Andy, do you know of anyway to contact the home video divisions of the studios directly? The websites for many of them don't have a "Contact Us" thing you can click on, which I think is a bit cowardly, IMHO.

I would love to know who to contact at Fox to find out why THE BIG TRAIL was not released in a letterbox format, even though AMC (R.I.P.) showed it some years ago. I am still holding on to the VHS tape I made off one of those showings. I would also like to know if there are any plans to do a special edition of THE ROBE-one of the most important films in that company's history and deserving of more than a bare-bones release. How about more silents from their vaults?

At Paramount-where is WINGS, which I found as a R7 disc? What about the silent films that were brought out on VHS back in the 80's? Where is POLICE SQUAD? If they can re-do AIRPLANE! they can surely bring this out (hopefully with the Belushi guest star bit as an extra).

These may not be huge sellers, but it would be nice to have another form of contact besides HVF, which has yet to reply to me re: my screen name and password.

Thanks for letting me vent.

Jedbu you are certainly welcome. Nearly all of the folks I deal with are PR specialists so they would not be of much help in this regard.

I'd love to see POLICE SQUAD! What was the Belushi guest star bit? I still have my old VHS tapes which I transferred to disc last year.

He was one of the guest stars killed off at the beginning, but his episode aired not too long after his death, so they had one of the previous stars do another cameo (it was either Shatner or Lorne Greene) as a replacement. Belushi's cameo consisted of a car dropping off a dead body on a corner, and when it rolled to a stop, there he was! You can see why they reshot.

The entire series could fit onto one disc, and I would love to see those wonderful closing credits (favorite-the gangster doing the mime bit of being stuck in a box )again. My VHS tape (made off a laserdisc) wore out long ago, and of course you can't find it anywhere. As fun as the movies were (well, 1 1/2 of them), they just don't have the surreal feeling of the series. Who was the character who was too tall and constantly was seen from the neck down? Why he was not in the movies is beyond me.

Actually that guy "Al" was in the first movie. The lab guy Ted also returned from the series in the first movie.

I think I read somewhere a couple months back that Paramount would release these in 2006 but I don't remember where specifically.

For me, I'm more ticked off at how Universal (in addition to their many bad pressings) is leaving a lot of us hanging with Season 1 releases only of a lot of good shows (I want more Dragnet and Adam-12!)