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Summary: Not a great deal, but cut them some slack
Review: I half-way agree with other reviews here. This set is extremely expensive, especially compared with other TV season sets on the market. However, having purchased the set, it might make you feel better to know it is not merely paying more for the same product. First, there are 36 episodes, compared to around 24 for most other TV shows of today. I Love Lucy was not originally done in season format as TV shows are filmed in today. They went week after week until they needed a break. The episodes also generally run longer than episodes from modern TV shows because of less commercial time. Second, and much more important, is the fact that this is not only the first season on DVD, but rather an excellent preservation of the series as a whole. Each DVD comes with original opening animation, deleted scenes recently found and previously considered lost, history on the show, and each disc also includes an episode from "My Favorite Husband", the Lucille Ball radio show from which I Love Lucy stems. Though some of this is only of interest to hard-core Lucy fans, it is really nice to see this material transfered to DVD and released to the public so that it can last forever.
In conclusion, I think the price could be taken down some and the sets released in a more sensible way, but I don't think it's near as horrible as other reviewers state. And despite all the extra features, it's still I Love Lucy.. and I LOVE LUCY! :-D
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Summary: Could be worth your while!!!
Review: If you're a fan of this series, the production of this dvd set is unbeatable. Each episode is uncut and there are 35 of them plus the series pilot. They are presented in broadcast order. The restoration is superb with picture and sound quality as good as I have ever seen in these episodes. True, they could have been packaged better, with the price being a little high for your purchase. But I have watched the first season now and am glad I made the investment. And the best news of all is that according to tvshowsondvd.com, Season 2 will be released on May 11th with a more affordable format similar to the other series releases on dvd. So it might be worth it to save for this set if you want to own the series. Keep 'em coming Paramount!
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Summary: Great Series, But Not First Season
Review: I am a huge "I Love Lucy" fan, but the entire first season of this classic series doesn't fairly explain why this is the greatest sitcom of all-time. The first season is plaqued with technical glitches, actors finding their characters and the feeling that the audience we hear laughing at America's favorite redhead is being generated from a laugh track rather than the live audience the show prided itself on. I can't wait for the second season of the show to come out on DVD, because then we see why this show was so beloved and by far, the greatest of all-time.
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Summary: I Love I Love Lucy!!!
Review: I Love Lucy is my favorite television series ever, Lucille Ball will forever remain the Queen of Comedy. I can remember watching I Love Lucy when I was young and laughing, not even realizing how classic the show was. Now at age fifteen I have rediscovered my love for the show when I again saw reruns on TV LAND. I Love Lucy has finaly made its way to DVD with the historic 1st Season! The first season which ran from October 15th, 1951 to June 9th, 1952 includes some of the shows greatest episodesEpisodes of Season 1 in airing order:
1. The Girls Want to Go to a Night Club
2. Be a Pal
3. The Diet
4. Lucy Thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her (actually the shows first episode to be filmed)
5. The Quiz Show
6. The Audition (virtualy the same as the unaired pilot)
7. The Seance
8.Men Are Messy
9. The Fur Coat
10. Lucy is Jealous of a Girl Singer (this episode was mistitled and should have been a "Girl dancer"
11. Drafted
12. The Adaigo
13. The Benefit
14. The Amateur Hour 15. Lucy plays Cupid
16. Lucy Fakes Illness
17. Lucy Writes a Play
18. Breaking the Lease
19. The Ballet
20. The Young Fans
21. New Neighbours
22. Fred and Ethel Fight
23. The Moustache
24. The Gossip
25. Pioneer Women (This episode contains the hilarious scene where Lucy is pinned against the wall by a giant loaf of bread)
26. The Marriage License
27. The Kleptomaniac
28. Cuban Pals
29. The Freezer(I laugh so hard every time i watch Lucy in the meat shop making that funny voice while she sells the beed "Tell Ya What I"m Gonna Do!"
30. Lucy Does A T.V Commercial (Possible the MOST FAMOUS EPISODE as Lucy becomes intoxicated while doing a commercial.
31. The Publicity Agent
32. Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio
33. Lucy's Schedule
34. Ricky Thinks He's Going Bald
35. Ricky Asks for a Raise Now You can own the shows incredible first season in one boxed set!! However I am very angry with CBS or Paramount or whoever decided to release the 1st Season in seperate volumes! I had no idea the season would be released in one boxed set!! This was a cheap attempt make more money. I have bought every volume released so far and it has been expensive, i certainly would have waited for the Boxed set had I known! But if you have not bought all the volumes and you are a true fan of Lucille Ball than dont hold back!! But I LOVE LUCY SEASON 1 AND YOU WONT REGRET IT!
