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In the highly acclaimed 1949 film The Third Man starring Orson Welles, Harry Lime commited murder, faked his own death and, at the end of the film, is hunted through an underground network of sewers before being killed by police.

How we're supposed to reconcile that ruthless Harry Lime with the benevolent Harry Lime in this TV series I haven't a clue. It's the nail to hang a hat on, I guess; maybe so the show can share the memorable opening theme song with the film.

(Orson Welles himself starred in a radio series based on his character from The Third Man from 1951-52. The show was titled The Lives of Harry Lime.)

In this 1959 syndicated TV version, Michael Rennie (The Day The Earth Stood Still) is commanding as jet-setting, private investigator Harry Lime who travels Europe falling in and out of trouble. The show co-stars the wonderful Jonathan Harris as Lime's dour, no nonsense sidekick Bradford Webster. Harris, you may remember, was the villainous Dr. Smith on Lost In Space. He's cold and analytical here, always a joy to watch.

This half-hour drama was filmed on location which makes for some stunning exterior shots of European nations on the rebound from World War II. This collection includes the episode 'How To Buy A Country' which tells the story of Lime and Webster's first meeting.

This is a rare television series, rarely ever seen after its initial run (1959-1962). The prints look and sound very nice especially considering the source. There are a number of Third Man DVD dollar discs but I recommend this 10 episode set, it's the best quality at the lowest price, only $5.99!

Number of discs: 2
Studio: Timeless Media Group
DVD Release Date: September 12, 2006

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Route 66 -
Season One Volume 1

Martin Milner (Tod Stiles) and George Maharis (Buz Murdock) star in this classic television drama about a couple of young guys who set out to see America in a brand new 1961 Corvette drop top.

What makes this show truly unique is that it was filmed in a different U.S. city each week, giving us a stark glance at what living in America looked like in 1960. It was a vastly different landscape, people lived a lot closer to the dirt back then. (I'll bet that decrepit New Orleans dock in episode three is a multi-million dollar condo development if it wasn't washed away by the levy failure.)

No television show had ever attempted anything on this grand a scale before, the technology necessary to make mobile TV production a practical enterprise had just been made available.

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The Muppet Show - The Complete Second Season

The last of the classic variety shows and one of the finest TV programs of all time, The Muppet Show Season 2 is an unrestrained delight from start to finish. This amazing production lit up the screens when it debuted in 1976 and the second season may be the best of the series' run.

The sing-alongable theme song. The incredible guest stars. The crazy costumes. Pigs in space. The crabby guys in the balcony. The love / hate relationship between Piggy and Kermit. All here to relive or experience for the first time. If you are encountering The Muppet Show for the first time, what a treat you're in for; if you watched the show as a youngster you may find yourself uncontrollably singing along with the bizarrely choreographed Tin Pan Alley tunes.

No question, this is Muppet-mania at its peak, before the many hit movies and Muppets on Ice diluted the product. How wonderful to see the delightful Edgar Bergen & Charlie McCarthy and Miss Piggy trading barbs that could have come right out of radio. (In fact, some of the jokes do harken from Bergen's radio days.)

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SPACE GHOST

What a wonderful DVD collection this is. And I'm not referring to the cartoons themselves, although they are terrific. I grew up on this stuff, those mid-sixties Hanna-Barbera superhero cartoons were the most exciting things I'd ever seen as a comic book addicted kid.

No, this new release towers above the rest because of the amazing bonus feature - an hour and 17 minute long documentary on the life of Alex Toth that is EASILY worth the price of admission alone.

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