Married with Children - The Complete First Season
starring: Christina Applegate, Amanda Bearse, David Faustino, David Garrison, Ted McGinley
directed by: Amanda Bearse, Zane Buzby, Gerry Cohen, Richard Cottrell, Katherine Green
directed by: Amanda Bearse, Zane Buzby, Gerry Cohen, Richard Cottrell, Katherine Green
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 9781404939608
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
ISBN: 1404939601
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Running Time: 302 minutes
Sales Rank: 6869
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 05, 1987
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Description:
The dysfunctional fun continues with the complete first season of 'Married…with Children,' the off-beat comedy that changed the face of TV family sitcoms forever, available on DVD for the first time! Nominated for 7 Golden Globe Awards between 1991 and 1994. 2-disc set with all 13 episodes.
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When Married... with Children debuted on Fox TV on April 5, 1987 (followed by The Tracey Ullman Show a half-hour later), the grungy sitcom became an instant flagship for Rupert Murdoch's upstart network. The program's much-publicized working title, Not the Cosbys (a dismissive reference to the cheerful vitality of Bill Cosby's hugely popular television clan on NBC's The Cosby Show) was a dead giveaway. Married... with Children was going to be a trashier, raunchier, and far more cynical view of the American nuclear family. But it turned out the series actually fell into other caustic-domestic entertainment traditions, notably the Don Ameche and Frances Langford radio comedy series from the 1940s, The Bickersons, and Jackie Gleason's TV classic, The Honeymooners.
The jokes were savage, key relationships were marked by ennui and indifference, and the Bundy family name couldn't help but make one think of America's most notorious, real-life serial killer at the time. Yet the show had a hint of Golden Age Hollywood gloss, a retro-screwball feel that one could detect in the snappy verbal warfare between husband Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) and wife Peggy (Katey Sagal). The characters, and the show, eschewed sentimentality, which certainly opened the floodgates to comic cynicism but also kept a door ajar for moments of genuine sweetness. A decade later, however, by the time Fox cancelled the increasingly expensive series, Married... with Children's first-season tone would be considerably different, replaced by a stronger reliance on running jokes and character stereotypes, particularly concerning Bundy children Kelly (Christina Applegate) and Bud (David Faustino).
That evolution makes watching Married... with Children's first 13 episodes, once again, quite instructive. Those programs are all on this two-disc set, including the startling pilot, in which Al and Peggy lock horns over marital politics and enlist naive new neighbors Steve (David Garrison) and Marcy (Amanda Bearse) in a battle of the sexes. There's also the classic 'Whose Room Is It, Anyway,' concerning the Bundys' competition to connive Steve and Marcy into building a recreation room, and 'Thinnergy,' a very funny piece about a diet that supposedly boosts sexual interest. --Tom Keogh
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- married... but hoping to divorceThe first episodes were truly bad. But the writers got better with time. By episode 5 things got to ... Read More
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- The Season of the pre-dumb kellySome TV series take a while before they find their stride, but Married...With Children does great at ... Read More
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- Disappointing Respect and Appreciation Shown for Fans With Lack of Special Features Married With Children was my favourite show as a kid and today would still rate in my top five of all ... Read More
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- Classic Start Of A Classic And All Time Favorite Of Mine Its Timeless Best Of All Funny
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- HILARIOUS!My favorite show. Al Bundy is an American Legend up there with John Wayne. This show was unstoppable and ... Read More
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