Prints

I got a review copy of Shout! Factory’s The Adventures of Ozzie & Harriet: Best of Ricky and Dave. Their first best-of set for Ozzie and Harriet was a major disappointment because all the episodes were syndicated versions, cut from the original 25 minutes to a more syndication-friendly 22 minutes. This set improves on the first one, but only a little: I checked the timings of of the 24 episodes included, and found that eight of them are original-length (25 minutes) and the other 16 are syndication cuts. These masters are provided to Shout! Factory by the only surviving Nelson, David, and it looks as if most of the prints in his collection are of the syndicated versions. Shout!’s Father Knows Best set was the same way, a mix of full-length and syndicated prints with no rhyme or reason as to which episodes were complete and which were not.