While we're on the topic of movies. I've been looking for quite some time for a recording of a television show that some of you may recall titled "Brooklyn Bridge" <http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101055/>. It was produced by Gary David Goldberg ("Family Ties", "Spin City") and aired from 1991 to 1993 on CBS. The series followed the life of Alan Silver, a 14 year-old Jewish boy and his extended family who lived in Brooklyn in the 1950's. What was great about this show was that it was genuinely Jewish (if I recall correctly, there was an episode set during Sukot) yet was accessible and enjoyable to the non-Jewish world as well because of the diversity of the supporting characters (Alan's teacher is black; much to the chagrin of his grandmother, he dates an Irish Catholic girl named Katie Monahan). It really showed how much of a salad bowl Brooklyn--and by extension--America is. Although the series was lauded by the critics (it won a total of 12 Emmy Awards in its two-season run) it didn't find its groove with audiences due in part to the fact that CBS initially aired it on Friday nights and when petitioned by the Jewish community to move it to a different time slot, continually rescheduled it to different nights of the week. The end result is that this series has been all but forgotten. I would love to find a copy of this entire series on DVD (though I would settle for VHS). There are a few scam sites that can be found that sell bootlegged copies of the series (tvaddicts.tv, to name one) on DVD, but as of yet Paramount Television has not officially released the series on VHS or DVD. If anyone knows where I can find a legitimate copy of this series, please let me know. Although my search for the show is purely personal, I have no doubt in my mind that this show would make an excellent addition to any Jewish library.
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