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• Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Jack Benny, Lily Tomlin, Ruth Buzzzi, Goldie Hawn
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0014DD05E
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4.0 out of 5 stars From silly to brilliant, February 3, 2010

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Phil S. (USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rowan & Martin's Laugh-in: The Sock It To Me Collection - I Just Want To Swing (DVD)

Disc One: 1968 episode with Guests Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Jack Benny, Rock Hudson. A Christmas Show, of sorts. Occasionally funny. As usual, alot of elaborate production for very small payoff, in too many spots, though when it does hit, it hits hard, and the very talented players shine; best satire is on the Toy Manufacturing industry.
Disc Two: 1970 episode with Dan Blocker and many new cast members, including Lily Tomlin.
By this season, the writing has improved, the political commentary much keener.
Judy Carne fans will lament that she got less and less air time, at this point. It wasn't fair to include her in the opening credits, when she had approximately five seconds on camera, in this edpisode, and most likely, other ones.
George Shlatter managed to present a kind of send up of the typical variety show; in fact, a send up of the whole entertainment scene. The old-timers still came on the show, sometimes looking confused. (Though, to be frank, much of the material was quite lame).
Fans of the original telecasts will love to watch these episodes again, and a major selling-point is that they are not edited down to half-hour packages, or part of a documentary.
Passable to good video-audio quality.