The Flying Nun - The Complete Second Season
by Claudio Guzmán, E.W. Swackhamer, Ezra Stone, Hal Cooper, Jerome Courtland
List Price:
Our Price: $10.75
You Save: $9.24 (46%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $9.49 (click here)
Category: DVD
See more DVD details
Buy this DVD movie at online store in your country
Canada
Canada
DVD details
Actor: Alejandro Rey, Madeleine Sherwood, Marge Redmond, Sally Field, Shelley MorrisonDirector: Claudio Guzmán, E.W. Swackhamer, Ezra Stone, Hal Cooper, Jerome Courtland
Brand: Sony
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0; Portuguese (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0; Portuguese (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0; Spanish (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 671 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
DVD Reviews of The Flying Nun - The Complete Second Season
DVD Review: Second Season Comedy Antics Of The Convent San Tanco's Beloved Sister Bertrille
Summary: 5 Stars
What a joy it is to find the second season of the classic television comedy series "The Flying Nun", being released onto DVD so quickly after the highly successful first series came out a few months ago. Watching "The Flying Nun", now almost forty years after it first went on the air it's pleasing to see that the show and its talented performers have lost none of their charm with the passing of time. In her role of Sister Bertrille, the airborn nun who because of her 90 pound body weight and starched coronet was able to fly, Sally Field was a perfect casting choice in a character light years away from her later famous Oscar winning dramatic performances.
Season two of the series continues the same successful formula of season one and sees the talented ensemble cast really settled in their roles. This season boasts a very interesting collection of well known guest stars which reads like a who's who of 1960's television including Alan Hale Jr, fresh from his much loved role as the Skipper on "Gilligan's island", Elinor Donahue from "Father Knows Best", returning as Sister Bertrille's sister Jen, and Victor Buono, famous from his role in the classic "Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?", and for playing King Tut on the "Batman", series. The series I feel displayed one of the best late 1960's casts for a television series and their combined talents meshed superbly with Sally Field's energetic playing of the often comically trouble plagued Sister Bertrille. And what a cast! You couldn't get any better than Broadway's Madeleine Sherwood as the strong but loving Reverend Mother, Marge Redmond as Sister Jacqueline; the often surprised accomplise to Sister Bertrille in her many crazy schemes, Shelley Morrison as the zany Sister Sixto who spent the whole three year run of the series turning the English language upside down, and of course Alejandro Rey as playboy Carlos Ramirez who spent all his time trying to get away from Sister Bertrille and her always well meaning schemes that invariably landed him in hot water. Season Two of "The Flying Nun", also saw the welcome introduction of the character of the bungling, and accident prone Captain Formento played by veteran TV actor Vito Scotti. After appearing in a couple of first season episodes he adds an hilarious new element to the show in this season as the incompetent policeman always suspecting the Nuns or Carlos of being up to some imagined no good all the while bringing complete mayhem with him wherever he goes. An accomplished scene stealer through more than forty years of television work on shows as diverse as "Wagon Train", "The Twilight Zone", and "Gilligan's Island", through to "Charlie's Angels",and the "The Golden Girls", Scotti is a most welcome addition to the cast and I find myself missing him in the episodes in which he doesn't appear. The second season of "The Flying Nun", with Vito Scotti added, makes it easy to see why the show was such a big continued success during both its initial network run and in countless reruns ever since. Indeed watching "The Flying Nun: The Complete Second Season", this last week with episodes filled with great comedy,warmth and terrific guest stars, really makes me lament the rather sad state of most modern television programming that seems to totally lack the charm and great cast chemistry of these earlier efforts from the 1960's. Despite her own mixed feelings about the series Sally Field makes "The Flying Nun", truly enjoyable with her spunky playing and the near perfect marriage here of actress and role now makes it hard indeed to imagine original casting choice Patty Duke in the role of the loveable Sister Bertrille.
