Route 66 - Season 1, Vol. 1
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: INFINITY RESOURCES
EAN: 0617742201796
Format: Anamorphic, Box set, Black & White, Collector's Edition, Dolby, DVD-Video, HiFi Sound, Original recording remastered, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: Infinity Entertainment Group
Manufacturer: Infinity Entertainment Group
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Infinity Entertainment Group
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 23, 2007
Running Time: 780 minutes
Sales Rank: 12749
Studio: Infinity Entertainment Group
Theatrical Release Date: October 07, 1960
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Editorial Review:
Product Description:
The original road trip drama this 1960s TV series was one of the most highly rated of the era. So come along for the ride and get your kicks on Route 66. Enjoy this treasured classic's first 15 episodes in a special 4 DVD collector's set. Martin Milner and George Maharis star.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/CLASSIC UPC: 617742201796 Manufacturer No: ROX2017
Amazon.com:
Vintage TV buffs will get their kicks (you saw that one coming) from Route 66, the 1960 nomadic series that brought Beat-inspired wanderlust to primetime. Three years after the publication of Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Yale-educated Tod (Martin Milner) and his scrappy Hell's Kitchen-bred friend, Buzz (George Maharis), set off in search of America in Tod's awesome Corvette convertible, his sole possession following his once-wealthy father's death. Buz ('the kid with the punch') handles most of the scrapes the buddies get into as they take odd jobs and invariably become embroiled in the personal dramas of the people they meet, as in the pilot, when they arrive, unwanted, in a closed-off small town hiding a shameful secret.
Route 66 is perhaps best-known today for Nelson Riddle's classic cruising theme song (not the Nat 'King' Cole tune), but nearly 50 years later, the series still runs like a top, with a vivid sense of place (the cross-country episodes were filmed on location) and dialogue that goes from cool banter ('Buz.' one lunchtime pickup inquires, 'is that your name or a high frequency?') to philosophical musings. Sterling Silliphant, who would go on to win an Academy Award for In the Heat of the Night, wrote the bulk of the literate, compelling scripts. The DVD box misleadingly pictures as guest stars Walter Matthau, Robert Redford, and Martin Sheen, who did appear during the series' run, just not in these first 15 episodes. But we do get Lee Marvin as a nasty rancher in 'Sheba,' Leslie Nielsen as a scientist who takes refuge in Carlsbad Caverns in anticipation of a bomb attack in 'A Fury Slinging Flame,' and E.G. Marshall as a misguided father in 'Three Sides.' There is unfortunately no star commentary, but this four-disc set gets some extra mileage from original commercials for Bayer Aspirin and Phillips Milk of Magnesia, and one touting the '61 Chevy Biscayne featuring William 'Bub' Frawley and the kids from My Three Sons, and a Chevrolet Corevette photo gallery that should get classic car buffs' engines running. --Donald Liebenson
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- take me backJust to start off,let me say,that this first addition was so good,and entertaining,that i'm buying ... Read More
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- Very Poor Video Transfer of a Landmark SeriesI am old enough to have totally watched and LOVED the original broadcasts of this wonderful series. ... Read More
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- Forget HD and Digital TV - Go With the Oldies!As a kid this series took me all over the United States to places I had never seen. It was amazing ... Read More
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- Route 66, Season 1It was great and just what I asked for. Keep in mind that some of the episodes are not on Route 66...but ... Read More
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- The show was always 5 stars, but the DVD production...It's hard to write a review for this because the show has always been a 5 star show. The production values ... Read More
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