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Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Season 1

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Just as Heartwarming as I Remembered 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love these shows. I watched them as a child and am enjoying them with my kids now. The shows are so positive, and teach great family values!!

Beneficial childhood recollections 5 out of 5 stars.
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The series Little House on the Prairie has beneficial childhood recollections about the episodes and others that would discuss the shows as we were younger. This is the reason for sending this item as a gift to our children. Have not heard any negative comments concerning this item, just positive. Thanks and God Bless.

Little House (Season 1) DVD 5 out of 5 stars.
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My 9 year old grandaughter is fascinated by these very well done episodes. She is enjoying them and learning at the same time.

Little House on the Prairie, Season I 5 out of 5 stars.
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The price was right, it was easy to order, and it was delivered within the time frame stated.

Will continue to order from Amazon.com

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The Ingalls family homesteads in Minnesota where they have many adventures.
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Artist: LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE
Title: SEASON 1-1974-1975
Street Release Date: 04/03/2007
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Genre: TELEVISION

Christy - The Complete Series

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Total reviews: 83 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Cancelled WAY too soon! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I missed this series when it initially aired. Because of the reviews I thoght that I would try it. Boy and I glad I did! Why in the world it was cancelled after only two seasons is beyond me. The last episode was the cliff hanger for the third, and unfortuneately we'll never know what happened. Wonderful series, leaves you wanting more!!

Great Series!!! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great series for the family to watch!!! I watched them when i was a kid...but they are always fun to watch...

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Based on the bestseller by Catherine Marshall "Christy" tells the story of an idealistic nineteen year old who leaves the comforts of her city home to teach school in the impoverished Appalachian community of Cutter Gap Tennessee in 1912. Strength determination and faith guide young Christy Huddleston through unforeseen difficulties help her to gain understanding of the proud mountain people and win her mentorship friendship and the love of two men.System Requirements:Run Time: 907 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 024543424376 Manufacturer No: 2242437

Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Complete Series Megaset

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Independence comes to Colorodo Springs 5 out of 5 stars.
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What a wonderful show! I was not able to follow this show during it's regularly scheduled timeslot. This complete series megaset has allowed me to enjoy all the shows. (Haven't finished watching them all yet). The value is great! The presentation value is great. I will enjoy these for as long as DVDs last. My only concern is ... how difficult it is for me to get the DVDs out of the pockets. Younger fingers won't have a problem. That's why I'd like to give it 4 3/4 stars, but the system only allows whole stars.

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Packaged in a gorgeous faux-leather photo album that will pop off shelves and coffee tables, this collectible scrapbook of memorabilia chronicles the beautiful romance of Dr. Quinn and Sully and contains the entire series together for the first time---a must have for any fan.

Deadwood - The Complete Third Season

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Excellent Service 5 out of 5 stars.
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I ordered the Third Season of Deadwood from Amazon.com to be sent to another state. The video was delivered in a few days and in excellent condition and a great price! It is always a pleasure shopping on Amazon.com. I highly recommend them!

I never wanted it to end. . . 5 out of 5 stars.
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I really didn't want to reach the last episode of this, the third season. I didn't get to watch it when it originally aired and was heartbroken to hear of its early demise. I was able to get this season at a great price. I enjoyed the commentary but would have liked a few more extras. I love Deadwood!

Its the king of the genre 5 out of 5 stars.
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Nothing else comes close in realistic western drama -- not at all the typical western horse opera. If you liked Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood's dark western, you'll love this series. It was criminal of HBO to cancel this series after only 3 seasons -- it was the best thing they ever produced.

Frustrating build-up to absolutely nothing *SPOILER ALERT* 3 out of 5 stars.
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I was hooked on Deadwood from the start and in particular absolutely mesmerised by Ian McShane's performance - acting at its absolute finest, perfect timing and pacing of his lines and expressions. Comedy, violence, anger and angst, all delivered in impeccable and perfect pitch - a complete masterclass in the art. And this from the same man who played Lovejoy!

The sets were superb, the supporting ensemble pretty good... but unfortunately, by Season 3, it seemed like things were starting to unravel, probably when the director/producers realised the viewing figures were waning, HBO had lost interest and that the end was nigh.

Which probably explains why the massive build-up to a climactic showdown never happened - they ran out of budget. Committed to a set number of shows for the rest of the season, they just stretched it out to fill. A massive anti-climax and disappointment, and an affront to the show's loyal fans.

Hearst arrived and everything was building up to some sort of epic confrontation. Hired guns arriving in town, Mr Wu fetching his army of Chinese from San Francisco... I thought we were going to go out in an epic blaze of glory.

