Lonesome Dove

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Hailed as a masterpiece by critics and audiences alike Lonesome Dove brings to life all the magnificent drama and romance of the West. Winner of seven Emmy Awards and one of the highest rated miniseries in television history this exciting re-creation oFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: WESTERN/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 012236127178 Manufacturer No: 12717

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Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, aging cowboys and former Texas rangers and who organize a 2,500 mile cattle drive for one last great adventure in this excellent 1989 miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel. The best friends, who steal the herd from a gang of Mexican cattle rustlers, drive their herd from Texas to Montana, battling horse thieves, angry Indian tribes, and a renegade half-breed killer named Blue Duck (Frederic Forrest) on a mission of revenge. The excellent cast also includes Robert Urich as cardsharp and former Ranger Jake Spoon, Anjelica Huston as McCrae's old flame Clara Allen, Danny Glover, Ricky Schroder, Diane Lane, Chris Cooper, D.B. Sweeney, Steve Buscemi, and even a small role for author Larry McMurtry. Australian director Simon Wincer shows a tremendous capacity for balancing sweeping drama and intimacy against the gorgeous landscape of the American Southwest, giving a grandly epic feel to the film despite its small-screen target and limited budget, and for forging memorable characters of even the smallest supporting parts. The heart of the drama belongs to McCrae and Call, memorably etched by Duvall and Jones as the last of the range romantics. In the age of revisionist Westerns, this excellent cattle-drive drama nicely maintains an old-fashioned feeling while still showing the dark side of the American West. Winner of seven Emmy Awards and responsible for two miniseries sequels (Return to Lonesome Dove and Dead Man's Walk) and a TV series. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews:

as good as the book.......2007-09-13

I loved the book and had to see the mini series. the mini series really nailed the whole approach of the book and Tommy Lee Jones and Robert Duvall were perfectly cast. I could watch it over and over again.

Concerned about getting an edited version? Read here........2007-09-06

I recently bought this for my dad for his birthday. I remember watching it when I was younger and I always liked it, but the version we had was recorded from TV and was terrible quality, especially because it is now almost 20 years old. It is an excellent series, but you can decide that for yourself if you choose to buy it.

My decision to write this review is designed to help the potential buyer who doesn't want to get ripped off. I read most of the reviews before buying this product, and time and time again I came accross people who complained about purchasing an edited version with much of the content removed. Many of those reviews were old, so I didn't know if I was getting a newer version with the whole story of some other version that was edited. Hopefully this will help.

It appears that Amazon sells 2 versions of the DVD (I know nothing about the VHS versions so this review does not apply to them). The version I bought (ASIN B00005Y6YB) is listed as 360 minutes in length and is ranked in the top 500 in Amazon's top sellers. It was released by Hallmark. The DVD box lists the run time as 6 hours, which is what you would expect after removing commercials an 8 hour TV miniseries that is split into 4 parts. Amazon's price is listed as $8.49.

Another version of the series (ASIN B00003IPFK) is listed as 360 minutes as well, but is listed at about #48,000 in the top sellers and is priced at $13.75 (only available from independent vendors). Seeing how few people bought this version and how much more it costs, I would avoid it.

The version I bought is ASIN B00005Y6YB and it is complete. Perhaps the people who gave bad reviews did not receive the same version I bought. Amazon lists the same reviews for both, so it's possible that people gave poor reviews to a different version and those reviews got mixed in with the complete version's reviews. If you want to be sure you are getting the complete series without editing, I would recommend searching the ASIN so that you don't have to pick and choose between versions. Be sure you check when you get the product that you have the full 6 hour version. I hope this helps!Lonesome Dove

Wish there were more.......2007-09-06

Duvall is at his best. This is the kind of movie you can let yourself enter and be there. Wish there were more movies around like this!

Lonesome Dove.......2007-09-05

This is a great movie!!! I recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good western. It is almost as good as Tombstone!

bobs review.......2007-08-28

One of the best, and most powerful movies that I have ever seen.
even though I am not necessarily a western buff

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Great!
Broken Trail
Very Impressive, Realistic & Involving Western
Duvall Delivers
Classic Western!

Broken Trail
Starring: Robert Duvall , Thomas Haden Church , Greta Scacchi , Gwendoline Yeo , and Chris Mulkey
Director: Walter Hill
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B000GFRI4K
Release Date: 2006-09-05

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The lives of two stoic cowboys and five abused Chinese women become intertwined in Walter Hill's sprawling miniseries Broken Trail. Print Ritter (Academy Award winner Robert Duvall) and his nephew Tom Harte (Thomas Haden Church, Sideways) agree to deliver a herd of 500 horses from Oregon to Wyoming. Along the way, they rescue the young women--most of them still just girls--who're being transported to a brothel to have their virginity auctioned off. When the madam sees she is about to lose the girls, she screams at Tom, "What about my property?" He shouts back, "That's the price of being a capitalist, lady." Unable to overcome the language barrier, Print assigns numbers to the girls. Number 3, Sun Foy (Gwendoline Yeo, Desperate Housewives) is the most fearless and perceptive of them. Though the others don't want to be called Number 4--an unlucky numeral in their homeland--Ye Fung (Olivia Cheng), the most tragic of the group, doesn't care. Targeted for her beauty, she finds herself unable to overcome the trauma. The number suits her, in her mind. Along the way, Print and Tom rescue Nola Johns (Greta Scacchi), the proverbial hooker with the heat of gold, who was forced into prostitution after her husband died.

The cinematography is gorgeous as the camera sweeps over the lush landscape (the Canadian Rockies subbing in for wild West of the late 1800s) and Hill does a formidable job of pacing this 3-hour drama with just the right balance of dialogue and action. For Duvall, Broken Trail is the last piece to his Western trilogy, which started with the miniseries Lonesome Dove followed by the feature film Open Range. He is instantly likeable as a father figure and the viewer never doubts that his intention for the girls is honorable. As for Haden Church, he has never been as appealing as he is in this role. Gruff and flawed, he softens when he exchanges shy glances with Sun Foy. The trek is long and hard and the unlikely band of travelers will face much hardship. If not as satisfying as the rich, detailed Lonesome Dove, Broken Trail makes up for it with a wonderful storyline and some fine acting by all involved. As for the conclusion, it may surprise some viewers who are expecting a more traditional version of the happy ending. --Jae-Ha Kim

Customer Reviews:

Great!.......2007-09-13

I am a real western fan and I loved this movie. It is more family oriented than most and Robert Duval does a wonderful job as usual, acting as a "good man" when it comes to all these women he seemingly inherits. He does the right thing, all the way through. Recommended!!

