The Doris Day Show - Season 1 |  | Directors: Bob Sweeney, Bruce Bilson, Gary Nelson, Harry Falk
Actors: Doris Day, Denver Pyle, Fran Ryan, James Hampton, Philip Brown
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Category: DVD
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Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 780 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.6 x 1
MPN: MPID7670D
ISBN: 0788606344
UPC: 030306767093
EAN: 9780788606342
Theatrical Release Date: September 24, 1968
Release Date: June 28, 2005
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Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: 06/28/2005 Run time: 780 minutes
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Doris Day was still a big movie star when she switched gears and hit the sitcom trail in 1968. The Doris Day Show traded on her bright-bulb cheerfulness and effortless audience rapport for its appeal, and in its second and third seasons became a top-20 hit. Day herself was not happy with the premise of the first season, however: a widow and her two young sons move to the country to live with her father. The irony was, the job Day's character was leaving behind--writer for a New York women's magazine--was much more in the vein of her successful movie parts. (One episode has her traveling back to NYC to help on a story, and frankly she looks much happier there.) Instead, the TV series lays on the rural corn, with much humor stemming from the grizzled father (Denver Pyle) and Gomer Pyle-like handyman (James Hampton). Doris's single status occasionally makes for a storyline, but this was the beginning of the great era of TV widows and widowers, and her loyalty remained with her boys. As a performer, Day retained the spunk and the naturalistic, conversational style she developed in movies, and it must be said that for a woman in her mid-40s she had the figure of a 19-year-old. The series would switch locations (her character landed a job in San Francisco in season 2, which is previewed in the DVD extras) and change casts periodically. Perhaps the "jump the shark" episode for season 1 involves a tiger that gets loose on the ranch, one of those laborious contrivances that sank many a late-sixties sitcom before All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show came along to save the day. The DVD set includes some quirky video messages from Doris Day promoting the show in 1968, two entertaining 1950s Day appearances on What's My Line?, and interviews with then-child-actor Philip Brown and James Hampton, who would become a regular in the Burt Reynolds stock company. All 28 first-season episodes are here, probably for Day completists only. --Robert Horton
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 I was surprised September 22, 2009
Global Warming
Doris Day is/was a great actress, but when she tried to play a farm girl with too much makeup on, she looked so foolish that I did feel sad for her. In later years years, I discovered that she had been forced into playing in this series, due to financial reasons. Still, just seeing her is a joy, but not in this. She was middle aged, they made her play a role that was suitable for a much younger woman. Denver Pyle was good, in this, as were the child actors that Doris later abandoned.
I have many Doris Day movies in my movie collection, she CAN act. In this, you can tell she didn't want to do this series, her acting is terrible, but who can blame her? Her late husband had stuck her with this lemon. Her attempts to play a younger woman than she was failed. Skip this one, buy her movies, she was simply too old to be playing a "young" mother.
 The Doris Day Show - Season 1 April 24, 2008
Ismail Taher Khalil Taher (egypt / cairo)
You know that I like Doris Day too much if this movie as not like the best of her , but it's enough to looke to Doris Day ,she is only one .
Soooo Dated April 10, 2008
Smiddyboy (Sydney)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really dont remember a single episode of this when it aired though I remember the show itself. I can see why I didnt - its as corny as hell. I also see why Doris hated it. To her credit she gives it her all with all the ease of a pro. The casting and acting was pretty good. Pity about the storylines. I doubt this would do much on cable either. Its way too dated. They just dont make them this corny and this dull anymore. Havent seen seasons 2 - 5 so I cant comment on them.
Collector's Must December 2, 2007
Shalene Holmes (Hollywood, CA)
Could not resist buying all the volumes of The Doris Day Show ... takes one back to a time when we cared more about each other ... and we didn't say such things as ... "that which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" ... what a crock! It only numbs you more! Perhaps this is why we buy these old shows and movies ... because there are no Doris Days to guide us anymore, except on these wonderful DVDs.
The Doris Day Show - Season 1 July 13, 2007
Janet E. Patula
Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! They just don't make em anymore like they use to. Highly recommend.
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