Married With Children - The Complete Series [DVD]

I had to write a review for this classic sitcom as I’d seen the odd episode on itv 2 , years back and then bought the complete series box set on region 1 about 10 years back , it wasn’t available on region 2 until about 2018. The premise is simple you’ve got hard working dad Al whose claim to fame was scoring 4 touchdowns in a football game for Polk high. Yet he only ended up selling shoes . You have then lazy spendthrift wife Peggy who Al refers to as the ungrateful redhead. Finally you have ditzy daughter Kelly and unlucky in love son Bud. The box set is rated as a 15 cert and this likely because of all the busty women that feature for Al and neighbour Steve to drool over yet there’s no bad language in the series . Some of the best episodes are the 2 parters , my favourites are you’d better shop around parts 1 and 2 where the Bundys compete against their neighbours Steve and Marcy in a supermarket race . In the box you get all 262 episodes from all 11 seasons and is well worth the £40 I paid at time of purchase . As other reviews mention the love and marriage tune is replaced by some similar sounding Muzak after season 2 which isn’t a big deal for me personally. All in all I can’t rate this sitcom highly enough. As they say , they don’t make them like this anymore so buy and prepare to binge-watch.

I am only 4 seasons in so far but I love this show. I saw a few episodes many years ago on TV and thought it was great. When I saw this complete set for such a good price there was no question about getting it. The laughs I had way back when are still there now much to my relief. As for the set, the sound and picture quality are good, and there are a few extras. Only being on the 4th season I haven't seen many but the reunion clips were interesting and funny. There are a lot of discs but the packaging has been kept down by the removal of all cases. The discs are on 2 spindles, of course this does mean that you have to remove all the ones on top when you want ones further down the spindles. this is a small price to pay I think for such a great show. Unfortunately to get the full set you need to get an import like this one as there are only a few seasons for release in the UK at the moment, but with a multi-region player that's not a problem and well worth the wait for international shipping.

Original box-set in plastic wrapping. One of the best shows ever made.

This product arrived in good condition and within a few days of ordering. Once inside the packaging I found that there was a disc of paper giving all of the discs, series and episode titles in English, a most surprising but pleasant change for a compilation of discs from a foreign country. Obviously, the one big criticism must be the fact that in drum form it is awkward to get to the unseen discs with any ease once you have seen the top few. Drums are fine for blank discs but not pre-recorded ones. This was easily overcome though by transfer to multi-disc packaging that I already had for disc collections. At half the price of the English discs though this is extremely good value for money and worth the effort in ensuring that the disc menu (easy to follow) is set for English language viewing. What can I say about the content that has not already been said, not a lot. English comedy does not always translate for Americans but when you get a good American comedy it certainly does translate for this side of the pond as well. The Bundy life will obviously not suit every persons' taste, but for most you can see the humour that this type of family situation gives will appeal to a majority of watchers.

Excellent TV series that i grow up watching - They still hold up even till this day. Very cool box-set with all the 11 seasons in a jewel box.

All as described... :-))

Well finally the UK get a full release of married with children and it's well worth the wait! This show is so funny it will leaving you wanting to binge the whole boxset this over and over again. My only gripe with this is the original Frank Sinatra theme song for the show has been edited out and replaced with a terrible alternative. Not sure why this is the case as the USA release has rectified this and released it over there with the original theme song. However it still doesn't take away from the comedy genius this show really is. I'm all for a Married with children reboot , casts that work this well together is just pure magic. For the price it's a complete bargain folks. Buy it you won't regret it! I remember it being on ITV in the 90s but missed the remainder of the show as it moved to sky. So it's fantastic to finally find the full series released in the UK after all this time. Please please bring us more married with children I'm sure many feel the same.

