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In 1980, ABC had “Taxi” and “Soap” back to back on Wednesday nights, but most of its schedule was driven by tits, ass and Aaron Spelling. “Three’s Company,” “Hart To Hart,” “Vega$,” “The Love Boat,” “Fantasy Island,” and Charlie’s Angels.” That was ABC.
“Bosom Buddies” 
arrived on ABC the same year as the completely horrible Ted Knight vehicle “Too Close For Comfort.” Because "Bosom's" title was a tit joke and because it aired on ABC, it was too easy to dismiss it as another turd float in ABC’s T&A garbage parade.
But “Bosom Buddies,” the tale of a pair of fledgling ad men who wore dresses so they could live in a dirt-cheap women-only hotel, was funny stuff. The cross-dressing business got tired in a hurry, of course, but the writers came to de-emphasize it fairly early on and pretty much eliminated it by the start of season two.
The series was created by a young writer named Chris Thompson. He came out of “Laverne & Shirley,” but later spent years on “The Larry Sanders Show” (still arguably the best live-action American sitcom of all time) before he created the acclaimed (if short-lived) Jay Mohr movie-industry comedy “Action.”
And of course "Bosom" starred the amazing Tom Hanks. It put Hanks on many of our pre-"Splash" radars, and I remember thinking then that he was destined for stardom. He was so great, in fact, that his greatness kind of spilled over onto co-star Peter Scolari; at the time I thought they were both due for hugeish things. (And Scolari - while never making an impact on the big screen - did spend the next two decades working nonstop in television, notably scoring Emmy nominations for three of his five seasons on “Newhart.”)
I also thought the great Holland Taylor was hilarious as their ad agency boss.
All 19 first-season episodes (including the pilot, shot on 35mm) are on the new set, which Amazon is retailing at the moment for $24.49
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50% Off Twilight Zone!!
This time last week the excellent, extra-crammed “Twilight Zone” sets were selling for as much as $87.99 per season. Here’s what they run this week:
$59.99 Twilight Zone Season One
$49.99 Twilight Zone Season Two
$49.99 Twilight Zone Season Three
$49.99 Twilight Zone Season Four
$49.99 Twilight Zone Season Five
50% Off The Prisoner!!
Probably one of the three best series ever made, it carries a SRP of $139.96 and it normally sells for around $100. But at the moment:
$69.99 The Complete Prisoner
1960s Outer Limits: Less than $33/Season!!
$32.99 The Outer Limits Season One
$30.99 The Outer Limits Season Two
It’s all apparently part of a new “classic TV sale,” which features big discounts on 138 titles including:
The Avengers: The Complete Emma Peel Megaset
Combat
Danger Man
The Dick Cavett Show
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Fireball XL-5: The Complete Series
Lost In Space
Naked City
The Saint
Secret Agent (2007 Megaset)
Supercar: The Complete Series
Thunderbirds: Megaset
Time Tunnel
Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea
Separately, there’s just been added a Battlstar Galactica 2.x Value Pack , which combines the $35.49 episodes 2.1-2.10 set and the $33.99 episodes 2.11-2.20 set for just $52.49!
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The Addams Family 1.x Vol. 2
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Billy & Mandy's Big Boogey Adventure
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Twin Peaks 2.x
April 10
Avatar: The Last Airbender 2.x Vol. 2
The Batman 3.x
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Teen Titans 3.x
The Untouchables 1.x Vol. 1
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The Ghost Busters: The Complete Series
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Highlander: Best Of
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Planet Earth: The Complete BBC Series (HD-DVD)
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Tsunami: The Aftermath
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May 1
Beverly Hills 90210 2.x
Dinosaurs 3.x/4.x
The Girls Next Door 2.x
Inside The Actors Studio: Johnny Depp
The King of Queens 8.x
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Michael Palin: Around The World In 80 Days
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Battlstar Galactica 2.x Value Pack <--- NEW!!
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That's a price that I can deal with. I'm still waiting for The Prisoner to drop just a LITTLE bit more. I'm such a cheap bastard.
