10 Movies & TV Shows You Can No Longer Watch
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- Опубликовано: 30 июн 2024
- Dogma, Cocoon, Moonlighting - which other movies and TV shows are difficult to track down?
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This is why I'm a huge supporter of physical media. I buy dvds, blu-rays, cds, vinyl records, physical books.
Ditto.
Same especially with video games and older films. Recently I tried to show my husband my favourite movie that was produced in the 1950s and it’s nowhere online including legal/illegal streaming sites.
Or piracy
I like a Hardcopy of a Hardcover.
Same.
I can just hear Sterling Archer: DO you want more Piracy? BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU GET MORE PIRACY!
If they won't provide it, you can assume they don't care if we pirate it.
Dead on.
Exactly. And when they finally decide to release them, then they'll start going after DCMAs.
Arrr!
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂❤
This cracks me up! I own almost everything on this list on DVD! My children are both millennials and are always saying “why do you bother keeping all those DVDs you can get EVERYTHING on streaming!”LOL I always reply “NO YOU CAN’T”
Millennials also watch stuff on tiny cellphone screens. How can you do that, you miss so many little things that are cool in the background.
I'm a millennial and have a huge dvd collection...I think you might mean Genz
Millenials were born between 1981 and 1996. Streaming services weren't really a thing until the early 00s. We had dvd players.
@@thesnailtale8490 Thanks, I thought millennials were people born around the millennium. What a confusing label.
Three of my favorite movies are not available on streaming, but I have the physical copies - Dawn of the Dead (original), Pink Floyd the Wall and Island of Lost Souls. That is reason enough for me to keep my physical copies!
Man, Cocoon was on HBO in the eighties five times a day. With Revenge of the nerds, and Baron Von Muncheisen.😂😭
Omg! I LOVE the Barron!!!
I remember that!
Moonlighting won't be back for one simple reason: no one will believe Bruce Willis ever had hair.
He had hair in the best Christmas movie ever
Die hard
He had hair in the chest, in the best movie evet!
Lol. That's so true. I have never seen him with hair. Lol.
He had hair in the sixth sense and the kid.
Everybody still watches Die Hard. Unless maybe you’re still in high school or something.
“Ancient DVD release”
Not ready to hear that, to be honest.
It’s bullshit
New movies are still being put out on DVD
Makes you feel old don't it...
I still buy the occasional DVD when a film I want hasn't got a Bluray release.
Also lots of tv shows still only get a DVD release in physical media
I remember getting a DVD player for Christmas when they came out and all my friends were jealous lol. Fk Getting old 😭😂 I still have a VHS player too not goona lie. Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
I have a large DVD library, and this video captures why I don't rely on streaming (nevermind the service hopping as contracts expire). I own Moonlighting and Dogma special edition and have them backed up on my Plex server should anything happen to the DVDs themselves. I would add that the masterpiece war film "A Midnight Clear" from 1991 starting Ethan Hawke, Gary Sinese, Frank Whaley and John C. McGinley is criminally difficult to find and should be on this list as well. Why there is no anniversary release with commentaries and making of docs is beyond me
I've always wondered why Moonlighting was not to be found on streaming services. I'd like to watch it and Northern Exposure again
It's on there, now.
It's available on Hulu right now. Thank God!
This is why illegal streaming sites etc are so popular. You can actually find everything you want to watch and all in one place too.
I feel like leaving a like on this comment is a trap. lmao xD
Just imagine a 30 dollars per month, and it has fucking everything.
I’m talking everything from the shining to The Godfather
@@synvice7491 🤐
Correct
@@teshiku1249 shining to the godfather? So no Marx Brothers then. Or Saturday night fever?
Good thing I have a copy of Dogma. However, I am of the opinion that every movie and tv show ever, should be available for watch and purchase to the masses. Media is art. And art deserves to be observed.
But sometimes, the costs associated with a show outweigh the amount of money to be made.
@@captainshaw685 Think you're missing the point. Money shouldn't be a reason art isn't observed.
@@Burn3r10 Fine. Then you decide what television show/music/movie needs to be available and YOU foot the costs associated. Printing every DVD/CD/Blue-Ray, plus packaging costs, storage, distribution, advertising, plus all royalties.
@@captainshaw685 Release the digital files temporarily. If they did, the individuals on p2p file sharing networks would maintain the content for them.
Exactly, even controversial art.
When I hear "Disney considers it inappropriate today" My first thought is, ok, now I HAVE to watch it.
Song of da south a bit raw
And German Uberm ens ch are your betters wasn't much fun either
I have Song of the South. I won't watch it but I knew I should own it.
Disney: "We can't have Song of the south because it's racist"
Also Disney: "We bought the rights to Star Wars and our first film is going to have strong Nazi influences."
@@ladydeerheart1 why won't you watch it? Have you ever seen it? It's pretty darn good.
@@fluidikons It's boring. And the problem between the kid's parents - that he's pro ending slavery and she's a moron - is completely ignored because Disney was afraid it would be boycotted in the South if they took an anti-slavery stance.
I'm so glad for DVD burners and the ability to convert from VHS to DVD back in the day, especially when Netflix was a DVD rent-by-mail company! You could get 3 at a time so my collection is HUGE! I learned from records/8-track/cassettes going to CD to ALWAYS save the old technology and get it converted over yourself to the latest medium when possible.
I converted all my VHS to DVD with the exception of those that were locked. The only movies out of the 200 or so that I wasn't able to converted because the content was copy protected were Disney movies (every single one) and Heavy Metal. F'n Disney, I love them but they're a bunch of money grubbing bastards. Walt is rolling over in his grave
@@mszoomy Torrents are still a thing. Great thing about torrents is it all fits on the hard drive!
