Been a follower of numerous TV westerns that are showing on the Encore channel.
I like Cheyenne, Lawman, Wanted, Dead or alive, The Virginian (especially when Charles Bickford was the patriarch of Shiloh), Paladin; 'Have gun will travel' and 'Tales of Wells Fargo'.
Seemingly, there is a mis- fortune on the series that there must be a copyright infringement that hinders showing tales written by Louis L'Amour.
I followed the series all the way through 1958-1959. When it gets close to September, it stops and the series ends.
It seems Louis wrote 8 or 9 stories that began in September 1960 and ending in 1961...
In fact if I'm not mistaken this is season five and there is no way to buy a DVD on that season that started with 'Alkali Basin'...
Just curious why the episodes written by LL are not shown....Please advise?

Blainemcqueen

It doesn't have anything to do with LL. It's much more likely that it was at that point continuing the publication of new seasons stopped being profitable. Prepping episodes, scanning, packaging and distribution is expensive and the market is continually changing, customers dying off and the formats keep evolving. Beta, VHS, LaserDisk, DVD, Bluray, and now 4K disks have all moved through the marketplace. Each requires some new expenditure of cash.

The real money to be made is now in EXCLUSIVE streaming services. To make their money they need to motivate people to subscribe to their service and thus they are disinterested in sharing content ... possibly even old content. There's a lot of action behind the scenes in media but my guess is that they just weren't seeing demographics that supported prepping any more seasons for a dying DVD market and a lack of quality that would encourage buyers in the higher quality formats. Plus there is all that competition.

Thank you Beau. That explains why I have not been able to find Season Five "Tales of Wells Fargo" that had the majority of your fathers stories in it. B&gg*r.

It looks like I am going to have to visit the recommended Movie Museum when I hit LA later this year.

Les
Isn't making a smoking section in a restaurant like making a peeing section in a swimming pool?


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Les
The English Language is weird. It can be understood through tough thorough thought though.



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Thanks for the reply. It just seemed odd that they stopped where your Father's would have started...…

Blainemcqueen

You can't get the Nichole Kidman episodes in Season 3 of Five Mile Creek (something I get letters about occasionally) for the same reason ... not enough interest/no money in it. Of course the people who want Season 3 can't imagine that there aren't thousands of people out there just like them. Oh well ...

Hey Beau,

Just want to thank you for all your great answers, such as this one. You offer things sometimes which we'd never learn about otherwise. Love your perspective and knowledge of the biz in its current climate.

Again, thanks.

MB