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03-26-2005, 02:27 PM
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Just picked up a DVD three-pack containing 6 episodes each of Love That Bob!, The Jack Benny Show, and Ozzie & Harriet. All episodes have had their opening themes replaced with horrible synthesizer music, and O&H's opening has horrible new narration as well, describing each member of the family.
Never having seen the show before, I watched a couple of the Ozzie & Harriet episodes, from the first year of broadcast (1952), and thought they were pleasantly interesting, if pretty primitive compared to other stuff of the period such as I Love Lucy. Ozzie has a great life; he apparently doesn't have to work and can spend all the time he wants at home with his family...
Can this show be had on DVD with original opening theme intact?
Also, any thoughts on this show? Was it the first family sitcom?
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03-26-2005, 09:43 PM
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This and many other shows were on the radio for many years before they came to TV.
It wasn't the first family sitcom on TV, anyway. The original TV version of "The Life of Riley" (with Jackie Gleason) preceded O&H by three years. There were also "Mama," "The Goldbergs," "The Trouble With Father," "The Aldrich Family," and probably some others.
O&H's claim to fame, though, was that it was the longest-running family sitcom -- 14 seasons on ABC!
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03-26-2005, 11:54 PM
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I have several low budget Ozzie and Harriet dvds which are of poor quality and edited. I read somewhere that Sony is planning a box set release for 2005. I hope this is true because Ozzie and Harriet is one of my favorite shows and it deserves alot better treatment on dvd than it's getting.
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03-28-2005, 12:31 PM
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Wow, great news about the Sony box set, if it comes to pass, that is. Of course, with way over 400 episodes, a COMPLETE set would be quite an undertaking...
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03-28-2005, 04:21 PM
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And then there are music rights issues for the episodes with Ricky Nelson's musical numbers...
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03-28-2005, 10:36 PM
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And then there are music rights issues for the episodes with Ricky Nelson's musical numbers...
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Geez...that'd be really great, all of Ricky's numbers missing due to rights problems. I hope they can be bothered to ante up the $$ and put this out properly...otherwise I'd just as soon they not bother. |
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03-28-2005, 11:28 PM
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Jeffrey, are you a relative of the Nelsons?
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03-29-2005, 12:26 AM
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I don't know where anyone would get info about Columbia having anything to do with this. The property is currently controlled by SFM thru the Nelson estate. Columbia has never had anything to do with this show.
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03-30-2005, 02:55 AM
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Jeffrey, are you a relative of the Nelsons?
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Um...no...not as far as I know, anyway.  |
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04-22-2005, 09:40 AM
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