Friday, October 30th, 2009
WX2BS Schedule, Week of August 13th, 1939
Here’s the schedule for NBC’s experimental station W2XBS in New York City for the week starting Sunday, August 13th, 1939, straight from television listings printed in The New York Times. There was a rare broadcast on Sunday (tennis finals from Rye, New York) and the usual assortment of variety and films. On Wednesday, August 16th part of the variety hour was a discussion on “How to Exercise the Baby,” something I would very much like to see. There were also two pick-ups from the Worlds Fair, although the Saturday, August 19th broadcast was tentative in the weekly listings and vague in the daily listing. I don’t know what the film titled “Grand Illusion” (broadcast on Friday, August 18th from 8:30-9:30PM) was; the famous Jean Renoir film of the same name (or, more specifically, La grande illusion) was released in 1937 but it ran longer than an hour.
from E1 Entertainment and The Archive of American Television. The anthology series was only on the air for one season from 1960 to 1961 and produced 36 episodes. Fifteen are included in this volume; whether they’re the first fifteen or not remains to be seen. Bonus features include original, unaired pilot episode (titled “The Sponsor’s Theatre”) and Stanwyck’s acceptance speech for her 1961 Emmy award.
, with the first 15 episodes of the 1965-1966 season. Volume 2 comes out 8th. Also from Paramount Home Video is 
, with all 25 episodes from the 1969-1970 season. No bonus features for either release that I’m aware of. As I understand it, fans of The Fugitive are anxious to see how much of the original soundtrack is intact for this release.
contains 13 episodes from shows like Quick Draw McGraw, The Road Runner Show and The Jetsons. And 
includes 12 episodes from shows like Valley of the Dinosaurs, Sea Lab 2020 and New Adventures of Gilligan. Finally, Alpha Video has two new four-episode releases: Judge Roy Bean, Volume 4 and Meet Corliss Archer, Volume 4.