The Golden Girls - The Complete First Season

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Summary: Love It
Review: A must have collection, Please hurry with the rest of the Series. Could have done without Joan and Melissa.

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Summary: The Fashions Are Ugly But The Show and Humor Is Great!
Review: Great release, slightly cheap packaging. My question is, where are the exras? Outtakes? Interviews, etc? I know there was a special that aired a couple years back, maybe on E!, called TV Tales that covered all of the actresses plus their opinions of why the spin off series was ill-fated without the irreplacable Beatrice Arthur. MORE EXTRAS NEXT TIME AROUND.

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Summary: I love the Golden Girls! But DVD lacks...
Review: I absolutely LOVE the golden girls, especially the first season, which is one of my favorites. Receiving this DVD package as a birthday gift was one of the best gifts I have ever gotten (not to mention it was released on my birthday!). The quality of the DVD is great (visuals/sound). All sorts of uncut scenes, which I didn't know existed, are back! The packaging is kind of cute, although I think they could have poured a little bit more money into it, but if it keeps the DVDs intact, who cares? Also, the really old Golden Girls opening is on the first episode!

The ONLY disappointment was the LACK of quality and quantity in the "extra" parts. Joan and Melissa Rivers? WHAT?! All they talked about was the fashion of the Golden Girls, and half the time they just made punch lines about the styles of the 80's. Moreover, those two don't even bother trying to talk to the audience, they're just babbling on. I was hoping for bloopers or cast outtakes or maybe even producer/writer interviews. I can't BELIEVE the studio couldn't put together something better.

Of course I don't watch the DVD to watch the "extras" but I was so stunned at what the studio chose for its bonus materials. I love that I can finally watch these lovely ladies whenever I want, and without annoying commercials or a million VHS tapes.

All in All, I love the DVD; it is one of my treasures. And if you're a GG fan, it will be one of your treasures too.

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Summary: Even better than I thought!
Review: I couldn't wait until Season 1 came out and now that I have it, I watch it over and over. Getting to see the unedited episodes is awesome and makes watching them seen like the first time. I just preordered my copy of Season 2 coming in May and am counting down the days!

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Summary: oh, how I adore this show!
Review: I used to watch the Golden Girls when it first came on NBC, but I was very young. Then about 4 or 5 years ago I started watching the show on Lifetime, and I fell in love with the show.

The first day the DVD came out, I bought it at the place I work. The DVD is a million times better than watching the episodes on Lifetime. There are many different reasons why I don't like the station:
1. Their schedules are messed up. They'll often show movies and other TV shows instead of the Golden Girls when the show's supposed to be on.
2. They put in too many commercials during the episodes, and the commercials are extremely long.
3. As a consequence of #2, they deleted scenes from each episode.

While I'll continue watching the episodes on Lifetime (until all 7 seasons come out on DVD), the DVD is so much better!

All the episodes on this DVD are good, but my personal favorites are:
"Break-In", "A Little Romance", and "In a Bed of Rose's".

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Summary: like your favorite comfy sweatshirt
Review: Put this on my Christmas Wishlist and was very happy when i received it.
I grew up watching Sophia, Blanche, Dorothy and Rose. They were like family to me I felt like i almost knew them at times.
Ok i know i'm getting sappy but i just have to say that this show is very comforting to me.
Every episode is peppered with funny one liners from every one, You always know when Dorothy is going to give Rose a zinger. All Rose has to do is say something really stupid and away Dorothy goes. Gotta love that Sophia too.
The only reason why i gave this dvd 4 instead of 5 is because the extra's weren't that great. Joan and Melissa talking about what the actresses wore back in the 80's? I was actually glad not to see them anymore on the E channel and there they were on my new dvd!
Oh well i still love it anyway
:)

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Summary: Nothing GOLD can Stay
Review: Well, they can now since they're on DVD!! The chemistry these ladies had together was simply amazing and just hilarious... It's nice to know what episodes are from Season 1 - the season that brought an Emmy to Betty and for the series!!! Originally, I heard Rue M. was going to play the role of Rose and Betty White was going to play Blanche.. How strange that would have been... (maybe not...skilled actors, like every single lady in Golden Girls, are able to pull off anything) Anyway...Check it out...a perfect gift for any occasion!!

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Summary: I have waited my entire life for this to happen.....
Review: When I first heard that The Golden Girls was coming out on DVD I flipped! I was estatic, I have been waiting and waiting for this show to come out on DVD and the episodes were some I haven't seen, and others I have seen. They are so funny, Sophia is defenatly my favorite!! She is so blunt, and all the girls are so great!! This is the greatest thing to happen in a long time!!

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Summary: THE 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE GOLDEN GIRLS ON DVD
Review: With the rage of DVD's and a swarm of the old TV shows that we all loved growing up we are getting a new way to enjoy them all over again. Marketing geniuses have come up with a new way to sell DVD's. They take old TV shows and put a whole season on 3 or 4 disks. All episodes from one season are uncut with no dialogue or scenes missing. It is shown the way it ought to be shown with everything intact.
Most TV shows I watched were re-runs except for shows that came on in the seventies and eighties as I was growing up in a first- run basis. Those of course would be complete unedited shows. But my very first show I can say that I saw from day one until its final episode was The Golden Girls. I just loved them passionately. They are my girls and my speed, despite the fact that I am only thirty-eight years old. I would watch this show and laugh like there was and is no tomorrow. My mother and sister would also get involved and laugh at the show. The combination of all these incredible funny women along with the shows phenomenal writing talents was a match made in heaven.
Finally they took The Golden Girls and put out the first season on DVD. I was excited to watch the first season which is crisp and clean to see and hear; unlike the old videos I taped twenty years earlier where the sound was poor and the visual quality just as bad. Now I can truly enjoy those classic gems.
The DVD had a segment with Joan and Melissa Rivers about the wardrobe of The Golden Girls and how horrible it was. It was fun to see Joan and Melissa Rivers do what they do best to make us laugh but where was commentary from The Golden Girls themselves. Estelle Getty has been sick so it is understandable, but how about the other three women who are still vital: Beatrice Arthur, Rue McClanahan, and Betty White. Despite this, I still say the first season of The Golden Girls on DVD is great and I pray they come out with the other seasons of this incredible funny show and maybe eventually the first and only season of the Golden Palace sans Beatrice Arthur.