Broken Trail.......2007-09-07

This was a good movie, all 3 hours of it. I would highly recommend it to any western fan.

Very Impressive, Realistic & Involving Western.......2007-09-07

I can only hope they someone keeps making Westerns because the few that have been made the last few years have been outstanding. This one, a TV miniseries, is just great. I can't enough good things about it. I saw it recently on DVD. It was a three-hour film. I thought I read somewhere that it was four hours, so I don't know if this version has been down. I only know what I saw, and I liked about everything I saw.

I also knew what to expect.....and that helped. I didn't expect a rough film with a ton of violence and nasty characters, language, etc. What surprised me was just how interesting a film this was for being three hours long and not having a lot of action. I attribute this to the dialog, the acting, characters you care about and the wonderful cinematography. It's hard to beat the scenery in a nicely-filmed western.

The words coming out of the two stars of the picture, Robert Duvall and Thomas Haden Church were extremely believable material. These guys were tough, but not abrasively- macho, compassionate but not sappy. As "Prentice Ritter" and "Tom Harte," respectively, they fascinating to watch. I liked what they said throughout the movie and they were extremely believable characters. They looked and talked the part.

This story is different because it's mainly about helping five young Chinese women, who are destined for prostitution, slavery and who knows what else. Ritter and Harte didn't volunteer for the job; it accidentally came upon them as they were escorting horses North for a nice payday. The two men showed wonderful compassion for these girls, despite the fact they slowed their mission down and had a problem with communication.

It simple terms: this is a nice movie, a good story about good guys doing a good deed for the right reasons. Watching them do it, under adverse conditions, was almost a privilege. A big thank you to all involved with this movie and giving us fans of this genre hope that it isn't completely dead.

Duvall Delivers.......2007-09-01

There aren't many actors today who can lay claim to the title "dedicated actor", but Robert Duvall can, anytime. His acting always delivers in one way or another. He is definitely at home in all of his western roles. From Open Range to Broken Trail, Duvall delivers.

Classic Western!.......2007-08-29

Very good -- never saw it when it first came out -- don't know how I missed it.

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Deadwood Season III
Deadwood second Season
Deadwood Rocks!
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Deadwood - The Complete Second Season

Deadwood - The Complete Second Season
Director: Michael Almereyda , Davis Guggenheim , and Timothy Van Patten
Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
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ASIN: B000EULSR0
Release Date: 2006-05-23

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1877. A new day is dawning in the Black Hills outlaw camp of Deadwood. For better or worse, times are changing, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. Unsavory new arrivals - looking to cash in on the lucrative anarchy -- and a government of outsiders usher in an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp?s founders, all learning the hard way...fortune comes with a price.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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Deadwood: The Complete Second Season continues the Shakespearean brilliance of the landmark first season, created by NYPD Blue head writer David Milch. Milch either wrote or supervised the writing of each of the 12 episodes in this stunning follow-up, which contains more than a few surprises for anyone who thought they knew the myriad characters in the late 19th century town of Deadwood--a mucky, ungoverned, exceptionally violent development in South Dakota. As with the first season, Deadwood continues to be about many things--survival, loyalty, alliances, duty--but all of them are happening against a titanic battle between several parties to consolidate power and real wealth in the territory. Despite his cutthroat ethics, astonishing profanity, and bursts of cruelty, it's hard not to side in this bid for a piece of America's future with saloon owner Al Swearengen (a magnificent performance by Ian McShane), a visionary monster who is nevertheless more recognizably human than his rivals.

Entering an uneasy partnership with Al is Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant). Seth begins the second season by teaching Al a few lessons in chivalry, and their brief but bloody feud commences physical ailments for Al that become increasingly shocking to behold. Yet Al's difficulties have the practical effect of sidelining him for a couple of episodes while the story sets up more complex power struggles. Al takes on Deadwood's other saloon-brothel owner, the unstable Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe), as well as an off-screen millionaire who is intent on owning all the gold-mining interests by buying out weary prospectors' claims. Meanwhile, Seth's wife and son (actually, his late brother's widow and child) arrive, an unsettling development for Seth's lover, the widow Alma Garret (Molly Parker), who soon reveals herself to be a more complicated person than in the first season. The prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson) begins thinking about her future and asserts independence from Al by having sex with Seth's friend, Sol Star (John Hawkes). Best of all, Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) is back and more endearingly uncivilized than ever. Special features include actor commentaries on select episodes, the best of which finds Olyphant and McShane cracking each other up while watching the season premiere. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Deadwood Season III.......2007-08-28

I love all three Deadwood seasons, but was disappointed by this one, only because it is the final installment. Maybe a movie will come in the near future. What a bone-head move to cancel a GREAT series.

Deadwood second Season.......2007-08-23

A modern day type of Western and full of humour and a great series to watch we enjoyed the first and second season and now have the third season to watch highly recomended

Deadwood Rocks!.......2007-07-15

If you like westerns (and even if you don't), and want to see something a little more outside the box- give this series a try. The stories and the production quality are unbelievably good. What a shame HBO yet again cancels one of its best series at the end of season three.

Deadwood is a genre breaking western that cuts to the core of how the west was settled and won- and how what was won was often stolen by robber barons and corporations. In other words, you can learn a lot about how power really works and how the human spirit struggles and rises above it from watching this western.

On a pure story and character level Deadwood is one of the best made television series of all time. It takes a little getting used to the language and sometimes the violence, but it's worth it.

Deadwood is a masterpiece. Let's hope HBO lives up to its promise to conclude the series with two movies.

Best Price.......2007-07-03

I purchased this item as a gift for a friend's birthday. I had given him the first season for Christmas. This item cost me almost half of what it did when I bought it through Blockbuster. I had also priced it out through Best Buy who came in at less than Blockbuster, but more that Amazon. I now know where to get the best pricing on movies.

