Real McCoys: Season 1

What a SHAME!
Be Forewarned---- These episodes of one of TV's true Classic Shows are, except for the pilot, EDITED-----trimmed, chopped---BUTCHERED! Can you imagine?--in this day and age of state-of-the-art technology--- a DVD company resorts to using materials that are CUT by THREE MINUTES of
running time each?? And that's 3 minutes out of a 25-minute show that's missing, which I would say affects the dramatic shape of the show, wouldn't you?

I wrote to Mr. Stanley Moger at SFM Entertainment (smoger@sfment.com)
and received a reply which mentioned the difficulties in licensing
these old syndicated shows; apparently they were unable
(or unwilling) to explore every possible source, and decided to
settle for a complete run of the show that was in fine visual
condition but had been EDITED for TV; so they chose higher visual
quality over content, which I disagree with...to the point that I
doubt I will be buying any future seasons of the show, as...

The Real McCoys
In my opinion, shows like The Real McCoys is what TV was suppose to be. Good, family entertainment. I ordered this set the second I saw it was going to be released. I had reservations because I feared the prints and sound would be awful. To my surprise the prints are clear with only minor flaws not even worth mentioning. I'm hoping that the rest of the seasons will be released but I'm not getting my hopes up. Seems the trend is to release one or two seasons and than stop. I'm not sure why this happens with these wonderul old shows but it does. Whatever the case, fans of this show should grab this set while they can as it is well worth the price.

A great comedy
I am glad to see that they are getting ready to release the Real McCoys on dvd. I loved this show growing up and bought it on bootleg dvd. That was of couse the syndicated version, so there were several minutes missing from the episodes. I look forward to seeing the first season episodes with the restored scenes. I hope all season come to dvd soon.

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