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After ranking as the world s top female motion picture star and achieving dozens of hit records, Doris Day also conquered television with this happy situation comedy on CBS-TV from 1968-1973.
The fifth and final year of THE DORIS DAY sees Doris Martin (Day) continuing as a reporter for Today s World magazine, working with editor Cy Bennett (John Dehner) and secretary Jackie Parker (Jackie Joseph). Doris finds her love life heating up with both Dr. Peter Lawrence (Peter Lawford) and political candidate Jonathan Rusk (Patrick O Neal) while her home life is never dull thanks to her fussy landlord Mr. Jarvis (Billy DeWolfe). Among the guest stars who appear are Andy Griffith, Lee Meriwether, Ed Begley Jr., Julie Adams, Dick Van Patten, Sid Melton, Edward Andrews, Henry Jones and Bernie Kopell.
THE DORIS DAY SHOW SEASON 5 contains all 24 remastered episodes from the 1972-73 season, plus a wealth of rare and new bonus features.
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Film, television, and singing star Doris Day is famous for her cheerful optimism and her audience appeal and both are readily apparent in this final 1972-1973 season of her television sit-com The Doris Day Show. A modern widow employed as an editor at the "Today's World Magazine" and seriously involved first with Dr. Peter Lawrence (Peter Lawford) and later Jonathan Rusk (Patrick O'Neal), Doris Day (Doris Martin) is a spunky middle-aged woman with a flair for getting great stories from her interviews and ending up in the middle of sticky situations. Season 5 opens with Doris' stingy and ever-meddling boss Cy Bennett (John Dehner) urging Doris and Peter to get married following years of serious courting in "No More Advice, Please," but neither Doris nor Peter sees any need to change what seems to them to be a perfect situation. Tenacious and willing to go to great lengths to get a great story, Doris' fakes an injury to interview a notorious thief in "Jimmy the Gent" and pretends to be an actress in "The Hoax." Doris' compassion for others repeatedly lands her in all sorts of crazy situations from pet-sitting a Syndicate head's dog in "Follow the Dog" to putting on an elaborate fashion show to raise money for Peter's hospital in "Hospital Benefit," endangering her job and apartment to care for a stray dog in "It's a Dog's Life," compromising her integrity by ghost writing for a fellow colleague, and risking arrest in order to save her uncle from a forgery conviction in ""The Magnificent Fraud." Romance and jealousy are regular themes as is Doris' dedication to her job and her friends, Cy's stinginess and propensity for taking credit for the actions and ideas of others, and Doris' innate goodness. A huge cast of guest stars appearing in the 24-episode season include Andy Griffith, Lee Meriwether, Ed Begley Jr., Julie Adams, Dick Van Patten, Sid Melton, Edward Andrews, Henry Jones, and Bernie Kopell. Special features include commentary by Doris Day and producer Jim Pierson for "Hospital Benefit" and "It's A Dog's Life," the French Doris Comedie (a French version of "Follow the Dog"), outtake footage, and vintage and new footage of Doris' many humanitarian projects. --Tami Horiuchi
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 The Doris Day Show all Seasons
This was a refreshing trip to a happier day with the Very Cutiness of miss Day. It was a great love affair for a young boys crush on a Lovely blond lady but didn't know why...LOL..
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 1972-73 season ( gttiene )
I have purchased all 5 yrs of the Doris Day show. I've watched half of this season and it's a big improvement over the 4th season. The 4th season was terrible and I'm surprised it was renewed for a 5th. Doris seems to have gotten used to the show's format. It changed so many times in it's run. I would recommend buying seasons 2,1,5,3,4 in that order. I never watched this show during it's original run, since I was only a baby. I'm not a big fan of Doris' but this is a good family show, even if it's a little boring sometimes. It's definitly not as good as "Mary Tyler Moore show", but maybe as good as "That girl". They should have kept Rosie Marie in the cast, she left after season 3 and the supporting players are nothing special in this show. It's definitely all about Doris Day. So if you like her, you should love this show.
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Doris Day Show - Season 5 ( tahershady2 )
I hope to have a time to see my Doris Day, but till now I have never looked at it.I hope in the next Summer.
