Product Details

• Actors: Rick Sebak (narrator)
• Format: Color, NTSC, Closed-captioned, HiFi Sound, Full Screen
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Warner Home Video \ PBS Home Video
• VHS Release Date: May 23, 2000
• Run Time: 60 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00000JKXD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #237,233 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

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Here's the scoop: From big dippers (a pre-sellout Ben & Jerry's) to little dippers (Carl's in Fredericksburg, Virginia), this delectable documentary tours the country to talk to people who make, sell, scoop, and study ice cream. An Ice Cream Show visits such local institutions as Bassett's in Philadelphia and Matsumoto's in Haleiwa, Hawaii, presents the history of Howard Johnson's, and studies the science of ice cream at Penn State University. It also gets good dish from soda jerks who reveal that "Check the vanilla" is store code for "A pretty girl just came in." Viewers also meet such entrepreneurs as Robin Rose, who started a traffic school for chocoholics in Los Angeles, and browse among vintage ice cream collectibles.

We all scream for ice cream, America's favorite frozen dessert. An Ice Cream Show is as reassuring and satisfying as a dish of French Vanilla.

For more time-capsule Americana, check out Great Old Amusement Parks and A Hot Dog Program. --Donald Liebenson

Product Description

Everybody loves ice cream. It’s cool, sweet and delicious. It’s also the tantalizing topic of this happy documentary program that takes viewers to ice cream places across America from Vermont to Hawaii, highlighting outstanding places to get a cone or a bowl. An Ice Cream Show features mostly small ice cream lovers – from makers and eaters to collectors and cone-makers.

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Customer Reviews

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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A LIP LICKING EXPERIENCE!!, July 31, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: An Ice Cream Show [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I really enjoyed learning all about the ins and outs of the history of Ice Cream. My children and their classmates love to watch it over and over again.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars I screamed for the "ice cream show", June 28, 2000

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Timothy McOsker (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: An Ice Cream Show [VHS] (VHS Tape)

What is not to love about an ice cream show? No matter what, you know you are going to see a lot of happy people, lots of interesting places, and an insiders look into how this combination of cream, sugar, and fruit gets made. This was an enjoyable, though disjointed, cruise through an american pasttime, eating ice cream. The variety of different locations, and different flavors kept me in the seat, and the fun narration was constantly assuring me that it wasn't taking its topic too seriously. I will admit to eating more ice cream since I watched it, what the heck...it's June.

5.0 out of 5 stars Delicious, July 1, 2010

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Sarah Sardonia "A. White" (AL) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: An Ice Cream Show [VHS] (VHS Tape)

PBS what more do I need to say, they make great shows! Travel to all kinds of ice cream shops, learn a little history, hear of some flavors better left untried. Pure enjoyment.