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The Little Rascals: The Complete Collection

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I've seen better bootlegs than this "Official" DVD 1 out of 5 stars.
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Very sad. How they can misrepresent the contents amazes me. The Cabin Fever set was much better. At least they didn't use Blackhawk Films prints. Somebody at Genius certainly wasn't. Somebody over there screwed-up big time. They'd have had a hit on their hands had they done the set correctly.

Horrible quality 1 out of 5 stars.
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I transfered my old vhs tapes to dvd and MY dvds look better than these!

The prints contained in this collection are not the great Cabin Fever prints that were remastered. This collection looks and sounds awful. No effort was made to improve the quality dispite what the box claims and the information pamplet contained in the package is full of misinformation. This is NOT worth buying. Save your Cabin Fever VHS tapes. I transfered my old vhs tapes to dvd and MY dvds look better than these.

Not the Disaster that Some Would Have You Believe 4 out of 5 stars.
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The set is much better than many are making it out to be. The majority of the shorts on this set open up with the RHI logo--those are the same prints used for the Cabin Fever releases. I was disappointed that some of these open with Blackhawk titles, rather than the original titles. I can't fault the image quality on the "Blackhawk" shorts viewed to date though. With one possible exception, they're sourced from 35mm elements, and they look and sound as good as I'll ever expect them to look and sound.

I've compared "Hide and Shriek" on this release (opens with Blackhawk titles) to the same short on a Cabin Fever DVD compilation. Visually, the two versions look virtually identical, with the only discernible difference being the original title cards in the Cabin Fever DVD.

The Cabin Fever releases from over a decade ago were less than pristine as well, especially the two reelers from 1929 and into the early 30s. Given the age of the shorts, and the checkered history of "Our Gang," it's a miracle that most of these look as good as they do today.

I was disappointed when one of my favorite one-reelers from the late 30s, "Feed 'em and Weep," opened with Blackhawk title cards. Once the short began, all was quickly forgiven. Between the gorgeous image quality, Johnny Arthur's performance as Darla's father, and the impeccable timing of the kids, all was right with the world for the next 10 minutes or so.

I'm very grateful that I didn't read the reviews of this set before opening it, as I too might have returned it unopened. It would have truly been my loss.

***Footnote*** Since getting this set, it has appeared to my own eyes, when looking at some of the shorts with Blackhawk titles, as if many or most of the title cards were taken from 16mm source material, followed by 35mm for the shorts themselves. I'm now convinced, for reasons that I don't understand, that this is the case.

As an example, for those who have this set, try watching "The Awful Tooth," on disc #7. The title opens in a less than promising fashion, with a fairly bad looking Blackhawk title card. It's very scratchy, there's noticeable vertical jumping, and the brightness/contrast of the lettering varies constantly. The Blackhawk opening, as it runs, slips slightly to the left, leaving a narrow white strip on the right side of the screen. To discern this, viewing on a computer monitor would be very helpful, as any overscan will obliterate this. Once the titles conclude, that white strip on the right disappears and a beautiful and stable 35mm transfer of this short begins.

Why did this happen? I have no idea. Bizarre legal issues that forced the removal of the title cards for some of these shorts, perhaps? Issues that did not arise when Cabin Fever brought out their own releases in the 90s? I wish I knew the answer.

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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 10/28/2008 Run time: 1372 minutes

The Addams Family - The Complete Series

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The Addams Family - Volume One
If The Munsters was a traditional family sitcom as reimagined by Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, The Addams Family is a macabre twist on Father Knows Best. The Munster and Addams clans made their TV debuts in 1964 and lasted two seasons before the networks buried them. The Addamses are now gloriously resurrected in this three-disc set that digs up the series' first 22 episodes (oddly, 12 shy of the complete first season). Inspired by Charles Addams's New Yorker cartoons, The Addams Family is fiendishly funny, with a dead-on cast that indelibly embodies Addams's characters. John Astin brings a demented glee to eccentric, frighteningly wealthy Gomez Addams. Carolyn Jones is bewitching as his pre-goth wife, Morticia, whom the Beatles might have had in mind when they sang, "Baby's in Black." Jackie Coogan is the electrifying Uncle Fester, with Ted Cassidy (who famously took a kick in the groin from Paul Newman in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) is the monstrous butler Lurch, whose "You rang?" entered the pop culture lexicon.

The Munsters was family friendly. The Addams Family is more sophisticated and wickedly funny. As Gomez notes at one point, "There's a touch of madness" in the Addams household, where "every day is Halloween." Bear rugs growl, a disembodied hand, Thing, delivers the mail, and a torture rack is good for what ails you. The children, Wednesday (Lisa Loring) and older brother Pugsley (Ken Weatherwax), enjoy such hobbies as playing autopsy or exploding model trains. Gomez and Morticia were one of television's most passionate couples, with Gomez being driven to arm-kissing ecstasy whenever Morticia spoke French. The last episode included in this collection, "Amnesia in the Addams Family," is a classic in which Gomez is rendered "normal" following a conk on the head. The look of disgust on Morticia and Lurch's face when he asks for a glass of milk is priceless. The "altogether ooky" extras include three episode commentaries, a featurette on Charles Addams, reminiscences from cast members Astin, Loring, and Weatherwax, a segment on the creation of the classic snap-snap theme song ("They're creepy and they're kooky...."), and the inevitable theme song sing-along. The Addams Family at last on DVD? As Gomez might exclaim: "Capital!" --Donald Liebenson

The Addams Family - Volume Two
Based on the original Goth cartoons by Charles "Chas" Addams that ran for decades in the New Yorker magazine, The Addams Family television sitcom portrayed a monster family whose moribund physical appearances were counteracted by each family member's exuberance for passion and adventure. This Volume Two DVD contains twenty-one episodes, including the last of season one and the whole of season two, plus commentaries, and a featurette about the cinematic impact The Addams Family had on American television culture. Premiering the same year as The Munsters, this short-lived series was one of the first two shows to take issue with the Leave It To Beaver aesthetic that dominated television throughout the 50s, in which perfect families narrowly defined normality in the American home. Instead, it starred a family feared by neighbors, who within the boundaries of their haunted Victorian mansion invented their own thriving, not to mention fun, culture. The Addams Family proved that outsiders could be extremely gracious, educated, and interesting, even if eccentricities rendered their looks a threat.

These episodes include the original cast: Gomez (John Astin) and Morticia (Carolyn Jones), Uncle Fester (Jackie Coogan), the two children Wednesday and Pugley, butler Lurch, hairy Cousin Itt, and the enigmatic hand, Thing, who plays castanets for the married couples' cha cha parties, and looks up things in phone books. Macabre humor in each episode reverses average, expected logic. Flower arranging, for Morticia, involves de-budding and stripping roses of all but the thorns. In "Morticia, The Sculptress," Gomez bribes a local art dealer to buy Morticia's hideous art at the Addams Family's own expense, revealing Gomez to be a strange but loving husband. In most episodes, such as "Lurch, The Teenage Idol" and "Cousin Itt and the Vocational Counselor," The Addams' aim to help their loved ones succeed, in these cases Lurch, as a harpsichord-playing pop star, and Itt, on a career search for an unintelligible, hair-covered little person. The Addams Family house interior still looks exquisite forty years later, full of taxidermied animals, antique furniture, carnivorous plants, and medieval charm. One watches this show not only for its sets and costumes, but also for its refreshingly wide take on what successful families can look like. --Trinie Dalton

The Addams Family - Volume Three
Product description: The Addams Family is not your typical family: they take delight in most of the things that "normal" people would be terrified of. Relive the misadventures of America's favorite frightfully funny family.

