Product Details

• Actors: Dean Martin, Don Rickles, Tony Bennett, Florence Henderson, Peter Sellers
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Guthy-Rinker Entertainment
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000OJMU1O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #173,859 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dino Makes Way for Rickles' Lounge Act, December 16, 2007

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Scott T. Rivers (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show - Volume 2 (VHS Tape)

There are plenty of highlights in this hourlong "Dean Martin Show" compilation. However, the second volume is most notable for the 1967 preservation of Don Rickles' nightclub act. Mr. Warmth skewers a celebrity-packed audience for 20 minutes and delivers his classic Bob Hope zinger ("Why is he here? Is the war over?"). If you're a Rickles fan, this video belongs in your collection. Otherwise, you may want to purchase a better-rounded Dino volume.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Everybody loves Dean Martin sometime..., July 22, 2010

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Annie Van Auken (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show - Volume 2 (VHS Tape)

Videotapes of THE BEST OF THE DEAN MARTIN VARIETY SHOW (2001) were once available from GUTHY-RENKER via a TV infomercial. There are 30 individual one-hour compilations in this series, which has since become somewhat of a collectible. (Note: these are highlights only, not complete programs.)

Title card seen here was also used as THE DEAN MARTIN SHOW LP cover. Audio is clean mono. Colors in these dubs of well-preserved tape excerpts are vibrant.

CONTENTS for Volume 2--
Dean's opening monologue
Producer/director Greg Garrison's comments on show openers
Sings "If You Knew Suzie Like I Know Suzie"
Jimmy Stewart intros Milburn Stone spoonerism bit with Dean
Takeoff of "Mr. Gallagher & Mr. Shean," with Phil Harris
Dancing song medley with Florence Henderson
Dom De Luise intros barbershop bit with Peter Sellers, Nipsy Russell, Dom and Dean
Dean's lyric line jokes, Ken Lane at the piano; straight version of "Pennies from Heaven"
Sings "Small Fry" with son Dino
In Abraham Lincoln party costume, Bob Newhart as Dean's bride; with Petula Clark as lawyer
Greg Garrison on Dean's singing style
Girl's name medley with Tony Bennett
Dean's sports reporter with Jonathan Winter as football coach Billy Joe Hardbody and two colorful players
"Wonderful television" skit with Florence Henderson, Tony Bennett, Bob Newhart, Dean and chorus
Dean intros celebrity-filled nightclub audience; Don Rickles insults them and uses bits also heard on his HELLO DUMMY! LP
Dean's chat with Don closes show; credits

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL, May 17, 2011

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Monniewood "Monnie" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show: Volume Two (DVD)

Anyone who doesn't watch this volume two DVD and laugh through it is either jaded or honestly - just not 'getting it'! I can't believe the "too much Newhart" comment. Not a major comedian? So I guess those two wildly successful t.v. shows of his own were really 'minor' and the high ratings and years of continued popularity for not one but both of them are a figment of our imaginations? My personal favorite bit on this DVD though is the little ditty Dean-o does with Phil Harris - more often known these days no doubt as the voice of Balloo the Bear in Disney's "The Jungle Book." The fun these two are having is so contagious. They simply do not make shows like this anymore. I'm not even sure if you could. Who truly has the kind of ease in front of a camera/audience, talent, humor, sex-appeal professional savvy and pure unadulterated charm that Dean Martin did? Who even comes close? No one. He was one of a kind and we're lucky to have these to remember him with and enjoy good times with him again and again. I recommend this DVD (though all of the ones I've watched are great) to anyone who appreciates comedy that is clever, often more sophisticated then one may first realize, and certainly done by the best of the best of the best. The cream of the crop during T.V's real coming of age. I love it and I love Dean Martin and will til the day I go and probably even after.