Midsomer Murders - Acorn Announces both Set 10 and The Early Cases: Dates, Details, Art
Both Ship on March 25th |
Posted by David Lambert
 |
12/23/2007
|
|
| |
 Pin It
MIDSOMER MURDERS Set 10
What evil lurks beyond the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer...
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Based on the novels by Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as the unflappable Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby with John Hopkins (Love in a Cold Climate) as his brash young assistant, Sergeant Dan Scott. Guest stars include Oliver Ford Davies, Annette Crosbie, Owen Teale, June Whitfield, Geoffrey Whitehead, and David Burke.
- Disc 1: "Second Sight"
- Disc 2: "Hidden Depths"
- Disc 3: "Sauce for the Goose"
- Disc 4: "Midsomer Rhapsody"
$49.99 U.S./$59.99 CAN
Street: March 25, 2008
4 mysteries of approx. 100 min. each; 16:9 widescreen; color; stereo
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE Caroline Graham biography and cast filmographies.
Pin It
MIDSOMER MURDERS: The Early Cases Collection
What evil lurks beyond the well-trimmed hedges of Midsomer...
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. The smash hit series stars John Nettles (Bergerac) as Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, a dogged investigator and devoted family man, unflappable in the face of the macabre crimes and eccentric characters he encounters on the job.
Collected here are the first 18 episodes by original U.K. broadcast date. These include the five mysteries adapted from the novels of Caroline Graham, a modern master of the English village mystery, as well as the next 13 original stories inspired by her characters. DS Gavin Troy (Daniel Casey), Barnaby’s first and longest-serving deputy, eagerly assists the chief on all of these cases. Guest stars include Emily Mortimer, Anna Massey, Richard Briers, Prunella Scales, Julian Wadham, Orlando Bloom, and Celia Imrie.
- Disc 1: "The Killings at Badger's Drift"
- Disc 2: "Written in Blood"
- Disc 3: "Death of a Hollow Man"
- Disc 4: "Faithful Unto Death"
- Disc 5: "Death in Disguise"
- Disc 6: "Death's Shadow"
- Disc 7: "Strangler's Wood"
- Disc 8: "Dead Man's Eleven"
- Disc 9: "Blood Will Out"
- Disc 10: "Death of a Stranger"
- Disc 11: "Blue Herrings"
- Disc 12: "Judgement Day"
- Disc 13: "Beyond the Grave"
- Disc 14: "Garden of Death"
- Disc 15: "Destroying Angel"
- Disc 16: "The Electric Vendetta"
- Disc 17: "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
- Disc 18: "Dark Autumn"
- Disc 19: Behind-the-scenes documentary "Super Sleuths: Midsomer Murders"
$159.99 U.S./$189.99 CAN
Street: March 25, 2008
19 discs (including bonus program); approx. 30 hours; color; stereo; letterboxed/16:9 widescreen
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES INCLUDE essay by John Nettles, Midsomer map, production notes, behind-the-scenes featurette, Caroline Graham biography, and cast filmographies.
Plus exclusive bonus disc: Super Sleuths, a documentary about the show’s first decade, featuring John Nettles, Caroline Graham, writer Anthony Horowitz, and others.
NOTE: Mysteries previously released on DVD as Sets One, Two, Three, and Five.
 
|
| |
| |
|
|
|
|
