Re: Question for DVP

On 7 Mar 2021 17:34:49 -0000, John Corbett <[email protected]>
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.
>
>If you are interested, here is where I bought it from:
>
>https://tv-museum.myshopify.com/products/our-world-tv-series-9-dvds

These folks have the last "What's My Line" that Dorothy Kilgallen did
before she was found dead the next day.

.John
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