@@davidb7180 I have no idea what that is
@@mszoomyI always say that Walt Disney would be turning in his cryogenically frozen chamber. LOL.
And people make fun of me for keeping my vast DVD collection all these years...
the internet giveth the internet givith away
Wait another decade and sell it on Ebay. Walk away laughing!
@@funkyfiss He doesn't keep them to sell them. He keeps them to be able to watch them.
@@CrusardModding why not both? Burn the DVDS on an external hard drive for personal use. And sell the DVDs for cash.
@@funkyfiss I don't know about you but having a physical copy in a shelf is more satisfying than having just the file.
The correct title of this video should be “Why you need to buy physical media”
Definitely. Why you shouldn't be getting your books via Kindle and other such readers, you don't own you rent and they can take them from you whenever they feel like and you've no recourse to get them back.
I think the title should be "you should no longer watch movies and tv shows". That would be more helpful.
Hear hear well put
Nah, the correct title is "Movies and shows you can't watch anymore if you've never heard of Google".
Only 2 entries of this list are worth watching.
Had this issue with Cold Case, love that show, and every episode had music from whatever year the murder took place in. So glad that hbo max has it now. There wasn't even any dvd's of it either!
I wanted to buy the DVD's but they were never released.
Im guessing you never pirate lol
I was such a devotee of this show, that when a pay TV station in my country showed these again, I painstakingly recorded each and every episode on VHS. Most of the music is the same as shown on TV, so I made my own collection.
It is currently on Start TV at 2 pm CST. I think it has most of the original music on there.
IMO when a song is licensed for a movie or tv series, the license for that film and/or episode of the series should never expire. It’s sill that the rights to a song can expire for something which was already filmed and released
The problem is mainly, though, that a lot of older tv series did not anticipate the technology that would be available later so negotiations, contracts, etc. did not include future ease of accessibility. Trying to go back and re-do the contracts I guess is deemed just not worth it by the content producers and/or distributors.
How do we get public domain then? Eventually access to media needs to happen for free in order to keep them reoccoring in popular media into the future, however little that might be. Think about it like this, I'm going to create something but lock it up and no one can use it or have anything to do with it without my permission but I'm not gonna give it so no one will ever get copies and the go ahead head to reference it then it's forgotten about.
@@EnDigoLazer There are time limits for copyright. They are too long, but things do eventually make it into the public domain. And there is such a thing as fair use, which is part of copyright law.
@@shesaknitter sadly, we're talking about record companies who to everything to circumvent fair use.
@@grandlancer Sure. But it still exists.
Wow..I actually have a copy of Dogma still on dvd..it's one of the most underrated comedies.. ever!
You lucky son of a bitch
I have it on VHS lol. However just managed to buy it on DVD for less than the tape cost me in 1999 🤷♀️
Picked up a special edition dvd set from a video store going out of business sale 10+ years ago. Glad I did.
Plus, you never know when you get a hankering for a movie with a rubber poop monster?
Actually, got almost all the Smith stuff on DVD including the talking shows. Surprised how much Dogna goes for on Amazon nowadays!
I have all Kevin Smith movies up to and including Dogma
Dogma was easily one of Kevin smith’s best movies.
@wheredoyougowhenisleep well, we all need to aspire to something.
Pretty chuffed that I own a copy.
Looking forward to seeing Tusk also
It is his best if you ask me.
DOGMA IS AMAZING
Well, it is the first time Matt Damon played a character called Loki.
The reason it took so long for the tv show “China Beach” to come out on dvd was music rights problems. They had great soundtracks on that show. I waited and hoped for years for a box version. Then, finally!
Thats a great show !
Dark Angel, highly underrated and nowhere I can find it.
Yes! Though it was always a shame it was cancelled just as it was getting good.
Another series infuriatingly hard to find is Better off Ted.
The Wonder Years 😔 forever locked on tv vhs recordings i think it has soundtrack copywrite problems
Then it's lucky the pirates are in fact preservationist, ain't it? Yarr!
No problem watching any of these movies
That reminds me of my bootleg DVD set of "Cowboy Bebop." I did look everywhere for Bandai/official DVDs, but the company wasn't interested at the time. I have since added a "Best of" DVD set which looks MUCH better, but Bandai was shortsighted.
They can be.
Florence Stoker sued Prana Films for ripping off her late husband's novel "Dracula" and had the court order that all copies of "Nosferatu" be destroyed; we have an enterprising movie pirate to thank for its survival. "Nosferatu" is now considered a classic, not only of the silent era, but of all time.
If it weren't for pirates, classic films like Nosferatu and classic TV shows like Doctor Who would be lost forever.
Torrents: Hold my drink.
🏴☠️
Thank God for Torrents preserving culture and history. ❤️
If you have an android device get an app called streamio... Turns torrents into netflix
Are torrents legal?
@@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu not at all but no one cares about the people downloading them... They are too busy trying to stop the uploaders. Not to mention how do you go after someone in China using American law or visa versa?
I think Cold Case should be included. It was never released on DVD or BluRay and it’s not on any major streaming service (at least here in Australia). It was an amazing show with good writing acting and absolutely phenomenal casting.
I watch Cold Case seven days a week on a free station called START TV. It runs with Crossing Jordan, Unforgettable, Rizzoli and Isles, The Closer and Major Crimes.
It's on HBO Max only place I found it
The TV series Brimstone definitely deserves to be on this list!
I remember that
"The Drew Carey Show" has the same problem with musical rights. The show was wonderful, with guest stars ranging from Rush Limbaugh to The Reverend Horton Heat
I'm not a religious man but there is something fishy about a reverend with the last name Heat. Sounds like he works for the devil lol
@@tylerrutherford4148 Actual name is Jim Heath. Kind of like Eddie Mahoney shortening his name to Eddie Money. Also a guest star on the show
Reverend? Hmmnm
Tammy Faye Bakker also guest-starred as Mimi Bobek's mother.
