Review(s): DVD The Munsters - Complete Second Season
The Complete Second Season!!!
As a child growing up in the 70's and 80's, I used to come home from school and watch The Munsters. I was absolutely fascinated with this series. The characters were hilarious, and the scripts were excellent! Now, the complete second season, comes to DVD in a 3 disc set. It features all 32 episodes from The Munsters second and final season. Don't forget about the 4 A&E Bios as bonus features! The 4 A&E Bios will be about, The Munsters, "America's First Family of Fright", Fred Gwynne, "More Than a Munster", Yvonne DeCarlo, "Gilded Lily", and Al Lewis, "Forever Grandpa". All packaged, in a Herman Munster head.
I would not miss the chance to own the second season of this fantastic family show!
Now, if you've only seen Season 2 episodes from TVLand, then you don't know what the original Season 2 theme is supposed to sound like. The original Season 2 theme of The Munsters is supposed to stop after Butch Patrick's name is shown. More theme music starts again when you see "Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher". That's the way it's supposed to be because when The Munsters originally aired on CBS, commercials used to be in that break between themes. TVLand edited the theme into one long version. The TVLand version, is incorrect. The DVD version, will be correct.
Also, don't be shocked if episodes 39-45 & 66 do not feature the crashing door sound. That's the way it was originally supposed to be. So, please, don't worry about that.
The box itself can also be a challenge to handle. What I have found to be handy, is just leave the inner "head" out of the original box.
I would also like to add that Amazon improperly labeled this release. It's not "The Munsters - Complete Second Season (1964)", it's "The Munsters - The Complete Second Season (1965-66)"! The set is also in Black & White AND Color because of the 4 A&E Bios. PLEASE, make these changes Amazon.
To all you Addams Family fans who are upset that The Addams Family is not on DVD, don't come here and put a one star on a Munsters DVD release just because you're not happy. The Munsters in no way affects any Addams Family DVD release. The Munsters and Addams Family are owned by two completely different companies. So don't come here whining that your precious little Addams Family is not on DVD!
DVD Info for The Munsters - Season 2
Spoken languages - English
Captioning - English, Spanish
Disc 1 Side A
Herman's Child Psychology
Herman, the Master Spy
Bronco Bustin' Munster
Herman Munster, Shutterbug
Herman, Coach of the Year
Happy 100th Anniversary
Operation Herman
Lily's Star Boarder
Disc 1 Side B
John Doe Munster
A Man For Marilyn
Herman's Driving Test
Will Success Spoil Herman Munster?
Underground Munster
The Treasure of Mockingbird Heights
Herman's Peace Offensive
Herman Picks a Winner
Disc 2 Side A
Just Another Pretty Face
Big Heap Herman
The Most Beautiful Ghoul in the World
Grandpa's Lost Wife
The Fregosi Emerald
Zombo
Cyrano de Munster
The Musician
Disc 2 Side B
Prehistoric Munster
A Visit From Johann
Eddie's Brother
Herman, the Tire Kicker
A House Divided
Herman's Sorority Caper
Herman's Lawsuit
A Visit From the Teacher
Disc 3 Side A
The Munsters - America's First Family of Fright
Fred Gwynne - More Than a Munster
Yvonne De Carlo - Gilded Lily
Al Lewis - Forever Grandpa
(There is no Side B for Disc 3)
Don't forget to check out:
The Munsters ~ The Complete First Season
Munster, Go Home!
The Munsters' Revenge
... which are all on DVD!
~ENJOY!!!
worst packaging ever, but still five stars for the cast!
Let this be a lesson to anyone trying to be "cute" and "orignal" when it comes to packaging extremely popular and long awaited tv box sets: This is not the way to do it! No Munster fan can possibly be disappointed with the sharp, clear quality of the sound and image of this forty-year-old classic. The packaging, however, is a total disgrace! It's beyond belief how something so flimsy and "cheesy" could ever have been chosen to house the second and final season of one of the greatest tv comedy series of all time. Heads should roll ... and I don't mean Hermie's! Within fifteen minutes of having received this set in the mail, I had decided to cut up the packaging and make two colored photocopies of the plastic wrap-around cover. Using the original cover and the two life-like photocopies, I have placed them in three separate dvd holders which now protect my Munsters (Season 2) collection. Buyers beware! The packaging of this lot will be a total disappointment, but the Munsters, well, they're the Munsters and will always please.
what a Fun Show
I always watched Re-Runs of the Munsters.it was truly a one of a kind show.just in time for Halloween&there was nothing quite like seeing the Munsters Crib. that Crib was truly haunted.Grandpa Munster was a Fool.always tripping.Eddie&the Mommy were funny as well. the Niece was cool.those Episodes always had me rolling.the Horror look on people's faces when they would encounter the Munsters is Classic.
