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List Price: $35.98 | | Label: Paramount
Salesrank: 22662
Released: March 11, 2008 |
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MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Media: DVD |
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Love, American Style was an hour-long television anthology which originally aired between September 1969 and January 1974. For the 1971 and 1972 seasons it was a part of an ABC Friday prime-time lineup that also included Brady Bunch, The Partridge Family, Room 222, and The Odd Couple. Each week, the show featured different stories of romance, usually with a comedic spin. All episodes were unrelated, featuring different characters, stories and locations. The show often featured the same actors playing different characters in many episodes. In addition a large and ornate brass bed was a recurring prop in many episodes. Charles Fox's delicate yet hip music score, featuring flutes, harp, and flugelhorn set to a contemporary pop beat, provided the "love" ambiance which tied the stories together as a multifaceted romantic comedy each week.
Description of Love American Style - Season 1, Vol. 2:
Frustrated newlyweds and bickering marrieds, lecherous executives and bodacious secretaries, uptight squares and free-spirited hippies, suspicious wives and nervous husbands, inexperienced teens and swinging seniors. They’re all part and parcel of Love, American Style, the era-defining anthology series that offered a comedic look at the so-called "new morality." Rebounding after studio-imposed DVD-interruptus, this three-disc set contains the 12 episodes that complete Season One. Each contains two or three playlets. Unlike The Love Boat, all are played for laughs: A honeymooning groom accidentally locks himself in an antique store’s chastity belt; A bachelor pretends to have a wife and children to seduce a coworker who only dates married men; A harried man discovers his favorite restaurant has gone topless just as his wife surprises him for lunch. One intriguing story is "Love and the High School Flop-Out," whose story about an awkward teen who has the house to himself while his parents are out of town anticipates Risky Business, complete with friends who suggest he rent out the house for an "orgy." Love plays it completely straight. In one story, a newlywed complains her husband seems to be losing interest in her, prompting her mother to inquire if he is "strange." In another, an interior decorator in love with a mobster’s daughter is dismissed by him as a "petunia" until he dispatches the thug’s henchmen ("The fact that I have taste and a certain flair for color and design doesn’t make me any less of a man," he argues). And in another, two bickering male business partners visit a marriage counselor to sort out their troubles. Of course, what really makes this show such a star-spangled affair is each episode’s roster of character actors, TV Land cult faves, and future stars. Burt Reynolds already has his smirk going as a soldier whose wife has written a scandalous bestseller in "Love and the Banned Book." An 18-year-old Kurt Russell portrays a high school student poised to lose his virginity in "Love and the First-Nighters." Love American Style is hip enough to reference Alice B. Toklas, Bonnie & Clyde, Rosemary’s Baby and Federico Fellini, but its chauvinistic attitudes now make the once-naughty show seem almost endearingly quaint. Still, to watch "Love and the Nervous Executive," which pairs prissy Paul Lynde with va-voom "Mighty Carson Arts Players" bombshell Carol Wayne, or "Love and the Big Night" with Tony Randall and Julie "Catwoman" Newmar, is to fall in Love all over again. --Donald Liebenson
Love American Style - Season 1, Vol. 2 Reviews:
It's Like 1970 Again 
2009-12-02 - One of my favorite shows growing up was Love American Style. This collection is true to the original show. Good quality - I have been watching this on a 52" Sony LCD and an LG Blu-Ray player and you'd think the show was made 4 years ago not 40. Includes all the shorts with the Love American Style players and all the episodes presented with their original air dates. If you're feeling nostalgic for a simpler time, want to see some short skirts and long sideburns, then this is the collection for you. Season 1 is available in two volumes, get both if you can. Watch for the brass bed that makes an appearance in most episodes and even some of the shorts. Classic TV at its finest. Hope they come out with more seasons, I will be watching for them.Love American Style - Season 1, Vol. 1
Love American Style Season 1 vol 2 
2009-08-05 - Comedy of the yesteryears. Highly recommend this DVD set. Humor and the comedy we
seem to have forgotten over the years. Clean and funny. This is a true American
classic. A must have DVD for all those fun loving American comedy at it's very best.
Can you find the brass bed in every episode?
2009-06-28 - September 29, 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of Love Amerrican Style.
Now that we have enjoyed love in the afternoon with Love American Style Season one, Vol. one, we can sit and relax with 12 more funny episodes with 36 more stories from Season One.
