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Wrapping candy, fake nose on fire, having a baby and more!
This second volume in the "Best of 'I Love Lucy'" collection begins with two of the show's classic comedy moments. "Job Switching" (Episode #36, September 15, 1952), is the classic episode of "I Love Lucy" that I always show to my television classes so they know what a classic sit com looks like. Ricky is tired of the way Lucy spends money without regard for where it comes from, so the boys and girls switch places: Lucy and Ethel will get jobs and Ricky and Fred will do the household chores. One of the greatest moments in television history comes when Lucy and Ethel have to work a conveyor belt in a candy factory. Elvia Allman is the supervisor ("Let 'er roll!") and Amanda Milligan, an actual candy dipper at the Farmer's Market in Hollywood is, uh, the candy dipper. Meanwhile, Ricky is ironing stockings and making rice while Fred bakes a cake. "L.A. at Last" (Episode #114, February 7, 1955) finds Lucy and the Mertzes heading for the famous Brown Derby restaurant while Ricky heads to the movie studio to begin working on "Don Juan." Here is where Lucy has her legendary encounter with William Holden in the booth behind her. Tired of being gawked at while trying to eat, Holden decides to stare at Lucy instead, making her so nervous she end up setting her false nose on fire. To set the record straight: Lucy getting her nose on fire WAS in the script, but her decision to dunk her nose into the coffee was an AD-LIB (she was supposed to take the nose off before dunking it).

But Lucy could make you cry as well as laugh. "Lucy is Enciente" (Episode #45, December 8, 1952) finds Lucy feeling run down and visiting the doctor, who tells her that she is going to have a baby. Having dreamed of this moment for over a decade of marriage, Lucy wants the moment to be absolutely perfect when she tells Ricky so Ricky is passed a note that there is a woman in the audience who wants to tell her husband that they are expecting and wants Ricky to sing "Rock A Bye Baby." Ironically, when Lucy and Desi were filming the climax, they got caught up in their own emotions when th and both started crying. The scene was considered ruined until it was screened and they discovered it was impossible not to cry watching the happy couple. This final scene is one of the most beautiful moments in television history. Just thinking about it gets you choked up.

"The Ballet" (Episode #19, February 18, 1952) is one of the better episodes where Lucy tries to get into show business. Ricky has an opening for a ballet singer and a burlesque comic in his show. So, of course, Lucy tries out for both parts. Finally, there is my favorite Ethel episode, "Ethel's Hometown" (Episode #112, January 31, 1955). On their way to Hollywood the Ricardos and Mertzes stop in Ethel's hometown of Albuquerque, where they discover that everyone things that the former Ethel Mae Potter is the big celebrity. As Ethel performs her famous number "Short'nin' Bread," the other three upstage her behind her back. For some reason, living outside Albuquerque when I first saw this one just added to the enjoyment. Go figure. Get both of the volumes in the "Best of 'I Love Lucy'" collection and you will have what most everybody agrees are the four funniest moments in Lucy history PLUS the biggest tear jerker!

All "I Love Lucy" episodes celebrate 50th Anniversary.
In this decade, every episode of "I Love Lucy" will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Every episode is still funny as funny as it was when they first aired. The shows are good. The shows are wholesome. They are healing and warm and will make you feel good. Buy them on VHS or DVD today.

Ethel May Potter- We Never Forgot 'Er!
This is a great video that showcases the genius of Lucille Ball in her first television series, "I Love Lucy (CBS, 1951-1957)!

The first episode "Job Switching" is a classic. The men and women change places, with Ricky & Fred being the homemakers, and Lucy & Ethel getting a job. This episode is famous for the scene in which Lucy stuffs her face with chocolates.

Another episode on this volume, "LA at Last" is also a classic. In this episode, Lucy meets William Holden at a famous restaurant in less-then-favorable conditions. Ricky later brings him home, and hilarity ensures. Lucy even sets her (plastic) nose on fire!

"The Ballet" and "Lucy is Enceintre" also two great episodes.

Last, but certainaly not least, is "Ethel's Hometown". The gang, on their way to LA, stops at Ethel's hometown (Also Vivivan Vances) of Alberque (I know I mispelled that :D). Her father and the town are in an uproar of happiness over seeing her, since they believe she is going to be in a movie, when in reality it's Ricky. The gang takes great measures to humiliate Ethel, and hilarity ensues! So remember, "Ethel May Potter-We Never Forgot 'Er!") ... Read more

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Vitameatavegamin, Grape Stomping, Harpo Marx and more!
Volume 1 of the "Best of 'I Love Lucy'" starts off with the classic "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" (Episode #30, May 5, 1952), Ricky is set to host a TV variety show and Lucy wants to do a live commercial for (all together now) Vitameatavegamin. Although she fails to win Ricky's support after staging a mock show inside their television set, Lucy arranges to get the gig anyhow. She starts off great, but the problem is that Vitameatavegamin contains 23% alcohol and with each rehearsal Lucy gets progressively drunker and funnier. Lucille Ball considered this the best bit, and one of the hardest, she ever did. Next we have the wonderful grape vat scene from "Lucy's Italian Movie" (Episode #150, April 16, 1956). The Ricardos are in Europe when an Italian movie producer tells Lucy that he wants her in his new film, "Grapola Pungente." Finding out the title translates as "bitter grapes," Lucy takes this literally and heads for the nearest vineyard where she has a memorable encounter with Teresa Tirelli stomping grapes in a vat. So right off the start, you have TWO of the THREE funniest Lucy routines (and the Candy Factory sketch is on Volume 2)!

The other three episodes might not all be classics, but they are still very, very funny. "Lucy Does the Tango" (Episode #173, March 11, 1957), finds the Ricardos and Mertzes investing in 200 laying hens. All you need to do is hear the situation and you know that Lucy is going to end up with end up with egg on her face. Okay, egg on everything. In "The Freezer" (Episode #29, April 28, 1952), Lucy and Ethel buy a new walk-in freezer. But when they grossly overestimate its capacity, they are suddenly in the meat business. Of course, as soon as you see that walk-in freezer you know Lucy is going to get locked in it. Finally, we have Lucy's legendary encounter with "Harpo Marx" (Episode #125, May 9, 1955), which showcases Lucille Ball's physical comedy in a great scene with the beloved silent Marx Brother. The mirror sequence between the two was apparently a pain to shoot (and reshoot), but worth the effort just to see the two famous "redheads" go at it.

All "I Love Lucy" episodes celebrate 50th Anniversary.
In this decade, every episode of "I Love Lucy" will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Every episode is still funny as funny as it was when they first aired. The shows are good. The shows are wholesome. They are healing and warm and will make you feel good. Buy them on VHS and DVD today.

Best of Lucy Volume 1
This tape is a great with 5 of the top 10 episodes.

In Lucy Does a Commercial, laugh your self silly as Lucy asks if you "pop out at parties" and "are unpoopular".

In Lucy's Italian Movie, see Lucy soak up the local "blue" color.

In Lucy Does the Tango, The chicken business gets the best of the fantastic foursome. Wait until the finih of the dance.

