Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling four series being released this week.
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An elite team of FBI profilers who analyze the country's most twisted criminal minds, anticipating their next moves before they strike again is the premise behind Criminal Minds. "The solution lies within" is the series tagline.
Joe Mantegna stars as Senior Supervisory Special Agent David Rossi, a founding member of the Behavioral Analysis Unit, who returns to help the team solve new cases, while pursuing some unfinished business of his own. Each member brings his or her own area of expertise to the table as they pinpoint predators' motivations and identify their emotional triggers in the attempt to stop them.
Criminal Minds: Season Six is available on DVD and iTunes (click on the icons above, left for more details), and consists of 24 episodes that originally aired on CBS from September 2010 through May 2011.
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Forest Whitaker and Janeane Garofalo star in Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, a short-lived spin-off from Criminal Minds.
No doubt part of the problem with the series and the reason it lasted just one half season — it premiered mid-season — was that it failed to sufficiently differentiate itself from the original. Here, Whitaker stars as Special Agent Sam Cooper, who leads an elite team of agents with the FBI's Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU, see also the Criminal Minds Season Six description, above), which uses unconventional methods of investigation and aggressive tactics to capture the nation's most nefarious criminals.
Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior: The Complete Series (also known as "The DVD Edition") is available on DVD and iTunes (click on the icons above, left for more details), and consists of 13 episodes that originally aired on CBS from February through May 2011.
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John Gavin stars as lawman Harrison Destry in the western drama Destry.
Based on the popular films starring James Stewart, who played a character named Tom Destry, the TV series features his son Harrison, a man wrongly convicted of a crime and sent to prison. Upon his release, Destry roams the west searching for the men who framed him, but, like his father, his natural inclination was to avoid violence when he could
Long thought to be lost forever, Destry is re-mastered from original prints recently re-discovered in the Universal vaults, which is sure to please fans both old and new.
Destry: The Complete Series is available on DVD (click on the icons above, left for more details), and consists of 13 episodes that originally aired on ABC during the Spring of 1964.
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Immersive. Compelling. Hypnotic. Brilliantly imaginative. Endlessly thrilling. All describe the sci-fi thriller Fringe.
The Fringe team escapes from the parallel universe … except for FBI Agent Olivia Dunham (played by Anna Torv), trapped in the other world and replaced in ours by her double, who turns Peter Bishop's (Joshua Jackson) and Olivia's tentative relationship into a love affair. Then Olivia returns, bonds of trust fray, ever more bizarre and terrifying phenomena occur, and secrets that stretch back to 1985 threaten to destroy our universe. Or theirs.
Fringe: Season Three is available on DVD, Amazon Instant Video, and iTunes (click on the icons above, left for more details), and consists of 22 episodes that originally aired on Fox from September 2010 through May 2011.
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Homicide, blackmail, greed, and betrayal: just a taste of what goes on behind the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer County in Midsomer Murders.
Based on characters created by crime novelist Caroline Graham, this long-running series stars John Nettles as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby and Jason Hughes as Detective Sergeant Ben Jones.
Midsomer Murders: Set Eighteen is available on DVD (click on the icons above, left for more details), and consists of three episodes — "Small Mercies", "The Creeper", and "The Great and the Good" — that originally aired in the UK in late 2009 and early 2010. (Check back with us later in the week for a review of this set.)
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New York City. 1958. In these concrete canyons, everybody's got an angle: The beauty with the sob story who killed her old man. The harmless geezer who's in bed with the mob. The kidnapped broad who's really a fraud. When a case gets too twisted for the cops, only one man can straighten it out: two-fisted gumshoe Mike Hammer.
Darren McGavin stars as the hard-boiled private eye, based on a character created by crime novelist Mickey Spillane.
Mike Hammer: The Complete Series is available on DVD (click on the icons above, left for more details), and consists of 78 episodes that originally aired in syndication during 1958 and 1959.
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