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Tuesday, April 15, 2014

The Abbott and Costello Show: The Complete Second Season Will Bring the Laughs on May 20th!


Abbott and Costello were simply one of the greatest comedy teams in the history of show business.  In their 22 years of partnership, they mastered the straight man/clown relationship, creating a magical chemistry that would take them from the burlesque stage to radio, to Broadway, to film and finally...to television. This May, for fans of classic comedy and TV, Entertainment One delivers "The Abbott and Costello Show: The Complete Second Season."  Digitally restored and re-mastered, this exclusive, fully-authorized collector's set features all 26 Season Two episodes across 4 discs, including  the hilarious routines that made the duo comedy legends including the classics "Go Ahead and Back Up", "Watt Street", "Higher, Lower", "Rub Down" and many, many more.

 "These are the guys that made me fall in love with the idea of being funny"
-- Jerry Seinfeld

WHO'S ON...SECOND?

THIS MAY, ENTERTAINMENT ONE DELIVERS OVER 
12 HOURS OF CLASSIC TELEVISION COMEDY WITH THE DIGITALLY RESTORED & RE-MASTERED SECOND SEASON OF ONE OF "THE TOP 100 TV SHOWS OF ALL TIME*"

THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW:
THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON

Street Date: May 20, 2014
DVD srp: $39.98 (4 Discs)

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Abbott and Costello were simply one of the greatest comedy teams in the history of show business.  In their 22 years of partnership, they mastered the straight man/clown relationship, creating a magical chemistry that would take them from the burlesque stage to radio, to Broadway, to film and finally...to television. 

This May, for fans of classic comedy and TV, Entertainment One delivers THE ABBOTT AND COSTELLO SHOW: THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON.  Digitally restored and re-mastered, this exclusive, fully-authorized collector's set features all 26 Season Two episodes across 4 discs, including  the hilarious routines that made the duo comedy legends including the classics "Go Ahead and Back Up", "Watt Street", "Higher, Lower", "Rub Down" and many, many more.. 

Beginning in 1952, the filmed half-hour series, "The Abbott and Costello Show", appeared in syndication on local stations across the country.  Loosely based on their popular radio series, the show cast the duo as unemployed wastrels, with one of the show's running gags involved Abbott perpetually nagging Costello to get a job to pay their rent.  The simple plotlines were often just a set-up to recreate the pair's classic comedy routines -- including "Who's on First?" and other familiar set pieces -- from their films and burlesque performances.  Also featuring Sidney Fields as their landlord, Hillary Brooke as a friendly neighbor often caught in the pair's schemes and Joe Besser as Stinky, a 40-year-old dressed in a Little Lord Fauntleroy suit, "The Abbott and Costello show was voted as one of the "Top 100 TV Shows of All-Time" by both Time and Entertainment Weekly.     

BONUS FEATURE 
  • Lou Costello's Home Movies 

PROGRAM INFORMATION

Type:  DVD
Catalog #:  EOE-DV-7751
Running Time: 286 minutes/4 Discs
Genre:  TV/Comedy
Rated:  Not rated
Aspect Ratio:  4 x 3 (1.33:1)
Audio:  Mono
Language: English w/SDH Subtitles

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