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Caught the tail-end of a info-mercial last night pushing a concert series of what looked like a TV program from the 70's. Many artists mentioned including The Beach Boys. Any infomation of what will be/ is included?

If this is concerning the "Midnight Special" series, then it's true that they're selling it on DVD now. Unfortunately, they are only being sold through internet/mail order/TV advertising. Not in stores. Also, you have to buy into the whole series, you can't just pick and choose specific titles (not that it would be possible even if you were allowed to pick and choose, because as far as I know even the website for the DVD's, last time I checked, didn't have specific track listings for each DVD in the series. They simply have a partial list of artists and some song titles.)

And of course, they aren't releasing full episodes. They're doing various compilations. I think the different compilations have loose themes. In any event, you'd probably have to buy into a huge series of DVD's just to get one or perhaps a few BB songs. I guess you can cancel at certain points, I dunno. I'd even be iffy about buying one DVD in a store if it only had one BB song, so this series isn't for me. I suppose if one is a huge fan of tons of bands that appeared on the show, and, more importantly, if those bands are featured on these DVD's, then some people might be into this series.

Thanks. Good info. (I must have been thinking of Levon Helms "Midnight Ramble" concerts.)

Sure looks like a lot of shows in the series.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Midnight_Special_%28TV_series%29

Looks like a pass-on I'm afraid.