Deadwood - The Complete Second Season.......2007-05-30

My wife watched the DVD's as avidly as she watched the HBO series. And she didn't have to wait a whole year to sit in front of the TV either.

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One of My All-Time Favorites
Great Western!
Sacketts on Parade
Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts
Good Western

Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts
Starring: Sam Elliott , Tom Selleck , Jeff Osterhage , Glenn Ford , and Ben Johnson
Director: Robert Totten
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000EOTUSK
Release Date: 2006-05-30

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Louis L'Amour's easy voice with its gentle rhythm sets the tone and pace of the film in a spoken introduction to this loping, rambling three-hour-plus TV-movie adaptation of his novels The Daybreakers and Sackett. Sam Elliot stars as the elder Sackett, a nomad hunting and trapping in the mountains who happens upon an ancient treasure. Tom Selleck and Jeff Osterhage are his younger siblings, forced to leave home to avoid a Hatfield and McCoy situation. As the Sackett brothers wind their way across the Midwest prairies and mountains we join them on cattle drives and gold hunts, in gunfights and fistfights, and in a climactic showdown as they find their place in the world. This 1979 film rambles and meanders like a lazy river winding through a beautiful landscape of peaks and plains and forests, punctuated by the occasional gunfight and enlivened by a story that celebrates both the open range and the taming of the towns. Elliot looks almost young but flashes his savage eyes behind a thick black beard, while Selleck's easygoing manner is backed up with a stony-faced determination. The excellent cast includes a veritable who's who of Western character actors: Glenn Ford, Ben Johnson, Gilbert Roland, Gene Evans, Jack Elam, Slim Pickens, L.Q. Jones, Mercedes McCambridge, and Pat Buttram. Followed in 1982 by The Shadow Riders, which reunited the three stars and even a few members of the supporting cast in a tale of three different brothers. --Sean Axmaker

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Louis L'Amour's epic Western saga of brothers who blazed a name across the untamed post-Civil War New Mexico frontier.

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One of My All-Time Favorites.......2007-09-16

A cast of wonderful character actors tears up the scenery in this impressive adaptation of Louis L'amour's Sackett series. Sam Elliott can give a wild-eyed crazy look like no one's business. He and Ben Johnson, and Tom Selleck and Glenn Ford, shared an on-screen chemistry that makes magic on the screen. What a combination for a TV mini-series. This one will always be in my movie library.

Great Western!.......2007-09-13

Adapted from a story written by one of the greatest western writers of all time, I was happy the video version lived up to my expectations. It was a joy to watch the Sacketts come alive on screen, and be played by some of my favorite actors. I wasn't the least disappointed.

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Sacketts on Parade.......2007-08-25

I ordered this disk as it is one of the Sackett series never seen on TV and I do watch most all westerns being a big big fan of Louis LaMour. I wish some of the movie companies would make some of the other LaMours and film them for tv specials. I rate this at the top and a great Amazon transaction.

Louis L'Amour's The Sacketts.......2007-08-23

Louis L'Amours one of the greater western writers. His books are faithfully made into movies like The Sacketts. I think he is a great
teller of western stories. I was not that big of a fan of western
when I was growing up my dad loved them. After following Louis L'Amours
books and movies I have become a fan. It is how judge other westerns now
for quality of story and realism.

Good Western.......2007-07-24

I enjoyed this movie a lot. The only real problem I had with it was you could tell it was made for TV by the scene changes.

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Far Too Expensive
not for the kids!
Hands down the most amazing TV series...ever!
A slow-burning riot - take a bow Ian McShane
amazing series

Deadwood - The Complete First Season
Director: Michael Almereyda , Davis Guggenheim , and Timothy Van Patten
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ASIN: B0006FO5LO
Release Date: 2005-02-08

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(HBO Dramatic Series) 1876. In the Black Hills of South Dakota lies Deadwood, a lawless town inhabited by a mob of restless misfits ranging from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. The richest gold strike in American history provides the backdrop for HBO's next great drama.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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The remarkable first season of Deadwood represents one of those periodic, wholesale reinventions of the Western that is as different from, say, Lonesome Dove as that miniseries is from Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo or the latter is from Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur. In many ways, HBO's Deadwood embraces the Western's unambiguous morality during the cinema's silent era through the 1930s while also blazing trails through a post-NYPD Blue, post-The West Wing television age exalting dense and customized dialogue. On top of that, Deadwood has managed an original look and texture for a familiar genre: gritty, chaotic, and surging with both dark and hopeful energy. Yet the show's creator, erstwhile NYPD Blue head writer David Milch, never ridicules or condescends to his more grasping, futile characters or overstates the virtues of his heroic ones.

Set in an ungoverned stretch of South Dakota soon after the 1876 Custer massacre, Deadwood concerns a lawless, evolving town attracting fortune-seekers, drifters, tyrants, and burned-out adventurers searching for a card game and a place to die. Others, particularly women trapped in prostitution, sundry do-gooders, and hangers-on have nowhere else to go. Into this pool of aspiration and nightmare arrive former Montana lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) and his friend Sol Starr (John Hawkes), determined to open a lucrative hardware business. Over time, their paths cross with a weary but still formidable Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine) and his doting companion, the coarse angel Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert); an aristocratic, drug-addicted widow (Molly Parker) trying to salvage a gold mining claim; and a despondent hooker (Paula Malcomson) who cares, briefly, for an orphaned girl. Casting a giant shadow over all is a blood-soaked king, Gem Saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), possibly the best, most complex, and mesmerizing villain seen on TV in years. Over 12 episodes, each of these characters, and many others, will forge alliances and feuds, cope with disasters (such as smallpox), and move--almost invisibly but inexorably--toward some semblance of order and common cause. Making it all worthwhile is Milch's masterful dialogue--often profane, sometimes courtly and civilized, never perfunctory--and the brilliant acting of the aforementioned performers plus Brad Dourif, Leon Rippy, Powers Boothe, and Kim Dickens. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

Far Too Expensive.......2007-09-16

HBO has too high an opinion of their shows. Twelve episodes of Deadwood should cost thirty bucks max. The same goes for all their shows. I love Deadwood and Rome, but will not buy them at these ridiculous prices.

not for the kids!.......2007-09-11

Outstanding series, but, be warned, this show is not for the children. I believe it to be far more realistic than most westerns generally have been and, though there is a great deal of creative liscense, the essence of the show is at least somewhat historically accurate.

