Product Details

• Actors: Keith Knight, Sonja Ball, Len Carlson, John Stocker, Judy Marshak
• Writers: Robert Askin
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Polygram USA Video
• VHS Release Date: August 26, 1997
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: 6304584474
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #68,296 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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The subject is Busy Town, a delightful place that looks like a cross between an American small town and a Tyrolean village (the late children's author and illustrator Richard Scarry moved from the U.S. to Switzerland at age 50). A kind of whole-cloth world that becomes fully involving and entertaining for young kids, where numerous characters meet up in different combinations for all sorts of adventures, Busy Town comes alive in a series of books by Scarry for toddlers and preschoolers. The excellent batch of videos spinning off from those stories (and going beyond them) have proven to be popular not only with children but with parents, grandparents, and other significant adults in a little viewer's life.

Volume 2 consists of the following:

In "A New Friend on the Block," Huck and Lowly want to go to the beach, but Huck's mother asks them to take some homemade cookies to their new neighbors across the street. "Couscous in the Sahara" features French Detective Couscous in an adventure to capture Pepe the Gangster. In "Sergeant Murphy's Deputy," an overzealous, fresh-from-the-academy police officer is so eager to distribute tickets for minor infractions that she's erasing all of Murphy's goodwill in the community. Huck and Lowly find out what it takes to be "The Busiest Firefighters Ever." "Manuel of Mexico" is the story of a boy who accidentally breaks his mother's cooking pot, then gets carried away by imagining that the stealthy fellow he sees at the pottery store is an international super spy. "The Biggest Catch Ever" finds Huck and Lowly alone in Mr. Von Fluegel's hot-air balloon, which then floats away. In "The Best Babysitter Ever," Hilda Hippo babysits twin brothers Pig Will and Pig Won't, and she quickly learns the difference in the boys' disposition. "Mario the Venetian Gondolier" is a cute story about a frustrated gondolier who can't seem to lure paying passengers into his boat. "Mr. Raccoon's Different Day" is another disaster comedy in which Mr. Frumble temporarily runs a diner for his friend and pretty much demolishes the place. "Sally's First Day at School" finds Huck's sister Sally plenty nervous about her first day of kindergarten "Cucumber in the Rockies" concerns the great lengths that newspaper photographer Cucumber has to go in order to take snapshots of a ritzy wedding--including helping a Canadian Mountie apprehend two train thieves. Finally, "The Biggest Storm Ever" pits grumpy old Mr. Gronkle against the rest of Busy Town, until a flood causes Huck and others to worry about the grouchy guy's safety. --Tom Keogh

Product Description

One 90-minute video contains four episodes from The Busy World of Richard Scarry: "The Busiest Firefighters Ever," "New Friend on the Block," "Sally's First Day at School," and "The Best Babysitter Ever."

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BEST ever, January 11, 2007

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Mom of 4 (California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Best Richard Scarry Collection Ever - Volume 2 [VHS] (VHS Tape)

We love Richard Scarry stories and this is a great collection of them. Rarely do you get this many shows on one videotape. I can pop it in and keep my kids occupied for ages.