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Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman: The Complete Series Megaset

Actor: Jane Seymour
ASIN : B00197POXG
Sales Rank : 1786
Brand : A&E
Studio : A&E Home Video
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0733961118179
UPC : 733961118179
Release Date : December 28, 2008
Publisher : A&E Home Video
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Label : A&E Home Video
Running Time : 7224

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Packaged in a gorgeous faux-leather photo album that will pop off shelves and coffee tables, this collectible scrapbook of memorabilia chronicles the beautiful romance of Dr. Quinn and Sully and contains the entire series together for the first time---a must have for any fan.

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Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Season 2

Actors: Melissa Gilbert, Lindsay Greenbush, Sidney Greenbush, Michael Landon, Karen Grassle
ASIN : B00009QG5P
Sales Rank : 2119
Director : Michael Landon, Victor French, William F. Claxton
Brand : Lions Gate
Studio : Lions Gate
Region Code : 0
Format : Box set, Subtitled, Widescreen, Special Edition
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0069458110938
UPC : 069458110938
Release Date : December 08, 2003
Publisher : Lions Gate
Manufacturer : Lions Gate
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Running Time : 1080

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Charles must work at several jobs to pay off their debts while the entire family pitches in – Laura makes a new friend and helps him get over his grief - Charles promises a dying widow that he will care for her three children – Walnut Grove sees the opening of its first bank – Mary becomes the pride and joy of the town – The sensitive subject of drug abuse is addressed in the second to last episode entitled "Soldiers Return". These and many other exciting adventures are featured in this Collector’s Edition!

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Deadwood - The Complete First Season

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Jim Beaver, Brad Dourif
ASIN : B0006FO5LO
Sales Rank : 2267
Director : Alan Taylor, Daniel Minahan, Davis Guggenheim, Edward Bianchi, Michael Engler
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Home Box Office (HBO)
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780783119342
ISBN : 0783119348
UPC : 026359243028
Number Of Discs : 6
Release Date : December 08, 2005
Publisher : Home Box Office (HBO)
Manufacturer : Home Box Office (HBO)
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Running Time : 720

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(HBO Dramatic Series) 1876. In the Black Hills of South Dakota lies Deadwood, a lawless town inhabited by a mob of restless misfits ranging from an ex-lawman to a scheming saloon owner to the legendary Wild Bill Hickok and Calamity Jane. The richest gold strike in American history provides the backdrop for HBO's next great drama.

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The remarkable first season of Deadwood represents one of those periodic, wholesale reinventions of the Western that is as different from, say, Lonesome Dove as that miniseries is from Howard Hawks's Rio Bravo or the latter is from Anthony Mann's The Naked Spur. In many ways, HBO's Deadwood embraces the Western's unambiguous morality during the cinema's silent era through the 1930s while also blazing trails through a post-NYPD Blue, post-The West Wing television age exalting dense and customized dialogue. On top of that, Deadwood has managed an original look and texture for a familiar genre: gritty, chaotic, and surging with both dark and hopeful energy. Yet the show's creator, erstwhile NYPD Blue head writer David Milch, never ridicules or condescends to his more grasping, futile characters or overstates the virtues of his heroic ones.

Set in an ungoverned stretch of South Dakota soon after the 1876 Custer massacre, Deadwood concerns a lawless, evolving town attracting fortune-seekers, drifters, tyrants, and burned-out adventurers searching for a card game and a place to die. Others, particularly women trapped in prostitution, sundry do-gooders, and hangers-on have nowhere else to go. Into this pool of aspiration and nightmare arrive former Montana lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) and his friend Sol Starr (John Hawkes), determined to open a lucrative hardware business. Over time, their paths cross with a weary but still formidable Wild Bill Hickok (Keith Carradine) and his doting companion, the coarse angel Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert); an aristocratic, drug-addicted widow (Molly Parker) trying to salvage a gold mining claim; and a despondent hooker (Paula Malcomson) who cares, briefly, for an orphaned girl. Casting a giant shadow over all is a blood-soaked king, Gem Saloon owner Al Swearengen (Ian McShane), possibly the best, most complex, and mesmerizing villain seen on TV in years. Over 12 episodes, each of these characters, and many others, will forge alliances and feuds, cope with disasters (such as smallpox), and move--almost invisibly but inexorably--toward some semblance of order and common cause. Making it all worthwhile is Milch's masterful dialogue--often profane, sometimes courtly and civilized, never perfunctory--and the brilliant acting of the aforementioned performers plus Brad Dourif, Leon Rippy, Powers Boothe, and Kim Dickens. --Tom Keogh

