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Sweet Valley High - The Complete First Season |  | Directors: Douglas Barr (II), Joel Bender, Marc Lawrence (II), Harvey Frost, Brian Thomas Jones
Actors: Brittany & Cynthia Daniel, Ryan James Bittle, Tyffany Hayes, Michael Perl, Harley Rodriguez
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Category: DVD
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Rating:  34 reviews
Sales Rank: 14868
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, NTSC
Languages: Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 446 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.5 x 0.7
MPN: 786936264340
ISBN: 0788857495
UPC: 786936264340
EAN: 9780788857492
ASIN: B0006J28E6
Theatrical Release Date: September 5, 1994
Release Date: March 8, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
High school students Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield are used to having their lives complicated by the fact that though identical twins, they have ver
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More Beverly Hills 90210 than Freaks and Geeks, Sweet Valley High looks at the lives and loves of the popular kids rather than the outcasts. Cynthia and Brittany Daniel star as twins Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield in the television version of Francine Pascal's best selling book series. With their seemingly perfect Southern California lives, Liz and Jess are more Betty and Veronica, from the Archie comics, than the high school girls of any other TV series. In other words, Sweet Valley Highis escapism, pure and simple--and what's wrong with a little escapism? While both girls are part of the in-crowd, there are differences between them. Liz, a reporter for the school newspaper, is the good one, while Jess, a cheerleader, is the not-so-good one. Created by Josh Goldstein (American Dreams), The Complete First Season includes all 22 episodes broadcast between 1994-1995. Supporting characters include Liz's boyfriend Todd (Ryan James Bittle) and best friend Enid (Amy Danles) and Jess's best friends Lila (Bridget Flanery) and Patty (Amarilis). Rich kid Bruce (Brock Burnett), his pal Manny (Harley Rodriguez), token nerd Winston "Eggman" Egbert (Michael Perl), and a few teachers--but no parents--round out the cast. Most of the conflicts the girls face are created by devious, self-centered Jess, who pretends to be her sister whenever Liz has something she wants, like a potential college boyfriend ("Dangerous Love"), a broadcasting gig ("Oracle on Air"), or praise from the hot poetry teacher ("Poetic Injustice"). Sweet Valley High ran on FOX for three seasons, followed by a fourth and final season on UPN. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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 Corny and bad acting, but who cares! March 23, 2006
J Hawk
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I loved watching this show on Saturday mornings, i couldn't wait to get up and watch it. Alot of you may have noticed that there is no SVH season 2 anywhere in site, and that's because of lack luster sales, which isn't to hard to believe, BV is charging $45 dollars and up for a 3 disc set of 20 minute shows with no extras! that's a bit ridiculous, you would think that a bell would go off for them but i guess it hasn't, anyway SVH fans it's time to band together the rest of the SVH series is rumored to be in jeporady of not getting released so write to Buena Vista and tell them you want it: Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc./Dept. CS,/Burbank, CA 91521: you can also check out their website about contacting them through email:http://video.movies.go.com/
Love it! May 27, 2005
daughterofcokie (Chula Vista, CA United States)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I am one of those adults who occasionally sneaks peaks at SVH novels from my teen years (although I wouldn't admit it out loud). I didn't watch much of the show when it was airing new episodes on the TV channels but I got ahold of the DVDs for season 1 and just loved it. Totally, campy escapist fun. No life lessons to be learned; no realistic charatcers; no apologizing for the high camp factor. It is such a soap opera and that's why I love it. I hope they put the other seasons on DVD.
As for the acting the only truly bad actors were the guy that pays Todd (he is so bad he gives me the heebie-jeebies) and the guy that plays Bruce. I notice they didn't have too many hot guys on the show. But I digress ...
I really liked the actresses that played the twins. They were a little too old to play high school teens but they did an admirable job. Which ever twin played Elizabeth (was it Cynthia or Brittany???) did the impossible and made me sympathize with Liz which I would have never thought possible because she always struck me as a self-righteous, hypocritical bore.
I hated the TV series version of Todd. I don't remember him being so agressive and jealous. Every guy who even looked at Liz cross-eyed he wanted to wrestle to the ground. And Jessica sure is a ho-bag.
