NOTE: This post is highly speculative, and may prove to be factually incorrect, and if I find out that it is, I’ll either edit it or remove it. This is not a research piece, only hypothetical conclusions that I’ve drawn from personal perceptions.
Who doesn’t know who Lassie is? Even young kids today will be familiar with the famed border collie of classic television. But look around at your grandparents’ house for DVD’s or VHS’s, and you’ll find few to none. And the same goes for anybody else’s collection of physical media as well. There are no full seasons of Lassie for sale. But, being that the show ran for nineteen years, why on earth wouldn’t a company cash in on this gold mine? Well, let’s look at it.
One Man and His Banjo 