Rustifer
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Just tryin' to keep up with you, dude!You've been a busy boy there, Russ! Good stuff, as usual.
Just tryin' to keep up with you, dude!You've been a busy boy there, Russ! Good stuff, as usual.
Thanks, Father Knows Best is a little expensive and rarely discounted but I'm really happy to own it. That's a great list of comedy shows, four of my top five sixties sitcoms.Welcome back, Steve, good to see you posting again! That's a good line-up of classic shows! I haven't seen that particular episode of The Andy Griffith show yet, will have to correct that oversight pronto. It appears to be the Jan Shutan episode Howie mentions above. My personal favorite TAGS episodes are "Man in a Hurry" and "The Pickle Story," but I haven't really found a bad one yet.
I'm one of the ones you mentioned who (VASTLY) prefers Deep Space Nine over Voyager. I don't remember this episode...I'm thinking I've never seen it. Thanks for reminding me of it, will try and seek it out soon. I like Brian Keith, and it sounds like a good role for him.
I'm in the process of slowly expanding my '60s sitcom collection...
Planning to pick up the first 2 seasons of Father Knows Best later this summer. I know the first season has many syndicated cut episodes, but from the sounds of it, maybe half or a little less are uncut. I picked up The Donna Reed Show S2 a little while ago and plan to get S1 now that the price has dropped.
The following is my small(ish) U.S. comedy selection on DVD (I have quite a few more British sitcoms in addition to these):
BATMAN, S1 (I know some don't consider this a comedy, but I do)
THE MUPPET SHOW, S1- 3
THE MUNSTERS, S1 & 2
THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, S1 - 5
THE ANDY GRIFFITH SHOW, 50th Anniversary Collection
F-TROOP, S1 & 2
BEST OF JACK BENNY
One of the many RED SKELTON samplers
GROUCHO MARX, YOU BET YOUR LIFE (the 2 "Best of" sets)
THE BEVERLY HILLBILLIES, S 1- 4
SGT. BILKO: THE PHIL SILVERS SHOW (50th Anniversary Edition)
I LOVE LUCY, S1
THE BEST OF THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW
THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW, S2 & 5
LEAVE IT TO BEAVER, S1 - 3
GREEN ACRES, S1 - 3
THE ADDAMS FAMILY, Vol. 1
HOGAN’S HEROES, S1
BEWITCHED, S1 & 2
McHALE’S NAVY – 20 TIMELESS EPISODES
MERRY SITCOM!
MY THREE SONS, S1
PETTICOAT JUNCTION S1-3
GIDGET
GOMER PYLE USMC S1
THE DONNA REED SHOW S2
Thanks, Father Knows Best is a little expensive and rarely discounted but I'm really happy to own it. That's a great list of comedy shows, four of my top five sixties sitcoms.
My top five would be:Cheers, Steve! I'm curious...what's the fifth of your favorite 60s sitcoms that isn't on my list? Hazel?
My top five would be:
My Three Sons
The Andy Griffith Show
The Beverly Hillbillies
Bewitched
The Lucy Show
I hear that, when I was building my collection I would think I was almost done then two or three more comedies from the sixties would emerge that I didn't have. Half of my enjoyment watching the Lucy Show is watching it with my wife who absolutely loves it so I make sure She's home when I play it.It's hard to go wrong with those 5, Steve. Personally I wouldn't include The Lucy Show simply because, to me, it feels pretty much like a retread of I Love Lucy with slightly different characters. That's in spite of watching it during those years - along with every other show she starred in. It was Lucy and even when it frequently felt like I'd already seen it it was funny and as good as anything else on at the time.
When it comes right down to it I'd have a tremendously difficult time selecting my top 5 comedies from the 60s because there was soooo much good product that decade.
That's a nice lineup of classic 50s/60s comedy there Jeff.
Here are a few more I recommend:
I Dream of Jeannie
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis
Get Smart
Car 54 Where Are You?
Hazel
Mister Ed
The Patty Duke Show
The Real McCoys
Gilligan's Island
The first season of any of those will give you a very good idea of how the rest goes. They were all fairly consistent.
Thanks for the recommendations, Howie! I'd love to pick up Mr. Ed, but most all of the sets are out-of-print and going for outrageous prices...all except Best of Mr. Ed, Volume 2, which is around $10-11. I'm getting that Jeannie complete series set ASAP. Dobie Gillis is a possible, too; remember liking that show when I caught it Saturday mornings in syndication. I like Walter Brennan and rural sitcoms in general, so I might give The Real McCoys a chance sometime. Ditto The Patty Duke Show and Car 54.
I know a LOT of people like Get Smart, but I've never been much of a fan. Gilligan's Island is one I thought was pretty stupid back when I was a dumb kid myself...not sure how that one has aged for me. Am curious about it, though...may give the B & W season 1 a try if I can find a cheap copy. Hazel is one I'm still cogitating upon. I watched a few scenes from the show on YouTube and while I thought Shirley Booth was fine, the little kid was pretty annoying. Whitney Blake's presence might eventually sway me at some point, though...we'll see.
