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Wagon Train - The Complete Season Two in a Collectible Embossed Metallic Tin! 10 DVD Set!

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Wagon Train is my all time favorite TV show & I'm very pleased with the season 2 DVD set recently released by Timeless Video.
The content is what really makes the set great. Of all the seasons of Wagon Train this is the one with the most really good episodes. Some favorites are Jennifer Churchill (romantic comedy with Rhonda Fleming) , Millie Davis (tender and amusing, James Coburn as Three Fingered Ike in a small role), Steve Campden (snow, cave, saber tooth tiger), Mary Ellen Thomas (with a Christmas theme), Sister Rita (with Vera Miles), and The Last Man (with Dan Duryea). Many of these are very good "Flint" stories.

Picture quality is excellent, revealing details about clothing and expressions that couldn't be seen on videos made from capturing the programs from TV. Episodes tend to run 50 minutes, or as long as 50 minutes 25 seconds, with some footage not on any TV airing in recent years.

My friends and I haven't noticed any imperfections in our season 2 discs (no spots where the the discs skip or hang while playing an episode.) (Some season 1 sets did have an imperfect disc or two that would skip or hang on some DVD players.)

The packaging (cardboard book holding the DVDs, packaged in a tin box), wouldn't be my first choice, but Timeless does seem to have done something to improve the cardboard book. Removing the season 2 discs from the cardboard book is easier than it was to remove the season 1 discs from their book. (I have chosen to keep the discs in Tyvek sleeves in a small box to get to them with less chance of scratching, but I might be being over careful.)

If you liked the Wagon Train Season 1 set, you will like the Season 2 set even more.
If you don't have either and can only afford one, I recommend the season 2 set. Either set is very good viewing.
I hope to see seasons 3, 4, and 5 in the near future.

I too was a cowboy-mad schoolboy when I first saw these episodes and am thrilled to see them again and to own them. I think the embossed tins are fabulous. If I'd just been given the tin when I was a lad, I'd have been in seventh heaven, never mind with the actual show inside. I am very pleased with the quality of both sound and vision. My only reservation when first placing my order for Season 1 was that the episodes might not have worn too well in story-telling terms, that they might be a little too corny by now. Nothing of the sort, the dramas are well scripted for the most part and stand up. There's also more western action than I realized or remembered. I loved Wagon Train and now we get to see it all again. I look forward to Season 3 and all the rest to come.

Loved the westerns of the 1950's & this was one of the best. Ward Bond set the tone & was the father figure that was missed when he passed on. I love the music & it's the intangible things that really makes this series special..things that might not seem important, but adds historical & ironic significance to the well written stories as they unfold. The goods the wagons were carrying...things we take for granted..water, shelter for the night...how our ancestors crossed the continent in these wagons still amazes me. Clarity of picture is excellent & I have no problem with the tin the discs came in. I took other's advice & bought the 2nd season (you reviewers out there do help me make purchases..thanks). Sure brings back great memories. BUY!

The first show of season two brings back three characters who appeared in different stories during season one, and weaves them into a great episode featuring William Bendix as a sea captain. The friendly bickering between Major Adams, Flint McCulloch, Charlie Wooster, and Bill Hawks is a treat when it pops up in a plot. These seasoned professions play off each other with hilarious results. The picture on these Wagon Trains is crisp and bright, not like the muddy looking versions with muffled sound that aired on broadcast and cable reruns for decades. It still amazes me that with such quality, nearly 40 hour long episodes were produced per season for much of the show's run. Even the color 7th season tallied 32 expanded length ninety minute programs. Wow! Fine writing, cast, and guest stars...Wagon Train has it all.

My set arrived recently. Had no problems with packaging or dvd hanging up or not playing.

I am so pleased to own Wagon Train, Season 2. I am looking forward to Seasons 3 thru 5. Timeless Media I will buy those seasons, guaranteed.

Sound quality is above average. Screen shots are excellent. Can't say enough good things about this dvd set.

The show! My oh my. One of the greatest ever produced and brought to the tv screen. Thank you for giving me joy in seeing this show again. I have such fond memories of this show. Ward Bond and Robert Horton were magic together. There is just no other word "magic".

I am so looking forward to Seasons 3 - 5. Timeless please make it happen.

wagon train was a greatly admired tvshow during ward bond's tenure. These shows were well written and the on screen chemistry between Ward and Robert Horton ws great.There are imperfections in the episodes but you're warned about that in the beginning.As usual Amazon delivired the goods in a timely fashion.

I was so thrilled to view both the first season of The Virginian and Wagon Train, watching them brought back such happy memories of times gone by, and seeing once again some of the fantastic actors/actressses of yesterday was just great and I shall hopefully buy more as and when they are released on DVD. I grew up in England and spend a lot of my time between the USA/England

i am delighted that timeless is releasing season two, i have watched season one, all 39 episodes too many times to count.....

however looking at the photo above, this item has the appearance of having the same horrible packaging as season one....it is difficult to comprehend why the producers of this product would do this again.....i do hope my observation regarding this is wrong, wrong, wrong.....

my season one arrived with scratches and scuff marks on the disks, so i ordered a second set and lucky for me i had not gotten to UPS quick enough to return the first set, as the second set was even worse than the first....i kept the first and i bear with the skips.

it is pitiful to pay so much money and have new disk arrive in that condition, i have purchased many a used dvd and cd and they arrived in flawless condition for a fraction of the original price....

The Wagon Train series brought me right back to when I was eleven years old. What I had forgotten or maybe did not realize at the time were the moral lessons that you get from watching the programs. Too bad more recent shows are more into shock value instead. I would recommend this for the whole family!

At last we are getting to see some good, wholesome family entertainment that we so enjoyed in the 50's and 60's. Wagon Train was a major hit that depeneded upon good writers, excellent actors and excellent guest stars. To this day, fans (old and new) write to websites extolling the virtues of the show and how it influenced them to be better people and instilled good values in their lives.

This second season collection is an improvement upon the first season as the discs are now easier to remove and replace in their cardboard sleeves. Timeless Video has done a great job on the graphics.

We can soon enjoy the third season which will be availabe for distribution in May. Hopefully, Timeless will continue to publish the fourth and fifth seasons which completed the best of the 8 years in which the show ran. There is already a color season collection available, but the show never quite gained its popularity and prestige after Ward Bond died and Robert Horton left the show.