Has anyone seen reviews from people who've bought the set yet? I look every day and can't find one.

There are reviews by people who have bought them on Time-Life.com .

Yeah. I should have mentioned I've seen those. But I was thinking of maybe somewhere not associated with Time Life. Not that I'm accusing anyone of anything.:)

The Get Smart DVD's are fantastic. The packaging could be a little better, the cardboard/phone booth box that comes with the DVD's is a little cumbersome to handle, and the DVD sets fit too tight inside the box. And I think they could have done without the Barbara Feldon intros to everything on the DVD's, although it's a nice extra touch. But everything else is superb, a lot of work went into the creation of these DVD's and they certainly gave Get Smart the proper respect with this set. The episodes look great, sound great, and are uncut. And for those who like bonus features, each season has a bonus features disk with interviews, bloopers, highlights from the past and interactive stuff as well. Any Get Smart fan should own these DVD's, they definitely get a thumbs up from me!

I have to agree with Lee. I just received this set Monday as a Christmas present and am thoroughly enjoying it. The audio and video is excellent and they did put a ton of care into this set. The packaging is a bit flimsy but other than that it is well worth the money. It figures to about $40 per season at $200 for the complete set with five seasons. TL/HBO did a nice job and should be commended for their work on it.

Chad

We will be doing detailed reviews for each season shortly.

The Complete First Season DVD Review:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/getsmartseason1dvdreview.html

Thanks one and all.

It states in the review that the show was on ABC but I believe it was on NBC before moving to CBS for the last season ;)

The Complete First Season DVD Review:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/getsmartseason1dvdreview.html
Thanks for the review.

This isn't a true review, just my impressions after receiving the set and watching about 15-20 episodes.

I'm still making my way through the first season (each disc has 7 or 8 episodes apiece, I'm on the third disc of season 1 right now).

I think that the quality of the audio and video is fabulous. Barbara Feldon does an intro to each episode, but these intros are only a few seconds long, and you can go straight into the episodes if you want to.

The discs do have a "Play All" feature (this is important to some people).

The packaging is clever, I thought, even if it is a bit cumbersome. (You open the DVD package from the side, but you have to open two or three "doors" to get to the season-DVD sets (just as Max had to go through several doors in that hallway leading to CONTROL headquarters). The entire DVD set seals in the cover box with velcro.

Also, when you look at the picture at the top of this web page and see the packaging, you'll notice that each season comes in its own box. The discs actually are stored in a fold out box, and then the box itself slides into a hard (but flexible) plastic sheath. This can be a tight fit, I'm afraid I'm probably going to fray some of the corners of the DVD boxes after a while because of getting the corners of the box stuck while trying to insert the box into the plastic covers... Maybe there's a real easy way to do this, but I haven't found it yet.

But again, the quality of the shows themselves is awesome. There is also some episode commentary from Barbara Feldon, but I haven't watched that yet.

Someone who's gone through the whole set can elaborate on the extras, but this set is worth owning for the episodes alone!

I got Season 1 today for Christmas, and I have just watched the Pilot "Mr. Big", and may I saw the quality is great. I give many thanks to Time-Life/HBO. They went all out with these DVD sets. I can't wait to watch all of Season 1, and then get Season 2.

I am in heaven!! We got the set for Christmas today and my kids and I have been watching it. This show is so funny and the quality of the discs is great! I am so happy to have this collection!

Lolac
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That's great Lolac! I'm glad you're enjoying it. :)

I alredy watched 19episodes and it is great, and the Bonus Features are great too. I can't wait to get Season 2.

The Complete Second Season DVD Review:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/getsmartseason2dvdreview.html

The Complete Third Season DVD Review:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/getsmartseason3dvdreview.html

Thanks for the links TJ! :)

Right now, I'm on the episode Age Before Duty in season 5. I've kind of slowed down my watching during the holidays, but I hope to watch more once New Years is past. I have enjoyed all 5 seasons very much. The picture quality is awesome and the extras are great!

Thanks for the reviews TJ. I have now finished watching Season 1, and it was great.

Finishing up the set...

Get Smart - The Complete Fourth Season DVD Review:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/getsmartseason4dvdreview.html

Get Smart - The Complete Fifth Season DVD Review:
http://www.sitcomsonline.com/getsmartseason5dvdreview.html

Fabulous Set!

And this is coming from someone who only watched a few episodes when it was on TV Land.

Get Smart: The Complete Series, on a scale of 1 to 10, definitely rates a 15! :)

It's organized well, packaged well, great interactive menus, and absolutely loaded to the gills with terrific extras. Probably the best among the extras are Don Adams' 75th birthday at the Playboy Mansion, Don Adams' memorial service in Sept 2005, and the Get Smart Reunion Seminar from 2003.

To a fan like me, who was reduced to trying to record Nick-at-Nite's "Maximum Smart" onto VHS in 1991, this set is a dream come true. It's obvious that the people who put it together did a ton of hard work and had at least 2 tons of love for the show. :cool:

If you like the show, you'll love the DVDs.

Content wise, the Get Smart DVD's are great. Uncut episodes and extras galore, although personally I'm not much interested in the extras. The one problem is with the packaging, they could have done better there. For one thing, the phone booth style box that the season sets fit into is unattractive looking and the five seasons fit too tight inside the box. I ended up throwing the box away and I display the individual seasons on the shelf.

As far as the packaging goes on the season sets, they are colorful but the thin plastic sleeve that the DVD sets fit into is a bit inconvienient. To get to the DVD's, you have to slide the case out from the sleeve and then you have to toss the sleeve somewhere while you watch the DVD's. And that little booklet that comes with each season often slides out and falls to the floor. Then when you're done watching, you have to put everything back together and slide the case back inside the sleeve. It just seems unnecessary, they could have designed it better. Another problem is the overlapping of the discs inside the cases. To get to disc 3, you have to remove disc 2. And to get to disc 5, you have to remove disc 4. And I would rather have had episode synopsis printed in the season set booklets as opposed to the DVD intros by Barbara Feldon, but that's not a major issue. One other item, I wish they would have put the episodes on the discs in production order instead of airdate order. Production order would have been better.

So I give the DVD's an A for content, but a C- for the packaging. Overall grade is a B+.