No Duckman on DVD
Alric Knebel
DUCKMAN on DVD any time soon.
You have to look around the home page for the right page, but it's a
section about upcoming releases. I wish someone else would start
producing them to force the studios hand.
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Alric Knebel
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Frederick J. Barnett
<alric@[cableone.net]> wrote:
>I just read from this website that there is no official release of
>DUCKMAN on DVD any time soon.
>
>http://www.klaskycsupo.com/
>
>You have to look around the home page for the right page, but it's a
>section about upcoming releases. I wish someone else would start
>producing them to force the studios hand.
It was announced back in the September, 2004 K-C newsletter
that Duckman *was* going to be coming out on DVD sometime in 2005. But
nothing happened, and no explanation has ever been given. And there's
no e-mail address where you can ask them about it either.
Frederick J. Barnett http://www.eatel.net/~fred/
"Someone's got to take the responsibility if the job's going to get done!! Do you think that's easy?!" Gregory Peck - The Guns Of Navarone
Don Del Grande
> I wish someone else would start producing them to force the studios hand.
I have a feeling all it would force is Paramount's legal department's
hand. There has to be a reason why shows like The Oblongs, Mission
Hill, and Father of the Pride are on DVD but Duckman (the only one of
the four nominated for an Emmy) is not. (My guess: they have a
problem with the Zappa estate over rights to the Season 1 music.)
-- Don
Alric Knebel
I thought I was more familiar with the show than I actually was,
evidently. How is the Season 1 music different from the subsequent
seasons. Did Frank Zappa write something else besides the theme song?
The theme music was the same each year, right? I caught most of these
on USA after the first year, so I probably saw the first season out of
order, unaware of what I was seeing.
Alric Knebel
> On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 21:59:57 -0500, Alric Knebel
> <alric@[cableone.net]> wrote:
>
>
>>I just read from this website that there is no official release of
>>DUCKMAN on DVD any time soon.
>>
>>http://www.klaskycsupo.com/
>>
>>You have to look around the home page for the right page, but it's a
>>section about upcoming releases. I wish someone else would start
>>producing them to force the studios hand.
>
>
> It was announced back in the September, 2004 K-C newsletter
> that Duckman *was* going to be coming out on DVD sometime in 2005. But
> nothing happened, and no explanation has ever been given. And there's
> no e-mail address where you can ask them about it either.
That's what I read somewhere else, which made me look it up for more
details. When I went to the Klasky-Csupo site, they stated flatly that
Duckman was not scheduled for release.
Don Del Grande
>I thought I was more familiar with the show than I actually was,
>evidently. How is the Season 1 music different from the subsequent
>seasons. Did Frank Zappa write something else besides the theme song?
Season 1 episodes have, in the closing credits, something along the
lines of, "Frank Zappa's music by appointment to his infernal majesty,
the Scarlet Pimpernel." I always thought that meant he did more than
write the show's theme song, at least in season 1.
-- Don
Alric Knebel
That's the bad thing about people who inherent an estate. They'll soak
it for more than the original artist intended. It's a shame that
Zappa's descendants are being so stingy, if they are in fact the cause
of the hold up. It is truly the funniest cartoon I've ever seen, and it
deserves to be on DVD. I wouldn't be surprised if a DVD release didn't
revive interest in it, as it did for FAMILY GUY.