It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

It is both painfully honest and laugh-out-loud funny at the same time.

The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

Great story, amazing characters, superb action, enthralling cinematography. Yes, this is something I am glad I spent money on.

HB managed the rare feat of creating the most uninteresting cartoon in history. The episodes are on youtube, check them out if you don't believe me. It's one of those shows where you keep waiting for something to happen and it never does. As a kid in the 1970s my eyes were instantly drawn to the detailed animation, but if you distill everything that was corny, tiresome, or hackneyed about Little House on the Prairie, and add in a dash of standard-issue 1970s sitcom-style pacing and some stale jokes, you'll come up with this superficial, unenjoyable mess. See, the Flintstones didn't pretend to be any more than it was, and that was fine until the Gazoo years, but TATD's reach exceeded its grasp. No kid wants to watch social commentary on a Saturday morning, that's why this show only lasted one season.

Truthfully, I don't recall this show in '74. I do recall it seemed to come about later on.The deal with '74 was it was two years before the bicentennial, a big deal if ever there was one, so clearly this show (which by the way did not take place in 1776) was simply supposed to conjure up some sort of nostalgia for the olden days, regardless of the era.Archie did it better with US of Archie, which I did like, but upon seeing some of those again, they have an unbelievably tepid watch to them as well.As cartoons are rather syndicated, I always suspected this one wasn't picked up in my area, which I must say, was for the better. It would not have been watched.I've since seen some episodes on Boomerang on Cartoon Network, and I recorded nearly all the shows off for my own viewing pleasure, save for this one and Shazzan (I just did not like that genie).I even recorded Goldie Gold and Fangface.There was just nothing emerging from TATD that hadn't already been covered in other shows; dutiful mother, mischievous son, cantankerous grandpa, thoughtful neighbors.All with established cartoon voices. It was like a series version of Charlotte's Web, which had come out a year or so earlier.

It's a shame that prime time animation was out of fashion in the mid-1970s, because that's where "These Are The Days" belonged. The acting was better than on most animated shows (and if you consider that some of the actors, such as June Lockhart and Frank Cady, were not normally associated with cartoons and could be more naturalistic, you'll understand why I say this), the artwork was better (I remember some of it resembling Currier and Ives), and the scripts were literate enough to appeal to adults as well as kids. On top of this, the show taught family values we could still use, such as working together in a crisis. With "The Waltons" and "Little House On The Prairie" dominating 8 PM (Eastern) slots on CBS and NBC, respectively, this one could have done the same thing for ABC.

Like many of the numerous Hanna-Barbera cartoons I've seen, I saw this on Cartoon Network's weekly Boomerang preview. The show's premise is about a family in the early 20th century in which a widow is trying to raise her 3 kids. Anyhoo, the show was inspired by "The Waltons" (which was a hit at the time) which also in a way had the same premise (execpt the widow raising her kids). The show was acclaimed as well, but it still died softly. However, I have to say, "These are the Days" is a pretty good cartoon. While not as good as Hanna-Barbera's well known classics, it might be good to check out. You may like it.