Topic: I am putting down the $1,000 Lisa Boyle Gauntlet...

[djamarj]

I apologize Im missing something here....what makes these episodes so special? 

[powerfred]

Because of two things:

1. Lisa Boyle
2. The Episode is impossible to find.

Lisa Boyle is in my mind and many others the best skinemax/late night actress ever.

[djamarj]

Well if something she did was explicit i would follow you but idk about this one

[powerfred]

Seriously erotic confessions was and is my favorite erotic tv show.

Smoking hot women, real actresses, very few to little porn stars. Then to top if off the episodes actually had good stories.

DJ you need to go back and watch this series if you can.

[djamarj]

Ill just take your word on it

[Damfino]

Smoking hot women, real actresses, very few to little porn stars. Then to top if off the episodes actually had good stories.

Yeah, I agree but I seriously don't think that I'd offer up a bounty like that for just one episode. I'd get in line to pay a fair price for a box set of the whole series, but only at normal market prices. But then I have not found the Holy Grail  .

So far my archeology has turned up about 20 episodes but not that one! Now I'm guessing that perhaps it was shot but not shown by any of the A-list cable channels. I only had DirectTV in that period and satellite had limits available since they have to make room for channels on those orbiting birds, and that space is expensive. Some cable companies have enough bandwidth to offer a few B-list PPV channels that offer a higher percentage of softcore. DirectTV didn't have everything. Perhaps it is so rare because only some of the country got it originally.

If I or some other fan doesn't have it, perhaps a company like Something Weird would become interested in this time period in softcore history and has developed industry contacts who know where to find the originals. An offer like this wouldn't hurt. They did an amazing job for the earlier time period (just prior to the first wave of hardcore). That's about all I can think of. I'll keep looking but the Holy Grail is as elusive as always.


--Damfino

[tagjohnson]

Keep up the good work. Some thoughts; we all need a white whale to keep us going, if it was easy it wouldn't be worth doing, if everybody could be a Marine, it wouldn't be the Marines (proudly served when I was much younger, slimmer and cockier), they call it a Holy Grail for a reason (because it's not easy to find), only you can prevent forest fires.

PS yeah I know the last one doesn't fit but it's important anyway.

[powerfred]

Literally this is almost my last silverback hunt i have not been able to get. If i am able to find it one day i may just have to retire from this scene forever.

Thank you for looking though, could you post what episodes you have i still may be interested in those.

Also keep in mind i think later on erotic confessions was broken up into 2-15 min segments for every 1 episode. I am not totally sure when that started or

ended though.

[Damfino]

...if it was easy it wouldn't be worth doing..

Yeah, it's fun to go on the hunt for a "lost" softcore title, as long as its all in good fun. I think that this era in softcore will eventually become valued and the major titles will eventually be re-released by a scavenger company like Something Weird, perhaps Something Weird itself. They are expert at the earlier period of softcore that ended with the first legal hardcore titles of Deep Throat and Marilyn Chambers pornos. They've become amazing at finding weird-ass titles that only existed as a few copies of film -- way the hell before any home video cable.

I thought of Something Weird since they had their own hunt that had a happy ending. (http://www.somethingweird.com/cart.php?target=product&product_id=57382&substring=the+pick-up)

It was for a 60's black & white "roughie" in which David Friedman and Bob Cresse played mobsters. It is a softcore, but that meant it was a gangster movie with some nudity in it -- not a medley of fake sex scenes. Here's the happy ending of their story:

As might be expected from such a personal project, David Friedman was trying to find a print of The Pick-Up for the past ten years and was constantly asking SWV head honcho Mike Vraney if he'd found it yet. Nothing gave Mike more pleasure than to close out the last century by personally escorting Dave into a dingy old film vault in Denmark and presenting him with the print used for this video. As Mike said, "It was like finding the Holy Grail!"

I gladly paid their price of $10 for the download and think its great, but I wouldn't be interested in paying an order of magnitude or two for that one title.

Eventually, the time will be right to republish softcore titles from this period, but probably not now. The current market is dominated by the "extra mile" type of thinking. That's not what "The Pick-up" delivers at all. It would be interesting to hear what Something Weird thinks. Perhaps that $1,000 offer would attract their attention and their informed answer is different from mine. It neve hurts to ask.

--Damfino

[Damfino]

... could you post what episodes you have i still may be interested in those.

Also keep in mind i think later on erotic confessions was broken up into 2-15 min segments for every 1 episode. I am not totally sure when that started or ended though.

Yeah, I'll post the list but I didn't write them all down, as I was watching for the Holy Grail. They are now well organized, as I converted them all to mp4 and put them on my internal home media server, Plex.

I bunch of my copies are compilation shows - from 2 to 4 half hour episodes in one hour or 90 minute time block. They were given numbers rather than their own names. My estimate of about 20 was 20 individual, titled shows, so a 90 minute compilation usually contributes 3 shows to the total.

--Damfino