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Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman - The Complete Season Six

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Total reviews: 15 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

It makes me happy! 5 out of 5 stars.
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The story of dr Quinns life is the kind that makes my heart warmer. The sun is not always shining but the light always come back in the end. It makes me happy!

Great Series, 5 out of 5 stars.
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I loved this series when it was on TV, and I've wanted to own it since it came out on DVD. The prices of the other seasons are a bit much, but it is without a doubt, worth it.

Dr.Quinn, Medicine Woman 5 out of 5 stars.
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We love them! and we are going to miss them since is the last season. Every episode always have such a good meaning...

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DR. QUINN, MEDICINE WOMAN-available on DVD for the first time ever, the sixth and final season of a television family classic! Having fled the social confines of mid-19th century Boston for the wide-open frontier world of Colorado Springs, Dr. Michaela "Mike" Quinn (Jane Seymour) finds a new set of challenges--and rewards--in life as a pioneer. With Byron Sully (Joe Lando) and a growing family to support her, each episode features a rich cast of characters and memorable storylines that bring the timeless themes of the Old West straight into the hearts of contemporary viewers.

Gunsmoke - 50th Anniversary Collection, Volumes 1 & 2

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Total reviews: 43 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

If you watched Gunsmoke 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you watched Gunsmoke as a kid, you need to watch it again as an adult. Miss Kitty takes on a whole different role. Matt is more handsome than ever. And you know at least a dozen Festus's in real life.

Gunsmoke 50th Anniversary Collection 4 out of 5 stars.
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I enjoyed this product very much, it brought back fond memories.

Glad I got this 4 out of 5 stars.
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While I understand people wanting season sets and all (and now they're getting them), the company was probably releasing collections like this to "test the waters" to make sure there was enough interest to warrant season sets. Apparently, there was. One of the great things about this set is it lets you track the evolution of the show, and could be a good guide to which season sets you might be interested in. For me, the later, hour-long episodes are better (I thought the opposite would be true). I had never seen any of the black and whites before...they are good, but the really early ones (half-hour) don't have much appeal to me. In the hour-long shows, even the black and white ones, they wrap up the ending with Matt and the person he saved or was gunning for, have a "moment" which really helps the show. Until the final black and white season, that great, familiar theme music also is not there...well, maybe a plodding version of it. That may seem like a nuance, but I think it's important. This set only includes a couple of episodes with Burt Reynolds as Quint Asper. I would like to have at least one more, he was very good in the role. But overall, this is a nice collection. It is overpriced (nearly $2 per episode) for an old show, but a fun splurge. If coupled with the Director's Collection, that probably fills in some holes too. I'm thinking about buying that too, although I'll probably skip the First Season set. This is one of those shows they should have started releasing season sets in the middle then work their way out in both directions, since the middle of the series seems to hold the most interest. ADDITIONAL INFO: With the switch to color episodes in this set (the "syndicated" or "TV Land" episodes), it appears that most of them are taken from videotape copies rather than going back to the original film elements. I didn't notice it on my old TV, but since I switched to HD, it's very apparent. While the black and whites are really clear, the color episodes are comparatively fuzzy, and at least one has garbled sound (the William Shatner episode). There are also abrupt fade-ins and fade-outs on at least one,which the original films wouldn't have had (but TV Land does). Still nice to have, but HD reveals a lot of problems that shouldn't be present.

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Marshall Matt Dillon is responsible for bringing law and respectability to the Dodge City in this western action-drama. The show still holds the record for being the longest running primetime drama series in television history.

Big Valley - Season 2, Volume 1

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Total reviews: 66 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

Great Show!!! Lousy Merchandizing!! 3 out of 5 stars.
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Once again FOX is sticking it to long-time, loyal fans of these older TV shows. They did it with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and are doing it to Burke's Law also. Splitting seasons into 2 parts and charging full price. Then, when fans get angry and stop buying(or burn their own off nostalgia TV)they discontinue production leaving us with an incomplete series and really mad. And no extras is just plain lazy!!
Are you mad? Then call FOX at FOX Customer Affairs... 1-888-223-2FOX, and give them a piece of your mind.
An irate viewer.

One Half is Never Enough 1 out of 5 stars.
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I am of the original TV generation, and I have been avidly collecting my favorite television series on DVD as soon as they become available. I was just about to put season one of The Big Valley in my shopping cart when I stumbled across Season 2 PART 1. Breaking TV seasons up into two parts is nothing short of reprehensible. In comparison to producing new series, the studios have only minor production costs involved in releasing shows such as this on DVD at this late date. And at the rate they are releasing these classic shows, I will have to leave it to my great grandchildren to collect the final seasons. I will be long gone before they become available. The studios need to realize who their audience is. If they think the younger generations are all that interested in classic TV shows, I think they have a rude awakening coming. They need to release ENTIRE TV SERIES NOW to take advantage of the fact that many of us who were there when these shows originally aired are still alive and interested in collecting them. As for ANY series which has seasons broken into two parts, I WILL NOT BUY THEM.

