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Lonesome Dove - The Series

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i love westerns and try to see as many as i can. i loved the various lonesome dove miniseries but i never knew there was a tv series until i came across the dvd sets and picked them up. the first season is very different from the second season but this entire show is addictive viewing. i started with the first season a few weeks ago and i'm currently making my way through the outlaw years. season one contains 21 episodes and takes place immediately following return to lonesome dove as newt rides off to find his own dream and comes to the town of curtis wells. captain woodrow call also makes an appearance in season one. the second season is the outlaw years and it contains 22 episodes that reminded me of the grimness of the streets of laredo book and movie and it greatly captures the grit of the old west. the events that transpire at the end of season one and continue into season two are gut wrenching. as a lifelong western fan i'm very pleased with the dvd sets of both seasons of this series.

Excellent! Gritty, down and dirty portrayal of western settler's life during the early post Civil War. As good as, and maybe better than "The Outlaw Years".

This is not Tales of the Plains, which was a compilation only availabe on VHS. This is Lonesone Dove - The Series (DVD), and a heck of a deal. I took a chance and ordered it, hoping it was the later, and was right. It's obviously mispriced as well, because it's about $40 everywhere else. Buy it while you can!

First there was Lonesome Dove the miniseries. Then came Return To Lonesome Dove the miniseries. Then came Lonesome Dove: The Series which was followed by the Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years. There was also another Lonesome Dove sequel miniseries Streets of Laredo as well as a prequel miniseries Dead Man's Walk.
The DVD sold on this page is just the first three episodes of Lonesome Dove: The Series. I like those episodes but there is a set of all 21 episodes of that show available on DVD which is a far better buy for fans of the show. Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years has also been released in a 22 episode DVD set. Both The Series and The Outlaw Years were great programs and deserve a four star rating. You'd really be better off buying those full season sets instead of the DVD sold on this page since the Tales of the Plains DVD on this page only has three episodes of Lonesome Dove: The Series on it.

If you want to find out what happens next in the Lonesome Dove saga following the events after Return to Lonesome Dove, then this is DVD package for you. Captian Call gives Newt his name and horse and now after the many years of adventure that Call and Gus had lived and experianced is now passed down to Newt. Newt travels to Curtis Wells and finds a wife. He soon becomes a scout for the Army tracking down murderous renegade soldiers. In an adventure to fallows that, Newt and Buffalo Bill join forces to bring in a runaway idian tribe back to the reservation. Newt soon becomes Deputy Sheriff for Curtis Wells along side a former Texas Ranger under Capt Woodrow Call's comand. And in one of the lasts episodes when it appears that Newt is dead, is father (played by Lee Majors) returns to go and search for him. At first the serries is ok but after a few discs the show really picks up, in quality, acting, cinematogify, and suspince.

It's joy having this series on DVD. Be sure to give the following series The Outlaw Years a look too. Watch this before that though.

I liked the Lonesome Dove movie series so much that I read the books as well. It also caused me to read many of the classic western novels, Zane Grey, Louis Lamour, Terry C. Johnston and others. I now consider myself a knowledgeable novice on the subject of westerns.

I rated the TV series highly, although I have not yet seen them all, largely because there are so few westerns being made now. For the serious western movie buff, this series has good and bad points. The good points are that it is a western and the guns appear to be correct for the times. Some of the bad points are: one, the stories are short for the one hour TV format and do not really build (although many of the characters are there for each show) as they did the movies. Second, everyone is too clean, even when camping. The battles with the bad guys are a bit unrealistic - not at all like the battle with Blue Duck in the movies. Lastly, the series seems to be primarily a love story set in the late 1800's. This is not the theme I am looking for when I watch westerns.

But, if you like westerns, and I do, this series is far better than most of the old TV westerns and better in many respects than the old classic western movies. You can't go wrong to buy this one.

This serie is great,It starts off showing Newt Call,Basically this shows Him after He went off on his own at the end of Lonesome dove.

This was a series that I had never heard of until I played a loaned VHS tape. After furher investigation I discovered that there several other Lonesome Dove series which I intend to purchase in the near future. Anyone interested in Western DVD's must, I repeat, must see all other
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Lonesome Dove: The Series (and its subsequent season 2, Lonesome Dove: The Outlaw Years) continues the Lonesome Dove saga. It is well-acted and well-written and thoroughly enjoyable. If you like westerns, and especially if you liked the Lonesome Dove miniseries, you'll probably love this TV series.