Customer Reviews

Nowhere Man - The Complete Series

5 star:		(61)
4 star:		(16)
3 star:		(4)
2 star:		(1)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

In the fall of 1995 one of the most original progams of that season made it's debut: Nowhere Man. Played by the under-rated Bruce Greenwood who brought just the right amount of suspicion and paranoia to the table, the show quite effectively, and chillingly, shows what could happen if someone had their identity completely erased, in this case after Greenwood's character (photographer Thomas J. Veil) takes a snapshot of what appears to be a hanging in Central America. His life quite literally unravels like a roll of film when the people who want the negatives erases his identity and forces him to go on the run. Everyone, including his wife, no longer recognizes or will have anything to do with him. He is, quite literally, a man without an identity or a past, who must sort out what has happened while avoid being captured. One of the themes of Nowhere Man was that you never knew who was friend or foe, which gave the show it's paranoid edge.

Unfortunately after only one season, and just when it appeared that we were getting to the bottom of who was behind Thomas Veil's erasure and how it was done, the show was cancelled, leaving many a fan, myself included, hanging in the air. It's great that this show is finally being released on DVD, it would have been greater still if they had done so 10 years ago.

I don't make it a point to watch many TV shows as most shows are terrible. I caught the very beginning of the Nowhere Man pilot completely by accident back in 1995 and before the intro was finished......I WAS HOOKED! I was completely devastated when it didn't return and the fact that the show has NEVER been in reruns in the United States, completely evades all logic as it runs in other countries.

I've read rumors about the show possibly being available on DVD for some time, but it seemed to only be a CONSPIRACY to get people like me excited. Now it appears to really be the TRUTH. This is the best news I've heard all year! I'M THRILLED! I'm looking forward to having Nowhere Man on DVD and I'm also hoping that a release of this fine show will cause many people to get as hooked on it as I have been since that fateful Monday night back in 1995. (The above was written before news of a definite release.)

***************** NOWHERE MAN UPDATE

FINALLY!!!! MY FAVORITE TV SHOW OF ALL TIME! "Nowhere Man" is slated to be released on December 27, 2005 on DVD. This will be a first time release for this program in ANY format.

It ran the 25 episodes in 1995/1996 ONE (1) time and has NEVER been seen again (in the USA that is, it ran in reruns overseas). There is a cult following of this show and we've followed news (very scant news since most people haven't heard of this show) for years since it went off the air. We just knew it was a real conspiracy trying to keep our beloved "Nowhere Man" from us.

This show will knock the wind out of you! The absolute best I've ever seen! This is a very CEREBRAL and smart show......we think that's why UPN pulled the plug after only 25 episodes. UPN was a brand new network in 1995 and "Nowhere Man" came on TV on Monday nights at 9 p.m. The combination of brand new network and the unique intelligence of the show spelled D O O M.....the general public for the most part didn't see it....(who watched UPN then?) and a lot of the ones that watched it.......well, let's just say it went directly over their heads. But there are a few of us that fell in love with the show, and tried real hard to keep its memory alive on the internet. When I first got my computer and got on the internet the first time, guess what I looked up? You are correct! "Nowhere Man" was my first search.

You MUST check out "Nowhere Man". You will be as hooked as I have been since 1995. Finally! It's going to be available. HOORAY!!!!

Signed, A Very Happy Fan

p/s: Now if some guy from Image Entertainment pulls out a cigar and pricks it with a pencil................... ;)

More proof that TV is not a lost cause - Firefly is supporting evidence.

Nowhere man was a milestone in American TV. It is the US version of the UK series The Prisoner.

I am not so surprised that it was cancelled after a season, I am more shocked that it made on the air to begin with and lasted the season. This is a very thought provoking and cerebral story. This is not for the average "Entertainment Tonight/Desperate Housewives" TV viewer.

This show truly meant something and communicated it's message on a variety of levels. Elements of this show were exciting and in-your-face while other plot elements went deeper and were revealed often hours after you have seen an episode only after it sunk inand your brain absorbed the sublties.

There was not a single bad, dry or slow episode in the whole series. Every one was important and added another piece to the puzzle.

Plus there was absolutely no clue as to where the thing was headed until very close to the end. This was spectacularly well done and Bruce Greenwood was magnificent in his role.

This show so intrigued me I wrote a script for it. The show was cancelled before I presented it to the producer.

