kingfish
March 7th, 2005, 03:07 PM
repost from tvshowsondvd.com
Baa Baa Black Sheep - As predicted, Pappy Boyington hits DVD: Take-off is in May!
Posted by David Lambert
3/07/2005
On New Years' Day 2005, we posted a looong list (111 shows!) of TV series that our sources had said would come to DVD in the year to come. Near the top of the list was Baa Baa Black Sheep (a.k.a. Black Sheep Squadron). The Stephen J. Cannell creation ran on NBC from 1976-78, starring Robert Conrad as Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (a real-life WW2 air ace in the U.S. Marines Corp, and a Medal of Honor awardee), and based on Boyington's autobiography. The show also included in the cast an early-in-his-career John Larroquette, about a decade before he would win 4 Emmy Awards in a row for playing "Dan Fielding" on Night Court!
On May 24th our prediction comes true: Universal has given us the heads-up this morning that they are releasing Baa Baa Black Sheep - Volume 1 on that date, in a 2-DVD set that runs 584 minutes. Presentation is exactly what you would expect: full frame video and English mono sound.
That "Volume 1 " in the title speaks volumes, though (forgive the pun), especially when tied in with the just-under-10-hour running time! The series had a 2-hour (with commercials) pilot telefilm called The Flying Misfits, and then 22 more hour-long episodes in the first season, and followed by 13 more episodes under the Black Sheep Squadron title for the second season. It looks like Universal intends to break their DVD boxes for this show up into "Volume" sets rather than "Season" sets, possibly to make the cost per set more palatable for retailers who cater to the mass market. $39.98 is the list price for this 2-disc package.
No further details are available just yet, nor is cover art. Stay tuned, though...we'll be keeping a sharp eye on this, and will bring more to you as soon as possible!
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Many from BG starred on this series:
Larry Manetti-Giles.
Red West-Marcos.
W.K Stratton-Barton.
Jeff McKay- Comma/Firefighter.
Dana Elcar- Space Croppers.
James Whitmore Jr-Robber.
Kent McCord- Troy.
Baa Baa Black Sheep - As predicted, Pappy Boyington hits DVD: Take-off is in May!
Posted by David Lambert
3/07/2005
On New Years' Day 2005, we posted a looong list (111 shows!) of TV series that our sources had said would come to DVD in the year to come. Near the top of the list was Baa Baa Black Sheep (a.k.a. Black Sheep Squadron). The Stephen J. Cannell creation ran on NBC from 1976-78, starring Robert Conrad as Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington (a real-life WW2 air ace in the U.S. Marines Corp, and a Medal of Honor awardee), and based on Boyington's autobiography. The show also included in the cast an early-in-his-career John Larroquette, about a decade before he would win 4 Emmy Awards in a row for playing "Dan Fielding" on Night Court!
On May 24th our prediction comes true: Universal has given us the heads-up this morning that they are releasing Baa Baa Black Sheep - Volume 1 on that date, in a 2-DVD set that runs 584 minutes. Presentation is exactly what you would expect: full frame video and English mono sound.
That "Volume 1 " in the title speaks volumes, though (forgive the pun), especially when tied in with the just-under-10-hour running time! The series had a 2-hour (with commercials) pilot telefilm called The Flying Misfits, and then 22 more hour-long episodes in the first season, and followed by 13 more episodes under the Black Sheep Squadron title for the second season. It looks like Universal intends to break their DVD boxes for this show up into "Volume" sets rather than "Season" sets, possibly to make the cost per set more palatable for retailers who cater to the mass market. $39.98 is the list price for this 2-disc package.
No further details are available just yet, nor is cover art. Stay tuned, though...we'll be keeping a sharp eye on this, and will bring more to you as soon as possible!
=========================================================
Many from BG starred on this series:
Larry Manetti-Giles.
Red West-Marcos.
W.K Stratton-Barton.
Jeff McKay- Comma/Firefighter.
Dana Elcar- Space Croppers.
James Whitmore Jr-Robber.
Kent McCord- Troy.