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Funny clips from their TV show
This tape is of an Abbott and Costello TV show. It is a collection of famous skits and musical numbers, like a variety show. Interestingly, it also includes the commercials! My 11-year old son is discovering the old comedians for himself and is enjoying the classics, like the Marx Brothers, Abbott and Costello, Charlie Chaplin, and the Stooges. Highly recommended for those who enjoy the classics.

Timeless
This video is timeless. Abbott and Costello is always entertaining. I highly recommend this video to anyone.

Sound quality very poor
I heartily agree with the other reviewer: the sound quality really detracts from the enjoyment of the material. I couldn't find another source, so I bought this anyway. The Hall of Fame in Cooperstown has a very clear sounding tape, but they don't sell it in their gift shop.

Classic!!!!
I really enjoyed seeing the "Who's On 1st?" routine for the first time. I also like seeing the commercial for Palmolive and Colgate. It's so weird to see how simple everything was back then compared to today.

Who's on First from Sterling Entertainment Group
The content is great, but the poor quality is a distraction to this fine content. I know this is an old film, but the quality of the audio is awful....a constant hiss and static. Also the program is recorded on EP...they've jammed 104 minutes on a very short tape, so the video image is at its worst. I hope to find this classic from a better distributor. Don't buy this - you'll be frustrated. ... Read more

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The Munsters is Coming to DVD and This Should Too!
The Addams Family is one of my favorite television shows. I grew up watching reruns of it in the 70s and I thought it was hilarious and I still do. TV Land recently added this to their lineup and I'm very pleased about that. John Astin and Carolyn Jones are very good as Gomez and Morticia Addams and equally good is Jackie Coogan a former childstar who starred in the Silent movie The Kid with Charlie Chaplin and in this sitcom he played Uncle Fester and the kids are very good too especially adorable Lisa Loring who played Gomez and Morticia's daughter Wednesday. This tape has some good episodes including a very funny episode in which Gomez and Morticia's son Pugsley begins to act like a normal boy and does things like play baseball and joins the Boy Scouts so they get a child psychiatrist for him. The Munsters which is another of my favorite television shows has it's first season coming out on DVD and it will be available for purchase in August and I'm going to buy it but I really want to own the Addams family on DVD too and like The Munsters The Addams Family only had two seasons so it should be a cinch to put both the complete first and second seasons on DVD!

Not Your Average 60's TV Family!!
Remember the Addams family ? From 1964 to 1966, an entire generation grew up watching the antics and misadventures of this mysterious, eccentric and unorthodox family, who were polar opposites to the clean-cut, "Leave It To Beaver" or "Father Knows Best" families on television in the 60's. They were based upon the cartoon sketches of artist Charles Addams in the New Yorker magazine.The cast included Jon Astin as Gomez Addams, the father and head of the family, Carolyn Jones as his wife Morticia, Lisa Loring as their daughter Wednesday and Ted Cassidy as their tall, zombi-like butler, Lurch. The jokes and gags of the family are well known and always comedic. Gomez is a high-class lawyer, of Castilian/Jewish ancestry who loves to go on Safari and who is passionately devoted to his wife Morticia. He would become aroused whenever Morticia spoke French to him. Morticia is a dark, mysterious, intelligent, artistic and classy woman with not so average values. She has raised Pugsley and Wednesday to be so secure in their peculiar ways that the normal people are the odd ones to them. This occurs in the pilot episode, in which Pugsley and Wednesday are sent to school through the admonishment of a truant officer, Mr. Hilliard. But Pugsley and Wednesday prove to be too bizarre and difficult for Mr. Hilliard to handle. Memorable is the scene in which the kids become frightened after reading the Grimm fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel" and Morticia deems the story too violent because a witch is killed in a hot oven. The second episode has the Addams consulting a child therapist to check on Pugsley, who has displayed "normal" behavior- joins the Boys Scout, plays baseball, etc. The Addams were a family like no other, with the exception, of course, of the Munsters, who were also on their own tv show at the same time (1964-1966). Available at Amazon.com are several episodes of all the seasons the Addams Family were on television. Sit back and enjoy the comic stylings of this unforgettable family. The shock that this must have been to normal families of the 60's are parellel to the same way the Osbornes on MTV continue to surprise their audiences.

