Good Times - The Complete First Season
starring: Esther Rolle, John Amos, Ralph Carter, Jimmie Walker, BernNadette Stanis
directed by: Bob LaHendro, Donald McKayle, Herbert Kenwith, John Rich, Perry Rosemond
directed by: Bob LaHendro, Donald McKayle, Herbert Kenwith, John Rich, Perry Rosemond
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404924475
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 1404924477
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: February 04, 2003
Running Time: 334 minutes
Sales Rank: 39651
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: February 08, 1974
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
Livings rarely easy in the chicago housing projects but the evans family never gives up trying to make the best of things. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 09/20/2005 Starring: Ester Rolle Jimmie Walker Janet Dubois Run time: 334 minutes Rating: Nr
Amazon.com:
What first comes to mind is super-skinny Jimmie Walker proclaiming 'Dyn-o-mite!' and waving his arms like a funky scarecrow in a whirlwind of 1970s jive. But while Walker's James 'J.J.' Evans Junior became the most famous face of Good Times, the bedrock of the sitcom were the actors playing his parents, Esther Rolle and John Amos as Florida and James Evans, two good-hearted but fallible people struggling to raise their family amid the poverty of the Chicago projects. Add to the mix boy-crazy daughter Thelma (Bernnadette Stanis), preadolescent black activist Michael (Ralph Carter), and Florida's world-wise best friend Willona (sassy Ja'net DuBois), and you've got one of the best comic ensembles of the time. Modern politically correct sensibilities may wince a bit at J.J.'s sometimes cartoonish antics, but what's far more striking about the first season of Good Times is how frank the show was willing to be about race, politics, class, religion, sexual double standards, and family conflicts--considerably more direct and daring, in fact, than just about anything you'll find on television today. The topics of shows range from the corruption of television evangelism and white-centered history classes in school (Michael gets suspended for stating that George Washington owned slaves) to more typical sitcom themes like a housekeeping contest or J.J.'s girlfriend troubles--but even the most lightweight episodes tosses out a few acerbic (and genuinely funny) comments on the difficulty of being black in America. --Bret Fetzer
Average Rating: 
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- Great...A great collection of one of my favorite shows...if you like Good Times buy this DVD!
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- Awesome groundbreaking seriesHaunted Backroads: Central Indiana (and other stories)
It is a groundbreaking show, and ... Read More
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- Dy-no-mite!I stumbled across season 1 of Good Times and picked it up on a lark in order to share an old TV show ... Read More
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- A Great Family Sitcom until the Network ruined it!Let's face it, Good Times was never the same after James Evans Sr. played by John Amos was killed off. ... Read More
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- A CLASSICGood Times is a classic show. It reminds me of my upbringing and how important it was for the family to ... Read More
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