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NOT the original version of the show - music edited
If you are one of those idiots who says "oh shut up and stop complaining, it's just the music, waaa waaa", take your DVDs and BURN them. You know nothing about what it means for the music to be an important part of the show and are just a complete moron (I can't express in words the anger that goes through me reading someone go "it's just the music"; it's NOT just the music!!!, it's the SHOW that is screwed up!!!)
Quantum Leap is one of those shows where the music is crucial aspect of show; the music is not just some background noise; it sets the mood. The show is completely ruined and is not worth a cent without the original soundtrack. Awful job on the part of Universal.

excellent series
No matter what this series is excellent. Anyone griping about the music must remember its better to have the series on dvd rather than not available at all. Hopefully season 4 will come out soon as its my favorite!

Hey, Universal, call me when you come to your senses.
Having read that Universal once again mucked up the music, I won't be buying Season 3 of Quantum Leap.There are some shows in which the music doesn't really matter - Laverne & Shirley's first season, for example, mentions on the box that the music is different, but the songs in Laverne & Shirley are merely incidental, background sounds.In QL, the music was a major part of the show, helping to set the time period, helping to set the mood.

I have read some of the reviews from people who claim that the change in music makes no difference (generally such comments are written in a boorish, bumptious, hectoring tone, a fact which I find rather interesting and quite telling).No?Close your eyes and imagine the Lord of the Rings movies with elevator music instead of the soaring splendor of its real score.Ponder "American Graffiti" with the sort of synthesized slop that has replaced the original music in QL. Then try to tell me that music doesn't matter.

The choice is not these travesties or nothing for most QL fans; it's a choice of a poorer-quality taped-from-TV video with the real music, taking up more shelf space than a DVD set; or a better-quality picture with no commercials that has had much of the atmosphere stripped from it. I'll take my tapes, thank you very much.If Universal comes to its senses and releases QL in unmangled form, even if it costs more, I'll buy it. Until then, count me out.

Classics never get old!
I have been waiting for this season for a long time now. The series reached its peak with episodes like "The Leap Home" and "The Boogie Man". Scott and Dean do their best work when the story really gives them the chance and the episodes of the third season really give them the best chances of the entire five-year run! It is pure pleasure to watch them perform. It is a shame that they only got five years! They could have gone on for many more!!!
(BTW, if anyone is confused by the other reviewers complaints about the change in the music, don't worry about it. What you heard on TV is what you get. They didn't change the music for the DVD release - which is exactly what I thought they were complaining about!) So buy this DVD set! You won't regret it!

Forget It
Music replacement abound, once again.A truly great show is being given the shaft by Universal, who only percieves it's formidable fan base as an open wallet.Boycott.Don't listen to the soulless collectors who only want to line their DVD shelves.QL without the original music arrangements is a travesty. ... Read more

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Get ready to reload as L.A. homicide detective Rick Hunter (Fred Dryer) and his partner Dee Dee McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) return to toss out the rulebook and blow away every other cop show on TV! In this explosive second season, Hunter and McCall take on deadly heists, killer porn stars, gangland murders, international terrorists, street hookers, punk rockers, McCall’s rapist and more. Bruce Davison co-stars as Captain Wyler in the legendary Saturday night series that shot down all critics to become one of the hottest action hits in television history! HUNTER – THE COMPLETE SECOND SEASON features all 23 episodes – including the shocking two-part "Rape & Revenge"– with such guest stars as Robert Englund, Jane Russell, Robert Davi, Stuart Whitman, Kay Lenz, Sheryl Lee Ralph, John Matuszak and Isaac Hayes. ... Read more

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ONE OF THE BEST SHOWS OF ALL TIME
THIS SHOW IN UP THERE WITH A TEAM AND HAPPY DAYS AS THE BEST SHOWS ON TV EVER I GOT THE FIRST SEASON THE FIRST DAY IT CAME OUTI OWN OVER 2000 DVDS AND BOX SETS AND HUNTER IN THE TOP 2 A TEAM BEING NUMBER ONE GET THIS SET RIGHT AWAY:) ITS AMAZING ... Read more

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With the release of Wiseguy on DVD, one of the best TV series of the 1980s gets a new lease on life. Long before Donnie Brasco brought similar drama to the big screen, Ken Wahl brought charisma, credibility, and chutzpah to his small-screen role as Vincent Terranova, a handsome 30-year-old agent with the FBI's Organized Crime Bureau. As conceived by cocreators Stephen Cannell (of The Rockford Files and The A-Team fame) and Ken Lupo, Wiseguy followed an innovative "story-arc" structure, allowing Vinnie's deep-cover missions to last only as long as necessary to bring each case to a sensible conclusion. Since copied by countless TV shows, this unique approach to storytelling attracted a devoted following of viewers addicted to the self-contained plots that forced Vinnie, his sourpuss OCB handler Frank McPike (Jonathan Banks), and disabled covert liaison Dan "Lifeguard" Burroughs (played by double-amputee Jim Byrnes) to achieve their objectives within 6 to 10 hourlong episodes.