The Original & The Best!
The Original "Addams Family" TV series remains true to the art of Charles Addams and the best cast is selected to flesh out his characters. Any remake today may have a larger budget & advanced F/X, but all characterization is only a carbon copy of the richness developed by the original actors back in 1964. 2 episodes are featured per tape, beginning with: "THE ADDAMS FAMILY GOES TO SCHOOL" The village truant officer, Mr. Hillard, gets quite an education when he pays the Addams Family home a visit to find out why little Wednesday and Pugsley are skipping school; "MORTICIA AND THE PSYCHIATRIST" Morticia seeks the counsel of a psychiatrist when Pugsley begins to act like a "normal" 9-year old boy. ... Read more

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One of the better episodes.
This was a great treat. Morticia Joins the Ladies League is more primarily about Morticia and just great fun. Fester's Puntured Romance is pretty funny too. Especially if you are a Fester fan and want an episode that goes further into his character. A great addition to any VHS or Addams Family collection.

The best I've seen yet
These two TV shows were livelier and funnier than the previous ones I've bought; perhaps the series got better over time. I expected the show about a gorilla visiting the family ("Morticia Joins the Ladies' League") to be pretty hokey, but it was funny. "Fester's Punctured Romance" was great too. I love it when different characters (Addams and non-Addams) have a conversation in which they both completely misunderstand each other. It's the kind of running joke just gets funnier as it continues and snowballs. ... Read more

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Fast Paced
This movie starts out as one of the best Abbott & Costello feature films...it kind of falls flat at the end though. The first 3/4 of the movie is fast paced with some of their funniest routines. The highlights are when they try to fix a leaky faucet & one of their funniest routines ever...also just by itself worth purchasing this film...the Susquehanna Hat Company...fabulous. Everytime I see that routine it cracks me up...a true classic. Overall this is a very good movie...the last 25 minutes could've been better though.

Abbott & Costello take apart the world of High Society
Abbott and Costello come up with one of their best films with the 1944 comedy "In Society." Bud is Eddie Harrington and Lou is Albert Mansfield, a couple of plumbers called in to repair the leak in the bathroom of the wealthy Mr. Van Cleve (Thurston Hall), whose wife (Nella Walker) is hosting a costume ball (already, you know this is going to be a good one). The boys arrive at the Van Cleve mansion in a taxi driven by Elsie Hammerdingle (Marion Hutton), who is mistaken for a costumed guest by playboy Peter Evans (Kirby Grant). Meanwhile, the boys are destroying the upstairs bathroom and flooding the master bedroom. Mrs. Van Cleve writes an angry letter to the plumbers but ends up mailing the boys an invitation to a society weekend at the estate of Mrs. Winthrop (Margaret Irving). Just to complete the fun, Peter has already invited Elise to the same shindig. The second act of "In Society" reminds you a lot of the Marx Brothers' "Animal Crackers," as Drexel (Thomas Gomez), a loan shark, tries to enlist the boys in a plot to steal the valuable painting, "The Plunger" (LOL). This ends up setting up a frantic chance scene at the end, involving a fire truck.

"In Society" joins that long list of comic films in which the madcaps encounter the world of high society and proceed to destroy it, although this one is not as anarchistic as "Animal Crackers." With Abbott & Costello it is always a series of unintentional accidents. The destruction of the bathroom is the best sequence in the film, which also includes the classic burlesque piece "Fleugel Street," where Lou tries to deliver hats to the Pioneer Hat company and everybody he meets beats him up and breaks a hat. The original story for "In Society" was written by Hugh Wedlock, Jr. and Howard Snyder, who used to write gags for Jack Benny. John Grant, Edmund L. Hartmann and Hal Fimberg got screenplay credit for turning the story into more of a workable Abbott & Costello movie. The female romantic interest Marion Hutton, the sister of actress Betty Hutton, had been a singer with the Glenn Miller orchestra and had introduced "Chattanooga Choo Choo" and "Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree." Oh, final note: Arthur Treacher, the screen's greatest Butler, plays Pipps the Butler in this film.

lots of creative comedy scenes
Abbott and Costello create another winner as two bumbling plumbers trying to work their way into society bathrooms. This movie has a lot of whacky physical humor balanced by a good story.

