eye on the box for the show "Medic." I've become a real Richard
> > Boone fan in the last few years - an incredible actor and acting teacher.
> >
> > Jeff Sultanof
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:15 AM, Julian Vein<julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk
> >wrote:
> >
> >> I recently purchased the first series of "Checkmate" on a pirated set.
> >> The quality is so-so, but I see Amazon at
> >> http://www.amazon.com/Checkmate-Complete-DVD-Over-Hours/dp/B003K1NGXE
> >> have the whole series at $49.99.
> >>
> >> Does anyone have this set to comment on the quality?
> >>
>
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