Here is the correct viewing order
Somebody was drunk when they compiled the episodes for this set. Here is the correct viewing order:
1 17/Sep/61 Who's For Swordfish?
2 24/Sep/61 Something Nice for Sol
3 01/Oct/61 Home Sweet Sing Sing
4 08/Oct/61 Change Your Partners
5 15/Oct/61 I Won't Go
6 22/Oct/61 Muldoon's Star
7 29/Oct/61 Paint Job
8 05/Nov/61 Love Finds Muldoon
9 12/Nov/61 Gypsy Curse
10 19/Nov/61 Thirty Days Notice
11 26/Nov/61 Catch Me on the Paar Show
12 03/Dec/61 The Taming of Lucille
13 10/Dec/61 Put It in the Bank
14 17/Dec/61 Get Well, Officer Schnauzer
15 24/Dec/61 Christmas at the 53rd
16 07/Jan/62 The Sacrifice
17 14/Jan/62 Boom, Boom, Boom
18 21/Jan/62 Toody and Muldoon Crack Down
19 28/Jan/62 Toody's Paradise
20 04/Feb/62 How High is Up?
21 11/Feb/62 Toody and the Art World
22 18/Feb/62 What Happened to Thursday?
23 25/Feb/62 How Smart Can...
Great Show, But A Botched Release
First of all, This is a great show, and I'm glad to see it out on DVD. The quality of the video is good, they did nice job there. However, what they did not do a nice job with is the packaging - Shanachie should fire Lorien Babajian for providing such a poorly designed package. With a cardboard package I kind of expect there to be a slipcase, but Shanachie does not provide one. That's strike one.
What is even worse are the way the discs are stored within the package. It is just horrendous!!! I have never seen anything like it before, and I hope I never have to see it again! Most cases have some sort of spindle that the discs snap into from the center hole. Not Car 54, no way - this case has slots at the bottom that the discs "slide" into and are held in place by a little plastic tab on each side. Very frustrating packaging. I can easily see a lot of returns for people who scratch their discs getting them out, or even people cracking them if they use force, so heads up...
WATCH OUT!
Unbeleivable that any manufacturer would chose the type of packaging they designed for this unfortunate great old TV show. Shanachie, correct me if I'm wrong, is new to the DVD business but has been manufacturing CD's for years which is probably what they should stick to. For "Car 54" the four DVD's of this set are not even mounted on spindles. Instead they are placed on top of each other with no protection and only a slight plastic tab to provide tension to hold them in place. When I first opened the package, two of the DVD's immediately fell out and landed on the floor - of course they're scratched now. The other two DVD's also became scratched when I removed them from the box because you actually have to slide them against one another to remove them - guaranteed scratches everytime you view them.
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