I was sad when it was cancelled but pleased that they were able to hastily put together a wrap for the story that while a little cryptic, not as surreal as the ending of The Prisoner.

I think The Prisoner is one of the true masterpieces of artistic TV production, and Nowhere Man is easily it's equal.

I can't wait for the release. I have to have this set. I made room for it right next to my Prisoner Megaset.

After taking and publishing a mysterious photo showing an execution in a third world country, photographer Thomas Veil (Bruce Greenwood)finds his life ripped apart. He's having dinner with his wife Allison (Megan Greenwood from "Millennium"), goes to the bathroom and comes back to find her gone. When he comes back at different couple is at his table and his wife isn't there. When he asks Geno the owner where she is he doesn't know who his wife is, who he is and why he's complaining about his table being taken. When he tracks her down he discovers his wife no longer knows who he is and there isn't any evidence he's every existed--except that he knows who he is. He remembers his past. That's all that remains.

An intelligent, clever TV series that lasted only one season on UPN (coupled mysteriously with "Star Trek: Voyager" a big mistake on UPN's part)"Nowhere Man", like "The Prisoner" may have been too good for TV, ahead of its time or had the wrong audience for UPN. It would probably have been coupled better with Fox's "The X-Files". Now 10 years later with shows like "LOST" presenting mysteries and conspiracies like "Nowhere Man", the show's time has finally come.

This excellent release from Image Entertainment includes all 25 of the first season episodes. As extras we get commentary tracks including video commentaries by Bruce Greenwood, producer Peter Dunne and creator/writer/producer Lawrence Hertzog. The video commentaries whomever is doing the commentary frequently presented in splitscreen with the episode itself. There are also traditional audio commentaries (they're separate though)as well as promos and interviews with Bruce Greenwood, Hertzog, Megan Gallagher, director Ian Toynton and others.

Image quality varies from quite good to very good.It's clear that the show was remastered from the original broadcast videotapes and not the finished filmed episodes themselves. My guess is that Image ran into the same problem here that they did with "The Twilight Zone:1985/6" where the studio (Buena Vista) wouldn't pay or allow them to go back to the original film masters to remaster them. Regardless, Image has done a stellar job with the source material. There is some minor issues with interlace errors and the image can occasionally look soft as well but, on the whole, the show looks extremely good. The discs with the video commentaries are, essentially, holding four episodes so there are some digital artifacts such as aliasing that occasionally crop up but, on the whole, the series looks excellent. Dialogue and music come across crisp and clear on all the discs in this set providing fans with a good looking good sounding set. With nine discs in the set it doesn't feel as if too many has been crowded onto too few discs. All discs are in the dual layered/single side format. Having had to suffer through some of Universal's dual sided discs (which have had problems with quality control and also are more likely to be damaged), I'm happy that this has been presented in this deluxe format.

We also get Greenwood's promo outtakes for UPN, a couple of fine featurettes "Networking" where Hertzog discusses with former UPN Executive Mike Sullivan why this terrific critically acclaimed series got to air. Sullivan comes across as intelligent and a sharp guy. He approved the show hoping that UPN's launch wouldn't be like the WB or other stations where low brow material dominated the airwaves. He also notes the challenges of a start up network but that's why he was willing to take a big risk on "Nowhere Man". "Fact or Fiction" features a mysterious former CIA operative discussing conspiracies in the real world as compared to the real world. He also discusses just how easy it would be to cut the tether to our identities away and lose who we are in the world. While it isn't to the extreme of "Nowhere Man" it is certainly frightening. We get a four page booklet that gives a synopsis of the plot and the special features for that particular episode. Also included are deleted/extended scenes compared to the finished version scenes done in a picture in picture format. Packaged similar to "Moonlighting" and other shows with plastic inserts holding the DVDs, this set doesn't use tape to hold the sets together but hinges which is a big improvement over previous sets. An exceptional job from Image at putting together a deluxe treatment of this important cult series.

I love this show. Love it, love it, absolutely love it. Andthe DVD set absolutely does it justice. Probably UPN's best show, ever. Period. Enough said...

The DVD's are perfect, the casing is beautiful (book-style, if a bit prone to attracting fingerprints ;] ), the audio and video are stellar (though I don't have surround sound or a plasma tv, I was more interested in the storyline than examining with a microscope for dust or other digital artifacts of analog videography: dust, grain, etc.).