In The Freezer, learn how big 2 sides of beef really is and see Lucy the Ice Queen.

In Harpo Marx see the talents of lots of stars drop by to visit Lucy and Ethal's friend Caroline while Lucy does "other things".Then see the real Harpo Marx and "Lucy Marx" mirror each other.

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i personally have not seen the video yet. with the 50th anniversary of the show and all and because lucille ball was a wounderfull actress and she did it so beautifley. so if this is dedicated to the women of comedy. it will be the best video yet. Lucy would have enjoyed it so why dont you? ... Read more

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The Best!
The best of the series,without a doubt.Filmed on location in Georgia,this episode has a different feel than the rest of the series.A free spirit,fun loving episode,yet still with Jesse Duke's inbred decency and character upon Bo and Luke.Future episodes clashed with this debut's statement that Luke owned a car that he loaned to Cooter,and the lack of mentioning that Cooter owned a garage (Cooter was far more wild in this episode than he would be later).To think if the series would be different if it had stayed in the Covington area and not Hollywood boggles the mind....imagine a "country" show filmed in the country...that would be unimaginable!!!
If you have never seen this episode.....you need to....the action and characters "actions" will surprise you!! But thats a good thing!

The greatest Dukes of Hazzard episode of them all!
Not only the greatest Dukes ep ever, but perhaps the best episode of TV ever. This is the Dukes with a realistic flavor. Those aren't TV sets, they are real buildings that still exist in Covington and Conyers, GA, today!

If you are a Dukes fan, YOU MUST buy this episode. If not only to see how it all begins, if not only to see this classic American tale, but because TNN does such a hatchet job in cutting this one up in re-runs, you can't follow the plot and many of the episodes', and series', great scenes! But you can here, and you learn of the story between Bo and Jill Rae Dotson (Tisch Raye) that TNN doesn't show and are essential to the plot, which is based on a real life tale of a slot machine racket writer Gy Waldron discovered doing research creating Dukes. Raye, who would later marry in to French royalty and retire from acting, two years later landed a guest spot on Charlie's Angels in an episode entitled, "Moonshinin' Angels". This role unquestionably helped her land that one.

From the opening scene, where a Hazzard Co. Patrol Car and the General Lee jump over a hill on Covington, Georgia's Elm Street, to the final joke of Rudy (played by Jason Lively, the son of Ernie Davis Lively, who played Dobro in this ep and appeared in three other Dukes eps as two other characters. Jason himself would be the focal point of the sixth season episode, "The Boar's Nest Bears") squirting flies on the General's rear windshield, this show is captivating. There is action, four, count 'em, FOUR car chases! But there is also drama, mischief, and a tale that really leaves no gaps. So many people think of The Dukes of Hazzard as a slapstick show, but that dumbed down feel of the show is absent here. Watching this makes you wonder how good Dukes would have been if they had continued to shoot in Georgia and followed Waldron's vision, rather than move the show to California and adopt hack writers from Gilligans Island and McHales Navy to "Hollywoodize" it.

If you love the Dukes of Hazzard, this is a must for your library. You cannot enjoy the show in its proper context without seeing the above missing scenes! And if you're a southerner looking for a feel of rural southern life in the 1970's, look no further. This is it.

"One Armed Bandits" is such a quality piece of television die-hard Dukes fans have been known to memorize every line of dialoge to it and travel to Covington and Conyers to check out shooting locations! Let's just say I still remember vividly watching this episode for the first time on its very first airing on Jan. 26, 1979, and I was seven at the time. For a memory like that to be imprinted on such a young mind, this episode must really be something special. You will agree after viewing it. Five stars do not do it justice. It should receive an infinite amount of stars.

It is the best Dukes of Hazzard of them all.
Because it was also in Georgia, and they were having fun instead of being bored when they went to Burbank, California.

Awesome
This is the Dukes Of all Dukes and the first Dukes. The boys steal some slot machines to help out the county orphanage and help Rosco win the county sheriff's election as well.The dukes raise the money and give it to the orphanage saying Rosco raised the money to help the orphanage. This helps Rosco as well, and he wins the election for sheriff. Not a bad job by the dukes to help out the needy. Good high speed chases and a HOT Daisy Duke in a bikini!!!! ... Read more

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The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street 2 KA
Rod Serling was a very odd person. He went to school to become a P.E. Teacher and ended up wrighting over one hundred stories for T.V. One of these stories is Monsters Are Due on Maple Street. This story, as you've probably guessed, takes place on Maple Street. The characters Charlie, the annoying, smart-mouthed neighbor, and Steve, the actually intelligent neighbor, are two of the lead characters in the story. I think that if Charlie had only listened to Steve a lot of bad things wouldn't have happened.
I don't think this story was very realistic. In a real neighborhood people would go crazy just because the power went out and they certainly wouldn't think it was aliens that did it. People would say, "Oh, there goes the power again." Not "The electricity's off!!"(669). Oh no! The powers out! What are we going to do? (sarcastically) The electricity goes out in our neighborhood at least once every other month. Most people would be in side all day so only about three people would have seen the U.F.O. and they would have been kids. Who would believe them? I think the people in the story really over reacted.
There were a few parts of the story that were unbelievable, like when Mr. Goodman's car started. That was really weird. I really didn't see that coming. There was also when Pete Van Horn got shot. I didn't think anything like that would happen. I knew the ending couldn't be happy. The Twilight Zone never is. The stories always seem to be so tragic. What was Rod Serling thinking? He must have been a troubled child. Any way; I can't believe that Charlie actually thought that Pete Van Horn was a monster. "You killed him Charlie. You shot him dead!"(679) How dumb could he be?
I didn't really pick this story. Ms. Chabot told us to read it. I liked it though. I think it's funny to watch old science fiction shows. I laugh at the cheesy acting and the corny special effects. You can see the strings holding them in the air. I thought it was funny how one little boy made all the neighbors think that aliens were attacking their neighborhood. Nobody would believe that now-days. Maybe people were more easily convinced of those things fifty years ago.
I think the video Monsters Are Due on Maple Street and the teleplay Monsters Are Due on Maple Street are a lot the same. They used most of the same lines and used the same camera angles. Just like this line, "What was that? A meteor?" The story took a lot longer to read though. The video was only a few minutes. The book took days. It had more detail than the video did. Just like when they showed the space ship. You could see at least five strings coming off of it. Every body in the class laughed. It was really funny.

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Rod Serling was a former boxer and a future PE teacher. He takes a path uncommon to jocks and science fiction. He wrote a movie called "The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street." The characters in this movie are: Charlie the wise-cracker know it all, Steve the wise one, Don the laid back one, Tommy the kid who knows what's gonna happen, Sally his mother, and Pete Van Horn a scientist. You don't here a lot about Pete Van Horn because he leaves Maple Street at the beginning of the movie because he goes to another neighborhood to see if the power is on there. It all happens on Maple Street, USA.

