Product Details

• Actors: Tony Randall
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Paramount
• DVD Release Date: June 10, 2008
• Run Time: 562 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (39 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0014FAIXO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #38,095 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Odd Couple - The Fourth Season" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Even at its guest-starringest, Will & Grace had nothing on The Odd Couple’s fourth season stunt casting. Just two months after their epic "Battle of the Sexes" drew the largest-ever live audience for a tennis match, Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King squared off against each other at the ping-pong table in the episode, "The Pig Who Came to Dinner." Ballet superstar Edward Villella performs in "Last Tango in Newark" and Marilyn Horn, as a baker with an operatic voice and an unrequited crush on Oscar, sings selections from Carmen, as well as "People," in "Vocal Girl Makes Good." "The Songwriter" features legendary disc jockey Wolfman Jack and entertainer Jaye P. Morgan, who performs the ever-popular Felix-penned ditty, "Happy and Peppy and Bursting with Love." Playboy emperor Hugh Hefner drops in for the flashback episode, "One for the Bunny," in which a jealous Felix is undone when he must photograph his future wife, Gloria, for a possible Playmate spread. But the chemistry between Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, Best Actor Emmy nominees in each of this series’ five years, is the real attraction. They are so thoroughly at home in their roles that they elevate the more over-the-top material, as witness their ill-fated presentation as glue entrepreneurs in "A Barnacle Adventure." Among the season’s best episodes are the ones that go back to the basics of Neil Simon’s warhorse play: Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? In "The Insomniac," Felix cannot get to sleep ("I’m up as a pup") despite Oscar’s best efforts. In "Cleanliness is Next to Impossible," Felix hypnotizes the unwitting Oscar into becoming a neat freak after Oscar’s new girlfriend calls him sloppy (Felix’s heartbreak at having to bring Oscar out of it is palpable. "It’s like a dream come true," he moans). Elinor Donahue’s Miriam, Felix’s girlfriend, is conveniently forgotten in the episodes in which Felix tries to win back his ex-wife ("Gloria Moves In"). Zinger-queen Brett Somers also returns as Oscar’s ex-wife, Blanche, in flashback episodes that continue to play havoc with Felix and Oscar’s backstory (so now they were in the Army together?) Randall, Klugman and company (including Penny Marshall as Oscar’s secretary, Myrna) clearly relish playing to their enthusiastic live audience, and this richly entertaining season is brimming with classic moments and bits of comic business that continue to bring down the house. --Donald Liebenson

Product Description

ODD COUPLE:FOURTH SEASON - DVD Movie

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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I don't get it!!, July 11, 2008

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L. DiCerto-Chu (Hoboken, NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Odd Couple - The Fourth Season (DVD)

They're cutting out some of the best parts! For instance, the "Gloria Moves Back in" episode. The poker game in the hotel room, when Felix starts singing "One More for the Road", and everyone joins in. Hysterical. It's not there! I know these episodes so well, you can't fool me. I know what's missing. I feel like these DVDs are just like the episodes I taped on my VCR years ago from TV. I might as well watch those and save my money! I don't even care about the extra bonus stuff, just give me the complete episode.

27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars ABOMINABLE!!!, August 11, 2008

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serifiot - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Odd Couple - The Fourth Season (DVD)

Shameful and disgusting!...

As much as I love the TV show "THE ODD COUPLE", I will give Paramount a one star rating (and that is a lot!) just because of their DVD episode butchering that is so evident throughout all of their Odd Couple DVD season box set releases.

Personally, and I am 100% certain this is true for all Odd Couple fans, I would have paid twice as much and even more if necessary just to have the complete episodes as they were intended to be.

The Odd Couple is a classic American TV show and a part of American television's evolution, heritage and history. They do not make television shows like this anymore. The Odd Couple should not have been butchered at all! A lot of love and care should have been given to every single one of the Odd Couple episode releases. Apparently, there was not the slightest consideration given to the artistic devotion and integrity of everyone involved in this great TV show.

Thanks but no thanks!...

I'll pass!... :- (

A-BO-MI-NA-BLE!!!

21 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Cuts and more cuts, July 22, 2008

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Paul J. Bruni (West Paterson ,NJ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Odd Couple - The Fourth Season (DVD)

I have to agree that Paramount is not doing a good job with securing music rights. The episode, "Gloria Moves In" was one of the ones where Felix starts singing and the rest of the group joins in. It's funny, but it is cut. Very obvious. I also much rather prefer they leave the original Paramount Logo at the end with "A Gulf & Western Company." I don't need to be reminded that its now CBS/Paramount.