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.
This is where DVD helps. Sony has issued many of his series in this format already.
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.