As Dreamers Do: American Magic Redux

[myuacc1]

I didn't think about that. Got any examples for what kinds of videos Playhouse would distribute under that cirsumstance?

Well, they distributed tapes of The Muppet Show, Dr. Seuss specials, and episodes of Doctor Who, the 80s Dennis the Menace cartoon, Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre and Mister Rogers' Neighborhood IOTL.

 

[OldNavy1988]

I didn't think about that. Got any examples for what kinds of videos Playhouse would distribute under that cirsumstance?

Maybe the Chipmunks since Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. licensed the property to Buena Vista in the early 90s IOTL. But that license was only good for the TV shows, not the Chipmunk Adventure movie.

Example:

 

[TheFaultsofAlts]

Maybe the Chipmunks since Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. licensed the property to Buena Vista in the early 90s IOTL. But that license was only good for the TV shows, not the Chipmunk Adventure movie.

Example:

Under that logic, maybe we'd still get those Rocky and Bullwinkle cassettes from OTL through Playhouse Video?

 

[OldNavy1988]

Under that logic, maybe we'd still get those Rocky and Bullwinkle cassettes from OTL through Playhouse Video?

Yes, and Karen Sympathy too.

 

[myuacc1]

Maybe the Chipmunks since Ross Bagdasarian, Jr. licensed the property to Buena Vista in the early 90s IOTL. But that license was only good for the TV shows, not the Chipmunk Adventure movie.

Example:

There's also the Asterix and Lucky Luke movies, (Of which Disney held home video rights to in the 1980s: (

,

) and SuperTed (Of which Disney also held home video rights to in the 80s:

).

 

[OldNavy1988]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Released on May 8, 1984

Production Companies
20th Century-Fox
Amblin Entertainment

Produced and directed by
Steven Spielberg

Executive Producers
George Lucas
Howard Kazanjian

Screenplay by
Lawrence Kasdan

Music by
John Williams

Rather than have Indy fight the Nazis again, the prequel pits him against an ancient cult that practices human sacrifice and other violent rituals to honor the goddess Kali. Without Willie Scott to drag down the story, Indy now has a youthful, jovial sidekick named Short Round (Brandon Lee) who rescues Indy from the nightclub in the first act and provides much needed backup when engaged in combat with the cult members. Together, Indy and Short Round must navigate through every twist and turn of the temple to recover a precious stone and return it to its rightful home at a quaint Indian village.

CAST:
Tom Selleck as Dr Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr
Brandon Lee as Short Round
Amrish Puri as Mola Ram
Roshan Seth as Chattar Lai
Phillip Stone as Capt Blumburtt
Roy Chiao as Lao Che
David Yip as Wu Han
Raj Singh as Zalim Singh
DR Nanayakkara as Shaman

Plot summary copied and pasted from the original American Magic.​

 

[kirbopher15]

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Released on May 8, 1984

Production Companies
20th Century-Fox
Amblin Entertainment

Produced and directed by
Steven Spielberg

Executive Producers
George Lucas
Howard Kazanjian

Screenplay by
Lawrence Kasdan

Music by
John Williams

Rather than have Indy fight the Nazis again, the prequel pits him against an ancient cult that practices human sacrifice and other violent rituals to honor the goddess Kali. Without Willie Scott to drag down the story, Indy now has a youthful, jovial sidekick named Short Round (Brandon Lee) who rescues Indy from the nightclub in the first act and provides much needed backup when engaged in combat with the cult members. Together, Indy and Short Round must navigate through every twist and turn of the temple to recover a precious stone and return it to its rightful home at a quaint Indian village.