The special features are great. I love the commentaries, and the video commentaries, deconstructino of a few scenes and what the cast/crew were going for. Plenty of making-of stuff, even some of the original UPN trailers, even a lame archive clip of Bruce Greenwood recording promotional spots for different affiliate stations (it was kind of funny in a couple places and obvious that he was ad-libbing).

Ahh, the genius oozes from this set. Get it watch it all t eway through from the beginning so as to not taint your understanding of the series if you've never seen it. Once you've watched it all the way through, re-watch it from the beginning and pick up on all the subtle clues and hints and red herrings they dropped throughout the season. The ending is satisfying (they knew they were being dropped, so they tied up the loose ends, mostly; don't worry, I won't spoil the surprise!).

Like I said, don't watch the last episode until you've watched the rest of the series in order. Otherwise it will ruin the tone and character of the other episodes, which should always be watched with a fresh eye first before the big ol' bomb that's dropped at the end.

Highly highly recommended! Excellent suspense/paranoia/conspiracy theory show.

"NOWHERE MAN" was a series that aired from August 1995 to May 1996 on fledgling network UPN. It was a new channel and a new show and that combination, along with the odd pairing of this series and STAR TREK: VOYAGER (ran 7 seasons, don't know why) may have been what drove it into the ground. Unfortunately, I feel I have to explain this to you people. Here's the episode run down of this wonderful series ([...]):

1) Absolute Zero
Thomas Veil - quite literally - loses his identity one night over dinner and begins to mentally unravel when he discovers his wife (Megan Gallagher, TV's "Millennium") is part of whatever's happening. Placed in a sanitarium, he slowly realizes that he's actually the victim of some massive conspiracy connected to a photograph he took entitled "Hidden Agenda".

2) Turnabout
Veil is picked up by operatives, who think he's Dr. Bellamy. He's taken to a Midwest sanitarium for the organization and ordered to crack Ellen Combs (Mimi Craven), a young woman who has just been erased. Thinking he'll be able to secure his own files, Tom plays along, but realizes he must intervene before Ellen divulges any information and endangers other possible victims

3) The Incredible Derek
Tracing the jeep in the photograph to Tipton, Georgia, Thomas Veil meets a blind 10-year-old prophet (Zachery McLemore) who sees into both Tom's past and future. With his help Tom manages to avoid being captured by the army troops that seem to be looking for him, but not before they destroy the army base that has some mysterious connection to the picture in Tom's negative as well as the small town where they've been staying.

4) Something About Her
The conspiracy kidnaps Tom and through drugs and programming convinces him he's in love with an attractive photographer named Karin (Carrie Ann Moss, "The Matrix" and "Memento") - actually an actress hired by the conspirators. As their relationship progresses, flashbacks confuse him and Tom angrily turns on the girl, forcing the doctors to step up their program.

5) Paradise on Your Doorstep
While working in a photo shop Tom comes across a picture of his wife Alyson dining with a female customer. When the woman (Saxon Trainor) picks up the photographs he follows her, only to be kidnapped and transported to a strangely isolated "village" -- a perfect town specially designed for the "disenfranchised" -- those persons who had lost their identities because of "them".

6) The Spider Webb
Tom is tracing Dave "Eddie" Powers, his friend from the asylum who knew too much and was lobotomized for his efforts to help Tom. He ends up in Eddie's run-down hotel room where the television mysteriously begins broadcasting The Lenny Little Show (Michael McGuire), a serial that is - amazingly enough - re-enacting scenes from Tom's personal erasure. He traces the program to the Max Webb Studios and confronts the sneering writer. Veil begins to realize that Max Webb (Richard Kind of "Mad About You") not only knows what he has done but foresees what he'll do next.

7) A Rough Whimper of Insanity
Working as a pizza deliveryman, Tom happens on a computer hack that has cut himself off from the world and lives in darkness with his machines. Sickly and severely socially handicapped, Scott Hansen (Sean Whalen) begins to warm to Tom's gentleness and becomes deeply intrigued when he realizes the extent of his erasure - so profound that even Scott's skills can't retrieve Veil's files.

8) The Alpha Spike
Tom travels to New England to work in the military school where Dr. Bellamy taught and to investigate Bellamy's methods of subliminal persuasion on teenagers. While there he becomes involved in a murder committed by an evil and manipulative cadet (Jackson Price).

