Customer Reviews

Laramie In Color Part One - 28 episodes!

5 star:		(9)
4 star:		(4)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(5)
1 star:		(4)

 

 

I've put up with dubs of dubs of deteriorating VHS tapes just to see any hint of my favorite all time western when I was growing up. Jess Harper (played to absolute perfection by Robert Fuller) made my just-taking-notice-of-the-opposite-gender heart skip more than a few beats.

I'd love to have ALL four seasons of the series on DVD, but for now I'll happily settle for this one. The distributor notes on screen that all care was taken to make the best possible reproduction of source material, but that some glitches are inevitable. From the episodes I've watched, they succeeded beyond my expectations! Let's face it, there aren't any pristine copies of this series out there any more. And, sadly, no Clint Eastwood star power (note Rawhide's DVD quality) to convince anyone (YET) to remaster the ones that do exist.

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Jess Harper--put that man on a horse and I'll still follow him anywhere! (albeit much more slowly than I would have forty years ago!)

The original release had several technical problems. These are being corrected and the set reissued on 30 March 2009. And having now viewed the set Ihave to agree with others that the video quality is only passable. So what should have been a 4 star release really only offers 2.5 stars value for money.

Wish I could give this DVD release a better then a 2-Star Review.
The Characters are interesing especially the leads John Smith and Robert
Fuller.
The stories were well written.
And there is a new interview with Fuller that is well done.

The Bad part is the video itself.
Very grainy. Night scenes are somewhat difficult to make out.
The colors are faded.
The Sound is so-so.

Timeless Media is a hit or miss outfit.
As with The Deputy, LARAMIE misses out on a quality presention. <SAD>

FOR DIE-HARD FANS OF THIS WESTERN ONLY. Others stay away. (I want my money back). So-So color and worst scan job I have ever seen. Yes, even the 60 shows, 10 DVDs @ $9.99 sets. These prints are ½ the quality of my over the air VHS tapes recorded at SLP of TV shows I have recorded. You can tell their source print is from tape. First set had freeze problems, which timeless did replace. ([...]) I received the replacement set and while it plays ok there is a buzz coming from my Sony DVD player that makes it sound like it is hard at work to play intro and menu. If you want a western set from these early years get Wells Fargo. It has excellent prints, well-balanced and decent stories with guest stars of the period. Timeless should have created to two labels. Wells Fargo: TMG Premier Series. Laramie: TMG Lost in the Dust Series. We could be for warned by which is great and which is trash.

The quality of this DVD set is horrid. It is worse than some all region DVDs I've seen.

I love Laramie and will hold out for a better quality product as this is unwatchable. It was with a sad heart I had to return the set as I so loved Laramie as a very small child. Let's hope for a better product down the line with all the seasons.

The one bright spot on this DVD set was the extensive interview with Robert Fuller. What a delight he is to listen to with his many memories. He deserves so much better than a poor image of Jess and that of the Laramie episodes.

this dvd should be banned, the quality is dreadful, do not purchase this dvd you will be waisting your money.

I love the show, and the acting is terrific, however the video is terrible. I really do not think I have seen a worse DVD as far as quality goes. Timeless does give a disclaimer saying that they've done the best they could, but considering the money I paid for it, it should have been loads better than what it is.

I can only echo what several other reviewers have said...the video quality here is pathetic! It indeed does look like VHS at the SLP (6 hour) speed. Timeless Media apparently buys the legal rights to put some of these TV series out but good prints or video transfers are not always available from the source (NBC Universal in this case) so TM sometimes has to scrounge whatever prints or videos it can from collectors. They have put out some excellent quality western TV series such as "Tales of Wells Fargo" but this is not one of them. Think the worst of Alpha Video releases and that's what you'll get with this set. Shame on Universal for not providing some source material and shame on Timeless Media for putting this crappy set out with no word about the substandard quality on the packaging!

The listing at Amazon says not available until March 30, 2009 but it is on sale at Costco now (March 2, 2009). I purchased a set because it was my favorite Western growing up. This DVD set includes just the colorized episodes.
I found the DVD's to be either poorly made or all 3 were damaged somehow because they played poorly and there were mismatched video throughout with the audio. Too bad for the stories themselves were just as good as they were when I was growing up.

The sound and video detracts and distracts from the show and it's characters. On my DVD's, the sound gets out of whack with the lips, and I have to stop the DVD and restart it to get it back in sync. As with some other reviewers, the film is at times grainy, and hard to see during dark scenes. Why would they "settle for mediocrity?"