Dean Martin Celebrity Roast

Unscrupulous salesmanship
Buyer beware. Time Life should be ashamed of themselves regarding the sneaky marketing of these otherwise fine shows.
I bought their 3 Dean Martin Show DVD sets containing the one disc, the two discs and the 6 discs packages. The first two packages were replicated in the 6 disc package. Their Time Life advertizing never specified this replication on the dvd sets or on Amazon. They did the same nonsense to the Carol Burnett Shows of replicating discs. A single disc set is replicated on a 6 disc set, costing me another $12.
Since I opened the packages, Barnes and Noble, my retailer, would not take them back. I was told to deal with Time Life directly. Now what do I do as I am stuck with extra expensive discs?
I will not buy from these "entrepreneurs" again. Again, they have probably reproduced their one disc Roast set by including it in the 6 disc Roast set. They have polluted an otherwise fine brand name.

5.0 out of 5 stars A former NBC Executive & President of The Dean Martin Fan Center
I spent many years at NBC where The Dean Martin Show was taped, and became accustomed to his variety show format. I don't think I ever missed a taping day during the nine years it was in production.

The mood of the country had been changing since the Vietnam War. Shows like "M*A*S*H*" and "All In The Family" and movies like "Silkwood" and "War Games" were edgy, jabbing at the establishment and pushing the boundaries of the perception that "everything is okay." It was a time for change, and the genius of bantering without becoming political worked well in having known celebrities ridiculing and poking unkindly comments at each other.

It was in the ninth and final year that "roasting" a celebrity was incorporated as a part of Dean's show (much like the Friar's Club Roasts in New York City). Dean would be the host (roastmaster) with a celebrity guest (roastee) seated at the head of the table. In turn, a dozen or more celebrity guests would get up one at a time and...

THE only opportunity to sit in the same room with celebrities that beat YOU to heaven... or wherever...
I bought the seven-disc set, and MAN! is it good! There are people on the programs that have been dead for years...
one is introduced as "The o-n-l-y living five-star general, Omar Bradley..."
Last time I saw General-of-the-Army Bradley was at a formation at Panzer Kaserne, in Germany... it was 1981. He was
in a wheelchair, must've been 90+, and died later THAT year, also in that formatiom was General G.S.Patton, Jr. ...
MY! I a-m gettin' OLD. eh?
Well, anyway, the collection is great! Buy it.

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