AMC TV - The Lucy Show

I love all Lucy tv shows from I Love Lucy to The Lucy Show. Her stories and acting are just great and entertaining. However, this version is the low quality version in which the colors and brightness are dulled down to what the old tv looks like and widened to fit our current wide screen tv. There is another version of The Lucy Show that was remastered to HD quality, but you have to look for it on Amazon. The remastered version is also sold as a DVD, but can be streamed on Amazon. This version has some episodes on Amazon Prime vs. the remastered version has all episodes available to Amazon Prime members.

When it comes to public domain material you just have to hope for the best.Certain episodes of The Lucy Show are avalable on several public domain labels. The quality of some are better than the others.Since the source material for these shows are often 16mm films, you can never expect the crisp quality of say, the new "Here's Lucy" set (which was transfered from Lucy's children's 35mm prints of the shows and looks awesome). I really don't mind that though. if the print is a bit old and looks like it's been used a lot, it reminds me of the way it used to be shown on local syndication in the 1970's.But what should be done is to at least take care to make as good a DVD transfer as possible.What we get on these AMC discs is 7 episodes per disc. Usually, that's good news, most tv show releases put 8 shows per dual layer disc.For the newbe, dual layer discs have 2 layers of digital storage information per side. The more space on the DVD that can be used for the video, the more movement will look natural and it will avoid "pixalation', the blocky look that digital video sometimes exhibits if the amount of memory used for the scene is too low.Trouble is, these discs with 7 episodes are SINGLE layer discs. So, that means that they crammed 2 to 3 times as much audio/video on a single layer than most studios would ever dream of doing.At nearly 3 hours on a single layer, you can see blocking and pixalation much of the time. The memory of the DVD cannot keep up with some of the movement in the video and that is the result.The transfers themselves are fair (remembering what I said before about public domain transfers) but the quality is unforgivably compromised by overloading the single layer DVDI really hope someday a more ligit season by season release of this series will be coming (transfered from 35mm) but until then, this is not a sutable substitute.Buy, AMC used to be a quality network. There participation in the Vertigo VHS, Laserdisc and DVD releases lended that much more credibility to the quality of the product.now, not only has thier network gone down hill, they endorse really dreadful quality DVD's

Don't bother with the public domain episodes of "The Lucy Show." You're throwing away your money. The audio and video quality isn't very good. Buy the official season releases of "The Lucy Show." We already have seasons one through three out. Season four should be out sometime in March 2011. You won't believe the difference between the shabby quality of the public domain episodes and the unbelievable quality of the official releases. It's like they were filmed a month ago. In addition you get great bonus features. So stop buying the same 30 episodes. I was fooled twice and decided to wait for the real thing.

Great DVD's, all items received in perfect condition without lenghthy wait, definitely worth the purchase. Would highly recommend other customers to place future orders via Amazon.

This was an amazing collection of The Lucy Show.Lucy was the funniest woman on television{she still is in my opinion}.This way now you can own her 14 hillarious episodes she ever made.With guest stars like George Burns,Carol Burnett,and Robert Goule.This is A great collection of the lucy show that has brought laughs all through the 50's-70's.This show was devoloped right after she divorced her in real life husband Desi Arnaz.This is agreat show.Own this collection today