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Part of the Bicentennial productions?

posted 19 years ago by jcrodden
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Does anybody else remember that this production came along when even NBC, CBS, and ABC were on the bandwagon of providing Bicentennial programming? I was in highschool then and my faulty memory says that there were a lot of this type on the major networks. I recall that the quality was very good for this whole genre, but they seem to have been mothballed now. You cannot locate any of those "specials" - nor does there seem to be a way to locate any list of these productions no matter how I seem to filter the IMDB database or search the web. What an undeserved waste! I have seen one other of these on a premium channel called 'Valley Forge' with Richard Basehart as G. Washington, but that is all. I guess I have two questions for anyone out there:

1. Does anyone know of a source for a list of these productions? ...or a way to search IMDB successfully for them?...or barring that just a few other names of some of them?

2. Would anyone have an idea what might be done to get these out of the vault and preserved by putting them into circulation, on DVD, etc?

The second question is pretty general, but I just wanted to start off a conversation about it.
Thanks.

[–] suessis 19 years ago

My brother is an actor and some time ago I actually met George Grizzard. I asked him if he knew about any releases of this on Video and DVD but he says that he didn't know.

One way is to petition the Production company about a rerelease. The video/DVD distribution rights for a lot of PBS productions are not owned by PBS, but the production company that produced it can usually tell you who does. (CBS/FOX was one that I noted did a lot of distribution in the 80's)

To be quite honest, I don't remember there being that many shows. I know PBS produced a few documentaries,but you can always look through the titles by years here to see what you can find from that time.

As far as looking for these other productions it is possible to do a search by year.
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