Panorama List of New VHS/Beta Releases - February, 1980 · 11:00pm Dec 8th, 2016
Panorama TV Magazine was a 17-issue short-lived magazine from Triangle (the TV Guide folks) featuring in-depth articles about TV without the artist-and-gossip content found in most magazines.
Panorama, a monthly magazine about television aimed at the affluent reader concerned with the quality and impact of the medium, will cease publication with its June issue, it was announced yesterday by Triangle Publications, its parent and publisher of TV Guide. The unexpected demise of Panorama, which was introduced with ebullient hope in February 1980, was attributed by Triangle's chairman, Walter H. Annenberg, to a dearth of reader interest. ''Our subject matter proved successful in attracting advertising,'' Mr. Annenberg said in a prepared statement, ''but circulation results proved beyond doubt that few readers were interested in our editorial content.'' (New York Times, April 4, 1981)
There are MANY tapes in this list that are very hard to find if you could try to find them. Because of the implications, I've opted to put a page breaker.
FILMS:
All the President's Men (1976) - The Washington Post versus the White House, with Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford and Jason Robards hot on the Watergate trail; based on the book by Post reporters Bernstein and Woodward. (WCI Home Video; $60) (PG)
The Bad News Bears (1976) - Walter Matthau as the crabby coach of an inept sandlot -baseball team featuring an 11-year-old girl (Tatum O'Neal) with a wicked curve ball. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (PG)
Barbarella (1968) - Sexy sci-fi cult favorite starring Jane Fonda in a skintight spacesuit. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (PG)
Blazing Saddles (1974) - Producer Mel Brooks' wild sense of humor permeates this parody of Hollywood Westerns. Gene Wilder, Harvey Korman, Madeline Kahn, Cleavon Little. (WCI Home Video; $551 (R)
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) - Romantic comedy based on Truman Capote's novel about a vivacious New Yorker (Audrey Hepburn). With George Peppard, Martin Balsam, Patricia Neal. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental)
The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Movie (1979) - The latest adventures of the cartoon cutups. (WCI Home Video; $50) (G)
Charlotte's Web (1973) - Animated version of E. B. White's children's classic about a lonely piglet and his best friend, a practical spider. Features, the voices of Paul Lynde, Debbie Reynolds, Henry Gibson, Agnes Moorehead. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (G)
Chinatown (1974) - Roman Polanski directed this Oscar-winning story about murder and corruption in 1930s Los Angeles. Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $9.95 rental) (R)
Days of Heaven (1978) - Beautifully filmed story of two men who love the same woman, set in pre-WWI Texas. Richard Gere, Brooke Adams. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $13.95 rental) (PG)
Death Wish (1974) - Charles Bronson wages a one-man war on muggers in Manhattan after his wife is killed and his daughter raped. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (R)
Deliverance (1972) - Based on James Dickey's acclaimed novel about a canoe trip that turns into a nightmare. Burt Reynolds, Jon Voight, Ned Beatty. (WCI Home Video; $55) (R)
Dirty Harry (1971) - Clint Eastwood as a San Francisco police inspector after a sniper. (WCI Home Video; $55) (R)
East of Eden (1955) - James Dean in John Steinbeck's story of fratemal rivalry, set in California during World War I; Elia Kazan directed. With Julie Harris, Raymond Massey. (WCI Home Video; $55)
Enter the Dragon (1973) - Vengeance in an island fortress; Bruce Lee in his last role. (WCI Home Video; $50) (R)
Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex but Were Afraid To Ask (1972) - Woody Allen wrote, directed and played four roles in this episodic farce. (VidAmerica; rental price to be announced) (R)
The Exorcist (1973) - William Peter Blatty's Oscar-winning adaptation of his best seller about a child (Linda Blair) possessed by demons. With Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow. (WCI Home Video; $60) (R)
The Fountainhead (1949) - Based on Ayn Rand's novel about a brilliant architect (Gary Cooper) who refuses to compromise his ideals. With Patricia Neal, Raymond Massey. (VidAmerica; $10.95 rental)
