lesterkunitaka
The Japanese duet were very talented, but NBC did not hold up there part, these
singers deserve better what they got. it was a good idea but poorly produce.
after the series was cancelled, they were still very popular.
Randi-5
Pink Lady and Jeff is widely considered one of the worst shows ever made fortelevision. I didn't think anything could be worse than "That 80s Show," but Pink Lady is.The sketches are horrendous; as we sat around watching the DVDs (a gag giftmy friend gave his brother), we argued about whether they had actual writers, or the performers made it up as they went along. My best guess is that the writers had a big bottle of tequila and a bunch of funny cigarettes in the writing room.File this one under "so bad it's funny." I can't imagine watching it alone, but if you're with a bunch of friends who want to make fun of it, the DVD's worth aview.
gjung01
I have seen DVD sets for such TV shows as MASH, The Sopranoes and X-Files. I was surprised to see this tv show get the same treatment. I actually have a memory of this show but it was only the end when Pink Lady came out in their bikinis and the hot tub. I must have shut out the rest of the show as a defense mechanism.I remember lots of variety shows were on TV around that time like "The Brady Bunch Variety Hour." These shows were the epitome of cheese but when done right were campy fun and an escape from inflation and gas lines. I have not watched this show as an adult and should probably do so but I want to leave well enough alone. If I see the whole show, I'll realize that I was better off not remembering much of this show. It's interesting that even the most obscure shows will get the DVD treatment giving people a wide selection at their finger tips. I was surprised to read about the type of guests that came on as well as Jim Varney and Jeff Altman being regulars.Maybe good taste is merely a subjective term and it is good to save the good, the bad and the ugly from yesteryear to give people a full 3-D view of a point in time and that is the purpose of bringing Pink Lady...and Jeff to DVD. It couldn't have been for the money.
heckles
...for if TV is indeed a vast wasteland, this was the show found at the lowest elevation near the stagnant alkaline pool. We had world hunger and want in 1980, and NBC could have spent money to solve it, but inexplicably used the funds to put this show on the air for five episodes instead.Did Fred Silverman ever notice that the ability of Keiko and Mituyo to handle English was minimal at best? Heavily padded out with guest spots to cover this rather blatant shortcoming. (The first show featured as guest star...Sherman Hemsley. Be still my beating heart.)Not to mention Silverman's failure to consider America was not exactly a massive market for Japanese "idol music," whose appeal to the Japanese is that it is entirely predictable. And yes, Jeff Altman -- with the exception of his own routine in the first show of a certain U.S. President trying to boogie -- is scathingly unfunny.I watched it out of the car-wreck syndrome, in other words it was so terrible I couldn't stop watching. And oh yes, if you stayed until the end of the show, a bikinied Keiko and Mitsuyo got into a hot tub with Jeff Altman. I guess I was easily bribed back then.