Steve Canyon On DVD: July 2015

Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Just WHAT is in Volume 3?

We now have a FINAL and FIRM release date, which is July 28, 2015 ... which is TODAY!! The Volume 3 DVDs are now HERE and ready to start shipping. NEW ORDERS only take me a couple of clicks to process, so they will go out right away...the pre-orders I have to do by hand, entering the data one order at a time, so be aware that it will take at least several weeks to get all 800+ pre-orders shipped out, so I appreciate your patience for a bit longer…it won't be very long now.

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HERE'S the FINAL list of what's included in:

THE COMPLETE STEVE CANYON ON DVD VOLUME 3:

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Here's the final front and back cover artwork by Johann Mitchell

Outside cover

The interior reversible cover insert!

Description of Contents:

NOT SEEN IN THE US IN OVER 54 YEARS!

QUITE POSSIBLY THE RAREST "LOST SERIES" OF ALL TIME!

IN BEAUTIFUL BLACK AND WHITE FROM THE ORIGINAL 35MM FILM BROADCAST MASTERS

10 FULL HALF-HOUR EPISODES AND MORE, FEATURING THE FAMED COMIC STRIP HERO CREATED BY

and starring DEAN FREDERICKS as COLONEL STEVE CANYON

There's cool aircraft again (as you would expect in Steve Canyon) such as F-86 Sabre, F-100 Super Sabre, F-102 and TF-102A Delta Dagger, B-47 Stratojet, KB-50 Supertanker, B-52 Stratofortress, F-104 Starfighter and others (including the Soviet MiG-15)! Some of these later episodes were trying to focus more on drama than hardware but having said that, there's still some great aircraft footage in this volume!

Episode 25) Iron Curtain

Episode 26) Blackmail

Episode 27) Room 313

Episode 28) Operation Intercept

Episode 29) The Bomb

Episode 30) The Muller Story

Episode 31) The Trap

Episode 32) The Sergeant

Episode 33) The Korean Story

Episode 34) Sabotage

Episode 00) Original Unaired Pilot

There are bunches of well known performers in these shows, such as Abel Fernandez, Jerry Paris, Ted De Corsia, Ingrid Goude, Robert Sampson, James Drury, Werner Klemperer, Celia Lovsky, Barbara Beaird, Ross Martin, Dara Massey, Amanda Blake, Roy Thinnes, Jack Grinnage, Nelson Leigh, John Anderson, Dabbs Greer, Virginia Christine, George MacReady, James Griffith, Bert Freed, Claude Akins, Ron Ely, Hal Smith, Robert Sampson, Frank Maxwell, James Hong, Weaver Levy...and more!

THE COMPLETE STEVE CANYON ON TV VOLUME 3

314 MINUTES / BLACK AND WHITE

NTSC FULL SCREEN (1:33:1) 24 Frame Progressive

REGION 0 - PLAYABLE IN ALL REGIONS

DIGITALLY REMASTERED PICTURE & SOUND

10 FULL EPISODES ORIGINALLY BROADCAST IN 1958 & 1959
ON 2 DUAL-LAYER DISCS

Full Color Printing Inside And Out In An Industry Standard "Crystal Clear" Clamshell Case
Full Color Process Printed Factory Glass-Mastered Discs

EXTRAS:

COMMENTARY TRACKS ON ALL 12 EPISODES

(Featuring Abel Fernandez, Arthur Marks, Bob Burns, James H. Farmer, Peter Greenwood, Russ Maheras, Brad Ulvila & John Ellis)

ORIGINAL COMMERCIALS AND NETWORK PROMOS IN EACH EPISODE!

TWO ORIGINAL NETWORK COMING ATTRACTIONS FEATURING "Operation Diplomat" AND "Operation Souvenir"!!

Reversible Cover Art

Steve Canyon® is a Registered Trademark of the Milton Caniff Estate

A Milton Caniff Estate Releasing Release

#MCER1003

Celebrating The Steve Canyon TV Series' 50th Anniversary (1958/1959-2008/2009)

Executive Producer: Harry Grant Guyton

Producer: John R. Ellis

Color art and graphic design by Johann Mitchell

Disk 1 artwork and design by Johann Mitchell. We are using a different background color on each disc in all three volumes.

CONTENTS:

Disc 1

Disc 1 sample menu

25. IRON CURTAIN
NBC First Run Thursday March 5, 1959
Directed by Lamont Johnson • Written by William Spier
• With: Barbara Beaird, Celia Lovsky, Karl Swenson, Konstantin Shayne, Werner Klemperer, Dan Tana, Eric Feldary, Franz Roehn and Henry Corden.
A kidnapped girl (who is Steve's friend from an earlier episode) is a political pawn.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring television historian Brad Ulvila and
producer John Ellis

26. BLACKMAIL
NBC First Run Thursday February 26, 1959
(from best available film elements)
Directed by Lamont Johnson • Written by John Hawkins
• With: Ted De Corsia, Abel Fernandez, Sam Buffington, Robert Richards,
Tamzen Allan, Scott Robertson, Narda Onyx, Mary Carver,
Bill DuFrene, Don Crawford and Elsie Baker.
Big Thunder AFB war brides are victimized by a blackmailer.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring actor Abel Fernandez, artist, author and historian Russ Maheras, and producer John Ellis

