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DVD The Best of Mister Ed - Volume 1
"It's been a long time since I was a pony." These immortal words launched one of television's most unlikely, but enduring friendships between architect Wilbur Post and Mister Ed, his talking horse. What better escape from the onslaught of reality television than a thoroughbred example of unreality television? Although, so convincing is Alan Young as Wilbur, and so easy his rapport with his equine costar, that you really do believe a horse can talk (Ed's voice is courtesy of Western character actor Alan Lane). This two-disc set saddles up 21 episodes from the first three seasons of this Golden Globe-winning series, which was recently added to the TV Land stable of '60s retro faves. Director Arthur Lubin knew his way around the barn. He directed the best of the Francis series of talking-mule comedies. While the episode with Mae West is sadly absent, this set does include Ed's memorable encounters with Clint Eastwood (then starring on Rawhide), George Burns (who produced the series' pilot episode), and original diva Zsa Zsa Gabor. Young is a gifted comic actor in his own right, but just as George Burns had his Gracie, Young has his Ed, who gets all the good lines, as when Wilbur congratulates Ed on curing Zsa Zsa's fear of horses. Ed replies, "She cured my fear of Hungarians." But the writers took the show's surreal premise and galloped with it, as when Ed joins the beatnik set in "Ed, the Beachcomber." Sound unbelievable? We'll give Ed the last word, of course, of course. "Don't try to understand it," he advises Wilbur during their first meeting. "It's bigger than both of us." --Donald Liebenson
One of the better shows of the 60s, Alan Young and the gifted trainer of that horse made this work. Excellent supporting cast
including Connie Hines and neighbors (Larry Keating and Edna Skinner in the earlier episodes) and Leon Ames and Florence MacMichael in the later ones.
Ed is a horse who is as stubborn as a mule with some hilarious situations. Very good use of guest stars such as Clint Eastwood, Zsa Zsa Gabor and George Burns in this set, and the amazing Mae
West in the 2nd volume.
This should just be seen and enjoyed. A keeper from the golden age of TV!
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I always loved watching Mr Ed when it was on tv so it's nice to be able to watch it anytime I want to. I love it.
The Best of Mister Ed--Volume One
What a wonderful show Mr. Ed was. Every episode was funny and original and you get 21 of them in this series.
Worth every cent and more and I will watch them over and over again.
I have both "Mister Ed" DVD sets, and both are excellent. The second set has the edge, because by 1964 "Mister Ed" was hitting on all cylinders. This set has at least four classic TV episodes: "Ed Visits a Gypsy" (one of the best-written sitcoms ever, with Ed "itching to have his hoof read" by a gypsy so that he'll know whether the filly he loves will treat him like a doormat if they get married); "Mae West Meets Mister Ed" (hysterical, with Mae getting interested in Wilbur Post's "associate" [the last syllable rhymes with "weight" here] on the phone, because of his "deep masculine voice"); and the two part "Coldfinger" episode (a parody of James Bond wherein Wilbur and Ed stop a plot to smuggle secrets out of the United States via a Chinese woman fan-dancing a wicked "hip code" that... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Alan Young DVD Release Date: Released the 08 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The Catalog of Cool describes Green Acres this way:
To be truly cool, one must genuinely understand the uselessness of logic and reason in a world gone mad.... Eddie Albert (ostensibly sane) spent six seasons appealing to the whacked out citizens of Hooterville to behave in a rational and orderly manner. Naturally, he got just what he deserved--the gradual erosion of his own mental stability. Aficionados of this show like to call it surreal. I call it real life.
All one can add to that, to paraphrase the classic title song, is that DVD is the place for Green Acres to be. Hooterville may have been condemned by critics as a vast wasteland, but as the first season demonstrates, it provides fertile ground for bizarre behavior for a gallery of... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Pat Buttram - Alvy Moore DVD Release Date: Released the 13 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Eva Gabor and the late Eddie Albert continue pleasing their fans in this second season of Green Acres. Sadly,Albert passed away not too long ago(he was born in the 1900's). Fans of GA are also fans of other Paul Henning creations and productions,The Beverly Hillbillies and Petticoat Junction. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Eddie Albert DVD Release Date: Released the 08 March 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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MY FAVORITE MARTIAN is probably not in your list of the top ten sitcoms of the sixties.Upon watching the 37 episodes of this first year,i must say that it comes close in my list.It is not the special effects that makes the show,but the chemistry between BILL BIXBY and RAY WALSTON.Perhaps because i watched too many episodes at once,i prefer the early ones to the last ones.Among the guest stars are BERNIE KOPPELL,MARLO THOMAS,TOM SKERRITT and ALAN HALE.It seems to me that the novelty of the show wears out near the end of season1.Nevertheless,i must say that i liked many episodes like HOW TO BE A HERO WITHOUT REALLY TRYING and MY NEPHEW,THE ARTIST to name only two.Should you buy this set?Yes,but only if you like chocolate brownies... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Alan Rafkin - Byron Paul - James Komack - James V. Kern - Wes Kenney DVD Release Date: Released the 07 September 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I loved the Francis Movies - the before Mr. Ed of the movies. Francis was a wise-cracking, know it all mule, with the voice of the great Chill Wills. Donald O'Connell was Francis' sidekick and they had simply FUN adventures. Most are seldom, if ever seen in the last couple of decades, so this will be a great trip for those who remember them and a chance for children and grandchildren to discover them.
Volume 1 - is for full-length movies
1. Francis the Talking Mule
2. Francis goes to the Races
3. Francis goes to West Point (with William Reynolds and small part by Leonard Nemoy)
4. Francis Cover the Big Town
They are Black and White - for those unfamiliar with the Francis movies, though later ones were in colour.
More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Donald O'Connor - Patricia Medina Director(s): Arthur Lubin DVD Release Date: Released the 01 June 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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