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Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour - The Christmas Collection
You asked for it - more Sonny and Cher! This time it's a package that includes three holiday episodes of The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour / Show. And what a great trio - the first Christmas show is from early in the first season, followed by an episode from the second season of the Comedy Hour, topped off with a holiday themed episode from the final season of the Sonny and Cher Show. These are all top notch episodes, making this collection a real winner. The sound is brilliant throughout this DVD, and the picture quality is stunning.

HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!

Studio: R2 Entertainment
DVD Release Date: October 26, 2004
Run Time: 120 minutes

Product Description
HAVE A COOL YULE WITH SONNY & CHER! Relive the holiday magic of these rare Sonny & Cher Christmas shows. For the first time ever, classic TV and pop music fans alike can step into Christmas with Sonny & Cher…and Chastity, too! This groovy collection features highlights from their three Christmas variety shows. Two from the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour which originally aired in 1972 and 1973 and the third from the Sonny & Cher Show in 1976, when the famous – and then divorced couple, came back to network television for one more season. Having never released a Christmas record of their own, this collection includes the only holiday performances to be found by Sonny & Cher, either individually or collectively. So sit back, relax and get ready for a blast from Christmas past. Three decades later….and the holiday Beat Goes On!
Featured Holiday songs include:
• Jingle Bells – Sonny & Cher
• A Gift of Song and O Holy Night – Cher
• The Twelfth of Never – Sonny
• Caroling medley – Cast

Tony Orlando & Dawn: The Ultimate Collection
A highly enjoyable, upbeat, slick and colorful blast from the polyester past. If you know the name R2 Entertainment you know that they have the highest regard for the programs they release, everything is done first class and this release is no exception.

Tony Orlando & Dawn: The Ultimate Collection is a beautifully designed package that brings together the best episodes of the various incarnations of the series, a magnificent set that collects 11 of the best episodes of the various incarnations of the series. I had originally dismissed TO&D as a bad Sonny and Cher Show clone but I have a new appreciation for the show now.

Guest stars include the great Jackie Gleason, Phyllis Diller, Hank Aaron, Milton Berle, Jerry Lewis, Freddie Prinze and more. They had stars then! You'll find all, or most, of the group's hit tunes in this set (remember Who’s In the Strawberry Patch With Sally?), and the weekly comedy bits like Lou Effy and Moreen.
There is no shortage of bizarre moments including a jaw-dropping appearance by Alice Cooper and Tony Orlando & Freddie Prinze in a near kiss.

The first disc begins with the first episodes from the initial summer run. Disc two covers the 1975-76 seasons. Disc three samples the final version of the series, the Tony Orlando and Dawn Rainbow Hour with regular George Carlin. Carlin was the nation's hottest alternative comedian in 1976; putting him on in primetime with his own solo spot was quite a weird and wonderful thing to do. He performs his finest, early bits here on shows packed with guest stars.

By the time Tony Orlando & Dawn left the air in 1977, the era of the network variety show was coming to a close, this is a last look at a dying form of entertainment captured in all its splendor.
A fabulous fun trip back to the seventies!

Tony Orlando & Dawn fans, don't miss this mega-set: The Yellow Ribbon Collection - 6 CD’s features the group's entire recorded history as a group from 1970 - 1977! Besides all the hit songs and album tracks there are many singles, b-sides and other unreleased material on CD for the first time.

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Sonny & Cher on DVD

Actors: Sonny Bono, Cher, Ted Zeigler, Chastity Bono, Freeman King, Murray Langston, Tom Solari

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Sonny & Cher - The Ultimate Collection
Don't miss this fantastic DVD collection!

From the Back Cover:
Sonny & Cher, the most exciting musical-comedy performers of the polyester decade, in the show that took America by storm. All the hits and all the fun of the 70's on three DVD's - with exciting extras you'll flip over. The DVD collection features 9 original, unedited shows plus many extras!

DISC ONE - Best of the first season of the Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour, featuring the thrilling concert segments, big- name guest stars and hilarious comedy dialogues that made the show so popular. Guests include Harvey Korman, Burt Reynolds, Merv Griffin and more.

DISC TWO - Three choice episodes from the second and third seasons of the Comedy Hour, including the popular sketches "Vamp" and "Sonny's Pizza," opera parodies and more top-ten tunes. Guests include Michael Jackson and the Jackson 5, Governor Ronald Reagan, Howard Cosell, Danny Thomas, George Foreman and many more.

DISC THREE - Back after a two-year hiatus and a divorce, these three star-studded programs are from their final variety show - The Sonny & Cher Show. Featured guests include Farrah Fawcett, Glen Campbell, Donny & Marie, Tina Turner and others. Featured music perfomanceds include "All I Ever Need Is You", "Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves", "The Way of Love", "A Cowboy's Work is Never Done", "Half-Breed", "Dark Lady", "The Beat Goes On", and "I Got You Babe".

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