no more dvds

You realize this is a self-fulfilling prophecy right? If many people, like you, decide to wait until the whole sets come out, no will buy the first season disks and they'll never put the following seasons out.

You can take my tivo when you pry it from my cold dead fingers.

This is so ridiculous. I cant even download it cause no one is seeding it. I got the first dvd and I want moooooorreeeee!!!!!!! bah

I'm taping them, and having a he** of a time! It's so frustrating becuase my VCR is being a total butt head and skipping nights sometimes! O well, it's better than nothing I suppose............

But, get this, there's a rumor that Warner Brother's are trying again and Season 2 is coming out in February of 2007! Pray that this is true!

Watch for a smaller company to probably sell "Best of" sets of the series or something of that nature... doubtful you will see the entire seasons released but with a marquee television show like Murphy Brown, as long as the studio is willing to make SOME money on them, you will see the DvDs in some fashion.

Another one that has been left out for the same royalty reasons on the music is WKRP In Cincinnati. When they tell us that they won't release more because of "low sales figures", it is a lie they think we are stupid enough to believe. It has been plenty long enough for them to try working out some deal with the artists. They could add a credit on the DVD release for the artist, thereby limiting the need for paying royalties. They could increase the sale price of the DVD sets a little bit to help defray the cost of any royalties owed. Shoot, they could just go out and get the permission of the artists to use their material gratis. There are many ways they could work out the royalty issues for these shows. I just thought of another one by the way. The wonderfully quirky Dharma and Greg. What all of these shows have in common is a commonality in the segment of the viewing public from which they had their audiences drawn. I did notice that there was no such difficulty with releases for MASH, Gilmore Girls, One Tree Hill, Alias and Lost, all of which have music royalty issues but were all released in their entirety. Perhaps someone simply needs to point out to them, more forcefully with each needed new effort, that perhaps it is not the fault of the music or the show or the fans that they have not been able to work out this issue, perhaps it is that they are too stupid themselves to adjust their tactics and methods of negotiation to meet the needs of the time and the current group of musicians that would likely say, "Yeah, go ahead and use it, just find some way to credit me or something." I personally think they badly flubbed it with one artist, and rather than sending a different person to handle the negotiations, they decided that all musicians were that way and they would never get a shred of permission to use any music from the show at all. We know that reasoning is foolish, at least those of us that live in the real world, but those that seem to live in corporate world have this fantasy that if one member of a group behaves a certain way, all members of that group will do so as well. This is muddied and clouded thinking on their part, but they need to justify their fiction to us in some way, don't they? I would, as many others would, buy them as they came out, since this was the prime successful sit-com of its era and format. A pity they think so little of us, but then that is merely a reflection of the even poorer opinion they must have of themselves, whether they admit it to themselves or not. We do not need them to admit it to us, as we are already aware of their vast shortcomings in humanity. Anyway, sorry this dragged on a bit, and I will now wish you a wonderful day.

If it's the music, it's probably all in negotiations. Look at Married...With Children. It took forever because of the "Love and Mariage" tune.
Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210. Normally they would've been released much earlier. That was also because of the music. There were many significant songs in there and it would've simply been too expensive to buy the rights to all those songs.
That's why they simply are replacing them on there forthcoming releases.

I may have to dig deeper into that site, but I don't recall seeing a petition for it on there. Some direction(or a direct link to where to vote) might help.

I'm probably one of the few people who never saw an episode before it came out on DVD. My wife(before we met) was addicted to the show. When the first season came out, she bought it. We took the set with us on our trip to Germany last year. We watched the whole first season on our laptop. I was hooked within 5 minutes of the first episode. She was very disappointed that season two didn't come out before she died(Aug 23, 2006. Recurrance of ovarian cancer). She kept checking websites, and signing petitions for the whole series to be released. I will be buying each season, as they come out, on the day they come out.

I love the show, and Murphy reminds me so much of my late wife.

Also go to: http://www.petitiononline.com/mbondvd/petition.html and sign the petition to get more Murphy Brown.

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