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Get Smart: The Complete Series

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Total reviews: 13 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Finally I can watch Get Smart 5 out of 5 stars.
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I remember when I was a kid in the 90's Watching Get Smart reruns on Nick @Nite and Loving it.
Then when they took it off that channel I was disappointd, I thought I'd never see it again. But thank God I was wrong. When I found out Time Life released the whole series on DVD I couldn't wait to buy them. Getting the first season I watched every episode and I loved them. It was like going back into my childhood, and I found this show is timeless. You can be a kid and love it and you can be an adult and still laugh at Maxwell Smart's crazy antics. The catchphrases you can't help but imitate and laugh at like "Sorry About That Chief", "Missed It By That Much, And Loving It, and of course Would You Believe.
This collection is a must buy for any Get Smart or Don Adams fan.

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25 DVD set consisting of 5 separate seasons, each in its own colorful slipcase, all enclosed in a telephone booth slipcase. The set contains all 138 episodes of the Get Smart TV series, and has been remastered and restored for DVD. The set's special features conatin over 9 hours of bonus material including never before seen bloopers, interviews and commentaries, and an introduction to each episode by Barbara Feldon (Agent 99).

Classic TV Comedy: The Red Skelton Show/The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show

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Rescue From Gilligans Island - 1978 Reunion Movie

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DVD contains Gilligan movie plus Bonus features: a Little Rascals classic called Spooky Hooky, an interactive movie trivia game that you play right on your TV, and it keeps score, and a DVD dictionary of DVD technology with over 50,000 topics discussed in detail!

Get A Life

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 2.5 of 5

DON'T BUY 1 out of 5 stars.
7 of 10 people found this review helpful.

This had to be the worst movie ever made...I have seen better acting in a high school play...no story to find...no cute guys what so ever...odd film quality...the only good thing about this movie was my fast forward button on my remote...these reviewers must have been part of the production staff trying to unload copies of this waste (DO NOT BUY THIS MOVIE)

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"I want a straight lover who will be gay just for me!" boldly declares Jaime in front of his abusive shrink, propelling the plot of a disenfranchised gay guy simply looking for himself. Jaime (Brian Campbell) searches his hometown of Chicago desperately looking for love, acceptance, and happiness in some very interesting and surprising places. His extremely difficult challenge is finding a straight man that will be gay just for him! Along the way, Jaime meets some fascinating and colorful people, in addition to many extremely hot and sexy guys (both straight & gay), all leading to new and surprising insights into his own life. In the end, Jaime is amazed to discover the one person he never thought he would - himself!

Get a Life with Loretta LaRoche

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Get fit. Get healthy. Get a life! Excercise and a healthy lifestyle don't have to be a chore and a bore -- Loretta LaRoche and her all-star wellness team of lifestyle experts, nutrition counselors, exercise physiologists, and personal trainers, make it fun and energizing. They'll show you how easy it is to start exercising, lose weight, stay motivated, reduce stress -- and maintain your good results. As Loretta says, "Half the battle is just showing up!" "Get a Life with Loretta LaRoche" follows four individuals over three months as they attempt to achieve their fitness and lifestyle goals: From how to avoid the pitfalls of snacking, to learning ways to incorporate fitness into your everyday life, and dealing with obstacles such as recovering from surgery. By watching our participants and their expert coaches, you'll discover how to set goals, initiate change, get fit and sustain results -- without turning your life upside down. With the insanity level of our lives at an all-time high, it's more important than ever to stay calm, happy and fit. Get a Life with Loretta LaRoche will help you tap into your strengths and get a head start on the road to wellness. Now there's only one thing left to do: start!

Burns and Allen

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 3.0 of 5

average, what i expected for the price 3 out of 5 stars.
0 of 0 people found this review helpful.

8 shows, last about 3+ hours...black and white...throw back to old times...inane humor....the carnation milk ads and jingles playing over and over get on the nerves---solved by fast forward. nothing much to be excited over, mildly entertaining-old old jokes, dated humor, no real laughs

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1) Harry Morton’s Secretary 2) Beverly Hills Uplift Society 3) Dance Lessons 4) Gracie’s Bank Account 5) Teen-Age Space Girls 6) Free Trip to Hawaii 7) Home Wedding 8) Gracie’s Car Accident

Official Green Hornet Old Time Radio OTR Mp3 Collection on DVD - Offering 91 Different Shows and Appearances for a Total of 40 Hours of Listening Enjoyment

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Enjoy all your favorite Green Hornet Old Time Radio episodes on this DVD packed with 91 different shows and appearances for a total of 40 hours of listening enjoyment. This product is a DVD collection of Old Time Radio mp3s. It is designed to be played on your computer DVD drive with standard mp3 software - like Windows media player or its equivalent on Macintosh computers. The image shows the front cover of the DVD.