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BIG VALLEY Season 2 Volume 1 continues the adventures of the wealthy and powerful Barkley family in the untamed Old West.

The Magnificent Seven: The Complete Series

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Total reviews: 8 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Worth every penny 5 out of 5 stars.
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How did I miss this when it was on tv?
This is a wonderful western. I have loved every minute of it.
First, there is the eye candy that is very lovely to look at. Wouldn't it be great to live in a west with men who looked and acted like this LOL?
Second, it has little bad language and the gore factor is nil. I realize that a real-life cowboy in a gunfight would not say, "Oh dang!!", but I get the idea. I know that in a real gunfight, knifefight or fistfight there will be blood, guts and broken bones, but I don't really want to watch it happen. I realize that in real life the "ladies of the night" wouldn't be beautiful and sweet, but I don't really want to see the real thing.
My tv shows are my escape FROM life. And this one has succeeded wonderfully.
It is worth every penny plus more.
This is a show that I will be rewatching.

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Disc 1: Magnificent Seven SSN 1 Disc 2: Magnificent Seven SSN 1 Disc 3: Magnificent Seven SSN 2 Disc 4: Magnificent Seven SSN 2 Disc 5: Magnificent Seven SSN 2

The Legend of the Lone Ranger

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Total reviews: 22 Average rating: 2.5 of 5

America's Favorite Turkey Finally on DVD 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you're a die hard fan of the Lone Ranger series from the golden age of tv, or even the 2 big screen movies that Clayton Moore and Jay Silverheels made, you will be disappointed by this film. Not to mention that its star Klinton Splisbury was dubbed, and after that disappeared into obscurity. Despite all this, I saw this on the big screen and liked it, so much so I taped it off HBO many moons ago, and since copied that tape to disc. Let's look at some of the good things it has. 1) John Reid is made out to be a lawyer starting his practice rather than just a Texas Ranger along side his brother. 2) Jason Robards gives a performance of Grant that is believable. 3) Christopher Lloyd's Cavendish is not just an outlaw. Here he is an ex Union Army and he runs his band like a western day Godfather. Moreover Butch is only a nickname, his given name is "Bartholemew". 4) Collins, the double agent is more convincing, on radio I hear he was a half indian scout, here he is more the line of Benedict Arnold. 5) Michael Horse's Tonto speaks normal English even among his tribe while those who came before him did injun talk (even if could speak normally when not acting like. Silverheels). 6) For a time, John Reid has a love interest which makes you think that you may see more of Amy at a later time. It doesn't happen, but the idea is what counts here. Alright I agree, Merle Haggard's poor rhymes in his narration could have been improved, but they did help tell the story. As for John Barry's music, it's not Dances With Wolves, but still lively to keep you awake for the whole 1 hour and 40 minutes of the movie (the recording of William Tell aka the main theme during the fight scene at the end is first rate). Finally you do see, the human side of Reid at the end. The radio show and tv show made him out to be someone who would just fight for justice and would NEVER take a life, but you see here in the end that he was ready to take Cavendish out as revenge for his brother's death. It shows that for a minute, his old self was still there. It's when he realizes that he would be no better than Butch himself that he spares him, and thus now the code we all know the masked man lives by is established. So look at this way, is the movie a turkey, YES. Is it a movie to be ignored, NO. There are many people were around from 1980 to the present who never knew "the legend" and this does tell a reasonably accurate version of it. It's taken nearly 30 years for hit to hit DVD, my advice, buy it and keep it with your rare treasures that come and go on DVD. The chances on us seeing its like again are rare.

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Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 08/26/2008 Run time: 98 minutes Rating: Pg

Maverick (Television Favorites)

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Total reviews: 35 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Maverick rides again 4 out of 5 stars.
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The three episodes chosen for this DVD are excellent examples of a tv show in its prime. I do wish that there had been more episodes on the disc, but for $4.00, there really is no room for much complaint.

I hope that the powers that be decide to release "Maverick" season by season or at least a multi-disc 'Best of Bart", "Best of Brett", "Best of Beau" set. This was definately one of the best comedy-Western shows on TV (second only to "Bonanza").

