My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2
by Peter Tewksbury
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Actor: Don Grady, Fred MacMurray, Stanley Livingston, Tim Considine, William FrawleyDirector: Peter Tewksbury
Brand: Paramount
Writer: AJ Carothers
Writer: Arnold Peyser
Writer: Art Friedman
Writer: Arthur Kober
Writer: David Duncan
Writer: Diane Honodel
Writer: Dorothy Cooper
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Mono; English (Original Language), Mono
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 420 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2009-01-20
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2
Movie Review: stop grippimg about split volumes you be left out in the cold
Summary: 5 Stars
Well be greatfull that the studios are putting out anything from this time period of golden tv. In those days tv wasn't looked at for future runs or reruns. now that there is an interest and dvd technology more shows are popping up. Its a shame but some times the original elements are lost and yes you have to deal with music changes of something else in order to get the product out at all. Don't you think if all was intact the studios would definetly put it out but somtimes its just not possible to get a clean copy of every segment even from the actual archives.I enjoyed season one volume one very much I was too small to remember any of the William Frawley episodes and truly delighted to see him in something else besides I love Lucy.I am 47 and have finally seen the first half of the season and enjoyed it very much.Yes there lots of people delighted to see it with or without original scores, only the original audience the first time will be annoyed but new generations of fans won't mind. As I said the elements may not exist anymore hence the changes in music etc.one example MPI researched hard to find every episode of ABC gothic soap opera Dark Shadows from 1966 to 1971 unfortunately quite a few of episodes were lost and replaced with black and white video copies of even color episodes. It would be stupid to boycott a show because some of the original color shows are not there, lost by the actual archives.Just be glad the studio did its best to bring you the series as complete as possible.Boycotting a series for these technical differences will just ensure that no future volumes of long running series will come out, after all are you taking your money to your grave, live it little and enjoy whats put out cause there may be none after that in our lifetime. Examples to this day still Six Million Dollar Man and Bionic Woman and Batman Adam West series may never make it to dvd because of contract and litigation.So be gratefully your favorite has made to dvd at all.MONTHS LATER IT IS July 2010 AND NO CHANGE
Summary of My Three Sons - Season One, Vol. 2
MY THREE SONS is a delightful slice-of-life comedy about the American family. The series chronicles the life of the Douglas family; a seemingly simple premise that was a huge hit with audiences and a keystone of the TV family lineup in the ?60s. Fred MacMurray delivers a standout portrayal as Steve Douglas, an aeronautical engineer and widower raising his three sons alone.For Baby Boomers who fondly remember My Three Sons as just your typical quaint '60s family sitcom, there are surprises in store in these 18 episodes that conclude its groundbreaking first season. Credit director Peter Tewksbury, who directed every episode of the first season, with subverting sitcom convention. The clever episode, "Man in a Trench Coat," unfolds in the style of film noir, as middle son Robbie (Don Grady), under the influence of pulp-fiction paperbacks, lets his imagination get the better of him as sneaks around with a flirtatious blonde and tries to elude a stranger who's been tailing him. "Small Adventure" is a Hitchcockian exercise in which the family goes about its business unaware of the danger when romping family dog, Tramp, fetches an unexploded stick of dynamite into the house. In "Fire Watch," the season finale, college-bound son Mike (Tim Considine) gets much more than he bargained for when he takes a job with the Forestry Service and must man his watchtower post during a violent storm. In this first season, My Three Sons was the raucous flipside to the comparatively staid suburban domesticity of The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet, Father Knows Best and Leave It To Beaver. Fred MacMurray's Steve Douglas was a widower raising his boisterous brood with the help of "dear old Bub," his gruff father-in-law (William Frawley). The home "looks like a disaster area... nothing but bottlenecks and traffic jams." And between games of keepaway in the living room, blaring trumpet practice, and squabbles over the phone and lack of privacy, there are few quiet moments. But as a more misguided and regimented parent (future Bewitched star David White) observes in the episode, "Other People?s Houses," "You enjoy living together, sharing everything." While some of the episodes are corny and silly (In one, Steve and Robbie think they've found an abandoned baby, and in another, Bub searches frantically for youngest son Chip's escaped frog), others grapple with real-life issues such as first love, as when Mike and his girlfriend test their feelings for each other by not seeing each other for a week. My Three Sons? first year holds up well. And who can resist the irresistible invitation of the classic toe-tapping "Chopstickian" theme song? --Donald Liebenson
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