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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361226248
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 100
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: D122624D
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: November 20, 2007
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 29, 1969
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Product Description:
Love American Style was an hour-long television anthology which originally aired between September 1969 and January 1974. For the 1971 and 1972 seasons it was a part of an ABC Friday prime-time lineup that also included Brady Bunch The Partridge Family Room 222 and The Odd Couple. Each week the show featured different stories of romance usually with a comedic spin. All episodes were unrelated featuring different characters stories and locations. The show often featured the same actors playing different characters in many episodes. In addition a large and ornate brass bed was a recurring prop in many episodes. Charles Fox's delicate yet hip music score featuring flutes harp and flugelhorn set to a contemporary pop beat provided the "love" ambiance which tied the stories together as a multifaceted romantic comedy each week.System Requirements:TRT: 619 Mins. Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 097361226248 Manufacturer No: 122624
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No "I Love the '70s" party will be complete without this blast from the groovy past, when women were "chicks," beaded door curtains were cool, and Carl Betz got top billing over Harrison Ford. Love American Style was an anthology series of comedic playlets about modern love, some sweet (two shy ventriloquists let their dummies do the talking in "Love and the Dummies"), some silly (a greeting-card writer's romance is threatened by his penchant for practical jokes in "Love and the Joker"), and some mildly risqué (In "Love and a Couple of Couples," a man regards his ex-wife's posterior as she asks of their former marital bed, "Is it still firm?"). A more apt title for this series could be, "Comedy, Neil Simon-style." One of the more interesting segments is "Love and the Good Deal," co-written by Garry Marshall, and which plays like a deleted act from Barefoot in the Park in which newlyweds Paul and Corie look for a new bed for their cramped apartment.
Love American Style debuted in 1969, a year in which the networks started to reach out to "modern people living in a modern world" with shows such as Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, The Mod Squad, and The Music Scene (which anticipated Saturday Night Live with its mix of satirical sketches and contemporary music). Love American Style was hip enough to feature a story called "Love and the Pill" and to refer to Philip Roth's novel Goodbye, Columbus. But traditional values invariably triumphed. In "Pill," a young man tells his girlfriend's overwrought parents that they have abstained from you-know. "That's the way we happen to feel about it," he reassures them. But what we truly love about American Style are the casts. You'd have to sail The Love Boat or visit Fantasy Island to find such a stellar gathering of Hollywood greats, comic legends, TV Land faves, future stars, and unsung character actors with the indelible and unforgettable faces. To name a few: Bill Bixby, Sid Caesar, Hans "Uncle Tonoose" Conreid, Broderick Crawford, Dwayne "Dobie Gillis" Hickman, David Ketchum (Agent 13 on Get Smart), Shari Lewis, Regis Philbin, Connie Stevens, Larry Storch, Paul "Tigger" Winchell, Joe Flynn and Carl Ballentine from McHale's Navy, and Mr. Ford, who shows up as Roger, the boyfriend, in "Love and the Former Marriage." Stuart Margolin (The Rockford Files) is the most recognizable face of the show's stock company who appear in Laugh-In-style blackouts that link the stories. These are hit and miss, but some are blink-twice bizarre, as the one in which a black man reassures his reluctant fiancée, "Okay, we'll raise the kids Jewish." So cue the Cowsills ("Love American Style/Truer than the red, white and blue….") and ignite the fireworks. It's dated, yes, but Love will never go out of style. --Donald Liebenson
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Our order was quick. No mistakes and in good shape. Love American Style brought a lot of memories. As a kid I'd creep down the hall and watch the show(I was supposed to be in bed). We will be ordering the next volume as soon as possible.
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Few shows have captured the best capabilities of television better than "Love American Style." It's great to start getting the seasons available on DVD.
While the series is over 30 years old, it's amazing how fresh it plays out today. Suffice it to say creators hit squarely on a theme (love and relationships) that's pretty much timeless. While we tend to believe we're more sophisticated nowadays in terms of relationships, communication and the like, viewing a few episodes of LAS quickly ... Read More
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Love American Style (1969-74) was a comedy featuring well-known guests stars of movies and television. Each one-hour color episode (later 30 minutes) contained 2 or 3 and sometimes 4 different stories of love and romance. In between the stories would be short, funny skits with a regular cast of Stuart Margolin, Barbara Minkus, Phyllis Davis, James Hampton, Tracy Reed, Lynne Marta and many others.
Everyone remembers the song "Love American Style". In the first season, it was sung by The Cowsills, ... Read More
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A great old series that I have not seen since I was a kid. Interesting seeing the actors who were in many other series in the same time period.
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The distracting thing about "Love American Style" is that it is so very much a product of the `Swinging Sixties', and might set off a veritable tsunami of riotously amused laughter from one's offspring at the costumes, the haircuts and the sets, to say nothing of a round of cringing at the open and unashamed display of what was once held to be hip, mod, and up to date. The series is a peep into a world that may only seem to us to have been the day before yesterday, but was indisputably almost four decades ... Read More
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