Hazel - Complete Details, Plus Cover Art, For Hazel's 1st Season On DVD
Posted by David Lambert
5/26/2006
Everyone's favorite housekeeper comes to DVD! Oscar-Winner Shirley Booth (1952, Actress in a leading role, Come Back Little Sheba) won two Emmy Awards for her portrayal of Hazel Burke in this beloved series based on cartoons in The Saturday Evening Post. More than just a live-in maid and cook for the Baxter family, Hazel is the glue that holds their household together. Successful corporate lawyer, George Baxter (Emmy-nominee Don DeFore), may run a tight ship at the office, but at the end of the day when he comes home to wife Dorothy (Whitney Blake) and son Harold (Bobby Buntrock), he enters Hazel's domain. She knows what needs doing and regularly speaks up with alarming candor, pre-empting George’s authority with liberal doses of common sense wisdom.
This past Monday we brought you news that Hazel - The Complete 1st Season was coming to DVD from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. Now the studio has given us complete info and artwork for this August 1st release! For $29.95 SRP you'll get 35 episodes on 4 DVDs, running 910 minutes. Video is in the original 1.33:1 full screen, and audio is the equally original English Mono. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. Unfortunately, there are no extras on this release other than "bonus previews." Here's the cover art: