Product Details

• Actors: Fred MacMurray, Stanley Livingston, Don Grady, Tim Considine, William Frawley
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 3
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: February 23, 2010
• Run Time: 461 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002ZTLVYI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #34,492 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

My Three Sons is a delightful slice-of-life comedy about the American family. The series chronicles the life of the Douglas family; a seemingly simple premise that was a huge hit with audiences and a keystone of the TV family lineup in the ‘60s. Fred MacMurray delivers a standout portrayal as Steve Douglas, an aeronautical engineer and widower raising his three sons alone.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

31 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Once again CBS music substitutions have ruined the show, March 2, 2010

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music lover (earth) - See all my reviews

This review is from: My Three Sons: Season Two, Vol. 1 (DVD)

As with the CBS season one release season two has had its excellent musical sountrack (composed arranged and conducted by some of the worlds best musicians, Arthur Morton, Jeff Alexander etc.) stripped out and replaced with horrible, unsatisfying, unmusical "music" by the totally incompetent Roy Braverman and Mark Heyes and their synthesizers. Buy the bootleg sets available online.

23 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Music substitutions = No Sale, February 27, 2010

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Leo J. Ames - See all my reviews
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This review is from: My Three Sons: Season Two, Vol. 1 (DVD)

Picking up where season 1 left off, this continues the CBS tradition of butchering another television classic with modern computer generated music rather then the classic background music the series used throughout it's long run. Isn't worth purchasing.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great show marred by synthesized music, thanks to cheap CBS, April 6, 2010

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MusicFan "MusicFan" (VA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: My Three Sons: Season Two, Vol. 1 (DVD)

The substituted new music -- apparently because CBS was too cheap to pay for the performance rights of the original, outstanding music score -- comes close to ruining this series. If you think back to when you saw the show originally, you'll probably remember the whimsical, melodic music that was so prominently featured. That's not what you get here. Instead, CBS has put in synthesized music of recent vintage. I can tell that the musicians who composed the new music were trying hard to get a sound similar to what was originally in the show, but they just can't do it. Their melodies, while OK, just don't rise to the same heights as those originals, and when the very obvious synthesizer is used in place of a real orchestra, who do they think they're fooling?!? My Three Sons was from the early 60s, when real orchestral scores were used, not synthesizers.

I'm sorry not to be able to give this DVD set 5 stars, because the remaining content of the shows is truly outstanding. Fred MacMurray, William Frawley, and the sons -- Tim Considine, Don Grady, and Stanley Livingston -- play their parts with both feeling and humor. The writing is some of the best, most creative (and hilarious) that you'll find anywhere in the history of TV.

It's really a shame that, for economic reasons, CBS chose to mar this fine show with synthesized music. I don't blame the people who refuse to buy it. (Then there's the matter of CBS breaking up the seasons into 2 separate sets, both sold at full price...)

CBS, how about doing a bit better the next time around?