WKRP on DVD Coming APRIL 2007

[MarcB]

WKRP will finally be released on DC in April 2007.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2006/12/fox-finally-releasing-wkrp-dvd-soon.html

 

[Al Timiter]

I look forward to Bailey Quarters.

 

[dhett]

WKRP will finally be released on DC in April 2007.

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/blog/2006/12/fox-finally-releasing-wkrp-dvd-soon.html

Won't mean nearly as much if the music isn't the same as the original. Apparently, that's still in doubt.

 

[icstephen]

From what I've read allot of the music is changed (although with the approval of Hugh Wilson - series creator, not like he had a choice), the big question is if they have replaced dialog. The way I understand it the music & voice tracks where mixed to save money so that if a song is replaced they have to have someone (and unfortunately its not usually the original actor) replace the dialog with new which usually sounds bad (like Jackie Gleason in smokey and the bandit). That being said I will still but the set...because some is better than none.

 

[dhett]

I suppose in most scenes, they could change the music and no one except the most ardent fan would ever know the difference, but there were some scenes where the music was as important as the dialog and changing the music destroys the scene as much as does changing the dialog. According to IMDB, one of the scenes where they changed the music in the syndicated TV release was in the episode where Les had won a Silver Sow award and Jennifer had agreed to be his date at the awards banquet. Les was in the office, putting on his ascot, jacket and wig. In the original series, the background music was "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner (see video clip). What other song could possibly fit that scene?

IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0742602/trivia
Video clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpf3EdbM7J0

 

[dhett]

Here's a link detailing the music and dialog that was replaced in the 1998 syndication:

http://members.allstream.net/~jacjud/wkrpmusic.html

 

[Frasier]

Here's a link detailing the music and dialog that was replaced in the 1998 syndication:

http://members.allstream.net/~jacjud/wkrpmusic.html

As detailed above, there were some cases in which generic music ITSELF was replaced!

Then you have a few examples of ridiculous replacements, such as:

68. "Clean Up Radio Everywhere"
Mr. Carlson's video baseball game originally played "Take Me Out To
the Ballgame." The song has been replaced.

Feh...

 

[Braves2005]

I didn't know that that was Johnny Olsen who was the announcer in the WKRP episode "Real Families" whose hosts were played by Peter Marshall and Daphne Maxwell(later Tim Reid's wife and also later on played Venus's girlfriend in one episode). Shame that they had to use a voiceover whenever they did that in syndication. I wonder why they did that since that particular episode didn't involve any music IIRC.

 

[azumanga]

Reading between the lines, I think MTM, who was about to be acquired by Fox, had limited resources to not only buy the rights to the featured music, but to have the ability to match up the proper music, as well as to do research to discern licensed music from public domain works or music made for the show. In the "Johnny Comes Back" episode, the aforementioned website mentioned (indirectly) that The Soundtastics' "Nowhere Man" (catchy, but gave too much spin) was replaced, though I always thought it was made specifically for WKRP.

Anyway, here's hoping that Fox does a much better job with this version of WKRP -- hopefully, it'll please not only new viewers, but old fans as well.

 

[Frasier]

Anyway, here's hoping that Fox does a much better job with this version of WKRP -- hopefully, it'll please not only new viewers, but old fans as well.

Define "much better job" - keeping the WKRP closing theme intact?

I couldn't believe when I got a "Married with Children" DVD, turned it on and heard, not ol' Blue Eyes, but a cheesy instrumental version of "Love & Marriage" - or something similar.

 

[azumanga]

I couldn't believe when I got a "Married with Children" DVD, turned it on and heard, not ol' Blue Eyes, but a cheesy instrumental version of "Love & Marriage" - or something similar.

Didn't the first two season sets and the Best Of DVDs include Sinatra's "Love and Marriage"?

If so, methinks Sony was unwilling to pay more for the music. Apparently, they were already penny-pinchers, as they replaced the hit songs with soundalikes on the syndication copies.