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The Curse of the Werewolf

Today is Ernie Kovacs Centennial! Gone but not forgotten!

The Centennial set by SHOUT is awesome!  I watched the entire thing.   I went back and watched my The Best of Ernie Kovacs too from PBS and that was wonderful too!  The Medicine Man pilot was Awesome!

THE MARX BROTHERS TV COLLECTION

I have no complaints with THE MARX BROTHERS TV COLLECTION (SHOUT FACTORY) BUT it probably should have included RANKIN/BASS' THE MAD, MAD, MAD COMEDIANS.   I do have it on DVD, but it would have been a nice addition to put on the fourth disc (only available from SHOUT directly).  Arthur Rankin always told me how much Groucho liked THE MARX BROTHERS segment of the special.  The one way you could still bring the comedy team back together in 1970, was through animation.  Paul Frees did the voice of Chico for the RANKIN/BASS special, which Groucho also liked.   I read in the booklet of this DVD set that FILMATION did a pilot of THE MARX BROTHERS in 1966.  I would love to see that.  It doesn't state if Groucho did his own voice, as he did in the RANKIN/BASS TV special.

Just a few weeks ago, I watched their last film LOVE HAPPY and enjoyed it!  OLIVE FILMS recently released it on DVD and BLU RAY.   I always liked Harpo's scenes on the roof top.  I think the film gets a bad wrap.   No, it is not their BEST work BUT it is still entertaining.

Hours and hours of GREAT MARX BROTHERS TV stuff in this DVD set!  After watching the first disc, I thought if this was all they could find...that would have made me happy!   Now I am into disc two and am so impressed with how many great things SHOUT FACTORY brought together for this set!   AMAZING! SHOUT FACTORY offers the four disc version, while AMAZON only has the three.

I had to pull out my HARPO CD :)

HAZEL Season 2 is finally coming from SHOUT FACTORY!

November 1st, 2011! You may remember that Shirley Booth also worked for RANKIN/BASS in their YEAR WITHOUT A SANTA CLAUS :)

SHOUT FACTORY does it again!

Another great set from SHOUT FACTORY with 5 beautiful prints of Bob Hope films that didn't look so good in previous releases. THE LEMON DROP KID is one of my favs and it looks great! The song "Silver Bells" originated from this film. Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis' first color appearance/cameo is in ROAD TO BALI and my friend Billy Gray (along with RANKIN/BASS Alumni James Cagney) is in the color VISTAVISION feature THE SEVEN LITTLE FOYS. Good stuff!

BEAVER arrives in a beautiful box set!

Some Awesome extras included too! Definitely an upgrade from the two sets from UNIVERSAL...

Looking forward to this release! SHOUT FACTORY always does a nice job on packaging and content! This comes out June 29th (my birthday)!

MISTER ED season 2 is Awesome!

The Famous MR. ED

We were sorry to hear about Connie Hines' (Carol Post) passing a few weeks back (she was 78). She looked and sounded great in her April, 2009 interview on the season one DVD set of MR. ED (SHOUT FACTORY). I have been watching MR. ED on ME TV and their channel THIS! for a while now and am glad season sets are finally coming out on DVD.

The cast of MR. ED with the 1962 Lark Skytop (Lark was the original sponsor when it started out as a syndicated series and then it later wound up on CBS).

All items from my collection!

posted by Thomas Frederick