The Donna Reed Show: The Complete First Season

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Please, Donna fans don't hate me! 4 out of 5 stars.
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I, like millions of others, remember seeing "The Donna Reed Show" on Nick-At-Nite in the late 80s through the early 90s. I had never seen the show before Nick aired it and I fell in love with it and the Stone family and have anxiously awaited a release of the series to DVD. I was thrilled to find out that we'd be getting a full season (37 episodes!) release this fall. After major disappointments this year with a lousy "My Three Sons" half-season set with altered music and a "Father Knows Best" release containing incomplete and inferior quality prints I didn't know what to expect of "The Donna Reed Show." So, does the DVD release live up to my hopes? I would have to say it falls a little short of my expectations. I'll break it down below.

THE QUALITY OF THE SHOWS:
I have to be honest here (and Donna fans don't get mad!) the episodes don't look as good on the DVDs as I remember them from Nick-At-Nite. I even got out a few VHS episodes I had taped off Nick to compare. I remember the shows on Nick as being cleaner and sharper. The prints on the DVDs seem a bit fuzzy to me.

I don't know the reason why these episodes aren't as crisp as Nick's except that this DVD release has nothing to do with Columbia/Sony (which was originally Screen Gems back in the day). Sony syndicated the show to Nick and, obviously, supplied the tapes they aired. This DVD has no mention of Sony/Columbia/Screen Gems, etc. so this leads me to believe they no longer have any hold on the series. I'd be curious to know who has the master negatives to these shows and if they may still reside in some Sony film vault.

This whole Screen Gems thing leads me to another complaint. I realize this next thing is very nit-picky but I miss the old Screen Gems ID at the very end of each episode. The shows on these DVDs end very abruptly after the Todon logo appears and the Screen Gems ID has been cut. Yes, I know this is minor but I still miss it.

THE PACKAGING:
This is another area of complaint for me. Okay, I know this is purely subjective but I found the graphic design on this set to be a little amateurish compared to many other classic TV series sets. Even Shout Factory's "Father Knows Best" release with it's crappy quality prints had slick, high quality, graphic design. I just wanted more for Donna Reed.

WRAP-UP:
Would I recommend this set for purchase? Even with all my complaints (some admittedly nit-picky) I would definitely suggest this DVD set of "The Donna Reed Show" complete first season. You get all 37 uncut episodes (at least I think as they all run about 25 mins) for a very affordable price. Since this series may never be released on DVD again I would highly recommend getting it while you can.

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Studio: Arts Alliance America Release Date: 10/28/2008

Perry Mason - The Third Season - Vol. 2

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A minority opinion 5 out of 5 stars.
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[Note: I entered this same review for Season 3, Vol. 1, too.]

I appreciate the reasons for consumer gripes regarding the Perry Mason DVD releases. Like other Amazon reviewers, I'd like to pay less and see complete seasons rather than half-seasons released at a time.

I'd also like two-dollar gas, killer abs, and a winning lottery ticket, but they're not gonna happen either, so I'll just say here and now that Paramount has done a superb job of remastering the PM series for us diehards, and I encourage the company to stick with the project.

When I look at the quality of the prints, that the episodes have been restored in their entirety, that the episodes are generally longer than most of today's popular dramatic series, and the plain fact that paying several bucks for each episode of one of my all-time favorite shows is no big hit on my wallet when it's spread out over months and years, I'm okay with the pricing and staggered releases. (And no, I don't work for or represent Paramount, and yes, like everyone else I have only so much disposable income in any given month.)

I even bought the PM 50th Anniversary set for its extras and for the lovely Barbara Hale (sometimes joined by series producer/director Arthur Marks) providing the intros. It was worth the price and the duplication of episodes.

I expect many of my fellow Amazon reviewers will take the time to skewer me for my take on Paramount's approach, and that's okay. It's all a matter of opinion and perspective. But for me, the fact that Paramount is providing us fans with such great prints of the PM series is cause for celebration. "You get what you pay for," the saying goes, and my money is being well-spent.

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Perry Mason is an attorney who specializes in defending seemingly indefensible cases. With the aid of his secretary Della Street and investigator Paul Drake, he often finds that by digging deeply into the facts, startling facts can be revealed. Often relying on his outstanding courtroom skills, he often tricks or traps people into unwittingly admitting their guilt.