My feelings as I read this book were that I couldn't understand why everybody was fighting and blaming each other. It's like you wanna yell " Jiminy Christmas." It's like what Rod serling said, "The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, and prejudice to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudice can kill and suspicion can destroy and a thoughtless frightened search for scapegoat has a fallout all its own for the children... and the children yet unborn.
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I wonder why the town is so peaceful, now and days you see kids about 13-16 on the street smoking, drinking and doing drugs. You might see parents telling there kids there grounded and then later you see the kids sneaking out the window. I mean come on who in the right mind would believe that? "Maple Street, U.S.A., late summer. A tree-lined little world of front porch gliders, hopscotch, the laughter of children, and the bell of an ice cream vendor." Pg [668.]

My favorite part of The Monsters are Due on Maple Street, is when everybody was accusing each other of who where the aliens. Everybody was bickering and fussing about this and that and everything that was going on. Tommy came running up the street yelling an alien is coming, so Charlie took his shotgun and shot what was coming up the street. It was Pete Van Horn, Charlie shot Pete Van Horn. [He swings the gun around to point it toward the sidewalk. The dark figure continues to walk towards them. The group stands there, fearful, apprehensive, mothers clutching children, men standing in front of wives. Charlie slowly raises the gun. As the figure gets closer and closer he suddenly pulls the trigger. The sound of it explodes in the stillness. There is a long angle shot looking down at the figure, who suddenly lets out a small cry, stumbles forward onto his knees and then falls forward on his face. Don, Charlie and Steve race forward over to him. Steve is there first and turns the man over. Now the crowd gathers around them.] Pg 679.

I felt that the book was good. It was very weird I wonder what's going to happen to all of the other people in the book. I wonder if the aliens are going to take over the whole world. Like hypnotizing all of the animals in the whole world to attack and kill all the people in the world except for one person to tell them how all humans lived and the aliens will all move down to earth and start living like humans. Then the whole world will never be the same again. Are you wondering what happened to that one guy? Well they kept him alive, and hypnotize him to think that the aliens are really humans and he married an alien, which he thought was a human. Are you wondering what happened to the animals? Well there alive to but the aliens experimented on them and mixed all of them up. It is freaky dude. I just hope that one of you aren't the one left not killed, because if I were I would just not feel right but I couldn't feel right because I would be hypnotized. Well I change my mind I would want to be the one left behind because I would act like I was hypnotized then I would get some weapons and kill all the aliens in the world. Then I would search all over the world and try to find pieces of the people that were killed then I would go to a lab and clone everybody so that all the people in the world would be back to life but they would be clones but I still would be happy because all of my friends, teachers, family members and other people in the world would be alive. But before I could clone people I would have to read the manual on how to work the cloning machine, then after I read that I would have to read the manual on how to clone people. Then I would fix all the animals back together. Wow! Sorry got off the subject there. Well the book was good I like it a lot I hope you like it to. So you have to read "Monsters are Due on Maple Street"

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"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street," is a classical episode of the Twilight Zone. I like how it showed that we can be prejudice and suspicious. It's also interesting how all the "monsters", or aliens, had to do was flick on and off a few lights to scare the people. Then the rest was the peoples own doing. The movie is very dramatic, and is almost exactly the same as the teleplay. The fact that it is in black and white makes it even more intense, in my opinion. The video and the teleplay both had the same scene of fright where the lights go out and nothing works. This then goes on to mass confusion, foreshadows the coming of aliens, and shows the weak points of the human race.
The plot advances with chaos. The people get scared and confused. They blame each other for having something they don't. This causes mass confusion and general panic. Things only get worse after that. One thing happens after another. The suspicious grows and the people get paranoid, until someone is killed. This person was Pete Van Horn. "You killed him, Charlie. You shot him dead!" (679)
As the plot advances they also foreshow what will come. The aliens are the ones who cause all the lights to fail, but the humans are the ones who became suspicious. This foreshadows the doom of the humans. The aliens plan to go from Maple Street to Maple Street and do the same to cause the fall of humans. "Then I take this place... this Maple Street...is not unique."
Rod Sterling's theme for "Monsters are due on Maple Street" is you shouldn't be too quick to judge people. Or be suspicious of people who have things you don't. Chaos supports this theme in showing how easily we can become suspicious of others. Then from there chaos and mayhem come. The theme could also be a kind of moral. "They pick the most dangerous enemy they can find... and it is them selves" (682) I think this quote is a good quote to describe the theme.
I think "Monsters are due on Maple Street" is really great. It has a wonderful plot. When I read the teleplay, I thought it was just like the other Twilight Zones. (I have seen a few others. One was about a man being in isolation.) I really enjoyed the Monsters are due on Maple Street. The teleplay was almost exactly like the movie or visa versa. My favorite part in this one was at the end where the sudden quietness is shocking. Then the aliens come and start talking, and it fades out to Sterling's face and he said his "And this is the Twilight Zone." I also like the beginning/ending songs. In conclusion I think the teleplay and the movie were both equally interesting.

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" The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"

Rod Serling, a screenplay writer for MGM in the 1950's wrote many famous science fiction teleplays, movies, Broadway shows, and television entertainment shows. Serling has won multiple Emmy awards for his work. He wrote 92 twilight zone episodes that were aired on CBS. They became one of America's most recognized, and most popular television series.
Some of Serling's most famous writings include: "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" and "Time Enough at Last". "Time Enough at Last" was written in 1959. I do not know when "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street" was written but I assume it was around 1959.
Rod Serling died on June 28th, 1975. He died during a coronary bypass operation in Rochester, New York. Rod Serling's stories of aliens and super natural happenings are entertaining for all to this day. His name will live on in science fiction history forever.
"The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", a teleplay and television entertainment show, was written by Serling in the nineteen fifties'. I love how Serling describes les Goodman's car starting up with no one in it (673). This event brings chaos and unproven assumptions. Other things, such as flickering lights, happen all down Maple Street. They are mostly all blamed on Les Goodman because of his insomnia. These things bring complete and utter chaos.
Confusion breaks free when all of the lights and appliances down Maple Street turn off and stop working (668-669). This advances the plot to confusion. Chaos doesn't come until Les Goodmans' car starts up with no one inside. People turn wild as new and crazy things happen down Maple Street. Sound effects in this section of the teleplay are screams, crying, and gunfires.
Other crazy things happen down Maple Street. Lights flicker, appliances turn on and off, and again chaos starts up (683). Mostly these things are blamed on Les Goodman. They think he is an alien because his insomnia sometimes wakes him up. So to occupy himself he takes walks at night and claims to be looking at stars. But the families all down Maple Street think he is looking for his alien friends. This foreshadows who is behind all of the chaos and confusion.
I thought Rod Serling's teleplay, "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street", was very realistic when referring to human nature. Even though it is believed that alien or outer space life forms are not real. The car starting then produces this assumption.
I thought it was interesting how Serling never gave a definite ending to "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". He never gives a definite ending to the teleplay. I just assumed the chaos went on until every human life on Maple Street was dead or confused for their lifetime. Even though I am not into science fiction writings, I really enjoyed "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street". I would call this science fiction movie and teleplay one of the best from the 1950's.

