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William Conrad has been one of my favorite actors since his days on radio and film after retiring from active duty in the US Air Corps. His characters have always been powerful and his delivery intelligent and natural. He had the most convincing ability to express terror or grief with restrained stoicism of any actor I have ever seen. With those qualities in mind, I naturally enjoyed watching William Conrad in the Cannon series. I think the Cannon character was the real William Conrad. The technical quality of the DVD is like that which existed existed on broadcast television when the shows were made. This was before the comb filters that extracted a little more resolution from color television came out in the eighties. Other than that, the tape to DVD transfers have been made with utmost care and there are no noticable visual or audio changes or losses from the original recordings. Also, notice that Quinn Martin used the techniques of Film Noir. I'm looking forward to the complete Cannon series appearing on DVDs. Bart Brown. bartbrown@cruzio.com
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Short, fat and balding, William Conrad is such a bizarre leading man for a tough-guy detective series, he's impossible not to enjoy! And listen to the score on these shows: funky, cool and corny all at the same time. Incredibly entertaining. I also love the QM Productions format of a Prologue followed by Acts I-IV. I would love to see FBI come out one of these days. These shows are actually better than I remebered! William Conrad, looking like a fatter version of Truman Capote with a bushy moustache, is never convincing in his short, always out of breath fight scenes (in one shot, they actually speed up the film to make it look like he's running), but he's got that awesome voice and personality to spare. Buy this, you'll love it!
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Cannon is a great series. If you missed it in the 70s you missed a real detective. Cannon is a fat man who works alone most of the time and truly cares about each client. He not only solves crimes but throughout the series shows his other multiple talents... pool player, sails his own sail boat...
This is a great family show as you aren't shown horrific pictures nor do you hear foul language.
Buy it now at Cannon: Season One, Vol. 1
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Best big man detective there is. Gas drinking car and a man that uses his weight to get around. A man like Nero Wolf. This is the best.
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Cannon was a solid TV detective series that ran for 5 years on CBS. With most TV shows, the first year is a work in progress; defining the characters, getting creative scripts that take advantage of the character's personalities and nuances, etc. Seinfeld's first half dozen episodes were terrible; Kramer wasn't defined yet and no Newman. Homer Simpson was not defined well until Season 3 of The Simpsons. Both were great shows with very slow starts. Cannon was no different. The pilot and first part of Season 1 start out a little less than stellar, but by the middle of Season 1 we see Conrad's Cannon starting to become better defined into the character that carried the show for 5 seasons. I hope Paramount follows through with the entire series because the series gets better over time; although, in my opinion, it probably hit its peak in the 1973-1974 season (Season 3). The video is not what you might call 21st century DVD quality, but I had no issue with it at all when watching the episodes. I actually prefer watching the episodes like I originally saw them or as they appeared in early syndication. This was an early 70's show, so I like the fact that it seems like I am watching an early 70's show when I re-watch the episodes on the DVD. No real bonus features to this DVD, but I am fine with that too. After all, almost everyone associated with this series left us many years ago, so what can really be provided. I don't need Vince Van Patton providing commentary about how great it was to work with an actor like Conrad when he was just a child.... I am only giving Season 1 - 4 stars - but I anticipate that if Season 2 and 3 make it to the market I will be upping my rating to the maximum 5 stars.
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