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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361227443
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Paramount Home Video
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Paramount Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Running Time: 586 minutes
Sales Rank: 6917
Studio: Paramount Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 1970
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Description:
Two divorced New Yorkers---a slob and a fussbudget---try to live together 'without driving each other crazy' in this classic sitcom based on Neil Simon's hit play and movie. Both Jack Klugman and Tony Randall won Emmys in the leads, the latter in the final year of a five-season run. 'Now if I only had a job,' Randall said at the Emmy gala. The show inspired two remakes, one an animated series portraying the main characters as a cat and a dog, and a 1982-83 version with a mostly black cast.
Amazon.com:
In its second season, 'The Odd Couple was filmed before a live studio audience,' and a good sitcom was well on its way to becoming a great one. Jack Klugman, as sloppy Oscar, and Tony Randall as fussy Felix, two divorced men trying to live together without driving each other crazy, was casting alchemy, and as time goes by, we appreciate the fundamental things that still apply: smart, character-based writing and indelible performances. While there are no episodes that can be said to be truly classic, several are fan favorites, including 'Sleepwalker,' which was included as one of the bonus episodes on the first-season set, 'Felix the Calypso Singer,' in which Felix becomes the third wheel on Oscar's romantic getaway with his girlfriend, and 'You Saved My Life,' in which Felix almost kills Oscar with kindness after Oscar rescues him. This season fleshes out the mismatched friends' backstory with two fun flashback episodes. In 'Speak for Yourself,' Oscar is forced to step in when Felix develops laryngitis on the night he was to propose to his future ex-wife Gloria, and in 'A Night to Dismember,' a season benchmark, Oscar, Felix, and Oscar's ex-wife, Blanche, have different memories of the fateful night on which Oscar and Blanche split up.
Gone this season are the daffy Pigeon sisters. Introduced are Janis Hansen as Gloria, Joan Hotchkis as Oscar's girlfriend, Dr. Nancy Cunningham, and Brett Somers, a perfect match, as the dread Blanche. A pre-Laverne and Shirley Penny Marshall makes her first appearance as Oscar's secretary, Myrna, and in the episode, 'Security Arms,' that's John Fiedler, who portrayed Vinnie in the original 1968 Odd Couple movie (he is also the instantly recognizable voice of Piglet in the Disney Winnie the Pooh shorts). In later seasons, The Odd Couple overindulged on stunt casting (remember the Billie Jean King-Bobby Riggs episode?) This second season offers comedian David Steinberg ('The Odd Couple Meets Their Host') and opera singer Richard Fredricks ('Does Your Mother Know You're Out, Rigoletto?'). The Odd Couple was a series that got better with each season. This live incarnation of the show is the one that is most fondly remembered, making the second season one that, unlike Felix, will never wear out its welcome. --Donald Liebenson
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
A one camera setup was used in the first season of The Odd Couple, and the look of the episodes shot inside the New York apartment set was tight, almost claustrophobic at times. Stars Tony Randall and Jack Klugman felt the setup cramped their style and retarded their creativity. For the second season, the program was filmed on an entirely new set, before a live audience, using three cameras. As a result, The Odd Couple was a wide open look and feel, with smooth transitional shots now possible. ... Read More
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I loved The Odd Couple as a kid, and then as a twenty something watching on the old WPIX-11 in NY. TV has gotten much better in the last twenty decades - the writing and humor is just not that funny in this series. We can pretend otherwise, but that's my view and the views of a number of other people who watched some of the episodes with me and my family.
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Fine product, great DVD. Clear picture. This 2 were a perfect match for this show. Absolutley hilarious. Buyit. You'll watch it over and over again, I promise. Good, clean, masterful comedy at its best.
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I remember "The Odd Couple" when I was growing up in the 1970s. Years later in the 1990s, I would watch it in reurns around midnight when I was coming home from the 3-11 shift. Somewhere along the line, it faded away from being on TV. Once in a great while TVland might air a rerun around 3:00 AM, but that's about all I've seen of "The Odd Couple" lately.
I bought this DVD set recently and have viewed four episodes. I have come to realize that "The Odd Couple" is probably one of my favorite ... Read More
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I can see these shows over and over again and laugh every time! I can recommend this dvd to anyone who loves comedy. Great Show!!!!
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