Alias Smith and Jones: The Complete Series

great dvd package

Haven't watched them all yet, but I watched for first DVD. Truthfully, my mother got me started on Westerns. I didn't have any time for them as a kid--couldn't've paid me to sit in front of a TV and watch cowboys!--but she eventually wheedled me into viewing The Big Valley, which I liked (of course, it could've had something to do with Heath (Lee Major)'s being handsome!), then came, I think, Gunsmoke, Rawhide, Paladin, and eventually Alias Smith and Jones. By the time we'd gotten to Alias, I was pretty much hooked on Westerns. To the point that I'm BUYING them for my own library! Oh, well. If you can't beat, right? And, frankly, I don't know why you'd want to. Pete Duel was so cute. Ben Murphy had a smile that makes me laugh (he just looks as if he's up to something rascally)! And the series was good. Simple, straight-forward. Light-hearted. Innocent. I already know that there's no replacement for Pete Duel, but the show was viewable with his stand-in. Not quite the same (Duel-Murphy had a chemistry all their own) but still okay.

I'm like everyone else. This is my favorite tv show of all time. The writing, performance, and direction are second to none. Pete and Ben were made for each other. The guest stars always brought their A game. I will always mourn Pete Duel, he WAS Hannable Heyes. Brilliant actor. Roger did his best, but in this case, Pete was irreplaceable.

I fell in love with this show from the first time I watched it on TV back in Spring of 2015.Couldn't decide which one of the main characters was the cutest; Ben Murphy as "Kid" Curry (alias Thaddeus Jones) or Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes (alias Joshua Smith ). I decided I'll take them both.I was particularly impressed with "Kid" Curry's fast draw; Let some slime ball come along picking a fight with him just for the he** of it, thinking the Kid is a punk and will grovel at the bully's knees for mercy; The Kid, taking on the bully, eying him down, while the tough guy's hand is on this gun at the hip of his holster, and the Kid's right hand handing carefree down by his side...and faster than a blink of the bully's eye, the Kid's quick to draw his gun; sometimes he shoots it, and at whatever part of his adversary's body he deemed necessary to make his point; and other times, all is necessary for him to make his point is to whip it out faster than his opponent could even start to reach for his gun. Wooo weee...now that's fast!A few of my favorite episodes are:-- The Posse That Wouldn't Quit; starring Vera Miles (A rancher who assisted the outlaw cousins, Alias Smith and Jones from a posse of 13 bounty hunters looking to capture the boys for a 20,000 reward)-- The McCreedy Bust; staring Burl Ives ( A wealthy art collector who owns half the town; hires the duo for unethical purposes that could jeopardize their chances for pardon of all past crimes by the governor who says the pair must stay out of trouble for one year to get a clean slate.-- What's in it for Mia: starring Ida Lupino (A con artist who's used all her ill-gotten money to control an entire town, and destroys George Austin's newspaper (newspaper owner: played by Buddy Ebsen). Austin, with the help of Smith and Jones, Mia finally gets what 's coming to her.The DVDs to the set is without any problems; picture bright and clear, audio is great. Glad I made the purchase.

We loved watching the entire series again. It's sad that Pete Duell died during the series, as he played the part very well. The replacement actor they brought in for the 3rd and final season just wasn't as good. The only reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is because when they put the set together, the 1st season was at the back of the set (not such a big deal), but the 2nd and 3rd seasons weren't separated. All the discs said "season 2 and 3". And none of the discs were labelled as to which order they went in. I had to search the IMDB website to figure out the order the discs were supposed to go in. Especially for the 2nd and 3rd season. I've never seen them stamp multiple seasons on discs that only had 1 season on it. None of the discs had episodes from both the 2nd and 3rd season, so they could've (and should've) kept the seasons separate. The series itself gets 5 stars from us though. We would definitely recommend this series.

So far, I've watched Seasons 1 and 2 and they are still as good as I remember! It brought back memories of my youth!

Great

Unfortunate ending: At age 30, Peter Duel blows his brains out after the second season. w/o Duel, the show fails. Duel had "it", that one indefinable trait that leads to stardom, fame and fortune. Destined to be the 1970's version of James Dean. A tragic loss. Buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Penfield NY, his childhood town.