I found myself laughing and enjoying seeing all the guest stars that I recognize:
Vivian Vance, George Gobel, Roger Perry, George Tobias, Naomi Stevens, Barry Gordon, Michael McGreevey, Don Parker, Dorothy Lamour, Mike Farrell, Penny Marshall, Joan Hackett, Warren Berlinger, Joan Van Ark, Imogene Coca, Dick Sargent, Mariette Hartley, Shecky Greene, Ray Waltson, Pat Harrington, Wally Cox, Steve Franken, Nehemiah Presoff, Mike Mazurki, Jerry Van Dyke, Monty Markham, Gino Conforti, Bryan O'Byrne, Woodrow Parfrey, Julie Newmar, Tony Randall, Buddy Lester, Shelley Berman, Kaye Ballard, Paul Lynde, Herbert Voland, Carol Wayne, Bob Denver, Joey Heatherton, Pat Carroll, Nanette Fabray, George Lindsay, Adam West, Burt Reynolds, Elizabeth Ashley, Kurt Russell, Jackie Coogan, Herb Edelman, Herb Vigran, Ronnie Schell, Greg Morris, Tom Bosley, Steve Allen, Jayne Meadows, Jack Cassidy, Bill Dana, Jack Riley, Jim Backus, Bernie Kopell, Darren McGavin, Suzanne Pleshette, james Millhollin, Forest Tucker, Jonathan Harris, Donna Douglas, Corbett Monica, Gary Collins, Meredith MacRae, Ruth McDevitt, Patrick Wayne, Merie Earle, Richard Long, Red Buttons, Carolyn Jones, Nobu McCarthy, Joyce Van Patten, Mel Torme, Kathleen Freeman, Mort Sahl.
Love American Style (1989-74) was shown on the ABC Network of Friday nights on rotation with The Brady Bunch - The Complete First Season (1969-74), The Partridge Family - The Complete First Season (1970-74), Room 222: Season One (1969-74) and The Odd Couple - The First Season (1970-75), but I mostly remember them in syndication during the afternoon. There was no more Dark Shadows DVD Collection 1 (1966-71) re-runs, so it was Love American Style or the KABC 3:30 afternoon movie.
The episodes in Season one were one hour long. They changed to 30 minutes for Season 2 and then back to an hour for 1971-74.
They brought back the formula in New Love American Style in 1985-86. I recall Kevin Brophy and Mary Beth McDonough in one episode.
In 1999, they broadcast a Love American Style tv-movie that was really on the raunchy side.
I do hope CBS DVD will release Season Two of Love American Style.
Great memories
2009-06-03 - This brought back some really great memories. DVD's exactly as advertised.
I can only wish they would offer the rest of the seasons.
Classic TV Star Parade From Donna Douglas to Imogene Coca
2008-12-15 - The second batch of LOVE AMERICAN STYLE episodes collected on DVD is sure to please show biz buffs as much as the first one did. These 12 episodes are loaded with TV names from icons to shooting comets and even occasionally include future movie stars (Kurt Russell, Burt Reynolds), a classic character actor (Edward Everett Horton), and a movie legend (Dorothy Lamour). Sit back and watch your youth flash before your eyes as the parade of stars include Adam West, Donna Douglas, Vivan Vance, Bob Crane, Sue Lyon, George Gobel, Imogene Coca, Edd Byrnes, Joe Besser, Mike Farrell, Claudine Longet, Paul Lynde, Joan Hackett, Penny Marshall, Mariette Hartley, Dick Sargent, Joan Van Ark, Wally Cox, Whitney Blake, Julie Newmar, Kaye Ballard, Monte Markham, Tony Randall, Bob Denver, Pat Carroll, Nanette Fabray, Joey Heatherton, George Lindsey, Carol Wayne, Don Grady, Elizabeth Ashley, Jackie Coogan, Bridget Hanley, Karen Valentine, Steve Allen, Tom Bosley, Joanne Worley, Jim Backus, Greg Morris, Jayne Meadows, Bernie Kopell, Bill Dana, Meredith MacRae, Ruth McDevitt, Patrick Wayne, Darren McGavin, Jonathan Harris, Jane Kean, Suzanne Pleshette, Forrest Tucker, Kathleen Freeman, Richard Long, Mel Torme, Van Williams, and many others take you back in time. Highly recommended as both a pop culture artifact and appealing entertainment.
