Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive selections of detective, amateur sleuth, private investigator, and suspense television mystery series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling three series being released this week.
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Jack Webb and Harry Morgan star as Sergeant Joe Friday and Officer Bill Gannon in Dragnet (1969), a series that aired on NBC for four seasons that was based on a radio and television show of the same title from the 1950s.
It is just another day in Los Angeles: smog, traffic and unceasing crime. But no matter the day, duty calls for Friday and Gannon. From dealing with burglars, runaways and druggies to representing the LAPD on an L.A. talk show and working with the secret service to prep for a visit from the President of the United States, you know these boys will have it handled. Ladies and gentlemen, the stories you are about to see are true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
The Dragnet (1969): Season Three DVD set of 4 discs contain the 26 episodes that aired from September 1968 through April 1969.
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Jerry Orbach, Benjamin Bratt, Sam Waterston, Carey Lowell and S. Epatha Merkerson return for riveting cases of military corruption, drive-by shootings, a killer infected with the AIDS virus and an issue that hits close to home: abuse of power in the District Attorney’s office in the eighth season of the long-running Law & Order, which premiered on NBC in September 1990 and just completed its 20th and final season this past May.
The Law & Order: Season Eight DVD set of 5 discs contain the 24 episodes that originally aired from September 1997 through May 1998.
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Robert Urich stars as private eye Dan Tanna in Vega$, an ABC series filmed entirely on location in Las Vegas.
The series also stars Tony Curtis as casino owner Phil Roth, Phyllis Davis as assistant Beatrice, Bart Braverman as Binzer, and Greg Morris as Las Vegas Police Lieutenant David Nelson. Befitting its locale, many episodes star names headlining acts in the city, now and from the past.
The Vega$: Season Two (Volume 1) DVD set of 3 discs contain the first 11 episodes that aired during the second season from September 1979 into January 1980.
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