Shout! Factory has been full of surprises lately, and their very latest is the classic '60s sitcom
The Patty Duke Show - Season 1. Created by Sidney Sheldon, who's remembered for his thriller novels but also created
I Dream of Jeannie as well as
Hart to Hart, the series starred Oscar-winner Patty Duke (
The Miracle Worker), Jean Byron, William Schallert, Paul O'Keefe and Eddie Applegate.
The show ran for three seasons, and all 36 episodes from the first season are included, with appearances by John Spencer (
The West Wing), Charles Nelson Reilly (
Hollywood Squares), Margaret Hamilton (
The Wizard of Oz), Frankie Avalon (
Grease), Jimmy Dean (
The Jimmy Dean Show), Roger C. Carmel (
Star Trek, Transformers), Estelle Parsons (
Roseanne), Marcia Strassman (
Welcome Back, Kotter) and many more!
The 6-disc set will arrive on
September 29th. Bonus material will be included, but hasn't been finalized yet. Video is full frame, audio is English mono, and English subtitles are said to be included. Pricing, running time and
package art [
NOTE: SEE BELOW] haven't been provided so far, but stay tuned for updates. In the meantime, here is the studio description:
First Time On DVD!. Features 36 episodes on a 6-DVD Set. Aired on ABC from 1963-1966. Was in heavy syndication on Nick at Nite from 1988-1993. Currently in syndication on thisTV. Acclaimed author Sidney Sheldon was a series creator and wrote most of its 104 episodes.
The Patty Duke Show aired on ABC beginning September 18, 1963. It featured the misadventures of a pair of identical cousins, Patty Lane - a normal American teenager living in Brooklyn Heights, New York - and Cathy Lane - her Scottish cousin freshly arrived in the United States to finish her secondary schooling. Patty Duke, popular because of her recent Academy Award® for playing Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker (at the time she was the youngest person to have won an Oscar, for Best Supporting Actress), was chosen for her own self-titled vehicle, which featured her in not one, but two prominent roles.
The show lasted three seasons and was popular with both parents and teenagers. (It didn't hurt that the show featured a handful of then-popular guest stars like Frankie Avalon and Bobby Vinton.) Duke's soft beauty, and the show's more-than-wholesome quality made her an early teenaged pop idol.
UPDATE (5/29): We now have a look at package art of that new title for you this morning; you can see that below.
ADDITIONAL UPDATE (5/29): Shout! Factory has now confirmed to us that the "26 episode" count originally shown above was a typo. The correct number of episodes included in this set will be 36. Our thanks to everybody who e-mailed...and there were a LOT of you! We've adjusted the above text to reflect the correct count.