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but I love the show and well the pricing makes the packaging bearable. The box comes with two plastic spindles which hold the dvds, so six seasons share one season and five the other spindle. while this is a great space saver. I do not understand why the spindles are so cheap why not make the tray/spindle a hard plastic? and the slip cover is ok, but not as sturdy as it should be. now onto the show itself. I lost track of the series during the last few seasons. I did not realize it was on for 11 seasons. and even though fox was screwing around with the schedule I had seen more of these episodes than I thought I did. But watching them straight through and seeing the evolution of the characters worked out great. there are a few featurettes that have interviews with the cast as well as easter eggs that have additional unaired clips from a reunion special. and there is an episode from the third season that wasn't aired (or so it says, but I swear I've seen it before...and in hindsight I wonder why it wasn't shown originally as they had done far more controversial episodes throughout their run. One thing I did notice (which is the beauty of watching a show season by season...as you can see things you missed when they first aired) is that the show never really jumped the shark, as it pretty much was an over the top production to begin with. the show seemed to relish in its absurdities. There were times when a character fell off the roof and it was obvious it was a dummy, and someone would say, ok we can see that's not a real person, well those people didn't get the joke. the writers invited us into their twisted little world. and they let us in on the jokes, so in some ways the show was a satire of all other family based sitcoms, and on the other hand it was a very unique take on the family sitcom. The cast was perfect, the writing was spot-on and no matter how absurd it got, you couldn't help but laugh. It never took itself too seriously and it never tried to be something it wasn't. this was blue collar tv, before Rosanne (though many give that show credit for being the one that started the trend, even though Married with Children did it first....and best). Perhaps fueled by the controversy that surrounded it, the show became rather iconic even if it never was a number one show (fox was just starting out after all). But, I had never heard of a show that had such strong word of mouth and was as identifiable without being a Nielsen powerhouse. Well, not until this show turned up, same as with The Simpsons, everyone knew of the Simpsons and the catchphrases without it being a number one show either. My favorite part is how when the show started you find Bud playing a believable son to fictional Al (who was a bit of a caricature unto himself, perhaps a character no one else could have played but Ed O'neil) and you kind of saw him as a "bundy" and you saw Kelly as what Al could never be (popular, loved and happy) so when the show progressed and it was Kelly who became more like Al, you kind of find it more believable when Al says what his life could have been. The young and beautiful Kelly seemed to have a promising life ahead of her, but in the end you find that life can shatter even the most promising of dreams. She was more like Al than you would have thought. He was popular in high school too. now...he's married with Children. Katy Segal plays Peggy perfectly. You can see why Al can both love her and be frustrated with her at the same time. Though you really can't understand why he wouldn't want to go to bed with her. as she is a beautiful woman, perhaps too extreme at times. There were times when the writers made her rather unlikable. I guess it helped the story along, but at the same time it made you wonder why Al would have put up with her for so long. though the details can be rather inconsistent, I don't think it matters, or that they care. Obviously they could not have done anything they did or have what they had if he really didn't make any money as a shoe salesman, and at times the over-exaggeration can be a bit trying, but they somehow managed to make you forget all of that with some great lines. Though I found Peggy wasn't given as many great lines as Al. maybe they needed more female writers I am not sure. But overall the show was great and highly rewatchable. One last thought, since this show got a lot of bad press about it's dysfunctionaltiy I would like to say that with this show, no matter how over the top they got, no matter how mean they would be to each other at times, when it really got down to it they loved each other. and they always had each other's back. While they might harass each other without a second thought no one else could. They had each other's back. that's something you don't really see in most family oriented shows, or they were more talk than action. In Married with Children you got the sense that even though they seemed like they hated each other when it came right down to it they actually cared about each other. You get the feeling too that the cast got along in real life as well, as the chemistry is strong, and though the supporting characters may seem to despise the bundys you feel as if the actors respected each other. and in the end, I believe that if a show is to be successful you not only need talented actors but you need them to have the right chemistry together. The actors all seem to respect and care for each other (you can see this more when you watch the featurettes) and that comes across In the show, and that's why it's not hard to like this rather strange but relatable family

Lo acabo de comprar,llega en un pack bien bonito,el audio en ingles aleman y frances igual subtitulo.

Plaisir absolu de revoir cette série totalement politiquement incorrecte dans la lignée de Simpsons que l'on ne reverrait plus aujourd'hui. Surtout on peut la revoir en VOST ce qui n'était pas possible à l'époque à la TV (le doublage français étant vraiment calamiteux surtout lors des premières saisons, simplifiant trop les dialogues et atténuant souvent le côté caustique) de plus les dialogues anglais sont limpides et simples, facile d'accès, et très bons pour apprendre l'anglais d'ailleurs. Diffusé sur la Fox entre 87 et 97 puis en France à partir de 89 sur M6 puis Comédie, le coffret comprend 261 épisodes sur le total officiel de 262, soit : - Les 258 officiels diffusés sur la Fox - Le fameux 259ème épisode considéré comme épisode perdu, "Rendez vous au tribunal" ("I'll See you in Court") de la saison 3 de 1988 car il a été censuré à l'époque et n'a été diffusé qu'en 2002 sur la Fox pour cause de controverse avec une auditrice indignée des dérives sexistes de la série et ayant tenté un procès (perdu). - 2 épisodes spéciaux de la saison 9 fêtant la 200ème : "Les Bundy's Folies de la 200ème" ("Best of Bundy") et "La Compil de la 200ème" ("My Favorite Married"). Ne manque finalement que l'épisode spécial "Al Bundy's Sports Spectacular" (saison 10 en 95) qui présente des extraits de la série en rapport avec le sport, mais sans doute peu adapté aux européens. A noter : un bonus sur le 2ème CD de la saison 1, qui était une émission de "retrouvailles" des acteurs diffusée en 2002 sur la Fox (mais jamais en France) de 45 min. Malheureusement les sous-titres disparaissent après 10 min ... On peut donc dire que le coffret est totalement complet, c'est d'ailleurs la seule intégrale sortie par Sony. Les épisodes ne sont pas tout à fait dans l'ordre des diffusions TV de l'époque mais cela n'est pas gênant. La série ayant été arrêtée brutalement, il n'y a pas d'épisode final officiel, mais le dernier épisode "Troc, troc, troc" ("Chicago Shoe Exchange") est considéré comme un "épisode perdu" car il n'a été diffusé en dernier que cinq semaines plus tard sur la Fox. Concernant le coffret lui-même, les DVD sont présentés de manière empilée dans 2 bac séparés et avec un carton par dessus donc pas facile d'accès, le moins que l'on puisse dire c'est que cet emballage fait cheap avec un carton très mince. Une petit fiche volante sert de guide (il y en a au moins une). Heureusement que l'on achète pas ce genre de coffret pour l'emballage, mais quand même, l'éditeur ne s'est pas foulé. Un regret : dommage ne ne pas avoir un coffret en Blu Ray et un peu retravaillé au niveau de l'image car les plus vieux épisodes ont une mauvaise qualité.

Finally have my favourite tv series and at an affordable price for the whole series. Delivery was great and no damage.