CAST:
Tom Selleck as Dr Henry "Indiana" Jones, Jr
Brandon Lee as Short Round
Amrish Puri as Mola Ram
Roshan Seth as Chattar Lai
Phillip Stone as Capt Blumburtt
Roy Chiao as Lao Che
David Yip as Wu Han
Raj Singh as Zalim Singh
DR Nanayakkara as Shaman

Plot summary copied and pasted from the original American Magic.​

I thought you said ghostbusters was next

 

[OldNavy1988]

Ghostbusters

Released on June 8, 1984 by Paramount Pictures

Produced and directed by
Ivan Reitman

Screenplay by
Dan Aykroyd
Harold Ramis

Story by
Dan Aykroyd
John Belushi

Music by
Elmer Bernstein

Ghostbusters theme performed by
Ray Parker, Jr.

Cast
Bill Murray as Peter Venkman
Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz
Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett
John Belushi as Egon Spengler
Rick Moranis as Louis Tully
Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz
William Atherton as Walter Peck
Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore

Upon its release, Ghostbusters usurped the #1 spot at the box office from Indy.​

 

[OldNavy1988]

Donald Duck's 50th Birthday

Aired on the evening of June 19, 1984 on SBC.

Host
Dick Van Dyke

Special Guests
Clarence Nash
Walt Disney, Jr.
Candice Bergen-Disney
Trey Disney [1]
Tiffany Disney
Mark Hamill
Ed Asner
Cloris Leachman
Andy Warhol
Henry Winkler
Kenny Rogers
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Carl Barks
Anthony Daniels
Kenny Baker
Donna Summer

[1] Credited as Walter Elias Disney III

This special edition of the anthology series featured a retrospective on the career of one of Disney's most popular cartoon stars. Clarence Nash, the original voice of Donald, headlined a star-studded series of special guests, including Tony Anselmo, the man who one day take over the iconic role. Walt, Sr., now 82, was only seen in archival footage because he was undergoing a pacemaker installation during production of this special.​

 

[OldNavy1988]

Amblin, Disney, Corman and Turner emerge as front-runners while Henson, Coke, Warner, MCA, CBS and Gulf+Western drop out of the race for the Filmways library.
- The New York Times

Disney creates two home video imprints. "The Classics" will bring many of the studio's beloved animated feature films to home video for the first time. "Playhouse Video" will serve as a specialty label for video releases of third-party children's properties.
- The Hollywood Reporter

The newly formed Film Roman cartoon studio acquires the screen rights to the Garfield comic strip. Two Garfield specials had been previously produced by Roman in collaboration with legendary Peanuts animator Bill Melendez.
- The Indianapolis Star

Former Disney artist Rocky Lorenzo, 43, pleads no contest to assaulting two men in the Castro district.
- The San Francisco Chronicle

 

[TheFaultsofAlts]

Amblin, Disney, Corman and Turner emerge as front-runners while Henson, Coke, Warner, MCA, CBS and Gulf+Western drop out of the race for the Filmways library.
- The New York Times

Disney creates two home video imprints. "The Classics" will bring many of the studio's beloved animated feature films to home video for the first time. "Playhouse Video" will serve as a specialty label for video releases of third-party children's properties.
- The Hollywood Reporter

The newly formed Film Roman cartoon studio acquires the screen rights to the Garfield comic strip. Two Garfield specials had been previously produced by Roman in collaboration with legendary Peanuts animator Bill Melendez.
- The Indianapolis Star

Former Disney artist Rocky Lorenzo, 43, pleads no contest to assaulting two men in the Castro district.
- The San Francisco Chronicle

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen! Will it be Disney, Amblin, or Turner who gets the library? Because frankly, I think Corman doesn't have a single chance here.

So, what will be the starting lineups for each of these two imprints?

As long as Mark Evanier still gets his writing gig for the fat cat's first cartoon show, I don't care who develops those specials.

Does this mean that he gets sent to prison?

 

[OldNavy1988]

Questions submitted by @PNWKing

What are the top releases of NBC/RKO Video so far?
In no particular order: Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Snoopy Come Home, The Last Unicorn, Top Hat, the original King Kong, King Kong vs. Godzilla, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon.

What was the highest grossing film of 1982?
ET: The Extra Terrestrial

What was the first movie released on VHS ITTL?
A South Korean film called The Young Teacher back in 1972.

