Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Having bought the complete series directly from Shout! Factory I've received the full season set and had a chance to sample the seasons. For those that were hoping for remastering and better quality for the 1st season you will be disappointed. I see little change in the season 1 episodes from the Roxbury set (all episodes are in the correct 1:33 format, however). For those hoping for a complete version of "A Fury Slinging Flame", sorry to say it's still the shortened syndication version, which is noted prior to the episode playing. The only upside is that a film copy was used as master rather than the really poor video dub version Roxbury used. The pilot episode, "Black November" actually looks a little worse, seems darker and muddier than the one on the Roxbury set. That may be because Roxbury brightened their version to offset the darkness of the master they used. Regardless, if people were hoping for a better quality set than what had been released by Roxbury it didn't happen. So, buying this set to get the 4th season is going to likely be seen as a waste of money for those that have previously purchased the 3 seasons from Roxbury. I quit buying the Roxbury sets after season one because it was such a disaster. So, for me it wasn't as much of a disappoint as it could have been. But I'm not impressed especially in light of the fact that better copies of many of the 1st season episodes do exist. I gave the set 2 stars simply for the fact that it's unlikely Route 66 will be done any better any time soon.