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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361388540
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Paramount
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Paramount
MPN: PARD138854D
Number Of Items: 8
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: December 02, 2008
Running Time: 98 minutes
Studio: Paramount
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Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 12/02/2008
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With his impressive girth and balding pate, no one will mistake insurance investigator Frank Cannon (William Conrad) for, say, Jim Rockford, or any other of TV's more conventionally handsome PIs. But with his imposing size and resonant growl of a voice, Cannon could throw his weight around with the best of them as he so ably demonstrates in these 13 episodes that concluded Cannon's impressive first season. The pipe-smoking gourmand has a style all his own. In one episode, he quotes famed critic Alexander Wolcott's classic bon mot that everything he likes is either "illegal, immoral, or fattening." But underestimate him at your peril; The tough-talking Cannon can dish it out as well. He threatens an uncooperative biker in "Devil's Playground" with hospitalization, and in "Death is a Double Cross," he nimbly gets the drop on a hit man. Cannon's salary is as ample as he is, but he doesn't let that influence his investigation. To an acquaintance who wants Cannon to learn the truth about her husband's death (which the insurance company has ruled a suicide), he states, "The truth is like rain. It doesn't care who gets wet." He is also thorough. "When I look at a picture straight on and don't get it, I try looking at it sideways," he tells another client. Cannon boasts solid writing ("Double Cross" is adapted from the Thomas B. Dewey novel, Every Bet's a Sure Thing) and some great guests before they were stars. Martin Sheen is featured in "Devil's Playground" as a vengeful disabled ex-cop who wants Cannon to help him prove that the supposedly dead thief who shot him during an armored car robbery actually faked his demise (this episode also costars future Hill Street Blues costars Daniel Travanti and James Sikking). Just as Cannon performs a fireman's carry on one injured party, so does Conrad bear the weight of this tailor-made series that provided the character actor (who voiced Matt Dillon on the radio incarnation of Gunsmoke) with a long overdue leading role. --Donald Liebenson
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Rating:  -
This is one of the best series of the '70s. My only complaint is Paramount didn't remaster the episodes. However, they look quite nice played on my HDTV with a Blu-Ray/Upconverting DVD player. The best thing Paramount could do is start remastering all their classic TV shows on Blu-Ray Disc. I've heard the original Star Trek looks terrific on Blu-Ray.
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In this 1971-76 crime drama, William Conrad (Marshall Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke" and narrator for TV's "The Fugitive" and "Rocky & Bullwinkle") plays moustache, rotund, pipe smoking private investigator Frank Cannon. The 13 episodes in this 4 disc set include "To Kill a Guinea Pig" with Vera Miles as a doctor being intimidated into accepting a prison inmate she formerly rejected for a medical research experiment. The intimidation includes the horrifying discovery the villains have killed a monkey ... Read More
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I love this show, William Conrad as Frank Cannon is Excellent. I'm looking forward to Remainder of the Series to come out on to DVD.
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William Conrad, got his first lead in a television series in 1971, as an ex-LA cop turned private eye, Frank Cannon. At the time, police and crime dramas were big, and were about to explode in popularity. Following in the wake of late 60's programs like Dragnet, Mannix, Colombo, The Mod Squad, Adam-12, and Ironside (just to name a few), Cannon was part of the early wave of a genre that would soon flood the airwaves in the 70's. A Quinn-Martin Production, the program has the familiar basic packaging ... Read More
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Cannon season one print quality was not remastered by Paramount/CBS, who did a superb job on The Streets Of San Francisco, another early '70's Quinn Martin series, when it was presented on DVD. Cannon itself had progressed, with better stories and acting for volume 2, then was seen in volume 1.
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