Christmas With Jack Benny

Starring:Christmas With Jack Benny
Studio: PASSPORT VIDEO
Product Type: DVD

Description

Comedy great Jack Benny lends his wonderful, understated style - and stingy reputation - to two holiday programs on one great DVD. In The Christmas Episode, Jack and Rochester go shopping in a department store, where Jack's legendary stinginess leads to a run-in with a difficult saleslady - and a masked robber! In The New Year's Eve Episode, selfish Jack makes his own plans to ring in the New Year, leaving Dennis Day and Don Wilson out in the cold. Rochester sacrifices his New Year's plans when Jack's date falls through.

Customer Reviews:

Jack still holds up.......2005-02-23

So many years later, this is still funny. I have long been a fan of the Jack Benny Program on old time radio, but had never seen the television shows. I was surprised though, how good the first episode looked and sounded. Frankly I expected worse.

While the New Year's show is only so-so, the Christmas episode is superb. It's a testament to both how well developed his character miserly was and to the writing that made him so. It's easy to see why he was quietly one of the giants of comedy. He works the comedic pause better than anyone.

While the DVD itself offers pretty much nothing more than the two episodes, I recommend it based on the relatively cheap price and the merits of the Christmas show alone. I suspect that this will become regular holiday viewing for me for years to come.

Fantastic material, skimpy DVD.......2004-12-03

The content of this DVD rates five stars - Jack Benny was a comedy genius, and the two shows included on this DVD both testify to the man's talent, and the quality of The Jack Benny Program.

This DVD contains two holiday-themed episodes of Benny's program - the first of Jack's annual Christmas shopping debacles (originally aired Dec. 15, 1957) and his first New Year's episode (Dec. 27, 1953). Both are classics - the Christmas show (portions of which were included on the 1994 CBS-TV special "Television's Christmas Classics") features a hysterical turn by Mel Blanc as the department store clerk who loses his sanity to Jack's pestering, and the New Year's show is a bittersweet half-hour.

The DVD receives only four stars from this reviewer, however, because it's so skimpy. The two shows are all you get. There's no excuse for that; over its fifteen year run, the Benny show had numerous Christmas and New Year's programs, any of which could have been included here.

Some reviewers might also deduct a star for the mediocre audio/video quality, but considering the show's age, the picture and sound seem reasonable.

All things considered, "Christmas with Jack Benny" is a wonderful but sadly brief glimpse of the great Benny program's hysterical version of holiday cheer.

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Holiday With Jack Benny
Starring: Holidays With Jack Benny
Manufacturer: Brentwood Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett with Bonus The Jack Benny Program Christmas Themed DVD

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The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriett with Bonus The Jack Benny Program Christmas Themed DVD

Manufacturer: DigiView Productions
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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Musical performances by Rick and Ozzie Nelson

ASIN: B000EACBEY

Product Description

Two Ozzie and Harriet Christmas Themed episodes: 1) Christmas Tree Lot (which features musical performances by BOTH Rick AND Ozzie Nelson) and; 2) Piano for the Fraternity; plus a BONUS Jack Benny holiday themed program.

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