Review(s): DVD Spin City - Michael J. Fox's All-Time Favorites, Vol. 1
Best comic serie ever !
Yes, I think Spin City was the best funny sitcom ever. It's one of the very few clever humor series I've seen in half a century of TV watching. I love Seinfeld, Goodness Gracious Me was hilarious and very smart too, but Spin City never failed to make me laugh my head out and still feel intelligent !
But... the production who decided to issue but a few chosen episodes on a couple of DVD must have been the dummiest bunch of executives to work for a TV channel. They probably got fired since such a stupid decision certainly ended up in a financial failure (who wants a best of of the best ?) but the guys still in place probably decided not to issue the complete seasons because these didn't sell !
So here I am, frustrated as, I guess, thousands of Spin City fans who will hope and wait forever until some smart person is hired and decides to give us what we want.
Come on guys, is it so hard to understand ? What you want is our money, and we're ready and willing to give it to you if only you would sell us the complete seasons. Wouldn't it be a smart move to make ?
I just hope you do, because I will never, I repeat : NEVER spend a single dime on any of these best of DVDs. I'd rather wait for a rerun and tape the whole thing than to approve this terrible mistake by buying it.
Great series, but where are the other episodes??
I'd like to back up the other reviews in here and say that I just LOVE the Spin City series, and it's great to have some dvd releases of it.
But I can't imagine, in my wildest dreams, why it's been decided to only release a few select episodes!?!
Bring out the complete seasons!!! (please *lol)
Surely I can decide myself which are the best episodes?!
Disappointing! Cause even though I love this show, its highly presumptuous to assume the Mr J Fox will know which episodes I'll prefer better than I do myself - what a cheek. This lacks something simply for that reason, thank god other comedy releases give you the benefit of ALL the episodes. I'm hoping that they'll eventually release in that format, and i'd certainly then give it a lot more stars.
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