Here Come the Brides - The Complete First Season
starring: Joan Blondell, Robert Brown, Bridget Hanley, David Soul, Bobby Sherman
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Loosely based on a true story about the efforts of one man to bring marriageable women to the forests of the Pacific Northwest in the 1870s this vintage comedy from the 1960s was set in a Seattle logging community. The workers are threatening to leave due to the scarcity of women so the camp owners the Bolt brothers (Robert Brown Bobby Sherman and David Soul) do the only thing they can: import 100 women from Massachusetts. The brothers pull this off only by borrowing money from their rival Aaron Stempel (Mark Lenard) whose terms dictate that all the women have to remain for an entire year during which all quotas must be met. If not he takes control of the Bolt brothers' mountain. Much mischief ensues as the girls acclimate to camp life while Stempel does everything he can to impede that process and make them give up.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396130265 Manufacturer No: 13026
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If you look at the premise of Here Come the Brides on paper, the whole series sounds rather bizarre: three brothers head East to find 100 young women who agree to move to untamed Seattle to marry the single men in town. The potential brides have to remain in Seattle for at least a year. If they don't, the siblings could lose their family business. But this show isn't set in a society where there's a Starbucks on every corner. Rather, it takes place in the late 19th century.Add some sassy dialogue and throw in Bobby Sherman and David Soul as youngest brother Jeremy and middle brother Joshua, respectively, and voila! The show evokes charming innocence, if not antiquated notions of how the sexes should behave. The episode in which a visiting Mormon bogarts four of the women for his own brides isn't so much shocking as it is curious. Why aren't the local men more worked up that this could cause some of their own to be without brides?
The series, which lasted just two seasons, premiered on television in 1968 and helped springboard Sherman into a teen idol. The acting on the show by Sherman and his cast mates at times is self-conscious and stilted, but they share good chemistry and have fun with the scripts. One of the better-thought-out episodes aired early in the season. Jeremy's stuttering is miraculously cured by a charismatic magician (played by the late Jack Albertson, who ate up the scenery with relish), who turns out to be somewhat of a charlatan. The ending drives the point home that Jeremy needed as much faith in himself as he had in the magician. Like the series itself, yes, the sentiment is predictable. But it still makes for good TV. --Jae-Ha Kim
Loosely based on a true story about the efforts of one man to bring marriageable women to the forests of the Pacific Northwest in the 1870s this vintage comedy from the 1960s was set in a Seattle logging community. The workers are threatening to leave due to the scarcity of women so the camp owners the Bolt brothers (Robert Brown Bobby Sherman and David Soul) do the only thing they can: import 100 women from Massachusetts. The brothers pull this off only by borrowing money from their rival Aaron Stempel (Mark Lenard) whose terms dictate that all the women have to remain for an entire year during which all quotas must be met. If not he takes control of the Bolt brothers' mountain. Much mischief ensues as the girls acclimate to camp life while Stempel does everything he can to impede that process and make them give up.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 043396130265 Manufacturer No: 13026
Amazon.com:
If you look at the premise of Here Come the Brides on paper, the whole series sounds rather bizarre: three brothers head East to find 100 young women who agree to move to untamed Seattle to marry the single men in town. The potential brides have to remain in Seattle for at least a year. If they don't, the siblings could lose their family business. But this show isn't set in a society where there's a Starbucks on every corner. Rather, it takes place in the late 19th century.Add some sassy dialogue and throw in Bobby Sherman and David Soul as youngest brother Jeremy and middle brother Joshua, respectively, and voila! The show evokes charming innocence, if not antiquated notions of how the sexes should behave. The episode in which a visiting Mormon bogarts four of the women for his own brides isn't so much shocking as it is curious. Why aren't the local men more worked up that this could cause some of their own to be without brides?
The series, which lasted just two seasons, premiered on television in 1968 and helped springboard Sherman into a teen idol. The acting on the show by Sherman and his cast mates at times is self-conscious and stilted, but they share good chemistry and have fun with the scripts. One of the better-thought-out episodes aired early in the season. Jeremy's stuttering is miraculously cured by a charismatic magician (played by the late Jack Albertson, who ate up the scenery with relish), who turns out to be somewhat of a charlatan. The ending drives the point home that Jeremy needed as much faith in himself as he had in the magician. Like the series itself, yes, the sentiment is predictable. But it still makes for good TV. --Jae-Ha Kim
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Rating: - Here Comes the Brides
This is a great DVD.I have been looking for this off and on for some time and it's great to watch.
Rating: - Here Come the Brides DVD
Smooth transaction and speedy fast delivery for a childhood favorite TV series now on DVD. Thanks!
Rating: - Boy this brings back memories!
I was a teenager when this series started. I watched it religiously. In fact, when I got married a few years later and had my first baby, a son, I named him Jeremy after Bobby Sherman's character.How funny is that.I am going to buy this dvd so my son can see who he was named after. LOL
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- WONDERFUL TO WATCH IT AGAIN
I haven't seen this programme since it originally aired. I was only 12 when the first season was broadcasted in 1968, and I remember that I enjoyed it a lot; so, I decided to buy this box set; and now I am enjoying it all over again; the charactors, the music..it is a nice show to watch with a glass of wine and to unwind from a stressful day.
My home is in the UK now, where I don't think it was ever on TV, and I wanted a friend to watch it, (I have a multi-regional player) who has ... Read More
Rating: - where are the next seasons?
I bought season 1 a long time ago.I remember how it made me feel when I first saw it on television all those years ago.I remember certain episodes and would like to to get the rest of the series, which are not on the 1st season.I hope to get the rest soon.Thanks
- Here Comes the BridesThis is a great DVD.I have been looking for this off and on for some time and it's great to watch.
- Here Come the Brides DVDSmooth transaction and speedy fast delivery for a childhood favorite TV series now on DVD. Thanks!
- Boy this brings back memories!I was a teenager when this series started. I watched it religiously. In fact, when I got married a few years later and had my first baby, a son, I named him Jeremy after Bobby Sherman's character.How funny is that.I am going to buy this dvd so my son can see who he was named after. LOL
- WONDERFUL TO WATCH IT AGAINI haven't seen this programme since it originally aired. I was only 12 when the first season was broadcasted in 1968, and I remember that I enjoyed it a lot; so, I decided to buy this box set; and now I am enjoying it all over again; the charactors, the music..it is a nice show to watch with a glass of wine and to unwind from a stressful day.
My home is in the UK now, where I don't think it was ever on TV, and I wanted a friend to watch it, (I have a multi-regional player) who has ... Read More
- where are the next seasons?I bought season 1 a long time ago.I remember how it made me feel when I first saw it on television all those years ago.I remember certain episodes and would like to to get the rest of the series, which are not on the 1st season.I hope to get the rest soon.Thanks
