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Good Times (DVD) Review
Nominated for three Golden Globes, Good Times premiered in mid-season 1974 to widespread critical acclaim and audience popularity. A spin-off of the Bea Arthur (of Golden Girls fame) sitcom Maude (1972), Good Times became the fourth of five highly successful sitcoms brought into being during the 1970's decade by Norman Lear. In addition to Maude, those sitcoms were All In The Family (1971), Sanford & Son (1972), and The Jeffersons (1975). The second of three to focus exclusively on African-Ameri
Nominated for three Golden Globes, Good Times premiered in mid-season 1974 to widespread critical acclaim and audience popularity. A spin-off of the Bea Arthur (of Golden Girls fame) sitcom Maude (1972), Good Times became the fourth of five highly successful sitcoms brought into being during the 1970's decade by Norman Lear. In addition to Maude, those sitcoms were All In The Family (1971), Sanford & Son (1972), and The Jeffersons (1975). The second of three to focus exclusively on African-American family life, Good Times became a source for groundbreaking social commentary in compliment to its penchant for hilarious family comedy…
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DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the series premiere "Too Old Blues" in which James is exciting at the prospect of being hired for a high-paying job. But while at the interview, James learns that the training program for the job only accepts qualified applicants aged 18-35. At 42, he's too old for the job. Meanwhile, Florida and the kids have put together a surprise party unaware that James was rejected… Other notable episodes from Season 1 include "Getting Up the Rent" in which the Evans family is faced with an eviction notice, prompting each member to devise a scheme for coming up with the necessary cash, and "The Visitor" in which Michael's letter-to-the-editor about the housing conditions at the Evans' project merits a visit from a housing commission official who experiences the squalor firsthand…Below is a list of episodes included on the Good Times (Season 1) DVD:
Episode 1 (Too Old Blues) Air Date: 02-08-1974 Episode 2 (Black Jesus) Air Date: 02-15-1974 Episode 3 (Getting Up the Rent) Air Date: 02-22-1974 Episode 4 (God's Business is Good Business) Air Date: 03-01-1974 Episode 5 (Michael Gets Suspended) Air Date: 03-08-1974 Episode 6 (Sex and the Evans Family) Air Date: 03-15-1974 Episode 7 (Junior Gets a Patron) Air Date: 03-22-1974 Episode 8 (Junior the Senior) Air Date: 03-29-1974 Episode 9 (The Visitor) Air Date: 04-05-1974 Episode 10 (Springtime in the Ghetto) Air Date: 04-19-1974 Episode 11 (The
DVD (also known as "Digital Versatile Disc" or "Digital Video Disc") is an optical disc storage media format that can be used for data storage, including movies with high video and sound quality. DVDs resemble compact discs as their physical dimensions are the same (120 mm (4.72 inches) or occasionally 80 mm (3.15 inches) in diameter) but they are encoded in a different format and at a much higher density. The official DVD specification is maintained by the DVD Forum.
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TV Commercial) Air Date: 04-26-1974 Episode 12 (The Check Up) Air Date: 05-03-1974 Episode 13 (My Son the Lover) Air Date: 05-10-1974About the Author Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Good Times (DVD). Television is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound over a distance. The term has come to refer to all the aspects of television from the television set to the programming and transmission. The word is derived from mixed Latin and Greek roots, meaning "far seeing" (Greek "tele," meaning far, and Latin "visus," meaning seeing).
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