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All-Star Family Feud

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3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

Family Feud is a classic show that ran for an impressive nine years with the always dashing Richard Dawson as host. Though Feud has been revived a few times over the years, the new incarnations haven't come close to matching the original's popularity.

This DVD set includes some of the most memorable celebrity episodes of the game, most of which aired in primetime. It's a chance to see the reunited casts of classic shows like The Brady Bunch, Petticoat Junction, Gilligan's Island, Leave It to Beaver and others competing for charity. Other show casts taking part include WKRP in Cincinnati, The Love Boat, Eight is Enough, General Hospital, What's Happening!, Family, Dallas, Soap, Benson, The Jeffersons, and Welcome Back Kotter.

Prior to this release, you could only see the episodes if you were lucky enough to catch them on GSN. If you love classic TV shows and stars, you'll surely enjoy these episodes.

* Note: Though the box mentions the casts of Batman and Lost in Space, they aren't in this set. Only one episode from that particular special week of shows is included and features the casts of Hawaiian Eye and Gilligan's Island. It's still a great set but don't buy it looking for Batman and Lost in Space!

Episodes included:
Petticoat Junction vs. Leave it to Beaver
Real People vs. WKRP in Cincinnati
Love Boat vs. WKRP in Cincinnati
Soap vs. Real People
Hollywood Walk of Fame Special, Part 1
Your Hit Parade vs. The Brady Bunch
Petticoat Junction vs. The Brady Bunch, Part 2
The Jeffersons vs. Dallas
The Jeffersons vs. Dukes of Hazzard
Dallas vs. It's a Living
Eight is Enough vs. Soap
Richard's Rosebuds vs. Debbie's Dudes
Eight is Enough vs. General Hospital
Soap vs. All My Children
Dallas vs. One Day at a Time
Dallas vs. Eight Is Enough
Welcome Back Kotter vs. Barney Miller
Welcome Back Kotter vs. Soap
Barney Miller vs. Eight is Enough
Soap vs. Three's Company, Part 2
Soap vs. Three's Company, Part 1
Love Boat vs. Eight is Enough
Dukes of Hazzard vs. Angie
Dukes of Hazzard vs. the Waltons
The Ropers vs. Angie
Petticoat Junction vs. The Brady Bunch, Part 1
Adventure Heroines vs. Adventure Heroes, Part 2
Adventure Heroines vs. Adventure Heroes, Part 1
Richard's Rosebuds vs. Phyllis' Fighters
Wilt's Wows vs. Debbie's Dudes
Gilligan's Island vs. Hawaiian Eye
Family vs. Welcome Back Kotter
Welcome Back Kotter vs. The Love Boat
Eight is Enough vs. Family
One Day at a Time vs. Benson
Heroes vs. Villains, Part 3
Heroes vs. Villains, Part 2
Heroes vs. Villains, Part 1
Family vs. Eight is Enough
Family vs. What's Happening
Love Boat vs. Eight is Enough
Hollywood Walk of Fame Special, Part 2
Your Hit Parade vs. Leave it to Beaver

There have been so many game shows that have been definitive. While the shows itself have shown new life, the hosts on the other hand, have not delivered the originality we often loved before. There is no other game show that has stated that point like Family Feud. No matter who has hosted the show whether it was the late Ray Combs, Louie Anderson, Richard Karn from Home Improvement, or the latest host John O' Hurley, we will always think of the original master of the feud, Richard Dawson. During his original 9 year run from 1976-1985, Family Feud really delivered as one of the definitive game shows of all time in syndication and on ABC. The show has also appealed well from its constant airing on GSN, and now there are feuds that are returning to the light for the first time in years, which are now on home video for the first time ever.

All-Star Family Feud is a 4 disc DVD set showcasing your favorite celebrities playing your favorite game show with surveys. The collection primarily focuses in on special primetime episodes from Richard's ABC edition from the 70's and 80's which include your favorite stars from shows like Soap, Loni Anderson from WKRP In Cincinatti, Susan Lucci from All My Children, and the cast of The Brady Bunch. The DVD also includes some episodes from the syndicated edition including the 1985 Hollywood Walk Of Fame week, which also features the feud creator, the late great Mark Goodson, as well as actress and T.V. pioneer Betty White and Ceasear Romero. The shows are refreshing to watch, some of them also have never been aired on GSN before, and bring in a great appeal to those who've loved Dawson's days when he used to say survey said.

While we've seen game shows recently that came to DVD as board games like Jeopardy and The Price Is Right, the actual episodes are much more fun to watch. Family Feud has had many DVD game editions, but this DVD set is definitely the best. I loved watching these great shows for the first time, and if you are a fan of classic game shows, you'll absolutely love All-Star Family Feud as a part of your DVD collection.

Remastering: B+

Price: B

Overall: B 1/2+

I bought this set and I love it! Excellent picture and sound quality here.
(Remember: it's 1980s full screen TV!)