There is also a special effects error in this film that most people don't notice. Watch the car chase carefully during the part where a car is hanging from the ladder truck. At one point you will see that car defy the law of gravity.

Fun!
This Movie was very fun.You will laugh and laugh. This has parts like the susquehannah hat company, When the float around a bedroom in a tub and fly down a street in a couch.Just too many long lousy songs

ONE OF ABBOTT & COSTELLO' S BEST FEATURES
Bud and Lou are at it again. In this film the "DYNAMIC DUO" of comedy play two bumbling plumbers who are mistaken for members of society.

The BEST highlights in this film are: (1) BAGEL STREET. A hat salesman friend of the boys asks them the favor of returning a box of strawhats,sent to him by mistake by the manufacturer (one wonders WHY ANY0NE would ENTRUST A & C with such a task). On their way to deliever the hats,the pair run into a bunch of ZANIES. When Lou asks them directions to "BAGEL STREET", the lament to him the poor experiences they had their. However, when Costello mentions the name of the hat factory "SUSQUEHANNA HAT COMPANY" these people go BESERK and nearly destroy the box of strawhats as they take their FRUSTRATIONS out on Lou, who can do nothing but stand there and take the abuse. (2) The climatic chase scene. This scene uses chase footage from W.C. Fields' comedy "NEVER GIVE A SUCKER AN EVEN BREAK". The boys commandeer a hook-and-ladder fire truck, complete with aged fireman who has NEVER driven a firetruck before. UNKNOWN to them the ladder half of the truck is UNLOCKED, and as luck would have it, Costello IS RIDING in the cabin. As Lou climbs out onto the ladder, he begins to howl and whine as the truck goes through a series of ZANY curves and manoevers. (Roger Moore does a POOR imitation of this scene in his last 'JAMES BOND' film "A VIEW TO A KILL" ). But NO ONE does it BETTER than Lou Costello. ... Read more

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I'm asking you, Who's on First?
This was the film that had the Who's on First routine and it is worth it just for that. The rest of the movie is not that bad centering on a riverboat and gambling

One of the Best
This is indeed one of the best pictures made by Abbott and Costello. The Naughty Nineties has a superb storyline tailor-made for Bud & Lou.If you are thinking about watching this by all means do. This one will keep you in stitches from the beginning to the very end. One of the best scenes in the movie
is where the boys are in the Bad-guy's room when he is sleeping. He sleep-walks and mistakes Lou for an Indian and works him over.
But Lou has revenge before he ever leaves the room!

Abbott & Costello's best version of "Who's On First?"
The showboat "River Queen" visits the Mississippi river town of Ironville with Bud Abbott as Dexter, the lead actor, and Lou Costello as Sebastian, the chief roustabout. Despite the protests of the boys and his beautiful daughter Caroline (Lois Collier), Captain Sam (Henry Travers) allows three unscrupulous characters to come on board: the gambler Crawford (Alan Curtis), his girl friend Bontia (Rita Johnson), and their bodyguard Bailey (Joe Sawyer). The three are fleeing from the local sheriff and when they arrive in St. Louis they get Captain Sam drunk at the Gilded Cage gambling house and win controlling interest of his boat in a crooked card game. Looks like it is up to Dexter and Sebastian to save the day in typical Abbott & Costello style.

The chief charm of this film is that it includes my favorite version of Abbott & Costello's celebrated "Who's On First?" routine, which Bud wearing that St. Louis Wolves uniform. Most of the other gags in this film are retreads, such as the "Mirror Scene" made famous by the Marx Brothers in "Duck Soup" (but traced back to Max Linder's 1927 film "Seven Years" if you must know), although they can still make you laugh, as when Sebastian sings "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" and mistakes Dexter's orders for raising and lowering the curtain to be instructions on what type of voice to use singing the song. But you cannot get better than "Who's on First?" The boys kept it fresh by always adding some new twist every time they performed it and because they never memorized the skit; they just tried to catch each other making a mistake. This is the version that Ken Burns used in his celebrated "Baseball" documentary. The rest of the movie is just not up to the standard set by this classic comedy routine. It is not surprising to learn that "The Naughty Nineties" was filed on the riverboat set left over from "Showboat." This 1945 film was directed by Jean Yarbrough.

