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24 - Season 3 (Slim - Pack)

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Best 24 5 out of 5 stars.
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Season 3 of 24 focuses on a threat of a virus being released into the city of Los Angeles as well as other major population centers. As usual, Jack Bauer is on the scene to stop the bad guys. Because so much of the entertainment value of the show comes from the twists and turns of the plot, I won't reveal many of the specifics but there two major story arcs that should be familiar to those who have watched the first two seasons. First, there is Jack and the other CTU agents who are racing against time to stop the terrorists from releasing the virus. Then there is President David Palmer and his administration that are fighting various potential scandals at the same time they deal with the virus.

The first thing that a viewer notices about this season is that the pace starts off a bit more slowly. It's not dull by any means, but it is definitely less frenetic out of the starting gate. The good part of this is that the writers have also eliminated the flaws that were evident in the last third of the first two seasons. This season is the first that felt like the story had been thought through to the very end with solid pacing throughout leading to a good climax in the last episode. I found this a welcome change from earlier seasons where it seemed that all the good ideas were used up early and increasingly preposterous ideas ruined the story at the time when it should have been building to the big finale.

Jack's character is generally much more under control than we have seen previously. He is still willing to go further than most men would, but he no longer seems to be driven by constant rage or a death wish. I found this change a welcome one. Kim Bauer is also improved as the amount of time she spends as a prisoner/hostage is radically reduced and she even proves useful at times in her new role as a CTU computer analyst. The performances of the villains were quite good, especially Joaquim de Almeida as Ramon Salazar. He brings a combination of charm and ruthlessness that is just right to make him a bad guy you love to hate.

The biggest low point of the season was the soap opera swirling around David Palmer's presidency. This is a man who was shown to be very principled in the first season, but since then he has consistently done the wrong or immoral thing any time he's been faced with a tough choice. His judgment is so consistently poor that I found myself no longer pulling for him and hoping that he would be brought down by the scandal of his own actions. It's a shame, because Dennis Haysbert has terrific presence and the writers did not need to insert all this cheap melodrama into the story.

I've only watched the first three seasons so far, but this is clearly the best one to date. The story holds together much better from beginning to end, and a lot of the worst plot contrivances that plagued the first two seasons have been done away with. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a thrill ride television series. There are many twists and turns and it makes for quite a breathtaking experience.

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 1064 minutes Rating: Nr

24 - Season 1 (Slim - Pack)

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Why such a high price for this??? 3 out of 5 stars.
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I love these slim packs of 24 but I mean why in the world do they cost more than the original pack of 24?? You can buy the normal set for about 20-30$, and I do not understand why the release version of the same thing is twice the price of the original release?

it's only just begun! 5 out of 5 stars.
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What a plan.. write a show that takes you through 24 hours of terrorism! The great thing is that it has no commercials so it is like one long movie that keeps you wanting more! It's great! I'll own the entire lot soon! 20 stars!!

AWESOME SERIES 5 out of 5 stars.
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It's an AWESOME, ACTION PACKED, SIMILAR TO THE REAL THING (ONLY THAT WE DONT KNOW ABOUT THE MILITARY AND CIA DIRTY SECRETS) SERIES. What I don't understand is that WHY!!! does amazon duplicate the price of the slim packs?. I have gotten seasons 1-4 in the slim pack version and none of them has costed me more than $27 per series, new condition and with free shipping. I guess they don't want to sell their stock and are letting their external sellers to increment sales, KEEP IT UP AMAZON!!!

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 1152 minutes Rating: Nr

24 - Season 6 Premiere (First 4 Episodes)

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They can't have 2 black men as supporting actors. 4 out of 5 stars.
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I must say that the idea of releasing just a few episodes of 24 so that people who missed the shows and didn't record them is a great $$$ idea.

Once again suspention of disbelief is the key to enjoying this series. I like how Jack is tortured for two years and in two hours is all right. My uncle was in Hanoi Hilton for six months, and I honestly don't know if he has fully recovered. It certainly took him longer than a couple of hours. I certainly wouldn't give a man like that a gun and put him on a high security job. Oops, I lapsed into rational thought.

Aside from that, the rest of the eipsodes are great. It is going to be hard for me to like Jack now or think that he is a 'hero' for killing Curtis. I have to agree that the Yasser Arafat wannabe deserved a bullet from the man who's men he killed. I guess there's not enough room on the show for two black men. The new President better watch his back and make sure that CTU only hires white guys.