Going on the air just as the period of television innocence was drawing to a close in the late 1960's, I feel the influence of "The Flying Nun", was definately in evidence in later big screen efforts such as the classic "Sister Act". Like "The Flying Nun", that Whoopi Goldberg movie had as the basis of much of its humour very amusing and often non stereotypical portrayals of nuns that managed to remain dignified while piling on the laughs. The four lead women who performed in "The Flying Nun"; ie Sally Field, Madeleine Sherwood, Marge Redmond, and Shelley Morrison really accomplished that hard task with great expertise making them like lovable old friends who you like to revisit time and again. Indeed my revisiting "The Flying Nun", will be a wonderful regular experience from now on thanks to Sony releasing the show season by season onto DVD. Let's hope the third, and sadly what proved to be the final season of "The Flying Nun", will also be released soon so that we can enjoy completely again this delightful series that with its fantastic premise and wacky situations could only ever have been made during the 1960's. Enjoy!
Description of The Flying Nun - The Complete Second Season
FLYING NUN:THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON - DVD MovieBestsellers in DVD
![The Story of Jeremiah [VHS] Image](/images/noimg.gif)
The Story of Jeremiah [VHS]Vision Video; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Wresting With God [VHS]by Vision Video
Vision Video; Published: 1990-10-01; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Price in other shops:
Study Bible Video with Workbook [VHS]Spring Arbor Distributors; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $7.95
Price in other shops:
Tempo:Childrens TV Favourites Video [VHS]HarperCollins Audio; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $9.17
Price in other shops:
Tempo.Herbs:Parseley'Sb/ Party Video [VHS]HarperCollins Audio; VHS Tape; VHS Video
![Strike the Original Match [VHS] Image](/images/Strike-the-Original-Match-VHS-0001374079-X.jpg)
Strike the Original Match [VHS]New Liberty Films; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Price in other shops:
![Medjugorje The Miracles and the Message [VHS] Image](/images/Medjugorje-The-Miracles-and-the-Message-VHS-0001373293-X.jpg)
Medjugorje The Miracles and the Message [VHS]JPN Film Production; Release date: 1995-12-15; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Best price: $29.99
Mayo Clinic Echocardiography Review Course for Boards and Recertification DVD 2008by Mayo
DVD
Price in other shops:
Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging DVD: Single Userby Oakstone
DVD
Price in other shops:
Cost Accounting [VHS]by Charles T. Horngren, George Foster, Srikant M. Datar, Howard Teall
Pearson Canada, Toronto; VHS Tape; VHS Video
Similar DVDs, VHS Video, Audio CDs
Bewitched - The Complete Fifth SeasonSony; Release date: 2007-07-10; DVD
Best price: $9.43
Price in other shops:
Dennis The Menace: Season TwoUni; Release date: 2011-07-26; DVD
Best price: $15.54
Price in other shops:
Petticoat Junction: The Official Second SeasonPETTICOAT JUNCTION; Release date: 2001-01-07; DVD
Best price: $14.76
Price in other shops:
That Girl - Season OneUni; Release date: 2006-05-16; DVD
Best price: $19.45
Price in other shops:
Petticoat Junction - The Official First SeasonPARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO; Release date: 2008-12-16; DVD
Best price: $22.31
Price in other shops:
Bewitched: The Complete Sixth SeasonSony; Release date: 2008-05-06; DVD
Best price: $13.03
Price in other shops:
The Mothers-in-Law: The Complete SeriesMPI; Release date: 2010-07-27; DVD
Best price: $19.95
Price in other shops:
Hazel - The Complete First SeasonSony; Release date: 2006-08-01; DVD
Best price: $8.73
Price in other shops:
Gidget - The Complete SeriesSony; Release date: 2006-03-21; DVD
Best price: $20.35
Price in other shops:
The Flying Nun - The Complete First SeasonSONY PICTURES HOME ENT; Release date: 2006-03-21; DVD
Best price: $8.73
Price in other shops: