Annie Van Auken 2007-11-23
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MILL CREEK box sets offer good-to-average-quality audio and video transfers of public domain material at a most reasonable price.
The majority of WESTERN TV CLASSICS 150 Episodes is new installments of several television series available on MILL CREEK's previous DVD set, ULTIMATE TV WESTERNS 150 Episodes. Additionally, there's six shows here that didn't appear on the "Ultimate" set.
If you don't own either of these 150 episode collections yet, MCE has conveniently combined them into their CLASSIC TV WESTERNS 300 Episodes box set. This 24 DVD multi-pack contains 134½ hours of 1950s and '60s cowboy-themed programming.
For an extensive roundup of theatrical western "series," check out MCE's WESTERN 250 Movie Pack. This cowboy king of DVD box sets has such 1930s-'40s movie series as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Rough Riders, Sgt. Renfrew, Three Mesquiteers, Range Busters, Hoot Gibson and Texas Rangers, plus feature films as recent as the 1990s. It's a marvelous and enormously diverse collection!
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The six TV programs new to this manufacturer are marked (**).
Brave Eagle (**) (1955) - Keith Larsen (1 episode)
Buffalo Bill Jr. (1955) - Dickie Jones (11 episodes)
The Cisco Kid (1950) - Duncan Renaldo (22 episodes)
Frontier Doctor (1958) - Rex Allen (10 episodes)
Fury (1955) - Peter Graves (1 episode)
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957) John Hart (12 episodes)
Judge Roy Bean (1956) Edgar Buchanan (8 episodes)
The Lone Ranger (1949) - Clayton Moore (2 episodes)
Northwest Passage (1958) - Buddy Ebsen (2 episodes)
The Range Rider (1951) - Jock Mahoney (12)
Red Ryder (**) (1956) - Allen 'Rocky' Lane (1 episode)
The Roy Rogers Show (1951) - Roy Rogers (15 episodes)
Sergeant Preston of the Yukon (1955) - Dick Simmons (7 episodes)
Sheriff of Cochise (1956) - John Bromfield (5 episodes)
Shotgun Slade (1956) - Scott Brady (13 episodes)
Sky King (**) (1951) - Kirby Grant (4 episodes)
Stoney Burke (**) - Jack Lord (1 episode)
Stories of the Century (1954) - Jim Davis (21 episodes)
Sugarfoot (**) (1957) - Will Hutchins (1 episode)
The Wide Country (**) (1962) - Earl Holliman (1 episode)
(Thanks to Peter Sykes and Daniel H. Humiston for valuable info concerning this box set.)