Mother and Son: Season 1
by Geoff Portmann
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Actor: Garry McDonald, Henri Szeps, Judy Morris, Ruth CracknellDirector: Geoff Portmann
Brand: BFS ENT and Multimedia Limi
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 195 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-11-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bfs Entertainment
Movie Reviews of Mother and Son: Season 1
Movie Review: Best Show EVER!!...but cheesey marketing strategy!
Summary: 5 Stars
This show aired in America on PBS stations in some locales, and quite frankly, it is one of the absolute best shows in the history of television. In my book, it is tied with All In The Family for best show of all time. If you like some of the better classic BBC comedies..you'll love this Australian show!
Not only is this show roaringly funny- (largely thanks to senile Maggie, and the various circumstances that always seem to make her live-in caretaker son Arthur look like the bad guy...while her other son, Robert, a well-to-do dentist who has little real concern for his mother maggie, always seems to come out looking like the responsible one) but it is also a quite dramatic show, and you can empathize with virtually all of the characters at various times.
I was elated to see this show finally come to DVD....but i am also annoyed at the fact that they are only releasing the first season- which only consists of 7 episodes- whereas they could have just released the whole series at once- it's only comprised of 40 episodes.
Even though this is a great show, I think the fact that one has to pay $27 for 7 episodes will probably make it a dismal seller, even among long-time fans of the show, and will probably result in future seasons not being released. I am very reluctant to buy a series that is released this way...but for this show, I am making an exception.
I do wish the DVD producers would stop jerking us around like this though- and my dissatisfaction with their self-defeating marketing ploys has resulted in me buying far fewer DVDs than I otherwise would have, had the various companies released seasons of various shows in a more timely manner.
Summary of Mother and Son: Season 1
Logie Awards Winner: Most Outstanding Actress, Most Outstanding Actor, Most Popular Comedy PersonalityFinalist, Situation Comedy, New York International Television Festival
Best Comedy Show, People?s Choice Awards
Best Overall Script, Writers Guild of America, West
She?s losing her wits and he?s at his wits? end!
Starring Ruth Cracknell and Garry McDonald, Mother & Son is the hilarious, Australian, award winning classic comedy about the relationship between the newly divorced Arthur and his aging and very eccentric mother, Maggie.
Torn between a social conscience that dictates he should look after his mother in her old age and the need to live a normal life while he?s still in his prime, Arthur tries to accommodate his mother?s constant demands for affection and attention. With Maggie vague, but vicious and more arsenic than old lace, the daily chaotic events usually leave the contented Maggie unaware and the beleaguered Arthur in a dilemma and tied to Maggie?s apron strings, if she could just remember where she put the apron...
INCLUDES: Maggie Takes a Holiday / Maggie Gets the Milk / Maggie Alone / Arthur?s Holiday / Arthur?s Night Out / Maggie in Love / Maggie Makes a Will
Special Features: Cast Profiles
approx. 195 mins. col.
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