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Ironside
First of all I'm wondering, why is Shout Factory releasing Ironside? Of all the shows out there, this seems like an odd choice. It must be because of the phenomenal success Perry Mason has had on DVD. I have to confess, I knew nothing of Ironside except it was what the old folks watched when I was a kid and it had a kickass theme song by Quincy Jones, who won an Emmy Award for the music. Now I see that Raymond Burr was nominated for an Emmy for Best Actor every year for the first five years the show was on the air. Plot Synopsis: Ironside is confined to a wheel chair (an attempted assassination left him paralyzed). With his former assistants Brown and Whitfield (later Belding) and former delinquent (and later lawyer) Mark, he combats crime for the San Francisco police from his mobile office (a van) while leaving a pot of chili cooking back at headquarters. This is a by-the-book TV drama of the mid-sixties, with a sensibility that rests somewhere between Dragnet and Perry Mason. Ironside was so popular it led to a slew of shows with defective detectives - blind, overweight, old, ---- you name the affliction - physically challenged TV detectives were everywhere in the 1970s thanks to Ironside. It's colorful but an anachronism compared to the modern TV crime drama. Still, for those who enjoy this type of simplistic storytelling (it is reassuring, I suppose) this can't be beat. First class treatment for a classic show. Product Description: In Season 2, Chief Ironside's crack team includes Sgt. Ed Brown, Don Galloway, ex con turned assistant Mark Sanger, Don Mitchell, and beautiful policewoman Eve Whitfield, Barbara Anderson, who won an Emmy for this role. With superb story lines dealing with socially important topics like racism, drugs, abortion, and terror on a college campus, Ironside’s second season continued the tradition of attracting special guest stars including Milton Berle, Anne Baxter, Bill Bixby, Ricardo Montalban, Burgess Meredith, Ed Asner and many more.
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Martin Milner (Tod Stiles) and George Maharis (Buz Murdock) star in this classic television drama about a couple of young guys who set out to see America in a brand new 1961 Corvette drop top. What makes this show truly unique is that it was filmed in a different U.S. city each week, giving us a stark glance at what living in America looked like in 1960. It was a vastly different landscape, people lived a lot closer to the dirt back then. (I'll bet that decrepit New Orleans dock in episode three is a multi-million dollar condo development if it wasn't washed away by the levy failure.) No television show had ever attempted anything on this grand a scale before, the technology necessary to make mobile TV production a practical enterprise had just been made available. Read the
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The last of the classic variety shows and one of the finest TV programs of all time, The Muppet Show Season 2 is an unrestrained delight from start to finish. This amazing production lit up the screens when it debuted in 1976 and the second season may be the best of the series' run. The sing-alongable theme song. The incredible guest stars. The crazy costumes. Pigs in space. The crabby guys in the balcony. The love / hate relationship between Piggy and Kermit. All here to relive or experience for the first time. If you are encountering The Muppet Show for the first time, what a treat you're in for; if you watched the show as a youngster you may find yourself uncontrollably singing along with the bizarrely choreographed Tin Pan Alley tunes. No question, this is Muppet-mania at its peak, before the many hit movies and Muppets on Ice diluted the product. How wonderful to see the delightful Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy and Miss Piggy trading barbs that could have come right out of radio. (In fact, some of the jokes do harken from Bergen's radio days.) |
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