This DVD item from Image Entertainment was reviewed on 15-Mar-2009.
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1) DVD DVD The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season One (5 Disc Box Set) by Image Entertainment. I was not interested in this show as kid; but as an adult think it is great.
Lots of humor and friendship in every show about the married life of Rob and Laura. Every man would like to be married to Laura, and every woman to Rob. Dick Van Dyke squeezes in some physical comedy wherever he can. He makes hurrying even a few feet funny. Both Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore are natural dancers, which we see in an occasional episode.
Shows of this era that kids would like are "The Partridge Family" at 5-stars and "Leave It To Beaver" at 5-stars; the first two seasons of "Leave It To Beaver" are the best, then its hit and miss with an occasional brilliant episode.
While kids will enjoy the "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" at 5-stars, because Ted Baxter is so funny; adults will appreciate the camaraderie more. "Nanny and the Professor" at 4-stars has wholesome themes, pleasantness, with a little humor in every show. Available online at sling.¤ 2) DVD DVD The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season One (5 Disc Box Set) by Image Entertainment. I´ve loved the Dick Van Dyke Show for as long as I can remember. Back when I was a child it was a staple for us at home. Considering the show began the year I was born it means that I primarily remember the reruns but that doesn´t matter. This TV show remains as funny now as it was then. It just goes to show creative genius lives on no matter what.
As far as the dvds in this collection, they´re brilliantly done, clean and clear. I watched all 30+ episodes of season one over a weekend and will begin season 2 next weekend. I purchased all five seasons and so far it is turning out to be a wonderful experience. Don´t miss out, these are terrific!¤ 3) DVD DVD The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season One (5 Disc Box Set) by Image Entertainment. What ever happened to writers who could write real comody? This may have been first seen in the early 60´s but it is still extremely funny. It´s fun for any age, you never have to worry about what your children are going to hear (or see), and there is never any hidden agendas. Just good situational funny comody.
Thank you who ever decided to put it on DVD so this generation can have something good to watch.
Gary¤ 4) DVD DVD The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season One (5 Disc Box Set) by Image Entertainment. It is difficult in this day and age to find good, clean television, so my family has opted to purchase classic television shows such as this. The material is surprisingly relevant even to this day. My husband and myself (currently in our 20s) find ourselves relating to the situations that Rob and Laura find themselves in and love the good, clean fun they bring to each circumstance. Truly timeless entertainment!¤ 5) DVD DVD The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season One (5 Disc Box Set) by Image Entertainment. Having been born in late 1960, I found it strange watching my way through the first season of this show. I never knew America when it was like this. It all seems so quaint to see a pre-Betty Friedan marriage, or a child who respects his parents, or Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke having two glasses of milk on their bed table before they go to sleep. By the time I became cognizant of the world, it looked more like what I was seeing on All in the Family. In fact, the Van Dyke show gave me such a nostalgic longing for the past that it even somewhat dampened by enjoyment of the show itself, I´m sorry to say. Nevertheless, there is laughter and great talent to be found here, so don´t let the black and white picture talk you out of it.¤ 6) DVD DVD The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season One (5 Disc Box Set) by Image Entertainment. Trip into the living room of comedy writer Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke) along with his lovely wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore), wisecracking coworkers and nutty neighbors. Winner of 15 Emmy Awards, this groundbreaking series is consistently ranked among the top TV comedies of all time and renowned for its topnotch cast and stellar writing. Now enjoy the first season´s entire 30 episodes, each digitally remastered to its original full-length version. 30 episodes on 5 discs: The Sick Boy and the Sitter, The Meershatz Pipe, Jealousy, Sally and the Lab Technician, Washington vs. the Bunny, Oh How We Met the Night That We Danced, The Unwelcome Houseguest, Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder MO, My Blonde-Haired Brunette, Forty-Four Tickets, Tell or Not to Tell, Sally Is a Girl, Empress Carlotta´s Necklace, Buddy Can You Spare a Job?, Who Owes Who What?, Sol and the Sponsor, The Curious Thing About Women, Punch Thy Neighbor, Where Did I Come From?, The Boarder Incident, A Word a Day, The Talented Neighborhood, Father of the Week, The Twizzle, One Angry Man, Where You Been Fassbinder?, The Bad Old Days, I Am My Brother´s Keeper, The Sleeping Brother, The Return of Happy Spangler.¤ 7) DVD DVD The Dick Van Dyke Show - Season One (5 Disc Box Set) by Image Entertainment. Before The Dick Van Dyke Show, suburbia was never portrayed on television as a haven of sophistication. We never followed Ozzie Nelson to work. And we never, ever fantasized what Ward and June Cleaver did behind closed doors. But Your Show of Shows veteran Carl Reiner´s groundbreaking series broke the staid, sitcom mold. Just consider Mary Tyler Moore´s Laura Petrie, the ravishing wife of Dick Van Dyke´s comedy writer, Rob Petrie. "I´m just a housewife," she proclaims in the episode "To Tell or Not to Tell," just before breaking into an incendiary bossa nova in the Petrie living room. In "The Return of Happy Spangler," she is jokingly identified as Jackie Kennedy. But the comparison is apt. She´s got style (those capri pants scandalized the show´s sponsors!); she´s got grace. The Dick Van Dyke Show boasts a peerless ensemble, gold-standard writing, and characters who have become icons. How many comedy writers were inspired to get into the business by watching Rob and his staff, man-hungry Sally Rogers (Rose Marie) and old school "human joke machine" Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam), brainstorm sketches for tyrannical boss Alan Brady (much discussed, and much feared, but never seen in season 1)? Much of the comedy in the first season springs from Rob juggling his glamorous career with his harried home life. In the first episode, he compels his over-protective wife to attend a party at Alan Brady´s, though she is worried son Ritchie (Larry Matthews) is sick ("He turned down his cupcake"). In "Washington vs. the Bunny," Rob must choose between a business trip and seeing Ritchie in a school play. In another episode, Rob forgets "Forty-Four Tickets" he had promised to the P.T.A. But back to Laura (and about time!). As the season unfolds, Moore comes into her own as a gifted comedienne, and she takes her stock character to dizzy new heights, as witness "My Blonde-Haired Brunette" and the classic "The Curious Thing About Women," the one with the inflatable boat. A pop culture benchmark, The Dick Van Dyke Show is must-own television. --Donald Liebenson¤ Page Updated: Robert N. Goolsby, 12-Apr-2009, 014381155723, ICB-F0B-VSB-48B-BCB-WQB-8 
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