Goin' South (1978) - Jack Nicholson directed and starred in this romantic comedy set in the 1860s. With John Belushi. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $13.95 rental) (PG)
The Green Berets (1968) - Action yam about the U.S. Special Forces in Vietnam. John Wayne, David Janssen. (WCI Home Video; $55)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) - Wyatt Earp (Burt Lancaster), Doc Holliday (Kirk Douglas) and the Clanton gang mix it up at you-know-where. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental)
The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola's Oscar-winning crime drama. Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Diane Keaton. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $13.95 rental) (R)
The Godfather, Part II (1974) - Further adventures of the Corleone family. Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Robert Duvall. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $13.95 rental) (R)
Hair (1979) - Broadway's hit musical about the hippies and the Sixties, brought to the screen by Milos Forman. (VidAmerica; rental price to be announced) (PG)
Harold and Maude (1971) - Ruth Gordon and Bud Cort play unlikely lovers in this black comedy about a suicidal young man and a frisky old woman. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (PG)
Hooper (1978) - Burt Reynolds as a Hollywood stuntman. With Jan-Michael Vincent, Sally Field. (WCI Home Video; $551 (PG)
The In -Laws (1979) -A staid dentist (Alan Arkin) is drawn into wacky adventures by his daughter's new father-in-law. (Peter Falk). (WCI Home Video; $60) (PG)
Islands in the Stream (1977) - George C. Scott as an expatriate artist in Ernest Hemingway's study of love and loneliness on the island of Bimini. With Claire Bloom. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (PG)
King Kong (1976) - Big -budget remake of the 1933 classic. Jeff Bridges, Charles Grodin, Jessica Lange. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $9.95 rental) (PG)
Lady Sings the Blues (1972) - Diana Ross as blues singer Billie Holiday. With Billy Dee Williams, Richard Pryor. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $9.95 rental) (R)
Lenny (1974) - Adult portrait of the late, controversial comedian Lenny Bruce (Dustin Hoffman). With Valerie Perrine. (VidAmerica; rental price to be announced) (R)
The Little Prince (1974) - Musical adaptation of Antoine de Saint-Exupery's classic fable. Gene Wilder, Bob Fosse, Richard Kiley. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (G)
A Little Romance (1979) - Adolescent love in Paris, Venice and Verona. Laurence Olivier, Arthur Hill, Sally Kellerman. (WCI Home Video; $55) (PG)
The Longest Yard (1974) - Burt Reynolds quarterbacks a team of convicts in a no-holds-barred football game against prison guards. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (R)
Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977) - Diane Keaton in Richard Brooks' strong movie about a compulsive young woman in New York's singles-bar subculture. With Richard Gere, Tuesday Weld. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $13.95 rental) (R)
Love Story (1970) - Erich Segal's best-selling tear-jerker about a rich boy-poor girl romance. Ali MacGraw, Ryan O'Neal. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (PG)
Marathon Man (1976) - Suspense yarn pits a Nazi war criminal (Laurence Olivier) against a Jewish graduate student (Dustin Hoffman). With Roy Scheider, Marthe Keller, William Devane. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $13.95 rental) (R)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974) - Sidney Lumet directed an all -star cast in this adaptation of Agatha Christié s classic thriller. Albert Finney, Lauren Bacall, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset, John Gielgud, Anthony Perkins, Vanessa Redgrave. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $9.95 rental) (G)
Nashville (1975) - Robert Altman's study of the lives of 24 characters during five days in the country-music capital of the world. Lily Tomlin, Henry Gibson, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $9.95 rental) (R)
The Odd Couple (1968) - Film version of Neil Simon's Broadway hit about mismatched roommates. Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (G)
Oh, God! (1977)- George Bums plays the title role in this comedy about a grocery-store assistant manager (John Denver) singled out to spread the word of God in contemporary California. (WCI Home Video; $55) (PG)
