Customer Reviews

My Three Sons: Season Two, Vol. 1

5 star:		(7)
4 star:		(0)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

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.

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.

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?

I am still waiting for full seasons. This is the only way I buy my favorite TV shows. This is one of my top ten favorites, and I want to purchase it but won't unless it is a full season, not split, original music, and presented as was originally shown b/w.

Love this show and purchase was fast, easy and problem free. I just wished they had more than two seasons available. Great experience.

well of course the sitcom MY THREE SONS is a good alternative to todays garbage. however, if this is going to be another volume of edited and altered nonsense then no thank you. after all the complaints of the season one debacle, CBS/Paramount didnt even consider correcting it. the season one dvd's were atrocious with editing and new music. it will be really exciting to see what the fine folks at cbs/paramount have in store for us this time. maybe colorizing the b&w second season? maybe giving us rinky-dink piano music as though we were watching a silent movie this time? how about robin williams as the voice of bub? oh theres no end to what those masterminds at CBS can come up with to teach us a lesson about spending our hard-earned money.......

I love My Three Sons and I hope all eleven years are produced but why do you split the seasons and charge us for one? Thank you.

It is hard to believe that a show like My Three Sons spanned the 1960s and early 1970s, but it did, and here is another chapter in this underrated show's history.

Season 2 sees the Douglas family much like they left off in season 1--pretty much all over the place, doing their own thing, but sort of an organized chaos type of situation.

The writing is very understated, while the acting is often over the top.

But I miss shows like this, and I certainly yearn for the next edition of this wonderful series on DVD.

Growing up in Atlanta, I watched "My Three Sons" rerun on TBS over and over and over again. But they only had the color shows. So, I'd never even seen these old black and white episodes before. It's been great finally getting to see Mike and Bub. What a great classic. A show with a father that knew best (as opposed to the clueless dads they have on TV today.) They just don't make them like this anymore.

I have always loved MTS. I have some of the later seasons on tape from TV reruns but these classic B&W are great. I don't notice the so called cheesy music. The story line is still the same.