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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the double sided 3 disc Murder, She Wrote Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday. This is the wrap up of Side A of Disc 3.

“Armed Response” - In the beginning of an episode Jessica is picked up at the airport in Texas by a lawyer and it becomes apparent she is to testify for another writer. Kids cause her to fall and hurt her foot at the airport and the lawyer wants to sue, but she thinks it was entirely just an accident. Jessica ends up staying at the hospital overnight despite the minor injury. In the evening while getting some change to use the vending machine she witnesses two doctors having a heated argument. That night a doctor turns up murdered at his house. A woman (Jenny) is taken in for questioning and Jessica believes she is innocent and she asks her lawyer to help the girl out. Jessica works with the detective on the case to see how the timing of the death proves it was not Jenny. Jenny then ends up being framed with the murder weapon found in her possession. Jessica discovers that the argument she overheard was a taped one and those two doctors were actually involved in the murder of the other doctor.

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Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the drama category.

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Movie Collection Set 4 - This release is a three disc set with two movie length episodes. The episodes are “Mrs. McGinty’s Dead” and “Cat Among the Pigeons.”

Callan: Set 1 - This release is a three disc set. It includes 9 episodes from the show’s third season, which was the first season of the show that was filmed in color. The bonus features include Callan trivia and a biography of Edward Woodward (plays Callan).

Coco Chanel - This release is of the television movie about the fashion designer, Coco Chanel.

Matlock: The Third Season - This release is a five disc set.

Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Tenth Season - This release is a 5 disc set with the 21 episodes from the show’s tenth season. The bonus feature on this release is the episode “Amsterdam Kill” from the 11th season of the show.

Third Watch: The Complete Second Season - This release is a six disc set of the show’s 22 2nd season episodes.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the drama category.

Hatching Pete & Dadnapped: Double Feature - This release includes two recent Disney Channel Movies. Dadnapped is not too bad, but Hatching Pete is pretty poor in my opinion.

Kingdom - This release is a three disc set.

Lovejoy: The Complete Season Five - This release is four disc set of the show with the crime solving antiques dealer.

Pie in the Sky: Series 1 - This release is a three disc set with 10 episodes. The special features include interview with star Maggie Steed, production notes, and biography of Richard Griffiths.

Taking Chance - This movie is about the military rituals related to honoring fallen soldiers as relating to a Marine that died in Iraq.

A Village Affair - This movie is based on the novel by Joanna Trollope. The special features include cast filmographies and Joanna Trollope biography.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the mystery/crime drama category.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Eighth Year - This release is of the 8th season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. This release is a five disc set.

Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Ninth Season - This release contains the 22 episodes in the ninth season of this show. It is a five disc set. This season seems to have a lot of New York City set episodes along with the normal Cabot Cove set ones as well as some other settings such as New Mexico, Italy, and Ireland.

Wycliffe: Series 1 - This is a British crime drama about Detective Wycliffe solving murders in Cornwall. This release is a 3 disc set containing 6 episodes.

This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc CSI Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday.

“Pilot” - This episode begins with a recording of a suicide note and then flashes to police arriving on a scene. Grissom plays it for the mother. She says the picture is her son, but the voice is not her son’s. The next scene is Holly arriving for her first day as a CSI. This scene shows the pig in the jar for the first time. After taking the blood required for all police personel, Holly feels light headed and Grissom offers a grasshopper. Another body/case is introduced relate to a man saying he shot the guy for kicking in his door. This case is taken by Warrick and Catherine. Holly has to observe the autopsy of the first body, but she cannot stand the smell and when she looks for the bathroom she ends up locked in one of the rooms they keep the bodies in, but Grissom soon saves her from her while she is freaking out. Holly ends up working a crime scene on her own and the owner of the store starts waving a gun at her. She calls for backup and Catherine saves Holly this time. Nick works on a case involving men being robbed by women that seduce them and knock them out with a chemical on their nipples, which then knocks them out later as it absorbs through their skin. Warrick ends up leaving Holly at a scene on her own when a the guy the is arrested for shooting the supposed intruder who was not one. Nick becomes a CSI Level 3 for solving his 100th case. The episode ends with the news that Holly was shot at the scene she was left at alone and Warrick is put on administrative leave for leaving her.

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Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the mystery/crime drama category.

Agatha Christie’s Mysteries Collection - This release contains three Agatha Christie’s mystery movies, which are also coming out as single releases today. The movies in the set are Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, and The Mirror Crack’d.

The Beiderbecke Affair - This is a British series that sounds like it could fit in a few other categories of releases, such as comedy or drama, but it seems to best fit in the mystery category. It is basically about two teachers becoming amateur detectives. The DVD special features include a Bix Beiderbecke biography.

Death on the Nile - This release is of the 1978 TV movie based on the Agathie Christie novel of the same name. There were some difference between the book and the movie, as always happens when books are adapted to movie. It includes the deletion of 8 characters and the changing the remaining character roles to include the important things that ended up deleted with those 8 characters.

Evil Under the Sun - This is another Agathie Christie mystery movie. This one sounds like it changed more in the adaption from book to movie than the other one released today. One reviewer on Amazon said it has too much humor that distracts from the murder mystery aspect.

The Mirror Crack’d - This is the third Agatha Christia mystery movie being released today. This one peaks my interest because it stars Angela Lansbury, as Miss Marple. The reviews make it sound like this one has the humor problems, too.