Route 66 - Season 1, Vol. 1
by Arthur Hiller, George Sherman
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Actor: George MaharisDirector: Arthur Hiller, George Sherman
Brand: Infinity
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, Box set, Collector's Edition, Dolby, DVD, HiFi Sound, NTSC, Original recording remastered, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 780 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-23
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Infinity Entertainment Group
Movie Reviews of Route 66 - Season 1, Vol. 1
Movie Review: Get Your Kicks on Route 66
Summary: 5 Stars
I became hooked on this tv series when I saw it in syndication in the 1980's during late night. It became my comfort show when they took "Name of the Game" off the late night grid. Now it is finally available on DVD with no commercial interruptions. As an extra, some of the commercials are shown separatly as "Bonus Features".
This tv series premiered on CBS-TV, October 7, 1960. Martin Milner as "Tod Stiles" and George Maharis as "Buz Murdock". Two young men who travel across the country on Route 66 in a blue Corvette. They travel from town to city with each episode a story of its own. The young men try to help people they meet. They don't always stay on Route 66. Sometimes they go off the beaten path and into the backwoods too. They manage to get a job anywhere they go (now that really is the 1960's), even out to sea. Their life is carefree and they follow no schedule. Just trying to find a place to fit in.
October 7, 1960 - January 7, 1961 (Episodes 1 -15)
Locations: Episode 1: Concord, Kentucky.
Episode 2: Grand Isle, Louisiana.
Episode 3: New orleans, Louisiana.
Episode 4: Demage, Venice, Louisiana.
Episode 5: Needles, Point Hueneme, California.
Episode 6: Kanab, Kansas.
Episode 7: Grants Pass, Oregon.
Episode 8: Merlin, Oregon.
Episode 9: Glen Canyon, Page, Arizona.
Episode 10: Eureka, Arizona.
Episode 11: Carlsbad caverns National Park, New Mexico.
Episode 12: El Paso, Texas.
Episode 13: Riverside, California.
Episode 14: Malibu, California.
Episode 15: Indio, California.
In this 4-Disc fold out package, you may select an individual episode or just click, "Play All".
Helpful note: There was only one episode that froze during "Play All". If you play that episode as itself, without "Play All", you shouldn't have a problem.
You also get a cast biography. Say you recognize a character actor. You know the face, but can't place the name. Gosh, it's on the tip of your tongue. Now you will on "cast bios" with the help of a little film clip, actor's name and chartacter name plus a list of other selected movies the actor has been in.
Some of the Guest Stars: George Kennedy, Guy Raymond, Keir Dullea, Whit Bissel, Everett Sloane, Patty McCormack, Nico Minarardos, Janice Rule, Elizabeth MacRae, Bruce Dern, Ed Asner, Lew Ayres, Frank Overton, Michael Conrad, Roger C. Carmel, Suzanne Pleshette, John Larch, Warren Stevens, Deborah Walley, Tony Haig, E.G, Marshall, Joey Heatherton, Stephen Bolster, Johnny Seven, Arlene Martel, William "Billy" Benedict, Donna Douglas, Zohra Lambert, Bethel Leslie, Inger Stevens, Edgar Buchanan, Leslie Nielsen, Whitney Blake, Lee Marvin, Rico Alaniz, Betsy Jones-Moreland, Susan Kohner, Regis Toomey, Harvey Korman, Barbara Bostock, Anne Francis, Harold J. Stone, Jack Lord, Ann Helm, Arthur Batanides, Jack Warden, DeForest Kelley, Paul Barselou.
According to George Maharis in a 2007 interview, towards the end of the year, they changed the Corvette car from light blue to brown because the cameraman had trouble lighting against the sky when the light blue car reflect too much light.
This DVD set includes some nice Bonus Features. No Audio Commentary.
2 Bayer Aspirin tv commercials with Bob Shields.
2 1961 Chevrolet tv commercials.