Instead, we had characters standing around agonising on what to do next, marching around from one building to another, doing the odd Shakespearean-style soliloquoy, indulging in embarrassing lesbian scenes (Calamity Jane must rank as the most irritating and unwatchable character in any TV series) and all manner of other pointless and dull interludes.

Meanwhile key characters from Seasons 1 and 2, like Sy Tolliver, became sidelined in Series 3, characters going nowhere and with no real motives or objectives in life.

Tolliver spends most of Series 3 standing around ranting and raving, but for reasons which totally escape me. What his purpose was, and what his relationship with Hearst was, all seemed to melt into nothing, so he was reduced to standing on his balcony looking angry and gritting his teeth.

All this wouldn't have been so bad, but as the guns massed, the taunts grew, the violence simmered and boiled, the random acts of brutality caused ever more teeth-clenching... what happened? Nothing! Nothing at all! Hearst rode out of town after Bulloch clenched his teeth at him one last time, and that was it! How feeble was that?

The whole series just fizzled out, with the election supposed to be some sort of climactic finale. But the significance of the election, or who was standing for what, and why, completely escaped me. It just seemed an irritating, confusing and weakly-scripted diversion in the background, not the major plotline.

When the election finally took place, the results were confusingly blurted out in Al's pub by a minor character, nobody seemed bothered by them (including the viewers), or even heard them properly, and the meaning and impact of it had become totally lost, to the point where it hardly seemed to matter.

This review gets three stars for Ian McShane's brilliant character acting, for the sets, and for HBO's bravura in putting this ambitious series on in the first place.

But it desperately needs some sort of finale, a tying up of loose ends, as some sort of payback for the long hours the loyal fans have put in following it all.

Oh, it also gets bonus points for the magnificent horse in the credits (called Bobby, I believe), and for Ellwood's wonderful dog (can anybody supply any more information on him?)

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Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 05/06/2008 Rating: Nr

Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Season 2

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Little House on the Prairie, season 2 5 out of 5 stars.
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Fabulous! How much more wholesome can you get in today's world?!? I bought my 8 year old daughter the first season last year after she became hooked on the book series. Having never seen the TV show, I thought she'd like to see what the characters looked like. She loved it so much her brother bought her season 2 for Christmas.

Great series 5 out of 5 stars.
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Great series, enjoyed little house on the prarie since I was a little girl and I am an adult now and still love it.

Classic Nostalgia 5 out of 5 stars.
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I bought this for my wife, who faithfully watches Little House re-runs at 4:00 p.m. every afternoon. I grew up watching this program, back in the days when "wholesome" and "family values" were not cliches, but part of the fabric of American culture. My children love this show as well. If you enjoyed this show when it originally aired in the 70's, or if you are looking for a family safe alternative to the trashy, irreverant, sarcastic tripe that is on the air now, you cannot go wrong by purchasing not just this set, but the entire collection.

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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 03/06/2007

Deadwood - The Complete Second Season

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Of course the show is awesome. I won't write yet another review. Here are some fun facts and comments: 5 out of 5 stars.
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Deadwood is one of the best TV shows ever made. If we consider it with films thrown into the mix as well, it would be the best western of all time. Its dramatic impact as well as the depth and complexity of its characters are almost unparalleled. It easily puts other, more popular shows to shame, making The Sopranos, for instance, seem sophomoric and silly in comparison. Obviously the show is awesome, so instead of writing yet another review, I will offer some random comments and fun facts.

-First, the cast is almost flawless. Almost. What would have been a flawless cast suffers greatly because of one of its leads: Timothy Olyphant. How did he land that role? He can't act and he's goofy looking. Watching him walk around the streets of Deadwood throwing his pseudo-menacing glances around with the acting depth of Steven Seagal is laughable. Even more laughable are his constant attempts to imitate Clint Eastwood. Too bad.

-Many people objected to the profanity in the show. It is both anachronistic and accurate. How? Well, it's accurate in that people would have been cussing, a lot. They just wouldn't have been using the words that we today like to use. Milch thought it would be too comedic to have a bunch of people running around saying things like "You dern varmint" and sounding like Yosemite Sam, so he opted instead for the anachronistic, modern profanities used instead. This fact is poked fun at in one episode when Farnum makes a comment about an ancient Italian maxim fitting a situation. Wolcott says the gist is "s#!t out of luck," to which Farnum asks, "Did they speak that way then?" (By the way, the guy who plays Wolcott also plays McCall on the show--I don't like it when shows "recycle" actors, but oh well.)