The Best of All Abbott & Costello Movies.
The Naughty Nineties, has the boys playing an actor(Abbott) and his assisstant(Costello) aboard a river boat.When the Captain gets in trouble with gangsters, the guys come to the rescue. Includes the entire "Who's on first" routine and the "Lower singing" routine.

ONE THE TEAM'S BEST FEATURES.
The comedy duo's first costume picture. The boys play "DEXTER BROADHURST" and "SEBASTIAN DINWIDDLE" an actor and stagehand on a river boat. The film has the boys trying to save not only the boat's captain,but the boat itself, from gamblers who have taking it over. The film is filled with clever sight gags and many funny highlights, one of which is the climatic chase scene of the deck of the riverboat. [NOTE: This film features the team's signature routine - "WHO'S ON FIRST". The film for which to difficult for director Yarborough to shoot because the ENTIRE stage crew COULD NOT keep from laughing out loud] ... Read more

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bud and lou at there classics again
This is a classic.bud and lou go to alaska to find there friends goldmind.this has some funny routines.some of em are when bud and lou fish and lou pulls bud out the water. lou.. hey tom did you see that fish in the water. bud.. that was me ( slaps lou)

A Gem in the Snow
Underrated Abbott and Costello film which concerns the boys going to Alaska to assist a firned. Wittier than other entries, maybe because longtime A+C scribe John Grant did not pen the screenplay, and makes very good use of Alaskan locales

One of their best movies
Watch Lost in Alaska and you will find out why these guys were called the Kings of Comedy. Abbott and Costello try to help their new-found friend reunite with his true love and recover his Gold. They end up careening out of control across Alaska on the world's fastest dog sled and getting into all kinds of trouble.

Lost in Alaska contains some of Abbott and Costello's most clever comedy routines that you won't see in their other movies. Just the part where Costello battles with an alarm clock is worth the price of the video.

And of course there are some of those ridiculous situations that could only work in an Abbott and Costello movie - like an igloo with a kitchen sink and a giant slingshot that launches frozen fish.

OK
This Movie was okay.It was Somewhat Pointless but still worth seeing.You will find some seen that will make you laugh

BUD AND LOU STRIKE IT RICH - WITH LAUGHTER
Classic 1952 comedy. Abbott and Costello travel to 1890s Alaska with friend Tom Ewell. The boys try to help Ewell NOT ONLY to win back his sweetheart, but to also save his goldmine from the film's heavy. Again 5 STARS to Bud and Lou for keeping us laughing all these years. ... Read more

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Caretakers
Down on their luck Abbott & Costello manage to find jobs as caretakers for an all girl school. Because of scandals and publicity the owner of the school threatens to stop funding so the school can go under. Abbott & Costello place a wager on a basketball game between their school and the undefeated champions school hoping to win enough money to save the school. In the meantime they have some incredibly funny scenes. Including when they first arrive at their room in the school and are told to clean it up, Costello manages to find himself in a very "sticky" situation presenting itself as one of the funniest scenes in any of the Abbott & Costello classic...also not to be missed Costello recreates one of the most popular 3 Stooges scenes in which Curly wrestles with some raw Oyster soup...Costello does fairly well in his imitation. Overall this picture is one of their best...a must have for any Abbott & Costello fan.

A very funny comedy from the 40's
This may not be prime A&C but its pretty darn close. There are many classic routines here including the oyster in the soup, the Little Red riding Hood story (AKA Jonah & the Whale), and a long set piece where Lou destroys a kitchen. The film also benefits from having a great heavy: Lon Chaney Jr! This one also has more action than usual with a hilarious girls basketball game and a great and bizarre climactic chase. The best part of the show is when Lou wrestles Lon Chaney. You will laugh!

