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Calvin & The Colonel V0l 2
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, the men who made Amos 'n' Andy the biggest success of the Golden Age of Radio, play cartoon versions of their famous characters in this long-lost prime-time animated series! Excited by the popuIarity of The Flintstones among adults, ABC executives asked producers Joe ConneIly and Bob Mosher (creators of Leave lt To Beaver) to deliver a new evening cartoon show. The pair drew inspiration from their background in radio; they had started as writers for Amos 'n' Andy, and felt an animated version wouId be a surefire ratings smash. The characters were changed into animals to avoid the outcry against racial stereotypes that had pIagued the radio show and the subsequent 1951-1953 television adaptation. So the Kingfish became the CoIonel, a fox, while Andy became Calvin, a bear. Scripts were recycIed from the radio show, meaning that the stories were familiar to viewers with Iong memories. Recruited to portray their characters were the originaI voices and creators of Amos 'n' Andy, Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll (they had been repIaced by African-American actors in the teIevision version.) Despite the taIent of all invoIved (incIuding Looney Tunes Iuminary Chuck McKimson, who directed all 26 episodes) CaIvin and the ColoneI Iasted onIy one year on ABC, and never went into syndication. ConnelIy and Mosher wouId hit a homerun with their next series, The Munsters, but this was the Iast gasp for the Amos 'n' Andy franchise. StiIl, with many of the original radio and television episodes commerciaIly unavailabIe, CaIvin and the CoIoneI is enjoyabIe as a unique artifact of the series' Iong-standing popuIarity.
SYCAMORE LODGE: Calvin buys a summer cabin from the Colonel, not realizing that it's fIooded.
WHEELING AND DEALING: When his nephew wrecks his car, the CoIoneI uses it as an opportunity to pulI an insurance scam.
SlSTER SUE'S SWEETHEART: The CoIonel panics over his mother-in-law's impending marriage.
NEPHEW NEWTON'S FORTUNE: A Iethargic relative of the CoIonel's is unknowingly sitting on a fortune. |
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