-Other than the anachronistic swear words, the language used is pretty authentic in my opinion. The language would have been a mixture of rough miner talk and Victorian-era discourse. Educated people were much more eloquent back then than they are today, a fact that is well represented in the complex dialogue exchanges in the show.

-Deadwood is high on the verisimilitude scale. It feels authentic, but is full of historical inaccuracies. Many of the characters are based on real people, such as Al Swearengen, Seth Bullock, Sol Star, Calamity Jane, Hickok and Charlie Utter. In real life, however, Bullock was married to his childhood sweetheart, not his sister-in-law. The Bella Union was owned by one Tom Miller. Cy, Joannie and Eddie are fictional characters. So is Alma.

-The guy going around with the "soap with a prize inside" scam is based on Soapy Smith. He would attract large audiences with this claim. An accomplice in the audience would buy a bar and find that cash was in the wrapper. Audience members saw Smith placing large bills in certain wrappers and then placing those soaps in with the others, but, through sleight of hand, none of these were actually sold to customers. He would sell down the stack of soap, with accomplices "finding" cash in their soap wrappers. He would then announce that the soap with the $100 bill hasn't been purchased yet, and auction off all the rest of the bars at a high price. In reality none of the wrappers had cash in them. In real life Soapy Smith was very successful, running criminal enterprises larger than Swearengen's. I do not think he ever operated in Deadwood. His most famous scam was a "telegraph office" in Alaska where he would charge people to send telegrams. Apparently nobody realized that there were no telegraph lines leading to the town (or the telegraph office for that matter).

-Some other interesting tidbits on factual characters: In real life Charlie Utter was very dashing and charismatic. He only wore the finest suits, was very particular about his long, blond hair and moustache, and insisted on bathing each and every day--something that was quite unusual then. If accurately portrayed, Utter would have perhaps been the most dashing character on the show. In her autobiography Calamity Jane claims that she is Wild Bill's ex wife. (Why they make her a lesbian in the show I don't know.) Hickok's funeral was a big to do in real life, not a small ceremony. History has it that Hickok always sat with his back to a corner to avoid being attacked from behind, and that on that night in Nuttall's No. 10 saloon there simply wasn't a seat available with its back to a wall. The show, however, suggests that Hickok had a death wish and knew that McCall was going to kill him.

-Deadwood magazine claims that the real Al Swearengen was much more sinister and brutal than how he is portrayed in the show. He would lure women to Deadwood with false promises and then beat them until they agreed to work as prostitutes. He was married when the show takes place, but his wife left him on the grounds of abuse. He was married two more times. Both wives also left him because of abuse. Swearengen's original saloon featured "prize fights" between miners. The winners never actually received prizes. When he opened The Gem Variety Theater he made as much as $10,000 a night, which would today be equivalent to as much as $180,000 a night! The original Gem burned down in 1879, two years after season three of the show occurs. It was later rebuilt much larger. The real Swearengen was from Iowa, not England, and Wikipedia reports that a recently recovered obituary shows that he was found dead in Denver in 1904 with a massive head wound.

-If you're like me, and like your whiskey, watching this show will want to make you drink some. I tried to find what whiskey they would be drinking on the show. Another anachronism emerged: Whiskey bottles would not have had printed labels on them back then. There would be some glass, embossed bottles, but the whiskey at The Gem would come in barrels and likely be served in ceramic jugs. Some whiskeys that may have been drunk: They mention Basil Hayden on the show. Beam produces a pricy Basil Hayden whiskey, but know that Basil Hayden's recipe is today sold as Old Grand-Dad (Grand-Dad being Basil Hayden). Old Overholt was the most popular whiskey in Tombstone, and is the best (and cheapest) rye still made today. Rye was probably more common than sour mash, though in one episode Wolcott specifically orders "Kentucky Bourbon." Hickok however, liked rye. Old Overholt was also Abraham Lincoln's favorite drink. Old Crow is another (they all start with "Old"). Old Crow was Ulysses S. Grant's favorite. It is said that someone reported on Grant's drunkenness to Lincoln. Lincoln said, "I wish you knew what kind of whiskey he drank. I'd have a barrel sent to all of my generals." My wife suggested the drinking game of getting one of these whiskey's and drinking whenever they do on the show. Others have commented on the mythic feats of drinking portrayed on Deadwood. Just keep in mind that the whiskey they were drinking would have been very watered down.

