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TV Sets: Holiday Treats
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NR (Not Rated) :: Paramount ::
Released:
2008-10-07
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Rating:
4.5/5 (10 Reviews)
5/5
Great Fun!
by Alyice Edrich
I've been looking for decent quality TV Classic Xmas DVDs of sitcoms forever. So glad I found this one. True, some theme songs are missing. But the actual sitcoms are perfect. Good image quality and great soundtrack! I heartedly recommend it.
4/5
Need more like this DVD
by joglo
This is a nice Christmas DVD with comedy sitcoms. Family Ties; Taxi are just a few. I hope we get to have more of the Christmas programs from the 60's; 70's; 80's; and 90's avaiable on DVD. I noticed when Christmas programming is put on DVD's, many have identical episodes of the shows, so you have to be careful when you purchase these DVD's.
This DVD did not duplicate other DVD's that I have so it was a joy to purchase it and I look forward to buying more when they become available. Good quality TV FAMILY programming.
It would be nice to see more from the 1950's too.
5/5
CHRISTMAS TV SHOWS...
by Phillip Logan (New Castle, DE, U.S.A.)
I've always loved Christmas (I refuse to use "Xmas") and Christmas stories are a favorite of mine. I bought this DVD for a friend with similar feelings but liked the description so much I opened it and watched it myself, had to buy him another copy. I like some episodes better than others but they're all good TV Christmas shows for not too much money and have good quality.
5/5
Holiday Compilation
by Jeremy Fleming (US)
This is a great compilation! All of the transfers look great and as far as I can tell, these are the uncut versions. There is a play all button which includes CBS's holiday animated spots. I hope more studios do compilations like this one!
4/5
A real blast from the past
by Hooch (Prescott,Az)
I can't tell you how much fun it was to go back in time to see these old shows. I don't think any shows of today make a special holiday show anymore because they never know if they are going to be around in December. In the old days you didn't see a rerun until the summer. The only thing I wish they had done was to put a few old commercials with the show. Again remembering my youth, most of the characters did one or two commercials for their sponsors that were shown at the end of the show, some were even tied into the subject from that particular episode.. they are almost as much fun as the show.
TV Sets: Holiday Treats Summary
Movie Dvd
The idea behind
TV Sets: Holiday Treats
is so appealing, and so obvious, it’s a wonder someone didn’t think of it long ago. This compilation of eight Christmas-themed sit-coms spanning some 40 years serves as a reminder, in its sit-commy way, of what’s really important about the holiday season; it also provides an interesting look at the evolution of the genre and the ways in which it reflects its times. Back in the "Golden Age," when seminal shows like
I Love Lucy
(represented here by a mediocre 1956 offering that’s little more than a compilation of clips from earlier episodes) and
The Honeymooners
(a charming "Gift of the Magi" adaptation from ’55, with Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, and Art Carney terrific as always) ruled, the fact that they were shot in black and & white and performed before a genuinely live audience gave them a little extra
je ne sais quoi
; mistakes could be made, lines blown, but these brilliant performers would always overcome. By the time of
The Brady Bunch
in 1969, sitcoms were about as edgy as a circle (this cute episode about reaffirming family values is well-intentioned but painfully square by any standard), whereas in the post-Watergate era, shows like
Taxi
were rude and confrontational (in this episode from ’78, Louie, played by Danny De Vito, gets into a poker match with his estranged brother, with their mother as the "prize").
Family Ties
, with Michael J. Fox as the selfish, money-hungry Alex Keaton, typified the so-called "Me Decade" (this 1983 selection is a lazy version of Dickens’
A Christmas Carol
, with Alex as Scrooge), while
Frasier
reflects the cynicism of the ‘90s ("Miracle on Third or Fourth Street," the episode included here, is the best-written, funniest, and least mawkish of the whole collection). The set also includes installments from
The Andy Griffith Show
from 1960 and
Wings
from 1990. There are no bonus features.
--Sam Graham
TV Sets: Holiday Treats DVD Techincal Details
Cast:
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Rated:
NR (Not Rated)
Running Time:
198 mins
UPC:
097361319841
Binding:
DVD
Studio:
Paramount
Release Date:
2008-10-07
Region Code:
1
Specs:
Closed-captioned, NTSC
Language & Subtitles
(), (),
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