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Best of TV Detectives 150 Episodes
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List Price: $29.98
Our Price: $26.99
Your Save: $ 2.99 ( 10% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Mill Creek Entertainment
Starring: Mike Connors, Jack Webb, Doug McClure, Ralph Byrd
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: DIGITAL1STOP
EAN: 0826831070308
Format: Box set
Label: Mill Creek Entertainment
Manufacturer: Mill Creek Entertainment
Number Of Items: 12
Publisher: Mill Creek Entertainment
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2007-06-12
Running Time: 2553
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
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Synopsis: Available for the first time, 150 complete episodes from 33 exciting television series of the 1950's to the 1970's. You will not believe your eyes when you watch such thrilling programs as Dragnet, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Mannix, Burke's Law, Dick Tracy, Gang Busters, Mr. & Mrs. North, Racket Squad and Richard Diamond: Private Eye. See great television stars such as Mike Connors, Jack Webb, Doug McClure, Ralph Byrd, Richard Crane, David Janssen, Richard Denning and Charles Bronson, who came into your homes each week bringing you exciting tales of lawlessness and the men who fought it. You will have hours of enjoyment watching these classic crime fighters in action! Includes: 1. Adventures of Dr. Fu Manchu, The 2. Adventures of Ellery Queen, The 3. Alfred Hitchcock Presents 4. Bulldog Drummond 5. Burke's Law 6. Cases of Eddie Drake, The 7. Checkmate 8. Code 3 9. Colonel March of Scotland Yard 10. Court of Last Resort, The 11. Decoy 12. Dick Tracy 13. Dragnet 14. Federal Men 15. Follow That Man 16. Front Page Detective 17. Gang Busters 18. I'm The Law 19. Lawless Years, The 20. Lock Up 21. Lone Wolf, The 22. Man Behind the Badge, The 23. Man With A Camera 24. Mannix 25. Martin Kane, Private Eye 26. Miami Undercover 27. Michael Shayne 28. Mr. and Mrs. North 29. Public Defender, The 30. Racket Squad 31. Richard Diamond - Private Detective 32. Shadow, The 33. Sheriff of Cochise
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Summary: Better than expected in several ways!
Comment: First, I disagree that this is a haphazard collection. It isn't. By far, it is a smorgasborg of mystery/detective shows --many I never saw in reruns before. One nice surprise was DECOY with Beverly Garland. She's an intelligent undercover policewoman in New York. Great writting, excellent acting. Black/white, pre-dates Angie Dickinson's show. Maybe that's way it didn't have a long run. For this alone, this collection was tops. However, there is so much more. Dragnet from about 1952-on. Several shows have embedded cigarrette commercials. Some shows are corny oldies. But considering what is on television now--these are refreshing. "I'm THE LAW" was like that, corny but good. A couple of Mannix episodes. And others we have yet to see. But just from the first few disks, I had to share that this is an EXCELLENT BUY. This is the only resource for a Boris Karloff detective character who worked for Scotland Yard, Col. Marsh--I think. Terrific. I tried to locate more, was done in England, but have seen no success yet. It's detective Boris Karloff, shows a whimsical side of him, not frequently captured on film.
The DVDs are recorded on both sides, that to me is a minus. It tends to make the life of a DVD shorter if you don't take care. But the capture footage was enhanced, editted and carefully produced in digital. A few of the really old shows needed some sound enhancements. Mill Creek truly took the pains and efforts. Thank God for that. This is good product. Mom has been sitting down with a DVD a day. She's in her seventies and is really coming along fine, learning how to work the DVD player all by herself--the proper incentive in hand. For the money, the collection, and the high degree of digitizing these old shows---EXCELLENT. I hope to find more on Boris Karloff the Detective, and even more on DECOY with Beverly Garland. It is amazing after all these decades, how some human situations truly have not changed. Merry Christmas, all.
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Summary: Like travelling back in time.....
Comment: I absolutely love this set! After reading some of the warnings about the video/audio quality I was holding my breath as I popped in the first disc . . but I found it to be exactly what you'd reasonably expect from vintage 1950s-1970s TV . . it was like stepping back in time and then some . . I'm not quite old enough to remember some of the 1950s stuff first run, but I remember watching a lot of this stuff in reruns and even first run with shows like Mannix. The series "Checkmate" was a great "find" on this set -- I had never heard of it before, but my husband, who is a few years old than me, said, 'so I bet it doesn't have any Checkmate episodes does it...' -- I checked, and sure enough there are two. And they're really good. My favorites so far I think....so much so I am now considering purchasing the two DVDs that have the best of Season 1 and Season 2 of that series.
But back to the specifics about this collection. What a DEAL ... to get this many golden old detective shows for less than $20.00 . . it's just a bargain no matter how you look at it. Loving the series 'Decoy' too with Beverly Garland. . . who knew?!
A few too many "Dragnets" for my liking, but hey -- they're okay too in a pinch.
Definitely would recommend this set. Perfectly watchable and listenable - no worse than when we watched them first run on our old TV sets back in the 60s.
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Summary: Thrown together
Comment: Althought this is a complete and interesting collection of old TV shows, it is cheap and haphazardly thrown together. If you're a knowledgeable fan of these shows, you'll see the glaring mistakes immediately. I haven't been able to watch everything on the collection yet, but I'll outline the first thing that PO'ed me: The Dragnet collection. Let me first point out that all of the stuff on this DVD is public domain and 80% of it could be pulled from YouTube. There are 3 episodes of Dragnet on here that are mislabled.. in fact they don't exist in any episode guide. "The Big Ante" (The Big Hands), "The Big Score (The Big Gap), and "The Big Send-off" (The Big Bounce) are obviously made up names so as to make this look as though this collection had something new. Maybe worth half this price for taking the trouble of downloading from the internet and boxing it up.
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Summary: This is great stuff!!!!
Comment: This DVD set is a ton of fun and I'll be enjoying these old black 'n white shows for a very long time. I'm a young at heart 60 year old man who grew up in the lumber towns of Oregon and didn't even see a TV in our house until I was 7 years old. Old grand-dad would turn on the box and we would sit on the floor and be entertained by these great "Cop'r" shows every night. I'm seeing some shows that I haven't seen since then and when one comes along in this set,it just blows me away. They're so much fun, with all the cornieness,and all the simplicities of grade "B" action. And then I'll see one of my favorite screen actors at such a young and innocent age when they were just breaking into the acting business. Well, it's just a lot of fun for a very decent price. I've just bought another DVD set and can't wait for it's arrival. For the money, you can't beat it. The film reproduction quality is just as I suspected for the money, but, who cares? This is great stuff!!!!
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Summary: Richard Diamond (David Janssen)
Comment: The only reason why I ordered this DVD was because it contains several episodes from the TV series "Richard Diamond" with David Janssen (I'm a big fan since 1965), but in the end I found so much more of the old detective TV series like "Checkmate" and "Dragnet". But unfortunately there is still no single episode available from "The Detectives" with Robert Taylor. Well, in the meantime I'll reread "...and there are Promises to keep" by Ursula Thiess, Robert Taylor's widow, a German actress who survived the bombing of Hamburg, Germany, in WW II and later immigrated to the US. A fascinating book!
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