Product Description

Studio: Mpi Home Video Release Date: 10/25/2005 Run time: 720 minutes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60655 in DVD
• Brand: MPI
• Released on: 2005-10-25
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.33:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 4
• Running time: 720 minutes

Customer Reviews

A "DAY" TO REMEMBER
The recent release of the first season of "The Doris Day Show" has been one of the happiest surprises, for many, of the summer. The production values for the CBS series are exquisite and the quality of the DVD and bonuses elevate it to the top of the heap.
On the heels of that success, the second season of the hit series is due to be released in October of 2005 and as good as the first season is, the second was a knockout. It quickly became one of the top ten rated series on the air and it is easy to see why.
The second season combines the best of all worlds. Doris Martin, played by Miss Day, still resides on the family farm with her dad, played by Denver Pyle and her two sons, who are among the most likeable and believable child stars of the era, never resorting to cute. The change in the new season is that Doris Martin gets a job in San Francisco, working for a big magazine, thereby allowing the series to be more expansive. It also allows the introduction of additional characters at the magazine. They include Doris Martin's boss, played by McLean Stevenson, pre-"Mash", RoseMarie who had recently stolen "The Dick VanDyke Show" from the stars of that series, and Paul Smith as Ron Harvey. Miss Day also had the opportunity to expand her wardrobe and reinforce the reasons for her being dubbed a fashion icon.
The storylines alternate between Doris Martin's new career and family matters back on the farm and sometimes the two world's meld most amusingly.
What can one say about Miss Day that hasn't been said for years. She is funny, warm, real, winning, a natural. She makes it seem so easy and her interactions with all the cast members never seems forced. You almost feel as though you might be eavesdropping on real life.
The second season continued to boast a great line-up of guest stars and cast. They included Larry Storch, making a couple of appearances as a boxer who is befriended by Miss Day, Billy DeWolfe, veteran of a couple of Day films from the early 50's as Mr. Jarvis, Edward Andrews, who had appeared in 3 films with Miss Day and became a semi-regular on the series as the magazine's publisher, Colonel Fairburn and Kaye Ballard and Bernie Kopell who in the series' third season would become regulars.
An interesting side-note for those who keep track of such things - Miss Day while growing up in Cincinatti, Ohio was a huge fan of the legendary Ginger Rogers. During the series' second season, two of Miss Rogers' ex-husbands make guest apearances - Lew Ayres and Jacques Bergerac.
Lots of great extras and bonus materials are promised including new interviews with Storch and RoseMarie, a blooper reel, outtakes, a movie trailer, promos, etc. If they are half as good as the bonus materials provided on the first season, that alone makes this DVD worth the price. However, in addition, you get more than two dozen very funny episodes of a delightful series starring a lady who can bring a sunshine smile to the gloomiest of days. Anyone who suffers from Seasonal Affective Disorder should prepare for winter early and buy this show. It is guaranteed to keep away the blues.

Don't Be Surprised By The Quality
When I saw the first season (I bought it here), I didn't remember how good this show looked and how well it was produced. I shouldn't have been surprised, Doris Day had been Hollywood's #1 female box office attraction in films for such a long time, CBS certainly wouldn't hold back the bucks on a star of her magnitude.

The network was so pleased to get Doris, they dealt her a "Ft. Knox hand" as Variety headlined. CBS was weary of Lucille Ball threatening to leave if she didn't get more money at the conclusion of each contract, they felt that top movie queen, Doris Day, could quell the cantankerous Miss Ball. Everybody expected fireworks between the two icons (Lucy of TV; Day of films). It didn't happen. Both ladies had the utmost respect for the other's talent and legend, even posing for the press with one another.

The Doris Day Show was of much better quality than the overblown Here's Lucy or The Lucy Show or whatever Ms. Ball was doing at the time. But, in the late 60s, during the beginning of the sexual revolution, Day was dissed because she was perceived as no longer being in the "mainstream." She did not smoke pot or commit adultery in her films, her personal life was not in scandal (save for her name being briefly mentioned in the Charles Manson mess), so a certain portion of the public didn't feel that she was "cool." They tried to make a joke out of Miss Day's clean living. They failed.

The feelings about her lingered throughout the '70s and '80s (probably the reason this series was ignored for syndication). In hindsight, perhaps that was a GOOD thing! Now, the series is being greatly appreciated by Day's core fans and the legions of new ones (world-wide) who are just discovering this talented lady.

I look forward to the second season.

This series rocks!
I have waited for years for this show to come out on DVD, I love the first season which I have been watching over and over again since I got it and I can't wait for season 2 which I have already preordered. Each season just gets better and better with this show. From the second season on, Doris is working in San Francisco and in season 3, moves to a fabo apartment in the city. Each season becomes more contemporary. She was the first single working mom on tv and this was a full year before Mary Tyler Moore. What most people dont realize is that "The Doris Day show" has more episodes and ran longer than the Brady Bunch. But since the show has not been seen since its original run people don't remember it. My friends who never saw it have LOVED it. The high production values and sets of the first season really impressed them. This is a MUST have for any Doris fan. The opening credits of the seasons get better each year as well, topping off with the fabo sprial staircase entrance in the later seasons. A must have for any Doris fan.