27. ROOM 313
NBC First Run Tuesday May 5, 1959
Directed by Lamont Johnson • Written by William Spier
• With: Jerry Paris, Ted de Corsia, Ross Martin, Daria Massey, Jack Grinnage,
Robert Ellenstein, Herman Rudin, Frank Killmond, Milton Parsons,
Roy Thinnes and Amanda Blake.
An assassin targets a visiting Middle Eastern ruler.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring television historian Brad Ulvila and
producer John Ellis

28. OPERATION INTERCEPT
NBC First Run Tuesday March 31, 1959
Directed by Arthur Marks • Teleplay by David Haft • Jerry Paris, Nelson Leigh, Harlan Warde, Harry Landers, Ingrid Goude, Don Richards, Gil Frye, Jeanne Tatum.
A freak accident kills the pilot and co-pilot of a B-47 bomber in flight.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring director Arthur Marks, television historian Peter Greenwood and producer John Ellis

29. THE BOMB
NBC First Run Tuesday March 12, 1959
Directed by Walter Grauman • Written by John Hawkins
• With: Jerry Paris, Ted de Corsia, John Anderson, Virginia Christine,
Dabbs Greer, Steve Wooten, Ricky Klein, Gregory Irvin and Fred Coby.
A missing unexploded bomb endangers a group of children.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring actor & film historian Bob Burns and
producer John Ellis

30. THE MULLER STORY
NBC First Run Tuesday April 7, 1959
Directed by Arthur Marks • Written by William Spier • With: George MacReady,
James Drury, James Griffith.
A young airman is torn between two loyalties.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring director Arthur Marks, television historian Peter Greenwood and producer John Ellis

Disk 2 artwork and design by Johann Mitchell. We are using a different background color on each disc in all three volumes.

Disc 2

Disc 2 sample menu

31. THE TRAP
NBC First Run Tuesday April 21, 1959
Directed by Walter Grauman • Written by John Hawkins • Jerry Paris, Bert Freed, William Schallert, Sid Clute, William Allyn.
Major Williston crashes, trapping him inside, and Steve
races against time to free him from the twisted wreckage.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring aviation film historian James H. Farmer and producer John Ellis

32. THE SERGEANT
NBC First Run Thursday March 26, 1959
Directed by Walter Grauman • Teleplay by Tony Barrett • Story by David Haft and Michael Meshekoff • With: Claude Akins, Valerie Allen,
Ron Ely, Abel Fernandez, Mike Lane, Hal Smith.
An airman’s transfer to the Air Force Academy is jeopardized
by a disagreement with a sergeant over a girl.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring actor Abel Fernandez, artist, author and historian Russ Maheras, and producer John Ellis

33. THE KOREAN STORY
NBC First Run Tuesday April 28, 1959
Directed by Arthur Marks • Written by William Spier • Wynn Pearce, William Schallert, Richard Shannon, Robert Sampson and Sid Clute.
An Air Force pilot is having flashbacks about the Korean War.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring director Arthur Marks, television historian Peter Greenwood and producer John Ellis

34. SABOTAGE
NBC First Run Tuesday May 26, 1959
Directed by Walter Grauman • Written by John Hawkins • Frank Maxwell, James Drury, Robert Sampson, Sid Clute, James Hong, Gerald Jann and Weaver Levy.
Canyon investigates when F-100 Super Sabres start blowing up on the base.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring aviation film historian James H. Farmer and producer John Ellis

00. OPERATION TOWLINE
(UN-AIRED ORIGINAL PILOT VERSION)
Features 2 minutes of extended/additional scenes and alternate opening and closing titles (from best available film elements)
Directed by Ted Post • Written by Joseph Landon, Shelly Colbert and Milton Caniff
• With: Harry Townes, Susan Alexander, Paul Frees,
Morgan Woodward, Sidney Clute, Dan Barton, Ray Montgomery, Fred Ford, Nancy Valentine, Charlotte Austin, Pat Colby, & Ken Mayer.
Steve is assigned to experimental project involving
towing Convair F-102 jet fighters from a KB-50 tanker.
EXTRA: Commentary track featuring aviation film historian James H. Farmer and producer John Ellis

COMPUTER ACCESSIBLE ONLY—DVD-ROM CONTENT—“Project B-58” screenplay in Adobe PDF format.

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Project B-58 unfilmed screenplay

…and there you have it!

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Please Click here to order THE COMPLETE STEVE CANYON VOLUME 3 NOW!

ONLY $24.95 POSTAGE-PAID WORLDWIDE Email us at Ye Olde Caniff/Canyon Shoppe if you have any questions, comments, or are in need of any assistance. Thanks again for remembering Milton and for making this project possible.

They're HERE!! Part 3

Just a brief post to let everyone know we now have the Complete Steve Canyon Volume 3 DVDs in hand and are starting the shipping process TONIGHT...HOORAY!