-Fans are rightly pissed at the show's being cancelled. Deadwood was better than The Sopranos and was also better than Six Feet Under, both of which were given six seasons. A year or so ago HBO still said there was about a 50/50 chance on the two, two-hour TV movies it promised to rap up the show's plotlines. In a recent interview, however, Ian McShane (who played Swearengen) said that these TV movies will never be made, as they are tearing down the show's elaborate set already. He said this officially means that "Deadwood is Dead," and added something to the effect that "if this makes you upset, imagine how I feel." I would add, however, that contrary to popular belief, David Milch did NOT abandon Deadwood for John from Cincinnati. JFC was written before Deadwood, and Milch fully intended for Deadwood to continue after JFC started. It was HBO that cancelled Deadwood, as Deadwood cost a lot more than JFC. I've heard that a lot of fans then cancelled HBO. Good for them. Deadwood was about the best damn TV show ever made.

-In the end, the theater owner Jack saves the day by telling Hearst he has more important things to do than messing around with the likes of Swearengen. Hearst is convinced and leaves camp. Thus Jack saves the town from a struggle and spares viewers from any sort of climax or payoff. As some have commented, the series finale is one of the worst of all time. Sure, they didn't know that it was going to be the series finale. It just so happened that the last episode happened to be one of the worst episodes in the entire show's run. Too bad. In real life what happened next is that Bullock lost the election but refused to give up his star, until he was taken to court.

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Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: 05/06/2008 Rating: Nr

Deadwood - The Complete First Season

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Complete Deadwod 5 out of 5 stars.
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This series had us captivated. The actors were well chosen for their parts. The off colored language didn't become offensive to us as it seemed to fit right in to the story and become part of the character. We were sorry to have it end. Maybe if they had been able to finish the story and build up to the end it would have been easier to accept.

The Best Dramatic Western Series Ever 5 out of 5 stars.
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After watching all of the Soprano's and Carnivale episodes over the years I figured it would be nearly impossible to improve on them. I was wrong! This is unquestionably the best dramatic western series ever done for television! Imaginative and captivating while keeping historical perspective, it never ceased to keep you eagerly anticipating more of the same. Unfortunately, just when it seemed there would be much more to come, the brain-donors in charge of programming at HBO decided to cancel this immensely popular, award winning, hit series (in the same delicate fashion as Carnivale). It will be sorely missed. Nuts! to HBO.

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Fox Western Classics (Rawhide / The Gunfighter / Garden of Evil)

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2-1/2 Great Westerns 5 out of 5 stars.
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Fox has released a terrific 3-disc box set, THE WESTERN CLASSICS, in which we're finally getting a DVD version of one of the most revered westerns ever produced, THE GUNFIGHTER (1950) starring Gregory Peck.

Directed by Henry King in glorious black-and-white, THE GUNFIGHTER is almost a Shakespearean tragedy, and is considered to be the first adult western, predating better known films like HIGH NOON and SHANE.

Peck plays Jimmy Ringo, a notorious gunfighter who would like to bury his reputation, but is forced to keep on the run because young punks keep forcing him to draw.

Currently, he's being pursued by the three brothers of a braggart he killed in self defense, but he stops off in the small town where his estranged wife (Helen Wescott) lives, hoping for a reconciliation. The sheriff of the town happens to be Millard Mitchell, an old friend and former gunslinger.

Mitchell wants Peck to leave town, but he won't go until Westcott agrees to meet him. In the meantime, the three brothers are getting closer and, if that's not bad enough, there's a young hothead in town (Skip Homeier) who thinks he's a faster draw than the legendary Jimmy Ringo.

THE GUNFIGHTER may not contain a lot of shoot-'em-up action, but it's filled with a HIGH NOON-like suspense and colorful, multi-dimensional characters. Karl Malden and Jean Parker co-star.

DVD extras include a featurette on cinematographer Arthur Miller, an artist with black-and-white, and a retrospective "Making of" mini-documentary.

Almost as good as THE GUNFIGHTER is RAWHIDE (1951), another beautifully-photographed black-and-white western, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Tyrone Power, Susan Hayward and Hugh Marlowe.

Marlowe and his band of ruthless outlaws (Jack Elam, Dean Jagger, George Tobias), all escaped convicts, take control of a desert stagecoach station, run by Edgar Buchanan and his tenderfoot assistant (Power). They kill Buchanan, then hold Power and stage passenger Hayward (and her baby niece) hostage, waiting for a gold shipment to arrive by coach the next day.

Power knows that, once the outlaws have the gold, they will kill their captives, so he and Hayward desperately devise a plan to thwart their intentions.

RAWHIDE is another suspense-filled western, containing a fair share of surprise plot twists.

DVD extras include featurettes on Ms. Hayward and on Lone Pine, where RAWHIDE, THE GUNFIGHTER and many other classic westerns were shot.

