The Shotgun Slade Collection - Classic TV from Nostalgia Merchant

The Nostalgia Merchant is getting ready to release several new western TV collections including The Shotgun Slade Collection. This collection will include 16 full-length episodes starring Scott Brady as western freelance detective Sam "Shotgun" Slade (must've been a take off on Sam Spade), roaming the Old West. Slade was hired by individuals to track down criminals, return stolen money, and other similar duties. This series is unusual in that it featured a modern jazz score instead of the traditional Western-themed music that was the norm for Western television shows and movies. Another unusual quirk of this series, was Slade's weapon of choice. Instead of packing a six-gun, Slade carried a combination shotgun that has an upper and lower barrel.The lower barrel fired a 12-gauge shotgun shell, while the top barrel fired a .32 caliber rifle bullet. The idea was that this weapon gave Slade the ability to fire at close and distant targets with the same amount of accuracy. Shotgun Slade lasted only two seasons and in syndication and was on the air from 1959 - 1961. You'll enjoy these 16 new episodes of Shotgun Slade from The Nostalgia Merchant. Check back for the release date within a few days. You can also watch classic TV shows and movies FREE on this site.

Ripcord- Classic TV DVD -Nostalgia Merchant - Now Available

If you've been waiting for the release of the classic TV show Ripcord, announced earlier, it's available now. This collection includes 12 exciting action-packed episodes starring Ken Curtis and Larry Pennell. It comes packaged in a nice 4 - DVD set. Click Here to go directly to the right page, Or visit The Nostalgia Merchant, your source of rare classic movies and TV shows.

Ripcord - Rare Classic TV shows

Remember Ripcord..? Not many people do. Ripcord starred Larry Pennell as Ted McKeever, and Ken Curtis as Jim Buckley - two sky diving crimefighters / rescue workers / free fall instructors. They run Ripcord, Inc, along with their pilot Charlie Kern (who replaced the original pilot Chuck Lambert). Together they find adventure behind every cloud. The youthful heroes of this series literally jumped into a new adventure every week. Ted and Jim ran Ripcord Inc., which taught skydiving and also hired out for rescues, recovery work, and other situations where parachutists were needed. Often they landed right in the middle of a crime in progress, and solved that too-- who would expect the good guys to come floating down out of the sky? Chuck was their original pilot, replaced midway through the first season by Charlie Kern.
The series featured a lot of spectacular skydiving scenes, including one involving a fistfight in midair (shot by a cameraman in free-fall with the stuntmen.) At one point, two planes accidentally crashed while filming scenes for the program. With a little script adjustment, the footage of the crash was later used in the series. We are now working on several episodes of this very rare 1950s classic tv show. Check The Nostalgia Merchant soon to purchase these episodes on DVD.

The December Bride Collection

We finally finished our December Bride Collection. Acceptable prints of December Bride are extremely rare so we were pleased to recently find a few more episodes to put together a collection of these rare shows. Actually we uncovered close to a hundred episodes of December Bride, but again, the majority of them were not salvageable. The December Bride Collection includes 24 full length episodes, some have original network commercials. Shop The Nostalgia Merchant for this collection.
PLEASE NOTE: These December Bride television shows have been carefully selected from archival films.State of the art technology has been used to present the highest quality production. Good quality masters are very hard to acquire. Therefore slight imperfections in image and sound are unavoidable.

The Best of Ozzie & Harriet - Classic TV

The Nostalgia Merchant is currently working on a new release.. The Best of Ozzie and Harriet Collection.  Now, we know there's lots of Ozzie and Harriet collections on the market. But this one will be very different. All of the episodes in this collection will include the original network commercials. That's right, you'll get to see these shows as they were actually broadcast in the 1950s on TV. Sponsors like; Listerene, Kodak, Quaker Oats, and more. These shows are all complete right done to the public service announcements and network logos. And one more thing, we've checked the other collections out there and we're fairly certain you get few or no repeats with this collection. Quality you ask? Answer: Great. This collection is due for release on Jan 10, 2009. Check back often for more information. The Nostalgia Merchant, your home for rare, classic TV shows and movie.

The Best of Jack Benny Collection - Classic TV

The Best of Jack Benny is a collection of rare classic TV shows starring, of course, Jack Benny. The television version of The Jack Benny Program (which never used the sponsor's name) ran from October 28, 1950 to 1965. The show appeared infrequently during its first two years on TV, then ran every fourth week for the next two years. For the 1953-1954 season, half the episodes were live and half were filmed during the summer, to allow Benny to continue doing his radio show. From 1955 to 1960 it appeared every other week, and from 1960 to 1965 it was seen weekly. Here are 32 episodes of this classic TV show in one collection. Perfect for gift giving. For more information and a list of episodes in this collection visit The Nostalgia Merchant web site or go straight to the Jack Benny Collection.

Four Star Playhouse - Classic TV

The Four Star Playhouse Collection of 32 rare, classic TV shows is now available on DVD from The Nostalgia Merchant. This is the largest, most complete collection of Four Star Playhouse we've ever seen. There are 8 DVDs in this collection with four episodes per disc. The quality on a scale of 1 - 10 is a solid 9. These intriguing stories range from comedy, to mystery, suspense, and drama.The first episode on Disc 1 is "The Lost Silk Hat," a comendy, starring Ronald Coleman as an Englishman who calls on his love, gets into a quarrel with her and leaves without his hat. He faces the dilemma of returning for it or being seen in the street bareheaded. Another interesting episode is "The Girl on a Park Bench," starring Joan Fontaine as a beautiful, intelligent, and politically savvy young woman takes up residency in the city park to protest the Mayor's decision to end rent control on apartments. The comically ornery mayor seems to have met his match! Sparks fly as the Mayor dispatches the city's handsome attorney in an attempt to oust the young woman, who gives her a friendly warning that she will get evicted and lose in court. The tables get turned as the woman proves she is also good at law, but after some very interesting negotiations, all's well that ends well. Here's a sample of drama and suspense in this collection: Episode title: "The Gun," on Disc 4. Synopsis: A police detective (Dick Powell) returns home to his family one morning only to have his meal interrupted by a constant stream of people: the milkman, his neighbor, the postman, the grocery boy, and a salesman. Afterwards, he finds that his gun is missing. In a panic that slowly turns to paranoia, he realizes that each of the visitors had said something that makes them a suspect. Or, how about "The Bomb" with David Niven. Synopsis: Three members of a romantic triangle are trapped in a cellar with an unexploded bomb. Great Classic TV! Some of these rare episodes have the original sponsors commercials. Singer Sewing Machines was one of the main sponsors of Four Star Playhouse. You'll love every minute of every hour of this rare collection. You can view an episode of this collection on the Nostalgia Merchant's video link. Or click on Four Star Playhouse. For a complete listing of episodes in this collection CLICK HERE!