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Bosom Buddies - The First Season | 
 enlarge | Directors: Chris Thompson, Don Van Atta, Herbert Kenwith, Joel Zwick, John Bowab
Actors: Tom Hanks, Peter Scolari, Wendie Jo Sperber, Donna Dixon, Holland Taylor
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 54753
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 478
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PARD122244D
UPC: 097361222448
EAN: 0097361222448
ASIN: B000LE16VM
Theatrical Release Date: November 27, 1980
Release Date: March 13, 2007
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Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW SEALED DVD SET.
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Some like it Hanks in this cross-dressing sitcom that launched one of Hollywood's most accomplished careers. It doesn't get any "Before They Were Stars" than this. The future Oscar-winner hadn't even made Bachelor Party yet! Hanks (in riffing, wiseass mode that lives on in Vince Vaughan), and Peter Scolari star as struggling ad-agency artist and writer Kip and Henry, best friends whose apartment building is demolished. Desperate for a place to live, they transform themselves into Buffy and Hildegarde so they can live in the for-women-only Susan B. Anthony Hotel. Kip and Henry pass themselves off as the "girls': brothers, allowing Kip to romance nurse and aspiring dancer Sunny (Donna Dixon), and Henry to write a book about the experience. "This is nuts, stupid, crazy," Kip rants, and so it is, but Bosom Buddies is never a drag, thanks to Hanks and Scolari's spontaneous chemistry. They are a comedy team without, pardon the expression, a straight man. The late Wendie Jo Sperber is a force of nature as Amy, the ad-agency receptionist with an unrequited crush on Henry, leading to one of this season's less jokey, more character-driven episodes, "Beauty and the Beasts." Holland Taylor is at her imperious best as Kip and Henry's credit-grabbing boss. Lucille Benson replaces the pilot's Edie Adams as the Susan B. Anthony's formidable new manager. Bosom Buddies fitfully finds its voice in its inaugural season. Hanks and Scolari are able to elevate the clunkiest of jokes with seemingly ad-libbed asides or physical bits of business. Greeting the morning in wigs and shaving cream while singing "Macho Man" is a signature giddy moment. A Hanks-Scolari reunion for the DVD release would have been nice, but if Bosom Buddies requires any kind of makeover, it is to restore the show's original theme song, Billy Joel's "My Life," which has been replaced by some generic tripe that ages the series at least 25 years. --Donald Liebenson
Product Description
Follow the escapades of kip & henry as they disguise themselves as women in order to live in the women-only susan b anthony hotel. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/13/2007 Starring: Tom Hanks Wendi Jo Sperber Run time: 478 minutes Rating: Nr
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 Hmmm April 8, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Billy Joel 'my life' theme song is not in intro - some dorky lady singing lame song instead. Thank god there's a way to skip over the intro!
You are missed, Wendie Jo October 25, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
The first season of "Bosom Buddies" is the very best. Because everything is so fresh and comedic. There are a total of 19 eps from Season One. I got this set partly because I am a big fan of Wendie Jo Sperber. She was always so cute and funny. I loved her in "Back To The Future." Wendie Jo sorta reminded me of Mama Cass (and who doesn't love Mama Cass?) This show came out before I was born, but I have seen most of the reruns on TBS and I fell in love with it. If you've never seen "Bosom Buddies" before, it's a lot like "Three's Company" or "Prefect Strangers" but even better!
 Best Show Ever -- but not on DVD -- yet September 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is my favorite TV show ever. I have every episode on video tape. I've been waiting for it to come out on DVD so I can have every episode recorded on the pureness of digital and with no scenes cut out. So it's terribly disappointing to be missing the theme song, and it's also missing some jokes that require songs, too. In one scene, Kip goes into the bathroom and you're supposed to hear him singing "Happy Days Are Here Again..." but you don't hear anything. In another scene, Isabelle's date is honking the horn for her outside and we're supposed to hear the horn playing "Dixie" or something, but we just hear a regular horn. The audience laughs, but what are they laughing at? Something we no longer hear on the DVD. I'm not going to buy this DVD set until all this is fixed!
 A Little Disappointed September 11, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Although I'm glad I bought this first season package of "Bosom Buddies", I am a little disappointed that it's not quite as I remember. Firstly, the opening theme song is not "My Life" by Billy Joel. It's something else entirely. Also, one of my favorite episodes (where Kip and Henry go to Ruth's apartment) was not complete. The part where they're all singing the Calypso song is not in it. That scene was hilarious. Makes me wonder how many episodes they have chopped up. I guess, in the long run, it's better to have some of Bosom Buddies as opposed to none of them.
Great Forgotten TV Gem July 8, 2007
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Thank GOD Tom Hanks became a huge star after this show went off the air, because otherwise it would probably have never been seen again. BOSUM BUDDIES was a terrific little tv show that struggled for two years to find an audience again such powerhouse fare as MAGNUM PI, and was largely ignored by the critics because of it's "jiggle tv" premise.
But there's no denying the talent and chemistry of the actors, nor the high quality of the writing. And as dated as the production values are now, the series holds up tremendously. It's a shame the studio wasn't able to clear the original theme song, and wasn't willing to pony up for any bonus materials, but don't let that stop you - see BOSUM BUDDIES.
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