The Honeymooners - Classic 39 Episodes

Rating:
Summary: Great Shows--So So Execution
Review: Others have said the same thing, so this review will be short. Of course, the shows are great. Nuf sed about them.
The packaging is very nice also. I like the design, and I like the slim-line DVD holders better than the usuall "fat" ones you get. They're all you need and take up less space.
My main beef about the execution is that you can only watch one episode at a time! Unless I'm doing something wrong, there is no "Play All" on the menu. You watch one episode and when it ends, it goes back to the menu, not to the next episode. This sounds like a minor inconvenience, but the whole point of the DVD format is to avoid these minor inconveniences.
I don't notice the poor video quality some others have commented on, except in the very first episode ("TV or Not TV", which happens to be one of the two best episodes in the whole set) where the last 5-10 minutes looks like a lousy kinescope. I don't know if it's because that's the quality of the source material and it's the best that exists, but I don't think that can be so because I've seen that episode a hundred (or thousand) times over the years and never noticed this before. It seems they must have just used a poorer quality print of that show to make this DVD, and they should have been able to do better.
By all means buy the set if you're a Honeymooners fan, but be aware that it could have been done better.

Rating:
Summary: No Question, This is the Set to get First...
Review: Not sure why I need to add yet another 5-star review to this set, but I'm a long time fan of the Honeymooners, and this is simply a must-have for any Honeymooners fan. Great quality-- some reviewers complained a bit about the audio on the first episode, which I agree is a little bit weak, but I consider the problem relatively minor. Otherwise the transfers are crisp, menus are nice, packaging is compact-- I just wish the "lost episodes" sets were given this kind of treatment.

Now, when are they going to start releasing the entirety of the Jackie Gleason Show? Anxiously awaiting that one-- Poor Soul, Reginald Van Gleason, Joe the Bartender, etc... And Away We Go....

Reviewed for Amazon.