You're Gonna Make it (on DVD) After All

I started watching Mary Tyler Moore in 1992. I don't really know why I was even interested, although by that time I was already a sitcom freak: when I was 11, I meticulously taped every episode of M*A*S*H and edited out the commercials.

When whole seasons of TV shows were released on DVD beginning around 2000, I waited for MTM to come out. I had shamelessly taped most episodes off Nick at Nite, but who wants to watch cruddy old VHS?


The first season came out in late 2002, and that was the last present my mom ever bought me. She got it for me as an early Christmas gift - in October, I think. But I digress.

For some reason, Fox waited about three years for the second season, and then the third and fourth came out a few months apart. Then, nothing.

Word on the street (actually, from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/arts/television/31harr.html?ref=television )

is that Mary and her friends will be released - all of the last three seasons - in due time. The hold-up was a "gutted marketplace." Whatever, I'm just happy these last three seasons - all of which won Emmys for best comedy series, writing and a slew of acting awards - will see the light of day.

As Rhoda would say, thanks, Kid.