My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2
by Peter Tewksbury
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Actor: Don Grady, Fred MacMurray, Stanley Livingston, Tim Considine, William FrawleyDirector: Peter Tewksbury
Brand: Paramount
Writer: AJ Carothers
Writer: Arnold Peyser
Writer: Art Friedman
Writer: Arthur Kober
Writer: David Duncan
Writer: Diane Honodel
Writer: Dorothy Cooper
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Mono; English (Original Language), Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 420 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2
DVD Review: I'd rather have it like this than not at all
Summary: 4 Stars
The first season of "My Three Sons" was incredibly innovative for it's time. Episodes could alternate between breezy sitcom fare and the dramatic. One great example of this inventiveness contained in "My Three Sons: Season One, Volume Two" is "Small Adventure" which revolves around the family dog, Tramp, bringing home an explosive. We learn that the bomb can easily explode when met with even mild impact. The bomb makes its way around the Douglas house (unknown to all the family members) with one close call after another. Meanwhile, out of town on a business trip, Steve is desperately trying to call home because he has uneasy feelings that his family is in some kind of danger. Wow, this is not your typical 60's sitcom episode!
Okay, I am just as annoyed as the others about the music changes and the double volume seasons BUT I am still extremely happy to have the next 18 episodes of "My Three Sons" on DVD. Yes, I am frustrated by CBS for not trying to keep the original scores and for their greed in making us shell out $26+ for a half season. To be honest though I am kind of over all of it. The important thing to me is that they are releasing these early "My Three Sons" shows at all.
I don't find the altered music as annoyinig as in the first "My Three Sons" release. I am pretty sure too that some episodes retain their original scores as I noticed "music by" credits for Jeff Alexander and Pete Rugolo (two early TV composers). I wish they didn't change anything but I'd rather have them like this than not at all.
I really miss these early B&W episodes of "My Three Sons" and there is absolutely no channel in my area that is presently broadcasting them (in fact, the last time I them on TV was on Nick-At-Nite about a decade ago) and I have no hope that they will pop up anytime soon. With few exceptions (maybe "I Love Lucy," "The Honeymooners" and "The Twilight Zone") old B&W TV shows have virtually disappeared from TV. It's amazing to me too considering we now have so many channels to choose from (and there's still nothing on!). All we fans of classic 50's and 60's TV can hope for is a new nostalgia channel to come along and offer great old shows like "My Three Sons."
So, in the meantime, I will continue to buy "My Three Sons" on DVD even with the alterations. I doubt we'll ever see this series released on DVD again (especially if fans boycott the DVDs because of the alterations) and I know people outraged about the music alterations will rate my review negatively but I'm just being honest.
Description of My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2
MY THREE SONS is a delightful slice-of-life comedy about the American family. The series chronicles the life of the Douglas family; a seemingly simple premise that was a huge hit with audiences and a keystone of the TV family lineup in the ?60s. Fred MacMurray delivers a standout portrayal as Steve Douglas, an aeronautical engineer and widower raising his three sons alone.For Baby Boomers who fondly remember My Three Sons as just your typical quaint '60s family sitcom, there are surprises in store in these 18 episodes that conclude its groundbreaking first season. Credit director Peter Tewksbury, who directed every episode of the first season, with subverting sitcom convention. The clever episode, "Man in a Trench Coat," unfolds in the style of film noir, as middle son Robbie (Don Grady), under the influence of pulp-fiction paperbacks, lets his imagination get the better of him as sneaks around with a flirtatious blonde and tries to elude a stranger who's been tailing him. "Small Adventure" is a Hitchcockian exercise in which the family goes about its business unaware of the danger when romping family dog, Tramp, fetches an unexploded stick of dynamite into the house. In "Fire Watch," the season finale, college-bound son Mike (Tim Considine) gets much more than he bargained for when he takes a job with the Forestry Service and must man his watchtower post during a violent storm. In this first season, My Three Sons was the raucous flipside to the comparatively staid suburban domesticity of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver. Fred MacMurray's Steve Douglas was a widower raising his boisterous brood with the help of "dear old Bub," his gruff father-in-law (William Frawley). The home "looks like a disaster area... nothing but bottlenecks and traffic jams." And between games of keepaway in the living room, blaring trumpet practice, and squabbles over the phone and lack of privacy, there are few quiet moments. But as a more misguided and regimented parent (future Bewitched star David White) observes in the episode, "Other People?s Houses," "You enjoy living together, sharing everything." While some of the episodes are corny and silly (In one, Steve and Robbie think they've found an abandoned baby, and in another, Bub searches frantically for youngest son Chip's escaped frog), others grapple with real-life issues such as first love, as when Mike and his girlfriend test their feelings for each other by not seeing each other for a week. My Three Sons? first year holds up well. And who can resist the irresistible invitation of the classic toe-tapping "Chopstickian" theme song? --Donald Liebenson
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