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Barney Miller Season 2 DVD On The Way!

by Susan Walsh

The wait is finally over. TVShowsonDVD.com is reporting that “Barney Miller: The Complete Second Season” is due in stores this January. This is huge for fans of this classic cop sitcom. Season 1 was released 4 years ago! At the time, Sony announced they felt sales weren’t strong enough to justify further releases. So since then Barney fans have had to make due with worn out videotapes of episodes taped from the shows run on TVLand and/or Columbia House’s collection. Some went so far as to purchase bootleg copies of the series. Now that the show’s DVD releases will resume that will no longer be necessary.
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Now if the studios will follow Sony’s lead and do the same, legions of classic TV fans will be doing the happy dance. Releasing a season or two and then stopping is a bad habit many shows have fallen victim to, including Adam-12, Dragnet, and Night Court. Studios claim it’s because of poor sales, but let’s be real. Any fan of any show knows that the first season is rarely the best, and almost all shows get better as they go along and the cast gets comfortable in their roles. Barney Miller did just that. The first season was not bad, but the show changed direction a bit for the following seasons. Barney’s home life was downplayed, cast members left and new ones joined, and the characters matured into rich, three-dimensional characters. I think the same things happen to almost all hit shows. So c’mon studios-give classic shows a chance and don’t judge sales potential by the 1st season only!

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Posted in DVD News on October 26th, 2007

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