Annals Of Nostalgia

Happy to see fellow nostalgiast Ivan G. Shreve, Jr., of Thrilling Days Of Yesteryear, out of the hospital &, if not on his feet, at least before a keyboard, whence he brings news of Dragnet 1968's impending availability in the DVD medium. All well & good, though it's not as if we haven't seen each episode of Dragnet 1967, 1968, '69 & '70. (Twice? At least.) It wouldn't kill someone to put out audible & viewable discs of the original Dragnet either. The 16-mm. public domain prints copied directly (or non-remastered) to disc, which we got for a cool $5.00 at the supermarket won't hold us forever. It wouldn't kill us to look about & see if such exists, but it could be quite painful.

Truly thrilling to the knowing fan of crapola is the availability to the masses of Highway Patrol, through MGM's Manufacture on Demand program, which somehow involves Amazon.com. Do those greedy bastards have their fingers in everything?

Not clear if Netflix will have Amazon run off a copy we can then rent from Netflix, or if we'll have to shell out purchase money to the piratical Amazonians.