I had *no* idea Mr. Ed had gone OOP! I really thought it'd be around a bit since Shout! did that "Complete series" release. That really stinks!Thanks for the recommendations, Howie! I'd love to pick up Mr. Ed, but most all of the sets are out-of-print and going for outrageous prices...all except Best of Mr. Ed, Volume 2, which is around $10-11. I'm getting that Jeannie complete series set ASAP. Dobie Gillis is a possible, too; remember liking that show when I caught it Saturday mornings in syndication. I like Walter Brennan and rural sitcoms in general, so I might give The Real McCoys a chance sometime. Ditto The Patty Duke Show and Car 54.
I know a LOT of people like Get Smart, but I've never been much of a fan. Gilligan's Island is one I thought was pretty stupid back when I was a dumb kid myself...not sure how that one has aged for me. Am curious about it, though...may give the B & W season 1 a try if I can find a cheap copy. Hazel is one I'm still cogitating upon. I watched a few scenes from the show on YouTube and while I thought Shirley Booth was fine, the little kid was pretty annoying. Whitney Blake's presence might eventually sway me at some point, though...we'll see.
You can get S1 of IDOJ in BW. Amazon has it listed under the color version of S1 (select the color one and look for the other release from that same year - it'll be the BW version). Of course you can always just get the color one and turn off the color - what I thought I'd do at first. I found the color on it (and Bewitched's first 2 seasons) distracting, not very well done, and turning off color to be somewhat a nuisance so I just purchased BW versions. Problem solved!I haven't watched the Mill Creek I Dream of Jeannie discs but if you're not a big fan of their video compression the 2013 Sony release of I Dream of Jeannie can still be found at good prices and it was a 20 disc set as opposed to Mill Creek's 12 discs. Season one of the Sony release is colorized though.
Thanks, I don't really mind the color versions for those shows but it would be nice to also own the BW version.You can get S1 of IDOJ in BW. Amazon has it listed under the color version of S1 (select the color one and look for the other release from that same year - it'll be the BW version). Of course you can always just get the color one and turn off the color - what I thought I'd do at first. I found the color on it (and Bewitched's first 2 seasons) distracting, not very well done, and turning off color to be somewhat a nuisance so I just purchased BW versions. Problem solved!
Yep. I've found the grandkids will ask for color sometimes and it's nice to have both versions on the shelf just in case. I realize the BW versions are supposedly those colorized ones desaturated and not the true, original, BW versions but they look good so I don't know that I really care.Thanks, I don't really mind the color versions for those shows but it would be nice to also own the BW version.
Yep. I've found the grandkids will ask for color sometimes and it's nice to have both versions on the shelf just in case. I realize the BW versions are supposedly those colorized ones desaturated and not the true, original, BW versions but they look good so I don't know that I really care.
Yep. I've found the grandkids will ask for color sometimes and it's nice to have both versions on the shelf just in case. I realize the BW versions are supposedly those colorized ones desaturated and not the true, original, BW versions but they look good so I don't know that I really care.
Actually, my old Sony contact told me that the rumor about the IDOJ and BW black & white seasons not being true b&w is false. In fact he laughed at it as being financially impossible, given how tight their budgets were even at the heyday of TV on dvd, which was the dept. he worked in back then. According to him, Sony made brand new black & white masters from the surviving black & white negatives in order to do the colorization process. Those same black & white masters were indeed used for the black & white dvds. It would have cost them too much money (and for no reason) to make an ADDITIONAL set of masters, i.e colorized masters with the color removed, for the black & white dvds. So of course they used the black & white masters they already had made in order to even make the colorized masters.
I can't personally verify what he said, but I have no reason to doubt him.
The Sony discs are not colorized versions with the color turned off. They are the restored masters that were then delivered to be colorized. It would make absolutely no sense for Sony to create a new set of B&W masters, then colorize them, and then make a third set of masters where the color was drained from the colorized versions. The title sequence is the same version recycled throughout all of the episodes, so that's not strictly accurate, but the black and white editions are not decolorized versions.
I've read articles and interviews with people who worked on the set firsthand who verified what I said above. If there's going to be a suggestion that the B&W discs aren't the B&W shows, I will need to see some evidence strong enough to overturn statements from the people who worked on the release.
That absolutely supports how I've always read colorized versions of BW programs/movies were done. A remastered BW copy is created which is used as the base for creating the colorized one. When done, both versions exist.JohnMor and Josh Steinberg have posts that contradict this:
There is an Japanese extra (an interview with the colorists) that unfortunately I haven't seen uploaded. It would shed some light on this.
It says that the BW versions had color applied on top and were then decolorized to make the BW versions. That means grey scale values could have changed due to the color applied on top. The only way for it to *not* change would be for the colorists to check the grey scale result of a color against the original to be sure those matched.The restored B/W masters were colorized in of themselves leaving no B/W masters resulting in the B/W versions having to be the colorized grey scaled versions.