Full House: The Complete Fourth Season

Full House: The Complete Fourth Season Review

Full House: The Complete Fourth Season Feature

• A wedding to remember, a surprise addition to the Tanner family, a hole-in-the-wall dilemma, Joey goes to Hollywood and more! Join the Tanners once again for another hilarious season of Full House. Watch as the girls graduate to the next grade level, Stephanie has to wear glasses for the first time and neighbor Steve Urkel drops by for a visit, Jesse and Rebecca gets married after some hilarious m

Full House: The Complete Fourth Season Overview

A wedding to remember, a surprise addition to the Tanner family, a hole-in-the-wall dilemma, Joey goes to Hollywood and more! Join the Tanners once again for another hilarious season of Full House. Watch as the girls graduate to the next grade level, Stephanie has to wear glasses for the first time and neighbor Steve Urkel drops by for a visit, Jesse and Rebecca gets married after some hilarious mishaps.

Full House: The Complete Fourth Season Specifications

Just call him "Jesse the Greek." In the fourth season premiere of Full House, Katsopolis receives a visit from his European relatives, including Michelle's look-a-like cousin, marking one of the few times in the show’s eight-season history that the Olsen twins will share the screen. "Greek Week" ends with Jesse (John Stamos) and Becky (Lori Loughlin) getting engaged--a "big fat wedding" will transpire before the year is through. Interestingly, life will imitate art in 1998 when Stamos weds a real-life Rebecca (model/actress Rebecca Romijn). Other developments include a new production company, Double J Creative Services, for Joey (Dave Coulier) and Jesse ("The I.Q. Man")--with Danny as their silent partner--and Becky and Jesse finally tie the knot ("The Wedding" two-parter). Standout episodes include "Secret Admirer," in which everyone (who is able to read) thinks a fake love letter is intended for them, and "One Last Kiss," in which Jesse covers the Knack's "My Sharona" at his high school reunion. He may have abandoned the mullet to the 1980s, but the 1990s edition proves he can still get his rock on. (The same cannot be said about Danny's misguided attempts at coolness.)

Fourth season guests include Wayne Newton ("Viva Las Joey"), Jaleel "Urkel" White ("Stephanie Gets Framed"), and those eternal beach bunnies, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello ("Joey Goes Hollywood"). Also continuing to receive guest star billing is Andrea Barber (nosey neighbor Kimmy), even though she appears in most of the 25 episodes. The year ends with two graduations, D.J. (Candace Cameron) from junior high and Michelle (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen) from pre-school ("The Graduates"). Most importantly, there’s a Katsopolis birth announcement ("Rock the Cradle"). As Michelle would say, "Whoah, baby!" --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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Full House: The Complete Third Season

Full House: The Complete Third Season Review

Full House: The Complete Third Season Feature

• New additions to the Tanner household, birthday parties at gas stations, bullies at school, death-defying stunts and more! Join the Tanners once again for another hilarious season of Full House. Watch as DJ hides out with her first bout of acne, Michelle starts school, Stephanie drives Joey's new car and the men compete to see who's the most athletic of them all. Don't miss the latest antics of th

Full House: The Complete Third Season Overview

New additions to the Tanner household, birthday parties at gas stations, bullies at school, death-defying stunts and more! Join the Tanners once again for another hilarious season of Full House. Watch as DJ hides out with her first bout of acne, Michelle starts school, Stephanie drives Joey's new car and the men compete to see who's the most athletic of them all. Don't miss the latest antics of the Tanners in the complete third season for the first time ever on DVD!

Full House: The Complete Third Season Specifications

Two years ago, rocker Jesse (John Stamos, Jake in Progress) and stand-up comedian Joey (Dave Coulier, Skating with Celebrities) moved in with TV personality Danny (Bob Saget, most recently seen subverting his kindly dad image on Showtime's Huff) and daughters after the death of their mother. The next year, Jesse started seeing Danny's co-host, Becky (Lori Loughlin), who became a mother figure to Stephanie (Jodie Sweetin), D.J. (Candace Cameron), and Michelle (Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen). Taking a page from the Brady Bunch playbook, the year begins with a trip to Hawaii to celebrate their anniversary as an extended family. In the season premiere ("Tanner's Island"), Uncle Jesse even gets to sing a song by his hero, Elvis Presley (Blue Hawaii's "Rock-a-Hula Baby"). After they return, it's time for Stephanie and D.J. to head back to class. Stephanie's first day in second grade is a blast, while D.J.'s first day in junior high is a bust ("Back to School Blues"), but things improve once she stops trying so hard to fit in. Other third year changes include new dog Comet ("And They Call It Puppy Love"), D.J.'s first kiss ("13 Candles"), and birthday number three for precocious munchkin Michelle ("The Greatest Birthday on Earth"), who begins pre-school shortly afterwards ("Bye, Bye, Birdie"). Guest stars include Ed McMahon ("Star Search"), Scott Baio ("Dr. Dare Rides Again"), the Beach Boys' Mike Love ("Our Very First Telethon"), and Everybody Loves Raymond's Doris Roberts as Grandma Tanner ("Granny Tanny"). --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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House, M.D.: Season One

House, M.D.: Season One Review

. . . now that its available on DVD. If the show continues on its present path it may never leave the air.

