I think this is one a lot of people would like to see. I know I would!!.

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We haven't heard anything from the Shout! team about acquiring this show and releasing it onto DVD in awesome season sets!  How about it?  This series on DVD will sell extremely well!!

I'll try to shed what light I can, and hopefully it will be more than a nightlight.  :)

If you want the short answer, then you can stop reading after the following 2 words: "complicated clearances".

Folks who got invested in the concept of the "Nick Rewind Collection" and want a slightly longer answer, read on:

Zaranyzerak's got the right links: a Dec. 2005 story with rumors that it would come to DVD in Spring 2006.  It was all part of the "Rewind Collection" from Nick, an idea that was popular with passionate fans of the classic Nick shows.  And TVShowsOnDVD got a TON (and I do mean a TON) of traffic hits from folks reading and re-reading our stories about the various titles in that Rewind Collection.

Somehow, though, all the internet word of mouth didn't translate into actual sales for Rewind Collection titles.  Or at least that's what's been hinted at over the years; the studio has never straight-out said (Paramount's as-candid-as-Brian-Ward type person we used to talk to there moved on from the studio JUST before all of this stuff happened <grin>). But from what we know, sales seemed to be weak on the Rewind Collection.  The first release for "Clarissa Explains it All" (Melissa Joan Hart!) didn't get enough juice to secure a second release, a decision apparently made in Fall 2005.  Nick/Par decided that Adv/Pete&Pete's first release did okay enough to continue with S2, and I heard the plan was to do S2 in time for Christmas 2005, then do S3 of that along with YCDTOTV (as a replacement for more Clarissa) in Spring 2006.  But as the story at Zaranyzerak's second link (a late Jan. 2006 post) explains, first Adv/P&P S3 was pulled from the schedule (apparently because S2 sales tanked), then YCDTOTV's pulling quickly followed.

Why?  And why no YCDTOTV separately since then (even as a non-"Rewind Collection" release)?  Because, as stated at the story, "the YCDTOTV clearances were really complicated".  Our info on that came from somebody close to the show itself (not the studio, but the actual show), who was most certainly in a position to know.  It's my opinion that the rights issues were complicated enough that the powers that be gave up, or at least pushed the project onto the back burner (possibly until the flame slowly went out).  Which is why we haven't seen the show as a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) title, either...legal clearances are still an obstacle to that kind of release, too, of course.

At the time the opinion of Gord and I at TVShowsOnDVD, of our contact about YCDTOTV, and of other industry folks was that the pulling of Clarissa, Adv/P&P and YCDTOTV would *not* cause the end of the "Nick Rewind Collection" line of DVD releases, as it seemed to be too good an idea (and a popular idea with the fans).  Nevertheless, time has proven the tale: we've never seen that banner on a home video release since then.  And at this point I am certain we never will; Nick/Par has moved on.  If releases of Nick shows for that era do come along in the future, whether in stores or as MOD titles, then they probably won't carry that banner...it seems to be a dead concept.  And checking Christine McGlade's website/blog, which talked about the DVD effort for the show she was on, doesn't show any updates since August 2007 to prove otherwise (and stopped talking about the DVDs in December 2005!).  And we've fallen out of touch with the close-to-the-show contact I mention above (probably because there's nothing to talk about).  So that's that. Sigh...too bad.