Please, don't anyone suggest I start collecting the DVD sets.
Since the MPI tapes were first introduced in 1989, I bought some of them, on and off, and not always in consecutive order. I taped the show off SciFi several years ago to fill in my missing tapes. Eventually, when the price dropped to about $10.00 per tape (equal t $2.00 per episode), over a period of a few months I brought tapes 93 to 200 (episodes just preceding 1897 to the end of the show).
Alas, we now have the DVD releases (who knew back in 1989?) with 40 episodes, plus extended interviews with cast members. If you watch for specials on various sites or in stores, you can get the sets for as littie as $40.00--that's $1.00 per episode.
So, now I'm working on replacing the MPI tapes and SciFi recordings. . .
And on the DVD there are no SciFi commercials to interrupt viewing. . .
And John Karlen's interview is on the first set (with more interviews by him to follow, I imagine.)
Brian