Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)During the Fall of 1963, a new police and lawyer show debuted on ABC. Titled "Arrest and Trial," this unique show was made for a 90 minute time slot. The first half of the show featured the "Arrest," with detectives Ben Gazzara and Roger Perry gathering the evidence and apprehending the suspect. The...
Arrest and Trial Review
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John Bailey
on 10/31/2012
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One Step Beyond 4-DVD Set Review
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought this set in a big box store somewhere, never having seen "One Step Beyond" the first time around. But knowing that "Twighlight Zone" was something I loved viewing on the SciFi Channel I purchased this - and LOVED IT!There is something slightly more mannered yet weird in the production. There...
NYPD Blue - Season 2 (1993) Review
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John Bailey
on 10/30/2012
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I found this on "tvshowsondvd.com", dated 7/01/2004: They often say, "No news is good news," but that's not the case when it comes to DVDs. If a studio has been releasing a show on DVD and then you don't hear anything about a subsequent season, the assumption is that the sets were selling poorly and...
The Littles - The Complete Series (1983) Review
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In the endless mucking about through hundreds of cutesy kids shows a few do come out on top as being innovative, educational, and above all entertaining. The Littles was one of those kinds of shows. While the episodes had a moral to them that moral tends to be shown in a more practical way than your...
The History Channel Presents The Civil War (1999) Review
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John Bailey
on 10/29/2012
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)An outstanding collection of the best episodes of History Channel's "Civil War Combat" and "Civil War Journal," the latter hosted and narrated by actor Danny Glover.My only real qualms (and the reason I give this set 4 stars out of 5) is because A&E/History Channel basically recycled these previously...
Dogfights - The Complete Season One (History Channel) (2006) Review
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The History Channel's "Dogfights" series is a huge step forward for air combat documentaries. Rarely can gun camera footage capture what actually happened in a dogfight. Instead you just see the final couple seconds before the target explodes. The "Dogfights" episodes overcome this limitation by adding...
Inspector Gadget's Last Case - Claw's Revenge (2002) Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Inspector Gadget was probably my all-time favorite 80's cartoon. I enjoyed both the first and second seasons of the series as well as 1992's Christmas special "Inspector Gadget Saves Christmas". Some Gadget fans are quick to criticize the second season (1985) of the show, but they need to compare it...
Outer Limits: Don't Open Till Doomsday (1963) Review
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Overrated but good. Screenwriter Stefano was a little pressed for time on this one, and didn't quite get to polish it off as well as he could have. Still, it's got atmosphere to spare, one of the creepier aliens of the series, and Miriam Hopkins as a demented spinster in a worse-than-haunted house.Hopkins...
Avengers '66 - Set 1, Vol. 1 & 2 (1966) Review
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John Bailey
on 10/27/2012
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)These DVD's from A&E represent the best known and certainly the most popular era of the long running British TV fantasy-adventure series "The Avengers." Made between 1965 and 1966, all 26 episodes of the fourth season of the show are available here on four discs.When Honor Blackman (Mrs. Cathy Gale)...
Have Gun Will Travel - The First Three Seasons (1957) Review
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)First, I love half-hour dramas. They are a holdover from radio where executives thought that a half hour was as long as they could hold an audience. When TV began they took what they learned on radio and transferred it. (Interestingly, HGWT was the only TV show to spawn a radio show - usually it was...
The Avengers - The Complete Emma Peel Megaset (2006 Collector's Edition) (1966) Review
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John Bailey
on 10/26/2012
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emma peel,
john steed,
the avengers
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews) The immensely popular ABC series called "The Avengers" has long since achieved legendary status since it appeared back in January 1961. Since then there have been 161 episodes, which break into four major sections. We have the early episodes (1-26) with Patrick Macnee as John Steed and Ian Hendry as...
The Mystery Science Theater 3000 Collection, Vol. 3 (The Atomic Brain / The Sidehackers / The Unearthly / Shorts, Vol. 2) (1988) Review
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)They could have given MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER VOLUME 3 the subheading of "Shorts", as there are more short films on offer here than in any previous box set, and most likely any future releases simply won't contain as many as there are here. There are nine short features here, six from the Shorts Vol....
Treasure Box Collection; Digitally Remastered: Wagon Train Review
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John Bailey
on 10/25/2012
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This has two episodes in B/W, 1st episode has John McIntyre as wagon master. The second episode Robert horton does the ramroding. I was hoping to see Ward Bond but I guess all of the ones with him have been lost.It was a kick to see the old crew again anyway.Click Here to see more reviews about: Treasure...
The Phil Silvers Show-Sgt. Bilko-Volume 2-48 Episodes-6 DVD-Chronological Order Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've purchased all three sets of the Phil Silvers (Bilko) show through amazon.com. They were made by "Classic Sitcoms" of Canada. Unfortunately, the quality is, at best, indifferent. They were recorded off someone's cable television system, and while the picture quality is generally decent, some episodes...
Doctor Who: The Keys of Marinus (Story 5) (2010) Review
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John Bailey
on 10/24/2012
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william hartnell
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It's worth noting that you've been watching a cut version of this story all these years; read this from the Restoration Team website:"[The film copies had] seven seconds of cuts to episode two and ten seconds of cuts to episode four. The most likely reason for these cuts is either physical damage to...
Doctor Who: The Web Planet (Story 13) (1975) Review
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Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"What have we got? Echoes, interference, gold, and now acid. Yes, similar properties to formic acid. It's strange, isn't it?" says the Doctor on the planet Vortis, on which the TARDIS has been forced to land. It's a dark and forbidding place, dotted with mesas and plateaus.The Zarbi, gigantic ants, with...
The Twilight Zone: Vol. 20 (1959) Review
Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This DVD has 3 great episodes on it. "30 Fathom Grave" would have been one of those classic episodes that people keep quoting (Like "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" or "Time Enough At Last"), but it was a 30 minute episode that was stretched to an hour. If they had edited this as a half-hour episode, it would...