Ernie Kovacs: Take A Good Look - The Definitive Collection

Ships by: 2017-10-03
Available in: US & Canada

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SKU: 826663179385KIT
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Format
In stock
Description

All 49 existing episodes of this truly offbeat game show from television’s original genius!

October 22 1959 to July 21 1960 / October 27 1960 to March 16 1961 – Thursdays 10:30- 11:00 p.m. (ABC)

Take A Good Look is Ernie’s aphoristic ”if a tree falls in the woods” answer to the panel quiz show. Ernie turns the secret guest show formula on its ear and almost inverts it. In Take A Good Look it is the host who gives the panel hints about the secret guest’s identity and in the form of surreal sight gags blackouts and sketches. The clues only really make sense if you know who the guest is to begin with. Throughout the series’ run different approaches were taken to address this. Early on in season one Ernie himself has trouble explaining the show’s formula to the home audience. Throughout the show’s two seasons panelists periodically complain to Ernie that the clues don’t make sense; there’s one show where Hans Conried protests ”Please Ernie ... tell them it’s rigged!”

All in all it is Ernie who seems to be enjoying the game the most making these crazy blackouts as well as the commercials for Dutch Masters cigars. You watch the episodes of this game show and wonder ”Did this really air on network television?”

Bonus Features for DVD

  • A Short Essay About The Program By Film & TV Historian Ben Model

Product Information

DISCS
7
RUN-TIME
24 hrs
ASPECT RATIO
1.33:1
COLOR
Black and White
LANGUAGE
English
REGION
Region 1
RATING
Not Rated
PRODUCTION DATE
1959-1961
CLOSED-CAPTIONED
No
SUBTITLES
None

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