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Baa Baa Black Sheep
One of my guilty pleasures from the seventies returns! Baa Baa Black Sheep is the story (highly fictionalized of course) of World War II's Major Gregory "Pappy" Boyington, the misfit, conniving Marine Corp hero who took a bunch of drunken miscreants and turned them into flying aces.
Universal delivers the first 10 episodes (not the entire first season) and the 1976 two-hour pilot on two double-sided discs. This series was from the producer of The A-Team (you'll swear both shows were sharing the same music themes); Robert Conrad is perfectly cast as Boyington and the likable supporting players include Dirk Blocker (Deadwood), John Larroquette and the brilliant Simon Oakland as the all-bark no-bite commanding officer.
This was the first TV program to extensively utilize exciting battle footage shot by the government during the war and it blended fairly well with the gorgeous aerial footage of restored WWII airplanes that was lensed for the show. It all makes for a pretty effective action / comedy storyline if you can get beyond the requisite, thoroughly unnecessary fist fights.
These are undoubtedly the best episodes of the series run; when the show returned as Black Sheep Squadron it was Charlie's Angel-ized with the addition of Pappy's Lambs, a gaggle of nubile nurses.
If you plan to but only one volume of Black Sheep episodes, this is the one to get. If you're looking to own the whole series, I'm sure the rest will be forthcoming. For less than thirty bucks (and free shipping if you order now from Amazon) you can't go wrong with this one.
Thanks to Universal for reminding me just how much I enjoyed watching television when I was younger!

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Baa Baa Black Sheep on DVD

Plot Synopsis: Pappy Boyington is the squadron-leader of a group of fighter pilots stationed on an island in the Pacific, during World War II. Pappy often needs to intercede in altercations at the base, but everyone seems to pull together when they are assigned missions in the air.