New on DVD this month: The Beverly Hillbillies (Season 4), The Big Valley (Season 2), The Carol Burnett Show (Carol’s Crack Ups), The Dick Van Dyke Show (Classic Mary Tyler Moore Episodes), Mayberry R.F.D. (Season 1), Petticoat Junction (Seasons 1-3)
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Here’s your opportunity to own the classic sitcom The Many Loves Of Dobie Gillis: The Complete Series on DVD.
This 1959-63 comedy stars Dwayne Hickman as girl crazy teen Dobie and Bob Denver (Gilligan’s Island) as his beatnik buddy Maynard G. Krebs. Guest stars include Barbara Bain, Warren Beatty, Yvonne Craig, Marlo Thomas, Tuesday Weld and many more!
The box set includes all 147 episodes on 20 DVDs, plus a bonus DVD of cool extras. You can own it all for just $64.99, a 54% savings off MSRP.
Hurry, this offer ends at 11:59 PM Pacific time, April 12 2014.
Don’t be a Meathead! Here’s your chance to own All in the Family: The Complete Series on DVD for just $79.99 (save 60% off the $199.99 list price).
This 28-DVD box set contains all 208 episodes of the landmark 1970s sitcom starring Carroll O’Connor and Jean Stapleton. It also offers a bunch of extras, including 4 pilot episodes: “Justice For All” (original All in the Family pilot), “Those Were The Days” (second All in the Family pilot), the Gloria spin-off and Archie Bunker’s Place sequel.
The sale ends Saturday March 15 so order yours today.
New on DVD this month: Here’s Lucy (The Complete Series), Little House on the Prairie (Season 1 Remastered DVD and Blu-Ray Versions), The Original Mr. Peabody and Sherman WABAC Adventures (Volumes 1 & 2) and Rawhide (Season 7 Volumes 1 & 2).
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Here’s your chance to own the British cult classic The Avengers on DVD and save 50%.
The Avengers: The Complete Emma Peel Megaset contains all 51 Emma Peel episodes on 16 DVDs. Diana Rigg played Emma from 1965-68, alongside Patrick Macnee as John Steed.
A total of 161 episodes of The Avengers aired from 1961-69.
The sale ends Saturday March 8 so order yours today.
Westerns were all over the primetime network schedules in the 1950s and 60s. By the time the 1970s rolled around, viewer tastes were changing and the western era was all but over.
Long-running westerns Bonanza and Gunsmoke ended in the 1970s. Although there were a handful of westerns that launched later in the decade, none could match the genre’s earlier success.
Fortunately, many local stations continued to air off-network reruns of classic westerns long after they left primetime. These local stations, along with family-oriented cable networks like CBN (now ABC Family), helped expose these great shows to new generations of viewers.
Today there are many places to catch your favorite western shows, whether its on pay channels like Encore Westerns or for free on national diginets like Cozi and MeTV. There are also many westerns available for purchase on DVD.
The table below shows where classic westerns (1950s-70s) are currently available for viewing (as of February 2014). The columns include Program Title (with a link to DVD releases), Diginets (national programming services carried by local TV stations), Cable/Satellite Networks and Streaming (Internet-based services like Hulu, Netflix).
Saddle up and enjoy! Please contact me via Facebook or Twitter with your comments and suggestions.