I bought Maverick for a birthday gift 5 out of 5 stars.
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This was a gift for my husband, he is a very big western fan. I am pleased with this video, with the quality of the dvd and with the family quality of nearly all the shows from the 70's. My husband enjoyed the nostalgia of watching a video that he enjoyed from years ago.

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Maverick tells the story of Brett and Bart Maverick. These "fancy pants" gamblers roam from town to town during the era of the great old west looking for a good game; inevitably, making enemies when they won and extricating themselves from rough situations when they lost.

Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season Two

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Total reviews: 21 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

tv western 5 out of 5 stars.
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the quality of sound and video is great a must have if you like westerns &steve mcqueen

Top Notch Service 5 out of 5 stars.
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The King of Cool! 5 out of 5 stars.
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I remember watching these shows on TV as a boy. They were re-runs back then (1960's).

I was hooked on them from the start. Steve McQueen's facial expressions were so, well, expressive that you could tell what he was thinking as Josh Randal.

His body language skills would serve him well throughout his acting career.

See how it all started in the Season One DVD's and you'll just have to get this one and Season Three as well!

The DVD's are just like watching the TV show with the commercials removed. Picture and sound quality are very good. It is amazing that a 30 minute show when they were originally broadcast ran for something like 25 minutes. The commercial breaks were very short compared to today.

A must own for any Steve McQueen fan.

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32 fully restored episodes incluindg a special featurette on - the women of wanted: dead or alive Studio: Bci Eclipse Comp Llc Release Date: 07/17/2007 Run time: 840 minutes Rating: Nr

Cheyenne - The Complete First Season

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Total reviews: 83 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

The best 5 out of 5 stars.
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Out of all of the great, classic western tv series, and I've seen many, this one is my favorite. I guess the main reason is because of Clint's congenial manner. He's a regular, humble, funny guy who isn't afraid to belt you right in the nose if you deserve it. I like that. The series is excellent overall.

Cheyenne Season One is Great! 5 out of 5 stars.
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Season One of Cheyenne is great! Brings back memories of the great westerns we used to watch as kids. This has hours of entertainment that the whole family can enjoy! I can't wait for Season Two to come out!

ONE OF THE GREAT PILLARS OF WESTERN TV SHOWS 5 out of 5 stars.
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Cheyenne is a western television series of 108 black-and-white episodes broadcast on ABC from 1955 to 1962. The show was the first hour-long western, the first series to be made by a major Hollywood film studio which did not derive from its established film properties,[4] and the first of a long chain of Warner Brothers original series produced by William T. Orr.

The series strength was its charismatic star and TV western icon, Clint Walker, who dominated the screen with his powerful physique. Off the set, Walker battled the studio over his contract, making Cheyenne one of the more tempestuous productions in the history of television.



The series began as a part of Warner Brothers Presents, a program that alternated three different series in rotation. In its first year, Cheyenne traded broadcast weeks with Casablanca and King's Row. Thereafter, Cheyenne was overhauled by outgoing producer Roy Huggins and left the umbrella of WBP. The show starred Clint Walker as Cheyenne Bodie, a physically huge cowboy wandering the Old West. The show ran from 1955 to 1963, except for a hiatus when Walker went on strike for higher pay (1958-1959). The interim saw the introduction of a virtual Bodie-clone called Bronco Layne, played by Ty Hardin. Hardin was featured as the quasi main character during Bodie's absence. When Warners renegotiated Walker's contract and the actor returned to the show in 1959, Bronco was spunoff as a show in its own right and became independently successful.

The two series alternated in the same time slot from 1958 to 1962, with Bronco as the junior partner (only a snippet of his theme song was heard in the opening credits, as a kind of aural footnote to Cheyenne's). Occasionally both Cheyenne and Bronco appeared together in the same episode, both deadly serious as they worked together.

At the conclusion of the sixth season, a special episode was aired. Called "A Man Named Ragan", it was a pilot for a program called The Dakotas that would replace Cheyenne in the middle of the next season. However, because Cheyenne Bodie never appeared in "Ragan", the two programs are only tenuously linked.[2]

Walker reprised the Cheyenne Bodie character in 1991 for the TV-movie The Gambler Returns: Luck of the Draw and also played Cheyenne in an episode of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues in 1995.


For the 1957-58 season, ABC offered to purchase a full season of thirty-nine episodes of Cheyenne. Warner Brothers declined, however, since each hour-long episode took six working days for principal photography alone. The studio couldn't supply a new episode each week. Because Walker appeared in virtually every scene, it was also impossible to shoot more than one episode at a time.[5]


Cheyenne Bodie, a former frontier scout, is the heroic loner who drifts without any particular motivation or purpose through the old West after the Civil War taking temporary jobs on ranches, wagon trains, or cattle drives. Sometimes he works for the federal government or finds himself deputized by local lawmen. He often meddles in the affairs of others, settling conflicts with his fists and guns rather than with his wits, mediation, conciliation, or persuasion. Producers changed Bodie's circumstances at will in order to insert him into any dramatic conflict. Several Cheyenne episodes were remakes of earlier Warner Brothers movies like To Have and Have Not (1944) and Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) with Cheyenne Bodie simply inserted into the original plot.




