Classic Television DVD: Shows on DVD Give Rise to Growth in Collectibles Demand
TVLand and Nick-at-Night are not the only places we find classic television shows. They are cropping up more and more places. Classic TV collectibles are popular items on auction sites such as Ebay. Enter Classic television show collectibles into your Google-powered search engine and you will find around 170,000 possibilities.
Run through a few of those results and you will find everything from classic television DVDs, lunch boxes, costumes, watches, salt and pepper shakers, vintage posters, and dolls. A quick search on Amazon.com found The Best of Donny and Marie (DVD) Volume 1 (1976). There are websites and online stores whose sole purpose is to sell classic television paraphernalia. These sites are capitalizing on the baby boomers affinity for nostalgia. Collectors are scooping up the vintage collectibles.
There are companies who are bringing back the collectibles by manufacturing New Vintage collectibles. New metal lunch boxes with Donny and Marie, Superman, The Flintstones, Scooby Doo, and even the Dukes of Hazzard are popping up all over the place. With true...