Close to You: Remembering The Carpenters is a 100-minute-long documentary that was released on DVD by
MPI Home Video. It features interviews by
Richard Carpenter,
John Bettis (co-writer), Gary Sims (part-time member),
Petula Clark, et al.
The documentary itself runs for approximately 60 minutes, with a 12-minute encore after the end credits featuring a performance of "(A Place To) Hideaway", the Carpenters' commercial for
Morton's Potato Chips, and their performance of "
Ave Maria" for the 1978 A Christmas Portrait special. The rest of the 100-minute total running time includes the special features (listed below).
The documentary originally aired as a special on
PBS and continues to be made available to PBS stations for
rerunning during
pledge drives.