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.
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Flashpoint is an ensemble drama which depicts the emotional journey into the tough, risk-filled lives of a group of cops in the SRU (inspired by Toronto's Emergency Task Force). It's a unique unit that rescues hostages, busts gangs, defuses bombs, climbs the sides of buildings and talks down suicidal teens. Members of a highly-skilled tactical team, they're also trained in negotiating, profiling and getting inside the suspect's head to diffuse the situation to try and save lives.
Flashpoint debuted as a summer series on CBS during 2008 and proved popular enough for the network to schedule it as a regular series.
The Flashpoint: Season One DVD set of 3 discs contains the 9 episodes that aired from July through September 2008 plus the first 4 episodes of the second season that aired in January 2009. (This DVD "season" corresponds to what was shown internationally; CBS aired the final 4 episodes of the first season as the first 4 episodes of the second season.)
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Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis (Kevin Whately), protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse (John Thaw), and his brilliant, brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) are back with four twisting new thrillers in Inspector Lewis and this time their personal connections to their work threaten to expose more than a killer.
The series is based on characters created by crime novelist Colin Dexter.
The Inspector Lewis: Series Two DVD set of 4 discs contain each of the episodes that originally aired on ITV in the UK from February through March 2008 (and later in the year on PBS in the US): "And the Moonbeams Kiss the Sea", "Music to Die For", "Life Born of Fire", and "The Great and the Good".
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Ian McShane is back as the crime-solving antiques dealer with an eye for beauty ... and trouble in Lovejoy.
Danger, betrayal, and revenge still fly fast and furious as Lovejoy grapples with dud checks, intriguing riddles, and charges of aggravated burglary. But many close calls hit ever more close to home when Tinker (Dudley Sutton) goes missing, Charlotte (Caroline Langshrie) gets kidnapped, and a man claiming to be Charlie Gimbert's (Malcolm Tierney) father appears.
The Lovejoy: Season Six DVD set of 3 discs contain the 10 episodes of the 6th and final season that originally aired on BBC from October through December 1994.
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The wild, craggy Cornish coast seems ideal for hiding serious crimes, but forthright and observant Detective Superintendent Wycliffe (Jack Shepherd) leads an investigative team charged with solving each baffling case in Wycliffe.
Killers, escaped convicts, arsonists, grave robbers and drug runners are some of the cunning criminals they pursue in the intriguing mysteries of this gripping, British police drama.
Wycliffe is based on the character in a series of crime novels by W. J. Burley.
The Wycliffe: Series Two DVD set of 3 discs contain the 8 episodes that originally aired on ITV from June through August 1995.
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