The Flying Nun - The Complete First Season
by Bruce Kessler, Don Taylor, E.W. Swackhamer, Jerrold Bernstein, John Erman
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Actor: Alejandro Rey, Madeleine Sherwood, Marge Redmond, Sally Field, Shelley MorrisonDirector: Bruce Kessler, Don Taylor, E.W. Swackhamer, Jerrold Bernstein, John Erman
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 1.0; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 1.0; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 1.0
Format: Box set, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 617 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-03-21
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of The Flying Nun - The Complete First Season
DVD Review: Sister Bertrille flies onto DVD!
Summary: 4 Stars
Part of the exclusive Screen Gems stable at ABC, THE FLYING NUN completed a triptych of female fantasy shows that had been developed at the network. "Bewitched" and "I Dream of Jeannie" were still big ratings winners when THE FLYING NUN joined the line-up in 1967.
Based on the writings of Tere Rios, the show told the story of a young Bostonian novice nun called Elsie Ethrington (Sally Field), aka Sister Bertrille, who travels to the Puerto Rican island of San Juan for her first posting at the Convent San Tanco. Sister Bertrille discovers on the windswept island that she has the uncanny ability to fly, thanks to her light physique and the aerodynamic qualities of her cornette. Sister Bertrille attempts to keep her airborne activities under control but the sparky novice always has a nose for trouble, as San Juan's most eligible playboy Carlos Ramirez (Alejandro Rey), the Reverend Mother Plaseato (Madeleine Sherwood), Sister Jacqueline (Marge Redmond) and Sister Sixto (Shelley Morrison) will all soon discover!
Following the premature folding of the ABC-Screen Gems "Gidget" sitcom (also now available in it's entirety on DVD), producers quickly cast Sally Field as the charming Sister Bertrille, cementing her place as one of the most promising young actresses of her generation. Her performance as San Tanco's effervescent and airborne nun earned Field legions of fans. THE FLYING NUN would run for 3 seasons earning great acclaim for Field, the cast and writers who managed to keep a dignified and reverent tone to the series while still remaining true to the sitcom mode which the show was presented in. During most of it's original run on ABC, THE FLYING NUN was featured in a line-up with "Bewitched" and "That Girl".
The first season sets up the characters and scenarios which would blossom and grow in the seasons ahead. The hour-length pilot episode also spawned a hit single, a folk style song Bertrille and the orphan children sing called "Felecidad". Other choice episodes include "Ah Love, Could You and I Conspire?" where Sister Bertrille and the nuns attempt to hide a ditzy moll called Bobbye Starr (Maureen Arthur) from the clutches of her gangster boyfriend; "The Fatal Hibiscus" where Sister Bertrille's future at San Tanco comes under question from the Reverend Mother; and "With Love from Irving" where Sister Bertrille attracts the unwanted affections from a lovelorn pelican. In "The Patron of Santa Thomasina", Sister Bertrille and Sister Jacqueline must use their powers of charm to soothe the angry feud between two neighbouring villages; and the moving "Tonio's Mother" where Sister Bertrille heals the rift between a young boy and his prospective new stepmother.
COMPLETE EPISODE LISTING:
"The Flying Nun" (Pilot) - Sister Bertrille arrives on the island of San Juan and quickly sets about changing the convent's structured lifestyle.
"The Convert" - Disobeying orders, Sister Bertrille flies for the good of the convent.
"Old Cars for New" - Sister Bertrille and Carlos turn the tables on a used car-dealer.
"A Bell for San Tanco" - Sister Bertrille and Carlos salvage a sunken bell for the convent.
"The Fatal Hibiscus" - The nuns learn that Sister Bertrille is leaving and they think she is dying.
"Flight of the Dodo Bird" - Despite training in psychology, a young priest can't cope with the problems of San Tanco.
"Polly Wants a Crack in the Head" - Sister Bertrille tries to find a home for Junior, a salty-tongued parrot.
"Ah Love, Could You and I Conspire?" - A gangster's girlfriend takes refuge in the convent.
"Days of Nuns and Roses" - The Sisters try to raise money by bottling sea grape juice.