L. Q. Jones (Smitty) and Clint Walker (Cheyenne)Clint Walker as main character Cheyenne Bodie is the only series regular. L. Q. Jones appears as Cheyenne's sidekick Smitty in three first-season episodes. Thereafter, no recurring characters make appearances as Cheynne's circumstances change with every episode and he relocates as his drifter tastes and lifestyle dictate. Diane Brewster first appears as Samantha Crawford, the swindler with a fake southern accent, in an episode called "Dark Rider" before the character migrates to Maverick to become the Maverick brothers' most celebrated nemesis. Among guest stars were the child actor Roger Mobley, later on NBC's Fury and a star of Walt Disney studios.



ABC televised the show from 1955 to 1962: September 1955-September 1959 Tuesday 7:30-8:30 P.M.; September 1959-December 1962, Monday 7:30-8:30 P.M.; April 1963-September 1963, Friday 7:30-8:30 P.M..



Dell Comics produced a comic book based on the series. After 3 issues in their Four Color Comics series, it got its own title for issues #4-25 from (1957-1962). All issues had photo covers. Milton Bradley published a Cheyenne board game for children based on the series. Golden Books published an illustrated storybook for very young children while Whitman Publishing printed a novel called The Lost Gold of Lion Park for older children.






Cheyenne was a principal reason for ABC's ratings ascent during the mid-1950s. ABC had fewer national affiliates than CBS and NBC, but in markets with affiliates of all three networks, Cheyenne immediately entered the top ten; by 1957, it had become the number one program in those markets. Cheyenne finished the 1957-58 season as the second highest-rated series on ABC.



Cheyenne was a co-winner of the 1957 Golden Globe Award for Television Achievement.

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Cheyenne follows the adventures of Cheyenne Bodie. Cheyenne was a big man, a former army scout who went west after the American Civil War and drifted from job to job, here a cowboy, there a lawman, and always a larger-than-life hero.

Have Gun Will Travel - The Complete Second Season

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Have DVD, Will Watch Volume 2 5 out of 5 stars.
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The second season of HGWT was every bit as good or better than the first. The same high class work of writing and acting coutinues on into this season. Rather different from many of the westerns of its day, this show protrays the adventures of a man of honor throughout the west. True, he was working for money, but Palidan never charged more than a fair amount. He picked his causes with an eye to his sense of morality and ethics. Given this background, you must understand that these episodes although less than 30 minutes in length are full of action and humor as they look at issues of that day and this one. Just a side note, look for the episode with Vincent Price and Morey Amsterdam. It is a hoot!

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HAVE GUN WILL TRAVEL follows the story of professional gunfighter Paladin who, after the Civil War, settles into San Francisco's Hotel Carlton where he awaits responses to his business card. Upon receipt of $1,000, Paladin will leave his suite to chase down whatever mission of mercy or justice his clients commission. Featuring a photo of a white knight chess piece, the business card simply says "Have Gun - Will TravelWire Paladin, San Francisco."

Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season One

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Total reviews: 9 Average rating: 4.5 of 5

Mare's Leg 5 out of 5 stars.
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Watching the episodes brings back great, childhood memories. Steve McQueen did an excellent protraying a bounty hunter with a conscience.

Extraordinary series 5 out of 5 stars.
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I was really impressed by this series regarding that is from the late 50ies. Being German and not speaking English perfectly I was positively surprised at the good understandable English and glad that there are subtitles if you (seldom) need them.
I did not see the series before but am deeply impressed by the variety of stories like it is in the series "Francis Drake". I do not see any current series having such extraordinary stories besides "Babylon5" and "Deadwood".

Juergen

we can do better than this, can't we? 5 out of 5 stars.
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all the reviews for this are about an 80's action movie. the product is a western TV series from the late 50's. HELLLLOOOOO!!!

Long Gone... 5 out of 5 stars.
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Long Gone from t.v., Steve McQueen in "Wanted, Dead or Alive", is filled with hours of good acting, action, & entertainment. Each show is less than 1 hour, so it's like a collection of short stories from the Old West...

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Studio: Bci Eclipse Comp Llc Release Date: 07/17/2007 Run time: 1008 minutes Rating: Nr