Product Details

• Actors: Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-smith, Peter MacNicol, Greg Germann, Jane Krakowski
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 31
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: 20th Century Fox
• DVD Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Run Time: 45 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (105 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002VEJKKY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,009 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "Ally McBeal: The Complete Series" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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The Complete Series collection includes all five seasons of this groundbreaking show on 31 discs, including all the original music from the broadcast episodes. This collection does not include the Music Soundtrack.

Disc 1: 180 Minutes

    * How I Met Your Mother Season 3 Trailer
    * Pilot
    * Compromising Positions
    * The Kiss
    * The Affair


Disc 2: 180 Minutes

    * Boston Legal S4 trailer
    * One Hundred Tears Away
    * The Promise
    * The Attitude
    * Drawing the Lines


Disc 3: 180 Minutes

    * The Dirty Joke
    * Boy to the World
    * Silver Bells
    * Cro-Magnon


Disc 4: 180 Minutes

    * The Blame Game
    * Body Language
    * Once in a Lifetime
    * Forbidden Fruits


Disc 5: 180 Minutes

    * Theme of Life
    * The Playing Field
    * Happy Birthday Baby
    * The Inmates


Disc 6: 180 Minutes

    * Being There
    * Alone Again
    * These Are The Days


Disc 7: 180 Minutes

    * The Real World
    * They Eat Horses, Don't They
    * Fool's Night Out
    * It's My Party


Disc 8: 180 Minutes

    * Story Of Love
    * Worlds Without Love
    * Happy Trails
    * Just Looking


Disc 9: 180 Minutes

    * You Never Can Tell
    * Making Spirits Bright
    * In Dreams
    * Love Unlimited


Disc 10: 180 Minutes

    * Angels And Blimps
    * Pyramids On The Nile
    * Side Show
    * Sex, Lies & Politics


Disc 11: 180 Minutes

    * Civil Wars
    * Those Lips, That Hand
    * Let's Dance
    * Only The Lonely


Disc 12: 135 Minutes

    * The Green Monster
    * Love's Illusions
    * I Know Him By Heart


Disc 13: 180 Minutes

    * Car Wash
    * Buried Pleasures
    * Seeing Green
    * Heat Wave


Disc 14: 180 Minutes

    * Troubled Water
    * Changes
    * Saving Santa
    * Blue Christmas


Disc 15: 180 Minutes

    * Out In The Cold
    * Just Friends
    * Over The Rainbow
    * In Search Of Pygmies


Disc 16: 180 Minutes

    * Pursuit of Lonliness
    * The Oddball Parade
    * Prime Suspect
    * Boy Next Door


Disc 17: 135 Minutes

    * I Will Survive
    * Turning Thirty
    * Do You Wanna Dance


Disc 18: 90 Minutes

    * Hope And Glory
    * Ally McBeal: The Musical, Almost


Disc 19: 180 Minutes

    * Sex, Lies And Second Thoughts
    * Girls Night Out
    * Two's A Crowd
    * Without A Net


Disc 20: 180 Minutes

    * The Last Virgin
    * 'Tis The Season
    * Love On Holiday
    * The Man With The Bag


Disc 21: 180 Minutes

    * Reasons To Believe
    * The Ex Files
    * Mr. Bo
    * Hats Off To Larry


Disc 22: 180 Minutes

    * Reach Out And Touch
    * Boystown
    * Falling Up
    * The Getaway


Disc 23: 180 Minutes

    * The Pursuit Of Unhappiness
    * The Obstacle Course
    * In Search of Barry White
    * Cloudy Skies, Chance of Parade


Disc 24: 135 Minutes

    * Queen Bee
    * Home Again
    * The Wedding


Disc 25: 180 Minutes

    * Friends and Lovers
    * Judge Ling
    * Neutral Corners
    * Fear Of Flirting


Disc 26: 180 Minutes
I Want Love
Lost And Found
Nine One One
Playing With Matches

Disc 27: 180 Minutes

    * Blowin' In The Wind
    * One Hundred Tears
    * A Kick In The Head
    * The New Day


Disc 28: 180 Minutes

    * Woman
    * Homecoming
    * Heart and Soul


Disc 29: 180 Minutes

    * Love is all Around - A
    * Love is all Around - B
    * Tom Dooley


Disc 30: 90 Minutes

    * Another One Bites the Dust
    * Reality Bites
    * All of Me
    * Bygones

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57 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Original Music Confirmed by Studio!!!, August 11, 2009

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ML "manuell" (Quebec Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ally McBeal: The Complete Series (Includes Soundtrack) (DVD)

Finally it's available and in the proper format.

