new dvd of BBC show NOT by Warner Brothers

yes. The big release is episodes of "The Goodies" being released on dvd
I'll be honest. I love britcom and try to see/buy as much of it as I can get
my grubby mits on. That said I have never, untill this thread, even heard
of "The Goodies" let alone seen an episode. Maybe Denver PBS just didnt
think was popular enough to show or something.

 

No, A&E has no corporate affiliation with Warner. And your
comment underscores what I said about people assuming that
"British" = "BBC". While MPFC aired on the Beeb, THE AVENGERS
was an ITV show, as were (in general) the various other
action/adventure dramas of the same period, like THE SAINT,
DANGER MAN/SECRET AGENT, THE CHAMPIONS, and so forth.

-- jayembee

 

OK, fine. But you're still assuming that because the BBC
aired the show originally, that they own the rights to it.

First off, according to the IMDb, THE GOODIES was a co-prod
between the BBC and London Weekend Television. Depending
on how the contracts read, it's a good bet that LWT actually
owns the series, rather than the Beeb.

To take a similar American example, there's HBO and HBO Home
Video. Everyone assumes that any show that airs on HBO will
be released by HBO HV, but while that seems to be mostly true,
it's not completely true. THE LARRY SANDERS SHOW Season 1 was
released by Columbia, and Universal will be releasing Seasons
1&2 of DREAM ON around the end of the year.

-- jayembee

 

it's a good bet that LWT actually

then the credits on the show should have said "copyright London Weekend
Television" if that is so. But they don't.

The credits on the show itself DOES say "copyright BBC".

Therefore, it is a BBC show.

 

To take a similar American example, there's HBO and HBO Home

true. But "Larry Sanders Show" says "copyright Columbia" and Dream On says
"copyright Universal" proving those were not HBO productions, but Columbia and
Universal productions.

"The Goodies" says "copyright BBC" proving that it was a BBC production

and not some other company like ITV.

 

So, speaking of British Television shows of that era, I have
memories of one but cannot remember the title. It was much
like the Avengers in plot and the opening sequence included a
bit with the male protagonist feeding his breakfast egg to his
dog (IIRC) and a catchy opening tune (kinda big benish).

Does this sound familiar to anyone else?

scott

 

But that still doesn't mean that the BBC *owns* it. Just
that, at the time it was produced, they had the copyright.

The title cards for IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE says that it's
copyrighted by RKO, but RKO never actually owned the film
outright. It was owned by Liberty Films, Frank Capra's
company. That's why Republic later acquired the film, and
it's currently available from Artisan rather than Warner
(who owns the RKO catalog).

Copyright does not necessarily determine ownership.

-- jayembee

 

"The Goodies" says "copyright BBC" proving that it was a


Series 1-8 were done by the BBC. The show moved to LWT for series 9,
but only lasted 1 series. 6 episodes were released by the BBC a while
ago on 2 tapes, and 4 by LWT on 1 tape. Recently a 2 disk PAL
(region0) DVD set was released with 8 episodes on it.

The video company listed as releasing this new NTSC DVD also released
an NTSC verison of the 1st BBC video, containing 3 episodes:

2-x Kitten Kong (Montreaux 72)
5-06 Scatty Safari
7-3 Scoutrageous

The show has not been repeated on terrestrial TV in the UK, but
Australia seemed to get regular showings (until a couple of years ago
at least)

More info at:

http://www.goodiesruleok.com

PAL DVD 60% off now
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos...088/ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i0_xgl/026-2480668-2555651





Episode list:

---BBC---
SERIES 1

1-1 Tower Of London
1-2 Snooze
1-3 Give Police A Chance
1-4 Caught In The Act
1-5 The Greenies
1-6 Cecily
1-7 Radio Goodies

SERIES 2

2-01 Scotland
2-02 The Commonwealth Games
2-03 Pollution
2-04 The Lost Tribe
2-05 The Music Lovers
2-06 Culture For The Masses
2-07 Kitten Kong
2-08 Wicked Waltzing
2-09 Fresh Farm Food
2-10 Womans Lib
2-11 Gender Education
2-12 Charity Bounce
2-13 The Baddies

2-x Kitten Kong (Montreaux 72)
2-x A Collection Of Goodies

SERIES 3

3-1 The New Office
3-2 Hunting Pink
3-3 Winter Olympics
3-4 That Old Black Magic
3-5 For Those In Peril On The Sea
3-6 Way Outward Bound

3-x Superstar

SERIES 4

4-1 Camelot
4-2 Invasion Of The Moon Creatures
4-3 Hospital For Hire
4-4 The Goodies And The Beanstalk
4-5 The Stone Age
4-6 Goodies In The Nick
4 7 The Race

SERIES 5

5-01 Movies
5-02 Clown Virus
5-03 Chubbie Chumps
5-04 Wacky Wales
5-05 Frankenfido
5-06 Scatty Safari
5-07 Kung Fu Kapers
5-08 Lighthouse Keeping loonies
5-09 Rome Antics
5-10 Cunning Stunts
5-11 South Africa
5-12 Bunfight At The OK Tearooms
5-13 The End

5-x Goodies Rule OK

SERIES 6

6-1 Lips Or Almighty Cod
6-2 Hype Pressure
6-3 Daylight Robbery On The Orient Express
6-4 Black And White Beauty
6-5 It Might As Well Be String
6-6 2001 And A Bit
6-7 The Goodies Almost Live

SERIES 7

7-1 Alternative Roots
7-2 Dodonuts
7-3 Scoutrageous
7-4 Rock Goodies
7-5 Royal Command
7-6 Earthanasia

SERIES 8

8-1 Goodies And Politics
8-2 Saturday Night Grease
8-3 A Kick In The Arts
8-4 U-Friend Or UFO
8-5 Animals
8-6 War Babies

---LWT---
SERIES 9

9-x Snow White 2

9-1 Robot
9-2 Football Crazy
9-3 Big Foot
9-4 Change Of Life
9-5 Holiday
9-6 Animals Are People Too