DVD Review

My Three Sons: Season 1, Volume 1 (2008)

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DVD Release Date: Sep 30, 2008; With: Fred MacMurray

B+

By Ken Tucker

Ken Tucker

Ken Tucker is critic-at-large for EW

One of the few early-'60s sitcoms that hold up, My Three Sons, which ran a remarkable 12 years, had two things going for it. The first was Fred MacMurray, past his Double Indemnity tough-guy prime but   totally in command as a widower with three kids, a wry smile, and a spine of steel. (Playing an   aeronautical engineer, he constructed parenthood like a solid building.) The second was that the entire first season had one director — rare in series TV. Peter Tewksbury set Sons' signature tone: quietly humorous, ethical but not didactic. He also had an eye for '60s suburban life — fashion, furniture, appliances. Fun in every sense; no notable EXTRAS. B+

Posted Oct 17, 2008

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