The Month in Home Media highlights short-lived or rare TV shows released on DVD or Blu-ray in the United States during the previous month.
April was another quiet month. VCI Entertainment released more episodes of I Married Joan (NBC, 1952-1955) on DVD. There were also four new public domain releases from Alpha Video.
DVD/Blu-ray Releases
–My Hero, Volume 6 [Alpha Video]
–U.S. Marshal, Volume 4 [Alpha Video]
–Lost TV Mystery Classics, Volume 2 [Alpha Video]*
*Contains single episodes from four different mystery TV shows: The Visitor (the syndicated title for NBC’s 1952-1953 medical anthology The Doctor), The Cases of Eddie Drake (DuMont, 1952), The Files of Jeffrey Jones (Syndicated, 1954-1955), and The Telltale Clue (CBS, 1954).
News
VCI Entertainment will release a second DVD set containing 10 episodes of Waterfront (Syndicated, 1954-1955) on DVD on June 11th, more than four years after the company released its first volume of Waterfront episodes.
CBS/Paramount plans to re-release the first (and only) season of Swingtown (CBS, 2008) on June 18th. An earlier DVD release from 2008 is long out-of-print (TV Shows on DVD/Facebook).
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Bring back on the fugitive. I loved that show. Please please bring it back on.