2 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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way too pricy, May 7, 2008
This review is from: Greg Garrison Presents the Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show - Volume 18 (Orson Welles, Liberace, Dom DeLuise, Don Adams, Bob Newhart, Paul Lynde, Petula Clark, Tony Bennett, Art Carney, J. Winters (DVD)
As a child I LOVED these shows, Dean's variety show, carol burnett, all of them. Now as a 50 year old woman, who is disabled and homebound, I would love to own these shows and revisit that happy time. BUT.... the pricing for these DVD's is WAY TOO HIGH. I just can't imagine paying $20-30, even anything higher than $10 for one 60 minute dvd. why are these priced so high? I would like to hear from some of the sellers how long they have had theirs for sale and are people really paying that price for them. Were they to come down to a much, much lower price I would certainly buy them.
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3 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Garrison DVD Dated, January 18, 2008
This review is from: Greg Garrison Presents the Best of the Dean Martin Variety Show - Volume 18 (Orson Welles, Liberace, Dom DeLuise, Don Adams, Bob Newhart, Paul Lynde, Petula Clark, Tony Bennett, Art Carney, J. Winters (DVD)
This is a review of the complete 'Best of Dean Martin...' sets. I'm not critiquing any specific volume, so I apologize in advance that this review is found on every one. However, since my review is for all buyers and not just those of a certain volume, this seems necessary.
'The Dean Martin Show'(1965-74) was a favorite of mine as a child &, outside of the vaudeville slapstick, it still holds up pretty well. As for the packaging, however, Martin's longtime assistant, Greg Garrison, has edited this whole thing together with no consideration to content or style: on e. volume, excerpts from all nine seasons are poorly tossed together, with the jump from time periods being extremely jarring & the style of the show completely lost. Included are reminiscences from guest stars of the show, but these are poorly edited into the format, looking more like cheap quality early 80s videos. A friend of mine, who also likes 60s TV, was just horrified when he saw this mishmash.
So, basically, if you're someone who just wants to see the show and has no concerns on how you view it, these'll possibly be fine. Contrarily, if you have fond memories of the show and its style, which Martin worked hard on, you'd probably do better waiting for a better package. A season by season release, as most TV offers now, is long overdue.
The real culprit here is Guthy-Renker, who has the rights to the show. It's an extremely dated company that does this very same thing to all programs to which they received the rights, such as 'The Carol Burnett Show' & 'Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In'. I believe 'The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' has had this same problem, but handled by a different mishandler.
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