The thing I remember about "The Reverend Horton Heat" episode, is that only "Jim Heath" got a speaking part. The rest of the band were snarling, and making threatening postures😄👍
Who’d think we’d live long enough for DVD quality to be called “grotty”?
Struth! Remember when HD tvs first came out & you could finally get the full 480p of dvd's promised resolution? That was a good day...
Blu-Rays aren't much better admittedly. Some of them are still wildly compressed.
If you grew up with heavily watched VHS tapes from Blockbuster DVD seemed insanely good quality. Best example was Pitch black, I honestly thought it was a super cheap movie that didn't actually show the aliens...
I think he meant the subject matter of the film not the actual media itself.
DVD image quality is perfectly fine with me. I have no obsessive need for hyper crystal clarity.
I guess I’m one of the lucky ones that’s kept dogma as a dvd in my very limited collection of dvds over the years.
The King of television shows that will never be released on Blu-Ray in it's original aired form... WKRP In Cincinnati. Can you imagine what the licensing fees would be for this show. Pink Floyd alone would be ASTRONOMICAL!
There were a few episodes released on VHS but I am not sure if the original music was used or was replaced.
The Wonder Years was another. Also, the animated Heavy Metal took years to come out on home videos.
it was released on DVD with different music put in.
@@phoenixrebornfilms Right. That is why I said "shows that will never be released on Blu-Ray in it's original aired form". It's not the same show when they put in different music that doesn't match what the scene called for.
The 'missing' episodes of 'The Muppet Show' that are locked up due to the musical performances of their guest stars...
only the Brooke shields ep is due the music the other one is due to the guest star being convicted for possession of child porn.
Lame
Because the old seasons didn’t have musical numbers?
@@scottwelch3578 which guest was that?
@@jmorton201 Chris Langham
Studios that won't release a movie: "You're going to steal a movie?"
Pirates: "Commandeer. We're going to commandeer a movie."
Are you starting an insurrection?
I’m dying laughing at this - saving it for later
@@yoopernow He can't. He doesn't have a buffalo horn-hat.
Voting integrity opponents: "Why are you making it harder for people to vote by insisting on ID?"
Movie pirates: "Why are you making it harder to watch a movie by insisting that we pay for it?"
The word is Liberate. It Is to be set free. Freedom! For all videos. Regeme change for these dictatorship studios.
This should be named "10 Movies & TV Shows You Can Still Watch," since I found every one of these online, with only a couple minutes of searching.
The one I would love to see released is HBO's "Dream On". I loved that show. But I can understand that the rights to the old movie clips that were interspersed throughout the episodes would make it impossible.
I LOVED that show! I always wondered why it wasn't released in syndication!
I was trying to remember the name of that show over the last few days. That kinda mirrored my childhood.
"Northern Exposure" deserves to be on this list. And it too is tied up with music rights and unlikely to ever come to streaming.
I know several seasons got DVD releases (the packaging gimmick was the box 'wearing' a Parka.) so I don't know why/how Streaming would be that big of an issue... unless their issue was with Multiple Studios having produced it and with everyone having their own app (Hulu, Peacock, Paramount+)
NX IS available with ALL of the original music on a region-B BluRay box set -- tracked it down about a year ago for $100-ish new. US box-set versions stopped featuring the original music after season 2 because of rights issues HERE that never became a problem in the UK.
Anyone else remember the show that went up against NX in its time-slot called _Key West_? Fisher Stevens, Jennifer Tilly, Tasha Yar, a bunch of other recognizable names. I liked NX okay for the 1st season, but really dug KW for the far more congenial atmosphere of its setting. I'm *still* trying to get there, half a lifetime later! 😂
@@TJ52359 Was sure had seen some on a shelf at Half Price Books. How I wish I'd bought several series before I moved. There isn't a Half Price Books where I live now.They always had a huge offering of DVDs of movies and TV series and I loved the box sets.
There’s a euro set with the music intact. the north american versions had a lot of the music replaced with generic or other music that sticks out like a sore thumb (they left the children’s choir intro of Inchworm in but dubbed out Danny Kaye with a woman singing a country tune). the season 1 north american box set has the original music but only by accident and only in the spanish dubbed audio track.
Moonlighting was such a great show. Bruce Willis made the show shine. He was so funny in that role.
I loved it!
what a blast from the past! loved that show!!
I had such an odd crush on Cybill Shepherd back then, too. Very funny show, and the cases they were tracking were often mini-mysteries. Great series.
I loved it until they stopped solving cases.
There is a scene in one of the episodes that played the Star Wars theme as Bruce Willis was fighting a bad guy with some swords or something like that. I just remember it was one of the funniest scenes in a TV series I've ever seen.
Holy crap... I just saw a boxed DVD set of a season of Moonlighting at a second hand store recently. Didn't know it was so rare.
It's incredibly sad that my kids won't know the feeling and smell of walking into a Blockbuster or Hollywood Video... 😥
If you go to Canada they will; Blockbuster still exists there
Tales From The Crypt should definitely be on this list. I love and miss those grotesque morality tales
My brother recently purchased the entire recent series release at Best Buy.
you can see it on Tubi tv streaming
@@stevenf1953 it's on tubi I'm on there all the time and never saw it I'm going to have to go it up now !
@@mchamber366 look n search
HBO go doesnt have it?
WhatCulture: "Dogma DVD and Blu-Rays are out of print."
Me staring at my Dogma Special Edition DVD: "Mwahahaha!"
Also me: I don't have anything to play DVDs...
