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Hi,

Does anyone know why Saturday Night Live isn't out on Season by Season DVD
sets? Is it truly the "music rights" or do they want to milk every thing out
of the "best of" DVD's? I really want to collect the older shows.

Brian

There are two reasons why we will NEVER see season sets for SNL. For one,
there simply isn't much demand for entire seasons of the show. Sure, Season 1
would sell like hotcakes, but how many people would shell out money to watch
the stuff from the post-Murphy, pre-Hartman era in the early 80's? Second,
there are the music rights you referred to. It'd be a nightmare to include
them. Get used to the "Best Of..." compilations. They're the best you're
gonna get.
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"That's the worst reverse-acting I've ever seen!" -Sam Raimi

NEVER? That is a shame.

Guess I am the "one" who wants to see the "brave" Billy Crystal years and
the strange "Robert Downey" years.


"CLOSEDOWN8" <> wrote in message
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> There are two reasons why we will NEVER see season sets for SNL. For one,
> there simply isn't much demand for entire seasons of the show. Sure,
Season 1
> would sell like hotcakes, but how many people would shell out money to
watch
> the stuff from the post-Murphy, pre-Hartman era in the early 80's?
Second,
> there are the music rights you referred to. It'd be a nightmare to
include
> them. Get used to the "Best Of..." compilations. They're the best you're
> gonna get.
> --------------------------------
> "That's the worst reverse-acting I've ever seen!" -Sam Raimi

Oh man, the Billy Crystal/Chistopher Guest/Martin Short years are the BEST!

"Man I hate it when that happens!!"



"CLOSEDOWN8" <> wrote in message
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> There are two reasons why we will NEVER see season sets for SNL. For one,
> there simply isn't much demand for entire seasons of the show. Sure,
Season 1
> would sell like hotcakes, but how many people would shell out money to
watch
> the stuff from the post-Murphy, pre-Hartman era in the early 80's?
Second,
> there are the music rights you referred to. It'd be a nightmare to
include
> them. Get used to the "Best Of..." compilations. They're the best you're
> gonna get.
> --------------------------------
> "That's the worst reverse-acting I've ever seen!" -Sam Raimi

In article <>, CLOSEDOWN8
<> wrote:

> There are two reasons why we will NEVER see season sets for SNL. For one,
> there simply isn't much demand for entire seasons of the show. Sure, Season 1
> would sell like hotcakes, but how many people would shell out money to watch
> the stuff from the post-Murphy, pre-Hartman era in the early 80's? Second,
> there are the music rights you referred to. It'd be a nightmare to include
> them. Get used to the "Best Of..." compilations. They're the best you're
> gonna get.

Actually, one of the main reasons you won't see them is that there's
still tons of money to be made showing these episodes on cable. Once
they've mined that gold all out, THEN you'll see the season box sets.

--
Chris Mack "Refugee, total ****. That's how I've always seen us.
'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
-'Deal/No Deal', CHESS

Invid Fan <> wrote in message news:<091020031833094334%>...
> In article <>, CLOSEDOWN8
> <> wrote:
>
> > There are two reasons why we will NEVER see season sets for SNL. For one,
> > there simply isn't much demand for entire seasons of the show. Sure, Season 1
> > would sell like hotcakes, but how many people would shell out money to watch
> > the stuff from the post-Murphy, pre-Hartman era in the early 80's? Second,
> > there are the music rights you referred to. It'd be a nightmare to include
> > them. Get used to the "Best Of..." compilations. They're the best you're
> > gonna get.
>
> Actually, one of the main reasons you won't see them is that there's
> still tons of money to be made showing these episodes on cable. Once
> they've mined that gold all out, THEN you'll see the season box sets.

I don't know about the syndication argument. X-Files and Star
Trek:whatever seem to have put out DVDs pretty quick. Simpson's has
been on half as long. Law & Order almost has it's own channel by now.
Besides, I'd think at least the first couple seasons are "mined out"
by now. I just don't think season sets would be that big, especially
with almost 30 seasons in the bank. Much as people love certain
sketches or characters, I don't think people would collect them the
same way they do episodic shows. Besides, there's a lot of unfunny
stuff in there, too.

There are lots of ways to collect the shows that I think would be
better than by season. I'd rather see a series of really
comprehensive "best of" discs. You know, every Eddie Murphy sketch,
in order, and cross-referenced. If he's in it, it's on the disc. The
whole Gumby or Buckwheat and Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood series would
be in there, naturally, but so would the dozens of other one-off bits.
Or every Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer sketch. Every Wayne's World. Or
the short films episode as a stand-alone. Or maybe every show by a
certain guest host. Every Steve Martin or Tom Hanks episode.
Christopher Walken would be wonderful to watch degenerate through the
years.

I'd really like a complete set of musical performances on CD. That's
about 50 songs per year of live performances available nowhere else.

>> there are the music rights you referred to. It'd be a nightmare to include
>> them.

I seem to recall years ago when Warner released individual episodes, a good
majority of them included the musical performances, and if the rights couldn't
be cleared, they just edited them out of the episode. I don't think it'd be
THAT hard to do.

I think sooner or later you'll see them come to DVD, though more likely from
the 90's & 00's as opposed to the 70's and '80's.

Wouldnt the problem be the fact that each ep is 90minutes long? Even if you cut
out the musical performances, thats still around 70-80 minutes an ep.

In article <>, Metlhd3138
<> wrote:

> Wouldnt the problem be the fact that each ep is 90minutes long? Even if you
> cut
> out the musical performances, thats still around 70-80 minutes an ep.

Well, that's 90 minutes with comercials (and the last half seems to
have a LOT of ads).

--
Chris Mack "Refugee, total ****. That's how I've always seen us.
'Invid Fan' Not a help, you'll admit, to agreement between us."
-'Deal/No Deal', CHESS

>> Wouldnt the problem be the fact that each ep is 90minutes long? Even if you
>> cut
>> out the musical performances, thats still around 70-80 minutes an ep.
>

Closer to 60 minutes. There are typically 6 to 8 minutes of ads for every 30
minutes of TV. Hour long shows run normally 44 minutes without ads. So, after
ads and after two 3 or 4 minute musical numbers, around an hour