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"The Monsters Due On Maple Street" was probably the only kind of movie that was supposed to be scary back then. Since I'm in the year 2003 that movie was pretty dumb, but back in that time it must have been awesome. The aliens looked really dumb with those two antennas. I liked seeing all the fake shooting and killing. I can now see how far we have come with movies since then. The movie was confusing until the alien started to talk. They told their plan of taking over the Earth by flickering some lights and making some stuff mess up. When they said that, it put all the pieces of the movie together, and foreshadowed that the human race would end because of prejudice.
I think the way he ended the movie was great. He told about the plan and makes you think, could that happen to us? That is how he advanced the plot, he told the story about the alien's plan and then had them talk and tell how everybody is the same. He had the aliens take off saying they were going to take over the world just by sitting down. Then left for another place to terrorize.
When the aliens talk it foreshadows the Earth in complete destruction. Dying because of them assuming that their friends are the enemy, when really they are the most dangerous because they terrorize people as innocent as them. When the aliens talk they say the theme of how people can be so prejudice. "They find the most dangerous enemy they can find............and it's themselves" (682). It is the probably the best and easiest plan the aliens have ever come up with.
The theme in this story is not to be prejudice. My part advanced the theme by talking. The aliens tell their plan about using prejudice to destroy the humans. As much as that sounded stupid, it was smart. The aliens could actually make their plan work, and that is what The Monsters Due Maple Street shows. About everyone has a little bit of prejudice inside him. After reading the story, realizing the theme, and thinking about it, you will think could that happen to me?
The book and movie are so close to each other. You can read from the book and they will say almost all of the same lines in the movie. That is what helps me relate to the movie. I can just see if the picture was same in the movie as in my mind. In other movies they are far off from the book, so it changes the whole view of the story. The author picked a great way to show how everyone can be so prejudice. When I read the story I also was prejudice. I thought Charlie was the alien, but as I found out nobody was. That surprised me a lot. This was the first book that showed that nobody was the bad guy, and that made the story's end great. ... Read more

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A Great show with a limited run
GIDGET is one of my all-time favorite shows, even though it only ran for 1 season. What a shame. The show combined humor with drama and discovered the talent today known as Sally Field. Never has a sitcom been able to make me laugh and cry so hard.

There are 3 episodes on this video. The first episode is the pilot where Gidget's sister Anne reads her diary to discover that her little sister may not be so innocnet after all. Tear-jerking ending.

In the second episode, Gidget is reluctantly being sent to Paris for school because her sister and broher-in-law think that her dad is too dependent on her. Hilarious episode. Another tear-jerker.

In the third episode on this video, GIdget falls in love with a surfer...again.

I love Gidget and you will too!

A Great Retro Comedy
Sally Field plays Gidget in one of two sitcoms based around Fred Kohner's real life daughter and her adventures.

Here's something you probably don't know-When Sally Field was doing her sitcom,'The Flying Nun',they occasionally used footage from her 'Gidget' days when exploring the background of her character on several episodes.

Anyways,Sally is adorable,and fans of both the 'Gidget' movies and the 'Flying Nun' TV Show should all buy the two videos in this set.

I only got this video for Pete Duel's appearence
But he's not in it enough. Over all this isn't bad for a Gidget show, and the little Pete's in it he's wonderful. ... Read more

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What fun! Surf's up...
The first "Gidget" movie is alot of fun to watch: not only is there surfing (okay,alot of it is fake) but the fact that there's a girl in it, "a girl, a midget, a Gidget", is fantastic...

Surfing is still a very male dominate sport and it shouldn't be.

The first "Gidget" movie is, in my opinion, a classic!

Hilarious misunderstandings on these Gidget episodes
3 episodes of Sally Field's short-lived but critically-acclaimed sitcom.

In the first episode, Gidget gives Larue a makeover but Gidget's dad is the one who's attracted, or so eveyone thinks. Hilarious farce comedy!

In the second episode, Richard Dreyfuss makes an appearance as a high school nerd who's confidence is boosted by Gidget only to have him dump her before she can sympathetically dump him.

In the third (and the best of the 3) episode, Gidget meets with Jeff's parents but misunderstandings occur. I won't tell you anymore. You'll have to watch it and laugh your head off for yourself.

Great episodes. Great acting. Great show. Great purchase...if you buy it.

Brings back old memories with a smile
These were cute TV shows. I enjoy Sally Field as Gidget. This is a good video to watch when there's nothing else to do, and you don't want to be bogged down with a full-length movie.

Older movies best to watch.
The three Gidget videos are the favorites in our house. Great cast, Sally Field, Don Porter and even has Peter Duel in some of the shows. I sincerely hope the trend goes back to the older sitcoms when comedy was funny and original. We hope Columbia Tristar brings out the rest of the series on video. It is great viewing for the whole family.

A great set!
I loved this show as a teenager, and this set of videos was so much fun to watch! I just hope they put the rest of the episodes on video, since no cable channels have picked it up. ... Read more

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Vitameatavegamin, Grape Stomping, Harpo Marx and more!,
Volume 1 of the "Best of 'I Love Lucy'" starts off with the classic "Lucy Does a TV Commercial" (Episode #30, May 5, 1952), Ricky is set to host a TV variety show and Lucy wants to do a live commercial for (all together now) Vitameatavegamin. Although she fails to win Ricky's support after staging a mock show inside their television set, Lucy arranges to get the gig anyhow. She starts off great, but the problem is that Vitameatavegamin contains 23% alcohol and with each rehearsal Lucy gets progressively drunker and funnier. Lucille Ball considered this the best bit, and one of the hardest, she ever did. Next we have the wonderful grape vat scene from "Lucy's Italian Movie" (Episode #150, April 16, 1956). The Ricardos are in Europe when an Italian movie producer tells Lucy that he wants her in his new film, "Grapola Pungente." Finding out the title translates as "bitter grapes," Lucy takes this literally and heads for the nearest vineyard where she has a memorable encounter with Teresa Tirelli stomping grapes in a vat. So right off the start, you have TWO of the THREE funniest Lucy routines (and the Candy Factory sketch from "Job Switching" is on Volume 2).

The other three episodes might not all be classics, but they are still very, very funny. "Lucy Does the Tango" (Episode #173, March 11, 1957), finds the Ricardos and Mertzes investing in 200 laying hens. All you need to do is hear the situation and you know that Lucy is going to end up with end up with egg on her face. Okay, egg on everything. In "The Freezer" (Episode #29, April 28, 1952), Lucy and Ethel buy a new walk-in freezer. But when they grossly overestimate its capacity, they are suddenly in the meat business. Of course, as soon as you see that walk-in freezer you know Lucy is going to get locked in it. Finally, we have Lucy's legendary encounter with "Harpo Marx" (Episode #125, May 9, 1955), which showcases Lucille Ball's physical comedy in a great scene with the beloved silent Marx Brother. The mirror sequence between the two was apparently a pain to shoot (and reshoot), but worth the effort just to see the two famous "redheads" go at it. ... Read more

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The Best Of The Beach
Beach Blanket Bingo is the best of AIP's Beach Party films. Unlike the other films in the series, there are actual attempts at some clever tongue and cheek writing here, Annette finally displays some of here phenomenal body, Frankie actually has a tan, and the supporting cast is much better this time around. Here we have Harvey Lembeck as Erick Von Zipper (what a great character!), Linda Evans, Marta Kristen, John Ashley, Buster Keaton, Don Rickles and the great, demented, Timothy Carey.

