Mysteries on TV, your source for the most complete selection of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series now available or coming soon to DVD, is profiling four series that have season DVDs being released this week.
A television staple in Japan since 1996, Case Closed is a weekly anime series featuring high school detective Shinichi (Jimmy) Kudo. The son of a writer of detective novels, Jimmy is given an experimental drug that transforms him into a 7-year-old. He assumes the identity of Conan Edogawa, named in honor of his personal hero, the great consulting detective Sherlock Holmes.
The first 50 episodes (essentially the first two sets) of Case Closed aired on the Cartoon Network in the US during 2004.
The Case Closed: Set Four DVD set of 4 discs contains the 16 episodes (some multi-part) that originally aired from October 1997 through April 1998. (Using the original Japanese episode numbering, Set 4 contains episodes 77 through 99.)
In the criminal justice system, sexually based crimes such as rape, torture, pedophilia and child-abuse are dealt with in New York City by a special unit of the police department known as the Special Victims Unit. Its members include Detective Olivia Benson (Mariska Hargitay), herself the child of a rape, and Detective Elliot Stabler (Christopher Meloni), a family man trying to protect his family from the horrors of the world. The crimes they deal with are painful, emotional, and scarring. These are their stories.
A spin-off of Law & Order, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (SVU) first aired on NBC in September 1999. It is currently airing its 10th season and remains one of the network's top-rated shows.
The Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Season Eight DVD set of 5 discs contains the 22 episodes that originally aired from September 2006 through May 2007.
One of the most popular cozy crime dramas ever to air on network television, Murder, She Wrote ran for 12 seasons on CBS. The series starred Angela Lansbury as mystery writer Jessica Fletcher.
Though Cabot Cove still gets more than its fair share of murders this season, several episodes take place elsewhere including the season opener which finds Jessica in Milan, Italy, attending a film festival and investigating the murder of a producer, and an episode in Ireland where Jessica looks into the mysterious death of her host while staying on their estate.
The Murder, She Wrote: Season Nine DVD set of 5 discs contains the 22 episodes that originally aired from September 1992 through May 1993.
When murder strikes in Cornwall, Detective Superintendent Wycliffe (played by Jack Shepherd) is there to solve it. Always calm, but serious, the quick-thinking detective works tirelessly, his mind piecing together each crime with breakneck speed and dead-on accuracy. He can spot a liar at a glance and no suspect is spared his ruthless interrogation. Each time Wycliffe and his team of investigators arrive on the scene, the drama unfolds and suspense heightens as they close in on the guilty and swiftly become a killer's worst nightmare.
Wycliffe was a crime drama series that aired on ITV for 5 seasons. It is based on the character featured in a series of crime novels by W. J. Burley.
The Wycliffe: Series One DVD set of 3 discs contains the 6 episodes that originally aired during the summer of 1994.
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