Columbia House Campaign
Please join our campaign to get Columbia
House to release more Wagon Train episodes on VHS and/or DVD! We also need
to let Columbia House know that we want The Man Called Shenandoah released on
VHS or DVD as well!
If they know there is a market, they WILL do it!
Write to Columbia House (snail-mail is
preferred since it gets more attention these days) and let them know what we
want. You can include this website address as a reference to the Wagon Train
episodes we want, or include the list as an
attachment to your letter. The Shenandoah episodes are easy - we want them all!
While we're at it, we also might want to let them know that Robert's picture
should be on the Wagon Train cover!
The address is:
Columbia House
Video Library
1400 North Fruitridge Ave.
Terre Haute, IN 47812-9701
PLEASE e-mail me copies of your letters or
at least let me know that you have written! Robert is worth a lot more than a
37-cent stamp!
To our British friends, I ask that you too
please write letters to Columbia House. Even if we can't get them to release the videos
in PAL format, if we can get really good VHS copies, the loss in quality when
you transfer them is so minimal you too will benefit!
For those of you who feel you are "letter
writing challenged," or feel you have no time to compose a "real" letter, I am
including a copy of the letter I have written. Feel free to copy it and adapt it
for your use (please make some changes, since we don't want the powers that be
at Columbia House to feel that these are form letters).
- Columbia House
- Video Library
- 1400 North Fruitridge Ave.
- Terre Haute, IN 47812-9701
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing as a fan, and as the webmaster of
the Robert Horton website (roberthorton.com), asking, no, begging you to bring
out more Wagon Train episodes. The quality of your product is second to none!
Many of us have obtained tapes of other episodes from any source we could find,
but none come up to the quality and clarity of your tapes! We "NEED"
more tapes from the first five years of Wagon Train and specifically
the episodes starring Robert Horton (see the attached list). The chemistry
between Robert Horton and Ward Bond was magical, and those first three years of Wagon Train represent some
of the very best of television. I would also
like to suggest that you put a picture of Robert Horton on the cover of your
tapes! Wagon Train starred Robert Horton for five years (Ward Bond was only in it
for three years), and that was longer than
anyone else except Terry Wilson and Frank McGrath.
As a dedicated Robert Horton fan, I am also
asking you to consider bringing out all 34 episodes of the A Man Called Shenandoah
series on VHS or DVD. Since this series only lasted one season (more due to the
network's stupidity than the reviews, which were superb), as a "Special
Edition" series, I can guarantee the sales! My website alone receives over
600 hits a month. Our British fans would also like to see the availability of
these tapes in their country and in the PAL format! Robert was, and still is,
extremely popular in the British Isles, and he has many dedicated fans there
today.
Thank you for your attention.
Sincerely,
(attachments)
Wagon Train Episodes Wanted from Columbia
House!
First Season
- Jean LeBec Story
- Emily Rossiter Story
- Clara Beauchamp Story
- Cliff Grundy Story
- Sarah Drummond Story
- Charles Maury Story
- Cassie Tanner Story
- John Wilbot Story
- Monty Britton Story
Second Season
- Jennifer Churchill Story
- Millie Davis Story
- Beauty Jamison Story
- Mary Ellen Thomas Story
- Flint McCullough Story
- Ben Courtney Story
- Old Man Charvanaugh Story
- Annie Griffith Story
- Conchita Vasquez Story
- Sister Rita Story
- Duke LeMay Story
- Steve Campden Story
Third Season
- Stagecoach Story
- Martha Barham Story
- Felizia Kingdom Story
- Jess MacAbbee Story
- Ruth Marshall Story
- Colonel Harris Story
- Larry Hanify Story
- Alexander Portless Story
- Amos Gibbon Story
- Countess Baranof Story
Fourth Season
- Allison Justis Story
- Princess of a Lost Tribe
- Bleymier Story
- Jane Hawkins Story
- Earl Packer Story
- The Odyssey of Flint McCullough
- Jed Polke Story
- Nancy Palmer Story
- Christopher Hale Story
- Jim Bridger Story
- Eleanor Culhane Story
- Wagon to Fort Anderson
- Don Alvarado Story
Fifth Season
- Captain Dan Brady Story
- Maud Frazer Story
- Artie Matthewson Story
- Bruce Saybrook Story
- The Traitor
- Martin Onyx Story
- Amos Billings Story
- Swamp Devil
- Nancy Davis Story