Product Details

• Actors: Steve Smith, Patrick McKenna, Rick Green, Bob Bainborough, Peter Keleghan
• Writers: Steve Smith, Rick Green, Richard McDonald, Scott Albert, William Flaherty
• Producers: Paul Osborne
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
• 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: Acorn Media
• DVD Release Date: May 2, 2006
• Run Time: 25 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (27 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000EWBOE0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #85,675 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• Learn more about "The Red Green Show - 1997 Season" on IMDb

Editorial Reviews

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The long-running Canadian comedy series is in top form on The Red Green Show: 1997 Season, representing the 7th year the Possum Lodge's resident handyman, Red Green (Steve Smith), shares his wisdom and dubious skills with duct tape and junkyard flotsam. Affectionately vexed by nebbish nephew Harold Green (Patrick McKenna), who never stops goading Red into dreaming bigger dreams for The Red Green Show, the greying host celebrates the sale of his series to Swiss television (though he isn't sure if Switzerland and Sweden are one and the same), organizes a local version of Pamploma's "Running of the Bulls" (though he's only got one healthy bull available), and shares advice on how to keep one's grown-up grandchildren attentive and loving (by making them think there's a sizable inheritance coming their way--which there isn't).

On the creative front, Red demonstrates how to make one's own version of an Airstream trailer out of discarded appliance parts and an aluminum boat. Red also uses massive quantities of duct tape to turn two beat-up cars into, uh, one very large, beat-up car, and he transforms an old police car into a zebra-striped, personal emergency vehicle. Meanwhile, speculation runs high at the lodge about the identity of a mystery celebrity who's buying a cabin in the neighborhood, and Harold acquires two tubas in hopes that Red will learn to play it with him. As always, The Red Green Show is both absurd and sweet in its effort to promote manly virtues among clueless men. Smith and McKenna, as always, are a real hoot. --Tom Keogh

Product Description

Seven years into its 15-year run, The Red Green Show was just hitting its stride, or was that the fan? Anyway, this complete season of the public television comedy hit features some of the show’s greatest moments. It was the year Red made the double-wide limo in Handyman Corner and the year the Repair Shop opened with its motto: "If it ain’t broke, you’re not trying." It was also the year the lodge members first uttered their solemn prayer: "I’m a man, but I can change if I have to, I guess."

Join Red, Harold, and all the guys at Possum Lodge for a year’s worth of doing what men do when women aren’t around—and some things that are even worse. "The funniest thing to hit public television since Monty Python’s Flying Circus"—The Milwaukee Journal.

The Episodes:
Running of the Bulls—The guys at Possum Lodge stage a wild race.
Swiss It Up—Red and Harold sell the show to Switzerland.
The Implosion—A fundraiser for the Historical Society goes awry.
Adopt-a-Highway—Possum Lodge adopts a challenging stretch of highway.
The Strange Ranger—Ranger Gord goes missing from his tower.
Big Guy, Little Guy—Red joins a Big Brothers club just for the soapbox derby.
The Movie—Red and Harold make a feature film on Super 8 MOS.
Expropriation—Red speculates in real estate after a new highway is announced.
The Stool Pigeons—Harold creates an informer’s club to snitch on criminals.
Celebrity—Werner Klemperer buys a cottage in the Possum Lake area.
Let Me Count the Ways—The men fix up their cabins for their wives’ visit to the lake.
Pardi Gras—Possum Lodge inherits 137 tubas and the guys decide to have a parade.
The Splinter Lodge—Some of the men rebel against Red’s leadership.
The Good Old Hockey Game—The men argue for hockey and against curling.
Step Outside—Red encourages Harold to stand up and fight for himself.
The Town Mall—Using the sewers, the men turn downtown into a mall.
The Winter Carnival—The men stage a carnival to entertain their wives.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

25 of 25 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars "If it ain't broke, you're not trying." June 3, 2006