Hathaway, Hayward and Marlowe are also involved in GARDEN OF EVIL (1954), the one disappointing film in this box set.

Shot in CinemaScope and color, the movie features some gorgeous and interesting Mexican scenery and boasts a cast that also includes Gary Cooper, Richard Widmark, Cameron Mitchell and (briefly) Rita Moreno.

The problem with GARDEN OF EVIL is the very talky script, which has its characters doing things that make little or no sense.

Cooper, Widmark and Mitchell play three Americans on their way to the California Gold Rush by ship, who get stranded in a small Mexican coastal town and are hired by Hayward to help free her husband (Marlowe) from a mine cave-in. The problem is that the mine is located deep in the mountains in Apache territory.

DVD extras include a retrospective "Making of" featurette and a mini-documentary on director Hathaway.

© Michael B. Druxman, author of ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD (available December 2008)

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 05/13/2008

The Lone Ranger: 75th Anniversary - Seasons 1 and 2

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Lone Ranger 75th Anniversary set is worth every penny 4 out of 5 stars.
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I just received this set this evening and have spent some time going through it. I did not observe any 11-13 minute episodes that have been mentioned in other reviews, the ones I checked appeared to be full-length. There are quite a few 22-23 minute episodes, but there do not appear to be any significant edits to the best of my knowledge. There is some time compression but nothing that I found to be too distracting from what I've observed so far, and I've barely noticed any jumpiness in the picture or any warbling on the sound that sometimes accompanies severe time compression on other releases and TV broadcasts. In fact the episodes look better than any syndicated TV print I've seen. And of course the 25 minute shows look amazing.

The sections immediately following the main title intro that used to say "Return with us now to the thrilling days of yesteryear" do appear to be removed from the episodes I glanced at. There is also a weird insertion of a close-up of the Lone Ranger sitting still on his horse inserted at the point in the main title intro when he's charging up the hill on his horse and the narrator says "...and a hearty hi-yo Silver", then it cuts back to the standard shot of him rearing up on Silver. I don't ever remember that shot being inserted in syndication, I always recall that it was a continuous shot of him riding up the hill and rearing up. It appears in all of the episodes I glanced at. No biggie, but it still struck me as odd.

Only other quibbles I have are that there don't appear to be chapter stops inserted, and the time counter for the episodes continue to accrue; they don't start at 00:00:00 at the beginning of each episode but instead have one continuous running time from the beginning of the first episode to the end of the last episode on the disc. Makes it difficult to figure out each show's running time.

The extras included in this set are plentiful and nicely crafted. The commemorative book in particular has a lot of material to go through. There is a bonus disc featuring some LR cartoons, a Lassie episode with the LR and some radio shows, a Season 1 and 2 episode guide, a 'signed' photo, a vintage comic book reproduction, a vintage ID card, Victory Corps membership kit, Lone Ranger Safety Club postcard, and trading cards.

I was on the fence about this set for the last several days but several reviews here and at the Home Theater Forum (along with the great job Classic Media did on the Sergeant Preston sets I own) convinced me to take the plunge and I'm glad I did. It is a blast seeing these episodes again and reliving some fond memories from my childhood in the process. I hope we get more seasons released from Classic Media, perhaps one next year for the 60th anniversary of the TV show.

Definitely recommended to any Lone Ranger fan! You get a lot of great material for the price.

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Studio: Genius Products Inc Release Date: 11/11/2008 Run time: 1900 minutes

Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Season 3

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On September 11 1974 "Little House on the Prairie" made its TV debut destined to significantly alter the landscape of television. Acclaimed author Laura Ingalls Wilder had reached into her heart to create a reality driven impact-filled story of an American pioneer family's struggle to survive the challenges of frontier life in the late 1800's with courage dignity and humor a story that would one day be a television milestone. Loyal fans will relive these exciting adventures while new viewers will discover the Ingalls' unconquerable courage as they strive to build a better way of life. The Complete Third Season - 1976-1977 Mary and John fall deeply in love and must make serious decisions about their future - Laura demonstrates tremendous courage when Charles is critically wounded on a hunting trip - Carrie wanders off and narrowly avoids tragedy when she is rescued from a mine shaft - A child initially rejected by his grandfather because his father was Indian earns his Grandad's respect - Important lessons are learned when a young black child comes to stay with the Ingalls - With their crops destroyed Charles decides to take his family to seek their fortune in the gold mines with disturbing results... - These and all of the other exciting adventures from the entire Third Season are presented in this Special Collector's Edition!System Requirements:Approx18 HoursFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 069458120432 Manufacturer No: A021430