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List Price: $29.98Amazon.com's Price: $24.99 You Save: $4.99 (17%)Prices subject to change.
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Aspect Ratio: 1.77:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: INFINITY RESOURCES
EAN: 0617742203196
Format: Box set, Black & White, NTSC, Closed-captioned
Label: Infinity Entertainment Group
Manufacturer: Infinity Entertainment Group
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Infinity Entertainment Group
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 05, 2008
Running Time: 780 minutes
Sales Rank: 8869
Studio: Infinity Entertainment Group
Theatrical Release Date: October 07, 1960
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
ROUTE 66 is a classic American TV series that only gets better with time. The first season alone boasts appearances by Lee Marvin Leslie Nielsen and E.G. Marshal as well as tough thought provoking storylines penned by Academy Award-winner Sterling Silliphant. The series follows the experiences of the poor boy/rich boy duo of Buzz and Todd as they hit the road in the 1960s' spirit of self-discovery. While everyone can whistle the Nelson Riddle tune about "getting their kicks" this show has much more to offer than trivial pop-culture references.System Requirements:Running Time: 810 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC Rating: NR UPC: 617742203196 Manufacturer No: IEG2031
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The irresistible call of Route 66, the classic TV anthology series and the venerable Mother Road herself, is best summed up in a bit of dialogue in the episode, "Welcome to Amity," one of the 15 episodes that concluded Season One contained on this four-disc set. Yet another stranger in distress urges self-proclaimed "searchers and look-arounders" Tod Stiles (Martin Milner) and Buz Murdoch (George Maharis) to help her. "Where are we going?" Tod asks, as she bids them to follow her. "Let's find out," Buzz replies. Viewers happily followed Tod and Buz for four seasons on their cross-country odyssey in search of roots. Each week brought a new location, a new job, and new personal dramas in which they found themselves involved. In the gripping "An Absence of Tears," they unwittingly help a vengeful blind woman buy the exact brand of gun and bullets that thugs used to kill her husband during a botched gas station robbery. In "Most Vanquished, Most Victorious," they have 24 hours to find the daughter of Tod's dying aunt. In "The Newborn," they help an expectant Pueblo woman escape the clutches of the wealthy and powerful rancher whose late son impregnated her. No wonder that in the more lighthearted "Eleven the Hard Way," Tod suggests to Buz that they take "a 48 hour furlough from other people's problems" (no such luck; they no sooner find themselves in Reno helping two men win enough at the crap tables to save their dying town). Compelling stories, a vivid sense of place, and literate scripts were signposts of Route 66. While Tod and Buz "give lumps to some well-deserving people" (a climactic encounter with a street gang in "Most Vanquished, Most Victorious" is a great rumble), the show (and the cast) truly shine in the more emotional and dramatic moments. In "Like a Motherless Child," orphaned Buz bonds with a lonely woman who fronts as a shill. While Tod is the studied one, it is Buz who gets the bulk of the scripts' great, glorious riffs, as in "The Opponent," when he and Tod visit a once-legendary figure from Buz's Hell Kitchen neighborhood ("Would you take a detour to see Caesar or Napoleon? Those are the big boys you met in books. I met my own kings, face to face, in the back alleys"). Along for the ride are some great character actors, many in their earliest screen appearances, including Robert Duvall as "a trigger-happy kook" in "The Newborn," Darrin McGavin as a boxer on his last legs in "The Opponent," featuring Ed Asner (with hair!) as his trainer and Al Lewis (Grandpa from The Munsters) as a gym owner, and Walter Matthau at his schlubby best as a disreputable gambler in "Eleven the Hard Way." As in Volume 1 there are no commentaries or interviews, but vintage TV and classic car buffs will cruise through nearly 20 minutes of commercials for Chevrolet and Bayer Asprin. --Donald Liebenson
Average Rating: 
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Very good series from the early 60's for those who have wondered what was over the next hill or around the bend.The shows
were good at keeping your attention.
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THESE WERE GREAT TO REVIEW ONCE AGAIN,BROUGHT TO MIND WHY I LIKED SO MUCH,MARTY AND GEORGE WERE SUPER TOGETHER AND THE STORIES WELL WRITTEN, WHERES"DID YOU EVER RIDE THE WAVES IN OKLAHOMA"
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I'm not sure I understand the controversy on the cropping. Basically, the series was filmed in 35mm, which is 3:2. The standard TV is 4:3. They tried to adapt the film to 16:9, or HD widescreen. The 3:2 is 16:10.6, so there's too much picture at 16:9. They are not stretching anything. They simple centered the vertical area in each scene. So, as they admit, sometimes heads are chopped. But, given the 35mm frame, it is not natural on a 4:3 either. The video is excellent, to me, and what they did was ... Read More
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Okay, I know that there are a lot of clueless individuals putting out DVDs nowadays, but this Volume 2 release boggles the mind. The first volume was nicely done. Obviously, this series is going to be purchased by fans and collectors. Why would anyone, even if they for some demented reason desired a cropped 16:9 image, want the first volume one way and the second volume the other? This is absolutely nutso, but what steams me is that you have no warning until you put the first disk into your dvd player, ... Read More
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I was looking forward to buying the new volume of season I, but after reading the majority of reviews on its release, I am not too sure. The reviews basically said they were pleased with the better audio but are abhorred at the video. Changing the format to a cheap lackluster version of letterbox for digital screens. Ah, for your info. Digital is coming next year and some people will get a converter or their cable will change them over to the new presentation. This is as bad as T. Turner colorizing ... Read More
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