I read today that the series finale of "Desperate Housewives" is scheduled for May and I was thinking to myself "am I really going to miss it?" I used to watch it religiously - until Mike and Susan broke up the first time. Then I stopped watching it. It seemed to me at the time that the writers were only interested in breaking people up, not keeping them together.
Then it got me to thinking back to other shows I watched all the time and was surprised when they ended. I am happy these days that I can now find them again on Amazon - yes, I am an '80's TV show addict!! People tease me about my '80's addiction - my music on my iPod is largely '80's tunes, my satellite radio in my car is tuned to the "80's on 8", my kids know more '80's tunes than they do the modern stuff. OK, I'll admit that maybe I need to get out more, but finding and collecting these shows is kind of a hobby of mine, and it's kind of cool watching them again, checking out the hair styles back in the day, the clothing, vehicles, etc. (think "Magnum, P.I., "Remington Steele", "Simon and Simon").
The one thing that is kind of distressing (to me, anyway), is that not all seasons of certain shows are being released. As someone who collects TV series, it would be nice to be able to complete all of the seasons of the shows I like. To give you an example - CHiPs has only had Seasons 1 and 2 released - and the execs in charge don't know if and when the rest of the seasons will be. My question is then why release it at all? It's kind of pointless, if you are interested in collecting the series, to have only a few seasons and not the rest. The same goes for the Equalizer, Matt Houston, Perfect Strangers, etc. To me, this just gives pirating the go ahead to continue to rip people off. It just doesn't make sense to me to release a "teaser" season, and then say, "Oh sorry, that's all you get".
As an aspiring screenwriter, I would hope that once my show(s) get picked up (and I'm hoping they will), that it would last awhile, and hopefully be immortalized on DVD. I don't see the end of a show as the "end" per se - if it is on mediums like DVD or digital download - the work of everyone involved in that show is still captured forever. But, to give the show and everyone associated with it the full credit, the entire show needs to be released, i.e. every season, otherwise the pirates will see it as a positive to continue ripping people off by selling them poor quality, stolen reproductions of shows that are in demand but hard to get. To me, that is akin to insulting the hard work of the actors and everyone associated with the show. Get them out legitimately, (those of us who are serious collectors are perfectly willing to pay for them) and put the pirates out of business. I'm not sure why the studio executives aren't seeing this.
Anyway, just got my 2nd season of "Diagnosis Murder" (I know, that was the '90's, but close enough!) that I think I'll watch - just to make sure it's a good quality! Can't wait for my next acquisition! Yes, I'm perpetually stuck in the '80's!!
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