Gliding On - No Smoke Without Fire

@ Blair, the theme song is "Good Old Desk", written and performed by Harry Nilsson

Who did the theme song?

The comparison to The Office (also made in the Billy T bio) seems a bit rich. Gliding On is not the forerunner of The Office, it is the type of show Gervais targets in his When The Whistle Blows show-within-a-show in Extras.

Yes It would be great to get the complete Gliding On on DVD. Fingers crossed someone will see the sence in doing this.

Good news for those looking for Gliding On on dvd ! !
Sony NZ have released a series called Kiwi Gold, a selection of Kiwi TV shows from the 70s, 80s & 90s on dvd. Available at most retailers. (official release date was Nov 10th)
Vol 2 of Kiwi Gold, has 2 episodes of Gliding on, including, the above episode, No smoke without fire.
Shame that TVNZ can't get their act together and release a complete dvd release.
This Sony dvd release, with 2 episodes, will just have to do for the meantime !!

It's a crime that this isn't available on DVD, or at least replayed once. It's NZ's greatest ever 'sitcom', with great writing and superb acting. For it to languish in the TVNZ archives for decades isn't right. I'd pay $40 for it on DVD, and I'm sure many others would too.

Hi Brenda,

I would love to see more and definitely buy a DVD!! What exactly are the rights issues? Is there a major obstacle to releasing a DVD? Cheers.

Hey Max, I appreciate the sentiment, but I doubt that enabling bitTorrent is the incentive TVNZ is looking for in re-screening this content!

The issue for this series is to do with rights, a hangover from the way contracts were set up at the time. We hope to have more, but no promises at this stage.
/brenda

If TVNZ ran this again, it could be ripped digitally so that those familiar with the BitTorrent protocol could see this series again.

This kind of material would also be nice on Hulu.com and YouTube.com as both support 'content' accounts.

So cool! I hope TVNZ releases all the episodes on DVD one day!

Brings back Memories, I remember watching this as a teenager.

I would love to, if I could -- get broadcast rights for the show for Canada.

So much NZ TV programming has not been seen in Canada, it would be very new.

I am totally shocked this never ran on the US PBS net nor Canada's CBC net. From my understanding of overall Commonwealth TV history, this show should be run in parallel with "Yes, Minister" ...

No computers! OK not the best example of what people did at their desks in the paper days, but quite striking to see an office without them.