Murder, She Wrote The Complete First Season (1984-1985) (Universal-2005) Picture this. A struggling actor (Jeff Conaway of Grease and Taxi) is desperate to become a huge movie star, so he moves to San Francisco (ah, yes, the center of the entertainment world) and takes a job in a local drag-queen cabaret. When the heartless owner of the place … Continue reading
Astro Boy – The Complete Series (Sony Home Video-2005) Growing up in the sixties, I remember rushing home after school to catch all my favorite shows on local Philly UHF TV stations; Channels 48, 29 and 17. The reception was always a bit fuzzy, the commercials wereatrociously cheap and tacky, but the warm and cozy memories of those cherished shows remains hardwired … Continue reading
Kojak Season One – 1973 (Universal-2005) With Ving Rhames taking over the role of Kojak on USA Network’s newly configured version of the original cop series, there’s been newfound interest generated in the pioneering seventies drama and the actor who made bald cool and classy. Back during the polyester decade, the term “Who Loves Ya, Baby?” – one of Kojak‘s trademark expressions – … Continue reading
The Brady Bunch The Complete First Season 1969-1970 (Paramount Home Video-2005) Check your superior attitude at the door, you smug son of a bitch. You know you want to rip into this Brady Bunch DVD with the same gusto and viciousness that you’ve carefully nurtured with your friends and siblings over the course of decades. However, you must … Continue reading
Family Business The Complete Second Season (Showtime-2005) It seems that reality TV will pounce upon any sordid or degrading subject that might drum up some voyeuristic interest in a holier-than-thou audience base. So, it was only a matter of time that there would be a show focusing on the circus world behind the scenes of pornography. … Continue reading
The Flintstones The Complete Third Season (1962-1963) (Warner Brothers-2005) YABBA DABBA DOO … Everyone’s favorite modern stone age family are celebrated on The Flintstones – The Complete Third Season. Focusing on construction worker Fred Flintstone and his curvaceous wife Wilma, his “bestest” buddy Barney Rubble and his better half Betty; the Flintstones took the changing mores and sexual and financial landscape of the early sixties and transplanted … Continue reading
Hee Haw Premiere Episode and Laffs (Time/Life-2004) In the summer of 1969, the American Dream seemed to be approaching its waking stage. The awesome miracle of man’s landing on the moon that July only made the earth’s reality grimmer: the war in Vietnam, protests and violence in the streets, Woodstock and rock music, hippies, the … Continue reading
The Greatest ’70s Cop Shows (Columbia Tri-Star-2004) It’s a baffling mystery: this DVD is called The Greatest ‘70s Cop Shows, and yet Columbo is nowhere to be found here. What we do get is the ‘70s sloppy seconds: Starsky and Hutch, Charlie’s Angels, SWAT, The Rookies and Police Woman. Don’t bother looking for the quality you think you remember: good writing and believable situations … Continue reading
Gilligan’s Island The Complete Second Season – 1965 (Warner Home Video-2005) Back in the mid-Sixties, both Gilligan’s Island and The Beatles were the rage, infiltrating the public consciousness. Five decades onward, both remain singularly distinctive and arresting public icons whose golden legacy continues to endure and richly thrive. Gilligan’s Island-The Complete Second Season (Warner Home Video) reveals the … Continue reading
Sex and the City The Complete First Season (HBO-2000) The Complete Second Season (HBO-2001) The Complete Third Season (HBO-2002) Sex and the City is the story of four gay men frolicking in a fantasy fairyland version of Manhattan. From its hideous opening credits of a badly lit and cosmetically starved Sarah Jessica Parker (admit it: doesn’t … Continue reading
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