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American studios and production companies have really warmed to the idea of releasing entire television series in DVD sets in the last 18 months or so, which is kind of amusing, since they’re so late to the party: British audiences were enjoying complete series/season sets on VHS long before DVDs were in the shops. My Caroline made a friend from Boston envious when she mentioned she owned sets of the first two series of Friends, unaware that, at the time, television series were not made commercially available in the USA (with rare exceptions like Star Trek and Highlander).
The problem now is that a lot of bad television that never should have seen the light of day in the first place is being made available in archive sets. I shudder to think who is buying these sets of 70s and 80s sitcoms that Must Not Be Named. Fortunately, their presence has not slowed down the availability of cult classics, which still tend to dominate, so much so that it’s becoming increasingly difficult to come up with titles I’d want that are thus far unavaiable: George of the Jungle, Jay Ward’s beloved 1967 series, or The Green Hornet, or a remastered The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
