Board Thread:In the News/@comment-38560540-20190501004753/@comment-38560540-20190504031251

JustMeJordanW wrote: Addams Family is missing? Yeah - that's what they're saying. Hope it isn't so, but looks like we're still out that episode.

Prior to the late 1970s/early 1980s tapes, no network ever dreamed that they'd need contracts with rights issues worked out for anything other than TV broadcast. So now, studios have to negotiate the rights/royalties for some older shows in order to stream them or release them on home video  In the case of the New Scooby-Doo Movies, earlier DVD releases actually were missing 9 episodes because of this issue; 8 of those were later released on DVD as "the lost episodes" after WB squared rights issues for them. The lone issue remains Addams Family - my understanding is that Charles Addams (creator of The Addams Family) and WB can't get on the same page. And so, here we are with the "(Almost) Complete Collection."