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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
EAN: 0097361327549
Format: Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 10, 2008
Running Time: 562 minutes
Sales Rank: 748
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 1970
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Product Description:
Two divorced New Yorkers---a slob and a fussbudget---try to live together without driving each other crazy' in this classic sitcom based on Neil Simon's hit play and movie. Both Jack Klugman and Tony Randall won Emmys in the leads the latter in the final year of a five-season run. Now if I only had a job' Randall said at the Emmy gala. The show inspired two remakes one an animated series portraying the main characters as a cat and a dog and a 1982-83 version with a mostly black cast.System Requirements:Running Time: 562 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097361327549 Manufacturer No: 132754
Amazon.com:
Even at its guest-starringest, Will & Grace had nothing on The Odd Couple's fourth season stunt casting. Just two months after their epic 'Battle of the Sexes' drew the largest-ever live audience for a tennis match, Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King squared off against each other at the ping-pong table in the episode, 'The Pig Who Came to Dinner.' Ballet superstar Edward Villella performs in 'Last Tango in Newark' and Marilyn Horn, as a baker with an operatic voice and an unrequited crush on Oscar, sings selections from Carmen, as well as 'People,' in 'Vocal Girl Makes Good.' 'The Songwriter' features legendary disc jockey Wolfman Jack and entertainer Jaye P. Morgan, who performs the ever-popular Felix-penned ditty, 'Happy and Peppy and Bursting with Love.' Playboy emperor Hugh Hefner drops in for the flashback episode, 'One for the Bunny,' in which a jealous Felix is undone when he must photograph his future wife, Gloria, for a possible Playmate spread. But the chemistry between Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, Best Actor Emmy nominees in each of this series' five years, is the real attraction. They are so thoroughly at home in their roles that they elevate the more over-the-top material, as witness their ill-fated presentation as glue entrepreneurs in 'A Barnacle Adventure.' Among the season's best episodes are the ones that go back to the basics of Neil Simon's warhorse play: Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? In 'The Insomniac,' Felix cannot get to sleep ('I'm up as a pup') despite Oscar's best efforts. In 'Cleanliness is Next to Impossible,' Felix hypnotizes the unwitting Oscar into becoming a neat freak after Oscar's new girlfriend calls him sloppy (Felix's heartbreak at having to bring Oscar out of it is palpable. 'It's like a dream come true,' he moans). Elinor Donahue's Miriam, Felix's girlfriend, is conveniently forgotten in the episodes in which Felix tries to win back his ex-wife ('Gloria Moves In'). Zinger-queen Brett Somers also returns as Oscar's ex-wife, Blanche, in flashback episodes that continue to play havoc with Felix and Oscar's backstory (so now they were in the Army together?) Randall, Klugman and company (including Penny Marshall as Oscar's secretary, Myrna) clearly relish playing to their enthusiastic live audience, and this richly entertaining season is brimming with classic moments and bits of comic business that continue to bring down the house. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - I much fear trouble in the fuselage, Frederick
I watch these dvd's all of the time and to the fan that has been waiting for years for them to come out in this format it is great. I honestly don't know what all of the complaining is about. Would it have been good if we could get all uncut episodes, yes but then again not even on tv -here in NY they run at 2:00am - can you watch an uncut episode. I used to watch this show as a kid on channel 11 and frankly there is not that much that has been cut off that I can remember. So if you love the Odd Couple and want to see them again, please buy these dvd's. The edits are in my opinion a minor inconvenience. I have bought all four seasons and I hope to buy the fifth when it comes out. Season four is probably the best season of the Odd Couple the great comedic timing of Klugman and Randall should not be missed and I hope that these dvd's create a new generation of fans. The Odd Couple was one of my favorite shows as a kid and it is great to see them again. Oh, and regardless of what another reviewer says here; the "fusilage" line from the Flying Felix episode is on this dvd.
Rating:  - CBS/Paramount blows it again!
It breaks my heart to have to give 1 star to my all-time favorite show, but this is just another brutal job of artistic butchery by the empty suits at CBS/Paramount.
If you're familiar with the CBS/Paramount debacle on removing ALL music from The Fugitive (see the horrible reviews here on Amazon), then you know that CBS/Paramount has taken an exteremely lame tact: instead of even TRYING to settle music clearance issues, they have instead opted to avoid any POSSIBLE payments by simply cutting out ALL music on the show. Whoever their counsel is that advised them to do this, he should be out of a job.
The cuts are just ridiculous, and have been well documented by others here. I mean, isn't there such a thing as Fair Use? Felx sings ONE LINE of The Banana Boat song (Day-O) to wake up Oscar. Gone. Oscar is offered $500 to be in Felix's movie. His response: "I'm Gonna Be in Pictures" - ONE LINE. Gone.
I can see a few popular songs having to go due to expensive royalties, but it seems that Paramount is now taking an overly cautious and downright lazy approach and instead of dealing with the issue at all, they have decided to just cut the whole damn thing out, fans be damned.
I will NEVER, NEVER buy another CBS/Paramount product unless they rectify this. Put out a deluxe set for hradcore fans with all of the music put back in. I'd buy it, regardless of cost.
Rating: - PARAMOUNT EDITS KEEP GETTING WORSE
I still can't believe how cheap Paramount is. At this point I don't think they even bother to attempt to get the rights to individual songs. I thought season three's edits were bad, 9 episodes out of 23 were edited, but season four has hit a new low. I haven't watched disc four yet, but out of the first 17 episodes 8 have been edited. It's a shame that such an amazing show that took so long to come out on DVD has been butchered so badly. I'm so fed up with Paramount's awful editing that I've reedited the episodes putting back some of the funniest scenes they took out. I can't imagine that it's so expensive to put 3 seconds of Oscar humming "Dance Ballerina, Dance" into an episode. Paramount, don't be so greedy. If "Freaks & Geeks" could keep the original music why can't "The Odd Couple?"
Rating: - another series ruined by paramount
What kind of clowns do this to customers favorite shows? I hate Paramount and will never buy another product from them. There are many "bootleg" sets available for these shows at great prices and they have not been edited. From now on thats what I buy.
Rating: - Corporate Greed
Corporate greed...When is it ever enough for you pigs? Top dollar purchase for an edited,no bonus feature set.Classic show,embarrasing edits by Paramount who may have reached a new low.You people suck.
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