I actually started watching Barnaby Jones season 1 off my Emby server over the weekend. It's one of many old series I've ripped from dvds. Finding I prefer them as I get older and don't care as much for modern shows.
Edit: be interesting to see just how much they are edited. The first couple of episodes were both 51minutes on the dvd.
Barnaby Jones was a good show IMO, I bought the DVD's and here's what I can say:
The first season was an official release (by CBS I think?) that first season had the full shows (51-50 minutes long) and greatly remastered.
Then CBS didn't release the rest of the seasons, so one of those companies (can't recall the names but I think of them as semi-pirate)
got the blessing from CBS, but they got their hands on the syndicated episodes, i.e. 46 minutes by episode instead of the original 50-51.
And the picture quality is poor when compared to the greatly remastered Season 1.
I've already watched a bunch of the episodes, and sure most of them you will notice from the beginning that are missing
the Quinn Martin trademark - ACT 1 and immediately after that are also missing the "Executive Producer - Quinn Martin" caption.
However to my surprise every now and then I've found that they were able to get their hands on a full episode, but those are very few
and spread randomly over the what was it 8 seasons.....
Anyway, I identify myself with you, I now treasure those old tv shows, and honestly, I hardly find a new show as interesting and
as good as those old ones, I especially like the Quinn Martin ones, like:
Barnaby Jones
Cannon
Streets of San Francisco
The FBI
The Invaders....