Director William Asher had Roger Corman's Poe movie cinematographer Floyd Crosby on this film, making it the best looking of the series. The color is rich, the compositions dynamic and the camera more mobile than usual, giving the film a greater sense of excitement.

Finally, series composer Les Baxter also had a bigger hand in writing and arranging the songs this time around, and they are much better than usual for this series -- the title tune is a standout.

If you have a taste for American-International's Beach Party pictures, this is the best, and if you've never seen one before, this is the one to start with... Loads of fun!

actually more enjoyable than the ORIGINAL "Beach Party"!
BEACH BLANKET BINGO is considered by many as their favorite "Beach Party" movie. In order, my three favorites are BEACH BLANKET BINGO, PAJAMA PARTY and BEACH PARTY.

In this sequel, Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) and Frankie (Frankie Avalon) decide to take skydiving lessons from the hard-nosed pilot John Ashley and the late Deborah Walley.

Things get complicated when up-and-coming pop singer Sugar Kane (Linda Evans) ends up in Frankie's arms - literally - and the ... Deborah decides to make Frankie an afterschool sweetheart!

Dumb-as-stumps Deadhead (Jody McCrea) falls in love with an elusive mermaid (Marta Kristen) and the always-annoying Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) and his "Rats" show up to kidnap the lovely Sugar Kane...

Featuring a memorable title song as well as great musical turns by Frankie Avalon, Annette Funicello and Donna Loren.

There are also great cameo roles from Earl Wilson, Don Rickles, Paul Lynde, Buster Keaton and Bobbi Shaw (reprising her role as Keaton's dizzy sidekick).

The DVD includes the trailer. (Single-sided, single-layer disc).

a fun movie even for beach party movie haters
most beach party movies are pretty bad, mainly because frankie and annette are pretty insufferable. but this movie is sharp and funny. there's a comedy killer trio with harvey lembeck, don rickles and my alltime favorite, timothy carey as south dakota slim, an evil man with a heart of gold. linda evans looks incredibly young and beautiful, while donna loren is beautiful and terrific in her number. as much as pure junk can be a good movie, this is it. besides this one, any beach party movie with dick dale in it is good. the guy just rocks, rocks, rocks.

Frankie Avalon's Best Movie
A Good movie and the Best scenes are Frankie Avalon singing the theme song and the romantic song "These Are The Good Times" in the movie a song he later sang in a episode of "The Patty Duke Show".

a masterpiece of silly fun
I want to slap Frankie Avalon silly and Annette seems like a very attractive stuffed chair. But I really, really like this move. Young Linda Evans is a slice of female heaven, Harvey Lembeck is always good no matter how lousy the Beach Party movies are, but the crowning glory is Timothy Carey as the zonked out ultra hipster South Dakota Slim, a pool playing biker sadist kidnapper tapdancer who is basically a nice guy. He has been my hero ever since I saw this movie. Lots of good dancing and music, too. I must also praise Jody McCrea as Deadhead and his lovely mermaid girlfriend. Highly recommended from a guy who really knows movies. ... Read more

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Classic Lucy and Christmas warmth : a perfect combination
"I Love Lucy" was such a wonderful series and a landmark in television history which has been in a constant state of rerun since it first premiered in the early 1950's. It was such a success because of the superb talents of the four main leads, brilliant writing, and a great care shown for how the stories of the trials and tribulations of the Ricardo's and the Mertz's were presented.

In this video we have a unique installment from the classic series in the one and only Christmas special produced during the shows run and it has been rarely seen since its first and only screening in the 1950's as it wasn't included in the original rerun deal because of its specific Christmas theme. The episode is a warm and funny one with the cast of Lucille Ball, Desi Arnaz, William Frawley and Vivian Vance working wonderfully together in a story where Fred buys little Ricky a Christmas tree and while decorating it the cast look back at the events leading up to Little Ricky's birth. These flashbacks include some of the most memorable work done by the cast including the hilarious preparations by the gang to get Lucy's trip to the hospital just right and Ricky arriving at the hospital in full voodoo makeup. These wonderful scenes include some of the classic moments of television history and have gone down in Television folklore.

In between these flashbacks we are treated to some wonderfully typical Lucy humour when Lucy decides to "improve" the shape of the Christmas Tree and orders Fred to "just take a little bit of that branch on the left and that other one on the right" until there is nothing of the original tree left! Hilarious stuff and this episode is so special as it then takes on a nice sentimental tone when Christmas day arrives and Little Ricky ends up being visited by five santas with one looking suspiciously like the real thing! The scene ends with an unusual fantasy twist when the "real" Santa just vanishes in front of Lucy ,Ricky, Fred and Ethel in their Santa costumes.

The "I Love Lucy Christmas Special" might not be the best individual episode of the series but it is a funny and heartwarming viewing experience that is essential for every Lucy collection. The cast was a one of a kind and while Lucille Ball is less zany in this installment of the classic series it still is great viewing for the festive season. Join Lucy and the gang to celebrate Christmas the Ricardo way.

All "I Love Lucy" episodes celebrate 50th Anniversary.
In this decade, every episode of "I Love Lucy" will be celebrating its 50th Anniversary. Every episode is still funny as funny as when they first aired. This episode is very special because it has only been shown on the CBS Network twice and is not a part of the syndicated package. The shows are good. The shows are wholesome. They are healing and warm and will make you feel good. Buy them on VHS or DVD today.

Love it, Love it, Love it!!!
Lucille Ball and the cast of "I Love Lucy" are all in this Christmas special. Little Ricky wants Santa to come!! How cute! And it's funny watching all the Santa's show up in the Lucy apartment. A traditonal Lucy Christmas, I bet!

The Ricardos and Mertzes recall the birth of Little Ricky
"The I Love Lucy Christmas Show" (Episode #164 December 24, 1956) aired on Christmas Eve and has the distinction of being the first retrospective episode for a television situation comedy. While trimming the tree the Ricardos and Mertzes think back on the wonderful and wacky events leading up to the birth of Little Ricky. Included are the memorable moments from when Lucy tells Ricky she is pregnant to when she is taken to the hospital. The episode ends on Christmas morning with Little Ricky opening up all his presents and getting a visit from FIVE Santa Clauses (think about it). This episode achieved special status because it was not part of the package when "I Love Lucy" went into syndication because CBS did not think anyone would want to see a Christmas show when it was not Christmas time. After Lucille Ball's death the network finally aired the show twice, the second time in a colorized version.

such a mix of all the classic baby moments
It was so funny. It included the clips that are some of the most classic of all time. ... Read more

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Fill Er' Up...Duke's Style!
Tastes like Whiskey, kicks like a mule-- must be moonshine! In this classic Dukes of Hazzard, Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) has gone against his word and fired up a new a new batch of sipping whiskey. But looks can be downright decieving. What Jesse, Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) are cooking up is a substitue for fossil fuels.