Season 1, Part 1--the first of six Wiseguy DVD sets--includes the entire nine-episode arc (plus pilot) in which Vinnie infiltrates the New Jersey mob family of Sonny Steelgrave, a silk-suited kingpin played by Ray Sharkey in his finest TV role. Their brotherly relationship poses a moral dilemma for Vinnie (giving the arc its dramatic core and primary source of suspense), and Wiseguy earned its reputation as a well-written series that favored character-driven tension while providing the requisite pulp fiction (i.e. occasional murder and mayhem) that kept viewers and advertisers happy. While the DVD packaging gives bogus equal billing to Annette Bening (who appears here in one pivotal episode), her pre-stardom appearance is indicative of the show's consistently high standards in writing, casting, and stylish direction. The styles may be dated (including poodle-puff hairdos for women, including Bening), but there's not a weak episode in the bunch, including the stand-alone shows (involving domestic crises for McPike and Burroughs) that allowed character growth beyond the story-arc structure.

After the intense "Sonny Steelgrave" arc of first-season episodes, the producers of Wiseguy faced the challenge of topping themselves, and they did it by casting a relatively unknown New York stage actor named Kevin Spacey, who proceeded to chew up the scenery as only a future Oscar®-winner could. But Spacey's not the only reason for the giddy success of the "Mel Profitt" arc, which finds OCB agent Vinnie Terranova (Ken Wahl) teaming up with sociopathic assassin Roger Lococco (William Russ) in an effort to infiltrate the global drugs-and-guns empire of the Proffitt siblings Mel (Spacey), a "manic-depressive genius with acute paranoia," and his codependent sister Susan (Joan Severance), who keeps her incestuously devoted brother happy by injecting home-brewed narcotics between his toes (hence giving Spacey his trademark line, "Only the toes knows!").

TV audiences in 1988 had never seen such a twisted sibling relationship, and there's plenty of eccentric chemistry between Spacey and then-newcomer Severance, who later developed a loyal male following as a B-movie sexpot. Completing their triangle of terror is Russ, playing Lococco as a tormented Vietnam vet with a massive chip on his shoulder, luring Vinnie into a life of luxury and lethal behavior, thus complicating matters considerably for Vinnie's covert handlers McPike (Jonathan Banks) and Lifeguard (Jim Byrnes), who grow increasingly worried as Vinnie gains Mel Profitt's hard-won trust. The quality of these 12 episodes remains consistently high as the Profitts reach "psychotic critical mass," leading to Mafia connections and a new direction for Vinnie's loving mother (well-played by Elsa Raven). Through it all, Wahl (who proves himself a man of few words in a sparse one-episode commentary) maintains his strong presence as a leading man, generously allowing Spacey's rising star to shine. Wiseguy still had some highlights in its future, but the "Mel Profitt" arc represents the series at its best. --Jeff Shannon ... Read more

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Wiseguy - Change in themes
I just finished the Sonny Steelgrave arc and was disappointed with only one thing. In the last episode of the Arc, when Sonny and Vinnie are in the theater, they changed the background music from the original. They kept Good Lovin', but replaced Nights in White Satin with some nondescript instrumental track. Other than that, the set was great! ... Read more

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FINALLY OUT ON DVD!
I can't believe one of my all-time favorite movies is out on DVD! THANK YOU! Robert Hays, Art Carney, Charlie Rich, Eddie Albert, Martin Mull & of course the sexy Barbara Hershey all get together to make a great flick! Drink beer, drive a monster truck at the company picnic, wrestle in the mud with a sexy lady, talk about how you got a free Piaget watch from a weekend in bed, and chase down your old friends on the highway in Iowa with your Mercedes and your middle finger! Also, the football game in the bar was cool! I could watch this over and over again! Rednecks know how to have a good time! *****

Hillbilly Hoedown!
Was it really only as recent as 1981 that hillbilly country blue collar movies were all the rage? I guess it must have been, because it was about the same time that "The Dukes of Hazzard" and Burt Reynolds movies like "Hooper" and "Smokey & the Bandit" were in vogue. This film, which takes its title from the classic country ode to the workin' man, is no different; when it was made, country was cool, and the hillbilly/blue collar way of life was to be envied for its simplicity.

