Be still my beating heart!

Found some great news this morning in my e-mail inbox from the folk at TVShowsonDVD.com that they've picked up word "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" tv series is coming to DVD in October. And TV Tome reports discussions of a new version of the Kolchak series is underway between ABC and X-Files producer Frank Spotnitz.

A DVD of the pilot that spawned the "The Night Stalker" series is available on DVD, but the series that followed isn't.

If you want pirate versions of the "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" tv series, they can always be found on eBay, like pirate versions of many out-of-print movies and shows. eBay doesn't really police the counterfeit movie section very well. It must be a morass. It seems that every time I think I'm ordering a legal used version of a show I haven't seen in years, it comes with a fuzzy label and home-made artwork. You would think the movie industry would crack wise and make it easy for individuals and mom and pop shops to legally pay the fees to make short production runs on OOP movies with limited audience appeal, like colorized versions of film classics or made-for-tv movies that weren't promoted. They'll have to do something when bandwidth comes of age.

If "Kolchak: The Night Stalker" tv series can be brought to DVD, maybe there's hope yet for "The Lazarus Man."