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2 great episodes
This DVD includes two classic uncut episodes of THE LUCY SHOW starring Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon and Mary Jane Croft.

"Lucy Meets the Law" - Lucy ends up in jail when she is mistaken for a shoplifter. On the 'inside' she meets many colorful characters including her eccentric cell-mate Hard-Head Hogan (played by Iris Adrian).

"Lucy and the Bean Queen" - Lucy devises a way of raising cash for her new furniture by roarting the 'double-your-money-back' policy on a brand of canned beans.

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2 great episodes
This DVD includes 2 episodes from THE LUCY SHOW, starring Lucille Ball, Gale Gordon and Mary Jane Croft.

"Lucy and the French Movie Star" - Lucy meets a French film star (played by Jacques Bergerac), but romantic complications intervene.

"Lucy Flies to London" - Lucy enters a dog-food contest and wins an all-expenses-paid trip to London. However, getting there proves to be half the battle when her plane-trip dissolves into chaos.

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Your mission: get the studio to release this great series!
The original Mission Impossible is the most innovative, intelligent T.V. series ever produced. It is the only one of the 60s t.v./movie spy series that is not spoofish. It is about an incredibly cool and professional Intelligence team deployed to perform missions that are -- well, impossible. The amazing gadgetry is employed so imaginatively that it seemed plausible, notwithstanding that much of the stuff is still, forty years later, technologically unattainable. James Bond and MacGyver are amateurs compared to the I.M.F. team. Even more fascinating than the gadgets themselves is the way the team operatives interacted like parts in a well-synchronized machine. The cast was wonderful, but no single individual was the star and no one character dominated. All the roles were straight and serious and the characters performed their job each week with dispassionate, clinical efficiency. This all lent such a degree of verisimilitude that actual C.I.A. and F.B.I. agents reportedly watched the show and took notes.

The plots are so intricate that you must pay attention. If you zone out even for a moment, you'll be confused and hopelessly lost. This show is not amenable to the casual watcher or one who suffers from a short attention span.

This is the one t.v. series that MUST be released on DVD. If you have never seen it (forget the Tom Cruise movie) you owe it to yourself to experience it. Therefore, your mission, should you decide to accept it, is to convince the studio to produce this DVD. If they don't think that there is enough interest, they won't make it. So please give Amazon your e-mail address to notify you when the DVD will be out. They will inform the studio how many people have inquired about it.

Excellent series, much better than the later movie copies
This series was innovative and excellent during the earlier years.After Martin Landau and Barbara Bain left the series, the female substitutes were not as good as Bain and although Leonard Nimoy was good, he was not as good as Landau (who has since won one Academy Award and been nominated a few other times).Steven Hill (recently of Law & Order) played the leader Mr. Briggs the first season; Peter Graves (brother to James Arness) played Mr. Phelps beginning in season two.
As an aside, Peter Breck was one of Barbara Stanwyck's sons in the Big Valley, and was not a regular on Mission Impossible.
For anyone interested in accurate details of TV shows, a good reference is "The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows 1946 - Present."
I consider this TV series so good that it is one of the few series that I want in DVD format (VHS tapes just don't last).The review is based on the complete set of IM tapes that have Bain and Landau on them.

Mission Impossible
I'm 58 years old.This is the only place I could find
to submit a review.

The original TV series of the 1960's is not to be
confused with anything that came after.

Starring Peter Breck (bother of James Arness of
Gunsmoke), Barbara Baines, Martin Landau (husband
of Barbara Baines), and Greg Morris, each week's
episode started out with Breck being contacted by some
unknown department of the Executive Branch concerning
a problem no one else could solve.

The recording always started out with the famous line,
"Good Morning, Mr. Phelps,"and from there presented
the problem (a great help for the viewing audience).
It invariable wound up, "...and as usual, if you or any
of your IMF are caught, the Secretary will disavow any
knowlege of your actions This recording will self-destruct
within ? seconds".And it always did, except that the
setting and the recording machine was always different
each week.

So, the IMF was off to the races, and with that they overcame
the most unimaginable situations using the ultimate high
technology, much of which doesn't even exist today.And
while the plots were usually quite intricate, the sceenplay
writers made them easy to follow.

I'm eagerly awaiting a complete DVD set for this series.
It will certainly take me back to my college years.

To sum it all up, the series was absolutely intriguing,
not to mention highly imaginative.Rather than just
a sci-fi series, the interaction between the players was
very real, as well as quite gripping.


Michel Martin
michel_91941@yahoo.com
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Great Shows, Horrible Quality.
I recently found this two-pack in a bargain bin for five bucks, Being a Lucy fan I snatched it up and brought it home. Well all I can say is that I'm glad I only paid five bucks for it. On the up side the shows are highly entertaining and they highlight an era in television that rarely receives it's due, But on the down side the tranfer looks like it's been pooped on and at times all you see is a white screen with an outline of Lucy. But the shows almost make this DVD a good value, bottom line! BUY IT FOR FIVE BUCKS. Any higher it's a bad value. ... Read more

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I'll second the "poor quality" complaint...
I was also a bit disappointed when I saw the poor quality of the picture in this DVD. It looks like it was recorded off the TV. It looks a little fuzzy and washed out if you ask me. Also what the other customer said about skipping, mine does that too.

However, it's still possible to enjoy if you put the poor quality aside, so I gave it 3 stars.

If picture quality isn't that important to you, then you might be interested. If picture quality is of high importance to you, however, I would probably skip to the next one...

The Lucy Show DVD ... Lucille Ball... Excellent Quality
An excellent demonstation of Lucille Ball's abilities. Some of the best episodes from The Lucy Show. It is in general an excellent series. Highly Recommended. 5 Stars. A+

Not a good choice of episodes
Not as good as I Love Lucy these four episodes of her later show don't do Lucy justice. Another thing is the quality. DVD's are supposed to be of high quality but they used a very bad film copy when they made this. It even jumps in a couple places! I'm taking mine back to the store. ... Read more

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Very bad quality
If you see this DVD, stop and slowly back away. That way, no one will get hurt. It looked like a good deal at first. This is a two-sided DVD containing several hours of video at a great price. Sadly, it was too good to be true. I agree with another reviewer about the shoddy tehcnical quality of this film-to-DVD transfer. The images are grainy and riddled with dust, scratches and other contaminants. Worse yet, the audio track is noticeably out of sync. (It was like viewing one of those poorly-dubbed, Japanese sci-fi flicks.) To be fair, however, I did purchase a couple of other titles (Not Lucy, unfortunately) printed by the same company and they were okay.

Terrible Video Transfer
I was very much looking forward to this video, but the quality of the transfer is the worst I've ever seen on a commercial video or DVD. The brightness is recorded so high that only the darkest parts of the video are legible, and turning the brightness down on the TV doesn't help at all. The audio transfer rates a 2 on side 1, and a -1 on side 2 as it is out of sync with the video. ... Read more