Since I have to wait until the rest of the DVD's are out to watch the other episodes, my hope is that Kim will return to the show only to be killed. I would have given this 5 stars if it had happened in the first 4 hours!

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BE THE FIRST TO SEE 12 MINUTES OF EPISODE 5 BEFORE IT AIRS!

At the end of Season 5, Jack Bauer was kidnapped, beaten, and taken captive in retribution for his involvement in a raid on the Chinese Consulate eighteen months earlier. Now, thereâ?™s a new president, Jack Bauer is missing, and the U.S. is under siege from terrorist attacks more threatening than anything weâ?™ve ever encountered! There is only one thing that can save the nationâ?"Jack Bauer must die.

Get ready for the most explosive, the most terrifying, the most heart-pounding four hours of television ever. Included on this exclusive DVD are the first four hours of Season 6â?"6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m.â?"and a never-before-seen 12-minute preview of the next explosive episode. And you thought your rush hour was tenseâ?¦

24 - Seasons 1-5

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Season 1: 24, as surely everyone knows by now, is a thriller that takes places over 24 hours, midnight to midnight, in 24 one-hour episodes. Everything takes place in real time, which means no flashbacks, no flash-forwards, no handy time-dissolves. Every strand of the plot has to be dovetailed and interlocked so things happen just when they should, in the right amount of time. Federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) runs around L.A. trying to stall an assassination attempt on an African American presidential candidate and rescue his wife and daughter from the clutches of the Balkan baddies. Twists, turns, revelations, and cliffhangers are tossed at us with satisfying regularity. It's not perfect: we get some hokey plot devices (instant amnesia, anybody?); the final twist makes no sense whatsoever; and as for Dennis Hopper's "Serbian" accent.... Even so, this is undeniably mold-breaking TV. Like Murder One and The Sopranos, 24 is one of those series that future TV thrillers will be measured against. --Philip Kemp

Season 2: Jack Bauer is having another one of his "very bad days" in the second season of the groundbreaking real-time thriller 24. Once again the hours are ticking by with more guaranteed cliffhangers than a convention of mountain climbers. Holed up in a Los Angeles condo and estranged from his daughter, Jack is no longer on the government payroll; unfortunately for him, this small fact doesn't seem to matter to President David Palmer and the NSA, who call him back in to the CTU and give him 24 hours to infiltrate a terrorist organization that is planning to detonate a dirty bomb in the city of angels. All Jack wants is to get his daughter out of the city, unfortunately Kim's new employer, the abusive father of the child she is nannying, has other ideas.

Season 3: There's not one cougar to be found in 24's dynamic third season, and that's good news for everyone. After Jack Bauer's daughter Kim survived hokey hazards in season 2, she's now a full-time staffer at CTU, the L.A.-based intelligence beehive that's abuzz once again--three years after the events of "Day Two"--when a vengeful terrorist threatens to release a lethal virus that could wipe out much of the country's population. Jack attempts to broker a deal for the virus involving drug kingpin Ramon Salazar, whose operation Jack successfully infiltrated at high personal cost: to maintain his cover, he got hooked on heroin. That potentially deadly triangle--drug lords, addiction, and bioterrorism on a massive scale--sets the 24-hour clock ticking in a tight, action-packed plot involving a potential traitor in CTU's midst; the return of TV's greatest villainesses in Nina Meyers and former First Lady Sherry Palmer; a troubled romance between Kim and Jack's new partner Chase; and a scandalized reelection campaign by president David Palmer, who monitors CTU as they struggle to (literally) save the day.

Season 4: The fourth season kicks off with a deadly terrorist strike resulting in the kidnapping of his new boss, the U.S. Secretary of Defense James Heller. Although a fired, ex-employee of the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU), it is no surprise who is going to shift into full gear to bring the terrorists to justice. However, it doesn't take the super-agent long to discover the kidnapping of his boss is part of a much larger plan, master-minded by Habib Marvan the middle eastern terrorist cell leader the US government has been trying to track down for years. Considered by many to be the best season of the first four, 24 - Season 4 is a definite departure from the first three seasons; it's still amped up beyond anything else on TV, but compared to the previous seasons, 24 has gotten a lot smarter, and in turn, better. --Rob Bracco

Season 5: Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer is forced to return to Los Angeles when it becomes apparent that the only four people who know he is still alive are being systemically targeted for assassination. The assassinations coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty between Russia and the U.S., leading Jack to suspect a link between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists. But as events slowly unfold it becomes apparent that the day's horrific events were originally set in motion by someone within our country's own administration – an individual with the power and resources to thwart Jack's every move.

