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4.0 out of 5 stars
an Incomplete Booker, October 4, 2009
If you read previous reviews, they will state missing Music..which is true
Previous reviews state the BB King episode Someone Stole Lucille is missing...Which is true
What the other reviewers didnt mention is the Deals and Wheels episode which was a 21 Jump street cross over is missing from this collection as well the Jump Street second part. You can get this episode and the jump street episode on the 21 Jump Street - The Complete Fourth Season
Now if you are a fan of the acting, other than noting that most the music is gone, then you will enjoy this collection for what it is worth. Grieco shines as the off beat Booker. He is no Sam Spade, but it gets the job done. His character holds the show together. He alone is why you want to watch this show.
However It was a show the changed styles from an off beat cop show to a quirky detective show with punkish chic overtones. The show got weaker by the end of its run. Also Losing Kstie Rich (after rpisode 14) and putting in Lori Petty was a waste of acting talent and character. It also under used the acting talents of actress Marcia Strassman, who proved she is much more than Mrs Kotter ( Welcome Back, Kotter - The Complete First Season) was another nail in this show's coffin.
There is no special features or commentary tracks.Just the shows to fill this incomplete collection.
I have one thing to say to those studios who make films and those who release DVDs. Wy not spend the money and release the shows as they were. I know music costs. BUT this is why Shout Entertainment canceled the show release of the complete series of Chuck Conner's last series Werewolf. The music rights could not be agreed to and it overlapped important dialog..so you would lose the show if you cut the music--which is slightly the problem with this release
So if you liked this one season series, when are they going to release the other Greico one season wonder series Marker?
Bennet Pomerantz AUDIOWORLD
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Stephen J. Cannell chewed up and spit out, again., January 18, 2010
Ever wonder why after many years a show like Babylon 5 holds at $25 plus per season, while shows like Booker and 21 Jump Street pale at $8-13 brand new, directly off the starting line? That's right folks, face the music. In the real-estate industry the mantra is "Location! Location! Location!" In the business of old 80's releases it's "Soundtrack! Soundtrack! Soundtrack!" Although somewhat obscure and perhaps not as successful as Grieco and 21 Jumpstreet fans might have hoped, Stephen J. Cannell's Booker was sort of the tail book end of the 80's. It was a series that reflected the culture and sort of celebrated the end of the New Wave Era. It was a show, unlike most television shows of today, that proved quirkiness can be an effective tool in entertainment, but only if coupled with an equal amount of style. It was a style fortified by a number of prominent musicians whose music helped create the manner of storytelling Booker became so famous for. Those were musicians like Thomas Dolby, BB King, Billy Idol, and Tone Lôc.
Without them the show is half-assed at good moments, sacrilegious in its worst moments. The brilliance of the opening scene in Hacker once accompanied by Thomas Dolby is now overlaid with some horrible dumbed down hip hop song that has absolutely no consistency with the spirit of the scene. As some other users said, the BB King episode, which was an excellent episode, was cut entirely. The main theme song was replaced by some retarded, repetitive jingle that sounds like it's written by a ten year old boy in search of a rain dance to bring on puberty. Not to mention, the omission of the two 21 Jump Street Crossover episodes is aggravating. You have to buy Season 4 of 21 Jump Street, a show I refuse to buy because of the altered sound track.
BTW, the only way to get this episode is in the $25 and $50 bootleg DVD sets that have been floating around the net for several years, but that set was recorded back when the show aired and likely ported over from VHS, so the quality isn't perfect.
What the distributors need to realize is that Booker is a show that built a cult following that has stood the test of time. A cult following that has waited twenty years for this DVD release. Fans would pay twenty five or even fifty dollars for this box set if it was really intact. Releasing this without the original soundtrack was bad enough, calling it a collector's edition is pure dishonest. What makes this a collector's edition? It has no special features. It's not even complete. Perhaps, the studios aren't completely evil in all of this, but the music industry is. And the TV producers are just pushovers to the music industry. Really the only saving grace of this release is the price tag. It can be had for under $10 bucks for those really hard up for a blast of 80's nostalgia.
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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
RICHARD GRIECO, August 13, 2009
This was a great spin-off of the DENNIS BOOKER character from 21 JUMPSTREET! Too bad the it was cancelled after only 7 episodes (I think) but either than that,i'm glad it's being released on DVD,can't wait till I receive it!
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