The acting is great. The production is great. The stories are great. The morality - well - they were all violating the law by just being there, right?

Hands down the most amazing TV series...ever!.......2007-09-03

Let me preface this critique by saying that I don't have my TV hooked up to receive any TV programs. That said, my partner and I decided to rent this series in the dull grey moths of winter, and we both fell in love with it. Never have I found a more authentic portrayal of the "Wild West." Generally speaking, westerns seem to combine too many parts kiddy western, lame plots, boring and/or undefined characters, and inacurate history. Deadwood is none of these, but instead feels so authentic you feel the gold dust in your lungs and the dirt under your fingernails. I'm rather a history buff, and really get snobby when dramatizations fall short of the grandeur of the actual event. Deadwood delivers again. Never has American history been so exciting! In other critics' defenses I will admit that the very first episode is a bit hard to follow...as with ANY series, TV or otherwise. I was so impressed with HBO (and so devistated when we discovered they were discontinuing the series) that my partner and I got hooked on Rome, the other big deal show. Almost as good, but Deadwood gets you in your gut. I got so turned on to the series, in fact, that I hesitatingly told my parents, my dad having grown up on kiddy westerns and searching for a certain...something in other "westerns." They both fell for Deadwood as hard as my partner and I did. So go forth, enjoy, sink your teeth into something gritty, gripping, and golden. Unless yer yeller.

A slow-burning riot - take a bow Ian McShane.......2007-08-28

Hard on the heels of the cinematic, mystical Carnivale, HBO pull out a gritty, puke-, blood, cuss- and mud-soaked western, tracing in quasi-historical fashion some of the days of Wild Bill Hickok, Calamity Jane, Seth Bullock and others in a pre-confederated gold prospecting camp called Deadwood, in what is nowadays Dakota. Despite their manifold differences there is a commonness of sepia tone, and both plumb equally cavernous philosophical depths: Intellectually, Deadwood is a meditation on anarchy in which Hobbesian pessimism is tested but falsified: in Deadwood, decent men (and strong women) prevail despite the poor odds - as long as you are prepared to be openminded about exactly what might count for decentness, at any rate.

The first episode takes a while to catch fire - the brutalilty and nastiness is heaped on, and the narrative is spent establishing the hard-man credentials of most of the cast, and the dope-addled naivete of Alma Garrett and her patsy-written-all-over-him husband, fresh from New York to seek their fortune in the hills with the rest of the lowlife.

But soon some things become clear. Primarily among them, Ian McShane - once BBC's loveable rogue antique dealer Lovejoy (I kid you not) has a peach of a part as the dastardly, but all the same loveable, Gem Saloon owner Al Swearengen, and he utterly nails it. A swear engine he certainly is - although matched in his cussatorial enthusiasm by the entire rest of the cast, McShane bullies, and cajoles, and wisecracks his way through the series with the experienced occular twinkle of a life-long loveable rogue, every appearance on the screen an utter joy to behold.

McShane is perfectly cast - but is aided and abetted by a terrific supporting cast and a sublime script. Sublime, that is, if you don't mind the dictionary definition of "a stupid or unpleasant person" sprayed around. If repeated reference to ladies' nether regions, rendered agriculturally, isn't your bag, then nor is this show, by the way. But the blue language is matched by the inventively archaic dialogue which is simply wondrous, particularly in McShane's capable hands. One tip: the dialogue is rendered quickly at times and, as a single word is not to be missed, I found it useful to have the subtitles permanently on!

Elsewhere the characterisation is beautifully played, with a succession of great double acts: Robin Seigert's Jane to Dayton Callie's Charlie Utter; William Sanderson's EB Farnum to Molly Parker's Alma Garrett, but mostly the fulcrum around which all relationships, dramatic impulse and sypathy revolves is the marvellous Al Swearengen.

The production values are top notch, and if there were a weakness, it would be Timothy Olyphant's somewhat effete Seth Bullock: attempting the strong silent treatment, but not really pulling it off: A hard job, in any case, when everyone's rooting for Al.

Olly Buxton

amazing series.......2007-08-01

The whole cast is good, is stunningly realized, but McShane drives this series. Bloody brilliant!

The Magnificent Seven - The Complete Second Season

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Magnificent indeed
This is the best cowboy series ever!
Hind sight is always better
Magnificent & the best
Awesome!!

The Magnificent Seven - The Complete Second Season
Director: Christopher Cain
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B00000F2YC
Release Date: 2007-05-22

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The final season of the legend comes to DVD! In a time of outlaws, seven young heroes, each with unique talents and abilities, band together to help tame the wild west and protect the citizens of a small frontier town. The Magnificent Seven are back. Season 2 is full of action and some startling revelations, including the series' stunning final episode in which Chris comes face to face with his wife's killer. Saddle up for western-style adventure and excitement!

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Magnificent indeed.......2007-09-07

I had not seen any of these episodes prior to purchasing them from Amazon. Based on the cast-members whose work I was familiar with @ the time I was fairly certain I would enjoy these DVD's and I was right. Ron Perlman's name alone is enough to induce me to watch almost anything & he doesn't disappoint as the complex Josiah; Dale Midkiff is excellent as Buck--a different type of character than I'm used to seeing him play. Eric Close & Michael Biehn are superb as well. The other 3 actors I had not seen before but they are also excellent. The episodes are well written, there is drama, adventure & humor in most of them. Penance is my favorite episode of all with Achilles a close second.

This is the best cowboy series ever!.......2007-09-04

I think this series was the best... I admire the actors and the stories behind it. I do recommend this series for all the cowboy lovers out there. Too bad they decided to end this series so soon.

