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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Police officers Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord) hit the mean streets of Los Angeles running into all sorts of crime ... from anti-Semitic criminals to assassins to hallucinating drunks ... in Adam-12, a crime drama that aired on NBC from 1968 through 1975, and a spin-off from the popular series Dragnet.
Guest stars this season include Willie Aames, Lindsay Wagner, Ed Begley Jr., Ozzie Nelson, Paul Gleason, William Campbell, George Murdock, Ronne Troup, Angela Cartwright, Kathy Garver, Bobby Troup, Larry Linville, Carmen Zapata, Jackie Coogan, Joe E. Tata, Frank Sinatra Jr., and Dick Clark.
Also notable about this 4th season is the addition of bestselling author and prolific television producer Stephen J. Cannell, who joined the series this season as head writer and story editor.
The Adam-12: Season Four DVD set of 4 discs contain the 24 episodes that aired from September 1971 through March 1972.
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Experience the nonstop action, excitement, and drama of the first ten episodes of the critically-acclaimed FlashForward, a series that debuted on ABC last fall.
Chaos reigns ater a mysterious event causes everyone in the world to lose consciousness at exactly the same time. Was it an act of nature or something far more sinister? During the global blackout, every man, woman and child was given a glimpse of his or her life six months in the future. One elite law enforcement team jumps into the investigation, attempting to solve the mystery, as the world's population wrestles with the choice of whether to embrace the fate they've seen or fight to change the future.
Relive every twist of the series, and prepare yourself for what's to come in the second half of Season One. Who is D. Gibbons? Who is the shadowy figure unaffected by the blackout? And what's next for your favorite characters as their day of reckoning approaches? Plus, dig even deeper with never before seen bonus features and an exclusive sneak peek at the next chapter, only available on DVD.
The FlashForward: Season One, Part One DVD set of 2 discs contain the first 10 episodes of the series that aired from September through November 2009.
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The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in the contemporary British television mystery series Midsomer Murders.
Based on characters created by Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars John Nettles as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, with Jason Hughes as his earnest, efficient protégé, Detective Sergeant Ben Jones.
The Midsomer Murders: Set Fourteen DVD set of 4 discs contain following episodes of the series, which originally aired during late 2006 and early 2007: "Death and Dust" (The impending marriage of a widowed doctor and a well-to-do divorcée motivates a murder of mistaken identity); "Picture of Innocence" (In the midst of a “shooting war” between rival camera clubs, someone tries to frame Barnaby -- and definitely not for a portrait); "They Seek Him Here" (Heads roll, quite literally, when a movie crew begins filming an adventure classic set during the French Revolution); "Death in a Chocolate Box" (A long-buried scandal reemerges to haunt two of Barnaby’s former colleagues, now the managers of a halfway house).
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Taggart is the world's longest continually running police drama.
A hard-driving series with a hard-edged Scottish burr, Taggart deals in a world of prostitutes, drug dealers, crime lords, and killers. In eight tightly crafted episodes, a team of Glasgow detectives use their collective wits and street smarts to tackle murder in this very tough town. Sometimes that means taking on hardened crime bosses, sometimes innocent victims with years to plot their revenge. Each time it means getting inside the mind of murderers -- how they think, how they act, how they kill.
The Taggart: Set Two DVD set of 4 discs contain eight episodes that originally aired in late 2003, during 2004, and early 2005.
(In a press release last week, ITV announced that 6 additional episodes of the series have been co-commissioned with STV. As part of this unique deal, STV will premiere each of the new episodes in 2010, followed by a UK network broadcast on ITV1 in 2011, with UKTV’s crime channel, Alibi airing them in 2013. Filming begins in Glasgow this April.)
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