The production values of the dvd for the second season of "The Doris Day Show" are consistent with that of season one which was truly top shelf! It is a real treat just to open the box to view the beautiful photos of Miss Day actually reflecting the second season. As in the first season, for me, it's the inclusion of the many bonus features that make the collection so special and wonderful. I love the next season previews with the shows opening sequences. It's also great to see all the extra out take footage from the opening. I must congratulate all of those involved with the packaging and dvd design. It's everything I could hope for and I do indeed look forward to seasons 3 - 5 as they continue to be released.
Don't Be Surprised By The Quality
When I saw the first season (I bought it here), I didn't remember how good this show looked and how well it was produced. I shouldn't have been surprised, Doris Day had been Hollywood's #1 female box office attraction in films for such a long time, CBS certainly wouldn't hold back the bucks on a star of her magnitude.
The network was so pleased to get Doris, they dealt her a "Ft. Knox hand" as Variety headlined. CBS was weary of Lucille Ball threatening to leave if she didn't get more money at the conclusion of each contract, they felt that top movie queen, Doris Day, could quell the cantankerous Miss Ball. Everybody expected fireworks between the two icons (Lucy of TV; Day of films). It didn't happen. Both ladies had the utmost respect for the other's talent and legend, even posing for the press with one another.
The Doris Day Show was of much better quality than the overblown Here's Lucy or The Lucy Show or whatever Ms. Ball was doing at the time. But, in the late 60s, during the beginning of the sexual revolution, Day was dissed because she was perceived as no longer being in the "mainstream." She did not smoke pot or commit adultery in her films, her personal life was not in scandal (save for her name being briefly mentioned in the Charles Manson mess), so a certain portion of the public didn't feel that she was "cool." They tried to make a joke out of Miss Day's clean living. They failed.
The feelings about her lingered throughout the '70s and '80s (probably the reason this series was ignored for syndication). In hindsight, perhaps that was a GOOD thing! Now, the series is being greatly appreciated by Day's core fans and the legions of new ones (world-wide) who are just discovering this talented lady.
I look forward to the second season.
This series rocks!
I have waited for years for this show to come out on DVD, I love the first season which I have been watching over and over again since I got it and I can't wait for season 2 which I have already preordered. Each season just gets better and better with this show. From the second season on, Doris is working in San Francisco and in season 3, moves to a fabo apartment in the city. Each season becomes more contemporary. She was the first single working mom on tv and this was a full year before Mary Tyler Moore. What most people dont realize is that "The Doris Day show" has more episodes and ran longer than the Brady Bunch. But since the show has not been seen since its original run people don't remember it. My friends who never saw it have LOVED it. The high production values and sets of the first season really impressed them. This is a MUST have for any Doris fan. The opening credits of the seasons get better each year as well, topping off with the fabo sprial staircase entrance in the later seasons. A must have for any Doris fan.
After her long and wholesome run as America's Sweetheart, Doris Day quit movies with this well-scrubbed picture. With Six You Get Eggroll--oof, what a title--caught the wave of blended-family comedies, coming just after Yours, Mine and Ours and just before TV's The Brady Bunch. Doris has three sons, and new beau Brian Keith has an 18-year-old daughter (the still-baby-faced Barbara Hershey). It's family-friendly sitcom stuff, with both Day and Keith doing their comfortable, patented thing; when the two of them are onscreen together it's like watching a couple of old sweaters mate. This one is straight formula for fans only, although connoisseurs of camp will enjoy the whiff of Aquarius in the otherwise square proceedings (it was 1968, after all) when Doris goes to a... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Doris Day - Brian Keith Director(s): Howard Morris DVD Release Date: Released the 03 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Doris Day was nearing her popular zenith, and Jack Lemmon just hitting his stride, when they teamed up for It Happened to Jane, a small-town comedy in the Capra vein. Doris is a widowed mom whose Maine lobster business is snarled by railroad tycoon Ernie Kovacs (hiding behind a skullcap and a huge cigar), the "meanest man in America." Her lawsuit against him, aided by lawyer-suitor Lemmon, gains national headlines. This is a curious movie: crucial scenes seem to have been left unwritten, while sequences involving Cub Scouts and an oddly impassioned Town Hall Meeting go on endlessly. Director Richard Quine was making some fun movies around this time (Bell, Book, and Candle), but the fizz is only intermittent here, mostly provided by Lemmon's jack-in-the-box youthfulness.... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Richard Quine DVD Release Date: Released the 22 February 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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An absolute must for fans, a good mixture of musicals, comedy, and her OUTSTANDING performance in the musical drama LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME, you will not be dissapointed with this collection. More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Doris Day DVD Release Date: Released the 26 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Many of these reviews are written about a Doris Day movie. This is NOT a movie. Read the description--it's a documentary hosted by Peter Graves. It's an excellent documentary and any Doris Day fan would love it, but don't think it's a movie, 'cause it's not. :) More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Doris Day DVD Release Date: Released the 06 September 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Clark Gable's bluff masculinity is a big part of the story and appeal of Teacher's Pet, to such a degree that his age (near 60) doesn't seem like such a problem as he romances perky Doris Day. Gable is an old-school newspaperman who scoffs at the idea of journalism being taught in night school; hard knocks and shoe leather are his preferred textbooks. Naturally, Doris teaches journalism in night school. Gable masquerades as an inexperienced student in order to prove her wrong, which brings forth some fairly labored complications, presented in pedestrian style by director George Seaton. The film is too long for its own good, but as an illustration of movie-star value, it's a convincer--Gable and Day are completely, effortlessly within their established personas. Gig Young adds pep... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Clark Gable - Doris Day Director(s): George Seaton DVD Release Date: Released the 19 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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