Tentative date set for THE FUGITIVE TV series on DVD

[HGN2001]

David Lambert at TV Shows On DVD has posted a note that THE FUGITIVE, one of TV's golden shows not yet put on DVD has a tentative release date set for August of 2007. Read about it at the TV Shows on DVD site:

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7075

I'm really looking forward to this one - IMHO one of the best TV series EVER MADE.

Harry

[bencasey]

I am as well. I'm just hoping that unlike the Combat DVDs, with the Fugitive they go back to the original 35mm prints. With Combat they just used the old Worldvision timesped 1-inch transfers.

[Marty Milton]

That release date will be close to the 40th anniversary of the final episode of The Fugitive. I have been wanting this for a long time. Another show that I use to watch faithfully when it aired in the mid 60s.

[guy incognito]

"I'll believe it when it's in my hand!" - The One-Armed Man

:D

[Mister Charlie]

Yahoo!

[rockclassics]

It's about time. But, like the One Armed Man said "I'll believe it when it is in my hand."

[Michael]

Finally! been waiting for years for this!:goodie:

[HGN2001]

August 14th is the "day the running starts" on DVD - that's the day that THE FUGITIVE, SEASON ONE, VOLUME 1 hits the streets with the first 15 episodes of the landmark TV drama.

We're getting reports that the package indicates a music change, but so far no more details as to what the music change is. Hopefully it's just some incidental music in a cocktail lounge or something, and not any of the magnificent Peter Rugulo score or the stuff from TWILIGHT ZONE and OUTER LIMITS that was used in the series.

Harry
...with just 20 days to go, online...

[HGN2001]

We're now under a week until the street date of August 14th for this first half-season of DVDs.

Our own "oatsdad" (AKA Colin Jacobson) has reviewed the first set here:

http://www.dvdmg.com/fugitives1v1.shtml

Amazon's ranking is up to around #170 at this hour.

Harry

[Clarkophile]

I used to think David Janssen was the best. He always had this slightly constipated look that was kinda funny. And that funny mouth tic...

[Ed Hughes]

Wow! This is great news.One of my favorite shows when I was a kid.

[HGN2001]

There are a number of screen shots and a review at DVD Beaver;

http://www.dvdbeaver.com/film2/DVDReviews32/the_fugitive_tv_series.htm

I managed to get my set delivered today, and can concur that it looks really good.

Harry

[guy incognito]

Got mine yesterday. According to the notes on the back cover, the music has been changed and some episodes have been "may have been edited" from the original network versions. :realmad:

[HGN2001]

Got mine yesterday. According to the notes on the back cover, the music has been changed and some episodes have been "may have been edited" from the original network versions. :realmad:

Before you burst a blood vessel there, guy, there's been a lot of discussion about this on the Home Theater Forum where so far none of us really big Fugitive fans have found any evidence of tampering, save for the opening of the first (and pilot) episode. For some reason, that opening is a shorter version of what should have been there, resulting in the episode being about 30 seconds shorter than the rest of the episodes.

All of the main scoring music by Pete Rugulo and music cues from the CBS stock library are intact and present on the DVDs. We've even confirmed that the song that Vera Miles "plays" on the piano in the pilot survives.

The only other likely music replacement that hasn't been thoroughly investigated yet could be some car radio music in the "See Hollywood And Die" episode. I don't think anyone is yet that far into the set. I'm through seven episodes and haven't detected anything missing (other than that opening thing with the pilot) nor replaced.

It's also possible that CBS/Paramount is sticking that legend on a lot of their DVD boxes just to cover their collective rear ends.

Harry

[wayneklein]

I liked what they did with. Now that they've finally brought this out (and The Streets of San Francisco) where is The Invaders?

http://www.dvdivas.net/movies/reviews/f/fugitive-1-1season.html

My review--and (of course after I posted it I discovered a couple of proof reading errors I missed...hate when that happens).

[HGN2001]

From Wayne's review:

Although there aren't any extras (at the time of this review Barry Morse is still alive and active why not get him to do a commentary or interview?)

Barry Morse did introductions to forty episodes released on VHS tape (NuVentures Video) back in the '90s. Here's a screen shot of how they looked:

http://home.earthlink.net/~hgn2001/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/barrymorseintro.jpg

Either CBS Paramount didn't know about these, couldn't get the rights to them, or begged off because he refers to the specific non-ordered tape volumes that were released.

Harry

[LaserKen]

I have laserdiscs w/ the BM intros... not must-haves, but certainly nice to have. Too bad they didn't port them over.

[HGN2001]

I have laserdiscs w/ the BM intros... not must-haves, but certainly nice to have. Too bad they didn't port them over.

If memory serves, the LaserDiscs only got through about five discs in the series. I toyed with the idea of getting them, but the tapes were so much more of a bargain for a TV show, and there were twenty tapes with forty episodes.

The only FUGITIVE LD that I ever bought was "The Judgment", the final episode. That one came from Worldvision and had no intros.

Harry