Good Not Great.
In this film, Abbott & Costello get Abbott's sister enroled in an all girls school.The guys are brought along as caretakers. The best performance is from "The Man with A Thousand Faces" Lou Chaney. Some fair gags but not their best.

ONE OF ABBOTT & COSTELLO'S BEST FILMS
Bud and Lou are at it again. In this feature they are caretakers at an all-girls college. And save it from bankruptcy with the USUAL results. The FUNNIEST highlight of the film is the climatic basketball game scene. Lou dons drag to play for his school "BIXBY COLLEGE". After getting bonked on the head by a member of the rival team, he develops amnesia, and Bud then convinces him that he's "DAISY DIMPLE"- The World's Greatest female basketball star. [Note: ALL of the trick shots in the basketball game were ACTUALLY performed by Lou Costello himself]. 5 STARS once again to Bud and Lou.

ABBOTT & COSTELLO GO TO COLLEGE
Classic 1945 Abbott & Costello comedy. Bud and Lou play caretakers at an all girls school, and turn on it's ear with zany results. BEST highlight of the film is the WILD AND ZANY basketball game sequence. Lou disguises himself as a girl to help out his Bixby College. During the game he gets bonked on the head and develops amnesia,and Bud convinces him that he's "DAISY DIMPLE", the WORLD'S GREATEST FEMALE BASKETBALL STAR. [Note: All the trick shots in the game were ACTUALLY performed by Lou Costello himself]. ... Read more

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Equal Opportunity
Just because a movie is bad doesn't mean people won't like it. House of Horrors is a B-schlock classic. Contrived, marginal acting, sub-intelligent plot, low-brow entertainment, fantastic! And I find the contention that poor Rondo Hattan was "exploited" to be very tiresome. The guy has gone down into cinematic history! He has a solid fan base nearly 60 years after his death. Tom Cruise, Richard Gere and others adored purely on their looks can only hope to be so fondly remembered. I give House of Horrors a B for Bad. And that's damn good.

The Creeper creeps.
A second string suspense thriller from Universal Studios. A crazed sculptor and a brute killer form an unholy alliance and spread dreadful death through the art community. The best thing this little movie has going for it is Rondo Hatton as The Creeper. Hatton suffered from a disfiguring bone disease and he played horror roles without makeup. He goes around snapping the spines of nasty art critics who disparage the work of his sculptor friend. Hatton's range as an actor was limited, but he managed to project some of the melancholy isolation from the world that was a trademark of Boris Karloff's portrayal of the Frankenstein monster. His friendship with De Lange, the sculptor, recalls the monster and Ygor. The script is guilty of second rate cliches. Most of the attempts at witty remarks sound corny and fall flat. Robert Lowery plays a Vargas type illustrator who specializes in cheesecake art. Baby boomers may recall Lowery as Big Tim Champion of the old "Circus Boy" TV program. Look close, and you can see Virginia Christine (later Mrs. Olson of Folgers Coffee fame) as a doomed streetwalker. Throw it all in the blender and you have a lightweight but enjoyable thriller. It's good stuff for collectors of Grade B horror flicks. Other viewers should tread carefully. ;-)

The worst type of explotation
The films premise is simple and inept, look how ugly the Creeper is ! Rondo Hatton who was disfigured due to being gassed in the trenches in WW1, which caused his limbs to grow abnormally is throughly exploited in this disgusting attempt at entertainment. Apart from the fact that the Creeper cycle of films were diabolically poor in the first place and that as far as I can remember when it was first released the ads said "See the ugliest man in Hollywood, The ugliest man alive" as at draw for the audience is a sign of a very very poor production. The only good thing that came out of this cinematic offal is that Hatton ended up marrying one of the most beautiful starlets of the time I cant remember her name but I do remember a reporter asking how she could marry such an ugly man. From a time America should be ashamed of this repugnent trash should be shown to people in an object lesson on how insensitive and ignorant we humans can be.

I liked it !
The creeper goes after harsh critics, I think he should go after the other reveiwers of this movie. I thought it was good, the creeper ruled. It is one of my favorie classic monster movies.