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Doris's Best Season ( lehar9 )
The common perception of "The Doris Day Show" is that it weakened as it went along, with most writers claiming that Seasons Two and Three are its strongest. Tom Santopietro is especially harsh on Season Five in his published analysis of Doris Day's work, describing it as pointless and lame. (Did he even really watch Season Five, I wonder? It wasn't on DVD when he wrote his book, his text is short on specifics and never mentions the season's several overt gay references...). I was also a little skeptical about Season Five after Season Four, which is a pretty shaky ride and probably the weakest year of the series. Fortunately, the 1972-1973 season is a total delight; it irons out many of Season Four's wrinkles and in my opinion is the most enjoyable of them all.
We're still dealing here with an essentially light, breezy comedy, and this season does not try to change that basic spirit. But things click in a way they hadn't previously. One advantage is that the rougher edges of Jackie's and Cy's characters have been smoothed over and their characters fleshed out a bit more. Jackie is still marginal, but we get a sense of her quirky personality through more dialogue and those hilarious hairdos. Totally transformed is Cy; whereas in Season Four he was little more than an incompetent boor, in Five he's softened a bit and has a more plausible interaction with Doris Martin. The two actually exhibit great camaraderie, and while they're no Mary Richards and Lou Grant, they play off of each other well. Doris clearly finds working with John Dehner a treat and ad libs off of him wittily and often hilariously.
The writing of Season Five is the most consistent of the entire series. There are no giant clunkers here (like the Orient Express or 'Fat Farm' episodes of Season Four), although some plots work better than others. The producers have scratched the idea of Doris jetting all over the planet and concentrate instead on her balancing the demands of a high-profile career with a romantic life. What surprised me was the degree to which this season casts Doris Martin as a progressive, open-minded, Gloria Steinem-esque feminist, how upfront the show is about that, and how provocative it must have been for its time. Some commentators have criticized the show for presenting Doris with a constantly shifting group of romantic partners; Season Five begins with her old flame Peter but she ends up dating a whole series of men, only to finally become engaged (sort of...) to Jonathan. What people have missed is that Doris and Peter have an open relationship, something they all but state in the season's first episode, and that Doris's romantic activity is actually quite racy by the standards of the early 70s. We're a long way from America's eternal virgin here. Shocking news flash: Doris Martin sleeps around. There are also several references to Doris's gay neighbors, Lance and Lester, and when we finally meet them they're simply the most flaming, campiest things you have ever seen. Even Mary Richards's social circles in Minneapolis never went quite that far! This was 70s San Francisco, after all, and Doris clearly delights in its progressiveness. One regret is that we don't see more of Doris's neighbors, which in addition to the partying gayboys include a funny Jewish couple and a pair of constantly kissing newlyweds.
It's also apparent that CBS upped the show's budget, since we now have location shots in and around the Today's World building and some terrific new sets. Doris's wardrobe is, as always, a thing of wonder; she found a 70s aesthetic that works for her and is dressed to the nines in every scene. This season's fashion show is the longest and most elaborate of any season, with a huge, complex set and a large in-house audience. This season has its casualties, however: the Palluccis have vanished and Mr Jarvis appears in only three episodes, which are actually among the funniest of the bunch.
Then there's Doris. She sports her own (real) long hair this season and looks great, although there are also those mandatory shiny synthetic 70s wigs. In the fashion show she appears in a stunning bikini negligée that fully displays her fantastic, shapely body, at which point your jaw will drop as you realize that this is a woman just short of 50. Her acting is quite brilliant this season, relaxed and in good spirits, and most importantly perfectly at home with the character and plots. Her fun is obvious and infectious. If you don't believe me, compare any episode from this season with one from Seasons Two or Three--the difference in her performance is striking. This is what the show should have been from the beginning.
My only regret one is that it took five seasons to get to this point; had this format been in place from the beginning, `The Doris Day Show' could have been top-notch TV. In the end, it's variable, but this season presents it at its best.
One final note: this season contains two episodes--the fashion show and and a cute episodes involving two of Doris's real-life dogs--for which Doris Day herself recorded voice-overs in 2006. It's wonderful to hear her discuss these shows, but fans should not expect any great insights from her commentary. She's in her 80s now and sounds it, and moreover doesn't remember many specifics about the show. One senses that in the thirty-five years since it went off the air, she's moved on. But how great that she agreed to be recorded at all!
Buy this now--it's a treat.
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Collectors Must ( ladyshalene )
Could not resist buying all the volumes of The Doris Day Show ... takes one back to a time when we cared more about each other ... and we didn't say such things as ... "that which doesn't kill you, makes you stronger" ... what a crock! It only numbs you more! Perhaps this is why we buy these old shows and movies ... because there are no Doris Days to guide us anymore, except on these wonderful DVDs.
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