There are too few descent TV shows on television today. As many cable stations, satellite broadcasts
and networks available quality shows are sorely lacking.There are a few bright spots but the majority of TV is bogged down with reality series, innuendo laced comedy series and formula drama shows.
Often scripts are overshadowed by visual and physical effects, scantily clad bodies, booming music and exotic locales.
Forty to fifty years ago dramatic TV shows relied on solid scripts, real talent and hard work. Western or crime series told stories about realistic people in realistic settings. There was less flash and more class.
CBS/Paramount has just released two classic TV series DVD compilations: one a court drama, the other a Western.
Raymond Burr personified the character he played on TV--Perry Mason. It is the role he is most identified with and along with his stellar cast of characters the show consistently turned out quality courtroom dramas.
Perry Mason Season 7 Volume 2 presents 15 episodes from the last half of the seventh season and like the previous seasons the show fires on all cylinders.
Look for plenty of crime, crooks, damsels in distress, clever courtroom maneuvering and more as Perry Mason and his partners Della Reese and Paul Drake solve case after case.
Set nearly one hundred years before Perry Mason the TV Western Gunsmoke has
the distinction of being the longest running TV Western of all time..and for
good reason.Starring James Arness as the honest, forthright and straight as an arrow Marshall Matt Dillon of Dodge City the Western introduced the 'adult' Western to American TV.
Matt, along with saloon owner Miss Kitty, Deputy Chester Goode and crotchety Doc Adams, kept Dodge City safe for families and friends while warding off criminals of all kinds, doctoring those who needed doctoring and providing liquid libation for saddle sore travelers.
Each week Matt and his friends took part in some of the best written Western stories ever put to paper.
The Sixth Season, Volume 2 DVD set also includes the original ads aired when the episodes were shown.