The Dukes are applying the secret family recipe and distilling a kick-tail "gasoline" in order to solve the nation's energy crisis. Of course, that only brings trouble for the Dukes. A federal revenue agent (Carlene Watkins) is doing her best to catch the Duke boys breaking their word and making moonshine. And Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) figures he can collect royalties on the fuel if the Dukes are given a government-funded stay in an iron-bar hotel. With all the heat on can Jesse and the boys make it in time to win the $20000 prize money? Find out and buy this hilarious GAS of an episode!

Fill 'Er Up......Dukes Syle!
Tastes like Whiskey, kicks like a mule-- must be moonshine! In this classic Dukes of Hazzard, Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle) has gone against his word and fired up a new a new batch of sipping whiskey. But looks can be downright decieving. What Jesse, Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) are cooking up is a substitue for fossil fuels.

The Dukes are applying the secret family recipe and distilling a kick-tail "gasoline" in order to solve the nation's energy crisis. Of course, that only brings trouble for the Dukes. A federal revenue agent (Carlene Watkins) is doing her best to catch the Duke boys breaking their word and making moonshine. And Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke) figures he can collect royalties on the fuel if the Dukes are given a government-funded stay in an iron-bar hotel. With all the heat on can Jesse and the boys make it in time to win the $20000 prize money? Find out and buy this hilarious GAS of an episode!

High Octane
all dukes episodes are great along with high octane it will keep you on the edge of your chair

ONE OF THE FIVE GREATEST SHOWS OF TELEVISION HISTORY!
The first five episodes of The Dukes of Hazzard are about as good of television as you can get. They filmed not on a set in California but on location in Covington, GA. The plots are- dare we say it- REALISTIC AND WELL WRITTEN! The comedy is great, Rosco and Boss are actually not dumbed down to the point of absurdity, and, well, THEY ARE JUST OUTSTANDING EPISODES OF TELEVISION THAT RANK WITH ANYTHING YOU CAN NAME! Especially if you're like me and dispise "social commentary" in your television shows.

This episode is famous for several reasons. First, it is the first time that Luke ever drives the General Lee. His jump over a semi to begin the show, as well as give the General Lee its first great shot of its famous CNH-320 license plates, not only begins the episode with a bang, but is the shot used on the General Lee model kits sold in toy stores in the 1980s. This is also the first episode directed by Don McDougal, the greatest Dukes director of them all, who directed Dukes episodes throughout the show's seven year run. And, of course, this is the last episode filmed in Georgia.

This episode also features sexy character actress Carlene Watkins. Remember the blonde Alex Riger fell in love with when Latka and Simka set everyone up in "The Schlogel Episode" of Taxi? Remember the blonde after Fraiser Crane with a boyfriend in prison and a taste for intimacy in dangerous situtations in Frasier? This is her, young, BRUNETTE, and playing a REVENUER! As Cooter says- "She's a whole lot better looking than ol' Agent Roach"- so much so she even gets Enos' eyes to stray from Daisy and call JD Hogg "Boss" for the only time in the 145 episode run of the series (well- he looked at Vera too when he guest starred on that crossover episode of Alice)!

The plot is great fun- a real cat and mouse game on the moonshine theme the series was based on but later shyed away from- and for the first time it reveals the fact Boss and Uncle Jesse ran shine back in the old days. Bit parts from two actors who appeared in the historic pilot "One Armed Bandits" are included- Champ Laidler as "Old Brodie" and Ralph Pace with such a new look to him in his new character you'd never recognize him from the first episode. It's the only episode Jesse ever breaks his word in as he makes some moonshine "for his country to help solve the energy crisis"- a 1979 history lesson from pop culture if there ever was one! And the General, for one brief shot, has its original checkered-Confederate flag pattern between its rear window and trunk lid!

Remember Gasahol! Learn how we will have fuel for combustion engines even if someday we run out of oil! And buy this great episode! NOW! PULL OUT THE CREDIT CARD! LET THE KIDS GO ANOTHER WEEK WITHOUT NEW SHOES! PUT OFF THE NEW CAR AND DESTROY YOUR CREDIT RATING IF YOU MUST! IT'S THAT GOOD!

If nothing else, you'll finally "get it" after the hatchet job of cutting scenes TNN does to it!

It was a good show for Moonshine Car for motors
It showed that Moonshine really makes car motors run. ... Read more

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Samantha and her fellow witches are bedeviled by Halloween in thesetwo black-and-white 25-minute episodes specially packaged for the occasion. In "The Witches Are Out," Darrin (Dick York in both episodes) is fired afterrefusing to use a stereotyped old crone witch in an ad. So Samantha andfriends spook the client with protest signs and tricks until he gladly calls off his "discriminatory" campaign. In "Trick or Treat," Endora (AgnesMoorehead) is peeved that Samantha opts to entertain one of Darrin's clients on Halloween instead of joining her at the sacred volcano. So she turns her daughter's hapless husband into a werewolf during the business get-together as punishment. Watch for a pre-Brady Bunch Maureen McCormick as theyoung Endora. --Kimberly Heinrichs ... Read more

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Share the first two Halloweens with the "Bewitched" gang
Quick. Before "Roseanne" and "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" what television series made a point of having great Halloween episodes. Why, "Bewitched" of course. Collected on these VHS are the two Halloween episodes from the first two seasons of the series, which means we are still on the first Darrin and the shows are still in black & white:

"The Witches Are Out" is from the first season and finds Darrin (Dick York) stuck between the demands of his job at McMann & Tate and his wife. It seems his client, Mr. Brinkman (Shelley Berman), wants to advertise his Halloween candy using images of ugly, frightening witches. Of course, Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) is upset. As a child she and her mother used to leave the country so they would not have to look at those ugly masks. So Sam gets a protest rally of witches together to make a stand against those who are bigoted against witches. Note: This episode was written by Bernard Slade, who would go on to write the Broadway play "Same Time, Next Year."

"Trick or Treat" from the second season tells a similar story. Samantha and Darrin are having the Tates (David White and Irene Vernon) and a client, Jack Rogers (Jack Collins), who makes costumes, over on Halloween. However, Endora (Agnes Moorehead) is outraged that her daughter would celebrate a holiday that condones bigotry. So Endora shows up as a young trick-or-treater (Maureen McCormick, the Kirsten Dunst of her generation) and turns Darrin into a werewolf. The problem is that everybody else at the party thinks it is just a great costume. Meanwhile, Sam takes Endora to task for having lived up to the very stereotype of the evil witch that she abhors.

