Posted by jayembee on 06/26/06 07:33

teem <stooges2757@alltell.net> wrote:

> What is the current situation on these shows?some sources say they're
> out,others say they're not.I don't want a cheesey amatuer burn off
> from some company that isnt legit.

There's no legit DVD release of either series.

BATMAN is in Legal Hell (Fox owns the rights to the show, while Warner
owns the rights to the characters, and they aren't seeing eye to eye).
Only the 1966 feature film is available on DVD.

It's not clear what the hold-up is on THE GREEN HORNET. It could be
another situation where Fox cannot do a DVD set without permission
from the owners of the characters (the Estate of creator George
Trendle).

Brentwood, a Public Domain label, released a DVD of the first faux
feature -- a fix-up of four episodes of the series edited together
with additional fight scenes from other episodes slipped in. Two of
these features were briefly released to theaters circa 1974 to cash
in on the Kung Fu / Bruce Lee craze at the time. Brentwood said they
were going to do the second one, but it was never released.

Just as well...the transfer on the first one was atrocious. It was
faded and muddy-yellow. And widescreen, which is the way the features
were released, but they were unsurprisingly cropped top and bottom
from the original fullscreen TV version.

Both features were released (in fullscreen) on DVD in Japan, but
went Out of Print quickly. If they were anything like the Japanese
laserdiscs (which I have), they would've looked terrific.

-- jayembee

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