Telemystery: Father Dowling, Law & Order CI, and Ripper Street, New This Week on DVD

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, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling three series from our site being released this week.

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Father Dowling Mysteries
Season Three

Based on a character created by crime novelist Ralph McInerny, Tom Bosley stars as Father Frank Dowling, an amiable, inquisitive Chicago priest, who moonlights as an amateur sleuth, and is assisted by a rather worldly, lock-picking nun (Tracy Nelson as Sister Stephanie "Steve" Oskowski).

This third and final season of the series originally aired on ABC from September 1990 through May 1991.

  

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Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Season Ten

Vincent D'Onofrio and Kathryn Erbe are back as Detectives Goren and Eames for the final riveting season of this "Law & Order" spin-off.

After a lengthy departure from duty, Goren returns to the Major Case Squad attached to a sentence of mandated therapy by the department. Nevertheless, Goren and Eames are as effective as ever in exposing some of New York's most high-profile and diabolical criminals. When the stakes are highest, the Major Case Squad gets the call. These are their stories.

This tenth season originally aired on USA Network during May and June 2011.

    

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Ripper Street
Season One

Haunted by the failure to catch London's most evil killer Jack the Ripper Inspector Edmund Reid (Matthew Macfadyen) now heads up the notorious H Division — the toughest police district in the East End. Charged with keeping order in the blood-stained streets of Whitechapel Reid and his men find themselves fighting to uphold justice and the rule of law; but always in the background lurks the fear of the Ripper is he back for another reign of terror?

Rich episodic storylines meld with the intrigue of a criminal underworld festering on the hard streets of Victorian London following the battle of the men whose job it is to bring the law to the lawless.

This original BBC America series aired its premiere season in early 2013. It has been renewed for a second season.

        

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