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"Small Wonder" Coming to DVD Early 2010!

This is good news. I'm surprised that Fox (which had owned the rights) had given the green light to Shout! Factory to have the 96 episodes released to DVD. I hope we can see more DVDs from other first run syndicated hits in the future. "Out Of This World" anyone?
 
only1moore said:
This is good news. I'm surprised that Fox (which had owned the rights) had given the green light to Shout! Factory to have the 96 episodes released to DVD. I hope we can see more DVDs from other first run syndicated hits in the future. "Out Of This World" anyone?
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I try to avoid making unnecessarily snarky remarks, but after seeing a number of threads and postings about Small Wonder over the last couple of years - I have to ask those of you who liked the show: were you children when the show was originally broadcast?

If so - I can understand how you might have liked it. I was in my 30s when the show originally aired, and I have to say - I could not believe what a horrible, corny, insipid, and badly acted show it was. I grew up in the 60s with some truly awful sitcoms, but Small Wonder was worse. It was even bad compared to the other syndicated sit-com dreck of the 80s. She's the Sheriff was Masterpiece Theatre material by comparison.

I'd recommend that you rent one DVD before you spend good money to buy the boxed set. There are a lot of TV shows I liked as a kid that I wouldn't waste 5 minutes on as an adult.
 
There are a lot of TV shows I liked as a kid that I wouldn't waste 5 minutes on as an adult.
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"Welcome Back, Kotter", anyone? As far as people still liking shows they watched when they were little, just TRY to get anyone who was one of Barney's original preschooler fan base to cop to having watched it now. Back to topic, no, I don't remember hearing anyone anywhere ever enjoying "Small Wonder".
 
Stanislav said:
OMG, how thrilling -- be still, my heart.

Can a DVD set of Hello, Larry be far behind?

::) ::) ::) ::) ::)
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...only if they include the short film Wednesday with Jack Lemmon, the alleged "basis" of the series, as an extra. Wednesday used to pop up all the time on Bravo and A&E in the late '80s, and it's actually a good little suspense item...
 
Lkeller said:
I try to avoid making unnecessarily snarky remarks, but after seeing a number of threads and postings about Small Wonder over the last couple of years - I have to ask those of you who liked the show: were you children when the show was originally broadcast?

If so - I can understand how you might have liked it. I was in my 30s when the show originally aired, and I have to say - I could not believe what a horrible, corny, insipid, and badly acted show it was. I grew up in the 60s with some truly awful sitcoms, but Small Wonder was worse. It was even bad compared to the other syndicated sit-com dreck of the 80s. She's the Sheriff was Masterpiece Theatre material by comparison.

I'd recommend that you rent one DVD before you spend good money to buy the boxed set. There are a lot of TV shows I liked as a kid that I wouldn't waste 5 minutes on as an adult.
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I totally agree with you. The same goes with movies too. Back in the 80's not a week went by that I didn't head to the movies to see the latest horror flick including that infamous Santa Clause horror flick "Silent Night..Deadly Night".

Today I wouldn't waste my money. Maybe its my age talking or perhaps the death scenes in the movies of today really could happen to anyone today, not just some fantasy.
Really..what are the odds of us running into some character like Jason Voorhees at summer camp or encountering the walking dead at a mall? OK I take the latter comment back, I have seen people at our local mall in the past who could pass off as being..well the walking dead, but with that being said from what I have read and heard about certain scenes in many of today's horror flicks such as kids getting killed on a roller coaster or sexy chicks getting burned to death in a tanning bed..I will pass thank ya !!!

Even that movie that came out some years back called "The Dentist" which was called at the time "..a new breed of adult horror". I tried watching that after reading the reviews ( which many were positive BTW )..but after a couple minutes of watching a psycho dentist drilling a hole into a little boy's tounge..I unplugged the set !!!
Who can watch stuff like that?

I have to wonder what would the great Alfred Hitchcock would think of today's class of horror?
 
You've likely saw me rant on these boards about how "Perfect Strangers" (another show not on DVD, and IMHO rightly so) was such a bad sitcom.

Then there's "Small Wonder" - Vicki could give Balki a run for the money in that category.

Shows like "Small Wonder" should be banished to YouTube where people don't have to pay to watch it - because I doubt anyone would...

By the way, while I recall the Fox O&O's airing "SW" first-run, I always thought somehow NBC/Universal ended up with the rights. Didn't the show at one time air on SyFy (nee Sci-Fi)?
 
Now, I will admit that watched the show when it was first-run...I was five when it premiered, and nine when it ended. I even watched reruns occasionally until they ended locally around '97 or '98. Now that I'm 29, I can't say with a straight face that I could enjoy watching Small Wonder again today...I would feel a little embarrassed :D The 1980s (and I say this as a child of the 80s) were an incredibly cheesy time for sitcoms, and many of the worst ones were the ones airing in first-run syndication.

Last time I checked, there were some episodes of Small Wonder posted on YouTube (from someone's personal collection), unless the powers that be had them removed. In fact, many older shows have full episodes on YouTube (and I'm assuming in conjuction with video services like Hulu and Warner Brothers' In2TV).
 
ShawnHill1 said:
Last time I checked, there were some episodes of Small Wonder posted on YouTube (from someone's personal collection), unless the powers that be had them removed. In fact, many older shows have full episodes on YouTube (and I'm assuming in conjuction with video services like Hulu and Warner Brothers' In2TV).
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True that many classic ( and no-so classic ) shows can be found on Hulu, You Tube, In2TV as well as Fancast...the thing is many of those shows for one reason or another don't seem to stay there. In2TV a few years back had just a ton of Alice episodes ( even a few of "Flo" the series too ). but they are all gone now and Hulu is in the process of losing a good chunk of the Jack Webb shows like Emergency, Adam-12 and Dragnet. Also it seems the same episodes are on every site too.

You Tube..I wouldn't waste my time unless its a show that You Tube themselves had put up not by some so-called "fan". Like the one episode I had watched last Spring of the Brady Bunch someone who had uploaded. Sure it was a complete episode but whoever had uploaded injected some trashy disgusting comments about the cast ( especially towards Robert Reed and Ann B. Davis ) flashing on the bottom of the screen. I believe both Barry Williams & Florence Hednerson had teamed up together to get that clip removed.
 
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