Of course, there is an interesting sub-text for both of these episodes dealing with the subject of prejudice, although the message might be a bit too subtle for some viewers. But that is okay because Sam is a good witch, and Elizabeth Montgomery was a fine actress who managed to make all of this nonsense work. However, I have to wonder if I am the only one who remembers the "National Lampoon" version of "Bewitched," drawn by Berni Wrightston, when they see these classic Halloween episodes.

true classics
All I have to say is, these two episodes are a true stand out in "classic tv". "Bewitched" is my favorite of all tv series, for I grew up with it, but just in all areas these shows make you want to say, "Ah yes, those were the days". If you like television at it's best, buy this tape...you won't be sorry.

Very Cool!
This is certainly an endearing Halloween classic! With "Bewitched" being such a good show in itself, it's not suprising to see this well-made, well-acted collection of shows on video to really enjoy yourself this Halloween- or anytime!

A Bewitched: Halloween
The Witches Are Out ____________________

When Darrin is asked to design a trademark for his company's client with a witch on it to sell candy, Samantha, Aunt Clara and her bewitching friends try to get him to use a beautiful witch instead of and ugle witch with warts on it. His client turn's the concept do untill Samantha gives the candy executive a new perspective of life on the other side of the broom. _____________________

Trick or Treat

When Darrin insists that Samantha insists that Samantha forgo a Halloween witches celebration in favor of intertaining Darrins clints for dinner, Endora sees red. She hexes Darrin with a spell that will gladually turn him into a werewolf, setting the stage for a howling good time as darrin and Samantha try to hide his new beastly personality from their guest.

Very entertaining and funny
I have to admit I was surprised how much I enjoyed these two episodes, but the enthusiasm and humor of the two episodes quickly won me over. I really liked Elizabeth Montgomery. It is easy to see why she is so popular. If you want a funny and light hearted Halloween video, this one is a great choice. ... Read more

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The best of the beach movies.
"Muscle Beach Party" is the sharpest and funniest of the "Beach Party" movies. And it's the least dumb. That's saying a lot, really!

The supporting cast is unbeatable--Buddy Hackett, Don Rickles, Peter Lupus (billed as Rock Stevens), Morey Amsterdam, and a last-minute appearance by Peter Lorre (as Lupus' father!).

These were the first screen appearances of Stevie Wonder, who steals the musical portion of the flick, and Lupus, who is quite good as the ego-centered Flex Martian, chief muscleman in Rickles' stable. Why this movie works so well is a mystery, but it does. You could spend your money less wisely.

Fun in the sun
While I wouldn't consider myself a Frankie & Annette fan, I did order a copy of this movie. It has the kooky fun of a 60's beach flick complete with dancing, singing and some madcap adventures, but I wanted the movie for 2 other reasons. 1) I wanted to get a copy of the big screen debut of 'Little' Stevie Wonder which is a rockin' performance with Dick Dale & the Del Tones. It's fun to see Stevie doing his thing in front of the band, instead of crooning behind a piano. 2) Candy Johnson. You may remember her as the gal who was shaking & quaking with outfits covered in tassles. If Carol Burnett was a go-go dancer, this would be her.

This is a fun movie that makes you yearn for simpler times before the world got so jaded.

MUSCLE STUDS A GO-GO!
If you like to see Bodyuilders from years gone by then this tape is right up your alley! See a young Larry Scott (the first Mr. Olympia) flex and pose his Beautiful, Golden body along with about a dozen other hunky Muscle Men. You won't be disappointed when the Beefy Lads come out on the beach and drop the capes they were wearing, exposing their marvelous physiques. Swoon! I first saw this as a kid and it had a MAJOR impact on my young phsyche - I've had a huge crush on Bodybuilders ever since. Let this movie work it's magic on you!

Reissue Of Annette Funicello Album From The Mid Sixties
This is reissue of the original LP soundtrack from the movie of the same title. The track listing is as follows:

(1) Muscle Beach Party (2) A Girl Needs A Boy (3) Surfer's Holiday (4) I Dream About Frankie (5) Muscle Bustle (6) Merlin Jones (7) Custom City (8) Draggin' U.S.A. (9) Reble Rider (10) Waikiki (11) Shut Down Again (12) The Scrambled Egghead

All songs are in flawless true stereo suggesting they came from the master tapes. This is a Japanese Import. Unless on hand by the dealer, it could take a while to get but is still available as of September 98. ... Read more

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This popular TV series has become a camp classic for young and old alike. It follows the adventures of Bo and Luke Duke, southern hearthrob cousins with a Robin Hood streak. The two live with their Uncle Jesse and and cousin Daisy (the character who made ... Read more

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Oz Review
Hi there, I'm in full agreement with the person from Kuwait about the Dukes being the best ever tv series!! Just like them, I want to see them all on DVD too because then they would be more enduring than on vhs... DOH RULES!!!

PAL system
hello there, i have a question: i want to order some video stuff, but in Europe we use the PAL system and not the NTSC system.

Is there a possibility to order video's from the eighties tv series like the Dukes of Hazzard, Dynasty, Dallas, etc to use in an European videorecorder?

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Tongiht on the Dukes................Dukes in Danger!
To Catch A Duke
Original Airdate: February 6, 1981
If money grew on trees, Boss Hogg (Sorrell Brooke) would plant an orchard. Instead, he harvests his foldin' money the old fashioned way: he fines everyone! Caught kissing in public? That's a major offense. Gone fishin' without your weekly license renewal? Hogg's boys will have to write you up. Sopped up your gravy with the cornbread? Well, they only reason that ain't illegal is because Boss does that himself.

In this classic episode, Hogg'sinjustice is just the sort of thing to get the Dukes all riled up and the General Lee all revved up. But when Bo (John Schneider) and Luke (Tom Wopat) ride into town to pay a fine, they run into a freewheeling adventure involving a fortune in stolen jewels. The alleged accomplices in the theft: Bo and Luke. Bo andLuke better act fast before Boss makes a law against an innocent person's name. But can Bo and Luke do it? Order it and find out.

How can you hate this?
Admit it. You watched it the first time around, and you caught the reruns on TNN before they went to all-Star Trek. This humor appeals to both the kid and the redneck in you. Enjoy!

TO ME IT IS ONE OF THE BEST TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME
I would like to see complete sets for every season of this tv show on DVD because it is not enough to have 9 episods only for any of the dukes of hazzard fans, I wont be satisfied until I see all the of THE DUKES OF HAZZARD episodes, and I think all of THE DUKES OF HAZZARD fans all over the world think the same way. ... Read more

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I just wanted to come back and hear the calliope
WALKING DISTANCE is probably the best episode ever produced. Gig Young acts out Serling's prose so perfectly that he speaks for every man that ever wished he could go home again. It is a very moving episode. Bernard Herrmann's score intuitively picks up the emotion and heartfelt sincerity that Serling wrote into this story. This was Rod Serling's, Bernard Herrmann's and Gig Young's finest work for any medium. I think it is the finest piece of work ever put on film. KICK THE CAN is thematically similar and also very moving. It examines what it means to grow old and if one must give up the very things that makes us who we really are. It too is a very heartfelt episode, sincere and remains one of the best.