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Picture just taken in my driveway, Volume Three DVD's still hot from the factory!

It's been a long haul on Volume 3 for everyone, but now we are flaps-up and blue skies ahead!

We now have a FINAL and FIRM release date: July 28, 2015 ... which is TODAY!! The Volume 3 DVDs are now HERE and ready to start shipping. NEW ORDERS only take me a couple of clicks to process, so they will go out right away...the pre-orders I have to do by hand, entering the data one order at a time, so be aware that it will take at least several weeks to get all 800+ pre-orders shipped out, so I appreciate your patience for a bit longer. It won't be very long now...but please allow 2 to 4 weeks for delivery!

So now it's back to madly stuffing envelopes for us and we look forward to hearing your responses on THE COMPLETE STEVE CANYON ON TV Volume 3!

And if you haven't done so yet... you can now order yours today! (scroll down)

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To go to our order page click here!

Email us at Ye Olde Caniff/Canyon Shoppe if you have any questions, comments, or are in need of any assistance. Thanks again for remembering Milton and for making this project possible.

Thursday, July 23, 2015

SC-VOL3 A-OK!

BIG Steve Canyon Volume #3 NEWS!

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…but first...ANOTHER Steve Canyon film???

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This is NOT from an NBC Steve Canyon episode, but from a USAF Academy recruitment film from 1959. Our friend (and Vol. 2 commenter Peter Kuran discovered this and another photo of this film that was shot by Lookout Mountain Air Force Station, "Hollywood's Secret Film Studio" (which filmed all the US Atomic Tests). We have yet to find this rare film but hope it will turn up...someday. Be sure to visit Peter Kuran's http://www.atomcentral.com for An Atomic Experience.

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Steve Canyon Volume #3 is at the factory.

Yes, that's correct.

AT THE FACTORY.

I just approved all the inside/outside covers & disc art proofs and the silver check discs (test pressed from the "stampers" (glass masters) from the factory) and it will be here in 1 to 2 weeks…everything approved/passed on both ends.

Unfortunately I had to exclude the two as yet unfinished documentaries from Volume 3 for a number of reasons…they aren't dead, I just plan and hope to be able to finish and release them (in some manner) in the near future when my health improves…doing it this way removes the pressure and is helping already. The documentaries will also be something to look forward to (for those who care about them).

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These are the master "layer" discs I created that carried all the DVD files for V3 to the factory last week. I have created many dozens of these over time, these are the last 4, the only ones not to end up in the dustbin.

My health has been on the decline since I started this project in 2006. I was never supposed to have to handle EVERY aspect of the restoration. But that decision was changed for me (NOT my decision) early on, and I'm afraid I wasn't smart enough to just walk away from such a "deal-breaker". So I got put in harm's way and have had a number done on my life and career. The stress has been crushing much of the time…it hasn't been much fun for years, which was not what we planned.

It has been a struggle to keep moving forward and stay afloat: 2013 and 2014 we barely survived, with little money, no city electricity for 18 months (!) and no car for most of 2014. The whole time, to the best of my ability, I kept working on the restoration of the last of the films, and finally finished (stopped actually) on the last of the cleanup about 3 weeks ago. By the end my eyes were so bad from staring at screens that I found myself many times trying to remove dirt on the films that wasn't actually there! We used a succession of gasoline generators (we wore out two of them) over that 18 months, and didn't realize we were being poisoned by carbon monoxide. My ability to think and focus has improved in these last 8 months, but neuropathic pain has increased…and there's other horrors.

But enough about that.

So when I finished cleaning the last frames of the original pilot (several weeks ago), I had a scare, a bad one, and realized it would be best to release Volume 3 without the documentaries (even though it pains me to do so). Keeping my word is important to me, but had to make this decision. I immediately knew it was the right path. Live to fight another day. Hopefully.

So there are still a LOT of extras on the discs…several easter eggs, an unproduced script, and commentaries on every episode. It'll have to be enough.

I want everyone to know it may take me as much as a month to get all 800+ of them (and the slipcases) in the mail to those that pre-ordered, as the automation I planned to use isn't working so far, meaning I type one paid mailing label at a time…but it's happening and they'll get there.

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Note the laser etched legend that is on each factory-manufactured disc (this is from the V3-Disc #1 check disc)…if you bought your Volume 1 and 2 discs from anyone other than us here (or on Amazon or ebay), take a look with a magnifying glass and see if it has the appropriate etching…if it's blank, drop me a line and let me know where you got it…this will help us fight piracy and stop any bad guys.

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I'm exhausted here, so I'm going to stop typing now, and will issue another update just as soon as I hear from the factory when they expect to be done manufacturing, sometime in the next week or so. I'll also let everyone know asap where/when they'll be able to place orders for V3 again (I disabled ordering pre-orders here months ago). More details next time, thats 'll the energy I've got now.

Thought I'd let you know how much I've appreciated everyone's friendship and support!

Thanks, and again, sorry this has taken so long.

This way is the right way.

John Ellis