A horror, but not a thriller
This is another Universal horror film from the 1940's, when both budgets and quality levels shrank dramatically. "House of Horrors" is one of the worst of the genre, with an inept cast and an idiotic plot. The only cast member capable of generating either interest or sympathy is Rondo Hatton; the others are forgettable. Interesting only as a curiosity. The real horror here is the astonishing level of ineptitude it took to make a movie this bad. ... Read more

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The Abbott and Costello TV Show Vol. 4
This is a delightful collection of 4 episodes from Abbott and Costello's Television show from the early 50's. The titles of the four shows are as follows: "The Drugstore", "Square Meal", "$1000 Prize", and "Wife Wanted". In "The Drugstore", we find the boys starting off with their famous Jonah and the Whale routine, then get jobs at Mr. Field's brother's drug store, and havoc ensues. In "Square Meal", the boy's search for a cheap meal starts at Mr. Bacciagalupe's lunch counter, and ends at a fancy restaurant with Lou doing his famous "oyster soup" routine. In "$1000 Prize", Lou and Bud are repairing Mr. Fields TV while he is out. They are contacted on the telephone by an emcee(who mistakes Bud for Mr. Fields) of a live tv quiz program and win $1000 in Mr. Fields name. Watch as they scheme to get Mr. Fields out of his apartment when the award money arrives. In "Wife Wanted", Lou's grandfather promises Lou $10,000 if Lou is married. The boys must get Lou hitched before the grandfather's impending visit. See the boys terrorize the neighborhood girls trying to find Lou a wife. ... Read more

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I'm asking you, Who's on First?
This was the film that had the Who's on First routine and it is worth it just for that. The rest of the movie is not that bad centering on a riverboat and gambling

One of the Best
This is indeed one of the best pictures made by Abbott and Costello. The Naughty Nineties has a superb storyline tailor-made for Bud & Lou.If you are thinking about watching this by all means do. This one will keep you in stitches from the beginning to the very end. One of the best scenes in the movie
is where the boys are in the Bad-guy's room when he is sleeping. He sleep-walks and mistakes Lou for an Indian and works him over.
But Lou has revenge before he ever leaves the room!

Abbott & Costello's best version of "Who's On First?"
The showboat "River Queen" visits the Mississippi river town of Ironville with Bud Abbott as Dexter, the lead actor, and Lou Costello as Sebastian, the chief roustabout. Despite the protests of the boys and his beautiful daughter Caroline (Lois Collier), Captain Sam (Henry Travers) allows three unscrupulous characters to come on board: the gambler Crawford (Alan Curtis), his girl friend Bontia (Rita Johnson), and their bodyguard Bailey (Joe Sawyer). The three are fleeing from the local sheriff and when they arrive in St. Louis they get Captain Sam drunk at the Gilded Cage gambling house and win controlling interest of his boat in a crooked card game. Looks like it is up to Dexter and Sebastian to save the day in typical Abbott & Costello style.

The chief charm of this film is that it includes my favorite version of Abbott & Costello's celebrated "Who's On First?" routine, which Bud wearing that St. Louis Wolves uniform. Most of the other gags in this film are retreads, such as the "Mirror Scene" made famous by the Marx Brothers in "Duck Soup" (but traced back to Max Linder's 1927 film "Seven Years" if you must know), although they can still make you laugh, as when Sebastian sings "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" and mistakes Dexter's orders for raising and lowering the curtain to be instructions on what type of voice to use singing the song. But you cannot get better than "Who's on First?" The boys kept it fresh by always adding some new twist every time they performed it and because they never memorized the skit; they just tried to catch each other making a mistake. This is the version that Ken Burns used in his celebrated "Baseball" documentary. The rest of the movie is just not up to the standard set by this classic comedy routine. It is not surprising to learn that "The Naughty Nineties" was filed on the riverboat set left over from "Showboat." This 1945 film was directed by Jean Yarbrough.

The Best of All Abbott & Costello Movies.
The Naughty Nineties, has the boys playing an actor(Abbott) and his assisstant(Costello) aboard a river boat.When the Captain gets in trouble with gangsters, the guys come to the rescue. Includes the entire "Who's on first" routine and the "Lower singing" routine.

