It will never happen,especially with Disney evidently owning it now. Elsewhere needs the DVD treatment to catch all the hidden stuff-the pages,the puns,the Easter eggs,for repeated viewings. Unfortunately,Shout doesn't caption-I guess that is one reason they are called Shout. At least NYPD Blue,another MTM production had Shout Factory put the rest of the series on DVD. Elsewhere fared so poorly during its time and after. The penultimate episode was titled The Abby Singer Show,an inside MTM joke as Singer was the long standing MTM producer,known for announcing to the cast & crew the second -to- last shot before a break-hence "the Abby Singer" shot. The show was filled with references to TV-just imagine the arc involving Steve Allen,Jayne Meadows,Louis Nye, Bill Dana,Tom Poston-most of the original Steve Allen Tonight Show gang-playing the parents of the young doctors,a nod of passing the torch. Bruce Paltrow,Brand & Falsey, Mark Tinker,Beth Hilshafer- many boomers and a few born in 1951,a special year for this old fart. Even if it seems to be a miss,if you see Fontana's name on the credits,stop and watch. I'm not even saying it's a "fair" description - obvious everybody knows HBO, and "The Wire" is not really an "unknown".but, take into account what a person without HBO, or an interest in the politics of Baltimore, journalism, local civics, the drug trade, or the city's legal infrastructure, let alone the changing focus from season-to-season, and how that would be seen by somebody who can watch Leslie Knope for six seasons in a row, and at least count on the same scenery and characters.and you see my point, from an outsider's perspective.Ĭlick to expand.Tom Fontana involvement on both. While an NBC series could be considered "mainstream" a prestige HBO project with no real "hook" (because the characters and settings changed every season), it was harder for an uninitiated viewer to easily understand what it was. But since it did not achieve the mainstream awareness outside of the actual connoisseurs of scripted series, it actually diminished the memory of Homicide itself. I think Homicide was eclipsed, critically and profile-wise, by the creator's next project, The Wire.
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