Steve Canyon Alert!

(click images to enlarge in a new window)Hold on to your ejection seats! Big Thunder Air Force Base is on FULL DVD ALERT!
Here's Milt and Bunny celebrating the wide-retail release of the first authorized Steve Canyon episodes to see the light of day since JFK was in office! Photo taken by Bob Goldwater (NBC) August 11, 1958 in the Caniff home in High Tor New York.
"WOWEE! Look at those DVD's go!" says Lt. Colonel Stevenson Burton Canyon, serial number AO-041044 of the United States Air Force, on assignment for OPERATION ZERO LAUNCH at Edwards Air Force Base, California.

Today is the day that our distributor, Tempe Video, officially started taking and filling orders from all of the major retail outlets for our initial STEVE CANYON SPECIAL EDITION DVD! The official "street date" is March 18th, that's the date the retail outlets are allowed to start forking over our DVDs to the paying public.

A few of the places that it will be available for purchase will be MoviesUnlimited.com, Amazon.com, DVDEmpire.com,, DeepDiscount.com, DVDPlanet.com, CCVideo.com, DVDUniverse.com, BestPrices.com, BudPlant.com, Buy.com and for rent on Netflix.com. You can also find it at the Collectible Wizard store on Magnolia in Burbank.

This release will both "test the waters" for the Full DVD Series release (later this year) and also provide MUCH NEEDED FUNDS to help pay for all of the work that is being done to get everything ready.

IF YOU WANT TO HELP it's as simple as writing reviews on either Amazon.com's Steve Canyon DVD listing AND/OR The Internet Movie Database Steve Canyon page to spread the word on JUST HOW COOL it is. You can also request your favorite online or retail outlets to make sure they carry it and are well stocked, "ask for it by name". We appreciate all of the help that has come our way from each and every one of you that have written to us and/or ordered the DVD or cap and we thank you.

Special Edition Wide Retail Release Looms

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It's coming! The March 18th wide release is on the horizon, and J.R.Bookwalter and the fine folks at Tempe Video are doing a terrific job with advance publicity and other preparations, an example is the "Sell-Sheet" full color ad shown above. We are already listed on Amazon.com and elsewhere on the net, and I urge those of you that already have the DVD to go to both Amazon (as well as the IMDB) and post a review. I am getting close (finally) on the massive job of fully updating the IMDB Steve Canyon pages so come on by there and leave a comment or review to show your support.

Work is proceeding apace on restoration and special bonus materials for the full-series DVD set coming later this year. More HOT news, exclusive clips and images coming soon, so stick around for more excitement!

Here's Ingrid Goude (Steve's Secretary "Ingrid") and Steve Canyon (Dean Fredericks) Feb 13th, 1959.

Steve Canyon Christmas Episode

Merry Christmas from The Milton Caniff Estate! Enjoy our gift, this clip from the Steve Canyon Christmas episode that hasn't been seen in the US since 1958!

Celia Lovsky and Lillian Adams

Dean Fredericks gets in the spirit

Above, from left, Dean Fredericks and friend (Sean McClory). These images are all frame blowups from this episode.



This clip (which features Dean Fredericks, Celia Lovsky, Sean McClory and Barbara Beaird) is a 6 minute 13 second Quicktime mp4 movie clip from the 16th episode, THE GIFT, written by Ray Bradbury and Sidney Carroll and directed by Don Taylor, which aired originally on Saturday December 20th 1958 at 9pm on NBC. It was never repeated in the United States. When ABC aired summer reruns of Steve Canyon in 1960, for some reason this one (and 13 others) never got shown. What you are about to see is the first time in 48 years that any part of this episode has been seen in the United States. The shows were run in Australia twice in 1959 and 1960, on Armed Forces television overseas in 1963 and 1965, and dubbed in Japanese and broadcast by Nagoya TV in Japan in 1963, and possibly 8 episodes were shown in Germany and latin america circa 1959/1960. If you remember seeing STEVE CANYON broadcast at any other time or place since, we'd love to hear from you.



This episode (and all 34 shows of the series) will be included on the full series dvd coming out from The Milton Caniff Estate in the summer of 2008. Enjoy the holidays!

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It's Official! Tempe Video Signed for Wide Steve Canyon DVD Retail Release!!

This is the BIG NEWS that I have been hinting at for a while. Harry and I have signed an exclusive retail distribution agreement with our longtime friend J.R. Bookwalter at Tempe Video. This will put our initial Steve Canyon Special Edition DVD (which has seen limited availability here on our blog) out into wide release on March 18 of 2008. This means it will be available through Amazon.com, DeepDiscount.com, DVDUniverse.com, Buy.com, DVDPlanet.com, DVDEmpire.com and others, as well as being available to rent from Netflix.com.

We are considering this as a market sales test for our full series DVD which we plan to release sometime during the summer of 2008 for the 50th Anniversary of the Steve Canyon TV series. For more info visit Tempe Video, our friends at TV Shows On DVD (who broke the story) and Amazon.com for more info.

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The Girls of Steve Canyon - Part 4

Sylvia Lewis The Hotcha Girl From French Morocco...

We recently had the distinct pleasure of talking with the lovely and talented Sylvia Lewis about her featured role as the beguiling club dancer "Macayo" in the Steve Canyon episode OPERATION B-52.

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Putting on a show...

Sylvia and I share a theory that her character in this episode was named after the famous Macayo Club that used to be in Santa Monica and where Sylvia danced and performed often early in her career. She knew author Charles Beaumont to some extent, and remembers being called in for the part (most likely by casting director Gene Reynolds) WITHOUT any audition, so it is possible...

Making time with Col. Canyon!

We recommend a visit to Sylvia's website at sylvialewis.net for a whole lot of cool pix and clips and info showing highlites of our friend Sylvia's extraordinary career. She was a guest star on many of our favorite shows, including The Beverly Hillbillies, Gomer Pyle USMC, The Dick Van Dyke show, Zorro...and even appeared with Shemp Howard in a famous THREE STOOGES short!

Also note that her episode OPERATION B-52 is one of the 4 on our "sampler" STEVE CANYON SPECIAL EDITION DVD, which is available for purchase below.




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