| Program Title w/DVD Link | Diginet | Cable/Satellite | Streaming |
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| A Man Called Shenandoah | |||
| The Adventures of Champion | |||
| The Adventures of Jim Bowie | Cozi & Retro | ||
| The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin | Antenna | ||
| The Alaskans | |||
| Alias Smith and Jones | Cozi | Hulu | |
| Barbary Coast | |||
| Bat Masterson | Encore Westerns | ||
| The Big Valley | MeTV | INSP | Hulu |
| Bonanza | MeTV | Encore Westerns & INSP | Hulu |
| Branded | MeTV | ||
| Brave Eagle | |||
| Broken Arrow | |||
| Bronco | |||
| Buckskin | |||
| The Californians | |||
| Cheyenne | |||
| The Chisholms | |||
| Cimarron City | |||
| Cimarron Strip | |||
| The Cisco Kid | Retro | ||
| Colt .45 | |||
| The Cowboys | |||
| Custer | |||
| The Dakotas | |||
| Daniel Boone | |||
| The Deputy | Cozi | ||
| Dirty Sally | |||
| Dundee and the Culhane | |||
| Empire | |||
| Frontier | |||
| Frontier Circus | |||
| Fury | |||
| The Gene Autry Show | |||
| Gunslinger | |||
| Gunsmoke | MeTV | Encore Westerns | |
| The Guns of Will Sonnett | MeTV | ||
| Have Gun Will Travel | Encore Westerns | ||
| Here Come The Brides | Antenna | ||
| High Chaparral | INSP | ||
| Hondo | |||
| Hopalong Cassidy | Cozi & Retro | ||
| How The West Was Won | |||
| The Iron Horse | |||
| Johnny Ringo | |||
| Klondike | |||
| Kung Fu | |||
| Lancer | |||
| Laramie | |||
| Laredo | |||
| Law of the Plainsman | |||
| The Lawman | |||
| The Legend of Jesse James | |||
| The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp | Encore Westerns | ||
| Little House on the Prairie | Hallmark & INSP | ||
| The Loner | |||
| The Lone Ranger | Cozi | Angel Two & FETV | Hulu |
| The Man from Blackhawk | |||
| Man Without a Gun | |||
| Marshal Dillon* | Encore Westerns | ||
| Maverick | Cozi | Encore Westerns | |
| The Monroes | |||
| My Friend Flicka | |||
| Nichols | |||
| The Oregon Trail | |||
| The Outcasts | |||
| Outlaws | |||
| Overland Trail | |||
| The Quest | |||
| Rawhide | MeTV | AMC | |
| The Rebel | MeTV | ||
| Redigo | |||
| The Restless Gun | |||
| The Rifleman | MeTV | AMC | Hulu |
| Riverboat | |||
| The Road West | |||
| The Rough Riders | |||
| The Roy Rogers Show | Cozi | Angel Two & FETV | Hulu |
| Sergeant Preston of the Yukon | FETV | ||
| Shane | |||
| Sky King | |||
| Stagecoach West | |||
| Stoney Burke | |||
| Sugarfoot | |||
| Tales of Wells Fargo | |||
| The Tall Man | |||
| Temple Houston | |||
| The Texan | |||
| Tombstone Territory | |||
| Trackdown | |||
| The Travels of Jamie McPheeters | |||
| The Virginian* | Cozi | INSP | |
| Wagon Train | MeTV | ||
| Wanted Dead or Alive | MeTV | ||
| The Westerner | |||
| Wichita Town | |||
| The Wide Country | |||
| The Wild Wild West | |||
| Yancy Derringer | |||
| Young Daniel Boone | |||
| Zane Grey Theatre | |||
| Zorro |
*Half-hour version of Gunsmoke
**Also known as The Men from Shiloh
Here’s your chance to own the complete series of classic 1970s soap opera parody Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman on DVD.
Louise Lasser and Greg Mullavey starred in this cult classic series from Norman Lear. It aired in late-night syndication from 1976-77. The massive 38-disc box set contains all 325 episodes plus bonus features.
The sale ends Saturday February 22 so order yours today.
Our crack research team (consisting of me, myself and I) decided to take a look at where YOU could take a look at classic sitcoms from the 1960s.
I researched the primetime schedules from the 60s and put together a list of shows that have aired in syndication and/or on DVD. Note that I included some cartoons and the campy Adam West Batman series in this sitcom guide.
The table below shows where these shows are currently available for viewing (as of February 2014). The columns include Program Title (with a link to DVD releases), Diginets (national programming services carried by local TV stations), Cable/Satellite Networks and Streaming (Internet-based services like Hulu, Netflix).
Please note some shows may also air on broadcast stations, i.e. WFMY Greensboro NC still runs The Andy Griffith Show on weekday afternoons. These local airings are not included in this viewing guide…please check your local listings.