Get Smart: The Complete Collection

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Total reviews: 7 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

The old spy in the spoof trick! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Smart. Maxwell Smart. The dumbest spy in the world, who fights on behalf of the forces of goodness and niceness, and succeeded in making democracy vs. communism a lot more entertaining. With the comic trio of Don Adams, Barbara Feldon and Edward Platt, this hilarious spy spoof is still funny today.

Don Adams is Agent 86, Maxwell Smart, a not-so-bright spy with an endless arsenal of strange devices and odd sayings. The bumbling spy at a top-secret government agency called Control, which is responsible for keeping the free world free. Backing him up is his beautiful partner/love interest Agent 99 (Barbara Feldon) and his long-suffering Chief (Eward Platt) who puts up with Smart's constant mistakes.

Together with 99 (whom he marries late in the series), and the Chief (and his faithful dog Fang), Max battles the forces of badness and rottenness -- namely, the anti-Control called KAOS. They battle against their archnemesis Siegfried and a bunch of other KAOS agents, with explosive paintings, lovable robots, explosive pianos, evil hippies, and much more.

"Missed it by that much!" Maxwell Smart's catchphrases and goofy confidence made him the perfect antidote to the suave James Bond. Unlike Bond and similar movie spies, Max succeeds out of luck and bumbling more often than skill... but somehow, he still succeeds.

The comic timing is a little awkward at the very beginning, but rapidly gets its footing. What's really funny is the endless spoofery -- Max is given all sorts of weird gadgets, including the legendary "shoe-phone," and he faces off against all sorts of cartoonish villains. And it has dozens and dozens of movie spoofs -- "The Great Escape," "The Most Dangerous Game," "Maltese Falcon," "King Kong," and even the Bond movie "Goldfinger."

The political clime of the mid 1960s is all over the series, especially in the form of KAOS. But fortunately they don't get preachy -- KAOS is merely a big evil organization, no more. Some references are dated, and this definitely debuted before the era of political correctness (there's a bizarre episode about American Indians threatening the US government, and the Claw is funny if un-PC).

Don Adams MAKES this series, with his quirky facial expressions, nasal voice and odd body language. His Max overestimates his own skill and believes himself to be a sexy, karate-chopping Bondian treasure, though he survives mostly by luck ("Missed it by that much!").

Barbara Feldon is the least quirky of the cast, serving as the "straight woman" for Max, as well as the brains for his adventures. Edward Platt is just wonderful as the long-suffering, stressed-out Chief, who always looks slightly frayed, and Bernie Kopell is hysterical as the stiff-backed, volatile Siegfried.

It should be noted that right now, the entire series is only available directly from Time Life, with a big price tag (I was lucky enough to watch a relative's copy). Wait until Fall 2007, and it will be widely available at a lower price. They're also exquisitely remastered, with all that sixties colour, and they've reinserted little bits that were cut for commercials. It actually improves the flow.

It's been decades since "Get Smart" was first aired, but it is still gutsplittingly funny. You'll roll around on the floor, laughing yourself sick... and... loving it.

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Collector's Box includes all 138 original episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series, each remastered and restored for flawless clarity, on 25 DVDs with 9 hours of bonus material, featuring: Never-Before-Seen Bloopers Interviews and Commentaries Rare TV Footage Introductions to Every Episode by Barbara Feldon (Agent 99)

Gilmore Girls - The Complete First Four Seasons

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Total reviews: 3 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A great way to collect the first four of a great television show 5 out of 5 stars.
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I've had one and only one tiny complaint with THE GILMORE GIRLS on DVD: it has come out a bit too slow. While the industry standard has become releasing the previous season's DVD set shortly before or just after the start of the forthcoming season, THE GILMORE GIRLS even after the release of Season Four will be a solid season behind. As someone who would like to evangelize new viewers to the show, I would love to be able to direct friends to all previous seasons so that they can be completely caught up for the current one. Still, I'm delighted that all four seasons are now available, and moreover at a very decent price. The key is that the basic list price is low for a four-season set, allowing resellers like Amazon to make the sell price after discount very low indeed.

