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Sonny and Cher - The Ultimate Collection
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Sonny and Cher - The Ultimate Collection
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Sales Rank : 18366
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$59.99
on 7-22-2008
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Actors: Sonny Bono, Cher, Ted Zeigler, Chastity Bono, Murray Langston
Directors: Art Fisher
Format: NTSC
Language: English
Number of tapes: 4
VHS Release Date: October 14, 2003
Average Customer Review:
  38 customer reviews
Product Review
It's not what you'd call high art, but there are some highly enjoyable moments in this nicely packaged box set, featuring nine complete shows (plus ample bonus material) spread out over three discs.
Beginning as a summer replacement in 1971, The Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour earned its own regular time slot that same year, running for three straight seasons and then returning in 1976 (as The Sonny & Cher Show), after the couple's divorce. The show's formula, which had already been established both onstage and on the small screen (their '69 pilot episode is among the extra features), includes plenty of music (duets, Cher's solo performances in typically outlandish Bob Mackie gowns, various guest shots); lots of shtick (consisting mostly of Cher's put-downs of the minimally talented but good-natured Sonny); and sketches and skits (ranging from lame to inspired, including a mock-opera based on All in the Family and starring Metropolitan Opera tenor Robert Merrill as a warbling Archie Bunker). Guests range from the obvious (TV stalwarts like Harvey Korman, Ruth Buzzi, and Don Knotts) to the downright weird (then-California governor Ronald Reagan). It's all fairly middlebrow, but Sonny & Cher's unpretentious, unself-conscious charm carries it; and once in a while everything congeals into one surreally entertaining package, like the '72 show featuring the Jackson 5 (led, of course, by Michael, who was then 14 and still apparently normal), who are followed to the stage by Reagan (telling jokes, sort of) and singer-actor Howard Keel, veteran of numerous movie musicals.
Bonus features include 2003 audio commentary by a nostalgic Cher, interviews with the producers, the '69 pilot, bios, discographies, and a show history. The DVD set also comes with a music-only CD, featuring live performances of "The Beat Goes On" and "I Got You Babe." --Sam Graham
Back Cover Copy
Sonny & Cher, the most exciting musical-comedy performers of the polyester decade, in the show that took America by storm. All the hits and all the fun of the 70's on four videos. The video collection features 8 original, unedited shows from the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour and the Sonny & Cher Show. TAPE ONE - Best of the first season of the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, featuring the thrilling concert segments, big-name guest stars and hilarious comedy dialogues that made the show so popular. Guests include Harvey Korman, Burt Reynolds and more. TAPE TWO - Two shows, one each from the first and second season of the Comedy Hour, including the popular sketches "Vamp" and "Sonny's Pizza," opera parodies and more top-ten tunes. Guests include Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, Merv Griffin, Governor Ronald Reagan and more. TAPE THREE - Two more complete shows from the third and final season of the Comedy Hour, featuring guests Howard Cosell, Chuck Connors, Danny Thomas and others. TAPE FOUR - Back after a two-year hiatus and a divorce, these two star-studded programs are from Sonny & Cher's final variety show - The Sonny & Cher Show. Featured guests include Farrah Fawcett, Glen Campbell, Tina Turner and others. Featured music performances include "All I Ever Need is You", "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves", "The Way of Love", "A Cowboy's Work Is Never Done", "Half-Breed", "Dark Lady", and "I Got You Babe".
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