Out on DVD!
Season one of this landmark series will be released on DVD in July, 2016, and can be pre-ordered on Amazon for $44. Great news.
shareJust got my copy of Season One yesterday & started watching it. Intelligent, complex issues presented in dramatically human terms, with fine acting & writing all around. This series is right up there with Naked City & Route 66 for its exploration of the human condition.
shareJust received my copy of Season One a few days ago. Bought it on EBay for $32.34. Only watched the first show so far. I watched this series when it first aired in 1961. Hard to believe that the series is 55 years old. I also have the complete series of Naked City. Brings back memories of when I lived in NYC from 1943-1973.
shareMy copy came in the daily pigeon droppings a bit ago. I’ll be sitting back here very shortly and with any luck at all enjoying the show thoroughly.
shareThere's a campaign going on The Defenders' subject on the Home Theater Forum to get Shout to release season 2, 3 and 4. The information is that it's not in the plans unless Season I sells better than it has donde so far.
shareWell, I know I've done my own bit and am definitely hoping that they will in fact release the rest of this wonderful series on dvd.
shareI just finished watching Season One..brought back a lot of memories. I also loved the Studio One 2 part live broadcast of The Defender. Bill Shatner was fantastic, Ralph Bellamy was his usual great self..and how about a young Steve McQueen. I'm sure I saw this when it was first broadcast in 1961(I was 18 at the time). Those were the days of great live broadcasts(remember Playhouse 90...Your Show of Shows, etc.
Ah, the Golden Age of Television, in glorious black and white.
I loved Bill Paley’s comment (related by the Assistant Producer, was it?) “I don’t care if we lose sponsors or not – it goes on.” He was referring I believe, to “The Benefactor.”
I still think the one gal in the Studio One program resembled Dorothy Parker a bit.
There's a campaign going on The Defenders' subject on the Home Theater Forum to get Shout to release season 2, 3 and 4. The information is that it's not in the plans unless Season I sells better than it has donde so far.
What shortsightedness. The first season it was supposedly a routine legal drama because of network and sponsor pressures. In the second season that started doing more controversial episodes like The Benefactor. share