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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Detective Montalbano
Episodes 23-24 and Episodes 25-26
Murder, betrayal, office politics, temptation … it's all in a day's work for Detective Salvo Montalbano.
The series is filmed in the ancient, sun-washed Sicilian city of Ragusa, and is based on the international best-selling mystery novels by Andrea Camilleri.
Two DVD sets of two episodes each are being released this week:
Episode 23: "Angelica's Smile". A series of robberies take place within the singular Vigata s elite. One of the victims is Angelica, a young bank manager: gorgeous, magnetic. Montalbano is bowled over; she suggests the heroine of Ariosto's Orlando Furiouso and not only for her name. Salvo falls to her feet like a schoolboy and tries his best in fighting a difficult battle to resist her. Meanwhile, the investigation continues until he realizes that the robberies are only a cover for something completely different, much more serious and tragic.
Episode 24: "Mirror Effect". Somebody's trying to confuse Detective Montalbano: a strange villa, a love story out of Shakespeare, some mysterious explosions and a couple of dead bodies complicate the question of what is and isn't real. A game of mirrors seems to culminate in a warning to Montalbano himself. One thing is certain; behind this strange case there is something really big and the detective has to find out what it is. As the case gets more difficult, something slips out of Montalbano's control.
Episode 25: "A Voice in the Night". A theft at a supermarket controlled by a Mafia family … and the Mafia inspires fear, especially when it s allied with politics. Montalbano finds himself having to trap the guilty using even more unconventional methods. This time he does something he'd never done before, at least up to now. But when your adversaries aren t following the rules, you re authorized to break them yourself. In the end what counts is just solving the case, at least until the next homicide.
Episode 26: "A Ray of Light". Thousands of Tunisians are fleeing their homeland for Sicily and at the same time a great number of robberies have started. To Montalbano, the connections between the refugees and the robberies sounds contradictory. Running parallel to two robbery cases is another case linked to arms dealers. During the investigations it becomes increasingly clear that the three men involved are not terrorists, but were trying to get weapons to the rebels fighting against dictatorship in Tunisia.
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Foyle's War
Set Seven
As the popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London.
DCS Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright (Honeysuckle Weeks), Foyle faces new — but no less deadly — threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.
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Hannibal
Season One
FBI Agent Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) hunts the most notorious serial killers. Graham is both gifted and cursed with an extraordinary ability: he can think like his prey, seeing what they see and feeling what they feel. What he doesn't know is that his new partner is the most notorious serial killer of all.
While pursuing an especially troubling, cannibalistic murderer, Special Agent Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) teams Graham with a highly respected psychiatrist — a man with a taste for the criminally minded: Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen). Dr. Lecter tests Graham every step of the way, toying with him and playing a game all his own, while they work to unravel the mystery and catch the killer. Like only Lecter can, he twists Graham's mind, daring him to question everything he knows about others … and himself.
This first season of the series concluded its run on NBC earlier this summer. It has been renewed for a second season.
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Hawaii Five-0 2010
Season Three
In this reimagining of the classic crime drama, this series follows an elite police force based in Hawaii, and features many of the same character names. Alex O'Loughlin stars as Commander Steve McGarrett (the "son" of the Jack Lord's character), Scott Caan as Detective Danny "Danno" Williams, Daniel Dae Kim as Detective Chin Ho Kelly, and Grace Park as Detective Kona "Kono" Kalakaua.
This third season of the series originally aired on CBS from September 2012 through May 2013. The fourth season premieres this Friday, September 27th.
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Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Season Fourteen
This fourteenth season opens with a scandal that erupts at the heart of the squad, and the resulting investigation unearths past secrets that threaten the entire department. After the case surrounding Captain Cragen (Dann Florek) is closed, the workload gets more explosive as a brash new assistant DA (Raúl Esparza) comes onto the scene.
Challenging mysteries involve a sniper that targets cops, escort services in murderous competition, high-tech kidnappings, and a wily predator who games the justice system.
Originally airing on NBC from September 2012 through May 2013, the new season premieres this coming Wednesday, September 25th.
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Maigret (France)
Set Nine
Bruno Cremer brings the beloved Parisian Inspector Maigret to life in this series of filmed adaptations of legendary writer Georges Simenon's bestselling crime novels.
Sporting his pipe that seems a nod to Sherlock Holmes, the pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried manner and inevitably discovers the truth. To crack his cases he peels back the veneer of seemingly idyllic villages and neighborhoods, exposing the criminals who lurk in all levels of society.
Against a backdrop of 1950s Paris and the surrounding French countryside, these original feature-length films pay homage to one of the most brilliant detective minds of the twentieth century.
In French with English subtitles, this final set of the series includes episodes 49 through 54.
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The Mod Squad
Season Three (Volume 1 and Volume 2)
The Mod Squad are three hipper-than-hip undercover cops with a touch of menace and plenty of attitude.
Younger looking than they were, these three police officers were able to earn the confidence of the bad guys, infiltrate their domain, and then bust their backsides while still looking good.
This third season, which originally aired on ABC from September 1970 through March 1971, is being released in two DVD sets:
Season Three, Volume 1:
Season Three, Volume 2:
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