The best episodes are the dancing one and the three-part arc about the creepy hospital orderly, Peter (who's name was Carl in the book series, I believe) who kidnapped Liz. The guy who played him ... he makes Hannibal Lecter a little less scary. He was awesome!
If you are looking for cheeseball fun, then buy this DVD!
BLAST FROM THE PAST March 12, 2005
Kristen (Virginia, USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
i too grew up highly addicted to the sweet valley series...sweet valley twins more than sweet valley high. but, me and my older sister were ecstatic when, in 94, we heard about the show. but yeah, the networks were very confusing about when it aired and this and that, so we only caught SOME episodes of seasons 1 and 2, and nothing more. i almost fell off of my computer chair when i saw that the dvd was coming!!! luckily, i had only found out just days before its release, so i didn't have to wait THAT long.
now i am almost through the second disk...ahhh i don't want it to end...haha.
the show is, as everyone says, not very much based on the books at all...the prince arthur episode wasn't even based on sweet valley high. (it was actually in sweet valley twins.) but still...anyone who grew up reading about the wakefield twins and wishing they lived in sweet valley as well...will adore this show.
actually, i think the show is corny, the characters all look too old to be in high school, and the situations presented only barely touch on what high school life is really like today...(or even in 1994). but, still, you gotta love sweet valley. i have to bust out laughing at every episode for how corny some of the things are, but it is an upbeat and fun show...a show that you can sit down and watch when you just really need to take a break, laugh, relax, and get caught up in the scandals and drama of someone ELSE'S life! even if you have no clue what sweet valley even is, it's a fun show all the same. i would have watched it regardless b/c i love twins...and brittany and cynthia were very good as jessica and elizabeth...very beautiful...only downside is, of course, they were very mature looking, nothing like 16...made things kind of un-realistic sometimes.
and as someone else said, it is VERY 90's...it's so hilarious to have such a blast from the past with the clothes and all...and jessica and lila, the "fashionable" characters, oh man...at times they looked brilliant, but some of the clothes were so funny! but i love it :)
it makes me feel like i'm 12 years old all over again when i see this. i remembered more about the show than i thought i did. and i definitely missed more episodes than i saw, so it's really great finally getting to catch up on the others.
bottom line...if you have no clue what sweet valley is, then i'll tell you straight up, it is nothing like the OC. the OC has very realistic portrayals of high schoolers today. but sweet valley high has pretty people, funny people, and entertaining situations. and of course, the show centers around the sisterly twin bond love of jessica and elizabeth. you can't really go wrong with this show...i've laughed...i've cried...seriously.
and i can't wait for other seasons!!!
MY REVIEW April 23, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I remember reading reading my frist sweet valley twins and friends book.My school libaryian showed them to me in 3rd grade! ever since then i've been on the edge of my seat in suspense reading every sweet valley book. i remember reading the covers one time...and seeing that IT'S A SERIES!I was so excited. I looked on the last page and found the listings.Unfortunally my home town wasn't on the listings..I was so sad..But i remember catching some episodes out of the blue. One day i was surfing the internet for Sweet valley related thing.And i saw this DVD. I was so excited and itmeditly i asked my mom if she would order it.I waited a little while for it to come. I am proud to say it was worth the wait...Any way i poped it in and was a little disappointed. I thought it would be like the EXCAT book.But then as i saw more i related how they are alike to the books.I couldn't watch them for awhile beacaues of other things.Lately i've been watching a TON. And as i watch i see how they are alike to the books even more.Even though Todd and Bruce look PRETTY weird and the fact that there's no ADULT parents...But ADULT teachers was a tunoff but the greatness of the DVD replaced that minor complaint. I hope This DVD makes a sucess beacause then they'll make the 2nd...3rd...and 4th seasons!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Just as I remembered! March 10, 2005
lil' bear
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I have devored many of books in the various Sweet Valley series, and watched this show wayyyy back in 1994. I happened to stumble across this set and got it right away. There are no extras, but the great episodes are enough to keep me satisfied. The show definitely has a 90's vibe, but the nostalgia is part of what makes it so great. If you used to read the books or watched this show growing up, then get it right away!
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