Product Details

• Actors: Allan Lane, Alan Young, Connie Hines, Mister Ed, Edna Skinner
• Writers: Walter Brooks
• Format: Box set, Black & White, Closed-captioned, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 2
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: March 8, 2005
• Run Time: 507 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0006TPE2O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #122,213 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "The Best of Mister Ed - Volume Two" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

Mister Ed rides again in the second volume of America's best-loved sitcom – featuring television's smoothest-talking steed! Full of hilarious horseplay, this wild and wacky collection features Mister Ed up to his tail in trouble as he flies a plane, drives a truck, rides a surfboard – and generally gets his poor owner Wilbur Post into one fine mess after another. It's four-footed fun for the whole family, so saddle up, take the reins and hit the trail with Mister Ed!

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

61 of 66 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A very satisfied parent March 21, 2005

By Johny Bottom

I have a young daughter, and anyone who has a daughter knows, girls love horses. I think that's a universal law. Anyway with all the crap on TV these days, with the violence, sex, and profanity (including cartoons!!), it's good to know that my daughter can have her own DVD sets in her own collection.

My daughter just loves to see a talking horse and all the trouble he and Wilbur get into. I don't have to worry about content and can let her watch it until her heart's content.

A show like Mister Ed would never make it past the pilot episode these days, so I'm glad there's the technology to bring wholesome entertainment to our kids. I may sound like a prude in this review, but when your kids start yelling 'You bastard!', 'Kiss my ass!' and 'What a bitch!' because they hear it on FOX cartoon shows, enough is enough.

33 of 34 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing collection, should have been entire 1st season February 22, 2005

By Big Mike

Instead of getting the entire classic First Season of Mister Ed, these are the disappointing episodes that are offered in the so-called "Best Of Mister Ed - Volume Two":

Disc One: Ed Gets the Mumps; Ed Visits a Gypsy; Ed, the Chauffeur; Ed, the Donkey; Mae West Meets Mister Ed; Mister Ed Writes Dear Abby; Like Father, Like Horse; Ed, the Race Horse; Ed, the Pilot; Ed, the Stowaway; Animal Jury; Ed's Juice Stand. Disc Two: Ed's Contact Lenses; The Bank Robbery; My Horse, The Mailman; Robin Hood Ed; Ed, the Artist; Ed a Go-Go; Coldfinger (aka Ed Sniffs Out a Cold Clue); Ed Breaks the Hip Code (aka Spies Strike Back).

This is such a pity. Mister Ed is such a wonderful family show. If only they would just release it in its original order!! Three-stars for the second disappointing and out-of-sequence release of a DVD set of a five-star show. A mixed bag and a mishmash of episodes of Mister Ed, but not the best episodes. There are still many classic First Season episodes yet to be released.

21 of 21 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars A classic TV series October 10, 2005

By M. Emery

I have both "Mister Ed" DVD sets, and both are excellent. The second set has the edge, because by 1964 "Mister Ed" was hitting on all cylinders. This set has at least four classic TV episodes: "Ed Visits a Gypsy" (one of the best-written sitcoms ever, with Ed "itching to have his hoof read" by a gypsy so that he'll know whether the filly he loves will treat him like a doormat if they get married); "Mae West Meets Mister Ed" (hysterical, with Mae getting interested in Wilbur Post's "associate" [the last syllable rhymes with "weight" here] on the phone, because of his "deep masculine voice"); and the two part "Coldfinger" episode (a parody of James Bond wherein Wilbur and Ed stop a plot to smuggle secrets out of the United States via a Chinese woman fan-dancing a wicked "hip code" that Wilbur cracks and performs for the feds). Watching these episodes has given me new admiration for all the actors involved. Connie Hines does superb supporting work as Carol, Wilbur's long-suffering wife. Leon Ames is inimitable as Wilbur's old military commander next door, "The Colonel" (even his wife calls him that). Florence MacMichael as Winnie, the Colonel's wife, shows her range when she imitates Mae West. Alan Young is brilliant playing straight man to a horse. And whoever trained the palomino deserves credit; Mister Ed can do just about anything, including driving a van (in a sequence worthy of Chaplin or Keaton). Hearing Mae call Ed "just a playful baby" is worth all of the sitcoms in the last ten years alone. Highly recommended.