If you type in Maude Season 2 on Amazon it will come up, but Amazon says it is not currently available. Usually when Amazon does something like this the products usually become available after awhile. Maybe we will be getting it?
shareThat is a hopeful sign, but I haven't heard any other rumblings that Sony is releasing Season 2. I suspect that "not currently available" is just a default message on Amazon.com, not a tea leaf for hope to spring eternal.
shareIt is really just laziness on Sony's part. Since Maude isn't a "current-hip" TV show they can take years between the season releases of older TV shows. If a title doesn't sell 2 million copies in the first two months these big corporations don't care. They should just make limited edition releases for the fans.
I'm really surprised more interest in Maude isn't shown since Bea Arthur and Rue McClanahan are both in it. I would think Golden Girls fans would snatch it up too, but a lot of them don't seem to care for these show.
I also do not think there has been enough promotion for these older shows. I also believe Sony will not release more One Day at a Time and Mary Hartman. This is very annoying. I'm still waiting for Facts of Life Season 4 and more Archie Bunker.
Sad but true. Unfortunately, "Maude" fans don't seem to fit Sony's desired demographic. I'm also surprised that more "Golden Girls" fans aren't into "Maude," because "Maude" was what turned me on to the golden girlies.
I SO agree with you about "Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman"! I was ecstatic when the first 25 episodes were finally on DVD, but I doubt Sony see it worth their while to release more. I still have my two VHS tapes of that show that were released in the '80s.
What would it take to get these released? Norman Lear was a true visionary of television in general and the sitcom in particular, and these shows are vital documents of politics and pop culture in the '70s. When I see all the "reality" phoniness on TV these days, it just makes me long even more for the era when real issues were discussed and debated, and real actors and writers created shows that mattered. We live in a turbulent and exciting time, but I get no clue about that by watching television these days.
I hate to say this, but I'm secretly hoping that the recent passing of Bea Arthur spurs a renewed interest in "Golden Girls" and hopefully, by extension, "Maude" such that they WILL release a second season of the latter.
As a small aside, I have season 1 of "Living Single", but there's been no release of subsequent seasons in 4+ years. I can't believe the distributor thinks there's no interest--it was a top-rated show for YEARS!!!! I have other suspicions about why, but that's a topic for that show's message board.
Not to sound like an opportunist, but I was also hoping Bea Arthur's passing would spur interest in releasing the remaining seasons of "Maude." I suspect the release of Season One of shows on DVD is a "trial balloon" to see how much interest there would be in subsequent seasons. It's probably a case of diminishing returns with subsequent seasons, and the Sony bean-counters are looking at the figures and wondering if it's worth it.
So all of you who haven't bought Season One of "Maude," do it now. God'll getcha if you don't!
On December 2, 2014 it was announced that Shout! Factory had acquired the rights to "Maude" and will release the complete series on DVD on March 17, 2015.