Mr. Pizza's Hardy Boys Forum

With the Hardy Boys Season 1 and 2 DVDs going on sale, I thought it would be a good time to see if anyone owned any of the DVDs. Voting closes on December 25.

I picked up the first season back in 2005, and I got the second season back in July.  I also have the 95 series on DVD.

Season 1

I don't think I've ever seen the '95 DVDs, but I do own the Season 1 DVDs and hoping to get the second season.

Quote from: Light123 on November 26, 2007, 07:38:01 PM
I don't think I've ever seen the '95 DVDs, but I do own the Season 1 DVDs and hoping to get the second season.

The 95 series is only available on DVD in Canada.  You can get it from Amazon.ca or chapters.ca or cdplus.com or any canadian retailer.

I pre-ordered BOTH seasons when it was announced they were coming out on DVD!! Now anxiously awaiting for Season 3!!!! I also have the Canadian tv series, I had heard about them but never saw them.

To Tom:
Thanks, if I can't get it online next time I'm in Canada I might pick it up! :)
To Lola:
Wow, I haven't even heard about Season 3! Can't wait for it to come out!

Quote from: Light123 on November 26, 2007, 07:47:23 PM
To Tom:
Thanks, if I can't get it online next time I'm in Canada I might pick it up! :)
To Lola:
Wow, I haven't even heard about Season 3! Can't wait for it to come out!

Here's a link to the set on Chapters.ca http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/dvd/Hardy-Boys-Nancy-Drew-S1/625828050121-item.html?ref=Search+DVD%3a+%2527Hardy+Boys%2527 (http://www.chapters.indigo.ca/dvd/Hardy-Boys-Nancy-Drew-S1/625828050121-item.html?ref=Search+DVD%3a+%2527Hardy+Boys%2527), and it contains both.  Chapters also lists both series by themselves, but it's better to get the two for less.

Thanks, Tom. My Season 1 CD got all scratched up on one side since it is double-sided, so I might need to buy it again.

The chapters link will only work for the series from 1995 wil Colin Gray and Paul Popowich.  The Universal series from the 70's is what is on sale through Amazon.com.  Also, as for Season 3, you might want to be looking towards 2009 as the possible release date for that season, considering that Season 1 was released on March 22, 2005, and Season 2 was on June 20, 2007, so clearly there was more than two years between the two discs.  But, also, the final season might be held up by Universal having a hard time acquiring the rights to release the series on DVD for home use from the actors or the families of the actors (in cases where the actor has passed away), since back in the 70's, the actors would've signed a release saying that Universal could distribute the programs with the footage of them for broadcast on TV stations, but because home video was in its infancy, no one thought about putting into the contract releases for home video distrubution (nowadays, studio's write this into the contracts when the actors are signed, but with the older programming, studio's usually have to do this before they release the series on DVD, unless the series is in the public domain).  Plus, the episode writers would need a new contract saying how much Universal was going to pay them for the episode(s) they had written.  So, expect a wait for Season 3. 

But, Season 2, from what I've seen, was quite good and should hold me over until then. If it dosen't, there's always the '95 series.

Well, I'm figuring that with Season 3, the picture quality will probably be better than Season 1, considering that only the Atlantis episode was released on VHS in the 80's, and when you look at Season 2 on DVD, aside from the three episodes that were released on VHS (African Sufari, Acapulco Spies, and King Tut's Tomb), the picture quality was way better than the picture quality on the first season DVD's, since, aside from The Disappearing Floor, all the episodes had been released on VHS (except for the Hardy Boys pilot, which had been released on Discovision/Laserdisc back in 1980), and all contained visual artifacts such as scratches on the film, dust, and even in the episode Mystery of The Jade Kwan Yin, in scene where the Hardy's talk with the Chinese Dojo owner over cooks, just before it cuts to the next scene, if you pause it or watch it in slow, (and this appears on the VHS as well) you can see that the editor must've accidentally touched the film with his thumb when he was editing the episode, since a thumb print appears for about half a second as a blue smudge on the film in normal, but as a clear print during slow playback.

I don't have ANY of them, as of now anyway.
I did see season 1 in a pawn shop one time for $12, or $16 or something like that.

Wow, no one had just Season 2. It's 2 votes for Season 1, Both, or none.

Looks like it's a three-way tie right now.

Yep, except for poor Season 2.

Well, how many people do you know buy a middle of the run DVD set for the first time.  They don't know if the first episode is a split story, with Part 1 being on the previous season's set, or if the set starts off with a standalone story that is in the box set entirely.  Considering how so many TV series that have been produced within the past 20 years have ended their seasons with cliffhangers (or like ALF, the series with a cliffhanger), no one wants to jump into the middle of the story without seeing the beginning.

True, that wouldn't make much since.

Just think back to when the Star Trek The Next Generation or Deep Space Nine or Voyager or Enterprise sets were coming out.  How many people that had never seen the series say "Oh, I'll start with Season 5" or whatever season.  I've only heard of one person who did that, and that was with TNG, because they had tuned out of TNG back in 87/88 during the first season and had never bothered, but then a family member showed them an episode from a later Season, so that person went back, and watched all the way from the pilot to the final episode.  In fact, I was in a similar boat with Enterprise.  With Enterprise, I found that it was just like Lost or one of the other Drama series that is on the air nowadays.  If you don't see it from episode 1 on, then you are lost in term of plot of the series and storyline.  And Enterprise was like that.  Thanks to my uncle for taping them off the dish, I managed to see 6 episodes from Season 2, 6 episodes from Season 3 and then most of Season 4 (I was in my first year of college when Season 4 was in first run broadcast, and the station Space was carrying Enterprise, so I got to see Daedalus to Bound each Sunday night from January to April 2005, but I didn't have a TV until 2nd semester, so my uncle taped the first 6 or so episodes of Enterprise from the dish for me).  Anyway, just from seeing those random episodes, I thought that Enterprise was no good and did not deserve the Star Trek name.  It wasn't until the local library in Pembroke got Seasons 1-3 (and they eventually got season 4, but by that time my brother had it) that I was able to see Enterprise from "Broken Bow" to "These Are The Voyages..." with no interruption and I could see the entire series that I found that, while it wasn't as good as the previous Star Trek's, it was still better than the reality series that had been on the airwaves at the time and had forced it off.  Anyway, without watching the DVD's in order, I probably would still be thinking that Enterprise was garbage, but by seeing the episodes in the order they were aired, I enjoy Enterprise whenever I pop in a DVD and sit down to watch it, but not as much as the other Trek's.

But, it would be the same with the Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, even though the series was made at a time when episodes were more episodic, rather than serial.

Wow, that has got to be the largest post I've ever seen. But, you right. It would make no sense to start in the middle of a movie series unless you had to.