Here's SG #69's update detailing the latest news on home video releases (along with a NoDS TV listing from England):
Something that I find very interesting regarding the listing of bonus interviews on The Collector's Series VHS tapes is that we've been led to believe all the interviews on the VHS tapes were put on the subsequent The Beginning Collection DVD release. But I see no listings for the DVDs for interviews with Louis Edmonds(CS #13) or Nancy Barrett(CS #17) or John Karlen(CS #41) or Dennis Patrick(CS #37) (or Clarice Blackburn(CS #25) or Lela Swift(CS #33) or Jonathan Frid(CS #45 & #49) or Sharon Smyth(CS #53)). Perhaps they're on the DVD releases somewhere, though it seems odd they wouldn't be paired on DVD with the eps they were paired with on VHS. Though I'm simply judging all this based on listings for the DVDs - I haven't actually watched the entire series on DVD. But if anyone knows the actual details behind all this, sharing that info would be appreciated. Though one thing that is good when it comes to the DVDs is that there is so much more bonus material on them than was on the VHS releases - but given there's so much more space on DVD, that only makes sense...
SG #68 - DS Vampires & Ghosts: Release date comes in SG #69.
SG #68 - DS Resurrected: Release date will be in SG #69.
SG #69 - Planned for fall release are DS VAMPIRES & GHOSTS highlights and DS RESURRECTED with '91 DS interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, and outtakes.
Hmmm - is the generic mention of "fall" what passed for a "
date" in 1994?
But the truth is they wouldn't actually come out at any point in the fall of 1994, so any actual date SG might have listed would have ultimately been wrong...
(And I don't blame SG for any of this ongoing foolishness regarding the release dates of the two tapes because, as I've said before, SG simply reports the info it's given. If the info it's given turns out to be wrong, well, it's the fault of the supplier of the info, and we all know who that is in this case.)
There doesn't seem to be any way to check if an August segment of SCI FI TRADER actually did feature the MPI tapes and other DS merchandise. I didn't have the Sci-Fi Channel in August of 1994 and October's SG #70 makes no mention of such a segment on the show. And while that's not definitive one way or the other as to whether the show did or did not do a segment, once I did get Sci-Fi later that year, I did notice that whenever anything related to DS appeared on one of Sci-Fi's other shows, it was not only mentioned in SG, particulars of the segment were described. But then, if I recall correctly, Marcy Robin also didn't have access to Sci-Fi in August of 1994, so unless someone (and we all know who) provided her with particulars, she wouldn't have been able to share them on her own...
And to say that I'm thrilled to see that the April of '94 issue of Video Watchdog gave NoDS its due would be an understatement!
And that closes out what I plan to share from SG #69. On to scanning items from SG #70...