TV on DVD Wish List

[Eric Paddon]

Today I picked up just out of sheer desperation the latest in a series of public domain release of 1950s "Dragnet" episodes.    Mostly the same ones other PD companies have done but with a random episode I hadn't seen before.

Sadly, the 1950s version of "Dragnet" is a show we will probably never see released properly even though the original film elements do exist.    Because too many episodes have fallen into a PD state, Universal (which won't even release the rest of the 1960s revival!) isn't about to consider releasing this 50s TV classic in the format it deserved to be released in.

This brings up a point of how we can sometimes face a ridiculous situation where great copies of classic TV *do* exist, but we'll never be able to see them in the format they should be seen in.