Color photo gallery of Corvettes.
One Chevy tv commercial includes some of the cast from "My Three Sons" including William Frawley, Tim Considine, Don Grady, Stanley Livingston.
***My Three Sons: The First Season, Vol. 1 was released on DVD, September 30, 2008.***
You got to see Martin Milner drive down the road again, this time as a policeman with a new partner, Kent McCord, in Adam-12 - Season One (1968-75).
Martin Milner and George Maharis also appeared in, SST: Death Flight (1977-tvm), however, they are not in a scene together.
Martin Milner and George Maharis did reunite in 1986 for the "1st Annual Route 66 Reunion" in Tampa, Florida. This is where the last episode was filmed.
In 1998, Martin Milner hosted and narrated a video documentary, Route 66: Return to the Road with Martin Milner. He gets into a classic red corvette and travels down Route 66 (what is left of it) from Chicago to Los Angeles.
The next 15 episodes (#16-30) of Season One were released on DVD, February 5, 2008 as Route 66: Season 1, Vol. 2.
Route 66 - The Complete First Season was released, August 5, 2008.
Route 66 - The Complete Second Season was released November 4, 2008.
Route 66: Producer's Picks was released February 10, 2009. It is the same 11 episodes from the discontinued set, Route 66: The Best Orignial Television Episodes.
Route 66: Season 3 Volume 1 was released July 21, 2009.
Route 66: Season Three, Vol. 2 was released October 20, 2009.
Route 66-Season 3 Complete Collection was released January 12, 2010.
Route 66: Season 4 is not available yet.
Summary of Route 66 - Season 1, Vol. 1
Now available on DVD for the first time, Route 66 has been digitally transferred from the original masters. The television series, which aired 1960-64, is one of the most brilliant dramas to emerge from the '60s, famous for its catchy Nelson Riddle theme song, intriguing characters, top-drawer writing and stellar guest appearances. The original "road trip" drama, this classic television series was one of the most highly rated of the era, establishing the Corvette as an American icon.Vintage TV buffs will get their kicks (you saw that one coming) from Route 66, the 1960 nomadic series that brought Beat-inspired wanderlust to primetime. Three years after the publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Yale-educated Tod (Martin Milner) and his scrappy Hell's Kitchen-bred friend, Buzz (George Maharis), set off in search of America in Tod's awesome Corvette convertible, his sole possession following his once-wealthy father's death. Buz ("the kid with the punch") handles most of the scrapes the buddies get into as they take odd jobs and invariably become embroiled in the personal dramas of the people they meet, as in the pilot, when they arrive, unwanted, in a closed-off small town hiding a shameful secret.
Route 66 is perhaps best-known today for Nelson Riddle's classic cruising theme song (not the Nat "King" Cole tune), but nearly 50 years later, the series still runs like a top, with a vivid sense of place (the cross-country episodes were filmed on location) and dialogue that goes from cool banter ("Buz." one lunchtime pickup inquires, "is that your name or a high frequency?") to philosophical musings. Sterling Silliphant, who would go on to win an Academy Award for In the Heat of the Night, wrote the bulk of the literate, compelling scripts. The DVD box misleadingly pictures as guest stars Walter Matthau, Robert Redford, and Martin Sheen, who did appear during the series' run, just not in these first 15 episodes. But we do get Lee Marvin as a nasty rancher in "Sheba," Leslie Nielsen as a scientist who takes refuge in Carlsbad Caverns in anticipation of a bomb attack in "A Fury Slinging Flame," and E.G. Marshall as a misguided father in "Three Sides." There is unfortunately no star commentary, but this four-disc set gets some extra mileage from original commercials for Bayer Aspirin and Phillips Milk of Magnesia, and one touting the '61 Chevy Biscayne featuring William "Bub" Frawley and the kids from My Three Sons, and a Chevrolet Corevette photo gallery that should get classic car buffs' engines running. --Donald Liebenson
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