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Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Season 3

Actors: Michael Landon, Karen Grassle, Melissa Gilbert, Melissa Sue Anderson, Lindsay Greenbush
ASIN : B0000C2IVT
Sales Rank : 4472
Director : Michael Landon, Victor French, William F. Claxton
Brand : LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE: SEASON 3 (DVD MO
Studio : Lions Gate
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0069458120432
UPC : 069458120432
Release Date : December 04, 2003
Publisher : Lions Gate
Manufacturer : Lions Gate
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Running Time : 1080

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Mary and John fall deeply in love and must make serious decisions about their future – Laura demonstrates tremendous courage when Charles is critically wounded on a hunting trip – Carrie wanders off and narrowly avoids tragedy when she is rescued from a mine shaft – A child, initially rejected by his grandfather because his father was Indian, earns his Grandad’s respect – Important lessons are learned when a young black child comes to stay with the Ingalls – With their crops destroyed, Charles decides to take his family to seek their fortune in the gold mines with disturbing results… - These and all of the other exciting adventures from the entire Third Season are presented in this Special Collector’s Edition!

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Deadwood - The Complete Third Season

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Brad Dourif, W. Earl Brown
ASIN : B000NVI2GU
Sales Rank : 1496
Director : Adam Davidson, Daniel Attias, Daniel Minahan, Edward Bianchi, Gregg Fienberg
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Home Box Office (HBO)
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0026359321726
UPC : 026359321726
Release Date : December 12, 2007
Publisher : Home Box Office (HBO)
Manufacturer : Home Box Office (HBO)
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Running Time : 720

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(Rolling Stone) "The Best Drama on Television" is back with the third season on DVD! Timed to coincide with Father's Day, HBO will release Deadwood: The Complete Third Season DVD on June 12, 2007. Watch as the lawless era of Deadwood comes to an end. This DVD is loaded with bonus features including two featurettes, audio commentaries and more.

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Audio Commentary
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The final complete season of HBO's remarkable Deadwood series is full of surprises and devastating experiences as the nascent, dangerous town prepares to join Dakota territory in 1877. As in the previous two seasons, the question of who will control the town's resources, assets, and people drives much of the drama, affecting all manner of relationships and alliances, often between the most unlikely people. The dominant storyline in Deadwood: The Complete Third Season concerns upcoming elections for mayor and sheriff of the mucky, gold-mining town. The real juice, however, is not so much between the individuals running for office as between two power brokers each trying to steer the results toward their own purposes. Saloon owner and Deadwood's puppetmaster, Al Swearengen (Ian McShane sustaining his brilliant peformance in the previous two seasons), works closely with incumbent lawman Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant) on retaining the latter's seat. But Bullock himself has difficulty surrendering his penchant for taking unambiguous action and relying on few words, especially when he has to act like a politician and deal with people such as George Hearst (Gerald McRaney, playing the real-life father of William Randolph Hearst). Swearengen's rival, Hearst--a self-made industrialist who gained his fortune through mining--has every intention of overtaking Deadwood, with his eye particularly on the lucrative mine owned by Bullock's former lover, Alma (Molly Parker). (The violence Hearst employs to get to Alma's claim will stun many Deadwood fans.)

