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 five series on our site being released this week.
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Alcatraz
The Complete Series
This Fox thriller series is centered on the mystery of the "63s", the forgotten prisoners who mysteriously disappeared from Alcatraz Island Federal Penitentiary in 1963.
Now, unexplainably, these criminals are returning to the streets of San Francisco to repeat their grisly crimes … not a day older than when they initially disappeared almost fifty years ago.
Enlisted by the close-to-the-vest Emerson Hauser (Sam Neill) and his equally elusive associate Lucy Bannerjee (Parminder Nagra), the driven detective Madsen (Sarah Jones) and fresh-faced Diego "Doc" Soto (Jorge Garcia) delve into the mystery of the 63s return, uncovering a much larger, more sinister threat.
Alcatraz aired for just one shortened season of 13 episodes in early 2012.
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Columbo
The Complete Series
Peter Falk is a four-time Primetime Emmy Award-winner for his iconic role as the beloved, trenchcoat-wearing Police Lieutenant Columbo.
And now, for the first time ever, the two pilots, all 43 episodes from its seven seasons on NBC, and all 26 episodes and specials that aired on ABC — 69 episodes in total — are together in this 34-disc anthology.
Every criminal, every innocent victim (and some not-so-innocent ones), and every wily deduction are here in one definitive collection.
Seemingly befuddled but always brilliant, the cigar-chomping detective will have you following the clues and asking "just one more thing" until the last case is cracked.
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The Firm
The Complete Series
As a young associate Mitch Lucas brought down Bendini Lambert & Locke a prestigious Memphis law firm operating as a front for the Chicago Mob. His life was never the same.
After a difficult ten years which included a stay in the Federal Witness Protection Program Mitch (Josh Lucas) and his family emerge from isolation determined to reclaim their lives and their future — only to find that past dangers are still lurking and new threats are everywhere.
Based on characters created by John Grisham in his bestselling novel of the same title, his NBC mid-season series aired for one season, from January through June 2012.
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Mr. Lucky
The Complete Series
Blake Edwards again teams up with composer Henry Mancini in this stylish adventure-crime series starring the dashing John Vivyan as a suave professional gambler and Ross Martin as his good friend Andamo.
The series opens with Mr. Lucky and Andamo running a successful casino in Andamo's island homeland, Chobolbo. After a brush with the country's corrupt dictator, they lose everything when Andamo is discovered running guns to the rebels in Mr. Lucky's yacht, Fortuna, and must escape by means of a small boat. Their fortunes take a turn for the better when Lucky wins enough money gambling to buy another yacht, which he christens Fortuna II. They turn her into a floating casino, and then an upscale restaurant, anchored in international water off the American coast.
The floating casino attracts a colorful cast of characters, including beautiful women, criminals on the lam and others hiding from criminals.
Mr. Lucky aired for just one season on CBS from October 1959 through June 1960. Though ratings were high, the series sponsors elected not to continue financial support, effectively canceling it.
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Psych
Season Six
The world's most dynamic — and oddball — detective duo get more than they bargained for when they take on con-artists, masked vigilantes and Darth Vader collectibles in the wild sixth season of Psych.
Fake "psychic detective" Shawn Spencer (James Roday) and his best bud, Burton "Gus" Guster (Dulé Hill), go undercover, behind the scenes and over the top to solve some of the most off the wall crimes imaginable. But how long can these super sleuths keep their psychic secret safe?
This sixth season of the series aired during Fall 2011 and Spring 2012 on USA Network. It has been renewed for a seventh season, which is scheduled to premiere in February 2013.
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