Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman - Volume 1
starring: Louise Lasser, Martin Mull, Greg Mullavy, Debralee Scott, Dabney Coleman
directed by: Bob Lally, Jim Drake (II)
directed by: Bob Lally, Jim Drake (II)
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Sony
EAN: 0043396114005
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 99
Release Date: March 27, 2007
Running Time: 564 minutes
Sales Rank: 9604
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: January 05, 1976
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Product Description:
Legendary TV producer Norman Lear developed this outrageous soap-opera spoof staring Louise Lasser as a pigtailed, gingham-frocked housewife beset by a bewildering array of crises. The three-disc set features the first 25 episodes of the groundbreaking series hailed by critics as 'hilarious' (TV Guide), 'mind-blowing' (Newsweek) and 'televisions zaniest show!' (Readers Digest)
Mass murders, kidnappings and a flasher may be troubling the residents of Fernwood, Ohio. But housewife Mary Hartman (Lasser) has a much more serious problem; waxy yellow buildup on her kitchen floor. And while her husband Tom (Greg Mullavey) struggles in the bedroom and her best friend, country singer Loretta Haggers (Mary Kay Place), struggles to make it big in Nashville, Mary teeters closer to the edge, desperate to save her marriage, keep her family together and give her kitchen floor a proper shine!
Amazon.com:
Long before Twin Peaks, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman turned the soap opera inside out. Produced by Norman Lear (All in the Family), the syndicated serial centers around gingham-clad housewife Mary Hartman (Woody Allen regular Louise Lasser). The saga begins with Mary agonizing over her floor's waxy yellow buildup when neighbor Loretta Haggers (Emmy winner Mary Kay Place) bursts in to announce that a mass murderer is on the loose in Fernwood. That isn't Mary's only problem. The magic has gone out of her marriage to Tom (Greg Mullavey) and her grandfather is revealed as the Fernwood Flasher. And that's just the pilot.
At first glance, Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman resembles a daytime soap with consecutive airings (five nights a week), frame-filling close-ups, and syrupy score, but everything is off-kilter. When Mary isn't looking at other characters as if they're speaking in tongues, she appears to be on the verge of laughter or tears--maybe both at once. She's the ultimate desperate housewife. Aside from Grandpa Larkin (Victor Kilian), regulars include Mary’s preteen daughter Heather (Claudia Lamb), younger sister Cathy (Debralee Scott), and parents, Martha (Dody Goodman) and George Shumway (Philip Bruns). In addition, there's Sgt. Foley (Bruce Solomon), who has the hots for our sexually unsatisfied heroine, and Loretta's hubbie, Charlie (Graham Jarvis), who works with Tom and George at the plant. Mrs. Haggers, an aspiring country singer, loves her Baby Boy 'more than a hundred billion frozen Milky Ways.' The first set of this groundbreaking series features 25 episodes. Between 1976-1978, a whopping 325 were produced, some as Forever Fernwood when Lasser left in 1977, reportedly due to exhaustion. That year, the series also spun off talk-show satire Fernwood 2Nite, which would soon develop a cult following of its own. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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- Mary Hartman, Mary HartmanWe had seen the episodes when they orignally aired in 1974-75 and were curious to know if they were ... Read More
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- Please release the rest of the seriesPlease. We want more! We want it all! 25 episodes just scratch the surface for those of us who have ... Read More
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- Nostalgia from the 1970'sNostalgia from the 70's for those that can appreciate dry humor and satire of the soap opera genre. Louise ... Read More
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- Funnier in '74How times have changed. This was a lot more transgressive and funnier in 1974. It's good to see it on DVD ... Read More
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- mary hartman, mary hartmanThis series is FINALLY available and it got to me in perfect condition and very quickly.
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