The Abbott and Costello Collection

Starring:Abbott & Costello
Studio: Passport Int'l (Vid)
Product Type: DVD

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Who's on first? You'll be on Cloud 9 with this rare and riotous collection honoring the 100th birthday of Lou Costello and featuring the landmark Abbott & Costello Show that Jerry Seinfeld calls the inspiration for his own hit series!

This remarkable 5-disc collection contains all 26 episodes of the first season (1952-1953), complete and unedited, digitally remastered and looking better than ever. In addition to Bud and Lou, there's the unforgettable supporting cast: Sid Fields, Hillary Brooke, Joe "Stinky" Besser and Gordon "Mike the Cop" Jones.

PLUS: Never-before-seen home movies of Lou Costello and his family from the 1940s and '50s - many in full color with sound! (Even Bud manages to make a few "guest appearances.") And, for the first time anywhere, the recently restored short 10,000 Kids and a Cop made in 1948, featuring Bud and Lou, as well as Jimmy Stewart and William Bendix. To round things out, Lou's daughters, Paddy and Chris, share warm and wonderful anecdotes about their father in exclusive interviews. A treasure for Abbott & Costello fans everywhere!

The Drugstore The Dentist Office Jail The Vacation The Birthday Party Alaska The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman The Army Story Pots & Pans The Charity Bazaar The Western Story The Haunted House Peace & Quiet Hungry The Music Lovers The Politician The Wrestling Match Getting a Job Bingo Hillary's Birthday Television Las Vegas Little Old Lady The Actors' Home Police Rookies Safari

BONUS FEATURES

10,000 Kids & A Cop (1948 Short) Interview With Lou Costello's Daughters (Part One) Lou Costello's Home Movies (Part One)

DISC ONE

The Drugstore - Bud & Lou get jobs in Mr. Fields' drugstore.

The Dentist Office - Bud takes Lou to a nearsighted dentist.

Jail - Lou is arrested for shooting a whole in his neighbor's bucket.

The Vacation - Bud worries that Mr. Fields will rent their apartment while they're on vacation.

The Birthday Party - Lou invites Mr. Fields to his birthday party, but Bud winds up kicking Lou out of his own party.

Alaska - Lou's uncle strikes gold and the boys decide to visit him.

DISC TWO

The Vacuum Cleaner Salesman - Lou tries selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door.

The Army Story - The boys join the reserves.

Pots & Pans - Lou tries selling pots and pans door-to-door.

The Charity Bazaar - Lou spends most of his money at the kissing booth.

The Western Story - Hillary invites the boys to her uncle's dude ranch, where they tangle with outlaws.

The Haunted House - Bud & Lou keep Hillary company one night in an old house she'll inherit.

DISC THREE

Peace & Quiet - Lou can't sleep so Bud takes him to a shrink who gives him a sleep-inducing record.

Hungry - The boys visit two restaurants, one with twin waitresses.

The Music Lovers - Hillary's dad will only allow her to marry a man with musical talent, so Lou goes to a singing teacher.

The Politician - Lou runs for public office, so Bud brings in Lou's 4th grade teacher for sympathy.

The Wrestling Match - Lou & Stinky agree to do a charity wrestling match, but Stinky gets sick, so Lou is forced to wrestle Ivan the Terrible.

Getting a Job - The boys deliver straw hats to the Susquehanna Hat Company and run into crazy guys en route.

DISC FOUR

Bingo - Lou has to get a license for his chimp but accidentally applies for a marriage license.

Hillary's Birthday - The boys plan a surprise party, but the noise angers Mr. Fields.

Television - On the quiz show Hold That Cuckoo, the host puts Lou thru some embarrassing stunts.

Las Vegas - The boys rent a car and drive to Vegas, where they play a violent game of pool.

Little Old Lady - But & Lou raise money to keep an old lady from being evicted, but she uses the money to bet on horses.

The Actors' Home - Thinking it's counterfeit, Bud tears up a $500 bill. When it turns out to be real, he goes nuts and is put in the old actors' home.

DISC FIVE

Police Rookies - Mike the Cop helps the boys enroll in the police academy, which Lou manages to blow up.

Safari - Bingo the chimp is sick and Lou figures he misses his family, so they all go to Africa.

(BONUS)

10,000 Kids & A Cop (1948 Short)

Interview With Lou Costello's Daughters (Part One)

Lou Costello's Home Movies (Part One)

Total Running Time: Approx. 14 hrs.