There are, of course, plenty of dated hillbilly blue collar sterotypes throughout the film (monster truck racing, junkyard backyards, trashed-out clunker cars, honky-tonk cry-in-your-beer country music, pointless bar fights, lady mud wrestling, and beer-swilling galore), but there are also more dramatic social comments on display.

The basic plot revolves around a chain of breweries being bought out by a corporation. Our hero, Frank Macklin (Robert Hays), returns to his hometown as the corporate hatchet man, assigned to make the corproation's newest acquisition more profitable. To do this, he must stand up to his old drinkin' buddies who work at the brewery, who don't understand why he's changed, or that "getting out" made him so different from the good 'ol boy of years past.

I liked Art Carney as the brewery owner, and Eddie Albert as the inconsiderate and bullying corporate boss. While both are more famous for their comedic roles, they do very well with the more dramatic material offered here. In fact, the whole cast is just fine, but they were saddled with hillbilly comedy that doesn't seem to fit with the themes of the blue collar worker facing a changing world, and the erosion of a rural lifetime of experience in the name of progress and profit.

There are three scenes that are just excellent; in one, a blue collar man realizes over breakfast that he will forever be tied down and kept from his dreams by his wife and children. In the second, an aged brewery worker admits that he can't read. In the third, Macklin seeks out his two friends, and finds them drinking the day away. Sadly, these scenes are not typical of the film as a whole, although there are good scenes sprinkled throughout.

The classic honky-tonk cry-in-your-beer country music is excellet for it's genre, although I suppose many today may find it dated, as it is clearly pre-Garth Brooks. Lacy J. Dalton and David Allen Coe both appear in the film as the owners of the local honky-tonk, and Johnny Paycheck (who made Coe's song a blue collar standard), cameos, as does country legend Charlie Rich.

I really wanted to like this movie, but it was ultimately only mildly enjoyable. The sad thing is that the movie had everything going for it; characters, cast, social setting, music, and more. It made me mourn for the obvious lack of vision that put the focus on blue collar hillbilly comdeic antics, instead of the social commentary of the blue collar code of honor versus the evils of progress and automation. The social message would have been a far better focus, and would have made the film far more memorable. Instead, we must sit through a good 'ol boy social comedy; a mixed metaphor, and a tepid, lukewarm blue collar comedy.

The end result is a film that wanted (and deserved) to be something more, but missed its chance.

Very cool
This is for all the beer drinkers. I loved this movie years ago and still enjoy it. If you like a good comedy and like having a beer now and then, this movie is a plus!

great movie
loved the movie years ago and have'nt been able to find it anywhere

HIT/MISS COMEDY/DRAMA with great song
Brewery worker becomes corporate office executive sent back to lowly brewery to distill some motivation into the employees. Homecomings are never very good, but this one stinks like stale beer. A rich assortment of cameos and short roles by superstars help this film along. There are odd dramatic turns regarding employment opportunities and adult illiteracy, urban starvation and alcoholism, but the film manages to cross the picket-line with a predictable yet humorous finale. With Robert Hayes, Barbara Hershey, Eddie Albert, David Keith, Art Carney, George Lindsey,... ... Read more

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Why isnt it available??
Why have the studios not cottoned onto the fact that fan's of this excellent TV series is in large demand. I've been looking for the videos and all sorts, there just not available here in the UK. Bring it out on DVD on all regions so I can get a one for my so desperate mum!! It'll make her day to own just on not alone a whole series or even all the episodes!!. The studios could make alot of money from its fans, we all want to own it! All you have to do is produce it and tell all the fan clubs including the UK one that Gale Gwent runs.
what an overall FANTASTIC programme...an absolute classic.

Put Beauty and the Beast TV on DVDs!
This show was so unusual in that it inspired fans to help others for charity, read more literature, listen to classical music, and also brought out hidden talents, ie writing, drawing, creativity! This is a show that definitely needs to be released on DVDs. Fans have worn out their tapes watching them over and over. We need our show to be put out on DVD! Vincent and Catherine demand it.

I LOVE this show. Please put every episode on dvd.
I love this show, and I hope they will put it on dvd. I hope they put every episode on dvd, instead of only first season like they did with the vhs tapes. If you like/love this show please vote to put it on dvd. They put so many dumb shows out, but not this great show. Why?? ... Read more