The Prisoner - Complete Series Megaset (40th Anniversary Edition)

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Patrick McGoohans classic 17-episode British TV series, THE PRISONER, has been mesmerizing American viewers since its CBS debut in the summer of 1968. Now, just in time for its 40th anniversary A&E presents this definitive collectors edition of the cult classic series. Fully restored and digitally remastered, THE PRISONER is presented in the fan-preferred episode order, offering a chronological interpretation of perhaps the most unusual and challenging television series ever filmed. After resigning from a top-secret position, a man is abducted from his London home and taken to a mysterious place known only as The Village. Residents of The Village, known only by numbers, are held captive on account of their valuable knowledge. The Prisoner--Number Six--must protect his mind in order to preserve his humanity while he struggles to discover the identity of Number One and achieve freedom by escaping from the repressive grasp of his captors. Set includes all 17 complete color episodes. DVD Features: Ultra-rare original footage of the 1966 location shooting, accompanied by commentary with Bernie Williams; Bonus Program: THE PRISONER VIDEO COMPANION; Rare, Alternate Version of the Episode "The Chimes of Big Ben"; Rarely Seen "Foreign File Cabinet" Footage; Rarely Seen "Textless" Intro & Outro; Original Broadcast Trailers; Original Series Promotional Trailer; Gallery of Original Production and Promotional Materials; Production Stills Galleries; Interactive Map of the Village; Prisoner Trivia; Interactive Menus; Scene Selection NEW LIMITED EDITION COLLECTORS BOOKLET: 60 Fully Illustrated Pages; Hidden Mysteries Surrounding THE PRISONER; Complete Series Guide of All 17 Episodes; Detailed Color Fold-out Map of The Village

The Adventures of Ma & Pa Kettle, Vol. 1 (The Egg and I / Ma and Pa Kettle / Ma and Pa Kettle Go to Town / Ma and Pa Kettle Back on the Farm)

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"Come'n git it!" 4 out of 5 stars.
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This DVD contains the first four Ma and Pa Kettle movies from the 40s and 50s. Ma (Marjorie Main), the screeching but loving matriarch and Pa (Percy Kilbride), the lazy father of 15, are first introduced in The Egg and I which stars Fred MacMurray and Claudet Colbert as newlywed city folk who buy a run-down farm next door to the Kettles. If you liked "Green Acres," you'll love this movie.

The Kettles next star in their own movie, The Further Adventures of Ma & Pa Kettle in which Pa wins a model home of the future and they leave their ramshackle farm for a while.

The third entry is Ma & Pa Kettle Go to Town - the town being New York City. Pa enters another contest and wins the trip, where they get mixed up with gangsters.

Last is Ma & Pa Kettle Back on the Farm in which the Kettles become grandparents.

I saw these movies as a child and while they aren't quite the knee-slappers I remember, they're all good, clean fun for the whole family. The humor comes from down-home goodness rather than funny dialogue; slacker Pa and workhorse Ma cope with whatever comes their way with good 'ole horsesense. They sure don't make'em like this anymore. Now I'm ready to see the next four movies in Volume 2!

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Contains: the egg and i: the further adventures of ma and pa kettle: ma and pa kettle go to town: and ma and pa kettle back on the farm. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/10/2004 Run time: 345 minutes

Father Knows Best: Season Two

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Season Two looks great! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Season Two arrived today. I watched the episode Kathy Makes Magic. Its great. Uncut with fine video and audio. Much improved over the quality of Season One. As many times as I've seen this episode it was a real treat seeing scenes I'd never seen before.

