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Third Watch: The Complete Second Season

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I'm a huge fan of Third Watch and learned a while back that the reason it's taken sooooooooooooooooo long for them to come out on DVD in the US is because of copyright issues on the AWESOME music that plays throughout the show. It's been released in Japan for years. Sheesh! I can hardly wait to get my copy!

the best show on TV, let me have it on great, commercial free DVD quality rather than waking up early to watch it on A&E. The faster this comes out, the better, get all of the seasons out, please!

What is it going to take to get the other 5 seasons of the best cop/fire/medic drama ever to air on tv on DVD? There is so much garbage available on DVD why not this series? Please get a move on. If you make them available we will buy them. I promise! =)

"It's been more than a year since the first season of Third Watch was released on DVD, and fans have been upset that things have been quiet about a follow-up collection. Reporting about an online chat with Warner Home Video this past September, hosted by the Home Theater Forum, we passed along that "(t)he studio...revealed that the second season of Third Watch is...held up because the 'music costs...are extraordinarily high'". Nevertheless, fans can cheer up this morning, because Warner has apparently overcome the roadblocks that held this up (or else they substituted music), and are officially announcing that Third Watch - The Complete 2nd Season will come to DVD on July 7th.

The 6-disc set running 989 minutes will include 22 episodes: "The Lost," "Faith," "Four Days," "Jimmy's Mountain," "Kim's Hope Chest," "The Tys That Bind," "After Hours," "Know Thyself," "Run of the Mill," "History," "A Hero's Rest," "True Love," "Duty," "A Rock and a Hard Place," "Requiem for a Bantamweight," "Unfinished Business," "The Self-Importance of Being Carlos," "Honor," "Walking Wounded," "Man Enough," "Exposing Faith" and "...And Zeus Wept".

Video will be presented in full frame, and audio in English Stereo, with a Japanese Stereo option. Subtitles will be in English, Spanish, French and Japanese. Extras, if any, have not been revealed yet. Cost is listed as $59.98 SRP. Below we've got the studio description of the release, followed by the package art:

Sometimes it seems as if the world is crashing in on itself. It's the job of the first responders to hold it together. Police, firefighters, paramedics: The men and women of the 3-11 PM shift called third watch are ready to serve in situations ranging from small (attending to a frequent 9-1-1 dialer) to playful (a football match between fire departments) to harrowingly large and complex (tracking an elusive sniper who targets cops). The original team of heroes returns and an FDNY newcomer joins them in a 22-episode Season Two that combines the rigors of duty with compelling vignettes of life away from work. What kind of person defies a gun-wielding madman or rushes into a burning building? This kind - the people of Third Watch"

FINALLY !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Come on amazon !! list it so we can buy it !! ;o)

I purchased the complete series on DVD through what I now know was a pirated version. It is lousy quality. Not in chronological order. But, I guess better than nothing since Season 1 is all that has been released to date. (which I also purchased from Amazon) I, too, await further seasons to be released.

Well at last there is some inclination that at least season 2 is gunna be released in the future.
I thought it was only down here in little old Australia that it hasn't been released,like everything else,we're last to get anything new down here,so this has made me at least a bit happier that other die hard 3rd watch fans are suffering just as much as us.Lets get every season out,what a great Christmas gift it would make,but then again we should be grateful with at least season 2 at the moment.UPDATE great to see season 2 is getting released 1 year to the day i posted initial comment.Role on July 7.

I've been obsessed with Third Watch since it was on the air. I've waited years for it to come out on dvd and am ANXIOUS for the rest of the seasons to come out! So is my husband, whom I have turned into just as big a fan since the release of season 1.
For those who have never seen Third Watch, it's an incredible show that will keep you on the edge of your seat and have you totally wrapped into the characters. Never before (or since) has a show had more heart, been more real or just as consistently fantastic as Third Watch!! This is not a show that ever gets boring, from the 1st season to the last.
So PLEASE HURRY UP AND RELEASE THE OTHER SEASONS ON DVD!!!

The early years of this series were excellent. As a paramedic instructor I use the very first episode of Season One in my first night with each new group of students to get them fired up(couple of mva's, couple of structure fires, several DOA's, medic gets shot.) Medical techniques were not too bad-- far better than the godawful screwed up procedures they show on ER, for example)Here's hoping Season Two is on the way soon.

This was a great show. But the way NBC is releasing this is appalling they have been disappointing me lately.

I've always enjoyed police and rescue TV series, since the days of "Emergency!" and "Third Watch" became my favourite of the genre, not least because it gave you everything - fire, police and paramedics. I've revisited "Emergency!" and still love it, but by comparison, it's squeaky clean, and a product of its time. Third Watch has soap elements, insofar as it spends time on the private lives of the regulars, but there's a method to it. It sheds light on their behaviour on the job. The characters are lifelike, and in most cases flawed, but they are still the ones whose sirens you want to hear if you're in big trouble. They work among real people, the characters of a big city (NY) and, compared with the old "Emergency!" show, it's dirty and often thankless work. I'm eagerly awaiting Season 3. The high point of that season was the very tasteful handling of 9/11 - which happened to be on the "Third Watch" beat. No jets hitting towers, no drum-beating or wringing of hands, just professionals in the field handling their tasks with no time to ponder the larger situation, and wondering why New Yorkers are holding up signs as they pass, calling them heroes. Third Watch: The Complete Second Season