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, has added three new series to its growing list of series titles available for purchase.
From the creative force behind Miami Vice, Michael Mann, was the NBC drama Crime Story. The series starred Dennis Farina (who later starred in Law & Order) as Lt. Michael Torello, the head of the Chicago Police Department's Major Crime Unit. (Trivia: Dennis Farina was once a Chicago police officer before getting into films in the early 1980s.) Anthony Denison starred as Ray Luca, an ambitious street hood who used all his talents to get to the top of organized crime.
Crime Story lasted only 2 seasons, airing from September 1986 through May 1988. Both seasons are available on DVD. The theme music was an updated version of Del Shannon's Runaway.
A cult favorite, Forever Knight starred Geraint Wyn Davies as the 13th century vampire Nicholas de Brabant who spends his modern nights in Toronto as homicide detective Nick Knight. Though drawn to his underground world, he longs to give up his immortal life. Catherine Disher played Dr. Natalie Lambert, a forensic scientist who searched for a cure to Knight's supernatural condition. For the first two seasons, John Kapelos played Knight's partner, Donald Schanke.
Forever Knight aired on CBS for 3 seasons from May 1992 through May 1996. All three seasons are available on DVD. The series was based on a made-for-television movie that aired in August 1989 called Nick Knight. Rick Springfield played the title role in this movie.
Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) aired on ITV1 for just one season during 1969 / 1970. Jeff Randall (played by Mike Pratt) and Marty Hopkirk (played by Kenneth Cope) are private detectives when the series opens, but Marty is killed by a hit-and-run driver. Initially thought to be an accident, Marty returns as a ghost during his funeral to inform Jeff that he was murdered. As the series progressed, Marty helped Jeff out in his cases, always appearing in white. Considered a classic series today, in 1969 it did not receive good ratings and was cancelled after one season. A remake of the series aired on BBC-1 in 2000.
The 26 episodes of the series are split onto two DVD sets. Currently only one containing the first 13 episodes is available for purchase in the US.
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