Nero Wolfe or What????

[DanOK]

I am continually amazed that quality television shows have such a short life cycle. I received a copy of the Nero Wolfe shows, from A&E, that I ordered a few weeks ago and find the acting, the writing, and the production to be some of the best television I have ever seen. Two short seasons and it was gone.

Does anyone else have a show that without DVD's would be lost from our viewing pleasure for ever.

[texasPI]

I have a few like Dragnet and Boston Blackie on DVD but prefer to listen on radio. I think I have my 4yr old son hooked too! We turn down the lights, lay on the floor and listen. He's too young to understand much but it's great that he's not always tethered to the TV. My all time favorite is Harry Nile.

BTW, I have Nero Wolfe too and I agree with you.

[WithTheGrain]

I am continually amazed that quality television shows have such a short life cycle. I received a copy of the Nero Wolfe shows, from A&E, that I ordered a few weeks ago and find the acting, the writing, and the production to be some of the best television I have ever seen. Two short seasons and it was gone.

Does anyone else have a show that without DVD's would be lost from our viewing pleasure for ever.

Nero Wolfe was fantastic. I still check out the disks from the library and watch it frequently. There are a ton of other shows that I watch, most of them are because I didn't catch them because they were before my time (Columbo and Magnum PI). There are some great old shows out there that are worth watching.

[Bubarubu]

Couldn't agree more on Nero Wolfe. As a matter of fact, that may get added to SWMBO's list of potential gifts...

Also on DVD, also after a two-season, too-short run, is Sportsnight. Studio 60 aside (everyone gets one free pass), he has been the best writer working for the last 10 years. Sportsnight was just unpolished enough that the writing and the plot development merged perfectly.

[htownmmm]

Nero Wolfe series is great!!!!

The clothes, the attitudes, capturing the period-extremely well done especially since Timothy Hutton was the producer and driving force behind the series.

Do you have both seasons?


marty

[Bobtrumpet]

For a later and somewhat more younger audience (although I, at 50, enjoyed it), "Freaks and Geeks" was an excellent program. Canceled (by ABC, I believe) after only ~16 episodes. It dealt with the high school years, but in a more mature way than most shows do. A number of its cast have gone on to bigger things recently.

Then there's always "Firefly." 'Nuff said. If you have the same experience I did, watching it and realizing there will be no more episodes will make you ache.

Regards,

Bob Eye

[DanOK]

Yes I have both seasons, for some reason it was much cheaper to buy the two season set on Amazon. I had forgot about Sportsnight and believe I should add it to my library.

[farace]

I would plus-one Nero Wolfe if I was someone that plus-oned. I tend to wonder if some shows are better because they're short runs and never get the chance to jump the shark. Kill it while the spark is still there and the ideas are still fresh and no one will say, "the first two seasons were better . . ."

I can remember really liking Max Headroom for the very short time it existed, but I haven't seen it in so long that I wouldn't swear it was as good as I seem to remember. I did like the digs that Max stuck in, ridiculing the commercials that were about to play, as Alfred Hitchcock used to do at times. Biting the hand that fed it might have helped kill it off.