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p.s. cool deadwood season 3 cover. any word on when those final tie-up episodes will air?
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I think they have to give Heather Mills and Yoko Ono $22 from every set sold because McGoohan used "All You Need Is Love" in the season finale.
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They totally need to remake Bosom Buddies with Bruce McCulloch and Mark McKinney as their Cathy and Tanya characters.
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It will be great to see Hanks in his younger days when he didn't take himself so seriously as he does now. WKRP will be crap because the music has been replaced with generic garbage.
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After we had to wait much longer for season 4, we finally get Season 5 earlier than the USA again, yesssssss!
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Danger is my business!!!
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Because, seriously, how "popular" are the pricing pantry articles?
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But the final episode is PURE SHIT.
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I waited months for any of the seasons to come on sale (I was a late bloomer) and finally shelled out over $100 to get all seasons from Amazon.
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I have to get those bond dvds
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I've been holding out for a decent price drop on BSG Season 2, but Season 3 has just about killed my interest in buying Season 2. MAYBE if it drop to around $42 for the full season...
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reducing ST: Voyager down. They did it with all the rest.
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From the above Amazon link and this is about the 3rd or 4th time I have used them for massive savings.
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While the Amazon sale has them all for $125. That's quite a deal.
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Masters of Horror: Pro-Life!!! Way to push material for someone who works for this site without telling anyone!
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Hell Yeah!!!!
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needs to drop a little bit further before I bite. not to mention that it needs to be consolidated into one "ENTIRE season 2 pack" none of this half season bullshit
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That HBO thinks 12 episodes of Deadwood is worth seventy bucks! Even fifty is too much. Until they get down to thirty bucks, I'll keep ordering them from Netflicks and bootlegging them for my own personal pleasure. The quality ain't as good, but I save seventy dollars!
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I felt the same way about Rome Prof.
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Just finished the first disk. Haven't watched it yet. I hope it lives up to the hype. Guess I'll have to put Deadwood season 3 on my Netflicks.
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Herc, Jim J. Bullock is gonna kick your ass for dissing "2 Close 4 Comfort". Or maybe not....didn't he die of The Aids?
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Does anyone know if it's going to have that Finale Movie like we were told it would or is it just over? I haven't heard the film talked about in a long while. I need closure!
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Dog shit like Full House and Home Improvement is out there, but the best written sitcom in television history sits on the goddamn shelf. There is no goddamn god.
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Haven't heard anything concrete about Deadwood. Only the initial rumors.
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All the Bond sets are Sold, it seems. Still happy I bought them all from Ebay for $55 last year. Who cares if they are of questionable origin, if the movies still play? I'd feel more guilt if I hadn't bought them all legitimately in VHS form (up until Goldeneye) beforehand. They already have my money dammit..
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It's simply painful to watch. Sure Tom Hanks starred, but he also starred in BIG, so he doesn't have a perfect track record.
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I'm jonzing for some Jamie Luner.
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HBO had no intention of ever doing follow-up movies. I mean, really, how often does that actually happen? If it's going to happen, usually the follow-ups are being produced synonymous with the end of the show, such as the Stargate SG-1 movies that are in production currently. It's been about seven months since the finale of Deadwood aired. HBO has forgotten, and so has most of the audience. We'll never get a true ending for the series...we're stuck with that half-assed finale.
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Come on, JM J Bullock was comedy gold. And Lydia Cornell was a poor man's Loni Anderson, but WOWZAA !
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It'd funny - but nas as much so as it was when it was on the air - to be expected since it was 81 but .... still glad I bought it. Hanks is funny as hell - DAMMIT - iwish he would do more comedy! Also got Bond CR - watching it tonight. MONROE - HAHAHA loved that Jim J. is he dead?
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Truly, there is no God.
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and I only paid amazon 2 bucks and change for shipping!!! WOWZA!!
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I'd poke dat
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But, hey, what the hell, I can download it for free.The Prisoner is the best show ever. I still have my MPI vhs tapes. I stated buying the DVD when they first came out, but then they had authoring problems. This set looks nice. It shall be mine.
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