Paper Moon (1973) - Tatum and Ryan O'Neal team up as a tomboyish orphan and con man in the Depression-scarred Midwest. Filmed in black and white by Peter Bogdanovich. With Madeline Kahn. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95) (PG)
Play It Again, Sam (1972) - Woody Allen's comedy about the romantic problems of a neurotic writer (Allen). With Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Susan Anspach. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (PG)
Pretty Baby (1978) - Brooke Shields as a child prostitute in the red-light district of New Orleans in 1917. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (R)
Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (1977) - Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts gang returns in a summer-camp adventure. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (G)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) - James Dean, Natalie Wood and Sal Mineo are three middle-class teenagers on the verge of delinquency. (WCI Home Video; $55)
Romeo and Juliet (1968) - Franco Zeffirelli's version of Shakespeare's love story. Olivia Hussey, Leonard Whiting, Michael York. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $9.95 rental) (PG)
Saturday Night Fever (1977) - The movie that triggered the disco craze and made John Travolta a household word. Music by the Bee Gees. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $13.95 rental) (R; PG and R rental versions)
The Searchers (1956) - John Wayne in a John Ford Western about a Civil War veteran who tracks down the Indian tribe that kidnapped his niece. John Wayne, Vera Miles, Natalie Wood, Jeffrey Hunter. (WCI Home Video; $55)
Shane (1953) - Alan Ladd in a classic Western about the conflict between homesteaders and cattle ranchers in early Wyoming. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental)
The Shootist (1976) - John Wayne plays a dying gunfighter in turn-of-the-century Nevada. With Lauren Bacall, James Stewart. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (PG)
The Shout (1979) - Psychological thriller about a man who has the ability to kill people by shouting. Alan Bates, Susannah York. (Films Inc.; $49.95) (R)
Some Like It Hot (1959) - Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Billy Wilder's hilarious spoof of the Roaring Twenties. (VidAmerica; $10.95 rental)
Sunset Boulevard (1950) - Billy Wilder's dark study of an aging silent-film queen (Gloria Swanson) and a struggling writer (William Holden). (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental)
Superman (1978) - A super-budget film starring Christopher Reeve, Marlon Brando, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman and the special effects. (WCI Home Video; $65) (PG)
The Ten Commandments (1956) - Cecil B. DeMille's lavish blockbuster about the life of Moses (Charlton Heston). With Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Edward G. Robinson (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $9.95 rental) (G)
Three Days of the Condor (1975) - Robert Redford plays a CIA researcher on the run after the mysterious slaughter of seven of his colleagues. Faye Dunaway, Cliff Robertson, John Houseman, Max von Sydow. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental) (R)
True Grit (1969) - John Wayne's Oscar-winning performance as a crusty, one-eyed U.S. marshal who helps a teenager (Kim Darby) track her father's killer. With Glen Campbell, Robert Duvall. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95, $9.95 rental) (G)
The War of the Worlds (1953) - The Martians invade Earth. Based on H.G. Wells' novel. Gene Barry. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95, $9.95 rental)
White Heat (1949) - Treasury agents hunt a robbery gang headed by James Cagney. Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien. (VidAmerica; $10.95 rental)
The Wild Bunch (1969) - Director Sam Peckinpah's violent tale of aging gunmen in 1913 Texas. William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Edmond O'Brien. (WCI Home Video; $60) (R)
Most movie descriptions courtesy of TV Guide magazine. Ratings (G, PG, R and X) are those assigned by the Motion Picture Association of America for theatrical showings. Rental prices are those in effect at Fotomat outlets, although cassettes can be rented, at varying prices, in some other stores.
