News: The Red Green Show‘s Global seasons on DVD November 2010
The Red Green Show: The Toddlin’ Years is also mentioned in an Acorn Media wholesalers’ listing. I don’t think the title has been formally announced at this point. The November 2 street date, of course, is subject to change.
The Red Green Show “rebooted” itself as The New Red Green Show for its three seasons on Global. Despite the fact that The Red Green Show had to pay its way on Global, to the point of selling its own advertising, the Global era is when the show started to take off. Despite the modifier “new,” The New Red Green Show‘s formulae and running jokes were by and large set by 1994.
The Red Green Show: The Toddlin’ Years is formatted like The Red Green Show: The Infantile Years, with three 24-episode seasons on a total of nine discs. The price is the same as The Infantile Years – $99.99 US/$124.99 CDN. As I said in my piece on The Red Green Show: The Infantile Years, this release is just for the hardcores.
I honestly don’t get the “Infantile/Toddlin’” way of selling the early years of The Red Green Show. The show’s format never underwent any major changes over 15 seasons. Who’s the target market for The Red Green Show: The Toddlin’ Years? Are the hardcore fans that snobby that $100 US for three seasons of television is acceptable? I don’t get it. I blame PBS for this.
Note that the above comments seem to be from someone who has seen at most 4 episodes.
The program has gone through two major format changes and many smaller changes.
You also have to wonder if this person looks at this website. There are ads for this title for as low as $73.50, at this writing, and will likely go down a few months after it’s release. Past that, how much would you pay to see one of the funniest shows ever put on the air? For me, this show, and this collection in particular, ranks a close second to Faulty Towers. Not every episode is a gem but many are and all have something to laugh at. With 9 DVDs, I say $8.17 per DVD isn’t bad!
Comment by Lodge Member — October 31, 2010 @ 4:29 pm
I watched The Red Green Show since it appeared on Global in 1994. I was part of the fan club when it was free. I even paid $3 later on for the privilege of “rejoining” the club. I still have my Red Green Fan Club card. Believe me, I’ve seen more than four episodes.
Please explain to me what major format changes were made to The Red Green Show. To me, the show’s consistently been sketch comedy with in-episode continuity and regularly-programmed segments. This isn’t like when Smith & Smith made way for Me & Max. I still stand by my statement that Red Green had found itself by the first Global year.
I’ll admit I don’t link to other places where people can buy Red Green Show sets cheaper than found at amazon.ca, other than DeepDiscount.com. I’ll also admit I sound snobby in that article. I still don’t understand why the CBC-era sets are released by season, while the first six seasons are done and away with in two sets. Given the dismissive tone of Lodge Member’s reply, he/she sort of proves my point.
Comment by C. Archer — October 31, 2010 @ 8:08 pm
Wow, a fan war. Just like at the sci-fi cons! I gotta join in.
I know that from episode 25 to 48 the show changed to a nearly standard sitcom, with a complete cast of lodge members that would act out Red’s stories. Really bad. The closest thing to a second major change would be when Harold and Bill left the show for a while and the show, again, started acting out Red’s stories, but not quite as badly. But that’s a stretch as it was over a long period of time and they didn’t completely disappear.
Now to troll a bit.
It’s fawlty not faulty.
Turn off your ad block and you will see the Amazon.ca ads for less than MSRP on this page.
Finally, can’t resist this one. So, I guess since you were a fan club member, you have seen a whole 5 episodes!
Comment by Bridge Troll — November 2, 2010 @ 10:18 am
I blame Acorn Media. Nothing like releasing 5 seasons out of the middle, in red and green individually packaged dvd’s, one season at a time…..and then starting from the beginning with a whole different packaging scheme. At first, I couldn’t figure out what they were doing but with the upcoming release of “The Delinquent Years” next month (another a 9-dvd set like “Infantile” and “Toddlin”) their intentions have become clear…..bilk some (if not all) of the hardcore collectors by having them buy those first sets and then change the packaging in hopes of them purchasing those 5 seasons all over again when the new design comes out. I have a bootleg copy of the entire series (all 300 episodes) that can easily by purchased in Canada. I’ll stick with those and thumb my nose at Acorn.
Comment by L. Acton — February 25, 2011 @ 8:46 am