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Whistle Stopper - Gunsmoke: The Second Season, Vol. 2
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List Price: $36.98
Our Price: $18.89
Your Save: $ 18.09 ( 49% )
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Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Gunsmoke
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097368535442
Format: Box set
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2008-05-27
Running Time: 480
Studio: Paramount
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great series bad marketing
Comment: Gunsmoke is the ultimate Western. Every episode is a classic most of which were written by John Meston.
However, I would strongly encourage everyone to write to Paramount Home Entertainment and complain as to these silly half season releases.
This is the letter I just sent to them:
I am sure that a visit to Amazon.com would convince you that your company's marketing of TV by the half season is greatly unpopular.
As a fan of CBS's Gunsmoke, I lament in the fact that it might take your company 20 to 30 years to release this fine series in increments of half years.
There is a complete logic disconnect when CBS series such as Hawaii 50 are still being released in whole years.
I bought the first complete season of Gunsmoke and I bought your Gunsmoke Season 2 vol. 1 and Gunsmoke Season 2, vol. 2 (and I am buying The Untouchables and Perry Mason in this same silly 1/2 season format). I beg you to reconsider this misguided marketing scheme. It has garnered your company scathing comments at Amazon.com. Don't be petty, please return to selling these programs by the whole season. Also please take into consideration that a 20 year series should be released at some sort of reasonable pace. At 4 seasons per year it would still take CBS/Paramount 5 years to release the series. Sometimes it just makes you wonder who your company has that makes their decisions. I am not complaining about the price. I understand you need to make a profit (we're not socialist). I wish CBS/Paramount would consider that if it released series such as Gunsmoke, Perry Mason and The Untouchables in whole seasons at a faster release pace, you would gain:
1) Better PR with your consumers (at the moment your popularity is about par with Chinese cat food manufacturers);
2) Your company would re-establish its brand on these titles - driving black market products into the shadows where they belong - if it is going to take you 30 years to release Gunsmoke - or if you choose to discontinue the release because of lack of interest (caused by your asinine marketing) - then obviously the black marketer will provide the product the public wants and which you will not or refuse to provide.
Its too bad that men such as William Paley are dead. People with vision would see that short term marketing schemes for a company may not always be the goal of a company that expects to be around for the long term.
These are black and white programs from the 1950's & 60's that are just rotting on your shelf. Release them quickly - make a small profit (not much I admit) and build a better image for your company (you know back in the day when CBS was a proud company producing decent programming under a set of established principals, standards and ethics).
Customer Rating:
Summary: Gunsmoke--Great Show
Comment: Gunsmoke--even afer 50 years it's a great show to watch. The 30 minute episodes bring back fond memories of Saturday nights in the 1950's, watching my first true love--Chester.
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Summary: Excellent!
Comment: While I would prefer the individual seasons be sold as a complete set versus splitting it into sections, I thoroughly enjoyed season 2 vol 2. IMO the stories in the earlier seasons which are in black and white far exceed those in the color episodes in later years (although I enjoy those as well). It's hard to beat a good episode of Gunsmoke!! Keep those seasons coming!!
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Summary: GUNSMOKE SEASON 2 VOL. 2.
Comment: I AM A HUGE FAN OF THE "GUNSMOKE" TV SERIES, THIS DVD SET IS VOL.2 OF SEASON 2, WHICH ARE EPISODES I HAVE NEVER SEEN. THIS IS DEFINATELY A MUST HAVE FOR ANY FAN OF THE SHOW. CAN'T WAIT FOR SEASON 3!!! NADINE
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Summary: The Actors Find Their Characters
Comment: The lead actors have all found their characters by the second half of Season 2. They seem to wear their TV personas like comfortable old coats. For those of you who are not familiar with the radio series that gave rise to the TV encarnation, give special attention to the episode entitled "Skid Row". It will give you an idea of the kind of adult approach to the western for which it was famous. It was writing like this that set Gunsmoke apart from all other 50's westerns. I can't wait for the release of Season 3. I wish they would go back to the full season sets. I don't object to the increase in price, just to having the season broken up and the series' release delayed.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Marshal Matt Dillon is responsible for keeping the law and respectability in Dodge City in this western action-drama. Gunsmoke captured the courage, character and spirit of the Western Frontier.
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