35 of 41 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Fans Won't Need The "Best-Of" Disk, February 21, 2005
This review is from: The Mary Tyler Moore Show - TV Starter Set (The Best of Season 1) (DVD)
The problem with the "Best of Season One" DVD is that the majority--if not most--of the fans of the show have already bought the complete Season One DVD set. They won't need the "Best-Of" disk. So then, when the "Best-Of" disk doesn't do much business, Fox can say, "See, there's not much interest," and use it as an excuse not to release Season Two. A much better test would be a Best of Season TWO disk.
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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
For "Starters", Check Out These Four Terrific MTM Episodes!, March 22, 2005
This review is from: The Mary Tyler Moore Show - TV Starter Set (The Best of Season 1) (DVD)
On March 22, 2005, Fox Home Entertainment released this "TV Starter Set" DVD consisting of four of the best episodes from Season #1 of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show". This one-disc "Starter" Pack is nice for those people who are not at all familiar with the MTM Show (and would just like to see a "sample" from the series), or for those who are already fans of Mary's show, but don't want to dig too deep into their pocketbooks and purchase the full-season, 24-episode DVD boxed set of the first MTM season, which is a compilation which also earns a perfect "Five-Star" rating from this writer.
Unlike the deluxe 4-Disc "Complete First Season" DVD set of "TMTMS", there aren't any special bonus features on this "Starter" disc -- just the four episodes (listed below). But it's still a very good deal, IMO, at the bargain price offered.
The video quality for these four stellar MTM episodes is simply SUPERB! I doubt these shows could look any better. The colors are perfect and vibrant and there's no annoying video "noise" or artifacts (that I can detect at any rate).
Each episode here gets its own "Chapter" sub-menu on the disc, with 10 chapter stops per show! Video is presented in the original TV ratio of 1.33:1; the audio sounds just fine via the disc's English Dolby Digital soundtrack (of the 2.0 Mono variety). There are even two foreign-language tracks included (in Spanish 2.0 Mono and French 2.0 Mono); plus Subtitles in English and Spanish. Unfortunately, there is not a "Play All" feature included.
There's also a very short "Mary Tyler Moore TV Spot" included on this disc. This is not an original 1970 CBS-TV promo for TMTMS, however. It's a brief 15-second ad pitching the 4-Disc "Complete First Season" set of The MTM Show.
A 12-page insert (DVD advertising booklet) also comes with this Starter Set, featuring many ads for other FOX TV-On-DVD products.
Here's a glance at the four episodes that make up this "MTM Starter Set" (with original CBS-TV Air Dates in parenthesis)............
1.) "Love Is All Around" (09/19/1970)
2.) "Support Your Local Mother" (10/24/1970)
3.) "Toulouse-Lautrec Is One Of My Favorite Artists" (10/31/1970)
4.) "The Snow Must Go On" (11/7/1970)
"Love Is All Around" is the debut episode of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", and does a great job of introducing the viewing audience to "Mary Richards", "Rhoda Morgenstern", "Phyllis Lyndstrom", "Lou Grant", "Murray Slaughter", and "Ted Baxter".
Everybody in this series was first-rate all the way, with the show picking up more steam as the first season progressed; and it got even better in Season #2.
"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was one of the most popular and successful TV comedy series ever aired on network television, accumulating an amazing 67 Emmy nominations during its seven-year period on the airwaves (1970 to 1977). The series won 29 total Emmy Awards, including four during its rookie season.
This MTM "Starter" disc is a fine supplementary addition to the DVD collection of anyone who loves flat-out good TV shows.
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13 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Four Top Notch Episodes, April 3, 2005
This review is from: The Mary Tyler Moore Show - TV Starter Set (The Best of Season 1) (DVD)
In a recent effort to get casual fans interested in their TV products on DVD, Fox has released four episode starter sets of several of their shows. Reasonably priced, they tempt the viewer to buy the first season and even provide a coupon for the purchase price of the sampler off the price of the complete first season if offered. The casual fan has little to loose.
And this set offers four of the funniest episodes from the first season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show. "Love is All Around" is one of my favorite TV pilots ever, expertly introducing us to the characters we'd grow to love as the series progressed.
"Support Your Local Mother" brings Rhoda's Mom for a visit. With Mary as her host, Mary begins to see why Rhoda has a hard time dealing with her mother.
"Toulouse-Lautrec Is One of My Favorite Artists" finds Mary confronting the realization that she's a height bigot when a charming but shorter man asks her out.
"The Snow Must Go On" places Mary in charge of election night coverage. Vowing they won't go off the air until they get final results, Mary must keep Ted going when they are cut off from any source of news.
Of course, the problem with this disc is that any fan of the show has had two and a half years to get the complete first season by now. But if you are a casual fan, this disc will give you four top notch episodes from the first season of this classic sit-com.
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