Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling four series and one made-for-television movie being released this week.
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87th Precinct
The Complete Series
Manhattan's 87th Precinct forms the backdrop for this grim and gritty police drama based on the long-running series of novels by Ed McBain.
Storylines focus on neighborhood crime, and the tight-knit lives of the officers of the 87th and their families: Steve Carella (Robert Lansing) and his deaf/mute wife, Teddy (Gena Rowlands), rookie Bert Kling (Ron Harper), long-time veteran Roger Havilland (Gregory Walcott) and the wryly philosophical Meyer Meyer (Norman Fell).
87th Precinct aired for just one season of 30 episodes on NBC during the 1960/1961 television season.
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Grimm
Season One
The classic Grimms' fairy tales come to life like never before in the first season of this imaginative series that aired on NBC from September 2011 to May 2012.
Portland homicide detective Nick Burkhardt (David Giuntoli) discovers he's descended from a long line of "Grimms", who are charged with keeping balance between humanity and the creatures of myth. With newly awoken abilities to detect the evil lurking among us, Nick struggles to keep his old life separate and safe as he becomes ever more entrenched in the ancient rivalries of the Grimm world.
Grimm has been renewed for a second season. NBC is capitalizing on its Olympics coverage and starting several series seasons early this year, including Grimm, which premieres on Monday, August 13th at 10 PM ET/PT.
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Jesse Stone
Benefit of the Doubt
Based on a character created by crime novelist Robert B. Parker, the "Jesse Stone" series of made-for-television movies have proved popular with viewers … just the wrong kind of viewers, according to CBS.
This eighth movie in the series will be the last, unless the producers, which include Tom Selleck and Michael Brandman, who took over writing the "Jesse Stone" books following the death of Parker, can find another network to air them.
Benefit of the Doubt has Jesse Stone's involuntary retirement ending when the young sheriff who replaced him is blown up in the town police car. The loyal staffers who worked for Jesse have abandoned the department and Jesse must try to solve the case on his own. It originally aired on CBS in May, 2012.
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The Rookies
Season Two
Gerald S. O’Loughlin, Georg Stanford Brown, Sam Melville, Michael Ontkean, and Kate Jackson star in this crime drama that explores both sides of the badge worn by a group of young officers from the Southern California Police Department (SCPD).
With intense cases involving a cop killer, a serial rapist, a rogue officer and an escaped convict as well as the off-duty drama that comes with being a cop, this intensely human series is sensitive, sometimes humorous and always filled with action, suspense and excitement.
This second season (of four) aired on ABC from September 1973 through March 1974.
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Strike Back
Season One
A high-octane, globe-spanning thriller with storylines ripped from today’s headlines, this Cinemax original series focuses on two members of a top-secret anti-terrorist organization known as Section 20: Michael Stonebridge (Philip Winchester), a British sergeant in the ultra secret Section 20 anti-terrorist team, and Damien Scott (Sullivan Stapleton), a Delta Forces operative who was disgraced and discharged on the eve of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Based on the UK drama of the same title, which itself is adapted from a 2007 thriller by Chris Ryan, this first season of the series aired on Cinemax from August through Occtober 2011. The second season premieres on Friday, August 17th at 10 PM ET/PT.
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