WhatCulture: "Mwahahaha!"
its 2021 and you dont have any kind of disc reader? no xbox, PS, CD drive on PC nothing?
You can literally buy the blu-ray easily from the Secret Stash too. Like a signed copy is like $30. It’s pretty readily available.
@@chaosbringer546 studios love it because it makes licensing easier and sometimes more lucrative. Now they they only have to allow you access to the film/game/software rather than providing you with an actual physical copy. Users like it because solid state drives take up less space and are faster. Me...I have a 400+ library of titles on Bluray/DVD/CD. Every build gets an optical drive.
Just check ebay dvd is reasonable priced. The Blu ray is super expensive.
lol me too and my moonlighting boxsets
My dad was a real videophile back in the 80s. He had a 1983 (not sure the exact year of release) bootleg vhs copy of Song of the South ripped from a Japanese laserdisc release. He didn't care anything about the movie. He was just proud to possess such a rare thing. I myself have seen the movie several times because, believe it or not, Disney used to show it about once a year for a while on primetime TV back in the early 70s as a part of The Wonderful World of Disney anthology series on Sunday nights on NBC.
And yes, I am that old...
I’ve found two of these at 2nd & Charles and Edward McKay’s. Gotta love used book stores.
It actually pisses me off, that you can't get Dogma on DVD anymore, really like that film.
One of my favorites
Thank gawd I bought a special edition of it! Very funny.
I have a copy I can sell.
I feel you. Still got my blu-ray and it's not going anywhere.
eBay. Less than $15. Seriously.
Actually, I just checked The Criterion Channel today (June 1, 2021), and "Pink Flamingos" is among the newly added. Not my cup of tea, but just letting you know.
Thought they'd have pink flamingos
@@DJStupidful Yeah, they do (for now, at least).
LOOKING FOR MR. GOODBAR!? Wow, I have sooooo much respect for WC's writers for thinking up this one! I read this book when I was younger (and it scarred me in the way great books often do) and then my mother hunted, hunted, hunted for a ripped copy of this movie for me to see it -- and she ended up getting it on eBay on VHS and then converting it to a DVD for me. I'm so impressed it was on the list!
All of these are available to buy online on DVD or vhs. They're just not airing on TV or being put on streaming servers. Dogma is free to watch on RUclips btw.
It should be "Difficult to Find", rather than "You Can No Longer Watch". The latter only applies to titkes that no longer exist, like "London After Midnight" and a lot of BBC shows that got wiped. Just because a title isn't streaming doesn't necessarily mean it can't be had, if you're determined.
They did clear up in the video that the only way to access them is through second hand copies, obtaining them through other means like buying them from another country altogether
The best example of this are the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton Doctor Who episodes that got erased because nobody at the BBC honestly thought that people would be wanting to watch them 60 years in the future. Fortunately, fans managed to make audio recordings of all the episodes so the BBC has tried to recreate them by making new animated episodes to recreate the visuals of the original TV broadcasts.
@@eddiejc1 Such people should get a medal for preservation of culture.
@@greenmonsterprod people tell me the same thing every week when I go looking for stuff in my old tapes collection. Only 2 days out of the week that I can look and today is one of them. Time to get back at it...
I still don't like the trend of intangibles. I want to own books, movies and games I like and paid for
Absolutely despite you paying for it should the service fail/close then that's it all your paid for media gone
Yup, I have 5 bookcases in my house... all filled with books. That is my 1 splurge expense ever since I was a kid and my dad would let me go crazy at Waldenbooks, B. Daltons... remember malls y'all and book stores?!?!
I do have a kindle for travel, but I so love the touch and feel of a great book... a graphic novel... a coffee table book, even a children's colorful book!!
I did get rid of my DVDs and CDs though... I had to make a choice regarding space and the books won! But I do fear the future of digital copies as I pay for music and think... will this still be available to me forever like my old CDs?!?🤔
@@agravery223 I kept my cds, but they're in a box in my closet. I did rip them all to my pc tho, so I have digital copies to listen to.
But I'm w/ you on your worry of digital copies bought still being there when you want them. I don't like video games stored on the game console's server. I mean, do I really own it? Or am I borrowing it? 🤔
Me too. I can't understand people proud about owning a digital copy
@@agravery223 I bought a DJ case, that holds around 1200 discs, put all my DVD's/Blu-ray's/4k discs into the case in alphabetical order and put them all on a spreadsheet so I can just look up the number and pull what I want and it saved on space too as the cases went into the loft.
I have 100s of DVDs in physical form. The most difficult move for me to get was a 1980’s film called “The Manhattan Project”. It’s a movie about a genus high school kid that makes a hydrogen bomb for a science project, to stick it to the “man”. One of my favorite movies of the era. Another difficult movie for me to find was “D.A.R.Y.L.”. Very good movie and I think it can now be streamed on some platforms.
A lot of you are getting confused by what they meant by no longer available, which is “not on any streaming or currently in print on physical media. “Just because *you* have a copy on DVD doesn’t mean you can find it *new* on Amazon. Yes, there are physical copies out there on the second hand market, but no one is manufacturing new ones.
Oh, and being on torrents and illegal streaming does not count as “available.”
Dogma is exceedingly easy to find on YT.
Not on TV. I have the dvd somewhere and I have a saved recording of it from years ago xD
Damn when I read this I was like.. nah. It's Literally the first thing that shows up..
There is literally many ways to find Dogma online
Unedited?
I own it
More accurate, movies/shows you can’t legally stream but if you have a dvd/vhs player there are hundreds if not thousands of copies available.
And they ARE on the internet! The only subscription one needs is a VPN, because piracy is the way to go.
I loved Moonlighting so much! I wish they would stream the series somewhere. ☹
Cocoon plays regularly on the FXM channel. I also found several region 1 DVD's for sale on ebay, after watching this. A few were overpriced, but a few were also reasonably priced if you are a fan of the film.
