DVD's coming?


Wish this would come to DVD I loved it as a kid and hope it surfaces again soon. Like one of the reviewers said, most people over 40 do remember this show fondly.

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You're right, I'm from this generation and 23 years old but I still enjoy the show. It was a good recommendation that I got from a friend. And indeed the boxset I got is something I got off eBay as well!

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I remember the show too! I was six years old when it was on and I never missed it and I never forgot the theme song. There was a joke going around where kids at my school would sing "It's about time, it's about space it's about time to slap your face!" and then they'd hit you.
I bought the set on ebay - not good quality but very enjoyable to watch again. Even though I have not seen this show in 40 years, every episode I have watched so far contains at least one line or bit that I remember from watching the show when it was originally run! The power of television.
The show is so obviously Sherwood Schwartz! He borrowed heavily from this other show, Gilligan's Island, which was on at the same time. Some themes are almost exactly the same as those used on Gilligan - holding an election, the women leaving, fighting other tribes. The Hector character is almost identical to Gilligan in mannerisms and inflections etc. The sets are the same, the space capsule was even used in an episode of Gilligan's Island and I remember everytime that episode would air after school in the 70s, I'd see that capsule and remember that it was from this show. Many of the same actors guested on both shows - Eddie Little Sky, Mike Mazurki et al.
A lot of fun just the same.

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I'm not quite 44 years old (which means that I was only 4 when the show debuted) and have remembered the theme song to this show all my life. Until today, I've never come across anyone else who remembered this show.

Thanks for the memories! I too remember that they used some of the same props from Gilligan's Island. I also remember the elementary school version of the theme song as well.

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Funny thing, my parents were visiting a few weeks ago. I told my mother I bought these DVDs and asked her if she remembered the show. She immediately began singing the theme song! My brother then cut in and said "It's about time to slap your face!"
The power of a catchy tune.

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I remember that theme song - and the show. And like you when we were kids we used to add "...it's about time I slapped your face." to the song.

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I've been trying to find this recently. People thought I was crazy and just found the opening and closing theme on youtube so now I can prove that I have not lost my marble and I rememeber the "slap your face" version.

I want it to live, I want it to breathe, I want it to aerobisize!

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There is nothing on eBay about this TV show? No one is selling it in an auction. It must have gone back in time.

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Less than a year ago, there was a website in existance that was selling the set, along with several other "still-unissued" TV series (no, it wasn't the dreaded dvdcraze.tv), but the site seems to have disappeared. A real shame, too, because it's always been a fun show to laugh with (and, occasionally, at).

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The unofficial DVD set was available on eBay for a while and then disappeared (I'm glad I managed to get a set). eBay has really been coming down hard on bootleg DVD sellers lately, so you'll probably never see these for sale again.. :(
And it's such an obscure show with only 1 season that's never even been in syndication, I doubt they'll release it...

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I just found and purchased it on eBay. Can't wait to see it and re-live those early years. Does anyone know of a website out there that might have more short-lived TV series like "It's About Time" available on DVD for sale?

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You can buy "It's About Time" and many more "extinct" old TV shows on ioffer.com. I bought the entire Thriller series, with Boris Karloff and the entiure Alfred Hitchcock Hour both from that site. I cannot tell you how enjoyable it is to be able to buy virtually any old TV show you want here; the DVDs are surprisingly good quality and I find it far preferable to ebay. They even have the old Dobie Gillis series!

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The real reason this show won't be on DVD? Because it's crap.

If you people can't get this, that's too bad for you.

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The real reason It's About Time probably isn't (or wasn't) available on DVD has nothing to do with the quality of the show. Someone in authority didn't think it would sell. It's all about the Benjamins.

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As the show only ran one season, it would be perfect to be sold via the Warner Archive website as a MOD (manufacture on demand) set -- I assume as Warners released "Gilligan's Island" they'd also handle shows from that production group, which included "It's About Time".

Certainly it was part of my growing up and the show also played in Australia into the late 1970s so it certainly still has a following around the world, especially for a one season tv show -- and it is a MIRACLE that nobody has dared remake this since, not even as a tv movie.

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It's About Time is owned by MGM, not Warner Bros. Only Gilligan's Island is owned by Warner Bros. because it was part of a bunch of shows that Turner acquired. Also, It's About Time was produced by a different company and was made outright by United Artists Television, which is a part of MGM.

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hardly anything was funny about this show--as a child ,we wondered in amazement at the scenery and the background--but everyone was trying to be funny--producers were trying to extrapolate every bit of diagolue humour it can muster..even joe.e ross couldnt save it...Gilligan island or brady bunch it wasnt--but hey--Sherwood Schwartz--2 out 4 aint bad--some episodes were good,depending on who wrote the scripts.i dont think it will ever be digitally remastered or come out in dvd..just my opinion...

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It is comming to antenna Tv later this month.

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another crappy streaming in unit..theres enough its about time episodes on yt..once one views that, dont think one would pay to see it,,i think the actors were trying too hard to please and the talent wasnt there..maybe joe e ross was good..because of his look and oooh oooh ..

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I've been DVRing them. I've never seen the twentieth century episodes before, so I'm looking forward to it.

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I'd buy it for the right price. It's ridiculous some of the things they aren't putting on DVD despite a ready market.

The Beverly Hillbillies stopped at Season 4
Petticoat Junction stopped at Season 3
Green Acres stopped at Season 3
The Fall Guy stopped at Season 1

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I'm a bit of an Americaphile for TV shows from the 60s. They would have been shown a year or more later in Australia where I am. I remember this show surprisingly well, even the song, from it's original run. I would love to get it, and watch it properly, not a dreadful stream, or copies where the picture has been cropped to 16:9 arggh! And I learned the name Imogen Coca (sic?) from this show. And add to the list, that show about an unlikely super hero from about the same time.

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