9) You've Really Got A Hold On Me
Tom is befriended by a man whose own life was taken away by the organization more than 20 years before. Gus Shepard (Dean Stockwell, TV's "Quantum Leap") has come to realize that the conspiracy's focus has shifted from him to Tom and that even his life as a runaway no longer has meaning.

10) Father ["Validation"]
Tom returns to the Missouri town where he grew up and meets the father who deserted him and his mother 20 years before. Although he wants to believe the man now calling himself Jonathan Crane (Dean Jones, "Beethoven") is his father, Veil is suspicious of the recent plastic surgery and demands proof, which Jonathan can't seem to supply.

11) An Enemy Within
Tom finds himself in a rural area of Pennsylvania where he's waiting for a phone call from a detective who thinks he can name the cigar-smoking soldier in Tom's photo. Unwittingly camping out on private land, he's shot by a guard and left for dead. He's discovered the next day by Emily (Maria Bello, "A History of Violence" and "The Cooler", TV's "ER"), a young woman who manages to drag him to her home and nurses him back to health.

12) It's Not Such a Wonderful Life
During Christmas, Thomas Veil reads in a newspaper that the federal government is looking for him in connection with the photograph "Hidden Agenda". And then - quite suddenly - he's found! He's told his ordeal is over and that all he has to do is testify, and - to prove his story - hand over the negatives.

13) Contact ["Deep Throat"]
A mysterious voice (Robin Sachs, TV's "Babylon 5") from within the organization contacts Veil and tells him he'll help him reach the man responsible for his erasure. To earn Tom's trust the voice allows him to watch the video record of his own erasure and to see the man who ordered it: Richard Grace (Joseph Lambie). To insure Tom's interest the voice also shows Tom proof that his wife Alyson was involved with Grace and sets out an elaborate scheme for Tom to assassinate the man.

14) Heart of Darkness
Veil uses a Palmtop computer provided by his contact within the organization to track down Commander Quinn (James Tolkan, "Back to the Future"), a secretive military man who runs a right-wing uniformed organization that carefully screens all applicants. Usurping an accepted applicant's place, Tom finds himself kidnapped and inducted into a brutally disciplined militia group that kills those who don't conform.

15) Forever Jung ["Doubles"]
Following up on information in the Palmtop, Tom journeys to a Minnesota town and finds work at a nursing home that may be performing unauthorized scientific experiments on its residents. The unexpected death of one of the residents prompts Veil to investigate and he uncovers a plot that is directly linked to the organization.

16) Shine a Light on You ["Masons"]
Tom journeys to a remote Colorado town to look for a physicist named Dr. Merrit, whom he suspects is another victim of the conspiracy. Dr. Merrit's disappearance has been attributed to an alien abduction by the locals, who have become accustomed to seeing strange phenomena and unexplained lights.

17) Stay Tuned
The Palmtop leads Veil to Darby, NY -- a seemingly perfect American town where everybody is just too good to be true. Suspecting some form of mind control Tom attempts to infiltrate the campaign headquarters of Jim Hubbard (Cliff DeYoung, TV's "X-Files" pilot, "Suicide Kings"), a local politician who is launching a campaign to run for governor - and who might be part of the organization that erased Tom's identity. * NOTE: My friend Jane Vandenburgh was an extra during this episode's town hall meeting!

18) Hidden Agenda
Alexander Hale (Robin Sachs, TV's "Babylon 5"), Tom's mysterious contact in the organization, finally reveals his true identity and arranges to meet with Tom to find out the truth about the photograph "Hidden Agenda". Unknown to Tom, Hale has been uncovered by the organization and they intend to use him as bait to bring Veil down once and for all.

19) Doppleganger
Unsure that he can trust the information from the Palmtop computer, Veil decides to investigate one last name: Claire Hillard (Jamie Rose), a fellow journalist who was assigned to the same South American arena where the "Hidden Agenda" photograph was supposedly taken. Arriving in the small Ohio town where she lives he discovers there's another Thomas Veil living there -- a photographer with whom Claire occasionally works.

