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* ''[[American Gothic]]'' was one of the most campaigned-for shows for a while, until it was finally released on DVD in 2005 (R1) and 2006 (R2).

* ''[[Ally McBeal]]'' fans in the United States either had to trade tapes, import the British DVD series set from the UK, or be content with a five-episode "Best Of Season 1" compilation for many years because of a flop of a syndication deal where FX took a nearly $2 Million bath every time they aired an episode (they stopped after two years and nobody else dared to air it again), and the sheer fact that all the music rights used on the show were not negotiated at all before the rise of TV on DVD, not to mention that Vonda Shepard would be looking at quite the sweet DVD royalty check for being the house singer on the show. Thankfully, the long wait was worth it — in October 2009, Fox released the full series in a Region 1 box set with no music cuts whatsoever.

* ''[[Boy Meets World]]'''s third season sold worse than expected on DVD, leading Buena Vista to indefinitely delay later seasons. Fortunately, Lionsgate acquired DVD rights, and managed to release the whole series.

* The Belgian TV show ''Buiten De Zone'' was finally released on DVD in 2010, after the last of the music negotiations (over the music from ''[[Twin Peaks]]'') had concluded. The show, which ran for 2 seasons starting in 1994, still has a huge fan following and has achieved a cult status in Flanders. Bart de Pauw, one of the creators, was a soundtrack buff and used music from hundreds of films like ''[[James Bond (Film)|James Bond]]'', '*[[Aladdin (Disney)|Aladdin]]'', ''[[Indiana Jones (Franchise)|Indiana Jones]]'', and even ''[[Robin Hood Men in Tights]]''. Acquiring all 380 (!) music licenses while keeping the price at a reasonable level was a huge undertaking.

* Music rights are also the reason it took forever for ''[[Miami Vice]]'' to get a video release (the DVDs were first — it '''never''' got analog video releases), and why there were lengthy delays between each season's box set. Still, the episodes were completely unabridged...well, save for a sequence cut from the Season 4 episode "By Hooker, By Crook" because it was deemed to be excessively disturbing. It showed a prostitute being tied up and murdered while Crockett has sex with another woman.

** In an interesting case, however, while you can now find most episodes online (completely legally, through Hulu and Netflix), there are one or two episodes that are withheld from the internet for apparent rights issues.

* Under [[Disney]], ''[[Power Rangers]]'' got screwed over with only some episodes (usually from the start of the season) ever getting DVD releases and just about every season, bar the [[Re Cut]] of ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'', pulled out of airing. After Saban reclaimed the franchise from the Mouse House, ''MMPR'' was streamed in its original form one episode a day on the official website in early 2011 as a lead-up to ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'' and the entire franchise [https://twitter.com/#!/anbmedia/status/80498732512198656 is available on Netflix] starting June 15, 2011, alongside related Saban shows ''[[Big Bad Beetleborgs]]'' and ''[[VR Troopers]]''.

** And now, in March of 2012, Saban inked a deal with Shout! Factory to release all 700 episodes from ''Mighty Morphin'' all the way to ''RPM'' on DVD.

* ''[[Where On Earth Is Carmen Sandiego]]'' had some [[Compilation Movie|Compilation Movies]] released by Lionsgate and the first season released by Shout! Factory, then five years passed without any other releases. Thanks to Mill Creek Entertainment, a DVD of the complete series will come in February 2012.

* ''[[Jem]]'' — Rhino Video released seasons 1-2 and part of 3 on DVD. The rest? Left in limbo. To make matters worse, the first two sets of DVDs went out of print and cost a pretty penny to buy a second-hand copy. [[Shout Factory]] has decided to release a complete series DVD boxset, including the long-unavailable season 3 episodes.

* ''[[Re Boot]]''. [[ADV Films]] never released Seasons 1 and 2 on DVD, only four episodes from Season 1 ever came out on VHS. Seasons 3-4 came out on DVD, but went out of print. Fortunately, [[Shout Factory]] eventually released DVDs of the complete series.

** Season 3 also airs on Teletoon Retro...IN CANADA! (Well, it ''was'' made in Canada...)