Stebaer4 Yes How I recall when I first saw this during the Springtime of 1971 and the episode with the Parrot of whom apparently died and then arose from the "magic" box and flew away but then flew back but my most favorite one as my Big Brother J.Kevin agrees is the one with the Racing dog named Golden Earrings from the Springtime of 1972 and my 2nd favorite is the one of which Oscar and Felix meet an Elderly Odd couple of which is significant of how when least expected you can see reflections of yourself and others in others and in this apartment it was full of stacks of chairs upon entry and beyond.Felix even said to Oscar something like "In just a couple of years our apartment will look like this if you don't start cleaning up your act too."Each roommates' nephews calling Oscar and Felix "Uncle" were very nice touches for the show too.The Shows ending is very nice with Gloria and Felix renewing their vows in their apt.Along with Felix dumping over the wastebasket as a dedication to Oscar and Oscar saying in return how he was in return to dedication to Felix going to pick it up.Naturally it ended expectedly with Felix coming back in saying without Oscar hearing him "I knew you weren't going to pick it up."So he picked it up.Yes this is a very funny show for a number of reasons including like when Felix went through his camera filming phase and in doing so followed Oscar everywhere including into work and naturally getting thrown out because he didn't belong in there.We do see other great Stars like Penny Marshal who's Lavern of Lavern and Shirley Fame as Oscar's Secretary and Jack Klugman's then wife and as billed as Brett Summers Klugman at the time.The Games with the Poker buddies are great including The Cop of Murray played by Ed Molinaro who both spent some time in Oscar's and Felix's apartment when his wife threw him out too and later he returned to her. Also how Murray had to arrest Oscar and Felix for dog-napping the collie called Silver The Wonder Dog.Just about any episode can be appreciated when you think of/recall it.Sadly in 1993 for The TV-Movie of The Odd Couple together again The Absence of both all molinaro as Murray and the other Poker Buddies each having stand in actors was not appreciated.But Felix returning to Gloria again after being thrown out again is appreciated.But please do check out my review there too on this IMDb site.Truthfully,Stephen "Steve" G. Baer a.k.a. "Ste" of Framingham,Ma.USAP.S.I get Ste as the result of my Big Brother J.Kevin being a year older than me and unable to say Stephen at the time.

Paul Manijak The TV show, 'The Odd Couple' is a classic. Great acting from two pro's with excellent scripts. Growing up I watched the episodes over and over like many other favorites shows. So, when I heard it was coming finally to DVD, I said, 'Finally'. But beware folks... Season one is unaltered... BUT, the other final four seasons are edited... I guess being cheap... a lot of the music/songs were not re-bought. Which is very sad... because a couple episodes ended in song. Even though the episodes are very much intact, the alternations do show, especially the final episode when Felix gets remarried and cut is Oscar singing, "Singing in the rain" at the end. Very bad edit. But the comedy is still very much there but not the true episodes, so beware! Tony Randall, God rest his soul would be disappointed if he saw this.The Odd Couple I rate a TEN!!! The last four seasons on DVD I rate a 8 cause of the edits.

ray-280 These days, it's common for a network to milk every dime of the syndication rights for a series, but the first time it was done in today's over-the-top fashion was when Channel 11 in New York began airing Odd Couple reruns four times a day, twice in the afternoon, and twice again in the evening. The show ran just long enough for this to be possible, and any kid in New York, especially one who didn't have cable, couldn't help but watch at least some of the time.Odd Couple reruns were a refreshing change of pace from Brady Bunch reruns, with their suburban amenities, like grass, driveways, and bedrooms bigger than closets. Sure, there were The Honeymooners, but they lived in Brooklyn in the 1950s, and there was I Love Lucy, but they were the old neighbors you avoided in the hallways. Felix and Oscar, however, were guys who were either like your dad, your dad's friends, or one of your cousins or uncles. They were regular New Yorkers living regular lives. Kids in New York who wanted someone to relate to and to experience the city got a double dose of the Big Apple and then some through this show.What made this show work even more than the personality clash was the culture clash. Those who trash the celebrity cameos miss their purpose. Oscar's world was as alien to Felix as his was to Oscar. Scenes like Felix and Bubba Smith discussing interior decorating, or Oscar learning ballet exercises from Edward Vilella, are what really defined the show. Each character understood the other's place in his world, but could never fully respect or understand the world. This is why we got Oscar as a theater critic and Felix in the booth on Monday Night Football.We also got two lead characters escaping bad marriages only to find themselves in a worse marriage, not to each other, but to the ever-elusive affordable Manhattan apartment with a roommate who isn't too far off the deep end. The need to preserve one's living arrangements drives Manhattanites to tolerate Odd Couple-style antics, lest we have to pay the entire rent or risk an unknown quantity as a roommate.For me, as a kid watching the reruns (I never caught the series during its run) was a New York experience all its own, a chance to "see" my own city in all its quirky glory, comedically encapsulated by two of the great talents of that era. We got hot dogs eaten on the run, cabs hailed in rainstorms, subways getting stuck, poker games, off-track betting, and a measure of culture through Felix that I never would have been exposed to otherwise.This show effortlessly achieved a level of performance on a weekly basis that few of today's shows can match even on their best nights. This may have been a product of the three-network era when talent and ratings were not so diluted, but it's also a product of a quality standard that seems sorely lacking today. There were some mediocre episodes on this show, but very few bad ones, many good ones, and a lot of great ones.I'll end with some trivia notes: Klugman really lived at 1049 Park Avenue (he often played horses at the OTB parlors on the East Side), and Tony Randall actually lived at 145 Central Park West. Talk about hiding in plain sight!! This was also one of the few shows ever to use a phone number for one of the characters that did not begin with 555.

WendyOh! This is indeed one of the few tv series that are equal too if not better than the film and play it was based on. Simply shot and perfectly played, the scripts and the acting could not be better. These shows are fun to watch now not only for the style of clothing, but also for the fact that it's about two middle aged men! TV show-makers of today would do well to watch and learn from this classic.