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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Koch International
EAN: 0025493504095
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Passport
Manufacturer: Passport
Number Of Items: 5
Publisher: Passport
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 03, 2006
Running Time: 800 minutes
Sales Rank: 30451
Studio: Passport
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Product Description:
The entire second season of THE ABBOTT & COSTELLO SHOW is collected on this release which is designed to celebrate Lou Costello's 100th birthday.System Requirements:Run Time: 900 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: NR UPC: 025493504095 Manufacturer No: PIP-DV5040
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - A Few Gems Amongst Fool's Gold
I did not like most of these shows. Missing are the curtain-comments, background music, most of the clever endings (or even endings at all), and any sympathetic characters--although ironically, from time to time Abbott expresses more brotherly concern for Costello than I've ever seen. And Costello usually comes to a bad end, which is never funny to me.
Grousing aside, there are a few good episodes. Two are of vintage quality: the "Uncle From New Jersey" and "Barber Lou" are worth getting the set for. Throw in "The Tax Return" with "Car Trouble", and you've got a nice hour and half of solid A&C story-telling, so it's worth the money.
Unfortunately, Passport uses some over-exposed prints, so much of the time the actors' faces are bleached out. They also have a main menu with stupid music (note to all DVD producers: please stop doing this. Menus should be no-nonsense.). By the way, the laugh-track sounds like children who are actually reacting to the characters' antics, sometimes even commenting on them. Maybe the director showed the completed movies to a real kids-audience, and recorded their live responses? The result is not so bad as I was expecting.
Rating:  - bud and lou
as a fan of everything bud and lou did together i enjoyed watching season two as i have not seen it since the seventies, and i do recommend it to other fans.i do however want to state that is not as funny as season one was but what the heck it sure beats anything on tv these days.
thanks
Rating:  - Very Funny!!!!
My Dad loves this. It has all the classics from their tv show. It is hilarious!
Rating: - I remember..........
I can remember growing up in New York City in the early seventies...
It was a different time then, no home video games, no cable, and rotary phones. My house had a black and white television that needed a pair of pliers to change the channel. But on that old black and white tv, every sunday, was abbott and costello, and it were those two characters that made me understand that laughter was a cure all for sadness and medicine for the soul.
Of course there movies were great! "Abbott and costello meets frankenstein", "Mexican hayride", "Buck Privates"...but The Abbott and Costello Show was something else. Mr Fields the landlord. Mike the cop, the italian guy..Mr. Bachagaloop!( if thats how you spell his name!!)..the characters were hilarious, the laughs on their tv show was non-stop..no i mean it! NON-STOP! No musical interludes like their movies, no plot build ups...just a snowball of craziness that kept rolling on.
So i recently stumbled upon amazon about a year ago....and there I discovered this treasure. You cant get a better deal with anything, i truly believe that, five dvds, and each dvd has about five half hour episodes without the commercials..so there is no time to catch your breath between laughs. The transfer is very very clear, with good sound even though once every long while the sound goes down a tiny bit. The extras are a heart felt touch with the home movies, and the interviews with Costello's daughters. Im gonna stop running my mouth now people. This box ... Read More
Rating: - Funny, but not as good as season one.
The true A&C fans will still like season 2, but it is not as good as season one. It lacks the enthusiasm of the first group of supporting actors. It is almost subdued compared to season one. Even the opening credits song is lackluster. A&C themselves did not seem as energetic about this season. Maybe it was because so many of the supporting cast had left.
The bonus material is excellent however, as his two living daughters share a treasure of family movies as well as talking about their family lives. Again, true fans will like this. All in all it's worth it to own both seasons just to have the complete set.
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