Essential TV Western 150 Episodes
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Actor: Bob DenverBrand: Digital1stop
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Color, Mono, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 4036 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-05-06
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: MV07047
Studio: Mill Creek Entertainment
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- Mill Creek Entertainment is excited to introduce Essential TV Westerns, its third 150 episode TV western series collection. Thrilled by the response to our other two collections, we have filled this companion set with 150 episodes from eighteen great series. Be thrilled with the adventures of the Old West featuring the likes of Annie Oakley, Jim Bowie, Kit Carson, Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Judge Ro
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DVD Review: Not much new here, but still plenty of bang for the buck
Summary: 4 Stars
The Essential TV Westerns 150 Episode Pack may not have many surprises - most of these shows have been available for some time - but if you're just starting you're collection, you can't beat the price. The videos are mostly in good shape (the night scenes are pretty murky, but that's a minor caveat IMHO) and you get a nice mix of programs.
The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1956) - this show, starring Scott Forbes, ran two years and was set in 1830s New Orleans before the title character moved to San Antonio - and his date with destiny. As such, it's really more of a "southern" than a "western", but the unusual setting is what sets it apart from other contemporary offerings - that, and the protagonist's primary weapon, his nine-inch long Bowie knife. Episodes included in this set are: Gone to Texas, Jackson's Assassination, Jim Bowie Comes Home, Monsieur Francois, Osceola, Outlaw Kingdom and The Select Females.
The Adventures of Kit Carson (1951) - In this early western series Kit Carson (Bill Williams) and his Mexican friend El Toro (Don Diamond) roamed the frontier in the 1880s looking for adventure. Plot lines and dialogue were pretty advanced for a show aimed at the kiddies and Williams made a likeable hero. Diamond's El Toro character was also unusual because, unlike most sidekicks, he frequently offered sage advice and was an effective fighter when the going got tough, while still having enough rough edges to serve as an effective foil for the lead character. The series ran for four years. Episodes included in this set are: Bad Men of Marysville, The Baron of Black Springs, Border City, Border Corsairs, Danger Hill, Devil of Angel's Camp, The Hero of Hermosa, Road to Destiny, Road to Monterey, Singing Wires, Thunder over Inyo and Trouble in Tuscarora.
Annie Oakley (1954) - Gail Davis starred as the titular sharp-shootin' pigtailed frontier heroine, who always managed to rescue her lawman boyfriend from the hands of notorious owlhoots who threatened their small desert community. The kid's series, produced by Gene Autry's Flying `A' production company, ran for three years and is represented by these episodes: Ambush Canyon, Annie and the Leprechauns, Annie and the Lily Maid, Annie Calls Her Shots, Annie Finds Strange Treasure, Annie Gets Her Man, Annie Trusts a Convict, Bull's Eye, Dilemma at Diablo, The Dude Stagecoach, Gunplay, The Hardrock Trail, Justice Guns, Shadow of Sonoma and Sharpshooting Annie.
Bonanza (1959) - This landmark western series, one of the first to be shot entirely in color, struggled to find an audience at first, but when the program finally hit its stride it spent most of its 14 seasons in the Nielsen Top-10. Episodes include: The Abduction, The Avenger, Blood on the Land, Breed of Violence, The Courtship, Death at Dawn, Escape to Ponderosa, The Fear Merchants, The Mission, Showdown, The Stranger and The Trail Gang.
Cowboy G-Men (1952) - Russell Hayden and Jackie Coogan starred as undercover federal officers operating in the American West in this series that ran for but a single season (39 episodes). Episodes included in this set are: Beware - No Trespassing, Gypsy Traders, Hush Money, Mysterious Decoy, Rawhiders, Sawdust Swindle, The Secret Mission and The Woman Mayor.
Dusty's Trail (1973) - Think Gilligan's Island set on the frontier. Due to the ineptitude of an assistant scout (Bob Denver), two wagons become separated from the rest of the train and blunder around the West while trying to reach California. Any similarity between the characters in this series and those from "Island" are purely intentional. That fact, and the extremely annoying laugh track, caused this viewer to wonder why this show wasn't put out of its misery after the pilot was lensed. Episodes foisted on the buyer by this set include: Brookhaven USA, The Cavalry Is Coming, Duel in Disguise, Half Moon, Here Comes the Grooms, Horse of Another Color, John J. Callahan, Love Means Bananas, Magician, Nothing to Crow About, Phoney Express, Then There Were Seven, Treasure of C. Harry Motley and Witch's Trail.
The Gabby Hayes Show (1950) - Gabby frames heavily edited 1940s PRC westerns with his tall-tale spinning asides. The six episodes included in this set have no splash frame identifying the episode title, but most feature Eddie Dean.
Judge Roy Bean (1956) - For thirty nine episodes, Edgar Buchanan played the titular self-appointed jurist of Langtry, Texas, who claimed to be "the law west of the Pecos." Episodes included in this set are: Ah Sid Cowboy, Border Raiders, Citizen Romero, Connie Comes to Town, Judge of Pecos Valley, Letty Leaves Home, Slightly Prodigal, Spirit of the Law, The Travelers and Vinegarone.