It's also on prime video
This is why I kept my physical media. Streaming falls apart when it comes down to rights disputes and when the servers fail. I'd say the hardest part is finding alot of horror. So much never made it to dvd let alone streaming. Maybe Dawn of the Dead 1978 because of the Richard Rubinstein debacle.
I have Dawn of the Dead on DVD, back when I got it, around 2004, the real bugger for me was finding Day of the Dead on disc.
These stupid children have no concept of the benefits of physical media. They were never tought to truly appreciate anything. Josh, the immature narrator is a prime example of this if you follow the channel enough.
Ditto. They can take my CDs and DVDs from my cold, dead hands.
I still have a massive physical media store in my town. VHS movies are 30 cents regardless of what the movie is, and there is always about 5,000 different tapes on the shelves. And that section pales in size in comparison to the DVD/Blu Ray. I have gotten so many rare late release VHS movies there. Napoleon Dynamite, Mean Girls, 40 Year Virgin, Harold & Kumar, Team America, Dodgeball, Freddy Got Fingered, Without A Paddle, Bad Santa, Anchorman, The Longest Yard (Sandler), Herbie Fully Loaded, The Pacifier, etc.....99% of people have no idea these movies are rare and valuable
Digital download has its advantages. Getting copies of stuff that is extremely difficult to get physically for one. I've got some films tv shows, gigs, documentaries, etc that were never released on DVD thanks to downloading them. Also I got rid of a few of my CDs because I don't listen to them all that much and I don't have the space. But I've still got a digital copy of the albums if I feel the need to listen to them. But nothing can replace having physical copies.
Also the 1978 “Dawn of the Dead” and the original cuts of the original “Star Wars” trilogy. Sure glad I have my DVDs.
George A. Romero's 'Dawn of the Dead' is on blu-ray and 4K. As for Star Wars, I'm amazed nobody has seen fit (yet) to re-release the original versions before George Lucas meddled with them. Maybe someday.
@@ShanghaiRooster Sail the High Seas my friend. The "Despecialized" release is incredibly well done.
I have the THx versions and those are just about perfect. I cant even watch the 'originals' that they play on Disney or on TV, especially Jedi, that's just brutal for people who saw it in the theater.
Look up Star Wars Despecialized Edition. It's your dreams come true.
@@ShanghaiRooster The original Star Wars Trilogy was released on DVD. I own them. If you find a copy, remember to make sure they are fully widescreen. I've seen versions that look widescreen by normal widescreen standards, but the original trilogy was at least half again more widescreen than that!
Dr. Who I think is missing, as I recall there is some episodes of the early series that are completely missing as the BBC didn't bother keeping them, so they are likely forever lost.
Well, I JUST looked on Amazon, Dogma is available on DVD from multiple sellers and can be at your home by this weekend.
Not gonna read all of the comments to find out if anyone else has said this, but Pink Flamingos is currently streaming in HD on The Criterion Channel.
Cocoon was easy to find on Amazon with 2 options for purchase. Single feature and double feature with Cocoon 2.
See people who laugh at those of us who keep the dvds wont be laughing when one if their favourites is taken off streaming
That's why I hang on to favorite dvds, most of which I picked up for a dollar or two when those laughing people were dumping their dvds. This includes my copy of Cocoon. :)
It's why I stick to Netflix dvd service instead of streaming. I don't have to wait for Netflix to get the digital rights or renegotiate them.
Exactly why I'll always hang on to my DVDs/Blu-rays, and why I still scour charity shops/CEX for obscure releases.
This is why we down load! Who has the control now !
So true! I have 100's of my DVD's and VHS movies I refuse to part with. Kind of a visual thing for me. To be able to look at the physical covers of the movies just does something for me. Old fashioned I guess👌🏽👍🏽
“Herman’s Head”. Sweet Jesus, did I ever love this show! William Ragsdale was adorable, Hank Azaria was endearingly sleazy, and Yeardley Smith was cute as a button. The scripts were breezy and fun, and the storyline was engaging,
Oh, and Leslie Nielsen played God.
I recently seen a DVD of Cocoon at Walmart in the $5 bin so it's out there . Unfortunately I watched Pink Flamingo several years back on DVD and I still regret it . I do own Dogma on the original DVD release and still enjoy watching that movie . The only show that never got the full DVD treatment was the Drew Carey show . It only got one season and a one disc best of release and that's a show I really wanted .
Thanks God that I own a "Special Edition" of both Dogma and Moonlighting. 😁
...yeah...I’ve got the all singing, all dancing version of Dogma too...had to order it from ViewAskew...
I found a set of the first series of Moonlighting in a second hand shop - gave it to a neighbour.
The real question it - can you still get Bruce Willis's craptacular music album?
I had just rewatched Dogma about a month ago... Had no idea! Was wondering why no one I had met recently had ever heard of or seen Dogma...
I have both on dvd
I got both Dogma special edition and the complete series of Moonlighting on DVD. I still love purchasing the physical copy of things.
I've got Dogma on DVD. I love that film, haven't watched it in years though.
So strange. I didn't even know this was a thing. And when I look at the list, there are so many films and shows that I use to watch and love.
Cocoon was on every Christmas when I was a kid. I loved Chicago Hope and Moonlighting was my favourite. Memories.
"Song of the South" has entered Public Domain in Japan, where both DVD and Blu-Ray releases are available.
