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Any Other Takers On The Ernie Kovacs Box Set?

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My copy of The Ernie Kovacs Collection arrived in the mail Monday, and I promptly spent the next few hours skimming the content. It's pretty impressive.

Especially of interest: the "silent show" that aired in color on NBC. A color kinescope was made of the broadcast, and so for the first time on home video, it's Ernie Kovacs in (somewhat blurry) Living Color (or as the end screen gag indicates beneath the Peacock, in "incompatible color".) Even the Nairobi Trio are there.

One interesting note is that according to the booklet that accompanies the set, in addition to the 1961/1962 monthly ABC specials that made up the bulk of the 1977 PBS retrospective, apparently many of the NBC "Ernie Kovacs Show" broadcasts (though by no means all of them) are still in existence; some 75 shows or so. That's something Antenna TV should consider, in my opinion.

Any other takers here on the board for the box set? I'd love to see some conversation on the subject...
 
After Ernie's death in January, 1962, his regularly-scheduled show was still aired later that month on ABC-TV. At the conclusion of that show, there was a brief tribute for him given while a video was shown of Ernie laughing in the control room. Is that program and/or that tribute included in this set?
 
Cincinnati Kid said:
After Ernie's death in January, 1962, his regularly-scheduled show was still aired later that month on ABC-TV. At the conclusion of that show, there was a brief tribute for him given while a video was shown of Ernie laughing in the control room. Is that program and/or that tribute included in this set?
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Yes. There was a brief intro as well, saying it was being aired in response to fan requests and because "Ernie wanted it to be seen."
 
anotherguy said:
Is this set available on Amazon, or is there another link to where this is available?
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On Amazon, it's $49.99 here: http://www.amazon.com/Ernie-Kovacs-Collection/dp/B004IB04NU

At Shout Factory, you also get an extra disc that has two kinnies from that short period where Kovacs shared Tonight duties with Steve Allen (Kovacs took it two nights a week, and it was very definitely Kovacs' Tonight show - his staff, writers and director, with Bill Wendell announcing, and even a Tonight logo augmented with a Kovacsian cigar) along with a piece done for the "Tonight! America After Dark" version of the show and a number of bits from the NBC primetime show. That's $54.99 + a somewhat substantial S&H here: http://www.shoutfactorystore.com/prod.aspx?pfid=5257356#axzz1KArEeDqM

I got it from Shout Factory, but that's because I hadda have the extra disc...
 
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