Customer Reviews:

A&C at their best!.......2007-06-12

The Abbott & Costello Show's first season features the boys doing the best of all their routines, with a gossamer-thin plot holding it all together.
This set is absolutely hysterical - laugh out loud funny!
The supporting characters - Hillary, Mike the cop, Sid Fields, Mr. Bacciagalupe and the surreal Stinky (I'll harm you!) - are all along for the ride and manage to keep up with the boys.
Good prints were used as masters and the transfer to video is excellent.
This set is a "must have" for all Abbott & Costello fans!

the Abbott and Costello Show 100th anniversary show.......2007-05-18

It brought back happy memories of watching
the greatest comedy team ever.

Great Comedy.......2007-05-09

Very nice to have the first season of a great comedy team. The extra had ome good home movies of Lou Costello.

For the A&C Fan.......2007-05-08

If you're an A & C fan you'll love this. Brings back great memories of how simple comedy can be. Gave it a 4 star because of some minor gliches in a few of the recordings.

AWESOMEEEEE.......2007-03-14

if you are an Abbott & Costello fan .. these are a MUST !!

Abbott & Costello Show - 100th Anniversary Collection Season 2

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Abbott & Costello Show - 100th Anniversary Collection Season 2
Starring: Bud Abbott , and Lou Costello
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Release Date: 2006-10-03

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Is Who still on first if it's the second season? You'll find out with this rare and riotous collection honoring the 100th birthday of Lou Costello and featuring the landmark Abbott & Costello Show that Jerry Seinfeld calls the inspiration for his own hit series!

This remarkable 5-disc collection contains all 26 episodes of the second - and final - season (1953-1954), complete and unedited, digitally remastered, looking and sounding better than ever.

PLUS: Never-before-seen home movies of Lou Costello and his family from the 1940s and '50s - many in full color with sound! (Even Bud manages to make a few "guest appearances.") To round things out, Lou's daughters, Paddy and Chris, share warm and wonderful anecdotes about their father in exclusive interviews. A treasure for Abbott & Costello fans everywhere!

DISC ONE

The Paperhangers - Mr. Fields forces the boys to hang wallpaper to help pay off their rent.

Uncle Bozzo's Visit - Lou's uncle, an Italian opera singer, visits, and his singing annoys Mr. Fields.

In Society - Bud & Lou are hired to pose as British noblemen at a swanky party.

Life Insurance - Mr. Fields demands the boys take out life-insurance policies that name him as beneficiary, but neither can pass the physical.

Pest Exterminators - The boys exterminate the ants at a rich lady's house, but she thinks they have killed her aunts.

Killer's Wife - A jealous boxer and his sexy wife rent a nearby apartment and Lou is suspected of carrying on with said sexy wife.

DISC TWO

Cheapskates - The boys accidentally buy a crate of roller skates - which contain ill-gotten gems.

South of Dixie - Lou overhears a man and girl rehearsing a Civil War play and thinks the danger is real. Inspired by Buster Keaton's The General.

From Bed to Worse - The boys try to win a prize for having the best backyard garden and wind up angering their neighbor.

$1000 TV Prize - Lou answers Mr. Fields' phone and inadvertently wins a thousand-dollar prize.

Amnesia - When Lou prepares to marry a girl he's only corresponded with, Bud convinces him he has amnesia and has already married a shrew.

Efficiency Experts - The boys are hired to help control a man's daughters, who spend too much money. But they end up losing their money in a casino.

DISC THREE

Car Trouble - Lou wins a car in a contest, but it's a lemon, so they drive to Flint for another.

Wife Wanted - Lou tries to marry his old girlfriend so he can inherit $10,000 but she's now dating a jealous wrestler.

Uncle From New Jersey - To avoid eviction, the boys convince Fields that Lou has a millionaire uncle. Lou winds up masquerading as his own uncle.

Private Eye - Lou takes a correspondence course to become a detective, and then tries to help a girl recover some old bonds.

The Tax Return - The IRS accidentally sends Lou a check for a million dollars. He cashes it and is followed by thugs.

Public Enemies - When Lou is mistaken for a fellow safecracker, the boys get involved with crooks planning a robbery.

DISC FOUR

Bank Holdup - The boys are hired as bank guards by two robbers masquerading as Brinks guys.

Well Oiled - Lou poses as a millionaire to help Mr. Fields get out of a breach-of-promise suit.

The Pigeon - Lou is set up by his sexy neighbor to take the fall for her infidelity, so that Lou is the one who gets killed by her jealous mobster boyfriend.