SPECIALS:
Birth - An examination of childbirth practices in Western societies. With R.D. Laing. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Bremen Town Musicians/The Shoemaker and the Elves - Two award- winning programs for children on one cassette. (Films Inc.; $39.95)
Circus Town - Clowns, trapeze acts, high -wire action. (Films Inc.; $39.95)
City Out of Wilderness: Washington, D.C. - A history of the Nation's capital. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Color Me Barbra -Streisand's first color television special, recorded in 1966. (Inovision; $79.95, $10.95 rental)
Death of a Goldfish - Mister Rogers explores the subject of death. (Films Inc.; $39.95)
Dentist and the Tooth Fairy - Tooth care and dental examinations, featuring Mister Rogers. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Following the Tundra Wolf - Robert Redford narrates this 44- minute documentary. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Georgia O'Keeffe - A glimpse into the life of the artist-her work, her marriage to photographer Alfred Stieglitz and her role in the modem-art movement. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
How the Myth Was Made - The story of pioneer film documentarian Robert Flaherty's making of the legendary "Man of Aran." (Films Inc.; $49.95)
IAI Collection I - Musical performances by winners of the French Prix du Jazz Award, Japan's Gold Disc Award and Grammy Award nominees. (Inovision; $59.95, $10.95 rental)
I'm a Stranger Here Myself - Homage to Hollywood film director Nicholas Ray, with clips from such movies as "Rebel Without a Cause" and "Johnny Guitar." (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Jim Stirling's Architecture - The ideas and art of an internationally acclaimed architect. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Judy & Liza Live - Judy Garland and Liza Minnelli at the London Palladium in 1964. Songs include "Over the Rainbow," "Chicago" and "Happy Days Are Here Again." (Inovision; $79.95, $10.95 rental)
Judy, Judy, Judy - Rare Judy Garland footage, including outtakes from the never-completed Garland version of "Annie Get Your Gun." (Inovision; $79.95, $10.95 rental)
Key to the Universe -How the laws of nature work to turn matter into stars, planets and living things. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Mud and Water Man -The story of Michael Cardewpotter, teacher and writer. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
My Name is Barbra - Streisand's first television special. Recorded in 1965; black and white. (Inovision; $79.95, $10.95 rental)
1976 Summer and Winter Olympic Games - Highlights of the Games, including clips of Bruce Jenner, Sugar Ray Leonard, Leon Spinks and Nadia Comaneci. (Sports World Cinema; $75)
Otto: Zoo Gorilla - A behind-the-scenes look at the life of a gorilla at Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo. (Films Inc.; $39.95)
Pop Art - This 66- minute film explores the works of three pop artists: Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Hamilton and R.B. Kitaj. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Ron Hays: Music/Image-Video artist Ron Hays' combination of music and computer-animated video effects. (Inovision; $59.95, $10.95 rental)
Seconds to Play/The Whole Truth -Television sports and the quiz show To Tell the Truth are examined in two programs; one cassette. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Six Tennis Strokes - Billie Jean King demonstrates basic techniques of the service, forehand, backhand, volley, lob and overhead shots. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
The Great Silence/For the Love of Fred - Two adventures featuring the Ritts Puppets. (Films Inc.; $44.95)
The Madhouse Brigade -A 45-minute compilation of satirical comedy sketches. (Video Tape Network; $49.95)
The Making of a Quarterback- Featuring Dallas Cowboy Roger Staubach. (Inovision; $59.95, $10.95 rental)
The Unexplained -The late Rod Serling narrates this film about uncharted frontiers of knowledge, from ESP to life in outer space. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Twinkle, Twinkle Variation - Violin lessons for children. (Films Inc.; $39.95)
What is Love ? -Mister Rogers talks and sings about love. (Films Inc.; $39.95)
Women in Art- Profiles of two artists: Louise Nevelson and Betye Saar. (Films Inc.; $49.95)
Best-sellers of the month:
This list of the Top 20 prerecorded videocassettes is based on sales figures from a survey of retail outlets around the country.