I hope you find this guide useful. Please contact me via Facebook with any errors or omissions.
| Program Title w/DVD Link | Diginet | Cable/Satellite | Streaming | ||
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| The Addams Family | This | ||||
| The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet | Retro | ||||
| The Andy Griffith Show | TV Land | Hulu & Netflix & TV Land | |||
| The Ann Sothern Show | |||||
| Bachelor Father | Antenna | ||||
| Batman | Me | ||||
| The Beverly Hillbillies | Me & Retro | ||||
| Bewitched | Antenna | Crackle | |||
| The Bill Cosby Show | |||||
| The Bill Dana Show | |||||
| The Brady Bunch | Me | Hallmark & TV Land | CBS | ||
| Car 54 Where Are You? | Me | ||||
| The Courtship of Eddie's Father | |||||
| Dennis The Menace | Antenna | Hulu | |||
| The Dick Van Dyke Show | Me | TV Land | Hulu & Me & Netflix & TV Land | ||
| The Donna Reed Show | Me | Hulu | |||
| The Doris Day Show | Hulu & Me | ||||
| Family Affair | Me | ||||
| The Farmer's Daughter | |||||
| Father Knows Best | Antenna | Hulu | |||
| The Flintstones | Boomerang | ||||
| The Flying Nun | Antenna | ||||
| F Troop | Me | ||||
| The Gale Storm Show | |||||
| The George Gobel Show | |||||
| Get Smart | Me | ||||
| The Ghost and Mrs. Muir | |||||
| Gidget | Antenna | ||||
| Gilligan's Island | Me | TV Land | |||
| Gomer Pyle USMC | Me* | ||||
| Good Morning World | |||||
| The Governor & J.J. | |||||
| Green Acres | Antenna | Hulu | |||
| Hazel | Antenna | ||||
| Hennesey | |||||
| Here's Lucy | Hulu | ||||
| Hogan's Heroes | Me | ||||
| I Dream of Jeannie | Antenna | Crackle | |||
| I'm Dickens He's Fenster | |||||
| The Jack Benny Program | Antenna | ||||
| The Jetsons | Boomerang | ||||
| The Joey Bishop Show | Retro | ||||
| Julia | |||||
| Leave It To Beaver | Me | Netflix | |||
| The Lucy Show | Hulu & Me | ||||
| Make Room for Daddy** | Me | ||||
| The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis | Me | ||||
| Mayberry R.F.D. | |||||
| McHale's Navy | Antenna | Hulu | |||
| Mister Ed | Antenna | Hallmark Movie | Hulu | ||
| The Monkees | Antenna | ||||
| The Mothers-In-Law | Hulu & Me | ||||
| The Munsters | Netflix | ||||
| My Favorite Martian | Hulu | ||||
| My Living Doll | Hulu | ||||
| My Mother The Car | Hulu | ||||
| My Three Sons | Me | ||||
| The Patty Duke Show | Antenna | ||||
| Pete & Gladys | |||||
| Petticoat Junction | Me | ||||
| Pistols 'N Petticoats | |||||
| Please Don't Eat The Daisies | |||||
| That Girl | |||||
| The Real McCoys | Cozi & Retro | ||||
| To Rome with Love | |||||
| Top Cat |
*Not available in all markets
**Also known as The Danny Thomas Show
New on DVD this month: Gentle Ben (Season 2), Laverne & Shirley (Season 7), The Red Skelton Show: The Lost Episodes, The Six Million Dollar Man (Season 5)
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For 8 seasons between 1967 and 1975, private investigator Joe Mannix was shot, beaten and knocked unconscious over and over again. Yet he always survived and beat the bad guys!
Mike Connors starred as Mannix, aided by his loyal secretary Peggy Fair (Gail Fisher). Notable recurring characters were played by Joseph Campanella, Robert Reed (The Defenders, The Brady Bunch) and Larry Linville (M*A*S*H). Guest stars included Norman Alden, Hugh Beaumont, Victor French, Beverly Garland, John Hellerman, J. Pat O’Malley, John Randolph, Marion Ross, Loretta Swit, John Vernon, Jessica Walter, Fritz Weaver and William Windom.
Mannix has the distinction of being the last TV series produced by the DESI Arnaz/LUcille Ball production company Desilu. The company also created such hits as I Love Lucy, Star Trek and The Untouchables.
This week you can own the complete collection of Mannix on DVD, all 194 episodes on 48 DVDs, for just $119.99. That’s a 68% discount over the $374.99 list price.
