The Rights to the Programme Affair
Earlier in the week, I chilled out by watching one of the Man From U.N.C.L.E. films. I got wondering why the series proper had never appeared on DVD. (Maybe eight or ten episodes were released on video fifteen years or so ago.) In particular, I would like to see the first, and best, season, which has never been repeated in recent years (presumably because it is in black & white).
I did a bit of ferkling around online, and it looks like there might be a DVD release later in the year (though I am counting no chickens). It seems that the holdup has been down to the usual problem of who has the rights to the programme, but, if what an Ohio paper reports Robert Vaughn as saying is true, the arguments about that may have been settled. According to the report, Vaughn and McCallum will be getting together in May to record some DVD extras. I am amused that this is the second time Vaughn has recorded extras for an U.N.C.L.E. DVD:
Last year I sat down for three or four hours, doing material to go with a DVD of the first year, he said. I finished, they paid me - and somehow they didn’t have the rights to it.
I did a bit of ferkling around online, and it looks like there might be a DVD release later in the year (though I am counting no chickens). It seems that the holdup has been down to the usual problem of who has the rights to the programme, but, if what an Ohio paper reports Robert Vaughn as saying is true, the arguments about that may have been settled. According to the report, Vaughn and McCallum will be getting together in May to record some DVD extras. I am amused that this is the second time Vaughn has recorded extras for an U.N.C.L.E. DVD:
Last year I sat down for three or four hours, doing material to go with a DVD of the first year, he said. I finished, they paid me - and somehow they didn’t have the rights to it.