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There’s no escaping the Peanuts franchise. Charles
Schultz created countless characters for the ages, as timeless
as time itself. His legendary comic strip spawned tons of
television specials, which have received many releases on
DVD. ***
The 1970s Collection Volume 1 includes the following
specials: Play It Again Charlie Brown, You’re Not Elected
Charlie Brown, There’s No Time For Love Charlie Brown, A
Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, It’s A Mystery Charlie Brown
and It’s The Easter Beagle Charlie Brown. Many of these
specials have been issued separately in the past multiple
times on DVD. ***
If you’re a fan of these characters and you held out
on buying Warner’s sold-separately sets for the specials,
you’ll definitely want to pick up this collection. It’s
great to finally be getting “anthology” sets like this of
the specials – at this rate we could have all the classic
specials on DVD by the end of 2010! If you already bought
them all separately, though (I believe all of these have
been sold separately in the past) whether you want to indulge
in the double or triple-dip is up to you. Still, there’s
no denying this is the best release of the specials to date.
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Image and Sound:
While it’s clear these specials never went through a
truly painstaking remastering effort, they still look better
than these specials do when they got their initial DVD releases.
These look to be the same transfers Warner used for later
individual releases of the movies. All in all they look
pretty good. Audio is competent, always audible and free
of any major problems but this was never meant to be the
kind of presentation that will rock your speakers, anyway.
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