Customer Reviews

Doc - Season 1

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1 star:		(3)

 

 

Doc is a great show. It is dramatic and funny and uplifting. The shows are very well written and engaging. The characters are wonderful. BUT WHERE ARE THE OTHER THREE SEASONS? We need them also on DVD. Please! Pretty please!

I don't know what to say. This was the best series on television. The technical quality may not be quite like Law and Order or other major network shows (though it wasn't noticeably bad), but the writing is outstanding.

This is a tear-jerker series. Beware: you'll really get involved with the characters. The show promotes family values to the core. Not a single episode had a single thing that might be considered objectionable. This is cleaner than some G-rated Disney movies.

The premise is that Clint Cassidy, a country doctor from Montana, moved to New York City to pursue his relationship with a journalist who had stayed in Montana with him. He begins work at a Manhattan HMO, complete with rules, regulations and politics -- things he's not used to. While Cassidy (played by Billy Ray Cyrus of "Achy Breaky Heart" fame) brings a fresh air of humanity to the otherwise impersonal HMO, there's some troubles along the way as he adjusts to his new life and the new way of doing things.

Like in any series, season one is a little on the cheesy side, but it's nonetheless charming. The characters develop much more fully in later seasons, but season one definitely explains a lot of the things that experiences in later episodes are based on.

Unfortunately, the series was canceled in season 5. The foreign distributor pulled funding (it was filmed in Toronto) and they had to stop making episodes.

After I watched the series finale, I wrote the following letter to the cast (I don't know if they ever received it). I'd like to share it here just to show you how much the show meant to me and how it'll grab you as well!

(Spoiler warning)
Dear Doc cast and crew,

The series finale. Wow. I can't believe it's already here. When I saw the ad, I thought it said "Season Finale." I thought that the middle of December was an odd place to take a season break.

As I watched the last episode, I found myself getting teared up as I realized that not only was the season ending but the show was ending as well, and I'm not a really emotional person. I feel like I've become a part of your family, and seeing you all say goodbye made me feel like I was leaving, too. At the end of that scene, I was literally crying a river. They were tears of joy -- finally, Clint and Nancy were coming together (I had been relentlessly cheering that subplot on for the better part of the last season) -- but also tears of sorrow. I will be missing you guys and your characters as much as you will be missing each other. You all have become like family to me as your struggles and victories, your emotions and your lives been mine. You have built a powerful emotional bond between us and you.

Thank you Billy Ray, Andrea, Derek, Ron, Richard, Tracy, Tyler, Paula, Ruth and all the others who have made this show the truly unique thing that it is. While I am truly sad to see you go, I wish you all the best in each of your pursuits.

May the characters you've played and lived over the last five seasons live on in your and everybody's hearts. As you have taught us to do, treasure each and every moment as a gift from God as he writes the story of your lives. And like Clint said, I can't wait to read the next chapter!

Truly yours,
Chris

P.S. Make sure you guys do a Doc reunion show!

I was pleased to find the first season of Doc now available on DVD. I would like to add my voice to all the others clamoring for the remaining seasons to be released on DVD, too. This was a homespun series somewhat reminiscent of Little House On the Prairie and such, although very much updated and with a nice touch of humor added to the story of the western doc removed to the big city. While it didn't pretend to be great drama, everyone in it was good and it was a great showpiece for Cyrus, who fit the part naturally. For a greatly underrated singer/songwriter, it was another sign that he has untapped talent. I hope some day to see his musical ability given the recognition it deserves.

This is one of the best shows ever made for TV. My family and I love it and have watched almost every episode. The cast was perfect, and the writing outstanding.

It is so heartfelt, something lacking in todays entertainment.

We are eagerly awaiting the rest of the series to be released on DVD. It deserves to be released! So if anyone in any power to get the rest of the Doc DVD's out is reading this...Let's Go!

Send a message to the producers that you want more seasons on DVD. [...] Currently Doc is ranked as the 1,203rd most requested show. This site is the most well known voting site and has influenced the release of several shows. Tell all the other Doc fans you know to vote as well.

This is absolutely FANTASTIC - if you like the family-style movies that have good morals & words of wisdom and just a good heart-warming show in the plot, this is it!! My husband & I have watched these DVDs time & time again and never get tired of them. We are anxiously waiting for rest of the seasons to be released. Do you have any idea when this will happen??

This was a wonderful show. Please get the other seasons on DVD! I agree with other 5 star rating viewers. This show is wonderful for the whole family...even if you don't have a family! We want more of Doc!

hey pax, or whoever is responsible for not getting 'season two' out yet...please, please, we implore you...so what if billy ray left to do hannah montana...she's his daughter...that's family...and what he did on 'doc' was bring warmth and heart to some serious issues, while, not always winning the battle, making sure that other always knew that God wins the wars...and the entire ensemble gave you a good feeling, all the way down to doctor crane as well...it was funny, it was friendly, it was...a very long-running show for you guys, so please, at least give us 'season two'...my 'first season' collection needs a break from my dvd player...

I have to agree over 100% with all the other reviewers that this DOC show is a wonderful, heart warming show. I enjoyed it immensely and I am waiting for all the shows to show up on DVD and it will definitely be my collection.I am very happy that "I" has televised this show.
Dr. Clinton, Nurse Nancy and all the cast of the show not to forget Tippy, thank you so much. Raoul is adorable!! I wish you all a wonderful life and career. God bless you all! I will surely miss the show and hope the DVDs will come soon. Paula K.

Billy Ray Cyrus is engaging in this series without appearing to be a country bumpkin. He projects the honest sincerity of a country doctor and insight into medicine and people as well. He teaches others the value of listening and helping each other. Too bad that the series has been cancelled. I would have liked to have seen Dr. Clint Cassidy turn Dr. Crane around to the good side of medicine that he has long been away from. For the ones lucky enough to have seen the series, we are the better for it.