20) Through A Lens Darkly ["Shutterbug"]
Tom is kidnapped and locked inside a remote deserted house. An operative (Sam Anderson, TV's "ER", "LOST") within the organization uses powerful mind control techniques to induce haunting memories from Veil's past, making him recall his childhood and the violent death of his childhood sweetheart (Monica Creel).

21) Dark Side of the Moon ["Mugging"]
Tom has a chance to uncover an important list of operatives, but as he's phoning his contact an operative (Maurice Chasse) from the organization attacks him and demands the negatives. Fleeing from one enemy Tom runs into another as an inner city gang confronts Veil and steals a bag containing the negatives of "Hidden Agenda".

22) Calaway
Thomas Veil is suffering from severe insomnia and a doctor's alarming diagnosis prompts him to go back to the asylum where he was first placed after his erasure. There he encounters one of his fellow inmates (Jay Arlen Jones), a man who has been re-programmed to think he's one of the doctors.

23) Zero Minus Ten ["Coma"]
Waking up in a hospital with no memory of how he got there, Tom is immediately suspicious when he's told he's been in a coma for three months following a car accident. A forced reunion with his wife Alyson (Megan Gallagher, TV's "Millennium") only reinforces his belief that he is the victim of another ruse by the organization that is trying to get his negatives.

24) Marathon
Uncovering a section of "Hidden Agenda" previously obscured, Tom discovers the numbers for a radio frequency that ultimately leads him to a Washington DC research center called

this was one of the most well written and under promoted shows on
television. I remember waiting each week to see what would happen next. The shows continually blew my mind and I have only the original VHS copies. I can't wait to see them complete and unedited on DVD.

Nowhere Man is a series that I believe was very very underrated. I know here in Australia, they showed it very late at night and they would show it some weeks, miss a few weeks and then start it up again, so I never got to see it completely because you never knew what Channel 7 would do (neither do they).
The first episode is amazing and mysifying. Thoms Veil is dining in a restaurant with his wife after his photo's were on display in his gallery. He goes to the bathroom - gone no more than 5 minutes - comes out and his wife isn't at their usual table, the staff don't know him, he goes to his house and his wife 'doesn't know who he is' and she's with another husband etc etc. While he doesn't know what's going on, he's sure it has something to do with a photo he took. 'They' think he knows something he shouldn't and each and every episode from there follows him trying to uncover the truth. It is funny watching such a fantastic show that back in it's day was 'high tech' and yet now looking back on it, he has no modern day items such as a cell phone or laptop.
You must check this out because it's truly stunning and gripping. Not all the episodes give you clues to the final outcome - in fact sometimes you are more puzzled at the end of an episode than you were at the beginning, but this is such good entertainment and will keep you guessing right to the exciting end. I also love the haunting and stunning theme this show has - another well written theme by Mark Snow. Please go and watch this - if you love good thrillers, then this is for you. It's great.

My personal opinion is that Nowhere Man was a terrific tv show- far above the lame action-laced pap that dominates in such series as CSI, Law And Order, 24, or Alias, despite Jennifer Garner's babeoliciousness. It, like The Prisoner, was about something, and Hertzog admits that he viewed the show as an anthology series exploring loneliness, with the Organization as a mere spur for those perambulations of the character of Tom Veil. Yet, despite its debt to The Prisoner, Nowhere Man explores many of the same themes from the other end of the spectrum. Tom Veil wanders through his society that does not see him, while John Drake, as Number Six, is physically cut off from his society. Both battle a network of mysterious malefactors, but Veil's fate seems the worse of the two, because, at the end of his series he is still in anomy, whereas John Drake has been restored to his life, his wish to resign just a fleeting desideratum. This may be partly explained by the fact that Patrick McGoohan had total control over The Prisoner while Lawrence Hertzog lost control of Nowhere Man. Despite that, while Nowhere Man does not reach the heights its predecessor did, it remains one of the great achievements of action television- thought-provoking, well-acted, and with a number of terrific episodes, most notably the first twelve. And almost as influential on the show as The Prisoner was were the film The Manchurian Candidate, and the tv show The Fugitive.