Hind sight is always better.......2007-08-27

I have just finsihed watching and saying good-bye to this series. I am ashmaed to say that I didn't watch it that much when it came out in 1998. That is why such a fine series died, it didn't find its audience. The second season really drives home how well this series would have been if it had been allowed to go on. The stories are better and the characters are given more to do and allow to develope as full people. In the second season each is given time in each story to build their character. The last show on the disc where Chris finally finds his wife killer was one that you wouldn't expect to find in a tv western. It was showed the back groud of Chris. Buck learned what true beauty was and Josiah explains golf so that all can understand it. Yes it is a sad farewell, it is ashamed that tv can create something that is wonderfull, kill it off, and give us crap. However the real villian is all of us who didn't support this show and shows like it.

Magnificent & the best.......2007-08-26

Put simply why did they stop this show just when it was beginning to fully release its magic?

great stuff all round, western classic to the genre & one of the best casts ever assembled ashame CBS dropped it & gave us the money spinning CSI instead for two seasons of this show which is perfection & outdoes CSI ten to one.

Also the second season brings far greater and emotional depths to all the characters & special note to Eric Close, Dale, Anthony Sharke & Andrew K. the latter two never getting the chance to shine since but boy were they good!

Worth every penny & ashame there was not more for this is a western & then some better than the films or any other western flicks rolled into one! Plus all credit to Anthony, Dale & Andrew along with the rest of the seven actors worth their weight in gold! Any chance of a reunion?

Ackilles, The New Law & Lady Killers among the highlights quality, good looking & magnificent don't do this show justice! Thank you Michael Biehn & Co!

Awesome!!.......2007-08-08

I have both sets, season-1, and season 2&3, and without a doubt, both are action-packed, realistic, and blends the older style westerns with contemporary ideas. Character casting was magnificent. Story-lines are great. The only downfall is that the show was cancelled. It is the best western series since Gunsmoke.

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Don't rush this "fine wine" of whimsy!!!
Stick with Season One
EPISODE LIST of Season 1...........................for the troop at Fort Courage.
Timeless comedy
Where the heck are we?

F Troop - The Complete First Season
Director: Gary Nelson , Hal March , Leslie Goodwins , Gene Nelson , and Phil Rawlins
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000EQ46HI
Release Date: 2006-06-06

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After accidentally leading a cavalry charge into victory, Private Wilton Parmenter becomes a hero and is given command of Fort Courage. Here, his group of cavalrymen bumble through fighting their enemies and working with the local Hekawi Indians to sell items to tourists.
Running Time: 866 min.

Format: DVD MOVIE

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F-Troop belongs to the ranks of television's great military slacker comedies, including Sgt. Bilko and McHale's Navy. Ken Berry was promoted from bit player to leading man with his role as clueless and clumsy ("I fall down a lot") Wilton Parmenter, who is put in charge of the frontier post Fort Courage after a display of inadvertent Civil War heroism. "He's the pigeon we always dreamed of," enthuses Sgt. O'Rourke (Forrest Tucker), who runs "O'Rourke Enterprises" with his sidekick Corporal Agarn (Larry Storch). Most episodes involve O'Rourke and Agarn's get-rich schemes that ultimately backfire. The show's great (albeit politically incorrect) comic conceit is the Hekawis, the decidedly un-bloodthirsty Indian tribe who makes tourist souvenirs, not war. "We invent peace pipe," proclaims Chief Wild Eagle (Frank DeKova), whose broken English and anachronistic vernacular (similar to Joey Bishop in Texas Across the River) provide most of each episode's biggest--and, in these more enlightened times, guiltiest--laughs.

F's troupe also includes Melody Patterson as Wrangler Jane, who has a hankerin' for "Will" ("I told you, Jane, not in front of the men"), James Hampton as bungling bugler Dobbs, Joe Brooks as nearsighted look-out Vanderbilt, cowboy star Bob Steele as gung-ho Alamo survivor Duffy, and venerable character actor (and Rocky and Bullwinkle's "Fractured Fairy Tales" narrator) Edward Everett Horton as Hekawi medicine man Roaring Chicken. Among the more memorable guest appearances include Zsa Zsa Gabor as a gypsy who attempts to fleece Agarn in "Play, Gypsy, Play," and Don Rickles (!) as Chief Wild Eagle's excitable, warlike son in "The Return of Bald Eagle." The episode, "Reunion for O'Rouke," contains the classic bit about how the Hekawis got their name. F-Troop debuted in 1965 and lasted but two seasons. It broke no television ground and was never nominated for an Emmy. A single-disc compilation of six episodes is also available, but Baby Boomers who remember F-Troop fondly will want to enlist for a full season. It's old school, flat-out funny. --Donald Liebenson

Customer Reviews:

Don't rush this "fine wine" of whimsy!!!.......2007-08-13

Here's a wonderful gift idea. Buy this DVD set as, (I hate to call it), "filler", between your usual movie watching. This is a great warm-up to an evening of DVD viewing or a nice night-cap to end your day. I will also add here that I've only gotten through half of this DVD set as I write this commentary.

The first few disk are very good. We get a nice setup of the coming stories and the characters are firmly established in this whimsical comedy. Actor, Ken Berry, delivers his hokey physical gags, Forrest Tucker and Larry Storch are the goofy comedic team and the supporting oddball cast quite nicely round out these zany adventures. The black and white format adds to the "old-time" feel of the western time period. It's like looking through a demented old stereoscope image from the 1800's. I'm sure there will be some who are offended by the portrayal of the Native Americans in this show. "F-Troop" could never be made today because of all the politically-correct fascists among us. But, hey, as a product of the 60's I don't think it colored me with any particular negative view of anybody. Actually it showed me how we all have a comic bent to each individual. Melody Patterson's portrayal of Wrangler Jane is an example of a spunky little scamp who hangs with the best of the boys; especially her beloved Captain of the fort, Wilton Parmenter. There, at least everybody won't be offended. :-)

Here's where I see a problem ahead. I'm just at the halfway point of the set and I'm starting to see some obvious repeats of storylines. This is uncomplicated stuff. I'm not expecting high-brow intellect, but I have to wonder if this would become annoying on long sits through episodes? Right now I'm good but as I mentioned before, I'm not watching a ton of episodes one right after another.

As a DVD buy I think it's worth the money, especially if you can get it on sale as I did. What do the future disks hold, or for that matter, season two? Hey, I don't know but it's not hard to guess. More zany adventures!!! Right?!?! I'd advise you take your time with this set and enjoy the many little gems of comedy generously dispensed in each show. Don't rush this "fine wine" of whimsy but savor each sip of this 40 year old vintage. As stated and as rated, I say it's four stars.

