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Guns of Will Sonnett - Complete Seasons of 1 & 2 - 49 episodes!

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I had found memories of this series from my childhood. When I seen the DVD set on line I ordered it right away. While waiting for my order to arrive I started wondering if my memory had served me well or if I had wasted my money. I can tell you this was money well spent! I absolutely love this DVD set, and this way under rated series. The series was just as I had remembered it, Walter Brennan makes this series an absolute joy to watch! If you enjoyed watching westerns as a kid like me believe me you will love this DVD set! NO BRAG JUST FACT!

Watched the show as a kid, happy to have the dvd now, good quality transfer

I can remember this great show as a kid growing up. Well, at least I remembered the theme song and the prayers being spoken at the end of each episode. I was so excited to find this great show on DVD that I bought the complete series for myself and my son who is in college, he loves this series too. Thanks to Timeless Media for bringing this wonderful show to DVD. Great family friendly entertainment!

This is a remarkable artifact from an era when to be a man meant having respect for women, keeping your word, standing up for what's right and a thousand other qualities which are now politically incorrect but were once the hallmark of being a grown-up. This is the perfect audio-visual companion to James Bowman's Honor: A History.

Each episode has a lesson illustrating how a man should act and ends with a prayer by Walter Brennan that his grandson learn the lesson. Walter Brennan was one of the great character actors in Hollywood history and Guns is the perfect vehicle for his acting skills. Terrific guest stars and well written scripts round out the series, making this a television classic.

UPDATE: SEPTEMBER 3, 2011
I wrote that review after seeing the first one or two discs. Now that I've watched all six discs, I stand by it as much now as I did when I wrote it, but I've noticed something even more profound about this series.

We know that many TV shows in the 1960s were more profound than they appeared on the surface. The producer of Gilligan's Island has said that the show was about democracy and scholarly books have been written to support that.

In addition to providing lessons of manhood, The Guns of Will Sonnet is about myths and history and their role in our personal growth. The choice of actors is perfect. Walter Brennan was a legend himself in Hollywood by the late 1960s, having become an actor shortly after he returned as a doughboy from World War I. Dack Rambo, who played Jeff has such deference to Brennan that the viewer completely believes that he is Brennan's grandson. For an actor who doesn't appear to have had a long career, he is terrific here.

Jim Sonnet, son of Will and father of Jeff, represents the legends of the Old West. Will, the old man who has lived his life in the Old West, seeks Jim the way an old man searches history to validate and confirm his own life. Meanwhile, Jeff, the young man, looks for the legends of the Old West as a model for living his life. In a couple of episodes, Will states flatly that one should rely on his own character not on myths and peers.

Throughout their quest for the Legend (Jim), they find fruads claiming to be Jim, claiming to have killed Jim, they meet old friends of Will who disappoint and losers who pull themselves out of their rut by force of personal character. There is a rather extraordinary depth to this series. Too bad there is nothing like this on television today.

EXCELLENT!!!
I purchased the Guns of Will Sonnet on Tuesday and got it on Friday. My husband and I watched all day on Saturday and all day on Sunday, and I must say that I loved Walter Brennan and Dack Rambo in this western series. I wish they would have made a movie. I don't really remember this tv series when I was a child, but I would have loved to have seen it before now. When I tell you it was one of the best westerns that I have watched, it was superb, "NO BRAG JUST FACT"!!!

Lolita M. Barber
Wester Fan

The quality is what I would have expected if someone had recorded this from the TV feed on a VHS tape. In addition to the poor visual tones, it is quite choppy as though commercials were recorded and then cut out.

The color of these old shows are very good and I am enjoying them greatly, would buy them all over again

I used to watch the show when I was younger and kind of forgotten about it over the years. One of my coworkers had brought it up in a discussion of classic westerns and thus began my journey to find both seasons of the show. Thank you Amazon for keeping this classic in stock!

My father and I watched all six DVDs in about a weeks time.
Shows and "lessons" each episode were wonderful...I wonder if they would let prayers end episodes of current TV shows or if there would be a squabble from the non-religious sector.
I understand this was a very old show but I would think there could have been something that could have been done to make this 60s-70s show more "viewer-friendly"...heck, they clean up shows from the 1930s!!
I do not think I would have watched these shows if I had not liked the content so much.

Hi,

Just wanted to say I really like the show and the picture, sound, and editing of the commercials was done great. I also got the complete Branded series. So far with this one it has exceeded what I thought the quality of the dvd's would look like based on the reviews.

I hesitated buying these for a while because of some of the negative things I read in the reviews, but am glad I got them. I don't notice any issues.

Also thanks for the previous reviews for giving me some help on purchasing the dvd set.

Kevin