Ernie Kovacs: The Centennial Edition - DVD [9 Discs]

Also includes his award-winning commercials for Dutch Masters cigars; short films, and rarities; plus a 44-page booklet featuring rare photos, program notes and a new essay by novelist Jonathan Lethem (Motherless Brooklyn).

Take A Good Look is Ernie's aphoristic Inchif a tree falls in the woodsInch, answer to the panel quiz show. Ernie turns the secret guest show formula on it's ear and almost inverts it. In Take A Good Look, it is the host who gives the panel hints about the secret guest's identity, and in the form of surreal sight gags, blackouts and sketches. The clues only really make sense if you know who the guest is to begin with. Throughout the series' run, different approaches were taken to address this. Early on in season one, Ernie himself has trouble explaining the show's formula to the home audience. Throughout the show's two seasons, panelists periodically complain to Ernie that the clues don't make sense; there's one show where Hans Conried protests, InchPlease, Ernie... tell them it's rigged! Inch

Set a century before the adventures of Captain Kirk and co., this 2001-2005 prequel series stars Scott Bakula as Captain Jonathan Archer, intrepid commander of the first starship called Enterprise during it's maiden voyage into the final frontier. Jolene Blalock, Connor Trinneer, John Billingsley, Dominic Keating, Anthony Montgomery, and Linda Park co-star.98 episodes on 27 discs. 70 hrs. Widescreen; Soundtracks English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo Surround; Subtitles English; featurettes; deleted scenes; audio commentary; more.