Product Details

• Actors: Classic TV Western Collection
• Directors: n, a
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 6
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Timeless Media Group
• DVD Release Date: May 19, 2009
• Run Time: 1393 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0021FP2RI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #162,296 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Genre: Television
Rating: NR
Release Date: 19-MAY-2009
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

46 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Worse than One Star!!, May 28, 2009

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E. Hornaday (Lawrenceville, NJ United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Classic TV Western Collection - EMBOSSED COLLECTOR'S TIN! (DVD)

I love classic TV and Movie Westerns -- I hate this boxed set!

I gave it one star to represent the badge of a western sheriff who is currently on the trail of the outlaws who produced it!

I fell for the advertising the produrcers put out that the quality of the DVDs was good, and that they had taken the material from actual archival footage. What a laugh! The episodes and movies contained on the discs, almost without exception, look like 10th generation VHS knockoffs (and that's giving them too much credit)!

For the price, Timeless Media Group should be tarred and feathered and run out of town! If you want rooting-tooting classic westerns (and who doesn't?), go elsewhere. If you want to be held up by masked bandits armed with six-shooters like I was, then go ahead and buy this set.

The worse disappointment for me was the inclusion of an episode from the TV Classic The High Chaparral. Rarely, as ANY episode from this incredible series been released on an authorized DVD. Well, it was an awful copy of the public domain episode, Shadow of the Wind -- one of two episodes from the series ever released on VHS. And to add insult to injury, it was in Black and White, not in color as it had been aired!

I do want to be fair -- there is ONE thing good about the set: the cool packaging. The discs are enclosed in a tin box. (Now that I think about it, perhaps they should have been included in a PINE box instead!)

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as bad as previous reviewer, November 12, 2009

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jce3 (Eau Claire, WI United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Classic TV Western Collection - EMBOSSED COLLECTOR'S TIN! (DVD)

I bought these at Sam's Club for just over $15.00. I would NOT pay anymore than that since the quality is 2nd rate for many episodes. But there are many shows that are of OK quality and depending on your TV reception back in the 50s and 60s, these might look great!
Anyway, buy at your own risk but I think for what I paid it was a good deal. It might even be worth more to some.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A positive review, December 10, 2010

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Roger Long "longrush" (Port Clinton, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Classic TV Western Collection - EMBOSSED COLLECTOR'S TIN! (DVD)

I've watched the entirety of Disk l and selections in other disks and can't imagine why some other reviewers were so displeased. It's true that some of the programs, especially the b&w episodes, are a bit fuzzy, but those were shot about 50 years ago when the equipment was not as good as it is now. Movies for theaters then were filmed better, to be sure, but TV shows then, at least on the sets I watched, were no match for the clarity today's.

As for the programs themselves they are just as I remember, with some new series I had never seen. In all there are over 40 samples from different series. I had forgotten that there were so many,eg. "Tumbleweed" amd "Sheriff of Cochise." None was of the Pulitzer Prize variety, not even close. The endings are predictable. The women are slender, busty and fashionably dressed. The towns are idyllic. Any serious student of the Old West, as it actually was, will roll his eyes at these, but they are representative of the TV fare of the era.

Somehow we never expected as much from TV programs as we did from theater movies we paid to see.

All in all, I would certainly recommend this set for those nostalgic for TV in those early years. The price is certainly fair and the programs are lots of fun.