1. Saturday Night Fever (1977) - John Travolta stars as a hip-wiggling dancing champ in a Brooklyn disco. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95)
2. The Godfather (1972) - Francis Ford Coppola's gangster epic about the rise and near-fall of the Corleones, a Sicilian family in America. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95)
3. M *A*S*H (1970) - Robert Altman's antiwar farce that was turned into a TV series. (Magnetic Video; $44.95)
4. The Sound of Music (1965) - Julie Andrews in one of the most popular musicals of all time. (Magnetic Video; $64.95)
5. The Godfather, Part II (1974) - More tales of the Corleone family. (Paramount Home Video; $79.95)
6. The Towering Inferno (1974) - Flames engulf the world's tallest building. (Magnetic Video; $64.95)
7. Patton (1970)- George C. Scott's Oscar-winning performance as Gen. George Patton. (Magnetic Video; $64.95)
8. Harold and Maude (1971) - Comedy about a young man and an old woman in love. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95)
9. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) - Comedy /Western about two bank robbers on the run. (Magnetic Video; $44.95)
10. Deep Throat (1972) - Rated X. (Arrow Film & Video; $99.50)
11. The War of the Worlds (1953)-The Martians invade Earth and almost nothing can stop them. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95)
12. The Story of O (1975) - Rated X. (Allied Artists; 79.95)
13. Barbarella (1968) -Sexy science fiction with Jane Fonda. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95)
14. The African Queen (1951) - Voted by the American Film Institute one of the ten best films ever. (Magnetic Video; $44.95)
15. Babylon Pink (1979) - Rated X. (TVX; $84)
16. The Mr. Bill Show (1978) - Selected segments from the popular Saturday Night Live feature. (Video Tape Network; $39.95)
17. Debbie Does Dallas (1978) - Rated X. (VCX; $99.50)
18. The Devil in Miss Jones (1972) - Rated X. (Arrow Film & Video; $99.50)
19. Pretty Baby (1978) - Sensitive, tasteful drama of a child raised among prostitutes in the early 1900s. (Paramount Home Video; $59.95)
20. The Sand Pebbles (1966) - Sprawling adventure of post-World War I China. (Magnetic Video; $64.95)
Retail outlets participating in our survey include:
Associated Video, Houston; Brenda's Movie House, Philadelphia; Concord Video Center; Stamford, Conn.; Conlon Service, Litchfield, Ill.; Entertainment Horizons, Portland, Maine; Giffen Video, Staren Island, N. Y; Golden Videocassette Library, Bethesda, Md.; Home Entertainment Emporium, Manhattan Beach, Cal.; Integrity Entertainment, Gardena, Cal.; Modern Communications, St. Louis. Mo.; Nichols Electronics, Wichita, Kan.; Precision TV and Video, Beltwood, Ill.; Record Rendezvous, Cleveland, Ohio; Red Fox, Elizabethville. Pa; Select Film Library New York; The Sheik Film Store, Metairie, La.; Southwest Video, San Antonio, Texas; Stansbury Stereo, Baltimore, Md.; Thomas Film Video, Royal Oak Mich.; Video Audio Electronics. Williamsport, Pa.; Video Cassette, Phoenix, Ariz.; The Video Center; Beverly Hills, Cal.; The Video Connection, Toledo, Ohio; Video Corp. of America, Edison, N.J.; Video Dimensions, New York; Video Industries of America, Council Bluffs, Iowa; Video Library. Bala Cynwyd, Pa.; Video Mart. San Bernardino, Cal.; Video Services, Towson, Md.; Video Shack New York; Videospace. Bellevue, Wash.; Video Specialties, Houston; Video 2000, San Diego. Cal.
SEE ANOTHER ONE NEXT MONTH!
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4333324 And a lot of those tapes are RIDICULOUSLY hard to find ---- I think that when I got the referenced VHS of Harold and Maude recently (at PDQ) it was one of the only ones left; plus many of these films (and some of the specials!) were reissued constantly enough to render the present fate of these tapes. Look HARD if you're trying to find one.
The VidAmerica UA releases have probably been lost to time, and I have not had any luck trying to secure many of the WCI releases.
On the plus side, Magnetic (by then owned by Fox) was STILL a giant in home video back in early 1980; so far I'm trying to secure the additions of copies of the titles that they have in the Best Sellers list that month.
There are no Allied Artists titles here (probably because they didn't have enough money to offer any new ones) but I recently found a copy of Alice Sweet Alice (a $13 or so copy). Allied Artists are rather buggy to find as well.