Only seasons 1-3 of Party of Five have been released on DVD. Please sign the petition to get seasons 4-6 on DVD. It was a great show and it deserves to have the complete series available to the public. If you don't think it will do anything, please sign it anyways, it won't hurt to sign it! Here's the link: http://www.partyoffive.co.uk/ Please sign it! Every signature counts! Thanks!
sharewait how many signatures do they need? and whats this thing about the music in the show?
shareI have a feeling that hundreds of thousands of signatures may draw their attention and the thing about the music used on television is a problem with many old series. When a series uses popular music of the day it's a nice touch, but years later when they go to release the series on DVD they have to pay very expensive copyright fees in order to keep the songs in the soundtrack. Many series have wound up destroyed by those fees. For example the DVD's of WKRP were released in the USA with most of the songs removed and they also opted to go ahead and just cut out entire scenes instead of replacing Rolling Stones or Beatles songs with generic melodies. Happy Days suffered the same horrible fate, they cut the crap out of them to remove the beautiful songs.
Party of Five used many pop songs and in most cases Sony replaced the songs with other generic tunes but it's a terrible thing to have an old favorite altered. I guess it's better than nothing and I don't know if that's the reason why PO5's later seasons have not been released.
Sorry, but if music is the issue, the should alter it in this case. Ally McBeal NEEDED the music, WKRP NEEDED the music, Freaks and Geeks NEEDED the music, and so on.
Am I ticked that I have 9 seasons of Married with Children without the classic theme song? Yes. But the point is I have the show and I didn't have to wait until after I was dead for my grandkids to finally enjoy it.
And Nothern Exposure made changes. Would I like it if they hadn't? Absolutely, but I am happier to have the shows. It did not have any impact on my enjoyment that they made changes on a show that really didn't depend on music.
Party of Five was not THAT heavily reliant on music that it should hold it up. I've heard it was bad sales, but maybe it's a combination. I don't know.
However, if a company isn't thinking sales are going to be good, then I'd rather they never released it. Owning 3 seasons of Party of Five is worse than owning none.
I want it all. It want to be able to relive the entire story, not half of it or three-quarters of it.
ED is being help up because of music. It's ridiculous. Charge 5 or 10 more dollars and you'd be surprised how many of the hardcore fans, the ones most likely to buy the show anyway after waiting so long, will still buy it. Just gety me Party of Five already and I'm not buying it until they're all out this time.