Powered by i.TV
May 25, 2012

Bad news for Wonder Years fans

by Bob Sassone, posted Jul 11th 2006 3:00PM

The Wonder YearsIf you've been waiting for them to release The Wonder Years on DVD (besides best of sets), you're going to have to wait a lot longer. The DVDs are at least a couple of years away.

And to rub a little salt in the wounds, when the show is released it won't contain any of the soundtrack that they used on the show! Yikes.

Not having the period music on The Wonder Years would be like cutting out the space scenes on Star Trek. It was as much a part of the show as the characters were, as the voice over narration by Daniel Stern. But getting the rights to music to use on TV shows is incredibly expensive, and if you have a show like The Wonder Years that used a ton of songs from the 60s and 70s, it's going to be so expensive they have to either release the DVDs without the music or not release the DVDs at all. It's the same thing holding up the WKRP DVDs.

What do you think? Would you rather see The Wonder Years released, even if it doesn't have the music, or would you rather not see the show on DVD if they're going to cut the music out? I lean toward the latter.

[via TV Tattle]

Add a Comment

*0 / 3000 Character Maximum

16 Comments

Filter by:
jeanvd

Hi Hi =)

August 20 2006 at 1:00 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
jeanvd

Hi... by the way... soon I will finish my Web *The Wonder Years*:

http://wonderyears.beatlesperu.com/

At the moment they enter here:

http://revolution.beatlesperu.com/viewtopic.php?t=1043

Greetings.

August 20 2006 at 12:55 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Scott

I would rather they wouldn't be released if they can't get the original music. And I thought the first season of "The Wonder Years" was some of the best television ever. Even years later, after drifting away from the show, the last few minutes of the series finale had me crying.

The DVD release BECOMES the show. We buy them to OWN the experience, and share it with others. It's the only way the show can be remembered and discovered by new generations. (3am airings on "TV Land", cut up with commercials, doesn't do it for me.) So if they can't get Joe Cocker's "With a Little Help From My Friends" they'll substitute some cheaper song? Yuck. Why bother? It's not the real thing--it's a fake. You might as well watch the color remake of "Psycho".

I was burned by the "Greatest American Hero" DVDs. I was SO looking forward to seeing that show on disc. Then they substituted all that music, including "Rocket Man". I won't buy the second season at all, since "Operation: Spoilsport", the best episode they ever made, was the very first time I ever heard "Eve of Destruction" (I wasn't around when it first came out!), and the thought of that episode without that song makes my head hurt.

I'd rather pay much more for the discs, to get the real thing. Like the way "Freaks & Geeks" did it.

July 12 2006 at 1:15 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
HardwareGuy

I think having the songs on the DVDs be advantageous for the music copyright holders, because the DVDs would generate more interest in the CDs. Their greed is stopping them from making more money down the line. Good job music industry.

July 11 2006 at 11:23 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
TVsMatt

How disappointing. I realize that Wonder Years came out before most people ever thought about buying whole television shows to watch at home but you'd think many of the major companies would have someone working for them who would foresee these sort of problems. Of not. Perhaps they're spending all of their time creating great shows staring Joey Lawrence and Matt LeBlanc (with Jillian Barberie as the zany apartment manager or course).

Commenter #1 Thanks for the tip on the Quantum Leap DVDs - I've been wanting them for a while and didn't know the music had been changed.

mf.

July 11 2006 at 10:31 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Bob Jones

You guys ruin it for everybody else. There is no way to get every song, some won't license of any price. So we get nothing because of the absurd idea 20 seconds of background music matters to a 22 minute show.

July 11 2006 at 7:33 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Zachary

I know I wouldn't have bought the Yearbook edition of Freaks and Geeks if it didn't have the original music intact and the same principle applies here. I'm not buying Wonder Years unless ALL of the original music is there.

July 11 2006 at 7:05 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gig

And the music industry wonders why it is so beloved by the population.

July 11 2006 at 5:52 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Liza

must have original music. they should air on tvland or something, too, but with original music also. not that i remember every song played, but there was some scenes that just went with the music.

July 11 2006 at 5:51 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Allen Mendelsohn

I would rather not see it all. Every time I see WKRP or Tour of Duty in syndication these days and it has that terrible generic music instead of the real songs, I tear my hair out. It is the definition of frustrating, and takes you out of what are amazing TV shows. Would you take "In the Air Tonight" out of that quintessential Miami Vice scene? No. It's not the same scene without it. The song is part of the show.

I would much rather pay $50 for a season of any of these shows with the right music than $25 with crap. I would not buy a Wonder Years or WKRP collection without the original music.

July 11 2006 at 5:17 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply

Follow Us

From Our Partners