HOUSE (AKA "HOUSE M.D.") concerns the antics of the brilliant, incisive, completely cynical, vicodin-addicted Dr. Gregory House, who works at Princeton University Hospital as Chief of Diagnostic Medicine. He has a covey of extraordinarily bright and ambitious students. He has a boss, Dr. Lisa Cuddy (Lisa Edelstein), with whom he trades barbs and the occasional leer. Cuddy is usually irritated at House because of his rude and dismissive attitude toward other doctors, patients, hospital staff, administrators, and the Board of Directors, but she defends him to the utmost, realizing that he is a brilliant doctor. House's best friend is Dr. Wilson (Robert Sean Leonard), Chief of Oncology, whom he frequently shanghais into assisting with cases.

All the characters have depth, wit, intelligence, and verve. HOUSE rarely misses a beat. The writing is crisp and stiletto sharp. This is a very adult-oriented show.

House is a despiser of political correctness, and often capsizes preconceived notions with a turn of phrase:

TO AFRICAN-AMERICAN DOCTOR: "You! Get away from that whiteboard! Hey, it's not MY rule."

or

WILSON: "I don't like semantics."

HOUSE: "Why, you Anti-Semantic S.O.B!"

He also enjoys making not-very veiled references to Cuddy's anatomy or his students' sex lives.

Hugh Laurie is an English actor who plays the American House without a trace of an accent. When he screen-tested for the part he showed up, did his lines, and left. After he was hired, he came to work speaking "English"; the producers wanted to know why he was putting on the accent. THAT'S how good he is.

House walks with a cane. Partially paralyzed from an accident, he has become a pill-popper. This isn't a secret. In later seasons he's forced to confront his paralysis and addiction.

If HOUSE has a single flaw, its the fact that each week the patients suffer from ridiculously complex symptoms, which send House and his team on a scavenger hunt of tests and procedures to discover the cause of why Margie had a headache which is gone, but then her fingers turned green, after which she had trouble breathing, and then her hair fell out, leading to the discovery of an undescended testicle, and that's why her name's really Mitch. Just once, I'd like somebody to show up with a cold.

But the game's afoot . . . HOUSE is very consciously patterned on Sherlock Holmes in which House = Holmes and Wilson = Watson. Just in case that's too subtle, House has an ex named Irene Adler, and Cuddy is sometimes referred to as "The Woman."

Dr. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is smiling down from Mystery Writers Heaven.

House, M.D.: Season One Overview

Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/10/2009 Rating: Nr

House, M.D.: Season One Specifications

He pops pills, watches soaps, and always, always says what's on his mind. He's Dr. Gregory House (Emmy nominee Hugh Laurie, Blackadder). Producers David Shore, Bryan Singer, Katie Jacobs, and Paul Attanasio haven't rewritten the hospital drama--at heart, it's a cross between St. Elsewhere, ER, and C.S.I.--but they've infused a moribund genre with new life and created one of TV's most compelling characters. More than any previous medical procedural, it resembles Attanasio’s underrated Gideon's Crossing, but House is lighter on its feet. As fascinating as he is, the show wouldn't work as well if it were all House all the time (that would be like Sherlock Holmes without Watson or Moriarty). Fortunately, he's joined by an intriguing cast of characters, portrayed by a combination of experienced vets (Omar Epps, Lisa Edelstein, Tony winner Robert Sean Leonard) and new faces (Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer). Aside from the complicated cases they tackle each week, the sparks really fly when House's brilliant, if naïve charges are put to the test--and as the head of a teaching hospital, it's his job to test them (although his tough love approach is constantly landing him in hot water with Edelstein's administrator). From the first episode, House attracted a talented array of guests, including Robin Tunney ("Pilot"), Joe Morton ("Role Model"), and Patrick Bauchau ("Cursed") as Spencer’s father. In addition, Chi McBride and Sela Ward appear frequently (with Ward returning for the second season). Viewers who first watched these 22 episodes on Fox will be gratified to note that the music has survived the transition to disc, such as the Rolling Stones' "You Can't Always Get What You Want," as featured in both the pilot and season finale ("Honeymoon"). The only apparent omission is the credit theme (Massive Attack's "Teardrop") from the pilot. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

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