Fox studios has confirmed that all original music will be included in the release in addition to a CD with the best music from the show and The Practice cross-over episode "Axe Murderer". This is all that I wanted and more from the release of one of my favorite shows!

55 of 63 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Piki-Piki- Piki- Pikipsi! Ally has arrived!, July 30, 2009

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Geoffrey R. Tourville - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ally McBeal: The Complete Series (Includes Soundtrack) (DVD)

I love this show. I love it so much that when it was released on DVD in the UK I got copies imported to me and bought myself a region free player. It has been so wonderful having these shows when no one else in America does at the moment. It feels like my little secret. But I am worried over the state of the DVD's.

This set will be 32 discs. Originally I thought they'd just be rencoded versions of the British DVDs... That would have been more comforting. But here we get 5 seasons on 30 discs. The first season is full frame and the rest widescreen. Then disc 31 has a new retrospective featurette, and 5 or 6 vintage featurettes. Also an episode of "The Practice" when Ally crossed over and a music video.

The 32nd disc is curious. Fox has announced the set but has not stated if the music has been left intact. I can't see it being changed as a majority of the stories Need the specific songs chosen. They are not random. Also the characters mostly sing them live. It be practically impossible to change the music. Yet I am still concerned as this is fox and you would think they'd advertise the fact no music was changed... But disc 32 offers hope as it is a "Best of Ally McBeal" soundtrack. I am hoping these will be new songs not incorporated on the previous 4 albums released for the show.

The album included seems to be Fox's way of saying they too believe that the music was pivotal too the show. Quite recently Fox confirmed- that Yes= ALL OF THE MUSIC IS INTACT!This makes this a most have for anyone who loved this neurotic, short skirt wearing lawyer and her zany friends.

The soundtrack is the gigantic let down of this set. The press release led us to believe there would be previously unreleased music on this album. Bull****! For those of you who already have the other albums you will notice there is only one un- released song and that is "I Know Better." They had a huge opportunity to do something really great here and they blew it. Beyond that I will still buy this for the bonus material. The soundtrack listing is as follows.

1. Searchin' My Soul

2. Something About You

3. Chances Are

4. The Wildest Times Of The World

5. Home Again (Live)

6. Sweet Inspiration

7. I Know Better

8. You Belong To Me

9. Hooked On a Feeling

10. I Only Want To Be With You

11. It's In His Kiss (The Shoop Shoop Song)

12. Tell Him

13. Baby, Don't You Break My Heart Slow

14. Maryland

73 of 89 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I'm rating the show itself here..., July 18, 2009

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calvinnme - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ally McBeal: The Complete Series (Includes Soundtrack) (DVD)

...not the product since that relies entirely upon the issue of the music that originally aired with the episodes. Special excerpts and clip collections are all we in the U.S.A. have seen of Ally McBeal on DVD up to now due to the large incorporation of popular music in the show. Many episodes of Ally had the closing ten minutes or so set in the bar where Vonda Shepard and guests such as Barry White would belt out popular, and unfortunately, copyrighted music. Also, the various characters would express themselves by dancing to popular tunes in a way that I just don't think would come across with muzak.

This has made DVD sets of entire seasons a licensing nightmare. Since Ally was in production from 1997 until 2002, just prior and a little bit after the advent of TV on DVD, this probably did not figure into the calculation of Fox as to how this would turn into a legal quagmire that could not be overcome. The same was true for "WKRP in Cincinatti" - the original masters of those shows with the music have been destroyed from what I hear - and then there also is "Daria".

Fox has been very tight-lipped about the status of the music that was woven irreplaceably into this show. Do you really think we could get this show for this price if the music was there? Based on Fox's past record of deleting music from TV shows and not telling anyone until after they collected their money, and given the state of the economy and the DVD market right now, I'd think they'd be telling the world if the music was intact. I also think they'd be telling noone if it was missing. So far their silence has been deafening. My opinion is to either wait until some definitive word comes out on the condition of these sets or maybe a compromise would be to buy Ally McBeal: The Complete First Season and see what was done there as indication of what was done with the other four seasons.