The Carol Burnett Show: Carol's Favorites (Collectors Edition)

I love the Carol Burnett show!!! It is so fun and hilarious. I deducted a star because the box arrived severely damaged. I had to glue and tape it back together. But the show itself is wonderful!!!

Yes, this is a great collection! I love those gorgeous Bob Mackey costumes! Many of Carol's characters are very funny, especially Mrs. Wiggins, but Tim Conway steals almost every skit he's in. He's a riot, especially when you realize he's trying to break up Harvey Korman and Carol by not sticking to the script after the first few lines! His routine was to rehearse exactly as written and THEN change up everything before the live audience! Carol was a GOOD SPORT for allowing him to do this! Love the modern-day retrospective of the cast telling the "behind-the-scenes" scrambles. The best show ever, of course, was "Went With The Wind." I remember laughing 'til my sides hurt, having read the book AND seen the movie a few times. There was such an awe about that movie, so the send-up was almost sacrilegious! But I wish the LONG ten-minute laughter of the audience had been preserved as it really was, instead of being cut short on the DVD. Harvey was fantastic as Rhett and Vicki was hysterical as Prissy. Her slapping Carol at the end, saying Rhett Butler's line was a fantastic touch. Kudos to Carol for allowing everyone to shine and for keeping the team together! However, I could NOT and still cannot stand the "family" because they say horrible things to each other. In the 70's, I'd switch the channel, back when we had to GET UP to change it. Now, I just fast-forward through it, except when Tim Conway talks about the Siamese elephants. Now, THAT was funny! I also never like the charwoman. Instead, I liked seeing Carol look her best, especially at the opening of the show when she took questions and had spontaneous and KIND answers for the audience. Her Norma Desmond was a riot. I guess my rating should be 4.5 stars.

My wife and I use these for entertainment in the evening since we like very little of what is on television today. There is variety with comedy sketches, singing, dancing, and guest stars. Most of the shows are quite good but the quality is not consistently even across all 16 shows included. The shows are advertised as Carol's favorites, but, along with one professional viewer that I read, I wonder why 77% of them were only from three seasons, 1975-76. The show ran eleven seasons from the 1967 through the 1977 season. Tim Conway, who really became a regular, is in less than 60% of the shows even though, next to Carol, he is easily the funniest performer on the shows. A purchaser should be aware that some of the sketches, especially those dealing with "The Family", can become quite intense rather than humorous.

My grandma has always been a fan of this show. She enjoys watching these.

I love carol Burnett and all the cast members. when i was little, I use to watch The Carol Burnett Show. The show was so funny! there was no boring moment, I'm grateful to have an opportunity to purchase this video, a quality product well worth the investment. Thank you.

Having grown up watching Carol Burnett on Saturday nights, this was a real treat for us. It brings us the memories of a time when good, wholesome TV was around, and when Saturday nights were for families. (not anymore, hey?)This is but one set of her 1967-1978 fabulous run of comedy, musical numbers, and sketches that kept us in stitches every week.Mama's family, musical guest stars such as Jim Nabors, along with the rest of her cast of Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence, and Lyle Waggoner are all part of this DVD. It would be nice to purchase the entire set over a period of time but for now, the price is good for just one set.The only difficulty I see is that because her show had such a healthy run, to purchase the entire collection, bit by bit, would be rather pricey. Unless the opportunity presents itself to obtain the entire season, the individual prices can be a bit high so hopefully in time, groupings would be offered.Not much more to say other than one good piece of the Carol Burnett collection. All of them are great and its just a matter of what or who you're looking to see.

Although overall I am glad I bought this, I was a little dissapointed by the excessive musical numbers on any given episode. I personally am not interested in a 20-minute segment on a salute to [insert any movie musical, movie company or theater company here]. I did a lot of skipping on this with the chapter stops for each segment. Tim Conway was on maybe half of the 16 episodes so that was a letdown for me because it's always fun to see him & Harvey Korman together and I think thats the main reason people would want to buy this DVD or half dozen others they have confusingly put out(up to a 22 disc version..!). And that's another thing: With 6 DVDs they could have fit AT LEAST 4-5 more episodes because some of the discs only had 2 episodes which total about 100 minutes. A DVD can hold at least twice that. Any fan of the show be aware that there are A LOT of musical numbers and not a whole lot of Tim Conway. There are a decent amount of Mrs. Whiggins sketches but only a few Oldest Man sketches and Mama's Family(but not with Tim Conway in the skit as Korman's hearing impaired buddy) and the next thing you see is a bunch of dancing and musical numbers taking half of the 50-minute episodes. Boring(with the exception of The Jackson 5 and Steve Martin in seperate episodes). Glad I bought it but again - could have been much better with a little more effort from the powers that be. At least they finally did an official release instead of buying 2 episode DVDs from a shopping channel like they've done for 10 years so that's a major improvement.

Includes the famous scene where Tim Conway causes Dick VanDyke to fall off couch he’s laughing so hard!

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Carol Burnett Show was a big hit in the 1970's. It was one of my Aunt's favourite shows, so I saw this on Amazon and bought it for her. She absolutely loved it. The comedic skits are hilarious! You don't see this kind of comedy anymore.

I used to watch the reruns of The Carol Burnett Show all the time when I was a kid and feel the same way about it today that I did back then: the cast is so talented and the sketches are all hilarious, but it could do without the musical numbers. I've never been a fan of the musical numbers in these types of shows. A few years ago, I got two of what were the only Carol Burnett Show titles available on DVD at the time -- Show Stoppers and Let's Bump Up the Lights -- and loved both reunion specials, which focused on individual sketches. In this set, 16 complete uncut episodes are presented. Most of the episodes contain some pretty funny sketches from the show, but this is not the way I would have presented material from this series. If they weren't going to release the whole series on DVD, I would have released various volumes containing fan favourite sketches -- each sketch being introduced by various members of the cast -- and leave the musical numbers out of it. Let's face it, the sketches were the best parts of the show anyway. Although I do have to say that some of the funniest bits of the sketches -- the ones shown on titles like Show Stoppers and Let's Bump Up the Lights -- are not shown in the episodes presented in the Time Life releases. It's still nice to see the shows that are presented in this set. It appears that the three individual volumes from the Time Life 22 disc 50 episode set will be released individually, which is also nice. The second volume will be out in March and hopefully Time Life will release the third volume on DVD as well and not pull the same crap they pulled with The Real Ghostbusters last two volumes.

Great show

I love the show but I do have issues with the DVD collection. The case arrived damaged. So far the DVDs are playing. But, the case tells me that there are seven DVDs to this set. The booklet inside show the episodes for seven DVDs. But the set only comes with six. I don't understand why the packaging states there are seven when there are only six. And one of the episodes on the seventh DVD starring Tommy Smothers, I wanted to see! Furthermore, on the fourth DVD, Carol gives an intro to one of the episodes. It was the one where a horse in the background decided to take care of business while Carol was singing. I remembered see that at the time, so I looked forward to re-visiting it. Except the episode played and that scene was not in it! What a rip off! Why tell us about it but then not show it. A disappointment!