Customer Reviews

You Bet Your Life, Volume 2

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

 

 

Word of warning; I recently bought this DVD and Volume 1 only to discover that all 4 episodes on Volume 1 and all 4 on Volume 2 are also available on the "Groucho Marx:You Bet Your Life" DVD from Platinum Disc Corp.(Which has 13 episodes).

The show with the hook-nosed guy from "Kansas...born on a farm" is side-splitting hilarious. My family members range in age from 9 to 17 and all five of us (wife, too) had tears in our eyes watching it. I hadn't laughed that hard for years.

Who cares if it is/is not on another disk. I know for a fact that it *is* on this one and should not be missed.

This may or may not be of interest to people trying to collect every episode without getting numerous duplicates. Here's what's included on this disc so you can compare with what you have:

FOOD with guests Barbara Schmidt and Mario DaRey

WATER with guests Sgt. & Mrs. Sylvester Nelson

HAND with guests Anne Rowell and Henry Jacobs

HEAD with guests Jan Dietrich and John Roese

(I only included the first set of guests, but the episodes usually have two or more pairs).

The quality is pretty good in this collection although the chapter stops are misplaced.

None of these are on the "Best Episodes" collection released by Shout, but 3 are also on the 30 episode collection released by Allegro (HAND is not). Hopefully we'll someday see the other hundreds of episodes that exist.

Volume 2 is a very good DVD to have around the house. It includes 4 episodes just like the first one, but it isn't as funny as volume 1. But for the way it sells at that price, buy it and you wont be mad.

I bought Vol. 2 because I was told that the featured set of tapes was no longer available. I figured that since the featured set had 21 episodes on 7 tapes, I'd probably get 8 episodes in Vol. 2. Wrong. This set has ONLY FOUR EPISODES; it's not worth the price. I wonder why the featured set is still being advertised as available in 6 weeks. Can anybody say "BAIT AND SWITCH"?

I really enjoyed seeing the old " You Bet Your Life Videos" . Groucho is very amusing and witty while interacting with the contestants. Being from the 50's and 60's it was interesting to hear some of the politically incorrect comments. Also, the DeSoto commercials are included--hilarious!!

I wish the DVD producers would get organized and list the episodes by the date they originally aired, the secret word for each episode, and the names of the first two guests, on both the DVD covers and on Amazon and other sales web sites, so collectors of "YOU BET YOUR LIFE" episodes can figure out which ones they have, and which ones they still need to buy,

Far too many 'YOU BET YOUR LIFE" DVDs are just re-hashes of the same episodes that have appeared on other DVDs, and VHS tapes, repackaged with different artwork and names for the covers, some leaving out some episodes to cash in on the interest in "YOU BET YOUR LIFE" episodes by splitting them into multiple volumes from larger compilations.

Several hundred episodes were filmed and aired over a period of almost 14 years, and so it's frustrating to find the same relatively few episodes cropping up again and again on almost every DVD compilation.

This is another one of those re-hash collections, and thus isn't worth the effort to buy.

Until it's re-released with the above-mentioned specifics about all the episodes contained in it, this gets only one star in my book.

Dan Fiebiger