Re: Question for DVP

On Sunday, March 7, 2021 at 9:34:51 AM UTC-8, John Corbett wrote:
> In your archives, do you have any or all of this TV program: 
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_World_(1986_TV_program) 
> 
> It aired for one season but to me it was one of the finest programs ever 
> produced on network television. Each episode would take a retrospective 
> look back in time, not to a single year but a particular segment of a 
> years, a few days, a few weeks, or a few months. It mixed stories from 
> news, sports, and entertainment and blended them together masterfully. 
> 
> Early on in the show's run they flashed back to the autumn of 1956. One of 
> the stories they covered was Don Larsen's perfect game and I was looking 
> forward to it. Unfortunately, early in the broadcast, the local ABC 
> affiliate broke in to cover a story about a load of dynamite that somebody 
> had discovered. To this day, I have no idea why they felt that was such a 
> big news story it couldn't wait for the 11 o'clock news but they wiped out 
> the rest of the Our World program. This show was up against Cosby and got 
> killed in the ratings and was canceled after just one season despite 
> critical acclaim and there were no reruns. 
> 
> For the longest time I had been looking for that program to come out on 
> DVD but to no avail. I had pretty much given up on it. Last week I was 
> searching for something else and I stumbled across the entire series being 
> offered on DVD by a rare books store. Naturally I jump on it. I received 
> it today and it appeared that somebody with access to the original 
> programming had made DVD copies. Each disk was labeled with a marking pen. 
> Naturally the first thing I did was go to that episode about 1956. It's 
> been my experience that often when you go back and look at old programming 
> you remember fondly, it's not as good as what you remember. That was the 
> case with this program. It was even better than I remember. After almost 
> 35 years, I finally got to see the episode that I had missed and it was 
> well worth the wait. 
> 
> If you don't have these programs in your archives, it would be well worth 
> the effort to get a copy. It's a treasure trove of significant events in 
> our history. The Wiki article lists each episode and the time period 
> covered. I was pleasantly surprised at the quality of the video even 
> though it doesn't compare to today's hi-def. At times the audio wasn't the 
> best although that is probably due in part to my mild hearing loss. 
> 
> One very interesting story was about the Melbourne Summer Olympics and the 
> Hungarian water polo team upsetting the Soviet team in the semi-finals 
> just weeks after the Soviets had crushed the Hungarian revolution. The 
> Hungarians went on to win the gold. It was a precursor to our own Miracle 
> on Ice 24 years later and in retrospect probably even more significant. 
> Over half the Hungarian Olympic team defected following the games. 
> 
> Going back to Don Larsen's perfect game, it was the first time I saw the 
> entire ninth inning played back. Mostly all I've seen was the last pitch 
> to Dale Mitchell. Larsen, Yogi, and Mitchell were all interviewed for the 
> program. Larsen said in the seventh inning he went back to the dugout and 
> smoked a cigarette, not an uncommon practice among ballplayers in that 
> era. 

My brother-in-law was once offered a ticket to a World Series game by 
someone who couldn't use it.  It was the Larsen perfecto....

> 
> If you are interested, here is where I bought it from: 
> 
> https://tv-museum.myshopify.com/products/our-world-tv-series-9-dvds