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Cannon: Season Two, Vol. 2

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William Conrad had been around for quite some time before he became best known for being private eye Frank Cannon in the Quinn Martin television series, "Cannon." He had been an actor, producer, and director for movies and television shows, and was best known for three programs that used his voice only - being the voice of Matt Dillon on the radio version of "Gunsmoke," the narrator of the classic cartoon series "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle," and the narrator of another Quinn Martin series, "The Fugitive."

When Martin looked for someone to play an overweight, but very capable private eye in Cannon, he could have picked a better actor than Conrad. Even though he was best known for his vocal talents, Conrad made Cannon a flesh and blood character - charming, humorous, compassionate, and on occasion, violent. For once, Conrad had a chance to show as much talent on camera as he had off camera. And with Martin's penchant for creating solid detective dramas, Cannon became a very popular series.

Conrad would have other notable gigs after Cannon, the emcee of CBS' Thanksgiving Day festivities, the DA in "Jake and the Fatman," and for too brief a time, "Nero Wolfe," but he will always be remembered at the portly detective who drove a Mark IV, had a car phone (very rare at the time), and who knew as much about cooking as he did the law.

This is a great show. And it is when TV was fun to watch. Now TV is about 95% trash... Cannon with Barnaby Jones, Mannix and the rockford Files. was a great time for TV.. The only bad deal with Cannon is the Vol one and two bit. That is one big draw back..
They really need to give you all of the season at onetime.

cannon is one of the best private eyes on the classic television list of shows
to order. I recommend purchasing it. So far I have enjoyed watching this
show and would recommend it to everyone to watch it again as it have been
along time since it was on TV. This show was purchased on Amazon and I have
purchase alot of the old shows from Amazon. They are very good about shipping
it fast.

REALLY LIKED THE CANNON DVDS I CAN REMBER MY DAD AND I WATCHING THIS SHOW BACK IN THE EARLY 70S BACK WHEN YOU WATCHED A SHOW THAT HAD A PLOT THAT KEPT YOU INTERESTED NOT LIKE THE SHOWS OF TODAY .BILL CONRAD WAS GREAT AS FRANK CANNON HE PLAYED THE PART GREAT AND ALLWAYS GOT THE GUY IN THE END. I ALLWAYS LIKED THE BIG BLUE 1972 LINCOLN MARK IV HE DROVE IN THE SHOWS I WOULD GIVE THESE A THUMBS UP PLAN ON GETTING SOME MORE .........RICK IN COLORADO

The second season of Cannon finishes up in 1973 on DVD with a continuation in the tradition of faded images and bleak color from inferior masters. Frank Cannon looks great making an appearance on the premier episode of Barnaby Jones from 1973, another Quinn Martin series, for which CBS did a far superior job of transferring to DVD than Cannon. Hopefully CBS will up the film elements of Cannon to the standard of their first early '70's Quinn Martin series on DVD, The Streets Of San Francisco, which looks marvelous.

I once again enjoyed watching the early seasons of this show, now come on, Paramount, lets get the rest of them out so we can watch 'em.

Cannon was one of the best P.I. shows of all time. It is a shame CBS Paramont isn't remastering this series. I have the first season of Barnanby Jones, (another Quinn Martin Production) It has been remastered, and looks great! Come on CBS Paramount, give Cannon
the same treatment.

A superb show that improved with each season. One star off for visably blurry DVD's, which look passable when viewed on a portable, but appeared faded on a large screen.

Great show, but as is the case with many Universal/Paramount releases, they simply stop releasing DVD's after a few seasons if they think that the show isn't selling well enough: Even if the low sales are because of splitting seasons into volumes and ultimately charging twice as much per season. They are notorious for ending the release of a series after a season or two. Some real geniuses working there. I'm now stuck with partial runs of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Night Gallery, etc... and now Cannon. If you like to collect full runs of classic TV shows like I do, it's almost better not to buy the first seasons from Universal/Paramount in the first place. They're the the worst, and obviously couldn't care less about their customers.

Cannon is an excellent TV Show. William Conrad's performance is superb and Frank Cannon is one of the most memorable characters in television history. Cannon, like other Quinn Martin Shows has lots of location footage, great guest stars, great writing and high production values.

Cannon Season 2 is great! All 24 episodes are good or better! Not a single mediocre or bad episode! An amazing achievement!

This DVD contains Episodes #37-48 from Season 2. Some personal favorites of mine are "Death Is A Stone Sea Horse, The Dead Samaritan, The Seventh Grave, Catch Me If You Can, and Deadly Heritage.

I hope everyone who can will buy Cannon Season 2 Volume 2 DVD. You will have many hours of great television to watch!

Paramount thanks for releasing Cannon Season 1 and Season 2 on DVD. Paramount please release Cannon Season 3 on DVD soon!
Thanks Paramount!

God Bless!