Customer Reviews

Good Morning World

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I remember watching this show every week in the 60's and loving it. Very reminiscent of the Dick Van Dyke Show about a pair of disc jockeys (Joby Baker and Ronnie Schell) and their home lives with Leslie Parrish and Goldie Hawn. The wonderful Billy de Wolfe stole every episode as their prissy boss. Amazed that this 'one season wonder' will be available on DVD but I'm loving it already!

I vividly remember watching this show with my family when it originally aired. It was bright, edgy, genuinely funny and Billy DeWolf could deliver a line like no one else (with the possible exception of Paul Lynde!) When I saw it was becoming available on DVD I felt a mixture of joy at being able to see it again, and fear that it would be one of those nostalgia pieces best left in it's own era. Let me assure you, it's a treasure. The characters are well drawn and engaging, and the writing is smart. But what makes this a home run for me is the treatment. S'more entertainment has done a beautiful job on these episodes. The colors and sound are crisp and clear, and if you are someone who has been burned by DVD collections where the quality was godawful, this is one time you can buy with peace of mind. This is truly one of the best TV series on DVD. I thank the producers for taking the risk on a show few might remember and for giving it the treatment of which other shows would be jealous.

Here's yet another "lost" television situation comedy that, thankfully, has made its way to DVD. "Good Morning World" ran on CBS in the 1967-68 season and, unfortunately, was up against "NYPD" on ABC and "Tuesday Night at the Movies" on NBC. In an interview included on disc 1, series co-star Ronnie Schell observes that "Tuesday Night at the Movies" was broadcast before the days of multiple movie channels on cable television and that "Good Morning World" couldn't compete with the likes of Cary Grant. As a result, "Good Morning World" was never among the top twenty shows and was promptly cancelled after its one year run of 26 episodes. A number of the writers and production people who worked on "The Dick Van Dyke Show" also worked on "Good Morning World," elevating it above many of the other sitcoms of the day. This is the show that gave Goldie Hawn her start on television, but the other regular cast members - Schell, Joby Baker, Billy DeWolfe, and Julie Parrish are all fine and obvious comparisons with "The Dick Van Dyke Show" can be made. In particular, the relationship between Schell and DeWolfe will remind one of the characters Buddy Sorell (Morey Amsterdam) and Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon) from the Van Dyke show, and Baker and Parrish are the "surrogates" for Rob and Laura Petrie.

As was the case with their previous TV-on-DVD releases ("Mister Peepers" and "Lotsa Luck!"), S'more Entertainment has done a great job in bringing this series to DVD. The episodes look reasonably crisp for an early color series that's nearly 40 years old and the audio is fine, save for an occasional dropout. There are also a few extras included on this DVD set, chief among them being the interview with Ronnie Schell which I would recommend watching before proceeding to the episodes; it's informative and provides a nice context for the show.

Fans of "Good Morning World" who watched the series back in the late 1960s will be happy to see this release, and those who are discovering it for the first time, particularly "crossover" fans of "The Dick Van Dyke Show," are likely to enjoy the humor that's delivered by a fine ensemble cast.

This is an enjoyable short lived t.v. series. One of the characters names is LARRY CLARK. Hey, that is my
name and that is partly why I like this show. It is a fun show to watch over & over again. I really like
the nude resort episode.

A nice "safe" and funny show.
Hey, you'll see Carl Reiner's name in it.
Ronnie Schell and Goldie Hawn are very good in this.
The rest of the cast does a fine job as well.

Ronnie Schell, where did you go?

Considering this series is from the late 60's, the print is clean and bright.
No extras, but who cares?
A good value.

a lost TV show that is very good. worth the money. Sharp writing and acting.

I used to watch this on CBS back when I was in 9th grade. It reminded me of The Dick van Dyke Show-the early years. I say that because of the episode called "100 Terrible Hours" in which Rob Petrie was a DJ tryibg to break an endurance record. GMW is similar in the fact of two DJs just trying to make a living. One of them is married to a wife who also reminds me of a young Laura Petrie. It is a shame it was in a bad time slot or else it would of gone on longer.

I have never felt compelled to write a review and had never heard of "Good Morning, World," but I bought the discs because the program sounded interesting. My set just arrived, and I was greatly dismayed to learn of the inexcusably shoddy packaging. First, the discs are stacked on top of each other so that you have to take Disc Two out to get Disc One out and have to remove Disc Three to get to Disc Four. (This is very annoying but somewhat common.) Second, the grasping mechanism that holds the discs in place is so tight that you need to really bend each disc uncomfortably close to the point of breaking it to get it out of the box.(I plan to put the discs in jewel boxes.) Third, there is absolutely no description of the episodes on or in the packing. I did pop in Disc Two, and there was a listing of episodes but no description of them.

I did go to S'more entertainment's website and saw product alerts that the content on Disc 4 of "Mister Peppers" was the same as the Disc 2 content and that the "Lotsa Luck" DVD inadvertently lacked the promised pilot episode. The company did offer to remedy those problems but honestly does not seem to check things out closely enough before placing them in the stream of commerce.