The Odd Couple - The Fourth Season
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Actor: Tony RandallBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 562 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-06-10
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Odd Couple - The Fourth Season
Movie Review: Wait For The Thing To Be Released Before Contemplating Edits!! (Followed by an UPDATE June 2008)
Summary: 5 Stars
Jeez, I am already reading reviews crying "foul!" about possible missing music or edits, and this DVD hasn't even been released yet as of these writings!! Don't necessarily be alarmed when the packaging says "Some Material May Be Edited For This Video Version" -- because this has been a standard practice which the studio has used in the past "just to cover themselves in case". In actual fact, there have been times when episodes of a show have been intact even though this disclaimer is added as a matter of routine. See my comments on SEASON THREE for more of this in detail... I'm just a fan but am wondering if Paramount may be saving their money for Seasons 4 and 5, since these shows are much more reliant on music-driven stories, and they need the songs in many cases to keep them comprehensible (which was not always the case with SEASON THREE). So let's give them the benefit of the doubt and wait and see before complaining.
EDITED IN JUNE 2008:
--well, my optimism was short-lived, because Volume 4 has been released and there have been more music edits. As a huge fan of this show I certainly think this sucks, but yet I've still bought this season anyway and I hope to get Season 5 as well. Consider:
The facts are, Paramount just feels the fees are too expensive to pay to music rights holders, especially for a show like THE ODD COUPLE, which wouldn't sell big enough numbers on DVD for them to justify the cost. Fans should realize that these episodes have never looked or sounded better, and even though some episodes (not all) are trimmed for music issues, you're still getting 95% or more of each show... sometimes 100%, when there are no music concerns. As a diehard fan I'd still rather have these DVDs than settle for old VHS broadcasts which are EVEN MORE EDITED TO MAKE SPACE FOR COMMERCIALS, and are probably missing 7 or 8 minutes each!
If I thought that not buying these DVDs would ensure that Paramount would go back and re-release them with ALL th emusic cues intact, then I woud wait. But I don't realistically think this is ever going ot happen, and so 95% is better than only 75% - or nothing at all.
Summary of The Odd Couple - The Fourth Season
ODD COUPLE:FOURTH SEASON - DVD MovieEven at its guest-starringest, Will & Grace had nothing on The Odd Couple?s fourth season stunt casting. Just two months after their epic "Battle of the Sexes" drew the largest-ever live audience for a tennis match, Bobby Riggs and Billie Jean King squared off against each other at the ping-pong table in the episode, "The Pig Who Came to Dinner." Ballet superstar Edward Villella performs in "Last Tango in Newark" and Marilyn Horn, as a baker with an operatic voice and an unrequited crush on Oscar, sings selections from Carmen, as well as "People," in "Vocal Girl Makes Good." "The Songwriter" features legendary disc jockey Wolfman Jack and entertainer Jaye P. Morgan, who performs the ever-popular Felix-penned ditty, "Happy and Peppy and Bursting with Love." Playboy emperor Hugh Hefner drops in for the flashback episode, "One for the Bunny," in which a jealous Felix is undone when he must photograph his future wife, Gloria, for a possible Playmate spread. But the chemistry between Tony Randall and Jack Klugman, Best Actor Emmy nominees in each of this series? five years, is the real attraction. They are so thoroughly at home in their roles that they elevate the more over-the-top material, as witness their ill-fated presentation as glue entrepreneurs in "A Barnacle Adventure." Among the season?s best episodes are the ones that go back to the basics of Neil Simon?s warhorse play: Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy? In "The Insomniac," Felix cannot get to sleep ("I?m up as a pup") despite Oscar?s best efforts. In "Cleanliness is Next to Impossible," Felix hypnotizes the unwitting Oscar into becoming a neat freak after Oscar?s new girlfriend calls him sloppy (Felix?s heartbreak at having to bring Oscar out of it is palpable. "It?s like a dream come true," he moans). Elinor Donahue?s Miriam, Felix?s girlfriend, is conveniently forgotten in the episodes in which Felix tries to win back his ex-wife ("Gloria Moves In"). Zinger-queen Brett Somers also returns as Oscar?s ex-wife, Blanche, in flashback episodes that continue to play havoc with Felix and Oscar?s backstory (so now they were in the Army together?) Randall, Klugman and company (including Penny Marshall as Oscar?s secretary, Myrna) clearly relish playing to their enthusiastic live audience, and this richly entertaining season is brimming with classic moments and bits of comic business that continue to bring down the house. --Donald Liebenson
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