Product Details

• Actors: Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Sid Fields, Gordon Jones, Bobby Barber
• Format: Black & White, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Shanachie
• VHS Release Date: June 15, 1998
• Run Time: 110 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6302967783
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #442,656 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A must-have for fans of Bud & Lou (and Jerry Seinfeld)., November 10, 2001

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plsilverman (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Abbott and Costello Show Volume 6 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

If you enjoy the comedy of A & C and are disappointed by their feature films, you'll want to own collections such as Volume 6. The VHS series is ofcourse drawn from the '52 to '53 sitcom and includes the boys at their absolute best. It's well-known that the "Seinfeld" series in its early years used alot of the show's style - from the man on the street tirade to the audience "laugh track", etc.
It has been written that show was conceived by Lou Costello as means to gain Copyright to the old routines. He even enlisted a relative, Pat Costello, to act as Producer, presumeably in name only. The result was one year of free-wheeling brilliance and another, final, year of labored, unfunny material that almost any team could have pulled off. Superlative support (in the first year's entry) came from Hillary Brooke, Sidney Fields, and Joe Besser, to name a few.
A series drawback in this volume and others, is that the original air-dates are not listed, so a fan has to research the titles if he/she wants to be assured of first-class stuff from the first season.
Happily, Vol. 6 contains *three* episodes from that first season - "Television", "The Haunted House", and "The Vacation". "South of Dixie" is from '52/3.