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Here Come the Brides: Season 1 DVD - Classic Romantic TV Series for Wedding Inspiration & Nostalgic Viewing
Here Come the Brides: Season 1 DVD - Classic Romantic TV Series for Wedding Inspiration & Nostalgic Viewing

Here Come the Brides: Season 1 DVD - Classic Romantic TV Series for Wedding Inspiration & Nostalgic Viewing

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Product Description Robert Brown, pop music superstar Bobby Sherman and David Soul (TV's Starsky and Hutch) star in the classic television series HERE COME THE BRIDES, a delightful comedy that combines romance and adventure in the rugged landscape of the mid-nineteenth century Pacific Northwest. The Bolt brothers own a mountain and logging camp in Seattle, and as the area's only employer, the brothers borrow money and head east to bring back a shipload of lovely ladies to boost morale. But if any of the women leave Seattle within a year, the Bolts lose their mountain to the man that lent them the money. Also starring legendary actress Joan Blondell (Grease, The Public Enemy), the complete first season of HERE COME THE BRIDES is presented for the first time ever - and is only available - on DVD. Amazon.com If you look at the premise of Here Come the Brides on paper, the whole series sounds rather bizarre: three brothers head East to find 100 young women who agree to move to untamed Seattle to marry the single men in town. The potential brides have to remain in Seattle for at least a year. If they don't, the siblings could lose their family business. But this show isn't set in a society where there's a Starbucks on every corner. Rather, it takes place in the late 19th century. Add some sassy dialogue and throw in Bobby Sherman and David Soul as youngest brother Jeremy and middle brother Joshua, respectively, and voila! The show evokes charming innocence, if not antiquated notions of how the sexes should behave. The episode in which a visiting Mormon bogarts four of the women for his own brides isn't so much shocking as it is curious. Why aren't the local men more worked up that this could cause some of their own to be without brides? The series, which lasted just two seasons, premiered on television in 1968 and helped springboard Sherman into a teen idol. The acting on the show by Sherman and his cast mates at times is self-conscious and stilted, but they share good chemistry and have fun with the scripts. One of the better-thought-out episodes aired early in the season. Jeremy's stuttering is miraculously cured by a charismatic magician (played by the late Jack Albertson, who ate up the scenery with relish), who turns out to be somewhat of a charlatan. The ending drives the point home that Jeremy needed as much faith in himself as he had in the magician. Like the series itself, yes, the sentiment is predictable. But it still makes for good TV. --Jae-Ha Kim

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I don't think I can improve on what's been said, already,....so I'm just going to add my few cents worth, and try to get to bed by 3 a.m. We ordered the set, a couple of months ago,....and then spent the next two weeks or so, glued to the DVD player,..like a book you can't put down. The show was refreshing, and not 'at all!' old-fashioned/out-of-date for just plain GOOD viewing. The story lines were fun. We Did get tickled at how often folks were-a-runnin' places in it, but that was just part of the charm. Robert Brown's leather shirts all had an obvious zipper under the left arm to the waist, which was a facinating bit of modernism, as did the ladies with their back-zippered gowns (where buttons should have been, down fronts and the gowns two-piece outfits of bodice and seperate skirts) But these are just minor observations, revealing our historical re-inactor 'roots'I can't watch a lot of the older shows, because time and technology has jaded me to the simplicity of them, so that they seem better suited to the mentality of an 8 or 10 year old.But my husband and I are both in our 50s and we didn't feel, at ALL that way, about this series.One word best describes it,..: 'Fun'Clancy, the boat captain, is SO Perfectly cast !!!!!Bobby Sherman (who I'd first known as a singer) is a delightful youngest brother. David Soul did good in Starsky and Hutch, but in this series seems to take a back-seat to the personalities of his older and younger brothers. Lottie couldn't have been played as well, by Anyone else.My husband got a kick out of 'Biddy' Bo Sevson (sp) was the first big blond crush I ever had. I'm glad to find out he's still around, as are several of the younger actors of the series.(I'm just wondering where he's been, in the meantime,.....I mean I remember seeing him in assorted things back then, but then he just seemed to drop out)The place always seems to be 'wet',...but then again,...I've heard that's normal for Seattle.We got such a kick out of the series, that we decided we wanted to go up and see some of the country. We're leaving in Oct. (and taking raingear)We've put more of the same on our 'wish list' here, for when-ever someone gets around to getting more seasons on DVD. We can't wait,.....in the meantime, I just (last night) ordered the first two seasons of 'Northern Exposure' (Though I'm afeared my guy will next be itching to go adventuring up in Alaska, next,......)But I'd like to see the Colorado Rockies, first ala my favorite movie of all time 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown'It's almost 3 a.m./pumpkin time