ONE THE TEAM'S BEST FEATURES.
The comedy duo's first costume picture. The boys play "DEXTER BROADHURST" and "SEBASTIAN DINWIDDLE" an actor and stagehand on a river boat. The film has the boys trying to save not only the boat's captain,but the boat itself, from gamblers who have taking it over. The film is filled with clever sight gags and many funny highlights, one of which is the climatic chase scene of the deck of the riverboat. [NOTE: This film features the team's signature routine - "WHO'S ON FIRST". The film for which to difficult for director Yarborough to shoot because the ENTIRE stage crew COULD NOT keep from laughing out loud] ... Read more

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They Really Are a Screa-um!
"The Addams Family" is a great treat to watch on video. The family famous is back with all it's glory on these videos. This is one of the few ways to see the show these days since TV Land dropped it in 1998. Though it was taped in SLP form, there wasn't much difference, partly because SP and SLP/EP modes record mostly in the same condition if it's in B&W. Now, for the episodes them selves:

"The Addams Family Tree"
Pugsley and Wednesday insulted at a neighbors party for their strangness, and according to the neighbors, 'they have no class'. The Addams quickly get a geniologist to find out their history, and find out some interesting things about themselves and their neighbor. Grandmama (BLOSSOM ROCK) does not appear in this episode, which is quite strange, since she probably knows the most about their history.

"Gomez, The Polotician"
Election fever grips the household. Gomez backs a man who is for the draining of swamps. The Addams are famous for backing many losers during campaigns ("Lincoln backed for our help. But we went for old Douglas!" says Gomez). The Addams go to extremes, and Uncle Fester even makes himself lightup. In the end, their canidate joins the traditions of Dewy, Douglas, and others, and becomes a loser.

All in all, these were great episodes!

Pretty good
These two shows were both pretty good, though not my favorites. I enjoyed the return of Mr. Hilliard, the emergence of Kitty Kat (their pet lion), and the way the Addams family terrified one or two people who rather deserved it. Some good parts: Wednesday and Pugsley's scuffle with an obnoxious boy (in which they get the better of him); Morticia and Gomez's swordplay; the feeding of the piranhas; and Morticia's beloved plants strangling each other. I also loved it when Gomez told Morticia not to worry that Hilliard would drain the swamps -- all politicians do exactly the opposite of their campaign promises!

The old Addams family show doesn't have the gloss and style of the movies and cartoons, but it's charming and funny. The laugh track, though, is unnecessary and too loud. ... Read more

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Fiendishly Fun
Anybody who is a fan of the Addams family has to see Lurch learn to dance. It's so comical to see everyone in the family teaching
Lurch to dance. You have to see it to believe it! ... Read more

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Enter Mark Twain was EXCELLENT
I can only describe this video as excellent in every way! ... Read more

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A CLASSIC !!
This film is extremely funny and should be praised as one of Abbott and Costello's best films! Some other nice scenes include guitar entertainers Les Paul and Mary Ford,who are somewhat comical also! Some other interesting things are the old fashioned TV commercials that might make you laugh a little bit!! Classic acrobats on bars do their dazzling jobs to also make the audience somewhat dizzy in the process! One of the comedy duo's funniest scenes is when Costello gives his friend a mistaken scalp treatment and boils his hair right off! One other different scene in the film is when a snake charmer at a nightclub makes a girl in a snake costume slither and bend like a pro snake on the run! This is an entertaining movie,all in all! But,what I do not understand is why nobody reviewed this timeless Comedy Hour,but forget about that and rent or buy this fascinating picture to cheer yourself up! ... Read more

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cooky spooky oooky - funny
The cousin It comes to visit episode is a little on the slow side. But, The Addams Family goes to Court is HILARIOUS. That episode makes it worth the purchase. Gomez in court is very funny. Likened to Addams Family Values when Gomez goes to the Police Station to report that his brother owns... A BUICK! As a huge Addams Family fan, I highly recommend this video as a great addition to any VHS collection. ... Read more