Britain's bumbling and beloved detective is back for good in the 9-disc DVD release The Last Detective - The Complete Collection, starring Peter Davison ( Doctor Who's 5th Doctor) in the title role. Arriving at these shores on January 20th, this package will cost $99.99 SRP in the USA and CA$114.99 SRP in Canada. Acorn Media has provided these details, and at the bottom we've got the package art as well:
Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants-and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged determination have won him legions of loyal fans. Collected here are all 17 episodes from the hit British mystery series starring Peter Davison (Doctor Who, All Creatures Great and Small), who plays the beleaguered Davies "with a pitch-perfect mix of self-effacement and irritation at the endless slights from crooks and fellow cops alike" (The Baltimore Sun).
Mocked by colleagues at his small London police station and estranged from his wife, he actually listens to advice from his kooky chum Mod (Sean Hughes, The Commitments). Still, Dangerous manages to make connections that the slicker cops miss and shows that underdogs do have their day.
BONUS PROGRAM: Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective, the 1981 movie starring Bernard Cribbins that tells the same story as series pilot.
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE: an interview with Peter Davison, Leslie Thomas bio and booklist, photo galleries, and cast filmographies.
9 discs (including bonus program); approx. 20 hours, plus 110 min. bonus program; 16:9 widescreen/4:3 full screen; color; stereo/mono; British mystery; ©2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
  
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