Abbott and Costello Show Volume 6

Buy This Item Abbott and Costello Show Volume 6 by Shanachie  Available from Amazon  $19.98  on 11-17-2008     Reader Reviews If you enjoy the comedy of A & C and are disappointed by their feature films, you'll want to own collections such as Volume 6. The VHS series is ofcourse drawn from the '52 to '53 sitcom and includes the boys at their absolute best. It's well-known that the "Seinfeld" series in its early years used alot of the show's style - from the man on the street tirade to the audience "laugh track", etc. It has been written that show was conceived by Lou Costello as means to gain Copyright to the old routines. He even enlisted a relative, Pat Costello, to act as Producer, presumeably in name only. The result was one year of free-wheeling brilliance and another, final, year of labored, unfunny material that almost any team could have pulled off. Superlative support (in the first year's entry) came from Hillary Brooke, Sidney Fields, and Joe Besser, to name a few. A series drawback in this volume and others, is that the original air-dates are not listed, so a fan has to research the titles if he/she wants to be assured of first-class stuff from the first season. Happily, Vol. 6 contains *three* episodes from that first season - "Television", "The Haunted House", and "The Vacation". "South of Dixie" is from '52/3.

Abbott and Costello Show Volume 6 Available from Amazon Price: $19.98 Updated on 11-17-2008.

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