Related DVD's The Munsters - Complete Second Season
My stars! The first, and perhaps most magical, season of Bewitched still casts an enchanting spell. For escapist fantasy, this series, no doubt inspired by the play Bell, Book and Candle, broke significant television ground. The Stephens were sitcoms' first mixed marriage. Advertising executive Darrin Stephens (Dick York) was mortal, and wife Samantha (Elizabeth Montgomery) was a witch. According to a retrospective segment included on this four-disc set, the Stephenses were also the first couple to sleep in one bed! And Samantha's mother, Endora (the venerable Agnes Morehead), and father, Maurice (Maurice Evans, most popularly known as Dr. Zaius in the original Planet of the Apes, were TV's first separated couple. Surely, Darrin did for advertising what Dick Van... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Elizabeth Montgomery DVD Release Date: Released the 21 June 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $39.95 Your Price: $23.97YOU SAVE $15.98!
Buy it
It has its own stormy weather and fire-breathing housepet named Spot, but the mansion at 1313 Mockingbird Heights is otherwise like any other American sitcom home. This is the address of the Munsters, the family that for two seasons, 1964-66, found a permanent place in pop culture--if not "monster" success. Developed by Leave It to Beaver team Joe Connelly and Bob Mosher, the series was a standard sitcom (complete with the same awful canned laughter), except that the Ward Cleaver character was a reanimated corpse.
Dad Herman (Fred Gwynne) was a Frankenstein's monster, mom Lily (Yvonne DeCarlo) and Grandpa (Al Lewis) were vampires, and son Eddie (Butch Patrick) a little wolf-boy. Munster niece Marilyn was inexplicably normal, which prompted much worry from the other members of... More Info about this DVD Director(s): David Alexander - Don Richardson - Seymour Berns - Charles Barton - Joseph Pevney DVD Release Date: Released the 24 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $34.98 Your Price: $31.99YOU SAVE $2.99!
Buy it
Though Gilligan and his fellow castaways will remain forever marooned in syndication, the series' network run actually did come to an end in 1967 after a three-year run and 98 episodes. The final 30--which for Gilligan fanatics, include many of the show's best--are compiled in this three-disc set, along with input from creator Sherwood Schwartz. It's not known if Schwartz knew that the series was headed for cancellation, but he and the writers definitely appear to pour on the steam in season 3 to produce some of the series' most imaginative episodes, many of which break out of the island sets through dream sequences; these include the season kickoff, "Up at Bat" (after being bitten by a bat, Gilligan dreams of being a vampire); "Pass the Vegetables, Please" (the castaways gain... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Ida Lupino - Richard Donner - John Rich - Rodney Amateau - Tom Montgomery DVD Release Date: Released the 26 July 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $39.98 Your Price: $23.99YOU SAVE $15.99!
Buy it
Thank heavens we won't have to choose between B&W and color since the 3rd was all color! Keep up the releases, Sony! More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Elizabeth Montgomery DVD Release Date: Released the 25 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $39.95 Your Price: $29.96YOU SAVE $9.99!
Buy it
Forget about a three-hour tour--Gilligan's Island fans can sit right back and enjoy all 32 episodes of the much-loved television comedy and even a few extras with this three-disc set. GI aficionados will probably argue which episode deserves to be called the best in the series' three-year history until the end of time, but few will disagree that its sophomore season (1965-66) contains some of its funniest and best-remembered episodes. For starters, season 2 marks the show's debut in color, as well as the first time the Professor (Russell Johnson) and Mary Ann (Dawn Wells) were mentioned in the opening theme song (all of this occurs in the season opener, "Gilligan's Mother-in-Law"). But it also includes such classic episodes as "Hi Fi Gilligan" (Gilligan picks up radio... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Ida Lupino - Richard Donner - John Rich - Rodney Amateau - Tom Montgomery DVD Release Date: Released the 11 January 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $39.98 Your Price: $23.99YOU SAVE $15.99!
Buy it
