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My Little Margie - Collection No. 2

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"I Love Lucy" is probably THE greatest of the 1950's TV sitcoms, but "My Little Margie" runs a very close second. Gale Storm as Margie Albright and her father Vern played by Charles Farrell and Mr. Honeywell played by the Clarence Kolb are all superb. These are seasoned actors who take their roles seriously. In other words, they are there to make you laugh and they do an excellent job of doing it.
This collection of 12 episodes is well worth the price. The print and sound quality are wonderful for the most part. I just hope this company comes out with future collections. I've seen these over and over again, and I want more of "My Little Margie!"

Usually you look back at old programs like the Lone Ranger and think how hokey they were. Then you realize that you, being a kid at the time could enjoy them as they were.

Then there is "Topper" the TV show. It was one big smoking commercial.

Well I sort of counted on this happening with "My Little Margie" (Gale Storm.) Boy was I surprised. The plots are complex for the small period of time they have to execute in. Hokey or not they had me laughing. And Price per pound, you get so many episodes. I am working my way through them all and find some how they are comforting like an old friend. It is fun t spot the different actors in movies and say "I saw that person on"
`My Little Margie.'"


After viewing, I will put them on the shelf and they look good as a collection.

Im 56 and I couldn't believe I had a chance of viewing movies I loved as a child.This is a fun loving movie of a father and daughter living together and Margie always making her fathers business her business. Pay attention to detail.the telephones cigarettes on the table set decorations. Fun viewing.

Just as funny as I remembered. I just wish that the chosen episodes had more of Willie and Mrs. Odetts in them. Good copies, not many dropouts and hairs, and lines in the frame. Good contrast for the most part, and good sound.
Highly recommended.

This bought back many memories of my youth and early TV. It is an excellent product.

In fact, it is downright bizarre.

A middle-aged father and his adult daughter share a large Manhattan apartment. The father works for a crusty old boss who takes a very intrusive interest in the father and daughter's lives. Then the father and daughter take what I consider a very unhealthy, and unfunny, interest in each other's love lives. The almost romantic-sounding voiceovers they do about each at the start of each episode are so cringe-inducing, you wonder how this managed to get past the censors when they didn't even allow Lucille Ball to say the word "pregnant" or show married couples in double beds.

The very premise of this series is one that makes you scratch your head and go "What were they THINKING?!?" because it would never, ever fly today - at least not in this form.

I used to watch this show in reruns when I was a kid, and I thought nothing of it. I remembered it fondly so when I saw I could buy it on DVD, I jumped at the chance.

Some things are better left in the past, and this was one of them.

Ever notice how Gale Storm inhales sharply before saying anything? I picked up on this when the series was being shown first run. (I am a real antique.) Lucy in Peanuts once asked Linus if he was ever aware of his tongue. After two wordless panels he says "AAAARRRRRGGGGGGHHHH" or something to that effect and runs off. It is sort of like that with Gale's one way hyper-ventilation. Once aware of it, you can never listen to her talk again without being driven to distraction.

Having established that, where the hell is Topper (the series) in which we learn that Alexander Waverly was a banker before becomming head of U.N.C.L.E.? Also, is anybody else cognizant of the fact that Stephen Sondheim wrote some of Topper's scripts? And where is The Man from U.N.C.L.E.??? Being a DVD lover leads to endless frustration surrounding little nuggets of milk chocolate.