Blu-ray Review: The Dick Van Dyke Show – The Complete Fourth Season
At the dawn of the 1960’s, Carl Reiner a former writer and cast member on Your Show Of Shows, sought to create a sitcom that explored what happened when daddy left home and went to work in the writer’s room of a television variety show. Since the show was based on his own life, Reiner […]
The Final Season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show Coming to DVD
LOS ANGELES, CA. (July 7, 2010) – Share the memories and the merriment when the hilarious and heart-warming “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” The Complete Seventh Season arrives on DVD October 5 from Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.
DVD Review: The Mary Tyler Moore Show – The Complete Fifth Season
20th Century Fox | 1974 | 624 mins. | Not Rated Created by James L. Brooks and Allan Burns, The Mary Tyler Moore Show remains a television favorite, more than thirty years after the last first-run episode aired on March 19, 1977. When the series debuted seven years earlier, Mary Tyler Moore’s character of Mary […]
DVD Review: That Girl – Season Five
That Girl was the first sitcom to focus on a single woman who was not a domestic or living at home. Some consider the show the forerunner of highly successful series such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Murphy Brown, and an early indication of the changing roles of American women in Feminist-era America. […]
DVD Review: Rhoda, Season One – 35th Anniversary Edition
A spinoff of the very popular The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda ran for five seasons from 1974-1978. Valerie Harper played Rhoda Morgenstern, the funky, flamboyantly fashioned best friend of Mary Richards who leaves Minneapolis and returns home to New York City. Rhoda had begun her television life as Mary Richards’ slightly overweight, self deprecating […]
DVD Review: The Love Boat: Season One, Volume One
During the 1970’s and 80’s Aaron Spelling produced shows dominated the television landscape. At one point during the 1984 season, Spelling had seven series running on the ABC network, which generated more than one-third of the networks revenues. Some critics dubbed ABC “Aaron’s Broadcasting Company.” One of those series, The Love Boat, became a solid […]
DVD Review: Frasier: The Complete Eighth Season
The character of Frasier Crane was a fixture on television for 20 years. Actor Kelsey Grammer first played the role on Cheers in 1984. When Cheers ended its run in 1993, Grammer continued the role on Frasier, which premiered later that same year. Frasier was nominated for a total of 37 Emmys during the series’ […]