[Kojak]

I'm pretty sure Neil got the rights to the TVS series when he got the rights to the show after TVS went off air. The Disney Channel showed the TVS episodes in the 00s, and it was a TVS episode shown on the CITV 30th weekend 10 years ago as well.

The TVS episodes of How2 ended up on Amazon Prime a few years back too, so at least some of the shows that continued under new producers after TVS went off air don't have the rights issues.

Yes, Disney did show the very early episodes in the late 90s/2000s - I used to watch them religiously. I think they got up to Series 12 (1999) in the end. I know that a Chinese streaming service bought the rights to the entire series for their market, and went as far as to have the original tapes rescanned and remastered. If Disney were interested then I don’t see why those new masters couldn’t be put on Disney+ here.