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Summary: Hilarious
Review: This 9-DVD boxed set includes the first 36 episodes of the TV show I Love Lucy. It even has the original first episode, The Lost I Love Lucy Pilot, which was never realeased because the first 5 minutes or so of tape was lost. Recently, they found the missing tape, and the person who did the narration on the remainder of that episode recorded the missing narration. Every episode is undoubtly funny, with exciting twists and turns--at the beginning, you can never tell what kinds of hilarious problems Ricky, Lucy, Fred, and Ethel will have been cought in by the end. I disagree with the reviewers who say no bonus features have been added, because there are tons! On each episode, you can see the original beginning of the show (it started with a cigarette ad instead of the heart-and-silk thing), plus flubs, and recordings of Lucille Ball's My Favorite Husband radio shows that inspired episodes of I Love Lucy. This DVD set is a good value, because each has 4 episodes, so that's 2 hours of time, plus bonus material. This is priced at around $100, so that's approximately $11 per DVD, and that's a good price! I Love Lucy is a classic TV show that can be enjoyed by children and adults alike. Buy these DVDs and start experiencing the fun today!
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Summary: REALLY CASHING IN on a brilliant, legendary TV classic!
Review: No one could be more thrilled than I that I LOVE LUCY, arguably the greatest situation comedy of all time, is being released on DVD. But Paramount's decision to issue individual volumes, at such an agonizingly slow rate, at a relatively high MSRP of about $14.95 per volume, only to FINALLY reach the end of the first season and THEN release a HIGH-PRICED box set seems to be a real slap in the face to the diehard LUCY Fans. The retail price on this set is quite high, if I dare say, and the release must be very frustrating to those who eagerly awaited each volume and plunked down the cash. Now those people can have a whole set of volumes for the first season and special box sets of the other 5! SOMEONE WAS THINKING MAJOR MONEY HERE--BIG SURPRISE! This is the way it should have been done all along. Not to mention that Columbia House was releasing comparable volumes (the identical content with different packaging) BEFORE Paramount. And now Columbia House has halted production--which means a whole lot of people will have the full first season from them, and have to continue the series with the Paramount versions. BIZARRE--and to a nitpicking DVD fan, this type of thing can be VERY ANNOYING!
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Summary: WHAT HAPPENED TO SEASON TWO?
Review: I bought the discs in Season One one by one, as they were released. Each new disc would come out every few months. The last one came out in Summer of 2003. NO NEW DISCS SINCE THEN. WHAT GIVES?
The disc quality and bonus material are all great.
The first discs feature a bonus tinny Spanish soundtrack. Later discs boast both a Spanish soundtrack and subtitles. Too bad the subtitles were left out of the first episodes.
And WHY NO ENGLISH SUBTITLES at all for the hearing impaired?
SEASON TWO, WHEREFORE ART THOU?
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Summary: Episode guide for season one
Review: Here is a complete episode guide for season one of "I Love Lucy." (September 1951-June 1952) The DVD collection also includes the series pilot, deleted scenes, clips from Lucy's radio show, "My Favorite Husband," and excellent preservation. 1. Lucy Thinks Ricky is Trying to Murder Her-Lucy reads a murder mystery and jumps to the conclusion that Ricky must want to murder her as well.
2. The Girls Want to Go to a Nightclub-For Fred and Ethel's wedding anniversary, Ethel wants to go to a nightclub, but Fred wants to go to the fights. Ricky and Lucy try to solve the problem.
3. Be a Pal-Lucy thinks that she and Ricky have nothing in common, so she begins to adopt his interests, including poker, much to Fred's dismay.
4. The Diet-When Lucy auditions for a part at Ricky's nightclub, he tells her he'll hire her if she can fit into the costume: a size 12.
5. The Quiz Show-Desperate for money to balance her household accounts, Lucy goes on a quiz show and agrees to bring home a total stranger and introduce him to Ricky as her long-lost husband.
6. The Audition-Lucy hires a coach to prepare her to audition for Ricky's show. This episode nearly mirrors the show's pilot, including Lucy's hobo act.
7. The Séance-In order to get Ricky in the good graces of Mr. Meriweather, Lucy and Ethel arrange a bogus séance so that Mr. Meriweather can contact his dead wife.
8. Men are Messy-Lucy is tired of cleaning up Ricky's messes, so when a magazine photographer comes to take snapshots of Ricky's home, Lucy decides to teach her husband a lesson.
