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As a long time fan of comedy in general, you have to put this one with the Three Stooges as a must have collection.
The quality and sound are excellent. It brings back my childhood days of which we must never forget ! Thanks !
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It's the same simplistic,silly stuff A&C have always done and have
always been loved for. It's truly golden TV. I wish Sid Fields had received more acknowledgement over the years as he was the most versitile and personally my favorite player in the cast.
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For all you fans of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello who were disappointed in the defective discs of their franchise movie collections made a few years back, here is the real answer to Abbott and Costello DVDs. The makers of these discs took their time and energy to make them with impeccable quality, great sound, amusing classic episodes, and Lou's two surviving children, Paddy and Chris, in extra footage pay sentimental tribute to their father and their "Uncle Bud." Their classic routines in the TV show are basically the same from the movies, where in one episode, for instance, has Lou calling a phone operator trying to collect a grand prize, and the operator scoffs at him, telling him "The line is busy." That routine can be found in the movie "Who Done It." And of course, there will never, ever an Abbott and Costello collection complete without the immortal "Who's on First?," their national anthem.
Hopefully in the future, the makers of this 100th Anniversary Collection Season will take time and energy to make their movies the same way so fans won't feel like their missing anything on the movies. It was such a shame that the makers of the Franchise Collection did a haphazard job with too many skips and glitches. Not here in this special anniverary, commemorating Lou's 100th birthday and making him Paterson, New Jersey's favorite son. Watch this collection as well as the second set, and you will never be disappointed. For relaxing times, when you can't find anything good on TV and you need a episode to wind down and laugh before bedtime, watch anything from both sets of this special DVD collection.
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All my Dad wanted for Christmas was a dvd with their "rent skit". This dvd has all the classics. He has watched it over and over.
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Over the years, we've seen these First Season shows mixed together with the lesser Second Season shows and it seemed that those tired, plot-driven episodes were not elevated by their predecessors but did serve the purpose of showing fans and historians what could be done when the stars have a say in the creative process. Those earlier, loose-jointed but free-wheeling and funny (oftentimes, hilarious) used updated vaudeville material and an excellent troupe of veterans. Everything fell into place. Most of the time, it made no sense. In one episode, Hillary Brooke is Lou'\s girlfriend. In another, she's Stinky's (Joe Besser's) Mother. Abnbott may have a mustache in one scene and not the next. The ad-libs were flying (and had 15 years of honing behind them).
Lou appears to have "bounced back" from a devastating personal loss and Bud was never better.
And that's what is here: that great first season, when acting, writing, directing, and editing worked together, and the Team led the charge.
A fascinating feature for the deep fan is an interview with Lou's daughters and home movies, most of which has Lou as Producer and Narrator. More often than not, he's actually out-of-character, and at one point he drops his voice when the subject of drunkenness comes up and it has relevance in his Professional life. Yes, it's been written that his partner had a problem, probably stemming from an Epileptic condition, which, in 1950, was said to be misunderstood, especially by those afflicted, who resorted to "self-medication". Anyway, his voice resonates with weary disappointment, almost total resignation.
The European Vacation narrative runs very long and is not a strong selling-point for the casual fan, in this Reviwer's opinion.
Might have been interesting to use less vacation clips and include some interviews/comments from the Abbott family.
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