Leave It To Beaver: The Complete Series (Shout Factory)

have you seen the DVD set? It's fabulous.

 

different environment...

 

yea fairytale life in the 50's as most would say...It wasn't fantasy...

 

the way things are going I would not wait for them to go OOP or you will have to deal with the Sharks on Amazon & Ebay!

 

That sucks... it's been years since I've seen the show, but I definitely would've noticed a screw-up of that magnitude.

 

Don't you mean Shout! Factory, not Universal?

I had already bought the first 2 seasons that Universal had put out, which had the intros in the right place when the Shout! Factory versions came out, thus it didn't affect me. Never did compare the quality though.

 

It's a freaking TV show. Doesn't make them any less enjoyable, nothing is out of context, not even noticeable for someone watching the show for it's entertainment value, rather than to critique it online with a hundred other geeks. Thank God some of us can remember a life like the one shown on this series.
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That's what I thought before I saw the Dick Van Dyke Show Blu-rays.

 

I guess if one can afford BR I see no problem, but me personally I usually have no problem with the DVD sets that look fabulous...

 

I would call it a screw-up on both parts. I think Shout Factory doesn't have anybody on staff who is smart enough to know where the open should go, and Universal Digital Video Services was sloppy when they mastered the show. There is a point where they people releasing the DVDs or Blu-rays has to take charge and point these things out to the studio, or even fix it themselves if they can.

 

I don't mind. Putting the theme song first makes it easier to skip it to get to the proper show content.

 

I have this dvd set as well but haven't opened it yet. I bought it right after watching the whole series as reruns on MeTV or something. It was on every day and I watched it religiously. I didn't watch much tv when I was a kid and this was first aired - I was always out playing! Of course I've seen many of the episodes over the years in syndication - just an excellent show all around and never fails to make me laugh and feel good. Not much on tv for quite a while makes me feel like that. Corny, feel-good wrap-ups at the end with a moral twist? Count me in! It's probably no surprise that I'm a HUGE Andy Griffith Show fan as well.

I picked mine up on Ebay a couple of years ago for around $60 if I recall. Sometimes I wish there was a way to research ebay sales one has made for years back like on Amazon.

Pretty interesting site here on the show's location :

http://www.retroweb.com/universal_leave_it_to_beaver.html

 

My point was that they aren't presenting those episodes the way they were meant to be seen. It might not detract much from your overall enjoyment of the show (especially in this case, where I don't think there were very many episodes that used the "cold open" format), but it's still a pretty big screw-up nonetheless. Considering this forum's obsession with "old stuff" and having things "exactly the way I remember them from when I was young", you'd expect a mistake of this size to give people an aneurysm!

 

Leave It To Beaver will be leaving Antenna TV and re-appearing on ME-TV on January 2nd.

 

Fun show, loved watching it as a kid, My Three Sons as well.

 

No. Why?

 

Because Antenna TV's contract with the distributor ended and Me-TV decided to pick the show up.

 

So the company who owns the right to the show?

 

Yes. So the show is just moving from Antenna TV to ME-TV.

 

Thank you.

 

It's always been a tempting purchase.
For the last few years, I've been watching the episodes on tv; I've got to the point where I can even use the word "onacountta" in everyday conversation.
I came to this reality: Each episode was a "life lesson" for parents who could see how to handle their children in certain situations.
Great stuff.

 

Mine is still sealed

 

I don't trust Me-TV. I stopped watching The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, The Man from Uncle, and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea because the episodes look like they have been sped up to free up time for more commercials. I believe the technical term is "time compression."

 

>>>I don't trust Me-TV.

I don' think that time compression is bad on Me-TV, but note that if it's moving to Me-TV, several months ago, they started broadcasting EVERY show (including STAR TREK!) in WIDESCREEN. I'd normally be critical about such things... But I will admit, whatever process they are using, it is tolerable. They are shaving the tiniest bit off the top and bottom though it still looks good. I'm surprised there aren't entire threads on the matter.

 

The episode "Beaver Takes A Bath" where the bathroom floods and causes the ceiling downstairs to leak is actually kind of legitimately suspenseful and horrifying because I could imagine being a kid and getting in that kind of trouble and knowing I was in for it.