Honeymoon House - Lou, Bud, and Mr. Fields try to build a pre-fab house for Lou's fiancée. Inspired by Buster Keaton's One Week.

Fencing Master - Bud volunteers Lou for a science experiment that makes him immune to pain.

Beauty Contest Story - The boys judge the Miss Mud Turtle pageant, in which Mr. Fields' niece is a contestant.

DISC FIVE

Fall Guy - Two men hire Bud and Lou to take their girls out in order to circumvent their father, who doesn't like these guys.

Barber Lou - Bud enlists Lou to give him a massage.

BONUS FEATURES

Interview With Lou Costello's Daughters (Part Two)

Lou Costello's Home Movies (Part Two)

The Actor's Home (contains Who's On First)

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This three-disc set is perhaps not the ideal introduction to Abbott and Costello, the Three Stooges, and Laurel and Hardy, but vintage comedy buffs and fans of these legendary teams will welcome the opportunity to fill in their collections with these lesser-known and rarely seen films, packaged as three double features (each volume also available separately). Abbott & Costello fare best with two films they made for MGM while they were still relatively in their prime. Lost in a Harem(1944) is sublime silliness as hapless entertainers Bud and Lou, stranded in the Middle East, who become embroiled in a plot to dethrone an evil king. This film features a knockabout version of the vintage vaudeville routine "Slowly I turn," as well as bizarrely gratuitous numbers by Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra, whom the king has kidnapped and hypnotized (!). In Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945), the duo are barbers-turned-agents who run amuck on the MGM lot. Less star-studded than the title promises (Rags Ragland, anyone?), there are some great routines, including a sequence in which Lou must act as a prop dummy to elude studio guards.

This collection is a particular treasure trove for Stooges fans, unearthing two of the trio's obscure features. The first, Meet the Baron (1933) captures Moe, Larry, and Curly at the beginning of their screen careers with original partner Ted Healy. The film itself is more a vehicle for radio comedian Jack "Vas you dere, Charlie?" Pearl as his signature character, Baron Munchausen. Gold Raiders (1951) was the only feature the Stooges made with Shemp. It's a slaphappy "C" western costarring George O'Brien as, yes, a lawman-turned-insurance salesman. Despite the premise, it's played mostly straight, and is not an all-out spoof like the later, The Outlaws Is Coming. Laurel and Hardy, who began in silent films, were in sad decline by the time they made Air Raid Wardens (1943) and Nothing but Trouble (1944), but these two films at least manage to recapture some of the magic of this most beloved of comedy teams. Wardens is a wartime "we must all pull together" homefront comedy in which the blundering boys stumble upon a Nazi sabotage plot. Pathos does not become the team ("I guess we're not smart like other people," a dejected Stan says at one point), but a poster-hanging sequence and an all-too-brief tit-for-tat encounter with the great Edgar Kennedy will evoke fonder memories. In Trouble, Stan and Ollie are in another fine mess as a butler and chef who make a shambles of high society and foil a plot to murder a boy-king. Whether as sheer nostalgia for a bygone era or as the simple provider of family-friendly laughs, this welcome collection fits the bill. Donald Liebenson

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THE THREE STOOGES DOUBLE FEATURE Available sundry through Saturday! Larry, Shemp and Moe are sundries salesmen in the comedy Western GOLD RAIDERS. Larry, Curly, Moe...uh-oh! They're janitors at an all-girl college in the romp MEET THE BARON, also starring Jimmy Durante. ABBOTT AND COSTELLO DOUBLE FEATURE You ought to be in pictures: Tinseltown barbers Bud and Lou take their cut as aspiring talent agents in ABBOTT AND COSTELLO IN HOLLYWOOD. Sand and silliness. The guys face an evil potentate with hypnotic powers when they're LOST IN A HAREM. LAUREL AND HARDY DOUBLE FEATURE The army's loss is our gain. Rejected by Uncle Sam, the fellas become AIR RAID WARDENS. Soup and nuts. It's a comedy banquet when Stan and Ollie play household servants in NOTHING BUT TROUBLE.

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Abbott & Costello Collection
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The Best of Abbott & Costello, Vol. 3 (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars / Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion / Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein / Abbott & Costello Meet the Invisible Man / Abbott & Costello Meet the Killer / Comin' Round the Mountain / Lost in Alaska / Mexican Hayride)
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Official Abbott and Costello Old Time Radio OTR MP3 Collection on DVD

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Official Abbott and Costello Old Time Radio OTR MP3 Collection on DVD

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