Timeless and Forever.
Long ago when Television was young there were indeed programs of quality and value. One of the great icons of the era was for sure Rod Serling. Mr. Serling has been gone now since 1975...but his vision and talent and taste for the ironic live on in " Twilight Zone" episodes.

In "Walking Distance" Martin Sloan( Gig Young) gets to look back on his life in a very special way. A shock to himself when he sees himself, as a boy, carving names into a post on a gazebo..( a gazebo that could have been possibly in Serling's home town of Binghamton New York.

The quagmire of time and space are now imposed on Martin Sloan..and this unique teleplay is one of the best 26 minutes you might see on Television. The montage scene on the merry go round...the field is at first tilted...then corrects itself with a return to Mr. Sloan's reality..Frak Overton, Byron Foulger and Ronnie Howard round out the singular cast.

If this were all not enough, Bernard Herrman lends a most meloncholy score to the whole proceedings. This is what happens when great artists combine talents to produce something timeless.

Some " Wisp of Memory" indeed!

This tape has Serling's classic episode "Walking Distance"
In Rod Serling's classic episode "Walking Distance," Martin Sloan (Gig Young) leaves his car at the gas station and walks into his hometown, where suddenly everything is just as it was when he was a child. In fact, he encounters his younger self (Michael Montgomery), and has to come to terms with the fact that he has not been happy with his life for a long, long time. The episode, directed by Robert Stevens, is one of Serling's best evocations of nostalgia, with a cast that includes Pat O'Malley and young Ronnie Howard. "Kick the Can" was George Clayton Johnson's final script for the series, and was the episode adapted by Steven Spielberg in "Twilight Zone: The Movie." Charles Whitley (Ernest Truex) and his friend Ben Conory (Russell Collins) are residents of Sunnydale Rest, a home for the aged. Charles becomes convinced that the secret to being young is acting young, and one night he begs the others to join him for a game of kick-the-can. Everyone agrees to join in the game, except Ben. Because this is the Twilight Zone, this is a tragic mistake and one that Ben will regret the rest of his life. This is an okay episode, but not a classic like the first one on this tape.

Short subjects as timeless as their medium...
This is another fine package in the series, two classics that have obvious but effective stories to tell. "Walking Distance" is about Martin Sloan, successful in business but not successful in that walk of life that all men try sooner or later: trying to go home again. "Kick the Can" is an enormously moving and engrossing piece with Charles Witley dilivering the goods as an old man who refuses to die in Sunnydale Rest. He is a man who knows that he will die in this world if he does not escape...into the Twilight Zone. This is one you should see.

The Human Side to the Twilight Zone
Rod put a lot of humanity into these two episodes of the Twilight Zone. The first story deals with a man's return home to his childhood trying to find his younger self that he left behind. The second story deals with people in their senior years who play a game of "Kick the Can" and discover that being young and old is very closely linked, and not seperate. Even if you don't like science fiction, watch these two Twilight Zone stories, they are human stories. ... Read more

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~Best Of I Love Lucy Collection 3~
This video comes with 2 tapes. Each tape has 5 memorable episodes from I Love Lucy. The episodes on this collection are:
Bon Yoyage:Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel are leaving to board a ship when Lucy misses Little Ricky and wants to say one more goodbye to him. So she gets off the ship leaving the others behind and gives Little Ricky one more hug goodbye. Then after that she walks to the ship because its leaving soon but then she gets her skirt caught in a bicycle. So she takes her skirt off and starts for the ship but she cant make it. So she ends up flying on a helicotper to get on the ship to Europe.
Lucy and Ethel Buy The Same Dress:The girls are having their own show on TV for one half hour. So Lucy and Ethel do a sisters duet act and end up buying the same dress for the act. When they said they would take their dresses back; both of them end up not taking them back and end up wearing the same dress at the performance.
Neve Do Business With Friends:When Ricky buys Lucy a new washing machine and dryer the Mertzes buy the Ricardos old washer. But when the washer is brought down to the Mertzes apartment and Ethel starts washing clothes in it the washer starts shooting out wet clothes out of it; now its an arguement between the Mertzes and Ricardos. Neither couple wants the washing machine untill one guy fixes it and is willing to pay $50 for it.
Lucy's Last Birthday:Lucy thinks everybody has forgotten her birthday except Mrs. Trumball. So Lucy is depressed and ends up going for a walk. In the park a group called the "Friends of the Friendless" come walking by her and ask if she would like to join their group. So she does and brings the group to the Tropicana where Ricky is doing his show. And thats where the surprise party was. So Lucy was deeply shocked and Ricky sings her a song for her birthday present.
The Star Upstairs:Lucy finds out that there is a star living right above from her apartment in Hollywood. She sneaks up there to see the star. She doesn't want Cornel Wilde(the star) to see her so she goes on his balcony so he wont see her. He ends up falling asleep but he has locked the door to get inside the room so she has Ethel help her get down; when getting down from his balcony to hers which is right underneith it she ruins his plant that is there. So at the end he finds out that someone has bean there and spying on him so he leaves because he doesn't want anyone to know where he is.
Paris At Last:Lucy ends up in jail because she paid fake money to the waiter at a French restaurant. But she didn't know it was fake money when she traded money with this one guy she didn't know. So now she is in the police department and can't understand anyone because they are all foreigners; although she is the foreigner because she is in France.
The Great Train Robbery:Lucy thinks the guy next to her room is a jewel theif. So when she tells Ethel this guy is over hearing on her conversation. So when Ethel leaves and Lucy is still sitting there the guy that was eavesdropping asks her to take him up to the guys bedroom so that they could catch him. But as it turns out the guy that was eavesdropping on Lucy and Ethel, was the jewel theif. The guy next to Lucys room was just a jewelery seller. But then the guy ends up getting caught.
The Million Dollar Idea:Lucy and Ethel have a good idea to make some money by selling Lucys aunts home made recipe for salad dressing. But when Ricky finds out that they would only be getting 3% of the money it turns out that they wouldn't be getting much money and that 3% goes to Caroline because her husband works at a TV station and he is the one that let Lucy and Ethel sell their product on. So when they found out that they were good sellers they figured they could go back on TV and show that the product they sold was a bad product but instead they got more orders. So they end up buying salad dressing and putting their labels on them and deliver them by bicycle so they don't have to pay for shipment.
Return Home From Europe:Lucy has a piece of cheese to bring to her mother that you can't find in America. So she brings it on the plane pretending it is a baby. But as it turns out babys cost $30 on plane rides so she eats part of the cheese with Ethel and puts the rest in instruments.
Lucy Visits Grauman's:Lucy wants John Waynes Footprint because it is loose. When some police men come and scope the area out Lucy gets her foot stuck in a bucket full of cement that Ethel put in the bushes where they had to hide so the police men wouldn't see them.

Lucy's laughter will live on forever
This is a must for anyone who's purchased the "I Love Lucy"
collection. These episodes can be seen over and over, time and time again. They are healing and warm and will keep you laughing. As a child, I loved "I Love Lucy" and now my children can have the pleasure of knowing what true comedy is all about.
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