My friend Ryan, who keeps an eye on things and sends me alerts whenever there is news regarding upcoming release dates for the MSW DVD sets, ran across an interesting piece of news regarding the Complete Tenth Season. A debate is being waged in the hallowed halls of Universal, and the Powers That Be are actually asking for feedback from fans of the show (!) to help them make a decision.
He sent me a link to the story on the website TVShowsOnDVD.com. The problem is the episode "Amsterdam Kill," which was produced in Season 10 but didn’t air until the second episode of Season 11. Should it be included as part of the tenth season, as its production number (69532) would indicate? Or should the order in which it actually was aired be preserved, in which case the episode would wait for release with the rest of the eleventh season? The website includes a link to its Contact Us form so that fans can have their say.
As the story’s author, Gord Lacey, points out, since Murder, She Wrote was more episodic than serial in nature, whether “Amsterdam Kill” is included in Season 10 or 11 doesn’t make much difference as far as the arc of the series is concerned. The much more significant fact is that Universal is bothering to ask the fans which they prefer, acknowledging that where they place it may, after all, make a difference to us. I would encourage all of you to head over to the page on TVShowsOnDVD.com and cast your vote, if only to validate the fact that we matter.