Generally, each of these one-hour prime time specials is divided on episode menus thusly: Team 1 vs. Team 2 is one selection. Team 3 vs. Team 4 from the same hour is selection two. The winners of these two matches play a one-question game for the grand prize on selection three.

Twice there are only two days of a five daytime show battle between the same pair of teams and one time, there's three days. A Disc Four anomaly has a contest between Gilligan's Island and Hawaiian Eye. This is supposed to be followed by two matches with Batman. Perhaps some legal issue prevented BCI from using Batman and these segments were deleted AFTER box contents had been printed up.

It's speculative, OK?

If you liked Richard Dawson's FAMILY FEUD, you too will enjoy this collection!

FOR A COMPLETE LIST OF DVD CONTENTS THAT INCLUDES GUEST STARS IN
EACH CHAPTER (1-12), SEE COMMENT #1, LOCATED BELOW THIS REVIEW.

This wasn't my typical DVD movie or TV show purchase. This occasion was reserved for good old family fun. My teenage children didn't grow up watching the original airing starring the one and only Richard Dawson on ABC TV and have only caught a few glimpses of this show while channel surfing though today's vast TV Wasteland. What made this purchase special was how it made the family gather around the television and participate with the program. Before we knew it, we had knocked down several episodes and the laughs kept coming. The kids loved it and it made what may have been just another evening more memorable. Like other reviews have stated, some of the program content mentioned on the box wasn't included on the DVD's and some of the programs had lower quality video than others but what would you expect for a game show this age? I'm sure they didn't record the episodes with DVD's in mind all these decades later. I highly recommend this DVD if you are in the mood for laughs or to spice up a family party or a get together with friends. The laughs we shared couldn't be measured in dollars spent (which by the way wasn't much) and we look forward to the possibility of future volumes.

some reviewers disliked some things about this dvd set,well let me just say that the quality and the shows are really good and if your a fan of tv shows of the 60's-early 80's then you will love this family feud set. Sadly BCI who released this and Match Game and password has sold their part of their company and we may no longer get more volumes or future releases that the company planned for 2009 such as TattleTales with host Bert Convy which was scheduled for a 3/2009 release and thhe company that is now in charge plans to recall the dvd sets of Family Feud,Match Game ect' so get these while you can because they all will soon be discontinued. SAD

If you're a fan of classic game shows or classic TV, this set is well worth the twenty bucks. Unlike the Match Game set, these are not episodes that you can just see on Game Show Network any day of the week. The video/audio quality is fine, with the exception of one segment-they probably should have called this one a "bonus feature" or put a notice before it, but it's not unwatchable or anything.
I would like to point out that these episodes are not edited-they have just taken each individual celebrity segment out of each episode and presented it by itself on the menus. It's a really odd way to do it, but the episodes themselves are all there. I'd recommend picking this up-it's a good deal for the price, and hopefully they'll keep putting out more game show DVDs.

...still nice to have some of the classic Dawson episodes all the same.

As noted in other reviews, video quality in some of the episodes is a bit on the shaky side (mildly annoying), but overall most of the shows are of above average quality.

My big disappointment is that with the exception of a photo gallery on disc 4, there aren't any extras on this at all. No interviews, rare footage or lost episodes. One of the things that made the MG set great were all of those extra goodies that enhanced the episodes. Nothing like that here. Plus, I think there are just one too may episodes with the cast of 8 Is Enough. That was never my favorite show growing up, but that's my hang up.

There is a comment posted to an earlier review here that says that some of the episodes were edited down to 10 minutes. Don't believe that! Many of the shows in this set were hour long broadcasts, and these 10 minute segements were nothing more than the final showdown between the 2 winning teams from the previous matches in the games from the same show that proceed it in the set. All of the shows presented in this set are complete and intact!

All in all, it's good to have these shows available, although I would have welcomed just regular FF episodes with actual families as much as I would the celeb shows. I'm looking forward to seeing what they do with the TPIR set in March.

The first impression I got from this set was a bad one - on none of the discs does it say which episodes are on which disc, so it's kind of a chance game as to which is which. Then, the interior case is confusing and I still don't know how to get to the second and fourth discs.

Unlike the far superior Best of the Match Game sets that came out this year, it just seems no extra effort was put in here. The video quality is pretty bad and jittery in some episodes as well.

One thing I WILL say for this set, though, is I do love having all of these classic episodes collected in one place. I just wish the presentation had been a bit better and that there had at least been an effort to avoid the jittery picture.

Don't get me wrong. I think that the family feud is a great show, but something is not right with this set. From the start, I noticed that the video quality is poor. It looks like the old vhs tapes recorded in the worst mode. The color is very dull and it looks much worse than anything on the game show network. Also, the movements of the people are sometimes strange; like there is a very slight but noticeable miss or lag in the tapes. I really could not enjoy watching this because of these problems. It seems that the manufacturer or producer of this set cut costs and we have another cheaply done dvd set. If your just interested in the content, then buy this set. But if you've seen these episodes for years, (how they're supposed to look), then maybe you should reconsider purchasing this set.