I Love Lucy: Complete Series (34pc) (Full Gift)
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Actor: Desi Arnaz, I Love Lucy, Lucille Ball, Vivian Vance, William FrawleyBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 5394 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of I Love Lucy: Complete Series (34pc) (Full Gift)
DVD Review: in the old days, comedians had to be more talented
Summary: 5 Stars
You had to be able to write, sing, dance, act, and produce - this Lucille Ball is just bursting with talent, and makes today's celebrities pale in comparison.
There were no props, just great banter and deceitful tricks among old friends.
My five year old just loves Lucy and Ricky, and I'm so glad she prefers this to something horrible and flat like sponge bob.
DVD Review: Timeless Comedy Never Goes Out of Style
Summary: 5 Stars
Having recently viewed some 80s and 90s sitcoms I realized how quickly (and badly) television comedy can date. Age really does weary them and the years condemn. This is partly due to repetition and partly because the comedy probably wasn't all that good to begin with.
In a radio interview in 2008, Jerry Lewis noted that modern comedians had told him that his visual style of comedy was out of date - he responded that visual comedy never went out of date, it's just that modern comedians don't have the discipline or the work ethic to pull it off. Lewis hit the nail on the head - modern comedians, often lacking maturity; life experience; breadth of skills or even a willingness to serve a long-term comedic apprenticeship simply don't have the tools to create lasting comedy. If we accept that comedic talent doesn't just fall out of the sky - and that it does require years (decades) of hard work, then we have a real problem. We now have a television industry that doesn't want anyone over the age of 25 appearing in their shows and the result is a collection of sitcoms that are little more than strings of sarcastic one-liners in which every line has been audience tested for reaction. Mechanical, formula-driven, repetitive and time limited.
Lucille Ball was (still is) one of the all-time comedy greats of American television - whether at visual comedy; slapstick; pathos; quick one-liners or any other facet of what makes us laugh. Combine Lucille Ball with an ensemble of other highly skilled and experienced performers like Desi Arnaz; Vivian Vance and William Frawley and you have all the basics for a timeless comedy. Superimpose upon this some brilliant scriptwriting and you have "I Love Lucy". Almost six decades old and still as funny as ever. And you can bet that it will still be just as funny in another six decades - Seinfeld got tiresome after one decade, despite being hailed as the comedy guru of the 1990s.
The only downside of watching the nearly 200 episodes in this collection is that eventually you'll have to go back to watching the current crop of sitcoms, only to be even more disappointed with them than you were before. That's when you have to unpack the first DVD in this box set and start viewing I Love Lucy all over again.
This collection is cheap at twice the price.
If you are interested in this then you should also consider buying the other comedic genius of the era - Groucho Marx in "You Bet Your Life".
DVD Review: I couldn't be happier!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I am an avid I Love Lucy fan, I'm just so completely pleased to have every episode in one complete set. The sets are very organized, grouped by seasons. I didn't know until I got this set that there were a few episodes that i've never seen. Any Lucy fan will be completely over joyed with this set. If you know a Lucy fan, to surprise them with this set would caused them to become your number one fan.DVD Review: $92 down the drain
Summary: 1 Stars
dcDb has never sent my I love Lucy order. I would hesitate before ever ordering from them again and I want my refund.DVD Review: A must-have for the true Lucy fan
Summary: 4 Stars
While the amount of minutae and backstage stories could never ever be enough for me, this is a fantastic video collection, classy and respectful of the show in every way. I personally love the audio commentaries on a couple of the episodes--by Little Ricky, Barbara Eden, "Caroline Appleby", and two of the writers. There's bonus material on each disc (all ~40 or so), including flubs, lost intros, bumps, commercials, footage of Lucy and Desi doing little charity PSAs, etc...it's just tremendous fun.
The episodes look great, and of course they're all there: every word, no jarring edits. It includes the Lucy-Desi hours, which I personally think are pretty mediocre, but they do have some funny bits.
Another bonus feature is audio excerpts of Jess Oppenheimer's book, read by someone else who does a nice job, AND a short interview with Jess himself from God-knows-when!!
So why don't you get a great big bottle of...this stuff!! It's absolutely worth the money. By the way, the packaging didn't work for me, but I guess you can't have everything.
Happy Lucy hunting!
Description of I Love Lucy: Complete Series (34pc) (Full Gift)
The Whole McGillicuddy: All 9 Seasons! All 194 Episodes!Fall in love again and again with the timeless comedy that entertains generation after generation. This special 34-disc DVD collection contains every hilarious episode of every classic season of I Love Lucy--from the Lost Pilot to the The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour shows. Join Lucy, Ricky, Fred and Ethel for non-stop laughter as you savor every magical moment of the greatest sitcom of all time.
Includes all new special features including I Love Lucy: The Movie, the first Fully-Colorized I Love Lucy episode, I Love Lucy at the 6th Annual Emmy? Awards, highlights of Lucy & Desi's First Joint TV Appearance, and hours of bonus features from the individual complete season releases!
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