Customer Reviews

Home Improvement - The Complete Sixth Season

5 star:		(18)
4 star:		(6)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I, too, have experienced the same problem with Disc 2 described by others. The quality looks choppy. If I had never seen the show before, I would have thought that it was filmed on low quality film, rather than videotape (which was used for Home Improvement for all eight seasons).

I also don't like the new packaging - as others have also mentioned.

But I discovered something else tonight. I was watching "I Was a teenage Taylor" - the Halloween episode, on Disc 1. There's an entire scene missing! It's the scene where Larry (the "Halloween Guy") shows up at Tool Time and talks with Tim and Al. That scene sets up the whole episode, and yet they've completely removed it from the DVD version! My 12-year-old son noticed it immediately, and to verify it, we got out the VHS tape of the episode we recorded off of TV in syndication. Sure enough. The scene had been excised from the DVD version. So far as I've seen, this is the only episode that isn't complete.

Too bad this 5-star show got such a 3-star DVD release. Don't get me wrong: I'm glad to have it, and I plan on completing my Home Improvement DVD set when the final two seasons are released. But I just find that my enthusiasm has been dampened because of these problems with the 6th season.

I own seasons 1-5 and am very happy with their quality and very COMPLETE episodes.
Season six was only in my collection for about 24 hours, I returned it to the retailer for a full refund!
"The Complete sixth Season"??? I think Mr. Tim Allen himself would be disappointed to learn that more than a few scenes had been omitted from many episodes in the sixth boxed set. All of the episodes had scenes that had been re-edited. A few to the extent that they fade to black between dialog! It's like a stand-up comedian telling the wind-up of a joke, then walking off the stage before delivering the punch-line.

This is one of my favorite shows and the content is great. But, the video quality on disc 2 leaves something to be desired. Movement blurs and flickers. The video on the other two discs is normal. Disappointing.

I have the Five Sets so far. I'm happy to add number 6. If all goes well number seven in August 2007. Can't wait. I've been a Tim Allen fan for years. One of the few comedians that can still get laughs without bieng crude and vulgar...Home Improvement ranks as one of the Best Sitcoms on TV...

this is the third Home Improvement 6th season I've bought and will have to return. there is something about the layering or scanning that prevents the player from reading the disc properly, and consequently, there are episodes i can't watch.

The Problem is that DVD 3 doesn't work. I already got the 2nd set, so it's not just a single failure of one set. I get the image that Buena Vista doesn't really care any more about the quality of the sets. You already recognized that because of the minor package quality.
It's sad cause the show is still the most hilarious show ever produced. Well, but it's just not entertaining if can't watch it! :-(

I like this show well enough, but I've never been obsessed with it to the point that I would notice the first time something was missing. That said, I did notice some of these episodes seemed rather short. Then I found this review at sitcomsonline:

Buena Vista had been doing a rather decent job of releasing this series on DVD, but then they decided to release the sixth season in a cheaper package than the previous releases. Of course, packaging shouldn't immediately cause alarm, but then you get inside the package and discover that nearly half of the episodes have this bizarre video compression problem. Then, on top of that, they use syndicated versions for an unknown number of episodes? Does everybody know what time it is? Time to ditch this set!

Okay, so that's why some of the episodes seem short...because they are short.

It looks like they changed the packaging starting with this set. Instead of the cardboard folding box; holding the three disks with the matching slipcover. It's now a regular clear plastic DVD case. The first disk fits onto the inside front cover and the second and third disk fit onto the back cover respectively. Since the case plastic is clear; the notes and episode names are printed on the back of the label and can be seen once you remove all the disks. There is a cardboard sleeve that slides over the top of the case; that most people will probably throw away. To give you a better idea what this looks like. It looks just like the "Pirates of the Caribbean; Dead Man's Chest" set that Disney released a few month ago. (The same type of set up). I'm not complaining that much however; because the price for this and probably for the remaining seasons will be very low now. Season Seven is due out August 14th 2007; one more set after Season Seven and it's a wrap!! I'm looking forward to it!

Now that is a great price for a set thats usually just the eps and a couple extra bloopers!

I was very hesitant to order this set because of all the negative reviews on the quality of the disks but I wanted to complete the series so I bit the bullett and gave it a shot. I also felt a newer review was necessary as most of the ones written with quality issues were several years old. All 3 of my disks work fine but there is no doubt the picture quality of this season is well below that of the earlier seasons. Especially disk 2 but even disk 3 had some episodes that seemed grainy and of substandard copy. What's really annoying is that some episodes seem fine while others are just terrible. Another annoying thing is that they cut most of the bloopers from the ends of the shows, some of which are funnier than the actual show itself. There is a short (about 3-4 minutes worth) blooper selection on disk 3 from all epsiodes from this season, but I always enjoyed watching them immediately after the episode they were cut from, like the first 5 seasons. I am very disappointed as this is one of the funniest TV sitcoms of all time in my opinion. I still feel that the first 3 seasons were the best but each season had several good episodes and this one is no exception. I would really like to see a compilation of just bloopers from all 8 seasons but I doubt that will ever happen. If you can live with the crappy picture quality, or if you need it to complete the series then buy it, otherwise stick with seasons 1-5.