You'll Love this DVD Set 5 out of 5 stars.
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I help maintain the fatherknowsbest.com website, and i just want to stop the uncertainity whether or not the season 2 dvds are complete. They are complete with each episode running about 26 minutes. There are no music alterations (like they did to "the Fugitive" or "My Three Sons".) The Screen Gems logo is on the ending credits, and some episodes have the sponsor opening and closing credits, things true fans love to see. The episodes came from uncut masters from the Sony Vaults. It is 50 years old, and originally was on film, so you will get the occasional specks that film has, but the overall picture is so sharp you can actually see the nail marks on some walls! This DVD set is about as close to perfection as you can get. (Minor flaws: the expanded version of "First Disillusionment" doesn't have the opening credits, and they used 1st season episode photos in the menus of the DVDs). For most everyone who watched the series in the past 25 years, we only got 22 minutes of each episode, so to see the full 26 minutes is a real treat! Definitely get this!

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Studio: Uni Dist Corp (music) Release Date: 11/11/2008 Run time: 900 minutes

Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection

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my life is complete 5 out of 5 stars.
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wow, what can i say. now i never again have to play sick and stay home from work when there is a twilight zone marathon. the price has gone up since my purchase...but at the time,the price i paid, it's literally about 60 cents an episode. priceless. i paid for the entire series what other stores would charge me for two.thanks amazon!

A Rod Serling Party! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Over the years (before the series got snatched up by the Sci-Fi Channel) I always tried to tape as many episodes as I could whenever KTLA, a local channel out of Los Angeles, broadcast their annual Fourth of July or Thanksgiving Twilight Zone marathons.

Of course the stuff recorded from TV was always butchered in some way; not including the fact that you had to deal with the dang commercials. When CBS started releasing some VHS versions in the 90's, I wasn't sold at all. There were only a handful of random episodes on each tape AND each tape was kind of pricey.

Even when CBS finally released the series on DVD a few years back, something was still missing. Wasn't until they put together TZ - The Complete Definitive Collection that this series gets the release it deserves.

Every episode is included in this collection seperated by season. Each episode is presented whole and complete including Rod Serling's special preview segment which I've never had the chance to see before getting this collection. There are many many specials including commentary from some of the original stars, unbelievable!

Of course I have many favorite episodes and memories from this magical series. One episode in particular that I am very fond of is "A Passage for Trumpet" starring Jack Klugman. I relate deeply to the transformative quality of this story and greatly admire Klugman's intensity and creativity in portraying this character.

No doubt Twilight Zone is a very very special series and finally there is a complete DVD release that properly showcases the wonder and magic of The Twilight Zone. Long live Rod Serling and long live Twilight Zone: The Complete Definitive Collection!

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All five seasons of the program hosted by Rod Serling featuring tales of the unexpected.
Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 3-OCT-2006
Media Type: DVD

Mission Impossible - The Fifth TV Season

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This set is OKAY - it has NOT been CBS/Paramount-ized ! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Mission: Impossible 5th season set

Well, to my fellow CBS/Paramount skeptics, I'm glad to report that this 5th season of Mission: Impossible is okay, and has not been bastardized by any tampering from the CBS/Paramount music-changing service labs.

I waited until I had heard from another reviewer before even ordering this set, and still kept my fingers crossed. I've watched a few episodes, and I'm happy with the set. No music has been removed, and, more importantly, none has been injected in.

The video and audio quality is fine, the same as the earlier Mission sets -- but, of course, this is the set where the 1970s "hipness" begins. Dated, yeah, but, at least it's the way it was originally aired.

After the awful and unforgiveable debacle with what CBS/Paramount did to The Fugitive Season 2 Vol. 1, we're all scrutinously skeptical of anything they put to DVD. Let's hope they decide to make good for how they've disappointed us all with The Fugitive. Maybe they'll re-do that set right. Or maybe they'll drop the whole rest of that excellent series. If so, it's their loss as well as ours.

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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/07/2008 Run time: 1155 minutes Rating: Nr

McHale's Navy: Season Four

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McHale's Navy - The Final Season! 5 out of 5 stars.
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The phrase "shape up or ship out" holds a lot of water this season for Lt. Commander Quinton McHale and his fun-lovin' PT 73 crew of goof-offs and gamblers who were transferred to Italy for the show's final 30 episodes in McHale's Navy - Season Four!