9. Drafted-When Ricky receives a letter from the War Department, Lucy thinks he's been drafted. When Ricky catches Lucy knitting socks and then hiding them, he thinks she's pregnant. Ethel and Fred also adopt similar wrong conclusions.
10. The Fur Coat-When Ricky brings home a fur coat he rented for a show, Lucy mistakenly believes it's for her, and Ricky can't get her to take it off.
11. Lucy is Jealous of a Girl Singer-A recurring theme throughout the show, Lucy is jealous of a girl at Ricky's club (who is actually a dancer, not a singer).
12. The Adagio-Lucy hires a Parisian dancer to prep her for an audition at the Tropicana, but the dancer has romance in mind.
13. The Benefit-Lucy and Ricky agree to perform for Ethel's benefit club, but while rehearsing Lucy notices that Ricky delivers all the punch lines. She decides to change things...without telling Ricky.
14. The Amateur Hour-To earn extra money, Lucy agrees to take care of a lady's two bratty boys. She and the boys later appear on a TV show.
15. Lucy Plays Cupid-Lucy tries her hand at matchmaking for the first time with one of her neighbors and the grocer.
16. Lucy Fakes Illness-Lucy promises she'll have a nervous breakdown if Ricky doesn't hire her in his new show.
17. Lucy Writes a Play-Ricky refuses to play the leading role in Lucy's play.
18. Breaking the Lease-Lucy and Ricky have a huge fight with Ethel and Fred, so they decide to break their lease with vengeance.
19. The Ballet-Lucy lies and claims she has professional ballet experience to get a part at Ricky's nightclub.
20. The Young Fans-A teenager in the apartment building has a crush on Ricky, so Lucy tries to find her a boyfriend her own age. That young man (played by Richard Crenna) subsequently develops a crush on Lucy.
21. New Neighbors-Lucy and Ethel spy on their new neighbors, and Lucy creeps into their apartment while they're gone. They return while she's in a closet, and she overhears what she thinks is an elaborate espionage plot.
22. Fred and Ethel Fight-Lucy tries to patch up Fred and Ethel's marriage when the two split up.
23. The Moustache-When Ricky grows a moustache, Lucy plasters on a beard...that won't come off!
24. The Gossip-Ricky and Fred try to prove that women are bigger gossips than men.
25. Pioneer Women-Ricky and Fred think Lucy and Ethel are spoiled housewives who couldn't live without their modern conveniences. So all four decide to live like pioneers without electricity, running water, contemporary clothing, etc.
26. The Marriage License-Lucy discovers that she and Ricky are not legally married because Ricky's name is listed as "Nicky Nicardo" on their marriage license.
27. The Kleptomaniac-When Ricky finds out that Lucy is hiding mysterious valuables in the closet, he assumes she compulsively steals them.
28. Cuban Pals-Some of Ricky's old friends from Cuba come to visit, including a little girl Ricky used to dance with...who isn't a little girl anymore, much to Lucy's dismay!
29. The Freezer-Ethel buys a huge commercial freezer from her uncle, and she and Lucy fill it up with meat: two sides of beef. When they try to hide the huge expense from their husbands, Lucy accidentally locks herself in the freezer.
30. Lucy Does a TV Commercial-Probably the most famous "I Love Lucy" episode, Lucy does a commercial for Vitametavegamin, an health "tonic" with some shady ingredients.
31. The Publicity Agent-Feeling that Ricky has fallen out of the public eye, Lucy dreams up an elaborate publicity stunt: She poses as the Maharincess of Franistan who can't live without Ricky Ricardo's records.
32. Lucy Gets Ricky on the Radio-Lucy is so impressed with Ricky's knowledge of American history that she gets him to be a contestant on a radio quiz show.
33. Lucy's Schedule-Ricky puts Lucy on a strict schedule to teach her the importance of punctuality.
34. Ricky Thinks He's Getting Bald-Lucy gives Ricky scalp treatments to combat his fears of growing bald.
35. Ricky Asks for a Raise-Lucy presses Ricky to ask for a raise.
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Summary: SOMEBODY MADE A MISTAKE FOR SURE
Review: As a personal policy I buy all of my DVDs at Amazon and I think their prices and services are absolutely superb, however, this DVD is priced at bn.com at 79.98. That's just about $35 less than Amazon.
I'm sure there is no bad will here but it sure sounds somebody made a mistake. I hope Amazon corrects it before I have to buy this elsewhere
Rating:
Summary: Great if YOU LOVE LUCY
Review: This is expensive. My advice... shop around (hint hint)
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