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 two series that have season DVDs being released this week.
Eliot Ness and his special agents of an elite Chicago crime squad in the 1930s during Prohibition were The Untouchables. Starring Robert Stack, the series aired on ABC for 4 seasons from 1959 through 1963. Despite being the target of various groups that decried its violence, it often ranked in the top 10 during its second season. Rumors also abounded that Desi Arnaz, the executive producer, was the target of hit men who didn't like the series attention on the Mafia.
The second season episodes have been split into two DVD sets. The Untouchables Season 2 Volume 1 DVD set of 4 discs contains the first 15 episodes of the second season that aired from mid-October 1960 through early February 1961.
Robert Conrad and Ross Martin were secret service agents James T. West and Artemus Gordon on The Wild Wild West. Airing on CBS from September 1965 through April 1969, the series was a bit of James Bond (with all his high-tech gadgets) set during the post-Civil War years in the US. A bit science fiction, western, and mystery, it appealed to a wide audience of viewers.
Both Robert Conrad and Ross Martin performed their own stunts. While filming an episode late in the third season, Conrad fell from a balcony and suffered a concussion. The episode (The Night of the Fugitives) eventually aired during the fourth season with footage of the fall left in. Ross Martin broke his leg during filming of a fourth season episode. Several weeks later he suffered a mild heart attack and was replaced for 4 episodes by Charles Aidman who played Jeremy Pike, also a master of disguise.
The Wild Wild West Season 4 DVD set of 6 discs contains all 23 episodes (including one 2-part episode) of the fourth and final season that aired from September 1968 through April 1969.
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