Cool DVD news...I guess it's not really news at this point, but what the hell, it's still cool. For months I have been bitching that the original Star Trek series has been badly represented on DVD. They existed, but as single discs with two episodes per at a list price of about $19.95. Now who the hell is gonna collect all 79 episodes at that rate? Where were the season-by-season box sets? It made zero sense to me; you've got a classic TV show which boasts a truly looney, devoted fan-base, from the curious folk who attend conventions and dress like Klingons to plain ol' TV connoiseurs like me, and you give 'em the shaft on the DVDs? What gives?
Well, someone was either tapping my phone or thinking similarly, because the first season of the original Star Trek is finally out as a groovy-looking box set. Presumably, seasons two and three will follow shortly. Okay, it ain't cheap, but it's reasonable, all things considered, and the replay value is immense. Those of us who grew up in the New York area in the 70s and 80s grew up on Channel 11's incessant Star Trek airings (along with liberal doses of The Honeymooners, The Odd Couple and The Twilight Zone), and I miss it, badly. It was a great show to watch as a kid, and even better as a caffeine-and-booze-addled college kid, downing horrific late night snacks trying to catch a showing in the wee hours of a Sunday night. Yeah, there are plenty of folks who will only watch the later series, but those never grabbed me. There's just something about the 60s-ness of it, and of course the classic Shatner-Nimoy-Kelley chemistry.
I'm craving cheap beer and a falafel sandwich just thinking about it.
In other cool classic TV on DVD news, the first season of Columbo is out in a box set too. Another show that lives forever in reruns, for the simple reason that it's flat-out brilliant and entertaining. No one in the US or the UK has ever produced a better TV detective.
Now where the hell is Kojak?
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