By R. L. Towler

First off, I would like to mention that I was recently in Canada; Vancouver, British Columbia to be exact, visiting relatives for about 3 weeks. This set was released early in May. I could not find one store that usually stocks DVD's in the Vancouver area that carried this title. Being a Canadian show; I thought this rather odd. That changed when I started asking about it. One store would have ordered it for me for $49.99 Canadian, which I thought was a little pricey for 17 episodes. But, I do like this show, so I waited till I got home to the US and bought it here. It was well worth the wait.
I first found out about Red Green as most Americans did; from watching the program on PBS. I found out later that some of us closer to the border like Detroit, Buffalo and Seattle could pick it up on the CBC network directly. I was hooked from the start, for those of you who have never seen the show, it's like "Home Improvement" meets "Green Acres". But Steve Smith (Red Green) isn't as obnoxious as Tim Allen. Red Green is the leader of the Possum Lodge on Possum Lake; which is approximately 120 or so, beer stores north of Toronto, Ontario. Red Green thinks of himself as quite the handyman. He always finds a way to fix, repair or mend things with duct tape or as he refers to it as; "The handyman's secret weapon." Red has probably done more advertising for the 3M company than anyone else in the free world. In this set he makes a double wide limo out of two exact model and color, compact cars, that just happen to have been side-swiped on opposite sides. They are held together by; you guessed it, duct tape. When his van breaks down he uses a boat trailer and a 4 door Ford LTD to make a tow car (truck). It's amazing what he can do with a little ingenuity and lots of duct tape. These little jewels are included in the "Handyman Corner" segment of each episode. The funny thing about these hare-brained ideas of his is that they all seem to work! Well, probably for a little while anyway.
Some of you may wonder why they decided to start on season 7. I think I know the answer and Steve Smith confirms this in the program notes included with this set. When the show first started, it was just Red and his nephew Harold (Patrick McKenna) that were on the show. They were doing the show from smaller studios at independent networks with enough room for a couple of sets on the sound stage. Gradually, they started adding on characters. But 1997 was a indeed a lucky year for the show. The CBC network picked them up, gave the series a bigger budget and a larger studio set. The first studios only held about 100 people. The newer studio sat 300. They were able to do two shows of the same material in one night in front of two different audiences. As Steve Smith recalls; "The show probably would not have lasted for 15 years if the CBC hadn't picked us up." They were also able to do a lot more of the skits outside the studio, this was especially nice for some of the Handyman Corner segments. This is the same year that they re-named the series "The New" Red Green Show. So as I stated before; there are 17 episodes in this set on 3 single sided DVD disks. I own all 6 of the "Red Green Stuffed & Mounted" series and there are two episodes from the Stuffed & Mounted series that are in season 7. They are as follows.

"The Good Old Hockey Game" (Stuffed & Mounted #5)
"The Splinter Lodge" (Stuffed & Mounted #6)

There are program notes on disk one as well as biographies for just Red and Harold. These are the same biographies that are in the Stuffed & Mounted Disks. There is an individual episode play as well as "play all" option on the menu. It's easy to navigate through.
My only complaint is that the colors are a little dark and when there is a dark background, it darkens the colors even more. But the picture is crisp with no drop outs, so that makes it a little easier on the eyes.
The characters we all know and love are also included, Mike Hamar, Dalton Humphrey, Edgar Montrose, Ranger Gord and many others. And of course, my personal favorite, Hap Shaughnessy; the captain of the only ferry that crosses Possum Lake. Hap has done everything from playing for the 1967 Stanley Cup Champion, Toronto Maple Leafs to replacing Keith Richards on a Rolling Stones Tour. He also invented Christmas lights during World War II. When he was under the command of Sergeant Pepper. They were out of ammo and he invented the flashing lights so the German's would think they were still firing their weapons. Field Marshall Montgomery awarded him the Medal of Honor for this. Hap always has a tall tale to tell.
One of my favorite lines is. "It's time once again to talk about those three little words that men find so hard to say"....and the audience responds in unison with a loud "I Don't Know!"
I highly recommend this set to Red Green fans. So; if you are looking for something entertaining and laugh out loud funny, all I can tell you is, you can't go wrong with Red Green. So go ahead and get it, you won't be sorry.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent Collection - need to clarify repeats episodes. July 6, 2006

By L. Aiello

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To what R.L. Towler has stated in his great review, there are more than just 2 episodes that are repeats if you have each of the "Stuffed and Mounted" discs. R.L. states that Stuffed & Mounted #5 and #6 are the only repeats, but there are two more.

As stated by R.L. Towler:

"The Good Old Hockey Game" (Stuffed & Mounted #5)

"The Splinter Lodge" (Stuffed & Mounted #6)

Don't forget that the episode "Town Mall" from this season also appears in the Stuffed and Mounted series. Stuffed and Mounted #3 and #4 also had season 7 eps on them. Also is the one where Red teaches Harold to fight like a man. Not a huge deal, since you are still getting 13 new to DVD shows.

This season set is great, and I look forward to more late 90s releases and beyond! A great price as well.

13 of 15 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Meeting Time Uncle Red! June 10, 2006

By Lone Wolf

The New Red Green Show has been around now for 15 year. And like all good shows it is coming to an end this year. This DVD set is the 7th season. Possum Lodge is alive and well. Each episode is still entertaining. To me the show has lost some of it's strength. As Steve Smith explains in his Bios as The Red Green Show increased in popularity they were able to move to a building with more space and money to produce the show. But, they cut the number of characters down for each show. Seasons 4 to 6 is still the best of The Red Green Show. Although they were never released as a single season set. But, in one collection titled "Stuffed and Mounted" which covered the earlier works of the Red Green Show.