Stick with Season One.......2007-06-07

F Troop - The Complete First Season
IMHO, Season One is the better of the two offerings of the classic TV show F Troop.

During Season One, the producers really wanted to make a splash. They did it with hilarity, quality comedic writing and performances, and excellent direction.

With Season Two, it seems their necks were on the line, and, as happens to so many great shows threatened with cancellation, they went with a more formulaic aproach. They didn't take the chances they took during Season One. The switch to color seems gaudy to me, and distracts from the humor so rampant in Season One.

EPISODE LIST of Season 1...........................for the troop at Fort Courage........2007-04-30

SEASON 1

Episode 1: Scourge of the West. Air Date: 14 September 1965 Hapless "war hero" Captain Wilton Parmenter takes command.

Episode 2: Don't Look Now But One of Our Cannon Is Missing. Air Date: 21 September 1965
A surprise visit by General Grant.

Episode 3: The Phantom Major. Original Air Date: 28 September 1965 It's pay call at Fort Courage when a top secret letter from Washington arrives.

Episode 4: Corporal Agarn's Farewell to the Troops. Air Date: 5 October 1965
Episode 5: The Return of Bald Eagle. Air Date: 12 October 1965. Renegade Indian Bald Eagle attacks the fort singlehandedly.
Episode 6: Dirge for the Scourge. Air Date: 19 October 1965. Gunfighter Sam Urp is in town.

Episode 7: The Girl from Philadelphia. Air Date: 26 October 1965
Episode 8: Old Iron Pants. Air Date: 2 November 1965
Episode 9: Me Heap Big Injun. Air Date: 9 November 1965
Episode 10: She's Only a Build in a Girdled Cage. Original Air Date: 16 November 1965

Episode 11: A Gift from the Chief. Air Date: 23 November 1965
Episode 12: Honest Injun. Air Date: 30 November 1965
Episode 13: O'Rourke vs. O'Reilly. Air Date: 7 December 1965
Episode 14: The 86 Proof Spring. Air Date: 14 December 1965

Episode 15: Here Comes the Tribe. Air Date: 21 December 1965
Episode 16: Iron Horse Go Home. Air Date: 28 December 1965
Episode 17: Our Hero--What's His Name. Air Date: 4 January 1966 Agarn gets a dear john letter from his girl.
Episode 18: Wrongo Starr and the Lady in Black. Air Date: 11 January 1966

Episode 19: El Diablo. Air Date: 18 January 1966 Men of F Troop undergo their annual physicals.
Episode 20: Go for Broke. Air Date: 25 January 1966
Episode 21: The New I.G. Air Date: 8 February 1966
Episode 22: Spy, Counterspy, Counter Counterspy. Air Date: 15 February 1966

Episode 23: The Courtship of Wrangler Jane. Air Date: 22 February 1966
Episode 24: Play, Gypsy, Play. Air Date: 1 March 1966
Episode 25: Reunion for O'Rourke. Air Date: 8 March 1966
Episode 26: Captain Parmenter, One Man Army. Air Date: 15 March 1966

Episode 27: Don't Ever Speak to Me Again. Air Date: 22 March 1966 Fort Courage is to receive a citation from the Secretary of War.
Episode 28: Too Many Cooks Spoil the Troop. Air Date: 29 March 1966
Episode 29: Indian Fever. Air Date: 5 April 1966
Episode 30: Johnny Eagle Eye. Air Date:12 April 1966

Episode 31: A Fort's Best Friend Is Not a Mother. Air Date: 19 April 1966
Episode 32: Lieutenant O'Rourke, Front and Center. Air Date: 26 April 1966
Episode 33: The Day the Indians Won. Air Date: 3 May 1966
Episode 34: Will the Real Captain Try to Stand Up? Air Date: 10 May 1966

Timeless comedy.......2007-04-02

Comedy doesn't get much better than this. Politically incorrect lampoons and gut busting slapstick, this series was thankfully made at a time when most people knew the difference between comedy, and serious hurtful stereotyping. A must have for serious comedy afficianados.

Where the heck are we?.......2007-03-26

F Troop is classic television from my youth. The zany situations that the troop finds itself in each week are hilarious. The scheming Sgt. O'Rourke, the neurotic Corporal Agarn, the gullible Captain Parmenter, and the beautiful Wrangler Jane make this a must have DVD set.

If you enjoy laughing, then you need to pick up this set. Season two is set to be released later this year.

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Magnificent-Looking, Solid Western
Pleased as punch.
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Great western!

Crossfire Trail
Starring: Tom Selleck , Virginia Madsen , Wilford Brimley , David O'Hara , and Christian Kane
Director: Simon Wincer
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ASIN: B00005JXI9
Release Date: 2001-07-10

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There are unmistakable pleasures to an old-fashioned Western, and Crossfire Trail has 'em. Tom Selleck has a lean, weathered face that sits nicely atop a horse and beneath a broad-brimmed hat; he plays a canny cowboy who's come to make good on a promise to a dying man and ends up caught between a beautiful woman (Virginia Madsen) and a wicked man in black--a couple of them, actually. Crossfire Trail has just about every element you could ask for (a Sioux war party, a cruel hired gun, a shootout in the street, even a cattle stampede), but it spins them out with such clean efficiency that you can't help but enjoy it. Directed skillfully and with heart, Crossfire Trail will satisfy any Western fan. Based on the novel by Louis L'Amour; also featuring Wilford Brimley and Mark Harmon. --Bret Fetzer

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A restless wanderer makes a promise to a dying friend to help the man's widow and daughter hold onto their ranch in the lush but lawless Wyoming Territory. But when oil is discovered on the land, the unsuspecting hero must contend not only with the two women who are suspicious of his motives, but also with ruthless men plotting to seize the ranch. Based on the novel by Louis L'Amour.

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Magnificent-Looking, Solid Western.......2007-09-13

This was an excellent western that was beautifully photographed. This looks absolutely stunning on DVD and provides some of the prettiest scenery I've ever viewed on film.

