Saturday Night Live - The Complete First Season

Pros: Great cast, classic sketches, an essential resource of television history right at your fingertips.

Cons: Lack of commercial bumpers, missing ad parody. Yet life goes on.

The Bottom Line: 26 "uncut" broadcasts from the groundbreaking first season of "Saturday Night Live." Classic comedy at its finest.

Review: When TV shows began to make their debuts onto DVD in full-season box sets, many viewers wondered if "Saturday Night Live" could ever be one of them. For years, SNL's own producer, Lorne Michaels, has speculated that securing the musical rights alone ...

Pros: The pros are: the original cast who have some great sketches.

Cons: The other crap. Stick to the "Best Of" collections...

Review: Unless you are a hardcore SNL fan, you might want to avoid this. There is a lot of crap in it. I watched the 1st 9 episodes and quite frankly, I can't take anymore. The great sketches are overshadowed by lame muppets, lame musical guests (I know it's ...

Pros: Moments of humor, Great historical relevance

Cons: Becomes far too self-referential, Early episodes are scattered, Repetitive, Does not use whole cast well.

The Bottom Line: A trip down memory lane for those who lived it, a mediocre historical document for the rest of us, "NBC's Saturday Night's" first season is unremarkable.

Review: Every now and then, I come across a work that I pick up on DVD to review and when I'm done, I know that an objective review of the material I've just witnessed will bring about a small storm of negative comments. As I finish my viewing of the mistitled ...