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 five series that have season DVDs being released this week.
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The success of 21 Jump Street prompted Fox to spin-off one of the characters in his own series. Booker featured Richard Grieco as Dennis Booker, a disgraced former member of the Vancouver police department now working as an investigator with a Japanese conglomerate. The series also starred Carmen Argenziano, Marcia Strassman, Katie Rich, and Lori Petty.
The series was scheduled as a lead-in to the 4th season of 21 Jump Street (Grieco as Booker having been introduced during the 3rd season), but it never caught on with viewers and lasted only one season.
The Booker: The Complete Series DVD set of 4 discs contain the 22 episodes of the series that aired on Fox from September 1989 through May 1990.
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Tim Roth stars as Dr. Cal Lightman, a man who can detect the truth by analyzing a person's face, in Lie to Me, a Fox series that debuted as a mid-season replacement in January 2009. The series has been renewed for a second season, scheduled to premiere September 28, 2009.
Assisting federal law enforcement, government agencies and local police with their most difficult cases, Lightman's company, The Lightman Group, study facial expressions and involuntary body language to discover if someone is lying and why. In its first season, the drama unfolds as the team is faced with numerous cases to unravel, including a student fleeing a murder scene, a college basketball player accused of accepting a bribe from his university, a NASA test pilot accused of intentionally crashing a multimillion dollar aircraft, and much more.
The Lie to Me: Season One DVD set of 4 discs contain the 13 episodes that aired during the spring of 2009. Also available: Lie to Me: Season One (Blu-ray disc).
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NCIS (Naval Criminal Investigative Service) is more than just an action drama. With liberal doses of humor, it's a show that focuses on the sometimes complex and always amusing dynamics of a team forced to work together in high-stress situations.
NCIS Special Agent Leroy Jethro Gibbs (Mark Harmon), a former Marine gunnery sergeant, whose skills as an investigator are unmatched, formerly led this troupe of colorful personalities. Gibbs, a man of few words, only needs a look to explain it all. From murder and espionage to terrorism and stolen submarines, these special agents travel the globe to investigate all crimes with Navy or Marine Corps ties.
The NCIS: Season Six DVD set of 6 discs contain the 25 episodes that aired on CBS from September 2008 through May 2009. The series has been renewed for a 7th season, which premieres September 22, 2009 at 8 PM (ET/PT). A spin-off from the series, NCIS: Los Angeles, will have its premiere an hour later.
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The Untouchables followed an elite Chicago crime squad led by Special Agent Eliot Ness (Robert Stack) going after the mob during Prohibition in 1930. The series aired on ABC for 4 seasons.f
The third season featured a number of prominent guest actors, including Peter Falk, Telly Savalas, Lee Marvin, Martin Landau, Dyan Cannon, Patricia Neal, Martin Balsam, and Cloris Leachman, and, at the time the relatively unknown, Leonard Nimoy and Ed Asner.
The studio is issuing the series on DVD as two-part seasons. The Untouchables: Season Three (V1) DVD set of 4 discs contain the 14 episodes that aired on ABC during the first half of the third season, from October 1961 through February 1962.
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Ken Wahl starred as a Justice Department agent reassigned to the Organized Crime Bureau (OCB) in Wiseguy. The series aired on CBS for 4 seasons.
Created by veteran producer Steven J Cannell, Wiseguy deviated from traditional crime dramas by allowing stories to span several episodes allowing the OCB to bring its case—and its charismatic criminal suspects—to a logical conclusion. No matter the cost to criminal, victim, or cop.
The Wiseguy: Season One DVD set of 4 discs contain the 21 episodes that aired on CBS from September 1987 through March 1988.
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