VCI Entertainment has
tabbed Oct. 9 as the street date for the second installment in its
newly-launched Television’s Lost Classics series of DVD and Blu-ray product
offerings.
Titled Television's
Lost Classics Volume 2: Rare Pilots, this collection showcases four
different pilot shows from the early days of broadcast television. The first of these is the pilot episode of Racket
Squad, which aired in June of 1951 and spawned 98 episodes starring
Reed Hadley as Captain John Braddock.
Next up is the 1958 pilot
for a proposed detective series titled Cool and Lam, starring Billy Pearson
as Donald Lam and Benay Venuta as Bertha Cool … it aired once and even though
it was based on characters created by Erle Stanley Gardner it never caught
on.
Before William Bendix
starred in 217 episodes as Chester A. Riley in The Life of Riley
(1953-1958), there was a one-off pilot episode produced in 1948 featuring none
other than Lon Chaney, Jr. as Riley in The Life of Riley … it is featured here
as the third entry.
And lastly, VCI
Entertainment has the 1959 pilot episode for Nero Wolfe, starring Kurt
Kasznar as the title character, with William Shatner co-starring as Archie
Goodwin … one and done.
A bonus feature with this
unique collection of rare TV shows is a blooper reel.
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