What is the highest-grossing movie released by Warner Bros. ITTL?
In no particular order: The Exorcist, The Shining, Casablanca, Mad Max, Where the Wild Things Are

Has Grand Diamond distributed syndicated TV shows ITTL?
Twiggy's Jukebox and the British Avengers series, but that's pretty much it.

 

[OldNavy1988]

Place your bets, ladies and gentlemen! Will it be Disney, Amblin, or Turner who gets the library? Because frankly, I think Corman doesn't have a single chance here.

So, what will be the starting lineups for each of these two imprints?

As long as Mark Evanier still gets his writing gig for the fat cat's first cartoon show, I don't care who develops those specials.

Does this mean that he gets sent to prison?

1) Here's a run-off poll:
https://forms.gle/1gvZ965sAFWiN6mw6

2) I'll get to those later

3) Mark Evanier will be there. In fact, I've met him many times at SD Comic Con IOTL. Nice guy to talk to actually.

4) A trial date will be set later.

 

[TheFaultsofAlts]

1) Here's a run-off poll:
https://forms.gle/1gvZ965sAFWiN6mw6

2) I'll get to those later

3) Mark Evanier will be there. In fact, I've met him many times at SD Comic Con IOTL. Nice guy to talk to actually.

4) A trial date will be set later.

1: Voted.

2: Okay! Don't break a sweat over it.

3: He is? Well, that's fantastic!

4: See #2.

 

[PNWKing]

Since Grand Diamond distributed the Avengers show in America, I can see them picking up more British imports. In fact a certain series about a spaceman

Spoiler

and his magical phone booth that's bigger on the inside

might attract their attention.

 

[TheFaultsofAlts]

Since Grand Diamond distributed the Avengers show in America, I can see them picking up more British imports. In fact a certain series about a spaceman

Spoiler

and his magical phone booth that's bigger on the inside

might attract their attention.

Doctor Who being distributed by Grand Diamond in the States? That'll be something, alright!

 

[OldNavy1988]

Since Grand Diamond distributed the Avengers show in America, I can see them picking up more British imports. In fact a certain series about a spaceman

Spoiler

and his magical phone booth that's bigger on the inside

might attract their attention.

Doctor Who being distributed by Grand Diamond in the States? That'll be something, alright!

So what do you guys think it would take for the British crowd to embrace a Roger Corman version of Doctor Who?

 

[TheFaultsofAlts]

So what do you guys think it would take for the British crowd to embrace a Roger Corman version of Doctor Who?

Hold your horses here! Just because Grand Diamond may or may not distribute the man who wields the Tardis in the U.S. doesn't automatically mean that it will get a localization for the new audience. It might just be home video releases that they'll be doing for the franchise. We'll never know as of now...

Except for you, OldNavy, but that's because you're the one who created this timeline.

 

[Roger Redux]

So what do you guys think it would take for the British crowd to embrace a Roger Corman version of Doctor Who?

At the very least if they act quickly for home video rights, they might be able to save the First and Second Doctor's runs from being all-but-entirely-lost...
As for a "Roger Corman version", I dunno....but it couldn't possibly end up worse recieved than the OTL '90-something Fox TV movie (even if the 8th Doctor got salvaged in audio dramas later).

 

[kirbopher15]

Ghostbusters

Released on June 8, 1984 by Paramount Pictures

Produced and directed by
Ivan Reitman

Screenplay by
Dan Aykroyd
Harold Ramis

Story by
Dan Aykroyd
John Belushi

Music by
Elmer Bernstein

Ghostbusters theme performed by
Ray Parker, Jr.

Cast
Bill Murray as Peter Venkman
Dan Aykroyd as Ray Stantz
Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett
John Belushi as Egon Spengler
Rick Moranis as Louis Tully
Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz
William Atherton as Walter Peck
Ernie Hudson as Winston Zeddemore

Upon its release, Ghostbusters usurped the #1 spot at the box office from Indy.​

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