What makes this such a great show? Like so many shows of recent years, it is the writing. In film studies, the ultimate responsibility for the quality of a movie is usually laid at the feet of the director. Even when given a quality script, a director is able to sculpt and mold it either through rewriting or reinterpreting, or changing the tone through the way it is filmed. But in television the writer working in conjunction with the executive producers (who provide the overall vision) is the most important contributor. If you have bad scripts, no how brilliant the director or how talented the cast, you have a bad show. Luckily, THE GILMORE GIRLS has great writers, a large number of the scripts written either by series creator Amy Sherman-Palladino and her husband Daniel Palladino. If you've ever seen her interviewed, you know who serves as the basis for Lorelai Gilmore, the central character on the show: she's merely the self-projection of Amy Sherman.

So what makes the writing so good on the show? First and foremost, it contains the wittiest, sharpest, and most frenetically paced dialogue on TV. For sheer quantity of words it is probably the most loquacious show in the history of TV. Luckily, because the words are good, that is a good thing. It is often said of the show that whereas most one-hour shows shoot with a 45-50 page script, THE GILMORE GIRLS usually shoots with a 75-80 page script. If you love great talk, this is your dream show. While virtually all other shows at least have segments where you get to watch characters do things, all the characters on this show do is talk. And they all talk brilliantly. In interviews Sherman has acknowledged that her models for the conversation on the show were comedies from the 1930s and 1940s such as the Thin Man series and Howard Hawks's HIS GIRL FRIDAY. All the actors talk fast, and the words simply pour off the screen, and much of the dialogue is witty, funny, and intelligent. The only show whose talk I enjoyed more was BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER. It is the only I show currently watch just to see the characters talk to one another.

The second major reason the show is such a joy to watch is the first rate cast, most of all the wonderful Lauren Graham, who manages to imbue Lorelai Gilmore with such charm. The show revolves around the lives of a mother and daughter, both named Lorelai, though the daughter is called for some reason I no longer recall Rory. Lorelai became pregnant when she was 16, had Rory, and left her parents when they tried to control both her and the way her daughter was to be raised. She rushed immediately to the Independence Inn (its name is surely not accidental) in Stars Hollow, thirty minutes south of Hartford, Connecticut, and asked for any job she could get, taking a job as a maid, and over the years working her way up to be the manager. Her daughter Rory is more like her best friend than child, and in many ways they are complementary opposites, Lorelai ebullient and loquacious and unbookish (though obviously intelligent); Rory reserved and quieter (though a match for her mother's machine gun conversational style) and a passionate reader. Apart from Lorelai's parents, most of the rest of the cast consists of residents of Stars Hollow, such as Luke, the owner of the diner that provides Lorelai with the gallons of coffee she requires to survive and ongoing potential object of romance; Sookie, the chef at the inn, Lorelai's best friend, and future business partner; Miss Patty, grand dame and aging bon vivant who runs the local dance studio; Taylor, the head of the town council, local business, and fundamental pain in everyone's collective butts; Kirk, a minor presence in the show at first, but eventually major oddity of Stars Hollow and the apparent holder of every job in town; Rory's best friend Lain, the daughter of a rigidly devout Seventh Day Adventist and Korean owner of an antique store (Lain hides the finest collection of alternative and pop music in town underneath the floor boards in her room); Dean, Rory's first boyfriend; and Paris, Rory's ultra driven and competitive classmate who starts off as foe but ends up her friend (or at close to a friend as Paris is capable of having). There are numerous plot lines, but these are merely excuses to have the various marvelous characters interact and provide occasions for them to talk to one another.

THE GILMORE GIRLS truly is a wonderful, unique show. Essentially a comedy, it never becomes in any sense a situation comedy; while dealing primarily with human relationships, it never, ever feels at all like a soap opera. And in an era where shows love to uncover the seedy underbelly of American life, the worst that happens in Stars Hollow is tame compared to what happens on any other show on TV. Well, at least until Season Five, but even then the worst isn't that bad.

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Welcome to quaint Stars Hollow, Connecticut. People often mistake Independence Inn's manager, headstrong single mom Lorelai Gilmore, and her equally willful teenage daughter, Rory, for sisters. Lorelai and Rory cope with the same emotional ups and downs, including Lorelai's overbearing, old-money parents and the joys and frustrations of the male gender. This heartfelt, humorous drama appeals to young and old alike with its blend of traditional family issues and hip, contemporary attitude.

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