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Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #30 on:** November 14, 2008, 12:39:39 PM »

OK, step two is to find out if there's anything on here that GSN hasn't already aired. I don't mean that facetiously, I assume most of it has been seen on the network. But even if there are only one or two that haven't, that would turn this into an extra-special treat. At this point, that's probably the determining factor for me, since they managed to avoid using any of Cullen's shows. (My hope was that they'd include his appearance with Jane Fonda, but they used a different Fonda show instead.)

Jay Temple · « **Reply #31 on:** November 14, 2008, 11:44:53 PM »

[quote name=\'Pyramid80\' post=\'201598\' date=\'Nov 14 2008, 08:57 AM\']DISC THREE
Nancy Sinatra, Woody Allen[/quote]
When I saw this one listed at the G-T Big 4 website, I remember thinking that these two were connected somehow. Eventually it came to me: Mia Farrow, once Nancy's stepmother and now Woody's mother-in-law (ewww).

NickintheATL · « **Reply #32 on:** November 15, 2008, 02:07:39 AM »

[quote name=\'Pyramid80\' post=\'201598\' date=\'Nov 14 2008, 09:57 AM\']
DISC FOUR
Barbara Bain, Brian Keith
Bea Benadaret, Eddie Albert
Nancy Kulp, Frank Sutton
Carole Welles, Bob Denver
Irene Ryan, Bob Crane, Donna Douglas
[/quote]

I believe this is the Ten Star Week that heralded the switch to color in 1966.

Tim L · « **Reply #33 on:** November 15, 2008, 10:30:26 PM »

[quote name=\'NicholasM79\' post=\'201677\' date=\'Nov 15 2008, 02:07 AM\']
[quote name=\'Pyramid80\' post=\'201598\' date=\'Nov 14 2008, 09:57 AM\']
DISC FOUR
Barbara Bain, Brian Keith
Bea Benadaret, Eddie Albert
Nancy Kulp, Frank Sutton
Carole Welles, Bob Denver
Irene Ryan, Bob Crane, Donna Douglas
[/quote]

I believe this is the Ten Star Week that heralded the switch to color in 1966.
[/quote]
I had never heard of the "Ten Star Week" but it would make sense.These were all "CBS stars"

Barbara Bain-Mission Impossible
Brian Keith-Family Affair
Bea Benaderet-Petticoat Junction
Eddie Albert-Green Acres
Nancy Kulp, Irene Ryan, Donna Douglas-Beverly Hillbillies
Carole Welles-Pistols N Petticoats
Bob Denver-Gilligan's Island
Bob Crane-Hogan's Heroes
Frank Sutton-Gomer Pyle, USMC

The Ten Star week was September 9-12, 1966..

snowpeck · « **Reply #34 on:** November 16, 2008, 12:21:45 AM »

And all the rest are from the primetime B&W run. BTW, according to the episode guide at www.kinescopes.com , the episode with the Bennys was never run on GSN due to audio problems.

Greg

Eric Paddon · « **Reply #35 on:** November 16, 2008, 01:20:52 AM »

This is not the complete "Ten Stars" week. They've left out the Thursday show of that week which was Donna Douglas and Steven Hill from "Mission: Impossible" (the original leader of the group). The episode they included with Douglas is from two weeks later where she dropped in unexpectedly as a surprise to Irene Ryan and played as a regular contestant.

And only the Benny show never aired on GSN. The rest have all been on in the past.

GrandGame1440 · « **Reply #36 on:** November 20, 2008, 04:05:15 AM »

Would it be safe to assume the White/Gifford episode is the last in the series?