With Tom Selleck in the lead and supporting help from Virginia Madsen, Wilfred Brimley, Mark Harmon and others, this is a good cast for this made-for-cable TV movie. Selleck does his normal excellent portrayal of a rugged cowboy.

Overall, a good movie and highly-recommended for western fans. I see Amazon has this on sale, too.

Pleased as punch........2007-08-25

Once again I was very pleased with Amazon's service and product. Arrived in pristine condition and in a timely fashion. Great movie.

Format.......2007-03-03

This is a great movie. I try to get most of his movies. However, I will not be buying this one because it is listed only in Widescreen.

EXCELLENT.......2007-02-10

Tom Selleck was born to be a "Western" star. Excellent movie! I highly recommend it to any fan of western genre films.

Great western!.......2007-01-22

Based on a Louis L'Amour novel, Tom Selleck is convincing as a cowboy named Raif who keeps a promise to a fellow sailor, Charles Rodney, by helping his widow hang on to her ranch and keep an eye on the widow as well. But a rich scoundrel has plans to talk the widow into marriage and get the ranch for himself. What he doesn't tell her is that he's responsible for her husband's death. Things get real tense for Raif and his friends as the expose the rich man for the cheating liar he is. A well written screenplay adaptation and lovely scenery. The dialogue is also superb (I especially love the Irishman's jokes).

Chrissy K. McVay - Author

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tom selleck rides again
Last Stand at Saber River
Last Stand at Saber River
The first of Tom Selleck's excellent TNT Westerns
Well I'll Bow!....

Last Stand at Saber River
Starring: Tom Selleck , Suzy Amis , Rachel Duncan , Haley Joel Osment , and Keith Carradine
Director: Dick Lowry
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ASIN: B0007OY2OE
Release Date: 2005-05-17

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Tom Selleck shows a harder side of his persona as a disillusioned Confederate who returns home in the waning days of the Civil War in this adaptation of the Elmore Leonard novel. His wife, Suzy Amis, isn't ready to forgive him for leaving his family behind for the "adventure" of war, and his children hardly remember him. Haunted by his actions in the war and caught in a power struggle in the Arizona territory, Selleck's soul-scarred survivor makes a last stand to protect the only thing left that matters to him--his homestead and his family. The film has its share of gunfights, showdowns, conspiracies, and Civil War rivalries, and even a runaway stagecoach, but its power lies in the somber exploration of how misunderstandings and conflicts tear at a marriage during such a volatile time, when ideals are set against duty to family. Director Dick Lowry's lean style makes the most of the gorgeous landscapes, and he creates a strong dramatic tension in the bubbling undercurrent between Selleck, who leaves behind the jovial character of his Louis L'Amour Westerns for a man hardened and embittered by war, and Amis, an excellent actress who brings to life a woman who shoots, speaks her mind, and harbors resentment just as well as any brooding male hero. Keith and David Carradine costar as Union wranglers who hold a grudge against the Confederate veteran. One of the most mature TV Westerns ever made. --Sean Axmaker

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Tom Selleck rides into Western adventure in grand, gritty style as Paul Cable in Last Stand at Saber River, from the novel by Elmore Leonard (Get Shorty, Out of Sight Customer Reviews:

tom selleck rides again.......2007-06-19

my husband a big western lover really liked this film. in typical tom selleck fashion he leaves the civil war after witnessing a massacar of innocents. the resulting story will please ater fans.

Last Stand at Saber River.......2007-05-12

It is an outstanding movie. It goes back to what we grew up with. A hero who is fighting against odds, but wins out in the end. Tom Selleck and Sam Elliott are the top western "story tellers" of our time. You can tell they love it.

Last Stand at Saber River.......2007-02-14

The movie was excellent and is typical of a Tom Selleck Western. It's to bad he is type-cast as Magnum PI, because he is a great portrayer of the Westerns and I would love to see him star in more of them.

The first of Tom Selleck's excellent TNT Westerns.......2006-11-04

"Last Stand at Saber River" was the first of three excellent Westerns that Tom Selleck made for TNT between 1997 and 2003 (and I'm still hoping there'll be at least a fourth one some day). Selleck has starred in five made-for-TV Westerns total, three of which are based on Louis L'Amour stories. This one, however, is based on a book by Elmore Leonard, and the difference is obvious in both the lack of idealism and in the extreme violence.

Selleck is Paul Cable, a Confederate cavalryman who has come home from the Civil War (only slightly) early. He knows the war is lost for the South, he is worn out, and he only wants to take his family back to their homestead in Arizona to live a normal life. His wife, who was told that he was dead, is less than thrilled to have him back home because she is resentful that he left to fight in the war in the first place. Suzy Amis does an excellent job as Martha Cable. She is not the stereotypical beauty who runs around in a bustle under fancy dresses. She is a tough frontierswoman who has experienced many hardships and gets her husband out of some tight spots as the movie progresses.

While the majority of the movie is good at depicting the divisions between North and South that caused the Civil War and which the Civil War then exacerbated, the subplot of the inner struggles that Paul and Martha Cable face is far more interesting. It's a great movie until the end, when we get the additional time-worn subplot of a Confederate soldier who just can't give up the Lost Cause. No, it's not Selleck's character who has this problem, but Selleck already had covered this territory in 1982's "The Shadow Riders" (though it wasn't his character who wanted to keep fighting in that movie either); John Wayne's "The Undefeated" is another well-known film with the Lost Cause plotline.

In spite of the needlessly melodramatic ending, this is a strong Western. Selleck and TNT kept getting better and better with "Crossfire Trail" and "Monte Walsh". Check out all three, and you'll join me in wishing for number four.

Well I'll Bow!...........2006-06-26

Tom Selleck takes on a serious role in this made for TV western. He stars as Confederate soldier Paul Cable, realizing the war is lost, returning to find his wife and family...hoping to pick up the pieces of a life he left behind. His wife Martha(Suzy Amis) isn't so happy to see him..she had thought him long dead..and was trying to get on with her life. With family, daughter Clare and son Davis(Haley Joel Osment), they leave Martha's father(Harry Carey Jr.) in Texas and head for Arizona and their ranch home. Upon arriving in Arizona, they find that the Union sympathizers(Keith and David Carradine) have confiscated their land..everyone still thinking he was dead. This requires them to fight for their home and for their acceptance in the rebuilding of life after the Civil War.

