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Hmm, now you have me curious...
Matlock Season 1 DVD Rip, but that is all I found. Four seeders so at least it is not a dead torrent. Looks like Matlock ran for nine seasons and the first four seasons are on DVD with the fifth season due in July! Grandma just needs the DVDs and she can rip and seed for all the other grandmas...
Emergency! turned up some promising results.
That Girl only an unaired pilot, but all five seasons are out on DVD at at least providing a good source for a torrent to be ripped from.
Odd Couple turned up all five seasons!
Hopefully torrent search results are not too frowned upon here...

Hmm, now you have me curious...
Matlock Season 1 DVD Rip, but that is all I found. Four seeders so at least it is not a dead torrent. Looks like Matlock ran for nine seasons and the first four seasons are on DVD with the fifth season due in July! Grandma just needs the DVDs and she can rip and seed for all the other grandmas...
Emergency! turned up some promising results.
That Girl only an unaired pilot, but all five seasons are out on DVD at at least providing a good source for a torrent to be ripped from.
Odd Couple turned up all five seasons!
Hopefully torrent search results are not too frowned upon here...

Here is a link to the episodes of season 2 of 30 days

More info on the repressing of the older Starburst editions at TV Shows on DVD.

Just wait a few months.

through my extensive research
I came up with this
We've got great news for you, then! Industry sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, have let us know that Warner Home Video has both of these animated series on their radar screen for a possible mid-2006 DVD release! Look for a multi-disc set for each show, with around two dozen episodes per box.

Agreed, NwM was the remake of The Prisoner.

Unbeknownst to me until I saw this /. story and researched: NwM is going to be released officially on DVD at the end of the year. Although this would be my 2nd NwM DVD set. ;-)

Fox is reissuing the season sets of The X-Files at a lower price. Hopefully Paramount will follow suit sooner or later.

More importantly, it looks like Animaniacs and Pinky and the Brain will be coming to DVD next year!!!!!!

http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=4384

What was interesting, though, was the water cooler talk. If Costco or Walmart broke street, they didn't get the intimidating phone call. While the little guys couldn't afford to lose Disney, Disney couldn't afford to lose Costco and Walmart.

It has gone even further than that.

Best Buy gets to "break street date" by a couple of months on such series as: Battlestar Galactica and Space: Above and Beyond and charge full MSRP too -- why wouldn't they when they don't have to worry about competition for months?

What was interesting, though, was the water cooler talk. If Costco or Walmart broke street, they didn't get the intimidating phone call. While the little guys couldn't afford to lose Disney, Disney couldn't afford to lose Costco and Walmart.

It has gone even further than that.

Best Buy gets to "break street date" by a couple of months on such series as: Battlestar Galactica and Space: Above and Beyond and charge full MSRP too -- why wouldn't they when they don't have to worry about competition for months?

How about some figures/links to back that up? I'm not saying that it's not the case, just that as stated it's no more convincing than the OP.

I loathed responding to this, because critical thinking skills are still required to realize the truth.

They've already recouped their production costs in broadcast advertising.

I can't help you if you can't understand this concept. If a TV show doesn't make money for a TV network, they eventually kill the show. The only exception to this is NFL games for a network, or a cable network that will prolong a critically acclaimed show in order to secure visibility.

If you think their manufacturing and distribution costs are $22 per box, you're truly clueless

According to the DVD FAQ, the cost of pre-production for a two-hour movie is roughly $20K. That cost is spread across every DVD box set you manage to sell. Even presuming that rate is maintained through for a TV series (no way, the original mastered media was already formatted for TV), that translates to $166/minute. A complete TV season of Buffy (22 eps * 43 mins * 166) could be calculated to cost $157036 to preproduce. (And then its $1/disk to create the disk.) If you were to pretend that a TV production company would put out a box set and only expect to sell 10K units, that would get you a production cost of $22/box.

No, according to TV Guide, "While the biggest hit movies on DVD can sell in the millions, a TV series just has to do a few hundred thousand units to be successful -- a fraction of the audience for a moderately successful prime-time show. The biggest sellers -- Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Family Guy and Chappelle's Show -- are in the 2 million range." So, its more like USD $7.50 to manufacture a box set. I don't have references to generalize "distribution costs" (that would have to vary by residuals arrangements, packaging, and advertising strategy), but its not going to come close to $22/box. That might have prompted an actor for Babylon 5 to muse, "If they want to do 20 years of Babylon 5, they recoup their entire production cost just one box set run of DVDs." That's certain to be an exaggeration, but certainly the idea is there that the DVD income helps immensely.

These companies are making a killing on DVD sets; the profit margin is unreal. And that's why I disagreed with the original poster's sentiments that these companies can't reduce the price on a $60 box set.

on January 25th

They do get it. In case you haven't noticed, TV shows are coming out on DVD every week, with the latest being Three's Company. For a full listing of TV shows on DVD check out the aptly named www.tvshowsondvd.com.

It's taken a rather long time for Married With Children to come out on DVD, and who knows when it'll all be available?

How about Bullshit (the Penn & Teller show that was on Showtime)... or even Penn & Teller's Sin City Spectacular?

Buying on DVD works great when it actually comes out on DVD, even if you might have to wait a few years, and you tend to get special features, commentary tracks, etc, but not all of 'em get released. How much of a market is there for Mad Jack the Pirate? Highwayman? Any one of the other thousand shows listed on TV Shows on DVD?

Yes, buying it on DVD is a rather convenient way to handle everything, and you get nice organization, but well, some of us just aren't willing to wait a decade or more until the shows that we want to collect are determined to be economically feasible to release on DVD for sale.

Yeah, tvshowsondvd.com posted the rumor/news earlier this week.

I've always wanted Vengeance Unlimited to come out on DVD, but it may never happen :( If you look at the "Memorable Quotes" page, you might get a vague idea of why I like the show so much :)

Nah.

It's just Sigmund.

Season 2 [tvshowsondvd.com] is scheduled to be released on September 3.

Supposedly MGM plans to release Season 2 in North America this fall.

Season 2 is scheduled to be released on September 3.