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Following on the heels of the popular 1968 Walter Matthau/Jack Lemmon film, Jack Klugman and Tony Randall became television's "Oscar Madison" and "Felix Unger", The Odd Couple, one of the all-time great shows that lasted for 5 seasons on ABC. The show was produced by Paramount, and for years fans have wondered when this would come home on our favorite round shiny discs. It seemed like the studio was holding back on us!
Yesterday's edition of The Wall Street Journal (2/23/05, Section B) had a story by Merissa Marr and Joe Flint entitled "DVDs Are Finally Paramount". The article explains that previous management figures had a strategy of bringing titles - film and TV based - to DVD in a slow and steady fashion, and that new management in place now has a different plan of increasing the studio's revenue by way of cutting loose on the library.
Much of this has been reported already, at the time that the executives did their shuffle in recent months, and it wasn't exactly news we could use here at TVShowsOnDVD because no actual titles were brought up. But the Wall Street Journal story is naming names!
Among those names are "Oscar" and "Felix": the story clearly shows that tThe Odd Couple is on-the-way to DVD from Paramount, by way of a list near an African Queen screenshot near the top of the article. No further info than that is given, so we don't have a timeline right now, or anything else. Great news, though, and we'll keep you posted! Stay tuned.
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