Yep. Some shows are only available in syndication because of DVDs. A number of the 1960s-era Warner Brothers TV shows aren't available because they used library music that they no longer have the rights to use. Stripping out all of that music is expensive. "Route 66" is available only because someone wanted to do a series DVD set a few years back and was willing to pay to replace the music.
Thanks for your overview of why these short-lived Lear shows are not available anywhere. It’s interesting that some other relatively obscure series from that era (the 1970s, broadly) have surfaced on diginets, AVODs, or FASTs (eg Barbary Coast, Nichols, Grady, The Ropers), but not so much the Tandem shows. I agree the costs of conversion and rights could be high, but it would be historically valuable at least to have access to shows like All’s Fair and Hot L Baltimore again. Unfortunately there’s not much appetite these days in Hollywood for investing in historical cultural legacy.
It's weird, because some of the shows that are available on AVOD like Grady and Gloria were produced by Lear's old partner after Tandem split up. Sony owns those shows as well. So I'm assuming there is some reason why the two sets of shows are handled differently. Not that Sony will ever talk about it.
This is where DVD helps. Sony has issued many of his series in this format already.
Yep. Some shows are only available in syndication because of DVDs. A number of the 1960s-era Warner Brothers TV shows aren't available because they used library music that they no longer have the rights to use. Stripping out all of that music is expensive. "Route 66" is available only because someone wanted to do a series DVD set a few years back and was willing to pay to replace the music.
Thanks for your overview of why these short-lived Lear shows are not available anywhere. It’s interesting that some other relatively obscure series from that era (the 1970s, broadly) have surfaced on diginets, AVODs, or FASTs (eg Barbary Coast, Nichols, Grady, The Ropers), but not so much the Tandem shows. I agree the costs of conversion and rights could be high, but it would be historically valuable at least to have access to shows like All’s Fair and Hot L Baltimore again. Unfortunately there’s not much appetite these days in Hollywood for investing in historical cultural legacy.
It's weird, because some of the shows that are available on AVOD like Grady and Gloria were produced by Lear's old partner after Tandem split up. Sony owns those shows as well. So I'm assuming there is some reason why the two sets of shows are handled differently. Not that Sony will ever talk about it.