Batman & Green Hornet TV On DVD

teem 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.

Am not sure about the Green Hornet, but the 1966 TV version of Batman is
still on hold.

Bill

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.

teem

teem <> 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

jayembee

On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:33:08 GMT, jayembee
<> wrote:

>teem <> 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
Thanks,this BatHell thing is the Cats'Ass!,2 studios own it?,come
on!,no wonder they're doing lousy.i did see 1 sight that was elling
the Hornet,but,it looked''shady'',like an ''overnight set up''
websight,I was trusting my instints.another reason the hornet maybe
held up is the amount of episodes ,it was only a season,so,it isn't
much.

teem

teem <> wrote:

> Thanks,this BatHell thing is the Cats'Ass!,2 studios own it?

No. Two studios don't own it. Only Fox owns the show. Warner owns
the *characters*. It's most likely a similar situation to music
licensing. Fox's license for the characters most likely applied
only to usual TV distribution: network and syndication broadcasts.
In order to release it on DVD, they probably have to negotiate
a new license for the characters, and Warner is either asking
for an exhorbitant amount of money or setting conditions.

> i did see 1 sight that was elling the Hornet,but,it looked
> ''shady'',like an ''overnight set up'' websight,I was trusting
> my instints.

There are a lot of websites selling bootleg DVDs of TV shows. The
best way to tell if they're legit is to look up the title on a
legit etailer like Amazon or DVD Planet. If they don't list it,
it's bound to be bootleg.

> another reason the hornet maybe held up is the amount of
> episodes ,it was only a season,so,it isn't much.

No, that definitely would not be a reason. There are some series
with as few as six episodes being released on DVD. One with 26
episodes wouldn't be a problem.

-- jayembee

jayembee

jayembee () wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > i did see 1 sight that was elling the Hornet,but,it looked
> > ''shady'',like an ''overnight set up'' websight,I was trusting
> > my instints.
>
> There are a lot of websites selling bootleg DVDs of TV shows. The
> best way to tell if they're legit is to look up the title on a
> legit etailer like Amazon or DVD Planet. If they don't list it,
> it's bound to be bootleg.

On the other hand, just because they *do* list it doesn't mean it's not
a bootleg. Amazon lists a lot of DVDs that have never been released, as
well as out-of-print items. For region 1, http://www.dvdpricesearch.com/
is fairly authoritative...if they don't list it, it has almost certainly
never been released, and if they do, it almost certainly has, with OOP
marked appropriately.

--
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| Apparently he handles a lot of Bill Gates'
| money, so, don't say anything derogatory
| about the Netherlands or Microsoft."
| "Oh, damn...there goes my opening joke about
| the Dutchman trying to install Windows 95."
| -- Niles and Frasier

Jeff Rife

On Tue, 27 Jun 2006 17:01:24 GMT, Jeff Rife <> wrote:

>jayembee () wrote in alt.video.dvd:
>> > i did see 1 sight that was elling the Hornet,but,it looked
>> > ''shady'',like an ''overnight set up'' websight,I was trusting
>> > my instints.
>>
>> There are a lot of websites selling bootleg DVDs of TV shows. The
>> best way to tell if they're legit is to look up the title on a
>> legit etailer like Amazon or DVD Planet. If they don't list it,
>> it's bound to be bootleg.
>
>On the other hand, just because they *do* list it doesn't mean it's not
>a bootleg. Amazon lists a lot of DVDs that have never been released, as
>well as out-of-print items. For region 1, http://www.dvdpricesearch.com/
>is fairly authoritative...if they don't list it, it has almost certainly
>never been released, and if they do, it almost certainly has, with OOP
>marked appropriately.
I have 2 Hornet vhs tapes,one is that theatrical version that came
out in '74,hmm it never made it over to ohio?.the other is KATO &
green hornet,both sound & look crappy.Yuo would think peolpe would
take some care in putting togeather any type of project,especially to
the mass market.

teem