If we take the end of the series as its true end, and ignore a planned second season, Nowhere Man seems to be about the search for the truth. This is what impels Veil to resist, whereas Number Six's motivation was the desire and struggle for privacy, individuality, and his refusal to accede. Veil has no privacy, and may not even really exist- his battle is the more abstract, and perhaps that is why he ultimately fails where John Drake succeeds. The ending also cleared some things up, even as it clouded others. Veil was so good in high danger situations because, like Drake, he was really a trained expert in them. But, the biggest difference between the two shows is that The Prisoner dealt with the inward evils of self, and is therefore allegorical, whereas Nowhere Man dealt with that on the outside, and is more mythic. Drake's battle with the Village is really his own with the desire to conform. Veil's real battle is to find out the truth that others refused him. Hidden Agenda's real Hidden Agenda was that the photos were ultimately unimportant, and there probably was no execution, even of the Senators. They were probably just coerced into cooperation, for funding black ops programs, as the Organization seems to have been a quasi-governmental concern. No organized crime group, nor single government agency- foreign or domestic- could do all it did without being detected, unless it got major cash infusion from a government, likely the American, since the series is a post-Cold War paranoia trip.

But, another important difference between The Prisoner and Nowhere Man is that the two protagonists, despite being in the same profession, could not have greater temperamental differences if they tried. John Drake is cold, cerebral, a thinker and possibly a misanthropist. Tom Veil, or Gemini, is a feeler, who loves his faux wife even after betrayals, and easily acceded to the sexual desires of his many lady loves. It would be difficult to imagine the two characters in the other's series. John Drake would likely have discovered the secret in two to three episodes, tops because most of Veil's failings are a direct result of his emotionalism bettering his rationalism. And Veil in the Village? He'd have never been able to wall off any part of his ego long enough for his existential dilemma to come to fruition. A listen to his episode opening monologue- `My name is Thomas Veil, or at least it was. I'm a photographer. I had it all: a wife, Alyson, friends, a career. And in o­ne moment it was all taken away. All because of a single photograph. I have it. They want it, and they will do anything to get the negative. I'm keeping this diary as proof that these events are real. I know they are....they have to be.'- aptly delineates the difference between the two men. Would Number Six/John Drake ever had a hint of doubt like that? This has led some to believe that Veil/Gemini is really insane, and the show just one long attempt to make the viewer identify with a lunatic, much the same that the novel The Dead Zone, by Stephen King, is an attempt to make the reader sympathize with an assassin. It could be that everything was real until Tom's psyche broke in the bathroom in the pilot, and clues throughout the show leave interpretation open. Of course, suspension of disbelief is a necessity, for many things don't seem to make sense in any `real' interpretation of the sow's events.

Nowhere Man, though, is not just a ripoff of The Prisoner, it's a show that works for a number of reasons. First, it appeals to the masses, with its weekly adventure- this is its The Fugitive appeal- with the twist, of course, being that the hunted was also the hunter. The questions are of what the Organization is, what is Hidden Agenda's true significance, and why was Tom Veil's life stripped from him? Secondly, the show appeals to The Manchurian Candidate conspiracists- it's a sociological and political mystery. Is the Organization part of the government, is Veil a spy, and who is behind it. Thirdly, there are The Prisoner fans, who see the show more existentially- who is Tom Veil, and why is he Nowhere Man, concern them. There was a reason the show was the most critically acclaimed of the 1995-96 season, and only studio stupidity, and a slot opposite Monday Night Football, ruined it.

I remember loving this show back in the day, but I could only vaguely remember bits and pieces of it. Now that I have the DVDs, I'm devouring them! I think this show would be right at home next to hit current shows like Lost and Prison Break, what with the over-running story arc and the above-par writing and acting. Bruce Greenwood is an amazing actor!

I keep wanting to compare this show to The Pretender, but unlike Jarod, Thomas Veil actually DOES spend a lot of his time investigating the people who stole his loved ones from him. I loved Jarod, but the guy was easily distracted ;-D

And now, to the DVD set. I didn't hold out great hopes, seeing as it was an early UPN series that was cancelled after one year. Maybe it was my low expectations, but this set blows others out of the water! Interviews, commentaries, promos, tons of great, great stuff. And the box itself is very uniquely done.

I also like how they show the deleted and extended scenes. It's hard to explain what they did, but I've never seen them presented in quite this manner. It's very, very smart and allows you to see exactly what was cut from where (hint: They're labeled as "Rough Cut to Final Cut" on the DVDs, not as "Deleted" or "Extended Scenes." It took me a while to figure out that's what the feature was. ;-D).

All in all, I give the show five stars and the DVD set five stars, a rarity!