missed it by *that* much!

[arduinna]

Right after I saw on the yt-admin feed that noms had closed, I got an email from TV Shows on DVD that I was not expecting at all:

We've added a news item for "Salvage 1" to the site. Here it is:

The 1979 Show Starring Andy Griffith, Joel Higgins and Trish Stewart - 4:11 PM 9/23/2013
"Salvage 1 - Hard Water" has been announced for release on DVD. We've got the early info for you, at the TVShowsOnDVD News!
URL: http://www.TVShowsOnDVD.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=18996

This is why it's worth checking off all the old shows you never thought you'd see again on their site. Good lord. I'd given up any hope of ever seeing that show again!

As the news release points out, the two-part episode they're releasing is an incredibly stupid thing to put out first, as it was the aired "finale" (looking around, there were four unaired eps that wound up airing years later on Nostalgia TV). They should be putting out the pilot instead. But hey -- at least it's something!

And then I went searching around, and discovered that the pilot and several wow, maybe all! of the eps are on Youtube.

I should totally have nominated this. Okay, granted, I haven't seen this show in -- er, wow, 34 years? Eep. So I have no idea how well it's aged. But I adored it way back in my mid-teens (it helped that I was crushing madly on Joel Higgins *g*), and it was weird and wacky and wonderful, about a junkyard owner who wanted to go to space, and built himself a spaceship so he could go collect all the salvage that's just floating around out there. And hey, maybe I wasn't the only person who watched it!

Ah well -- I'll try rewatching via youtube for now, and if it's worth it, maybe I'll put it in for next year's YT.

... Okay, wow, the person who put all these up also put up "Deadman's Curve: The Jan and Dean Story", which I watched when it aired on tv in 1978 (... because I was crushing on Richard Hatch *kof*) and wanted to watch again for years after that. I doubt I'll be watching this one again, because really, but still -- I'm kinda glad to know it's not lost.

(But I must take this moment to say: oh come ON, syfy channel, if NBC can dredge up Salvage 1, why can't you give us s2 of Invisible Man? sigh.)

Comments

[natmerc]

Started playing the pilot. Had never heard of it but looks like fun. Thanks for the tip.

PACING... how you've changed in the past 30 years. :)

[arduinna]

ahaha, I know -- I started watching and sat here thinking "... wow, they really used to linger on... everything." Heh. Can you imagine a show today wasting more than a minute of opening on a plane flying around a sky all by itself?

Never thought I'd say it, but adding more commercials really did wind up cutting mostly cruft!

[natmerc]

And here I am still watching. Fun show.

And here they go hacking into a computer system before hacking was a common term, and using a literal "dial" phone to modem in.

[arduinna]

I meant to stop after a bit and come back to it later, and wound up watching the whole thing. So much fun! The literal dialing in was cracking me up.

But you could tell what a forward-tech person Harry was, from his corded car phone! <3

[malnpudl]

How did I never know that show existed? I should have been all over that! It must have been in the two-year period when I didn't have TV, dang it. What a cool premise!

[arduinna]

It was so cool!! And having watched the first few minutes of the pilot, the premise is even better; he didn't just want to get into orbit, he wanted to go to the moon, and salvage everything the lunar missions left behind. <3

[justhuman]

I remember this show! Watched all the episodes, few as they were.

[arduinna]

Me too! Then was convinced it was bound to show up in reruns when those got more common, but clearly 19 episodes just wasn't enough to send to syndication.

[gwyn]

Man, I do not remember Salvage 1 very well at all (like, I think I knew it existed, but that was it), but I so totally remember crushing on Richard Hatch (which was weird, since I didn't want BSG) and watching the Jan and Dean Story every freakin' time it came on. Hey, remember reruns?

[arduinna]

Hee! Yeah, I caught it another time or two; reruns were tough in my family, though, because my dad could never understand why anyone would watch (or read!) something they'd already seen, and with ~7 people and one tv, new things generally got priority.

And then by the time I got out on my own, they'd stopped rerunning it! Woe.

Hatch was in everything in the 70s, so he was easy to crush on. *g* Looks like he was in a full season of Streets of San Francisco - that could be where you fell for him.

.. Okay, huh! Looking at dates on IMDB, I bet I fell for him in Deadman's Curve, actually (I wasn't watching Streets); that aired in February 1978, and BSG started up in September 1978. Go figure! I could have sworn it was the other way around.