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Oddity Archive: Episode 257.5 – Ben’s Junk: (Some of) Ben’s TV on DVD Collection (Patreon)

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2023-03-08 14:51:49
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Amusingly, for someone who's largely avoided television since the mid/late 2000's (the local news and Svengoolie are about it for me at this point), I've got a pretty solid TV-on-DVD collection.  Here's maybe around 40% of it.

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Oddity Archive: Episode 257.5 – Ben’s Junk: (Some of) Ben’s TV on DVD Collection

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Matthew Lawrenson

The TV on DVD thing here in the UK is a bit weird. You have the BBC which only really releases "certs" it reckons will sell (Doctor Who, Dad's Army, Blackadder), sometimes multiple times. It farms out what it considers "lesser" shows to independent firms. It doesn't help that a lot of old BBC dramas and comedies were shot on videotape and are now regarded as "niche" in the 2020s. Or the fact they binned a substantial amount of shows before 1975. I'm presently going through an old cop show called "Softly Softly : Task Force" on YouTube which only got the first 2 seasons released on DVD, presumably due to low sales. Then we have ITV, who's shows often have multiple-rights holders and can be difficult to clear, old ITC shows (The Prisoner, The Saint, Danger Man etc.) and Gerry Anderson (Stingray, Thunderbirds, Space 1999 etc) being the exception. A lot of shows fell between the cracks when the regional franchises changed in 1992 - the UK version of Fraggle Rock (co-produced with the now defunct TVS) will likely never be released due to "rights hell". The DVDs that come out are mainly old telefantasy as this is what sells. A few ITV sitcoms have been released , but as ITV sitcoms were never as highly regarded as their BBC counterparts they mainly appeal to the dwindling nostalgia crowd.

Wade Brandis

While I do have a pretty large DVD/VHS collection myself, I'm an animation geek and nearly my entire collection is animation of some kind, from the usual Disney classic films to obscure stuff like The Point, and even a whole bunch of knockoff Korean Anime DVDs I found at Walmart in 2005. I also have some season sets of mid-90s cartoon shows like The Angry Beavers, Tiny Toon Adventures, Busy World of Richard Scarry, etc. One interesting note about Trio... it was jointly owned by the CBC and Power Corporation of Canada from 1994 to 2000. I first saw the channel on DirecTV in 1996. The channel is forever burned into my memory since it was where I first saw SCTV one late evening, and it was also where I first saw repeats of the cult Canadian animatied series, The Raccoons. I really wish I had purchased some blank tapes to record some of that since barely any footage of the first incarnation of Trio exists online. When it comes to modern TV, I don't watch much of it, not because of it's quality. I'm quite indifferent to it. My late mom, as old as she was, was a MASSIVE fan of The Big Bang Theory and CSI. I simply don't have a lot of time to watch it. When I do watch broadcast TV, it's either the news, Price is Right, or stuff on True Crime/Court TV/MeTV.