Nope, just checked on Amazon. Pink Flamingos: 25th Anniversary Edition, Sleuth, Song of the South, Looking For Mr. Goodbar, Dogma, and Moonlighting are readily available. You are correct, Dogma on blu-ray and Moonlighting on DVD are not cheap, but are still available. Cocoon is available on DVD and Blu-ray, and Chicago Hope on DVD, albeit only for Region 2 (Europe). The Beatles Let it be 1970 on DVD is rare, but can be found elsewhere. Ed was released on DVD, but yes is no longer available.
You should include: Mr. Belvedere (1985), seasons 5 & 6, Silver Spoons seasons 2-5. While Malcolm in the Middle season 1 is readily available, I've only ever able to find the complete series on dvd for Region 4 (Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific Islands, Central America, Mexico, South America, and the Caribbean).
He literally said you can buy them second-hand, which is what those are. They are out of print, which means they're no longer being produced. You can still buy them
another valid title: 10 Reasons why piracy will never go away
A great Christin Slater flick "Pump Up The Volume" is nowhere to be found.
I still have the VHS and cassette soundtrack, which by the way is amazing, and probably the reason why you can't find it streaming.
I have a 1080p version on my Plex server.
it's all over Ebay. I got it 3 months ago for less than $20
I watched it on RUclips not long ago. It's in several pieces.
Love that movie!! Filled with music so I’d imagine that’s why. It has a Great dramatic performance from Ellen Greene, better known as Audrey from the musical movie of LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS.
This “Musical Rights” issue puzzles me. If a movie has copyrighted music on it and people discover this music by watching, it likely will motivate them to purchase the music if they really like it. The movie would expose music to viewers that otherwise may never discover it. By forcing the movie to be held hostage and thus not shown, who is going to discover its sound track? This same wrong thinking goes on with RUclips. Videos being blocked for the music. A video of Phil Collins “ In The Air Tonight “ went viral on RUclips seeing millions of views in a short time. That song went to number two on Spotify! Exposing music to new listeners is always a good thing.
PREACH!!!
It's mind boggling!!
Yup, in the long run they are screwing themselves out of perpetuity. I get that creators should make money but if it is unavailable, becomes strictly a product of the time it was released. All the tv shows, movies have soundtracks that fit a scene, making it iconic. Imagine John Cusack holding up the boom box & instead of hearing, In Your Eyes, some generic, noncopyrighted music plays, the power of that moment is gone. Charmed, Supernatural are examples of shows with popular songs that dragged thru approvals. I understand that SPN lost some classics when it aired on Netflix and people complained how it changed the whole feeling of how it played.
how much juice do you get from the squeeze? if you can make 1mill from releasing a blue ray but new music rights cost 1mill, theres zero profit
Not when music is controlled by the Record companies, TV chains and predatory streaming platforms instead of the artists.
That's not how copy rights or royalties works. They're using a product not advertising a product.
Another show I loved that I can't find anywhere is Picket Fences, I found the 1st season on dvd years ago but that was the only season ever released!
I don't know why you think all of these have gone...cause I can find 6 out of the 10 to watch whenever I want...rock on streaming 😁
“Northern Exposure” is another one.🥺
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Yes!!!!!
I have that whole series on dvd
@@hauntedvamp Can I come over?
@@traceytrotter9934 you can order them on Amazon. Lol
Better title: “10 Movies & TV Shows You Can’t Legally Find on Major Streaming Services”, but it’s not as click bait-y…
P.S. Add Herman’s Head to the list
You didn't want to get the lawyer involved.
Right LOL a quick Google search literally found me every single one of these
Also Undercover Blues
It's on Piratebay, series 1-3 now.
Thanks for remembering Herman's Head.
China Beach is a hard one to come by, though I know that did get a DVD release eventually (imported it from the states for my sister for her 40th!). Would be good if it was available on streaming somewhere though. Northern Exposure too, would love to rewatch that.
You forgot KNOTS LANDING! The spinoff of Dallas that ran longer than any of the 80s primetime shows that ran well into the 90s. The show began when President Jimmy Carter was in office as president of the United States and ended when Bill Clinton took over the Oval Office. It is one of the longest running primetime dramas and it’s nowhere to be found on DVD. Out all of its 14 seasons, only two seasons were released but the rest were held up due to music rights. And, that’s a damn shame because it was a great show with a brilliant cast.
It was the best nighttime soap opera but it never got any recognition because it was a women's show.
There's like 4 different rips of Dogma on RUclips, go nuts
Yeah, pretty sure i seen that movie like twice on youtube.
I have 2 copies of it on DVD (collector's edition & just the movie)
That's what I thought. I was pretty sure I'd watched it not too long ago. Found it in less than 2 seconds. This is a good thing. It's a fun watch.
I have a DVD signed by Kevin Smith. But I have come across it on RUclips.
I'll have to follow that. I'd was just on it and checked didn't see it.
Star Wars original trilogy in their original theatrical versions. I would love to have these on DVD or BluRay.
They got released on DVD years ago as "bonus discs" to the special editions, but they have a weird aspect ratio, not sure if it was the player I was using but last time I tried to watch it was letterboxed massively and cropped on the sides, the picture was tiny.
Despecialized versions of all three original movies are available on the high seas. They look fantastic
When I was urged by my family to get with the times , and abandon my VHS player and tapes which included collectors editions of Star trek tv series a number of years ago I was adamant not to comply , I'm glad I did as I now see where the modern age is headed with media , I have a first run tape of Cocoon , and all the theatrical releases of Star Trek , and a home recordings of mash and Ed .
@@JuniperMe The widescreen versions are non-anamorphic, so thus the horrible cropping. You’d have to zoom using the TV, which zooms in on the image severely lowering the image quality. It’s a shame. Might as well be using the widescreen VHS.
Now you know why I still have more than one Laserdisc player in storage, and you can have my Star Wars Laserdiscs when you pry them from my cold, dead hands.
I recall seeing a bootleg of “Sleuth” on RUclips a few years ago. It was quite good.
