Holiday TV Classics: 49 TV Classic Episodes

Terrific Holiday Treat!!
This is a 4-disc set of 50’s and early 60’s era TV sit-coms, variety and drama for the Christmas season. An added bonus is a link on Disc One for a Virtual Fireplace that you can keep on the screen while listening to music,wrapping presents, trimming the tree, etc. Cozy.This set is one of the best values I have seen anywhere for the price. Unbeatable. Curious that some reviewers are complaining about audio/video discrepancies. I have played through all of the discs several times and could not see or hear anything out of the ordinary. They are all in black and white, common in 50’s TV, some shows are a little creaky, production-wise, but all the more charming, seeing these early TV holiday shows with a few creaks make them even more enjoyable.Contents include 5 Christmas episodes of Ozzie and Harriet, 4 of the Beverly Hillbillies, also Christmas episodes of Red Skelton, Jack Benny, Dragnet, Burns and Allen, Abbot and Costello, Petticoat Junction. Variety and music shows, such as Liberace and Fred Waring. Drama shows include Four Star Playhouse, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol with Vincent Price, even Sherlock Holmes and a Lux Theatre production of Holiday Affair. Many, many more. Other reviewers have included a complete listing here on Amazon. I was astounded to see original commercials included with some of the shows, giving it a real 50’s feel! A wonderful step back in time! This is truly marvelous entertainment for the Christmas Season. Sit back with a mug of hot cocoa and some Christmas cookies, with the Christmas tree lights twinkling, curl up with the afghan and enjoy!!

Great Retro Holiday TV Viewing!!!
For the price of $13 getting 21 hours of classic holiday TV viewing is pretty good. Yeah, one could complain that the mostly B/W shows are hazy and grainy and sometime skip, though I kind of take that as being part of the charm of this wonderful collection. Since I was born in 1957 I only had some vague memories of some of these shows… some I never even heard of! In particular, I enjoyed the 5 Christmas episodes of “Ozzie & Harriet” and all jokes aside, I can really see WHY this was such a popular show for so many years, I mean who wouldn’t want to have them as your parents! (Plus David and Ricky – those lips! – are HOT! LOL and in some of the shows you hear Ricky sing, and no doubt gave Elvis a run for his money back then?) I also enjoyed the two Liberace programs (Thanksgiving and Christmas) along with the Betty White (pre-‘Golden Girls’) sitcom. And you also get a virtual fireplace – so it loops ever 5 minutes! LOL… what’s even more funny is that if you turn up the volume of the fireplace segment and listen carefully you can hear a dog barking throughout very faintly! LOL So this is fun collection… And I look forward to their doing a followup collection soon.

A REAL HOLIDAY TREAT!!
A baby boomer must have, with tons of product. I will admit I have only watched 10% of these shows and can’t wait to view the rest, but I am delighted with what I have watched. Watching Jack Benny crackup at Mel Blanc is priceless, or when Jack announces that they have found a purse belonging to a Miss Mansfield, guess who walks onstage.Jed can’t shoot the Thanksgiving turkey because it wants to shake his hand. Meanwhile, over at Racket Squad, they have to arrest Santa. It goes on and on. At less than a dime a show, what do you need to know?Total run time: 20hrs,53min.BONUS: Virtual Fireplace

A little holiday trip back to the fifties. Sound and picture quality not the best, but that is to be expected with some of these programs. Still, I’m enjoying it.

This is a great collection of 49 episodes of old TV series Christmas shows. Christmas shows were frequently special andmay have had more time and money invested in their production than a regular episode. But the real reason this is a gemis that it brings together so many TV shows that you might want to revisit. For instance , the first episode of disc oneis an episode of Robin Hood with Richard Greene and to my mind the only real Friar Tuck. I watched a lot of it whenyounger – now it’s a little corny , silly , maybe even campy and I would not want to invest in a disc of the series itself.Other episodes include Liberace , Long John Silver , Ozzie and Harriet , Bob Cummings , George Burns and Gracie Allen ,Jack Benny , Paul Winchell , The Ruggles!! , and more , not to mention the included ever popular virtual fireplacerecording included for when your done.Good seasonal fun that can be played over annually and a great way to visit a lot of old friends!

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