This is a well put together movie with good continuity. Not only does it have the western action but it also effectively shows the rebuilding of the marriage relationship between Cable and his wife. Susy Amis does a great job in portraying a wife that is ready to make her stand for family and home. Selleck puts in one of his better performances and shows that he can seriously act. Well worth adding to any western collection.

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. - The Complete Series

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Fun Western Action-Comedy with some Weird Elements...
Western Sci Fi With a Handsome Bruce Campbell
Better than I rembered it
It should have gone on!
A Family Favorite

The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. - The Complete Series
Director: Larry Shaw , James A. Contner , Joseph L. Scanlan , Tom Chehak , and Michael Caffey
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B000F7CMPE
Release Date: 2006-07-18

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The world's favorite western/sci-fi/comedy/action cult hit rides again! Here on 8 discs is the complete series about Brisco (Bruce Campbell), a tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches who roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father...and in search of a mysterious orb possessing out-of-this world powers. Hot lead and cool anachronisms await Brisco as he and his sidekicks - including Comet, the intellectual equine who doesn't know he's a horse - fight for justice in the way, way, way-out West. Put your boots in your stirrups, your tongue in your cheek and join the fun. Let's play cowboys and aliens.

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A science fiction-Western and comedy-drama with echoes of The Wild Wild West and Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: The Complete Series is uniquely entertaining. Anchored by the comically heroic style of likable B-movie actor Bruce Campbell, Adventures lasted one television season in 1993-94. But it left behind a full 27 episodes (including two two-part stories) full of classic TV Western production values and a running storyline that resembles The X-Files after awhile.

Campbell plays Brisco County Jr., a bounty hunter and son of a legendary U.S. marshal (R. Lee Ermey) gunned down by the villainous John Bly (Billy Drago) and his band of misfits. The younger Brisco is hired by a consortium of businessmen to protect their interests from the likes of Bly, and while he's dedicated to that cause, Brisco is also determined to avenge his father's murder. Helping him do a little of both is a fussy attorney, Socrates Poole (Christian Clemenson); a rival bounty hunter, Lord Bowler (Julius Carry); a wacky inventor, Professor Wickwire (John Astin); and a sultry saloon singer, Dixie (Kelly Rutherford). Rockets, mysterious orbs, and superhuman strength are some of the delightfully out-of-their-element phenomena that find themselves alongside more conventional cowpoke ingredients, including a horse so smart he can chew the ropes binding Brisco's hands. For the most part, the stories stand alone. But as the season progresses, a lot of things get weirder, albeit in a good way: the truth about Bly and his connection to a golden orb everyone wants, for example, are certainly unexpected. But the show is always dazzling, often satiric ("Oy!" Dixie exclaims when Brisco outlines the steps involved in stopping a runaway wagon they're trapped within), yet heartening in an old-fashioned way. Special features include Campbell's reading of a chapter about the series in his autobiography. --Tom Keogh

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Fun Western Action-Comedy with some Weird Elements..........2007-09-16

I can remember when this show first came out - long before I had any conception of who Bruce Campbell was - and really liking it. It's a good, clean (mostly) action-adventure show with some great comedy and great characters. And it's for most ages - like an old-time cowboy serial.

The story follows Brisco County Jr. (Campbell), a lawyer who turns bounty hunter when his father, a famed lawman, is gunned down in cold blood by the criminal gang of the infamous John Bly. Aided by his friends, the grumpy scout and tracker Lord Bowler (Julius Carry), cowardly Socrates Poole (Christian Celmenson), and Prof. Wiskwire (John Astin, who you may remember as Gomez Addams from the original Addams Family), Brisco is hired by a group of tycoons to bring Bly ot justice. In the process, Brisco becomes embroiled in the search for the mysterious and mystical Orb, an object of enormous occult power coveted by Bly. Along they way, Brisco has run-ins with the seductive chanteuse Dixie Cousins (Kelly Rutherford) and Bly's wacky henchmen.

What marks this show is its sense of fun. There are crazy inventions, weird villains (including a prairie pirate named - I kid you not - Blackbeard LeCut), cliffhangers, and everything else that makes adventure shows a great time. The jokes and puns come hard and fast, and the characters are nothing if not lovable - even Comet, Brisco's "talking" horse. Now, the whole science fiction element that is woven throughout the show is a little off-putting - it just doesn't seem to quite fit - but it doesn't detract too much from the program over all. A great time, and a great show.

Western Sci Fi With a Handsome Bruce Campbell.......2007-08-25

As a Bruce Campbell fan from way back, this is an absolute must have set of DVD's. The character of Brisco County Jr. shows Bruce Campbell as a youthful and handsome fellow. Then add the rest of the characters who are also perfect for their roles and some horses and a Western theme and you pretty much have the perfect show. Originally I bought this set as a birthday present for my adult daughter but we all watch it and love it.

Better than I rembered it.......2007-08-23

this show was great then and still is. quility comedy and action combined. buy it

It should have gone on!.......2007-08-12

This must be the best, if not the only, Western series with its tongue stuck firmly into its cheek. Most of the time it struck the perfect balance of dead pan situational humour from Comet, the articulate and seriously opinionated horse, to the "Indian" stage coach driver who appears wearing a turban and addressing his passengers in a South Asian accent. It petered out a little after the double episode Treason, as if it wasn't sure where it was going from there but it could easily have been a long running success if it had had a chance for Brisco to settle down with Dixie and be the Sheriff in a town that included all (except the Bly Gang) of the characters we had met along the way. If you know the series "Eureka" - this was the Western equivalent.

A Family Favorite.......2007-08-10

My wife and I really enjoyed this series when it first aired on Fox and it was great to be able to purchase this DVD set and share it with our boys. They loved it, of course. Its a mixture of science fiction and western genres spiced up with a special blend of humor. One of our favorite continuing "bad guy" characters is Pete Hutter, played by John-Pyper Ferguson, who spouts lines like "I scoff at your moronic interpretation of hoosegow architecture." Even Brisco's horse is a hoot.
I recommend this DVD set to anyone, and we have given sets as gifts to family friends.

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