The American Gothic DVD Petition

Many fans of the TV series American Gothic have heard that Universal is intending to release it on DVD. Once upon a time in the year 2000, the now defunct dvdnightmare.com cited a contact at Universal saying they were scheduled for release in early 2001. A few months later, they got news that the DVDs had been pushed back to autumn 2001. And just before closing down in spring 2001, dvdnightmare.com reported that American Gothic was taken off the 2001 release schedule because AG Executive Producer Sam Raimi, who's reportedly eager to do the commentary, is unavailable to do so this year, as his commitment to filming Spiderman is keeping him occupied.

Around mid July 2001 I sent an inquiry about the current status to Universal's video/DVD department through their homepage's contact form. (Of course this was done solely in service of the Gothnik community and doesn't have anything to do with my impatience at all... really it doesn't!) I didn't get a reply so far... so maybe it's time to take some *real* action! Stumbling across a list of DVD petition sites gave me the idea to start such a petition for American Gothic, in the hopes that this might show Universal the ongoing (and still growing!) interest in American Gothic, and therefore speed up the release of the DVDs. I was encouraged to do so by fellow Gothniks from all over the world, so here you see the result. :-)