If you live in the States, get yourself a library card. At least in my area, libraries carry many dvds that they have had since original release, and material can be checked out from a whole consortium of libraries. So if your local doesn't have it, it's possible it can be ordered from another. Just a quick check of the online system here shows Cocoon, Dogma, Sleuth and seasons 1-4 of Moonlighting are all available. (I didn't bother searching for Song of the South.)
Cold Case is another show caught in "music rights" hell.
That show was actually kinda decent always the most fucked up endings tho
@@drakesmith4857 I loved it.
I LOVED cold case one of the best shows ever
Thank Gawd for that. I love the way they walked into a 30yo crime scene, turned over the corned of a mat and found a note, "Must kill X today" signed the culprit, and it was all solved!
This is why Miami vice can’t get a hd remastering.
“Pricey second hand copies”
CEX: hold my monster energy
In the northeast we got a small chain of stores Bullnose Music. You can get just about any movie or album for $10 if you're patient!
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@Robert Seasrs a lot of people like to have physical copies of media. Like, I don't buy physical copies of EVERYTHING, but I'll buy the vinyl of all my fav albums, and BluRays of my fav movies/shows to always have
C.E.X in England, bloody ace place and so cheap.
Dogma was in the $5 DVD bin at my local WalMart the other day. It was a multi movie disk with another silent bob and jay movie… I think with Mallrats.
Homicide: Life on the Streets. I loved that show.
The Law & Orders. The CSIs. The NCISs. I don't care how many versions or how long they remain on the air, they have NEVER matched the brilliance of "Homicide:Life on the Streets". Never! May Jon Polito (d.2016), Ned Beatty (d.2021)& Yaphet Kotto (d.2021) forever rest in peace. 🙏
@@Ididnotwanttojoin Yes it is. I hate stuff like that! Just have to add at the end of the HLotS tv movie I cried.
You missed an important one! "The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne" was the first hour long show to be filmed completely in HD and originally aired on Sci-Fi Channel in the US (before the stupid Syfy BS). It was apparently hideously expensive to film but I remember it being a gorgeous and fun show. I've found exactly one place that sells the DVD's and it is super sketchy and I've never seen it on any of the less legit streaming/torrenting websites. It came about when Steampunk was really becoming a thing and I believe was highly influential in the way the esthetic evolved.
I love reading these comments learning about shows like this. Influential. First of its kind yet somehow lost in time
I did find it on one of the big ones- but not in HD
So I'mma just touch my nose.
Yes
Oh, yes! I'd forgotten all about that one. Thanks for the reminder! Adding it to my list.
Moral of the story: don’t include copyrighted songs in your movie/TV show. Pay a starving artist to make original songs and buy the rights off of them. You’ll both profit.
Not only is that not how things work, That doesn't make sense.
@@DavidKen878 It makes perfect sense.
Personally, given the choice between forgettable original songs, elevator music or just not being able to watch something, I'll take the first option.
@@DavidKen878
1. Contact a musician
2. Ask them to write a song for your movie
3. Put that song in your movie
4. ?????
5. PROFIT!
Which one of those simple steps don't you understand?
Not at all. Just ensure your licence to use any song covers physical media releases and (nowadays) streaming, alongside original showings, whether that be cinema or tv.
That is how it works in bollywood in most movies.
Another one is The Adventures of Brisco County Jr, quite hard and expensive to get here in the UK. We need a BluRay release of that !
Update on pink flamingos: as of June 28th 2022. The criterion collection has released a Blu-ray of pink flamingos. It's available on Amazon. (At least Amazon Canada) I hope someone sees this and it helps them out or whatculture updates the video.
I absolutely loved "Cocoon" when I was younger. I watched it so many times that I actually wore the tape out. The sequel was pretty decent in its own right, but the original was just phenomenal from start to finish.
I agree. Both movies are great, but it sucks the original Cocoon can't be found anywhere.
@@Leonard1977ful It was shown on free to view tv in Australia less than 2 weeks ago. I saw it while scrolling through channels and thought oh that’s an old movie
@@Leonard1977ful It's available in bluray in France ;)
@@Leonard1977ful
You need to look in my collection..I have it (along with the Michael Caine Sleuth). ^_^
Cocoon is available on Amazon, Amazon Australia for definite, not sure about other countries
Well, I own a videos store (yes, in 2021, bite me!) I specialize in Out Of Print media , and I have all those movies and series on the shelf. I and my customers can watch ALL of them anytime they want. Except ED, since there is no official physical media release at all..
Awesome there are still a few where i live in British Columbia's lower mainland. always nice to see them as movies can be expensive as hell to buy when you do want them
USA or UK?
Wow, a video store I'm the only person I know who still has a VHS player do you rent tapes...
@@mrw9291 USA, Corpus Christi, Texas
@@jimmuscle2891 we sell to collectors mostly but have done a borrowing program similar to a checking out a library book.
The movies Dogma, Pink Pelican, Cocoon, etc.... are all in YTS
Moonlighting is easily one of the best things Willis has ever done though looking at his resume from the past decade that’s no real biggie. Fortunately I picked up the DVD box set several years back for £20 and have both rewatched the series and stared in awe and drooling disbelief at how gorgeous Cybill Shephard was, one of my first famous crushes and the owner of the best legs of my childhood!
Are you dissing the original "Die Hard"?
What ever happened to China Beach with Dana Delaney and Marg Helgenberger? That was an awesome show. It also had lots of '60's needle drops, though.
I purchased a box set of the complete series at the Walmart just a year or so back.
that show was all "needle drops" and as such has not, nor is it likely to ever get a 'bulk release' whether streaming or box set...
