Customer Reviews

Northern Exposure - The Complete Series

5 star:		(73)
4 star:		(7)
3 star:		(2)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(36)

 

 

Unfortunately, this series is *not* complete. It's been butchered for a quick buck. Only season one has the original music, as is well documented. It's such a shame to ruin what is one of TV's finest and most original shows.

Do yourself a favor and skip buying this set. I was able to obtain/bootleg all of the episodes on DVD, which I felt I had no choice in doing (I'd rather buy a factory set), recorded from Canadian TV (which, by the way, even has more footage in some of the episodes than the syndicated U.S. broadcasts). This way it's intact, the way it was intended, with the original soundtrack---not the pusillanimous generic elevator music that the studio hastily replaced it with in the DVDs. It's just not the same show without the original soundtrack.

A faux-suede satchel or fake parka case doesn't come close to making up for compromising the artistic integrity of Northern Exposure. Sorry Universal, but you aren't getting one red cent from me until you get this right.

I would love to buy this. It would be my most prized DVD set. But I cannot until they present us the episodes in their complete and original forms. What a sad waste. They could have sold 100X this many and had steady post release sales had they not gutted this fantastic show. Sad.

Great show but it needs the original music. It's too integral a part of the presentation. Kind of like watching a Fred Astaire movie with someone else doing the dancing.

I'm writing this review because I just want to echo the other reviewers displeasure by the choice of the publishers to butcher the series' soundtrack. Perhaps with enough negative publicity, the studios may take notice and do a proper release.

Purchasing the full series would be a no-brainer if it were fully intact, but many fans I've spoken to are choosing to not buy, or in some cases, purchasing bootlegged DVDs of the show as aired because they are truer to the show than the official DVDs.

It is absolutely infuriating that this is not released as aired, original music intact. There are MANY fans that have waited years for this complete release, and now to find that they've cheaped out. I don't care about the cost...have a cheap version for those that can't afford it, and the true version for those who are willing to pay the difference. Just nuts. Any fan, not just purists, will tell you that the music in the show was instrumental to every episode. Whatever possessed these people to think this would fly? .....maybe they should drill holes in their heads to let the demons out....

The previous releases on DVD of this series had much of the original music from the broadcast version replaced by generic dreck. Since the music was such a central character in the show, this is a real butcher-job, changing the feel and meaning of the show.

I understand that it's expensive to get the rights to the music but don't understand why the producers would spend the money on tacky packaging instead of releasing the series in unmangled form.

If this complete series DVD set has the original music restored then I will buy it. Otherwise I'll stick to the complete set of Hi-8 tapes that I recorded of the original broadcasts, and I will continue to be saddened that one of my favorite series is treated so shoddily. . .

This was the greatest show ever made. I have waited 10 years to be able to buy a complete set of episodes and here we get some dubbed music nonsense that not only is horrible but ruins the episodes like scribbling on a Rembrandt with a crayon. Too bad guess i'll just have to keep waiting.

I just gave away a whole bunch of junk to charity, including a virtually-complete set of S-VHS recordings of every season of this show, didn't even think about it, just figured, "Well, of course I'm going to buy the whole series" and only just now bothered to check the reviews before making my purchase. Well, at least I didn't wait until after making my purchase. I can't *believe* they didn't include all of the original music. Geez, guys, I'd have paid double the price for, you know, the actual shows.

Nope, nope, nope. The music is an integral part of the show. If they don't use the original music, I'm not spending a dime on the DVD. What a shame....

I recently received this series set and thought a review of the product, and not the series, was called for. I couldn't find these answers anywhere else, so here you go:

The series comes in a cheap faux-suede bag with a cardboard insert to keep the DVDs from sliding around. The DVDs fit well and do not rattle or slide. You can remove the insert and use the bag by itself if you'd like.

The DVDs are the same DVDs as you would receive if you ordered the individual seasons seperately from Amazon. There are two packaging differences, though. First, the DVDs are not wrapped in the novelty gift parkas that the individual seasons have. Second, the DVDs come in the "slim" style of cases instead of the standard DVD cases.

The special features provide no commentary. There are a few bloopers and a few outtakes, but that's about it.

I'm giving this four stars because I'm pleased with the product, which is a no frills collection of six seasons. The set loses a star because the original music is gone, and season six was and still is sub-par.