"With Love from Irving" - A lovesick pelican causes difficulty between Mother Superior and Sister Bertrille.
"It's an Ill Wind" - Flying important papers to Mother Superior, Sister Bertrille interrupts a mobsters' meeting.
"Young Man with a Cornette" - A little orphan feels he can fly if he wears Sister Bertrille's cornette.
"The Patron of Santa Thomasina" - Sister Bertrille, caught between rival villages, is mistaken for a saint.
"If You Want to Fly, Keep Your Cornette Dry" - Sister Bertrille and her first-graders get lost in a storm while on a picnic.
"The Dig-In" - Sister Bertrille is trapped in a mine with an escaped prisoner.
"Wailing in a Winter Wonderland" - An aged nun longs for a white Christmas and Sister Bertrille is determined to grant her wish.
"With a Friend Like Him" - Sister Bertrille helps accident-prone Brother Paul fix up the convent library.
"Tonio's Mother" - A little boy believes Sister Bertrille is his mother returning from heaven.
"A Fish Story" - Flying aloft, Sister Bertrille becomes a fish-spotter for an old fisherman.
"Hot Spell" - To save his casino from gangsters, Carlos turns it over to the convent.
"My Sister, the Sister" - Carlos falls for Sister Bertrille's sister.
"The Sister and the Old Salt" - Sister Bertrille saves an old landlubber when he sets out on a 1000-mile voyage.
"Cyrano de Bertrille" - Sister Bertrille makes a case for adult education, with an elderly grocer as her first pupil.
"The Reconversion of Sister Shapiro" - A little Jewish girl decides to become a nun just like Sister Bertrille...
"Where There's a Will" - The convent inherits a prizefighter who hates to fight.
"The Puce Alert" - Facing court-martial for high living during Marine Reserve manoueveres, Carlos is saved by Sister Bertrille.
"May the Wind Be Always At Your Back" - A homely teenager gets a crush on Carlos.
"Love Me, Love My Dog" - The convent children adopt a dog...an accomplished pickpocket.
"You Can't Get There from Here" - Sister Bertrille is beached on an island with Carlos and the girl who threw him off his yacht.
I'm so glad that Sony Pictures has issued the first season on DVD, and hope that the other two seasons will follow soon.
Description of The Flying Nun - The Complete First Season
Two-time Academy Award®-winner Sally Field (1984, Actress in a Leading Role, Places in the Heart), flies in and out of trouble as Sister Bertrille in this classic and timeless series. Always with benevolent aims, Sister Bertrille gets into all kinds of hysterical situations and manages to get in trouble with Sister Jaqueline (Marge Redmond), with the Reverend Mother Superior (Madeleine Sherwood) and with a local clubowner, Carlos Ramirez (Alejandro Rey). From being mistaken for enemy aircraft to having a pelican fall in love with her to disrupting a meeting of mobsters, Sister Bertrille constantly manages to find herself in precarious and hilarious situations.Sally Field parlayed her winsome TV personality honed in Gidget into the unlikely hit The Flying Nun from 1967 to 1970. Field plays Sister Bertrille, a 90-pound novice nun assigned to a crumbling convent in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where the gusty winds and her order's seagull-shaped headgear combine to give her the ability to zoom around the Caribbean helping her fellow sisters and the kids attending their school. While most of us remember the flying part--and what a great fantasy for kid viewers, especially--the gist of the series focused more about Sister Bertrille's naiveté and of her youthful determination to make changes in her stuffy convent. Sister Bertrille provides a lot of fish-out-of-water appeal, and the supporting cast is extremely likable, including the narrator, Sister Jacqueline (the great character actress Marge Redmond), and a young Shelley Morrison, who plays the American-slang-mangler Sister Sixto ("She's sharp as a tick!"), and who would go on to play poker-faced Rosario on Will & Grace. Sister Bertrille's character also owes more than a nod to Maria von Trapp; she even gets the orphan students out of their scratchy uniforms and into comfier duds, though admittedly not made of Austrian drapes. The scrapes Sister Bertrille gets into are pretty standard '60s sitcom fare, but Field's sweet earnestness gives the show appeal beyond the sum of its pieces. --A.T. Hurley
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