Posted by Steve on 05/08/06 21:07

On Mon, 08 May 2006 19:18:52 GMT, jayembee
<jayembeenospam@snurcher.com> wrote:

>Steve <jazzhunter@atcollectorAGAIN.org> wrote:
>
>> Heheh, I stand corrected. However you must agree that in general
>> Irwin Allen's series tended to run out of ideas and become
>> progressively sillier, re: Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Lost in
>> Space. Which is too bad since they tended to have some good concepts.
>
>My rule of thumb has always been that the shorter an Irwin Allen show
>ran, the better it was. THE TIME TUNNEL (one season) was the best of
>them, followed by LAND OF THE GIANTS (two seasons), then by LOST IN
>SPACE (three seasons), with VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (four
>seasons) dead last.

You know, that's dead true Jeff. Thanks for putting into words my
vague impression.
>
>>> Fox only broke up the series into two parts on DVD because of their
>>> experience with Lost in Space. It worked out better for Fox to have
>>> the DVDs in smaller sets with cheaper prices in stores. There is no
>>> other reason.
>>
>> Most likely, I myself would have been less tempted to have to pay
>> for a woile season set, but I got this one for its alternate pilot
>> and a couple of the goodies.
>
>The explanation given by Fox is that the $80 MSRP on the full season
>set of LIS:S1 was bought by the hard-core fans, but not by the impulse
>buyers, who might've remembered liking the show as kids, but didn't
>want to waste $80 and find out it wasn't as good as their memories
>of it were.

I wouldn't have paid for the whole thing, and it WAS an impulse
purchase for me to see the Titanic pilot again.
>
>Risking $40 for a half season was more palatable. It's also easier on
>people's budgets to spend $40 now and $40 later than $80 now.
>
>One interesting extra that's supposed to be on the TIME TUNNRL Vol 2
>set is the made-in-2002 unsold revival pilot. It's actually quite
>good. It'll be nice to have a good, clean, not-overly-compressed copy
>of it.

That would be the extra that would get me to buy the second set. Maybe
Fox is Canny after all.. :-)

.. Steve ..
>

>-- jayembee

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