5/5 You Need To Buy This Set!
  by Crystal
If you doin't buy this set, as many have said they would not, don't expect future releases of this show. It been ages since this release without any word as to when and if season 2 is coming, and you, yes you the consumer have the power! But if you don't buy this, the rest of the seasons have a slim to none chance of ever being released.


4/5 Good But It Got So Much Better
  by carol irvin (United States)
The first season of this show was good. I'd rate it as 3.5 stars if Amazon let us use half stars. It's biggest problem in the first season was using a character named Kirk. Ultimately you were supposed to like him but that never happened. He was given too many problems and also was not funny. Bob Newhart was great, of course. We got George the Handyman and then Larry and the Darryls showed up (as very minor characters). Michael, Stephanie, the tv show, etc., were all to come in future seasons. The last season is as weak as this first one with the golden shows being the ones inbetween.

Any Bob Newhart is better than no Bob Newhart though. Bob is great on the show from episode one to the end. He never disappoints. I am a big fan of his. If you are too, then you can't go wrong. He plays an Innkeeper in Vermont with his wife JoAnna. They slowly are assimilated into a New England town of characters. Newhart is everyone's comic foil. He and Poston worked together in his prior series so they are an old "couple" at this point and gel from the start. His wife is good, not as good as Suzanne Pleshette was in his earlier show but she does ok. Newhart also writes do-it-yourself books and he is quite comedic about these as well.

I would say the creators probably saw John Cleese's FAWLTY TOWERS before doing this show. However, Newhart is a very different comedian than Cleese so it had to be tailored to suit him. Thus, the only resemblance is that they are both married innkeepers doing a sitcom set in their Inns.

5/5 Great Laughs
  by Debbie C (Ohio)
How refreshing to enjoy a top notch sitcom and get a good belly laugh, unlike the sitcoms the industry puts out today. The sitcoms of today cannot hold a candle to the superb writing and acting of yesteryear's comedies. Thanks to Bob and the gang at the Stratford Inn, we can laugh for years to come. My husband and I are anxiously waiting for season 2.

5/5 Warm and funny.
  by Reliable Reviews (Carmel Valley, California)

Comedy.

A couple, Dick and Joanna, run a Bed and Breakfast Inn in Vermont. The neighbor, Kirk, insists upon being their friend, but is self-centered to the point of humor. I appreciate this series more as an adult than I did as a kid. George, the handy-man, has a low IQ, yet innocently makes well-meaning observations about Dick's troubles that end up being clever, zinging, insults. New guests come to the Inn to give variety to the different stories.

5/5 enough with the incomplete series discs
  by Vince Lucie (CT, USA)
I URGE YOU BUYERS OF TV DVD NOSTALGIA TO ASK THE COMPANIES RELEASING THESE SERIES TO TELL US IF THEY PLAN TO GO PASSED SEASON ONE!!! THIS RELEASE IS ALMOST TWO YEARS OLD ALREADY AND NO FOLLOW UP WITH ANY OF THE 6 REMAINING SEASONS....AND THIS GOES FOR 'LEAVE IT TO BEAVER"...and 'OZZIE AND HARRIET" AND "DOBIE GILLIS...."...AND THE LIST GOES ON....IF ALL THEY PLAN TO DO IS RELEASE ONE SEASON...TELL THEM TO PACK IT IN BEFORE THEY START...SAVE YOUR MONEY....