24: SEASONS 1-5 (33PC) / (WS) - 24: SEASONS 1-5 (33PC) / (WS)

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• Brand New and Factory Sealed Region 1 DVD set.
• Seasons 1 - 5.
• Exclusive bonus 168 Page Behind the scene photo book.
• Exclusive bonus CTU T-shirt

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 10/28/2008 Run time: 6220 minutes Rating: Nr

Ideal - Season One 2-DVD Set ( Ideal - Season 1 ) [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2&4 Import - Great Britain ]

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Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2&4 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital Stereo ),English ( Subtitles ),WIDESCREEN (1.78:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: 2-DVD Set, Commentary, Deleted Scenes, Interactive Menu, Making Of, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: The first series about Moz, a small time drug dealer who has being selling from home for over twenty years. But he insists he is providing a service to the local community and he only deals in the best quality marijuana and nothing else. His customers are mostly his closest friends: an Asian DJ and police constable who is also his main cannabis supplier; a childminder; a camp guy who seems to have a new boyfriend every week and a man who always wears a cartoon mask.

24 - TV Starter Set (Season 1, Episodes 1-2)

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As if You'll Be Able to Stop Here 5 out of 5 stars.
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In a recent effort to get casual fans interested in their TV products on DVD, Fox has released two episode starter sets of several of their shows. Reasonably priced, they tempt the viewer to buy the first season and even provide a coupon for the purchase price of the sampler off the price of the complete first season if offered. The casual fan has little to loose.

Here, Fox is offering the first two episodes of season 1 of 24, the most addicting thrill ride on TV today. Just as the Bauer family is about to call it a night, Jack gets a phone call that sends him into work. CTU has a credible threat on Presidential candidate Senator David Palmer. Meanwhile, daughter Kim sneaks out for a night with friends and Teri goes off after her. And Senator Palmer is facing a potential blackmail crisis of his own.

This show did take a few episodes of fully suck me in, but the trouble with this set is it most likely will. If you are a marginal fan of the show, having two episodes just isn't going to cut it. You'll need to have the complete first season to have all of what happens next. And, of course, you'll enjoy every minute of it.

This is brilliant marketing on Fox's part. You'll be buying the complete set before you can say cliffhanger. That coupon is going to come in very handy.

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Studio: Ingram Entertainment Release Date: 03/22/2005 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Nr

The Bionic Woman - Season 1 [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2.4 Import - Great Britain ]

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Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2.4 DVD:it WILL NOT play on standard US DVD player. You need multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD player to view it in USA/Canada: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ),SPECIAL FEATURES: Box Set, Interactive Menu, Multi-DVD Set, Scene Access,SYNOPSIS: Jaime Sommers, a tennis pro, suffers a parachuting accident. She is saved by a special surgery replacing her ear, an arm and both legs with bionic ones. Now she works as a secret agent hidden as a school teacher. SCREENED/AWARDED AT: Golden Globes,

MythBusters Season 3 - Episode 24: Ming Dynasty Astronaut

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The MythBusters, Jamie and Adam, two special effects experts with over 30 years experience between them, set out to methodically bust three urban legends in each episode. They will apply modern day science with age-old legends and modern-day myths to prove or disprove what is real and what is truly urban legend. They don't just tell the myths, they'll put them to the test. Ming Dynasty Astronaut - In this episode of MythBusters, Buster takes the hot seat in the Mojave Desert in the myth of the Ming Dynasty Astronaut. Will Buster defy the laws of gravity and survive an explosive launch into space? Adam and Jamie play mad scientists in the quest for free energy, but will the energy really be no-cost and will Adam's stunt double loose his head at the hands of the build teams killer fan? Two heads, three fans and five MythBusters test this head turning, stomach churning story. The MythBusters don't just tell the myths...they put them to the test.

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24 (2 Pack) Season 1 and Season 2 , With Keifer Sutherland

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In this concept drama, each season takes place within one 24 hour period. Jack Bauer is the head of an elite team of CIA agents who uncover an assassination plot targeting Presidential nominee David Palmer. Meanwhile, Jack's strained marriage to his wife, Teri, is pushed to the brink by the sudden disappearance of their troubled teenage daughter. What will the next 24 hours hold?