The second and final season of "Here Come the Brides" has been released by Shout! Factory.
"Here Come the Brides: The Complete Second Season" has been released on DVD.“Here Come the Brides: The Complete Second Season,”
(Shout! Factory, 6-DVDs, $44.99 list price)
“Here Come the Brides” lasted just two seasons on ABC, but its loyal, vocal fan base has clamored for its release on home video for years.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment obliged in 2006 by releasing the first season. Now out-of-print, sealed copies of that six-DVD set sell on Amazon.com and elsewhere for between $215 and $299.
Since 2006, fans have petitioned for the release of the second and final season. Their prayers were answered today, thanks to the folks at Shout! Factory, who have issued “Here Come the Brides: The Complete Second Season” on DVD.
The ABC series centered on the fictional Bolt brothers (Robert Brown, David Soul and Bobby Sherman), who brought 100 New Bedord, Massachusetts bachelorettes to love-starved loggers in post-Civil War Seattle. Bridget Hanley co-starred as the beautiful, strong-willed (possible) bride-to-be Candy Pruitt. Oscar nominee Joan Blondell played saloon owner Lottie Hatfield, who served up wisdom and whiskey to the loggers. Unlike other Western dramas of the 1960s, “Here Come the Brides” was light on violence and heavy on settling disputes through talking.
Second season stories range from a sniper firing on loggers in "Lorenzo Bush" to a shortage of whiskey in "How Dry We Are." Along the way, the Bolt brothers and people of Seattle battle trappers, Big Foot and a raging fire.
While there are no significant extras in this DVD set, Jonathan Etter, author of the “Gangway, Lord: The 'Here Come the Brides' Book” contributes brief introductions to several episodes. The video transfer and film prints are equal in quality to those used by Sony in its earlier collection.
Fans will be thrilled to know that the theme song “Seattle” with words and music by Hugo Montenegro, Ernie Sheldon and Jack Keller is featured in this collection, rather than the instrumental utilized on the first season set.