Meanwhile, Bullock's old friend, Sol Starr (John Hawkes), runs for mayor against the feckless E.B. Farnum (William Sanderson), and tries to navigate through his difficult relationship with Trixie (Paula Malcomson) as she grows enraged by former lover Swearengen's manipulation of her and everyone else. Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) is encouraged to become a public speaker, telling of her misadventures with General George Custer, and she commences a lesbian relationship with Joanie (Kim Dickens), the saloon owner who is becoming increasingly despondent and suicidal. Bullock's relationship with his wife, Martha (Anna Gunn) continues to deepen and become more of an influence on him, Wyatt Earp comes for a visit, and a newcomer to town, Jack Langrishe (Brian Cox), an old friend of Swearengen, attempts to open a theatre. As expected, the season finale concludes with the long-awaited election, but HBO's decision to bring Deadwood to an end required creator David Milch to wrap everything up in a pair of two-hour movies. Still, The Complete Third Season is very satisfying on every level, and will always be, along with the rest of the series, a television landmark. --Tom Keogh

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Little House on the Prairie - The Complete Season 1

Actors: Michael Landon, Melissa Gilbert
ASIN : B00009QG5O
Sales Rank : 2003
Brand : LION'S GATE ENTERTAINMENT
Studio : Lionsgate
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Color, DVD-Video, Special Edition, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0069458110235
UPC : 069458110235
Release Date : December 08, 2003
Publisher : Lionsgate
Manufacturer : Lionsgate
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Running Time : 1080

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Dirt-poor and alone, the Ingalls family moves to Minnesota and fights to build their new home - Mr. Edwards is reunited with the Ingalls when Charles convinces him to settle in Walnut Grove - Caroline gives birth to a baby boy who dies soon afterwards - The town is put under quarantine due to a serious illness - The entire family nearly perishes in a blizzard but is saved thanks to the kindness of an Indian friend - These and many other exciting adventures are featured in this Collector's Edition!

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* Interactive Full Motion Menu
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* The Ingalls Photo Album
* The "Little House" Episode Quiz (Season 1)

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Deadwood - The Complete Second Season

Actors: Timothy Olyphant, Ian McShane, Molly Parker, Brad Dourif, W. Earl Brown
ASIN : B000EULSR0
Sales Rank : 1545
Director : Alan Taylor, Daniel Minahan, Edward Bianchi, Gregg Fienberg, Michael Almereyda
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : HBO Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0026359277924
UPC : 026359277924
Number Of Discs : 6
Release Date : December 23, 2006
Publisher : HBO Home Video
Manufacturer : HBO Home Video
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Label : HBO Home Video
Running Time : 720

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1877. A new day is dawning in the Black Hills outlaw camp of Deadwood. For better or worse, times are changing, and the transformation from camp to town is imminent. Unsavory new arrivals - looking to cash in on the lucrative anarchy -- and a government of outsiders usher in an era of hard decisions and brutal power struggles among the camp's founders, all learning the hard way...fortune comes with a price.

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3D Animated Menus
Audio Commentary
Documentaries
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Deadwood: The Complete Second Season continues the Shakespearean brilliance of the landmark first season, created by NYPD Blue head writer David Milch. Milch either wrote or supervised the writing of each of the 12 episodes in this stunning follow-up, which contains more than a few surprises for anyone who thought they knew the myriad characters in the late 19th century town of Deadwood--a mucky, ungoverned, exceptionally violent development in South Dakota. As with the first season, Deadwood continues to be about many things--survival, loyalty, alliances, duty--but all of them are happening against a titanic battle between several parties to consolidate power and real wealth in the territory. Despite his cutthroat ethics, astonishing profanity, and bursts of cruelty, it's hard not to side in this bid for a piece of America's future with saloon owner Al Swearengen (a magnificent performance by Ian McShane), a visionary monster who is nevertheless more recognizably human than his rivals.