Matt Ottinger · « **Reply #37 on:** November 20, 2008, 11:14:55 AM »

[quote name=\'GrandGame1440\' post=\'202063\' date=\'Nov 20 2008, 04:05 AM\']Would it be safe to assume the White/Gifford episode is the last in the series?[/quote]
Not necessarily. BCI doesn't always tend to pick episodes based on what WE would think of as their "historic" value (though they sorta did with the TPIR set). Betty White and Frank Gifford faced off many times, and if BCI found an episode they liked better than the finale, they probably wouldn't have any problem choosing it.

geno57 · « **Reply #38 on:** December 02, 2008, 06:27:42 PM »

Got mine today. I've watched the first (nighttime) episode, with Carol Burnett and Garry Moore. Great stuff.

Pyramid80 · « **Reply #39 on:** December 02, 2008, 08:31:07 PM »

[quote name=\'geno57\' post=\'202709\' date=\'Dec 2 2008, 05:27 PM\']
Got mine today. I've watched the first (nighttime) episode, with Carol Burnett and Garry Moore. Great stuff.
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Seeing that none of the Best Buy stores in my area currently has it. Are these episodes edited and chopped up like GSN aired them in the past?

Eric Paddon · « **Reply #40 on:** December 02, 2008, 11:13:14 PM »

Got my copy and they put the episode title numbers on the back. The White-Gifford show is billed as N-200 which would imply the last color nighttime show from the 67 revival but my records say that the last night show, #200 was Barbara Rush-Noel Harrison and that White-Gifford's only 67 night episode was #192.

geno57 · « **Reply #41 on:** December 03, 2008, 03:06:16 AM »

[quote name=\'Pyramid80\' post=\'202718\' date=\'Dec 2 2008, 07:31 PM\']
[quote name=\'geno57\' post=\'202709\' date=\'Dec 2 2008, 05:27 PM\']
Got mine today. I've watched the first (nighttime) episode, with Carol Burnett and Garry Moore. Great stuff.
[/quote]
Are these episodes edited and chopped up like GSN aired them in the past?
[/quote]

I've watched the first three now, and no ... they seem to be uncut. Although Allen might go into a break with something along the lines of "...after this word from the good people at Woolite", the commercials are not on the disc.

There's a half-second (or so) of black in between segments.

William A. Padron · « **Reply #42 on:** December 03, 2008, 08:57:42 AM »

[quote name=\'geno57\' post=\'202750\' date=\'Dec 3 2008, 03:06 AM\']
[quote name=\'Pyramid80\' post=\'202718\' date=\'Dec 2 2008, 07:31 PM\']
[quote name=\'geno57\' post=\'202709\' date=\'Dec 2 2008, 05:27 PM\']
Got mine today. I've watched the first (nighttime) episode, with Carol Burnett and Garry Moore. Great stuff.
[/quote]
Are these episodes edited and chopped up like GSN aired them in the past?
[/quote]

I've watched the first three now, and no ... they seem to be uncut. Although Allen might go into a break with something along the lines of "...after this word from the good people at Woolite", the commercials are not on the disc.

There's a half-second (or so) of black in between segments.
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I have watched about five of the nighttime episodes on the first disc, and they do look uncut to me. The ones I have seen also include the production slates, audience ticket plugs mentioned by Allen Ludden, and in one episode, he even involves celebrity guest Anne Bancroft and her contestant partner in an on-set commercial spot for Polaroid cameras.

By the way, I purchased my copy at J&R Music World in lower Manhattan yesterday (Tuesday 12/2/2008) for $27.99 plus NYS tax. Right away, I noticed the packaging on this box set is slimmer than the previous titles released by BCI/Eclipse.

One quick question...the Benny episode was taped in Los Angeles?

NickintheATL · « **Reply #43 on:** December 03, 2008, 09:30:29 AM »

On occasion during the run, they would tape at Television City in Hollywood.

Vahan_Nisanian · « **Reply #44 on:** December 03, 2008, 10:05:55 AM »

2 Questions

1) Is the shows' original aspect ratio intact?

2) How's the bitrate? Does it match up to the speed of videotape? Catnap72 complained a while back how horribly lagging the bitrate was on a few episodes of the Family Feud DVD.

/Hate cropped aspect ratios on DVDs.
//Who doesn't?