George Burns & Gracie Allen Show, Volume 1 Review

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(More customer reviews)I was very happy with this DVD. It is very much worth buying if your a new or old fan or the worlds funniest husband and wife team. I recommend this DVD to any others being offered on Amazon. You get the value of what you spent buying it. Although the menu options are quite poor it doesnt matter b/c the shows themselves are so good. They just don't make shows like these anymore. Many of the other DVD's being offered on the Burns and Allen show on this site are NOT worth purchasing. GET THIS ONE!!!

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Primetime Television "CLASSIC SUSPENSE" Review

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(More customer reviews)DIGIVIEW's slimline cased DVDs feature unrestored public domain films and TV shows that have no subtitles or extras. Audio levels are some of the highest you'll find, which makes these ideal for laptop PC or portable disc player watching.
In their CLASSIC SUSPENSE volume, we get nine examples of 1950s TV series, from the famous ("Dragnet") to the obscure ("Lights Out"). Some don't have their original theme songs (several drops-ins for "Dragnet" are particularly egregious). Mixed here with crime dramas is a kid's show ("Captain Gallant"), a sitcom ("My Hero") and an occult program ("One Step Beyond"). Some episodes are incorrectly IDed by DIGIVIEW; this is corrected below.
PROGRAM--
Video quality is indicated by a 1 to 10 parenthetical number.
[8] THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Case of the Texas Cowgirl (11/8/54) - Ronald Howard/H. Marion Crawford/Archie Duncan/Lucille Vines (dubbed music)
[6] DRAGNET: The Big Crime (9/9/54) - Jack Webb/Ben Alexander/Virginia Christine/Paul Richards (dubbed music)
[3] GANG BUSTERS: The O'Dell-Griffin Case (1/1/52) - House Peters Jr./Jack Edwards/Hal Taggart/Phillips H. Lord (narrator) (blurry image; overmodulated sound)
[6] MY HERO: Beauty and the Beast (3/14/53) - Bob Cummings/Julie Bishop/John Litel
[5] LOCK UP: Music to Murder By (11/28/59) - Macdonald Carey/John Doucette/James Griffith/Harry Dean Stanton
[5] DECOY: Shadow of Van Gogh (12/12/58) - Beverly Garland/Raymond Reinhardt/Curt Conway/Eleanor Phelps
[4] LIGHTS OUT: Curtain Call (2/12/54) - Otto Kruger/Alan Bunce/Elinor Randel/Frank Gallop (narrator)
[4] CAPTAIN GALLANT OF THE FOREIGN LEGION: Stolen Treasure (5/29/55) - Buster Crabbe/Fuzzy Knight/Cullen Crabbe (audio distorts)
[6] ONE STEP BEYOND: The Vision (3/24/59) - Bruce Gordon/Pernell Roberts/John Newland (narrator)

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The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, 4 Full-Length Episodes Review

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(More customer reviews)Long unavailable in any format, "The Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu" is one of those see-it-to-believe-it kind of shows that remind us that not EVERYTHING made in the Golden Age of Television shone. This impoverished effort was produced by Republic Studios, which in 1940 had turned out the highly regarded serial "The Drums of Fu Manchu" starring Henry Brandon. Any relation between that Fu and this one, though, is coincidental, since none of Republic's trademark technical quality is in evidence (the sets are so rudimentary and flimsy they shake). Employing a halting way of talking, a bizarrely misplaced smile (possibly to keep the wobbly moustache from falling off) and a wrinkly bald cap, caucasian Glen Gordon is a total loss as Fu Manchu. He might have gotten the part simply because he resembled Henry Brandon enough to use stock footage from the serial, and his laughable "Chinese" accent and delivery sounds just like Peter Sellers' take-off of Charlie Chan in 1976's "Murder by Death." Almost as funny are Clark Howat as the Joe Friday-ish narrator Dr. Petrie, and John George, who is completely unintelligible as Fu's "Eurasian" dwarf henchman. That said, there is one reason to watch this DVD (hence the two stars): an outrageous episode titled "The Master Plan of Dr. Fu Manchu," which might be the ultimate in the "Villain-meets-Villian" genre. In it, Fu actually teams with Hitler (!) and the two try once more to conquer the world from the ubiquitous Republic Studio's cave set. This episode alone could become one of the great, jaw-dropping trash classics of all time.

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PRIMETIME TELEVISION: Classic Suspense - 9 Classic Episodes Review

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(More customer reviews)DIGIVIEW's slimline cased DVDs feature unrestored public domain films and TV shows that have no subtitles or extras. Audio levels are some of the highest you'll find, which makes these ideal for laptop PC or portable disc player watching.
In their CLASSIC SUSPENSE volume, we get nine examples of 1950s TV series, from the famous ("Dragnet") to the obscure ("Lights Out"). Some don't have their original theme songs (several drops-ins for "Dragnet" are particularly egregious). Mixed here with crime dramas is a kid's show ("Captain Gallant"), a sitcom ("My Hero") and an occult program ("One Step Beyond"). Some episodes are incorrectly IDed by DIGIVIEW; this is fixed below.
PROGRAM--
Video quality is indicated by a 1 to 10 parenthetical number.
[8] THE ADVENTURES OF SHERLOCK HOLMES: The Case of the Texas Cowgirl (11/8/54) - Ronald Howard/H. Marion Crawford/Archie Duncan/Lucille Vines (dubbed music)
[6] DRAGNET: The Big Crime (9/9/54) - Jack Webb/Ben Alexander/Virginia Christine/Paul Richards (dubbed music)
[3] GANG BUSTERS: The O'Dell-Griffin Case (1/1/52) - House Peters Jr./Jack Edwards/Hal Taggart/Phillips H. Lord (narrator) (blurry image; overmodulated sound)
[6] MY HERO: Beauty and the Beast (3/14/53) - Bob Cummings/Julie Bishop/John Litel
[5] LOCK UP: Music to Murder By (11/28/59) - Macdonald Carey/John Doucette/James Griffith/Harry Dean Stanton
[5] DECOY: Shadow of Van Gogh (12/12/58) - Beverly Garland/Raymond Reinhardt/Curt Conway/Eleanor Phelps
[4] LIGHTS OUT: Curtain Call (2/12/54) - Otto Kruger/Alan Bunce/Elinor Randel/Frank Gallop (narrator)
[4] CAPTAIN GALLANT OF THE FOREIGN LEGION: Stolen Treasure (5/29/55) - Buster Crabbe/Fuzzy Knight/Cullen Crabbe (audio distorts)
[6] ONE STEP BEYOND: The Vision (3/24/59) - Bruce Gordon/Pernell Roberts/John Newland (narrator)

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