Good Times: The Complete Series (Slim Packaging)

If you grew up watching this tv series & watching it on tv where they show these old shows you can only watch 1 or two a night & have to wait in till next week to see more but if you own all of them you can watch them at any time!! 👍

Santa brought the complete Good Times collection to my 10-year-old son for Christmas this year. When I originally mentioned the present to my wife, she was pretty sure that our son wouldn’t like the series much at all. It’s old and from a time that’s long gone. But, I remembered how much I used to love watching the re-runs of Good Times that were on the air when I was growing up in the late 70’s and early 80’s. We live in a fairly wealthy, primarily white, neighborhood and my son has never really experienced what it’s like to be poor. Not that watching Good Times is going to give him that sort of experience, but I thought the lessons and themes portrayed in the series would be good for our son to learn about. The very same problems that existed back then are still around today, and have probably gotten a bit worse, and people certainly haven’t changed much at all. Good wholesome television like this is pretty hard to come by, especially nowadays. When my son opened the present on Christmas morning, he was completely not thrilled about it at all. He'd never heard of Good Times before and the people pictured on the packaging didn't interest him much. After Christmas, my son wanted to go to Toys-R-Us to blow a gift card that seemed to be burning a hole in his pocket on another video game for his new gaming system. He had already got a bunch of video games for Christmas, but after a few days, the newness of them was starting to wear off. I said to him,” You know what you need? A Good Times marathon.” He seemed to think it was some sort of punishment for the first-world problem he was complaining about. I popped in the first disk, and he was not happy, but he sat through the first episode without pouting and retreating to his room. By the second episode, he was completely hooked and now he loves the show. He wakes up early before school, with me, just to watch more Good Times. He did ask me why James Senior is always looking for a job. I replied “That’s what happens when you don’t have an education or skills that separate you from everyone else.” First lesson learned. My son really likes J-J the most. I’d imagine he won’t be able to talk about this series much with his friends at school, but maybe that’s not such a bad thing after all.

I always liked this show, except for when John Amos left the series. It was still good, but not the same. The entire dynamic was changed when he left/was fired. Now when Esther Rolle left the series for a while, the show just plummeted & never really recovered. I always thought Moses Gunn should have stayed on the show as the new husband/stepfather & gave that authority figure/other adult a chance to grow into the show. But, I am not the producer. You either like it or you don't. I think it was a Norman Lear Classic.

When you are around your family and friends, even hard times seem good. It is, after all, the only life we get. I watched this show along with All In The Family, The Jeffersons, and good ole Sanford And Son. Love these shows that first depicted white/black attitudes in the '70s before we ever were really around each other very often. I'm a white male and I thought the shows did a good job of introducing race to America. Certainly only a television show, it couldn't begin to change people in a society where racism is institutionalized, but it did begin some dialog that made a few people begin to see the terrible effects racism has on society. Now, we've regressed once more. I can only hope this last horrible election, giving us a pseudo-fascist forces us to take another look at this mess in America. People are people and it's time we care about each other. Period. This show is still delightful to watch. The only bad thing is that cheap packaging. Too flimsy for such a grand show. So I'm buying two blu ray cases, each holding 6 units and putting together my own greatly improved product. Blu Ray because the bottom of this package pokes out at the bottom about half an inch where the product just literally FALLS OUT! The outer box which is still thin itself will house blu ray boxes just right. And I hope, snugly. That will jack up the cost about double. Mill Creek could have used decent, thicker cardboard for much less. This thing is like paper.

This was given to my daughter for Christmas as a present and she LOVES watching her Good Times dvds.

Thanks

Bearing in mind the age of this show, the video transfer to DVD is just acceptable.Also keeping in mind the time frame is comedy show is written with current day to day topics covered, it does bring to focus, the great advances taken place in America where discrimination was rife.Now the tables have turned and super mega starts in music, sports, business has reached and broken the glass ceilings.A decent comedy if you bear in mind the time it was recorded and audience aimed.

I loved this show back in the 70s and 80s and watching it now is like everything is the same .

Thats one of the best Show after Family Matters and the Cosby Show.

Me encanta esta serie, es muy divertida y me parece un clasico de los 70s, ojala mas gente en Mexico supiera de su existencia. Lamentablemente veo es que la calidad de la imagen es bastante mala, comprimieron muchos capitulos en cada DVD y metieron todas las temporadas en 11 discos!, es como ver la serie en VHS!... Por otro lado la presentacion del boxset es pesima, el paquete de vil carton llego doblado y cada disco viene metido en una funda de cartoncillo que parece desechable, es decepcionante que hagan productos de tan baja calidad para series como esta.

This show is a favourite of mine from childhood. The picture and sound quality is very good for a show from the 70’s. I still get a good laugh out of the antics of the children. The domestic violence depicted in the show from the father figure is a bit shocking when viewed in 2023. This may distress some people.The downside comes from the packaging. It’s a very flimsy cardboard casing which ripped easily and all of the discs are on one poorly made plastic spool. I have found from experience that storing discs in this manner can cause scratches on the discs which may interfere with playback. I have not been able to play all of the discs yet so it will be sometime before I get through them all. Having to change the discs is also problematic due to the same reason.I recently had a problem with another disc from a different show. Amazon was happy to return my money with the exception of the $30 I had to pay for basic shipping to return it. That is a cost that should not be placed on the purchaser for a faulty product.I guess I’m saying buy at your own risk.

Great old time show which depicts the world’s continuing life issues.Thanks again for the good laughs