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DVD : After School Specials: 1976-1977 DVD Set
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Price: $29.99 Prices subject to change.
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: BCI ECLIPSE LLC
EAN: 0787364577590
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: BCI / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
Manufacturer: BCI / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Number Of Items: 2
Publisher: BCI / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Running Time: 180 minutes
Studio: BCI / Sunset Home Visual Entertainment (SHE)
Theatrical Release Date: October 06, 1976
Sales Rank: 33483
MPN: D45775-9D
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After School Specials - Francesca Baby / Beat the Turtle Drum Martin Tahse is the most prolific and successful producer of After School Specials. His 26 productions have won numerous awards and prizes including 18 Emmys three Blue Ribbons in the American Film Festival the Peabody Award and First Second and Third Prize in the Chicago Film Festival in the same year - an honor which has never since been matched. His original contributions remain important to today's young and adult audiences. "Francesca Baby" - Francesca (Carol Jones) and her younger sister Kate (Tara Talboy) live in constant embarrassment with their alcoholic mother (Melendy Britt). When their mother falls asleep in bed with a lighted cigarette endangering the lives of the girls the outcome between Francesca and her mother is both dramatic and revealingly true. "Beat the Turtle Drum" - For her birthday Joss (Katy Kurtzman) is given a horse for a week. She and her older sister Kate (Melissa Sue Anderson) go out with the horse and tie it up so they can climb and play in a tree. Kate is devastated when Joss accidentally falls and is killed. Desolate and fearing the might have been able to save her sister Kate goes on a search to come to grips with the tragedy. After School Specials - Pinballs The / Trouble River Martin Tahse is the most prolific and successful producer of After School Specials. His 26 productions have won numerous awards and prizes including 18 Emmys three Blue Ribbons in the American Film Festival the Peabody Award and First Second and Third Prize in the Chicago Film Festival in the same year - an honor which has never since been matched. His original contributions remain important to today's young and adult audiences. "The Pinballs" - Three kids each with both haunting and often humorous backgrounds form a friendship while in a foster home.
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I am 46 years old and use to watch the After School Specials when I was a child and still enjoy them today. The after School Specials are nice clean stories that all can watch. I recommend these stories for all age groups to enjoy.
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I just recently bought the DVD from the 1976-77 season.It has been years since I had last seen these fine episodes.I especially liked the story Beat the turtle drum.I saw it when it was bran new and I never forgot how sad it was and still is.
I'm so glad they released these out onto DVD
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These old after school specials have aged very well...Children and teens watching them today would have no trouble identifying with the characters and their issues, especially if they had gone through some of the same things themselves (i.e. having an alcoholic parent, the death of a sibling, etc.). The picture quality on these shows are not bad at all. They may not be digitally remastered, but they are very, very watchable and I have seen MUCH worse! Brentwood Communications/BCI Eclipse (the ... Read More
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I actually don't find the quality to be all that horrible. Looks like I would expect from 70's vidio TV. Colors are nowhere near as vivid as we now expect from HDTV but the shows themselves are fun and include some talent that has gone on to do some new favorites. Also the packaging and full motion animated menus are excellent.
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Here is the sad truth about the video quality. It's not due to bad DVD mastering. These shows were filmed on film but then they were post produced and edited on videotape(Videotronics was the company). Videotape of the 1970's. You get the idea. The best broadcast quality videotape of yesteryear is no match for DVD quality of today (as fans of the classic Norman Lear videotaped sitcoms have found out).
Add to that the deterioration that the master tapes have experienced then it all adds ... Read More
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