March 1, 2006
Warner Bros. release a Region 2 DVD set “The Doris Day Anthology” on the 10 April 2006 exclusively for HMV stores in the UK. The announcement at the time of this 7-disc DVD set was quite a welcomed surprise as it featured new-to-DVD titles: Tea for Two, On Moonlight Bay, April in Paris, By the ...
February 14, 2006
Doris Day’s 28th original album receives its first ever release in the United States of America. It would take something very special to lure Doris Day back into the recording studio after she parted company with her long-time label Columbia Records. That “something” would be an album themed around some of her all-time favourite ballads ...
January 10, 2006
We’re only just into 2006 and fans will be jumping for joy that already MPI Home Video have scheduled a further two DVDs for release. As reported previously this includes the first of Doris’s 70s TV specials plus this 4-disc set of Season 3 which is packed full of the usual bonus features (detailed below). ...
Archive News, New Releases
November 6, 2005
It was in 2002, when British television network the BBC broadcast their last documentary paying homage to Doris Day’s life. This formed part of their ‘Hollywood Greats’ series hosted by Jonathon Ross. During 2005, a production team at BBC Wales in Cardiff was hard at work producing a new biography entitled “Doris Day – Virgin ...
Archive News
October 31, 2005
Another consequence to the devastation caused by Katrina is that evacuees of hurricane-torn Louisiana were not allowed to take their beloved pets when they fled their homes. Many were lost, abandoned and nearly starved. However, on the evening of 3 October 2005, 130 four-legged survivors were rescued thanks to the kindness of Doris Day’s Washington based ...
Archive News, Charity Work
October 22, 2005
Australian fans will be delighted to hear that the first season of Doris’s TV show finally reaches your shores on November 7. It will be released by Umbrella Entertainment with slightly revised packaging to both the American and European releases. Other than that it will contain all 28 episodes from 1968/9 as well as the ...
Archive News, New Releases
October 1, 2005
Hot on the heels of the release of Season 1 is yet another date to pencil in your diary as the next instalment of Doris’s cult sitcom is due to arrive before the end of 2005. Season 2 will be available across America and Canada on four more glorious Region1 DVDs from 25 October 2005. ...
Archive News, New Releases
September 5, 2005
Fans lobbying convinces the American TV network to release their definitive Doris Day biography on DVD. In October 1998, the A&E network premiered “It’s Magic” which is their truly captivating and informative biography on Doris Day. It charts her life and career exploring her private and public successes and failures. The in-depth biography narrated by Peter Graves ...
June 10, 2005
The question that has been on the tips of tongues for the last few years has definitely been “will there or won’t there be a DVD release for Doris’s television sitcom?” Well fans don’t have to wait any longer as MPI Home Video have obtained exclusive rights to distribute the program on DVD and will ...
Archive News, New Releases
May 10, 2005
The son of Doris Day, Terry Melcher was a key player on the Los Angeles music scene of the 1960s and early ’70s. He is best known for having aided the careers of Ry Cooder, the Beach Boys and the Byrds having produced for them hit singles such as “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Turn, Turn, ...