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![The Mary Tyler Moore Show: The Complete First Season [4 Discs] [DVD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/304b2327-370a-41e7-956a-951dd4939472.png)
This box set contains all twenty-four episodes of the celebrated situation comedy The Mary Tyler Moore Show. The episodes on this set are titled "Love Is All Around", "Today I Am a Ma'am", "Bess, You Is My Daughter Now", "Divorce Isn't Everything", "Keep Your Guard Up", "Support Your Local Mother", "Toulouse-Lautrec Is One of My Favorite Artists", "The Snow Must Go On", "Bob and Rhoda and Teddy and Mary", "Assistant Wanted, Female", "1040 or Fight", "Anchorman Overboard", "He's All Yours", "Christmas and the Hard-Luck Kid", "Howard's Girl", "Party Is Such Sweet Sorrow", "Just a Lunch", "Second-Story Story", "We Closed In Minneapolis", "Hi!", "The Boss Isn't Coming to Dinner", "A Friend in Deed", "Smokey the Bear Wants You", and "The Forty-Five-Year-Old Man". Each of the episodes is presented in the original broadcast aspect ratio of 1.33:1. English, Spanish, and French soundtracks are rendered in Dolby Digital Mono. English and Spanish subtitles are accessible. Supplemental materials include a ninety minute documentary about the creation of the first season, commentary tracks for some of the episodes, a trivia quiz, a still photo gallery, and clips of the show winning awards at the Emmys.
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from Nevada
The first season of this epic series is the perfect choice for anyone wanting to take a trip down memory lane to when television had some excellent sitcoms. The cast of "Mary Tyler Moore" is fantastic. This series contains some of the best episodes ever written for television. This collection features the entire first season, as well as some old CBS promos and a "Making Of..." Special.
I would recommend this collection to any pop culture or TV history buff, or fan.
I would recommend this collection to any pop culture or TV history buff, or fan.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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By far, Universal's best release of this epic film
on September 21, 2007
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from Nevada
Bela Lugosi's Dracula is the only vampire worthy of the name.
The film itself is wonderful, but without Lugosi, it wouldn't be anything to shout about. Lugosi makes the movie. He is the movie. But, I digress; the best part of the film itself is the first part that takes place in Transylvania and Castle Dracula. But the entire movie is well worthwhile, especially the scenes between Lugosi's Dracula and Edward Van Sloan's Prof. Van Helsing. It is a great picture that deserves a great deal of respect and honor.
This collection is by far the best Universal has put out for the film. There are plenty of extras, commentaries, and goodies to keep you happy for a number of hours. I would recommend this particular release over the others any day.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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If only Sony-MGM did it the way they should have..
on September 21, 2007
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from Nevada
This series is wonderful. The casting is great, the style is classy, and Bob Cobert's score is perfect.
These episodes are the ones that introduced to the world of Dark Shadows, including the original series.
What makes this collection worthwhile is the episodes themselves. There are no extras, Sony chose to present the episodes in a widescreen format when they were meant to be shown in full-screen, and the menu art is blasé. They could have done far better, but they chose not to.
Other than the butchered job Sony did on the release of the series, the series itself is great.
I just hope that someday they give this mini-series a proper release, and also produce a soundtrack CD for it. It deserves it.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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from Nevada
This superb first collection focuses on the arrival of Victoria Winters in Collinsport, Maine, where she will become governess to young David Collins, the heir of a very old and very "haunted" house. This collection was my first chance to see the episodes that started it all, and they have exceeded my expectations. Every part of these episodes is truly unique.
The casting is superb. Joan Bennett, Mitch Ryan, Kathryn Leigh Scott, Louis Edmonds, David Hennessy, and Alexandra Moltke are all perfect in their roles. The cinematography is superb. The music is superb. The story is superb.
Being a very early soap, I was expecting far less, but these episodes are unlike anything that's ever been on television. The tension, the drama, and the mystery that brought "Dark Shadows" to Beatles' fame is glowing in these episodes. I just wished they would have kept with this style throughout the series and after the introduction of Barnabas Collins, the 200 year old vampire (played by Jonathan Frid) that brought the show tremendous success.
I highly recommend this collection to any of fan of "Dark Shadows", Pop Culture, Television Buff, or Soap fan. "Dark Shadows: The Beginning" should've been called "Dark Shadows: The Best".
I would recommend this to a friend!
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![Dark Shadows: The Complete Dark Shadows Music Soundtrack Collection [CD]](https://pisces.bbystatic.com/prescaled/500/500/image2/BestBuy_US/images/products/c6638963-2246-4561-b3fa-17d41eee09e7.jpg)
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A Superb Collection - Dark Shadows Lives On!
on September 9, 2007
Posted by: AuraOfForeboding
from Nevada
This soundtrack collection has nearly every musical cue used on the classic cult television series of the 1960s, "Dark Shadows". Each track brings back so many memories. Because this is an "archive collection", the cues are all separate and in separate tracks. Some cues are as short as 6 seconds, while others go on for over 4 minutes. All the original variations of the eerie theme song, as well as "Josette's Music Box", "Quentin's Theme" ("Shadows of the Night"), and "Ode to Angelique", are included in this collection. As well as having all the "hit songs" from the show, this collection features all the little musical cues that made Dark Shadows so thematic, so wonderful.
The Complete Music Collection has all of Bob Cobert's original music, but it doesn't have some of the songs that played on the Blue Whale Juke Box, like "Yesterday" (in the early episodes), or the first-used and quite inferior Music Box Theme for Josette (composed by a Canadian Composer and in the ABC Archives) (The Cobert version of Josette's Music Box [the one included in this collection] is the one we all know and love.), but it has pretty much everything else. This collection is so grand, and the icing on the cake is an interview with the composer himself, Bob Cobert. Now we just need to have the complete soundtrack to the 1991 Revival Series of "Dark Shadows", because Cobert's arrangements and songs in that series were beyond superb.
The Complete Music Collection has all of Bob Cobert's original music, but it doesn't have some of the songs that played on the Blue Whale Juke Box, like "Yesterday" (in the early episodes), or the first-used and quite inferior Music Box Theme for Josette (composed by a Canadian Composer and in the ABC Archives) (The Cobert version of Josette's Music Box [the one included in this collection] is the one we all know and love.), but it has pretty much everything else. This collection is so grand, and the icing on the cake is an interview with the composer himself, Bob Cobert. Now we just need to have the complete soundtrack to the 1991 Revival Series of "Dark Shadows", because Cobert's arrangements and songs in that series were beyond superb.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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