Entering an uneasy partnership with Al is Seth Bullock (Timothy Olyphant). Seth begins the second season by teaching Al a few lessons in chivalry, and their brief but bloody feud commences physical ailments for Al that become increasingly shocking to behold. Yet Al's difficulties have the practical effect of sidelining him for a couple of episodes while the story sets up more complex power struggles. Al takes on Deadwood's other saloon-brothel owner, the unstable Cy Tolliver (Powers Boothe), as well as an off-screen millionaire who is intent on owning all the gold-mining interests by buying out weary prospectors' claims. Meanwhile, Seth's wife and son (actually, his late brother's widow and child) arrive, an unsettling development for Seth's lover, the widow Alma Garret (Molly Parker), who soon reveals herself to be a more complicated person than in the first season. The prostitute Trixie (Paula Malcomson) begins thinking about her future and asserts independence from Al by having sex with Seth's friend, Sol Star (John Hawkes). Best of all, Calamity Jane (Robin Weigert) is back and more endearingly uncivilized than ever. Special features include actor commentaries on select episodes, the best of which finds Olyphant and McShane cracking each other up while watching the season premiere. --Tom Keogh

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Gunsmoke - The First Season

Actors: James Arness, Amanda Blake, Milburn Stone, Dennis Weaver
ASIN : B000PHX5KU
Sales Rank : 4930
Brand : Paramount
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Closed-captioned, Black & White, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0097368521346
UPC : 097368521346
Release Date : December 17, 2007
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
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Running Time : 1051

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Marshall Matt Dillon is responsible for keeping the law and respectability in Dodge City in this western action-drama. Gunsmoke captured the courage, character and spirit of the Western Frontier.

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A TV series doesn't get a more auspicious launch than did Gunsmoke, the first episode of which, broadcast on Sept. 10, 1955, was introduced by none other than John Wayne ("Some of you may have seen me before"). In this historic prologue (included in this first-season round-up), Wayne hypes Gunsmoke as "honest, adult, and realistic." Of James Arness, starring as United States Marshal Matt Dillon, Wayne predicts, "He'll be a big star, so you might as well get used to him." Viewers did more than get used to him. "Mr. Dillon," as his sidekick Chester (Dennis Weaver) calls him, became a television icon who literally stood tall as a steadfast, incorruptible symbol of justice through two of America's most tumultuous decades. The Bravo network ranked him among TV's 50 greatest characters. Gunsmoke was television's longest running Western, and Arness's 20-year stint as Dillon would be matched only by Kelsey Grammer's Frasier Crane (and, by the way, Milburn Stone, who costarred with Arness as crusty, "vinegar face" Doc Adams).

For those who grew up with Gunsmoke's full-hour color episodes, this first season will be something of a revelation. The show is in black and white, and, at a half-hour, lean and gritty. Not that Dodge City is Deadwood, by any means, but its reputation as "the Gomorrah of the plains," as Dillon notes in the first episode, is well earned. Most episodes begin with Dillon setting the stage, Dragnet-style, like a frontier Joe Friday. "A man will choose his gun quicker to make a point than he'll draw on his logic," he ruminates at one point. "That's where I come in." Gunsmoke has its share of shootouts and traditional Western action, but the best episodes are gripping psychological dramas. In "Reward for Matt," the embittered widow of a racist Dillon was forced to gun down puts a price on his head. In "The Killer," Dillon exposes a gunslinger (guest star Charles Bronson) for the coward he is. Even an otherwise light-hearted holiday episode, "Magnus," in which Chester's backwards, backwoods brother comes to visit, is darkened by a twisted man gunning for "wicked" dance hall woman Miss Kitty (Amanda Blake), queen of the Longbranch saloon (and a close friend of the marshal—just how close is only hinted at). John Wayne was right: More than 50 years later, Gunsmoke remains "the best thing of its kind to come along." --Donald Liebenson

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