Home Improvement - The Complete First Season | 
 enlarge | Actor: Tim Allen
Studio: Touchstone / Disney
Category: DVD
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Rating:  67 reviews
Sales Rank: 3769
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 3
Running Time: 566 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: DISD36796D
ISBN: 0788855743
UPC: 786936245844
EAN: 9780788855740
ASIN: B0002W4SWW
Theatrical Release Date: September 17, 1991
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 05/11/2007 Run time: 570 minutes
Amazon.com
There's no more reliable engine for comedy than the differences between men and women; Home Improvement puts that topic front and center. Launched from the stand-up comedy of Tim Allen (The Santa Clause, the voice of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story), this sturdy sitcom rests on the endearing, befuddled machismo of Tim Taylor (Allen), the host of a how-to-build-stuff show called Tool Time, who finds raising three sons and being a supportive husband isn't always as easy as sanding down a door frame. In the show's first season, the tried-and-true domestic plotlines (for example: wife wants to have a romantic dinner, husband wants to watch the big game--the fodder of every family sitcom since the dawn of television) are given a fresh spin by Home Improvement's embrace (and gentle mockery) of the men's movement that flourished in the early '90s. Tim's neighbor Wilson (Earl Hindman), whose face is always obscured by the fence between their yards, proves to be a font of Iron John-style wisdom--wisdom that Tim comically garbles when he puts it into practice. Allen and Patricia Richardson (as Tim's prickly but tolerant wife, Jill) immediately established a cozy but smart banter with enough bite to rise above the bland bickering of too many sitcoms. Some jokes degenerate into schtick--Tim's manly grunting becomes rote by the second episode--but Allen and his writing team consistently found surprises in this familiar territory. The capable supporting cast also includes Tim's sensitive and woefully single assistant Al (Richard Karn), his three cute sons (Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Zachery Ty Bryan, and Taran Noah Smith), and Tool Time's eye-candy (future Baywatch sex bomb Pamela Anderson). --Bret Fetzer
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 Not one of the best seasons November 1, 2008
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I liked this show, but the first season was not one of my favorites. A lot of the early episodes had mostly the same plot:
1. Tim and Jill have an argument.
2. Tim talks to Wilson about their argument.
3. Wilson gives Tim advice.
4. Tim goes to Jill and tells her a mixed-up version of what Wilson said. Jill doesn't understand.
5. Tim gets serious and explains what he means.
I enjoyed more of the later episodes. They were better after Brad, Mark, and Randy were a little older and the episodes had different situations with the boys, Heidi, and Al.
 I don't think so Tim September 28, 2008
abc snoopy (New Jersey)
I love this show. It's so funny. I am so glad I got this season. I can't wait to get the rest of the series.
HOME IMPROVEMENT SEASON 1 DVD September 16, 2008
HOME IMPROVEMENT SEASON 1 DVD IN THIS CRAZY SITCOM TIM THE TOOLMAN TAYLOR
LIVES WITH HIS WIFE JILL AND THEIR THREE BOYS BRAD RANDY AND MARK TIM HOSTS HIS OWN TOOL SHOW CALLED TOOL TIME WITH HIS FRIEND AL TIMS BEST FRIEND WILSON LIVES NEXT DOOR AND YOU CAN NEVER SEE HIS CHIN BUT HES VERY
WISE BUT TIM NEVER REALLY UNDERSTAND AND ASLO TIM GRUNTS TIMS WIFE JILL IS SHARP AS A TACK AND SO ARE THE KIDS BRAD AND RANDY PICK ON MARK ALL THE TIME MARK LOOKS UP TO TIM AND WANTS TO BE LIKE TIM RANDY HAS JILLS WIT
AND SMARTS OFF ALL THE TIME SO GO BUY THIS CLASSIC SITCOM ALSO PICK UP EVERYBODY LOVES RAYMOND ON DVD IT'S A CLASSIC SITCOM TOO. THANKS FOR READING MY REVEIW WELL SEE YOU.
Great Family entertainment ! September 7, 2008
Brad Lloyd (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
I agree 100% with Melworld, Home Improvement is good wholesome clean
comedy you can sit down with your children to watch.
We need more shows like this.
Thank you Tim Allen for all the years of making us laugh till we cried !
tool time September 6, 2008
melworld
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just got this season on dvd. It is great! I love the pilot episode where Tim rewires the dishwaser. This show has just the right mixture of testosterone and grunting for us guys, and enough of the other stuff for the rest of the audience. When I started watching the show I could not believe how young the children looked. Then I watched an episode from season eight and it was hard to believe how long it it had been. Talk about time flying when you are having fun. Well, if you want great videoes with more power buy home improvement on dvd.
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