4/5 Steve AND Joe episodes
  by Karen Post (Westminster, CO)
Blue's Clues is an award-winning animated TV series where a human actor interacts with an animated blue puppy named Blue and various other animated characters to play a detective-style game (Blue's Clues). In the game, the human (Steve or Joe, depending on the season) tries to figure out what Blue is trying to tell him by finding a series of three clues and reasoning out their meaning. This is a viewer participation encouraged show, where Steve/Joe asks for YOUR help in finding the clues, solving puzzles and figuring out what Blue wants.

This DVD is a mix of Steve and Joe episodes--I like that this one has Steve episodes in a row and then a transitional one and then Joe episode(s). One of the other DVDs alternates Steve, Joe, Steve, Joe--which tends to confuse my toddler who's most familiar with Steve.

Episodes:
1)Blue's Birthday: a sweet episode--Steve even helps YOU give Blue a gift, a stuffed dog that shows up in later episodes and turns out to be "key" to the spin-off show "Blue's Room".
2)Treasure Hunt: a fun and creative episode, complete with a treasure map and a guest appearance by Steve's grandma!
3)Blue's Pajama Party: a good pre-bedtime episode, this one takes place at night so Steve spends the whole time trying not to fall asleep; ends with a bedtime story.
4) Magenta Gets Glasses: Features Miranda, Magenta's owner. Steve and Miranda are shy around each other--how cute! Apparently, this episode was not aired on TV.
5) Steve Goes to College: Transitional episode from Steve to Joe, Steve's little brother. Steve says goodbye and even calls YOU from college. Joe's all moved into the house to live with Blue and take over playing Blue's Clues. This episode is a bit emotional even though they try to keep it upbeat and you may have to explain around it if you watch other Steve episodes later...maybe Steve's home on Summer Break or something....
6) Blue Takes You To School: a Joe and Blue episode. It's Perriwinkle the Cat's first day of School so Blue shows her the ropes.
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7) The Legend of the Blue Puppy: instead of playing Blue's Clues, Joe and Blue get a visit from Moona, the moon fairy, who tells a legend about when Blue was born (under a blue moon, of course) and shows Blue how to get to Blue's magical play Room. This is the introductory episode into Blue's Room. Blue's Room is a spin-off series with Blue as a talking muppet-esque puppet. Either you like these or you don't; they are very different from Blue's Clues.
8) Blue's Room Snacktime Play Date: another Blue's Room short. My toddler doesn't like Blue's Room, so we didn't watch this one.

Not all of the Blue's Clues episodes are out on DVD and the DVD releases group the episodes by themes rather than seasons. Of the choices, this is one of the better mix of episodes--they aren't too similar, there are some Steve and some Joe episodes and a nice mix of auxiliary characters. With 6 Blue's Clues episodes and 2 Blue's Room shorts, this DVD is lengthy enough to spread out over a few days.

5/5 My kids love this dvd
  by SooJR
I like that this one starts on it's own. You don't have to wait for previews or push play on the menu. It starts all by itself. And my kids love watching it over and over again. It gets their imagination going and I hear them playing, pointing at random things and saying "a clue! a clue!"

I found it for less at Target. I didn't know anything about blue's clues when I picked it up but thought I'd give it a try since it was so cheap. It turned out to be one of their favorites.

4/5 Great product
  by Betsy Rodriguez (Germany)
Very good DVD!! My daughter loves Blues Clues and this DVD has a good variety of episodes...I will recommend this to anyone!!!

4/5 Excellent intelligent entertainment for kids
  by klare (Germany)
We're Americans living in Germany, so don't get any of the episodes on regular US TV. Picked this up on arecent visit, and my son loves it. We only had the Classic Clues at home, so great to have more variety to choose from. I watched some episodes with him and must say I was very impressed, particularly with the "Pajama Party": it explained so well about the earth spinning around the sun, night and day etc. My son got it immediately and enjoys it so much! Definitely great entertainment for the kids, but they learn somthing AND feel like they are partcicpating when Steve/Jo asks them questions. Money well spent!

5/5 Adventures for you and your toddler
  by mommy in love (Vancouver, WA, USA)
My 17-month-old daughter loves Blue and when I watch it with her, I also enjoy it (unlike Elmo). The episodes provide many opportunities for me to interact with her and ask her questions or provide more of a story line so that she doesn't become a vegetable on the couch. She also points to the TV and jabbers about different scenes. This has inspired me to throw a Blue's Clues birthday party for her.