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 seven series from our site being released this week.
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Beck
Episodes 19-21
He's got no style, he's got no flash and he's squarely in middle age. But Swedish detective Martin Beck (Peter Haber) is good at one thing: methodically catching criminals so that they can be put away … for a long time. His tightly-wound partner, Gunvald Larsson (Mikael Persbrandt), is his opposite: an impulsive man who cuts a dashing figure, is in no way politically correct and who never met a boundary he didn't leap across. He ll do anything to get information from a suspect, including enhanced interrogation techniques.
It's classic good cop/bad cop, and together with their team they bring down dangerous criminals lurking in the seedy Stockholm underworld.
Beck's a loner but he's not anti-social. He regularly sees his daughter, with whom he now has a much better relationship than when he was neglecting her growing up. And at the end of a workday, there's always an interesting conversation and a nightcap with a neighbor who gives new meaning to the word quirky.
These DVD sets, in Swedish with English subtitles, originally aired in 2007.
Episodes 19-21 are "The Vulture", "The Attorney", and "The Japanese Painting".
Also being released this week, Episodes 22-24: "The Weak Link", "The Silent Scream", and "In the Name of God".
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CSI: NY
Season Nine
The forensic investigators of CSI: NY use high-tech science to follow the evidence and solve crimes in The Big Apple.
Starring Gary Sinese as Mac Taylor and Sela Ward as Jo Danville, this spin-off of the original CSI aired for nine seasons on CBS.
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Inspector Lewis
Series Six
Inspector Robbie Lewis (Kevin Whately) and Sergeant James Hathaway (Laurence Fox) face three new mysteries inspired by the "Inspector Morse" novels of Colin Dexter.
In "Down Among the Fearful", Reuben Beatty, a research fellow from Oxford's Department of Psychology, is found dead in the offices of psychic Randolph James. Lewis and Hathaway soon discover that Reuben had been leading an elaborate double life, moonlighting as a clairvoyant. Can a fellow psychic help solve the investigation?
In "The Ramblin' Boy", while Hathaway takes time off in Kosovo, Lewis is assigned a temporary sidekick, young constable Alex Gray. Together, Lewis and Gray investigate the discovery of an embalmed body of a man who died of cancer. However, the crematorium confirms that a body was burned, leaving Lewis with one question — who was buried in the coffin?
Finally, in "Intelligent Design", recently released from prison after killing someone in a driving accident, Richard Seager, a former biochemistry professor, is murdered — crushed to death by his own car. Between Seager's wife, his victim's family, and his colleagues at the university, Lewis and Hathaway have a long road to travel and a great deal to investigate.
These episodes originally aired PBS's Masterpiece Mystery! during Summer 2012.
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Jack Taylor
Series One
Self-destructive, pigheaded, and overfond of the bottle, Jack Taylor (Iain Glen) is a forty-something ex-cop trying to earn a living as a private detective in his native Galway. Taylor has burned a lot of bridges, but he still has a knack for uncovering ugly truths. In his new trade, Taylor finds evil at every turn: the serial murders of young female factory workers, a vicious vigilante group executing summary justice, and a sadistic nun dubbed "Lucifer" by her former charges.
Set against the rugged backdrop of western Ireland, this crime noir series depicts a country in transition, caught between the certainties of the past and the anxieties of a post-bubble future. Those same strains play out in the life of Jack Taylor, a man seeking to reinvent himself in a community with a long memory and an uneasy attitude towards change.
This crime drama is based on a character created by Ken Bruen, with the three episodes in this set adapted from the books in the series.
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Midsomer Murders
Set Twenty-Two
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries.
Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars Neil Dudgeon as the capable Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby, with Jason Hughes as his earnest, efficient partner, Detective Sergeant Ben Jones.
Four episodes are included in this set:
"The Sleeper under the Hill" — Barnaby and Jones investigate a group of Druids in Midsomer Mow.
"The Night of the Stag" — Local bootleggers come under suspicion after the disappearance of a government inspector.
"A Sacred Trust" — Vandalism and violence send shock waves through Midsomer's cloistered nunnery.
"A Rare Bird" — The detectives investigate whether competition between ornithology enthusiasts led to murder.
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New Tricks
Season Nine
For eight years, the old dogs of the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad — veteran detectives Jack Halford (James Bolam), Brian Lane (Alun Armstrong), and Gerry Standing (Dennis Waterman) — have been a close-knit team. Led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman (Amanda Redman), their beautiful, younger boss, they have solved cold cases with classic policing skills and easy camaraderie. Then Jack drops a bombshell: he's quitting. Retiring. And this time, he means it.
Before long, Sandra finds a replacement in retired detective Steve McAndrew (Denis Lawson), a chatty, enthusiastic Scot, who quickly managed to step on more than a few toes.
This season the BBC comedy/crime drama originally aired during Summer 2012.
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Peter Gunn
Season Two
Craig Stevens plays Peter Gunn, Pete to his friends, a handsome, suave detective tough enough to take on the hardest of hard cases, but has a soft touch when it comes to the ladies. His girlfriend, the gorgeous singer Edie Hart (Lola Albright) is the featured singer at Mothers, a smoke-filled jazz club set in a nameless waterfront city used by Gunn as his unofficial office. Other regulars at the club include a colorful cast of musicians, pool hustlers, artists and a sculptor. His standard fee is $1,000.00, and his reputation keeps the customers lined up for his services. A man with expensive tastes, Peter Gunn drives a stylish two-tone Plymouth Fury Convertible, equipped with a mobile phone!
This second season of the series originally aired on NBC from September 1959 through June 1960.
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