After 3 seasons set on the South Pacific island of Taratupa, "McHale and his pirates" are reassigned to duty near the town of Voltafiore where they run afoul the shady Mayor Lugatto (Jay Novello) while continuing to oppose blustery Captain Binghamton and his jittery aide Lt. Carpenter, who are joined this season by Colonel Harrigan (Henry Beckham) and General Bronson (Simon Scott).

Also joining in on Season Four's capers, schemes and hijinks is local Dino Barone (Dick Wilson). As with co-star Tim Conway in Season Three, star Ernest Borgnine also gets to pull double duty this season in a [recurring] dual role as Guiseppe, McHale's italian lookalike cousin in "Guiseppe McHale" and "The Return of Guiseppe".

Guest stars include Jackie Joseph (The Little Shop of Horrors, Josie and the Pussycats), Pat Harrington Jr. (One Day At a Time, The Inspector) and legendary Don Knotts (The Andy Griffith Show, Three's Company).

McHale's Navy, with 138 episodes aired over four seasons (1962-1966), is one of television's longer-lasting military comedies and a classic B&W sitcom favorite of mine. Today you can preserve this classic B&W series in pristine DVD format.

The Shout! Factory release of McHale's Navy - Season Four is a 5-disc (750 min.) set featuring all 30 episodes in Full Frame (1.33:1) video and English mono audio. Here are the episodes and how the discs will be configured, plus original airdates:

Disc 1:
"War, Italian Style" (9/14/1965)
"The Bathtub Thief" (9/21/1965)
"Marriage, McHale Style" (9/28/1965)
"Guiseppe McHale" (10/5/1965)
"A Nip in Time" (10/12/1965)
"Piazza Bighamtoni" (10/19/1965)

Disc 2:
"The Bald-Headed Contessa" (10/26/1965)
"Voltafiore Fish-Fry" (11/2/1965)
"A Wine Cellar Is Not a Home" (11/9/1965)
"Vino, Vino, Who's Got the Vino?" (11/16/1965)
"The McHale Opera Company" (11/23/1965)
"The Good Luck Fountain" (11/30/1965)

Disc 3:
"Blitzkrieg at McHale's Beach" (12/7/1965)
"Reunion for PT 73" (12/14/1965)
"The Return of Guiseppe" (12/21/1965)
"The Boy Scouts of 73" (12/28/1965)
"Fire in the Liquor Locker" (1/4/1966)
"The Fugitive Ensign" (1/11/1966)

Disc 4:
"The Wacky WAC" (1/18/1966)
"La Dolce 73" (1/25/1966)
"McHale's Country Club Caper" (2/8/1966)
"Secret Chimp 007" (2/15/1966)
"36-24-73" (2/22/1966)
"My Son, the Skipper" (3/1/1966)

Disc 5:
"Little Red Riding Doctor" (3/8/1966)
"Who Was That German I Saw You With?" (3/15/1966)
"The McHale Grand Prix" (3/22/1966)
"An Ensign's Best Friend" (3/29/1966)
"Binghamton, at 20 Paces" (4/5/1966)
"Wally for Congress" (4/12/1966)

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Lieutenant Commander Quinton McHale (Ernest Borgnine), Ensign Parker (Tim Conway) and the rest of the oddball crew of PT-73 get onboard for one more season of ship-tipping adventures.


Season 4 finds McHale and company relocated halfway around the world, as they have been transferred off Taratupa Island to an American Naval base in Voltafiore, Italy. Between the scheming Mayor Mario Lugatto (Jay Novello) and Army Colonel Douglas Harrigan (Henry Beckman), reassignment isn t all it s cracked up to be, and with Captain Binghamton (Joe Flynn) out for blood, McHale has his hands full.


From 1962 through 1966, McHale s Navy was a must-see staple of ABC Television. This fourth season marked the end of what has since become one of the true classics of television comedy and includes a hilarious guest appearance from Don Knotts.