Passport Announces Release of the 100th Anniversary Abbott & Costello DVD Collection

Passport Announces Release of the 100th Anniversary Abbott & Costello DVD Collection

In Stores September 5, 2006

NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif., July 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Passport International Entertainment is saluting the 100th anniversary of Lou Costello's birth with an extraordinary 5-DVD set that includes the entire 1952-1953 first season of the landmark Abbott & Costello Show. Jerry Seinfeld credits this TV show with being the inspiration for his own hit series.

The 26 half-hour episodes are complete, uncut, digitally remastered, and feature Bud and Lou at their funniest, plus an unforgettable supporting cast of quirky characters: Sid Fields, Hillary Brooke, Joe "Stinky" Besser and Gordon "Mike the Cop" Jones.

The collection also includes rare and intimate, never-before-seen home movies of Lou Costello and his family from the 1940s and '50s, many in full color and narrated by Lou himself -- plus the DVD premiere of the recently restored 1948 short 10,000 Kids and a Cop, starring Bud and Lou, as well as Jimmy Stewart and William Bendix. In addition, Lou's daughters, Paddy and Chris Costello, share warm and revealing anecdotes about their father in exclusive interviews produced expressly for this DVD release. Chris and Paddy are available for interviews.

Passport DVD programming is distributed in North America exclusively by Koch Entertainment Distribution (KED). KED is located in Port Washington, New York.

Title: Abbott & Costello Show -- The 100th Anniversary Collection
(5-DVD Set)
Catalog #: DVD-5030
SRP: $39.98
Running Time: 885 minutes -- includes 105 minutes of DVD bonus material

Contact:
Chris Costello (Lou Costello's daughter)
(818) 842-9604 / (818) 389-9413 cell

This release was issued through eReleases(TM). For more information, visit http://www.ereleases.com/.

Source: Chris Costello & Company

CONTACT: Chris Costello (Lou Costello's daughter) of Chris Costello &
Company, +1-818-842-9604, +1-818-389-9413 (cell)

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