Essential Family Television (1961)

Enjoy endless hours of family fun in this delightful collection of 150 episodes from 31 great series, digitally remastered on to 12 DVDs. Own over 65 hours of America's best-loved TV Series episodes!

Includes the following great series...

The Adventures of Hiram Holiday - 6 Episodes

The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet - 20 Episodes

The Buster Keaton Show - 2 Episodes

The Dennis Day Show - 2 Episodes

The Dennis O Keefe Show - 4 Episodes

The Dick Van Dyke Show - 4 Episodes

The EdWynn Show - 5 Episodes

The Eddie Fisher Show - 1 Episode

The Edgar Bergen Show - 1 Episode

The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show - 6 Episodes

The Howdy Doody Show - 1 Episode

I Married Joan - 6 Episodes

The Jack Benny Program - 10 Episodes

The Jim Backus Show - 2 Episodes

Lassie - 2 Episodes

The Liberace Show - 4 Episodes

The Life of Riley - 2 Episodes

Life with Elizabeth - 6 Episodes

Love that Bob - 7 Episodes

The Lucy Show - 20 Episodes

Make Room for Daddy - 5 Episodes

The Mickey Rooney Show - 5 Episodes

The Milton Berle Show - 5 Episodes

Mister Ed - 1 Episode

Our Miss Brooks - 2 Episodes

Petticoat Junction - 6 Episodes

Phil Silvers Special - 1 Episode

Private Secretary - 3 Episodes

Sea Hunt - 1 Episode

Sky King - 4 Episodes

The Trouble with Father - 6 Episodes Product Description

Back when TV was NOT a Game Show

With the absolute garbage on television today these DVD sets are a godsend. You get one-hundred and fifty old television shows, at least 70 hours of quality entertainment! And here's what they don't tell you in any of the ads--many of these shows run the full half hour complete with all those woderful old commercials! See the brand new 57 Chevy or the top of the line Brownie camera. Or how about Efrem plugging the next episode of the FBI this Sunday night. Great, great stuff. There are other Mill Creek boxed sets of old television shows, and there worth every penny! August 3, 2008

Sitcoms, adventure and variety shows rom TV's Golden Age

The twelve single-side recorded DVDs in MILL CREEK's ESSENTIAL FAMILY TELEVISION contain episodes of 1950's and '60s sitcom and adventure series, plus some variety shows (Milton Berle, Ed Wynn, Eddie Fisher) and specials (Phil Silvers, Edgar Bergen). Besides the more commonly seen programs, there's samples here of some genuine TV rarities, like the Buster Keaton, Jim Backus, Dennis Day and Dennis O'Keefe shows. Video and audio transfer quality of these antique TV films is generally good.

All DVDs come individually stored in gloss-coated heavy paper sleeves that also provide program data and episode titles. The discs are housed in a space-saving easy-access storage box (front hinged door with two velcro closures). "Essential Family Television" is over 65 hours of classic TV from America's leading seller of value-priced DVD compilations, MILL CREEK ENTERTAINMENT.


Vintage TV fans are sure to enjoy SPIES & LIES, also from MILL CREEK. There's 50 episodes here from 11 rarely seen crime/action series.


PROGRAM LIST for ESSENTIAL FAMILY TELEVISION (number of episodes in parentheses)--

(_6) The Adventures of Hiram Holiday
(20) The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet
(_7) The Bob Cummings Show
(_2) The Buster Keaton Show
(_2) The Dennis Day Show
(_4) The Dennis O'Keefe Show
(_4) The Dick Van Dyke Show
(_5) The Ed Wynn Show
(_1) The Eddie Fisher Show ("Coke Time")
(_1) The Edgar Bergen Show
(_6) The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show
(_1) The Howdy Doody Show
(_6) I Married Joan
(10) Jack Benny Program
(_2) The Jim Backus Show
(_2) Lassie
(_4) The Liberace Show
(_2) The Life of Riley
(_6) Life With Elizabeth
(20) The Lucy Show
(_5) Make Room For Daddy
(_5) The Mickey Rooney Show
(_5) The Milton Berle Show
(_1) Mister Ed
(_2) Our Miss Brooks
(_6) Petticoat Junction
(_3) Private Secretary
(_1) Sea Hunt
(_4) Sky King
(_1) The Slowest Gun in the West (A Phil Silvers special)
(_6) Trouble With Father

FOR COMPLETE DATA ON ALL EPISODES, SEE COMMENT #1 BELOW July 18, 2008

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