- IIRC some Torrents are available... but illegal and wrong lol
trying to recall if any of the Digital Sub Channels have it as part of their 'linear feed'...
It was released as a DVD set after they had re-recorded some of the music to get around the rights issues.
StarVista/Time Life released it a few years ago. It’s not exactly cheap (It’s about $80) but the majority of the music is restored. So unless if their license lapsed, it should still be in print.
Loved that show! I had to be a teenager when it come out. Really loved it. Watch again as an adult!
You can probably add Near Dark and Something Wicked This Way Comes
Loved near dark, so that's why I've not seen it for ages
I remember NEAR DARK had a blu-ray release a bunch of years ago, complete with terrible TWILIGHT-baiting cover art.
Got it on DVD from an Exchange and Mart type place. Top film.
Near Dark is a great movie. The whole cast are actors from early James Cameron movies.
@@Lamtitude Hudson, Vasquez and Bishop. Only this time, they are the aliens ...
I’m surprised they didn’t mention “Yes, Dear” or “Judging Amy”
Joe V yes well they must be difficult to find as at fifty plus I've never heard of either, were they cult viewing?
@@ticketyboo2456 They both had a decent follow during their runs on TV. Tyne Daly was in Judging Amy, and I even recall her winning an Emmy for her role.
I literally thought of Judging Amy when I saw the title of this video! and Yes, Dear would be a good show to see streaming as well.
Damn im lucky. I bought the whole DVD box set of Moonlighting at a local pawn shop for 5 bucks. My mother loved that series when i was a kid and i happened to find that right before her birthday this year.
Makes me so glad I bought Dogma on DVD a number of years ago before the price started to go up on various websites. It's one of Smith's best films.
I have the DVD too but I am wondering now if my sister stole it. I had it during my university days - it was part of the UK Film 4 films that were released on DVD.
You can get it for 10-20 dollars on ebay. Prices haven't gone up all that much. It's also very much a stable at most pawn shops and you can buy 5 dvds for $10 at most of them.
Does anyone else have a "Buddy Jesus" figure? 😏
@@rebeccam.9963 I actually did have one decades ago that my sister's ex-husband gave to me. At the time I hadn't seen the movie yet so I didn't know what it was from. I used it for a school project in English and then gave it to a friend of mine.
The drew Carey show is another one that got hit by the music licensing issue. Sucks because I loved that show. They only could release the first season since they changed the theme song starting in season 2.
And Malcolm in the Middle, Cold Case... And whatever happened to Boston Public?
@@Zeetana1 looks like malcom and the middle is still on Hulu at least. I didn’t finish it on Netflix before it dropped.
There's a company that making Drew Carey Show the complete series on DVD
@@xxxsully420 don’t you get my hopes up! I would lose my mind if I could watch that show again.
@@ggr1zz I ordered the entire Drew Carey Show last year. All you have to do is Google it and it should pop up
The great thing about physical media is I can watch what I want when I want...for now, at least.
Love Dogma. Used to collect Kevin Smith's movies on DVD.. So awesome.
Biggest one you missed is The Drew Carey Show. That show was EVERYWHERE in syndication, and I looked forward to buying the DVDs. But after the first season it didn't happen. Largely believed to be because of music rights. Stupid music industry has screwed over a lot of people wanting higher money for streaming, etc. You'd think that they'd negotiate something more permanent or all-encompassing, but there's always some unseen future format that was unanticipated when the original contract was made. WKRP in Cincinnati was similarly famous for using big hits of the era, and then running into renegotiation problems when trying to put it on DVD. They finally had to remove a lot of the music and use sound-alikes to release it, which is frustrating because that lacks the charm of the actual episode.
Similarly, MST3K had to conclude their DVD box sets of their series without any of the Godzilla films and missing out on some of the great films, even final season-era films like "Quest of the Delta Knights" and "KIller Bees", because they just couldn't get permission.
WKRP DVDs have 90% of original music. I think that's tolerable.
@@themoviedealers Thanks for correcting me. I am only vaguely aware of the situation and wrong to say anything other than "some.". It's still frustrating that this happens again and again.
BTW: I was watching Taxi on Hulu and many episodes are missing. Explanation: music rights issues.
Yeah, they screwed up fighting online music in the early days too and only gave in when they finally conceded it was inevitable.
@@themoviedealers The WKRP ones didn't at firsts. Took a long time before they got the rights for the 90% version.
IT would be great to see Saturday Night Live from 86-94. It has to have the same problem. I'd be happy about it.
Daria is also caught in the trap of copyright music, they had to re record the songs. Totally takes away from it
@It's simple, we kill the SJW flying skulls!!!
@It's simple, we kill the SJW the boxed sets only have the episode segments, none of their heckling bad (and sometimes good) videos, or rocking out to their favorite videos. What there is on the DVDs is pretty good, but it's disappointing not to have the other content. Many of those were full of my favorite jokes from the series. I, too, miss Daria episodes. The original 'misery chick', which I believe the series coined the phrase?
Glad I bought it [Daria] when I found it...at Walmart of all places! Go figure!
I have boxed set of Daria. Don't remember any music not created by the show. Maybe u thinking of Beavis & Butthead?
@@davematkins6829 I happen to recall episodes which played samples of popular music of the time. A particular scene, where they're sitting in traffic and someone says, "This is like that REM video, except we can't read each other's thoughts!" 'Everybody Hurts' kicks in, and the shot settles on Daria, and then a subtitle appears under her, it is the words "Thank. God."
An actress and her movies almost completely forgotten is Jill Clayburgh. Doing a variety of movies late 70's early 80's that got notable acclaim, most of them now are impossible to find. Criterion recently issued An Unmarried Woman, so there's ONE at least!
Boston Public and New York Undercover are some of the best shows never to be released on DVD or Bluray