Abbott & Costello - Season 1 RESTORED (Niagara Falls Clip)

[@chipstern1]

Sidney Fields. A grossly underappreciated and overlooked comic genius.

[@robertszvetics210]

YES HE WAS AND HE WROTE MANY OF THERE SHOWS.

[@geraldattanasio5428]

I would watch this show every day when I was young.Very funny.Very funny dialogue. Mr. Fields,Mike the cop ,Hillary et al. Thank you

[@rogermansour6085]

The funniest skit .I must of watched it 500 times

[@magazinekitchen]

Thanks for restoring and offering these episodes. I plan on getting both seasons to replace my DVD set.

[@williammeyer214]

omg! Brings back all those Saturday mornings in the Winter in front of a 13 inch Emerson, thanks so much

[@News2morrow]

You did such a great job restoring clarity to this scene that you inadvertently show how poorly lit the set originally was.

[@CollaborativeFilms]

They're supposed to be in a jail set, not a luxury mansion.

[@AGGeiger]

Brilliant scene!

[@kevinbutler1955NYC]

Sid Fields was not a talented comic/character actor..he was an equally creative and talented comedy writer..You're right..Chip..Poor Sid never got his due as a creative and talented performer and craftsman of comedy.

[@TheRealInscrutable]

Real comedy gold

[@spilledfeed]

such great poetry

[@beshooketh9333]

Much obliged!

[@sunnu777]

Sid Fields = #GOAT

[@robertszvetics210]

ARE THERE ANY EXTRAS ON THE BLURAY LIKE ON THE OLD DVD SET.

[@ClassicFlix]

Yes, they are: • Commentaries on 10 episodes featuring Lou Antonicello, Paul Castiglia, Ray Faiola, Stu Fink, Shane Fleming, Gilbert Gottfried, Bob Greenberg, Jim Mulholland, Gerry Orlando, Ron Palumbo, Toby Roan, Lou Sabini, Frank Santopadre, Jack Theakston and Michael Townsend Wright. • Saving the Negatives - Featurette with Bob Furmanek • Two complete episodes with original non-audience tracks and six partial episodes

[@stevefriedmanphoto]

And the Best of Niagara Falls routines, as the best of Who's on First was on their television series. One man's opinion. But I've asked this question to whomever was the Vaudeville expert - (there are fewer of them now, how come?) - and to wit: Why is that routine memorialized under two names - Niagara Falls and Pokomoko. Not referring to routines later on television by Lucy, Berle and Danny Thomas. Riffs maybe but when I was a kid seemed like ripoffs. Like, do it right, okay! But Pokomoko seemed contemporary to Niagra Falls in its own time space continuum, and Abbott & Costello did Pokomoko in the movie which confused me no end when I was a kid. Niagara Falls was the better of the names because it was a universally known name, an actual place of destination, you'd hear it more and more often in the ether. And though Pokomoko was a funny name, at this point you don't need funny name - kinda telegraphs, dilutes the laughs ahead, the surprise. You're listening to a Disguised Fields' very serious story, in great pain. You're hanging on his every word. Then NIAGARA FALLS! Better than Pokomoko. That's another's man's opinion. Basically the same man. So how cometh Pokomo? Huh?

[@matthewbulger6883]

What's the name of this Abbott and Costello episode from the 1st season? I await your answer.

[@christorpher84]

You didn’t show the whole bitb😊

[@kjpphotography4764]

Hey, didn't the Three Stooges do this same bit?

[@ClassicFlix]

Yes. The bits history gets covered on the commentary in set.

[@robertszvetics210]

@@ClassicFlix OH THERE ARE EXTRAS ON THE BLURAYS

[@kjpphotography4764]

@@ClassicFlix That good to know. Once you do all The Little Rascals collection, I will have to start collector the Abbott and Costello stuff you are producing. :)

[@CollaborativeFilms]

So did Lucille Ball on I Love Lucy!

[@kjpphotography4764]

@@CollaborativeFilms Oh yeah, I had forgotten that.