Northwest Passage (1958) - If "The Adventures of Jim Bowie" was a `southern' than this series was a `northwestern'. Major Robert Rogers (Keith Larsen) and his fellow explorers (Buddy Ebsen and Don Burnett) search for the titular trade route while battling foreign troops and their Native American allies during the French and Indian War. The series, based on characters created by novelist Kenneth Roberts, ran for one year. Episodes included in this set are: The Deserter, The Hostage, The Secret of the Cliff, Surprise Attack, The Vulture and War Sign
Outlaws (1960) - This unusual Western told its stories mostly from the criminals' vantage point. The series ran for two years and fifty episodes; included in this set are Beat the Drum Slowly and Thirty a Month.
Pistols `n' Petticoats (1966) - Ann Sheridan, Ruth McDevitt and Douglas Fowley played three mild-mannered gunslingers who used their hidden talents to aid the incompetent town sheriff keep law and order in their small town of Wretched, Colorado. The comedy series, which ran for only twenty-six episodes, was fatally wounded when series star Sheridan suddenly succumbed to cancer midway through the first season. Included in this set are: The Golden Fleece, Harold's Double and A Wagonload of Wives.
The Range Rider (1951) - This juvenile western from Gene Autry's Flying `A' Productions starred Jock Mahoney has the title character, ably assisted by his young, hotheaded sidekick played by Dick Jones. The series ran for three years. Episodes in this set are: Bad Men of Rimrock, The Crooked Fork, Old Timer's Trail, Outlaw Territory, Rustler's Range and Western Edition.
Rango (1967) - Tim Conway was much more effective as a second banana than a lead performer and this short-lived comedy western series was a pretty good indication why. In this series, Conway played an inept Texas Ranger who always got his man, despite his sheer ineptitude. Episodes include: Diamond Look Better Around Your Neck Than a Rope, In a Little Mexican Town, It Ain't the Principle It's the Money and The Spy Who Was Out in the Cold.
The Roy Rogers Show (1951) - After Roy Rogers left Republic Pictures, he quickly started production of a popular Saturday morning series set in the semi-modern west where the horse and the jeep shared the town streets. Rogers' popular series spanned six years and a hundred episodes. Episodes included in this set include: Bullets and a Burro, Doc Stevens' Traveling Store, The Doublecrosser and Stranger.
The Sheriff of Cochise (1956)/U.S. Marshal (1958) - John Bromfield played Frank Morgan, initially the sheriff of Cochise County, Arizona, and two years later, a federal marshal. Both series were contemporary cop shows set in the desert southwest. Two episodes from Sheriff of Cochise are included: Bank Robbery and The Lynching Party. From U.S. Marshal, episodes included are: Armored Car, The Champ, Deer Hunt, The Fence, Ghost Town, My Sons, the Promise, Sentenced to Death, Trigger Happy and The Triple Cross.
Stories of the Century (1954) - Jim Davis played railroad detective Matt Clark in this western. He was ably assisted by female detectives - in the first season, his partner was played by Mary Castle, in the second, by Kristine Miller. During the show's two seasons the detectives were pitted against just about every famous outlaw that ever tried to turn a dishonest dollar in the late 19th Century. Episodes included are: Augustine Chacon, Ben Thompson, Bill Longley, Burt Alford, Harry Tracy, Jim Courtright, Joaquin Murietta, L.H. Musgrove, Milt Sharp and Sontag and Evans.
Tate (1960) - David McLean played Tate, a crippled Civil War veteran who kept his useless arm in a sling. Reduced to one good hand, our hero made a living the only way left to him - as a gunslinger for hire in the Old West. This series ran for 13 episodes as a summer replacement series. Episode included are Before Sunup, The Bounty Hunter, Comanche Scalps, The Gunfighters, Home Town, The Mary Hardin Story, Quiet after the Storm, The Reckoning and Stopover.
26 Men (1957) - The title of this turn-of-the 20th century western described the number of men hired to serve as Arizona Rangers, the first territorial police force. The organization by headed by Captain Tom Rynning (Tris Coffin), whose right hand man was Ranger Clint Travis (Kelo Henderson). The series ran for 78 episodes over a two year span. Episodes included are: The Bells of St. Thomas, The Big Rope, Dead Man in Tucson, Incident in Yuma, Man on the Run, The Recruit, The Slater Brothers, Trade Me Deadly, Trail of Darkness and Trouble at Pinnacle Peak.
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Synopsis: Mill Creek Entertainment is excited to introduce Essential TV Westerns, its third 150 episode TV western series collection. Thrilled by the response to our other two collections, we have filled this companion set with 150 episodes from eighteen great series. Be thrilled with the adventures of the Old West featuring the likes of Annie Oakley, Jim Bowie, Kit Carson, Roy Rogers, Gabby Hayes, Judge Roy Bean and many others! You'll also laugh at the exploits found in Dusty's Trail, Pistols and Petticoats, as well as Rango. Be entertained by such programs as Bonanza, Stories of the Century, 26 Men and United States Marshal. This twelve DVD set has something for every kind of TV western fan! Included 1. Adventures of Jim Bowie, The 2. Adventures of Kit Carson, The 3. Annie Oakley 4. Bonanza 5. Cowboy G-Men 6. Dusty's Trail 7. Gabby Hayes Show, The 8. Judge Roy Bean 9. Northwest Passage 10. Outlaws 11. Pistols 'N' Petticoats 12. Range Rider, The 13. Rango 14. Roy Rogers Show, The 15. Sheriff of Cochise 16. Stories of the Century 17. Tate 18. Twenty-six MenBestsellers in DVD
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