Review for the package, not the series
347329
Since I view these reviews as being based on the package, not the film or TV series, I have no problem giving 1 star to a complete rip-off.  And I faithfully watched the series as a boy, but no way will I spend this much money for it.
2427852
This series is going to be a regular drain on my bank balance for the coming decade, as that is how long it is going to take Fantagraphics to finish publsihing this collection, if they stick to their published schedule.

Both books included in this boxed set are exactly the same as the separately-published volumes with full book jackets. These are the same books as the separate volumes, with an added slipcase.

Be warned: The Sunday strips are not in colour unlike the Calvin & Hobbes and the Farside collection in which even the black and white strips are printed on colour pages. This quite pisses me off...
2861725
I have been a huge fan of the show for years, well since '98.  I certainly give the series eight stars, to hell with five, eight is what it deserves.  But beware of this item.

First, this is not being sold by Amazon, but by a third-party seller.  Second, please take note on the number of discs that the seller has written down as to what the set includes.

My wife went online to Amazon to get me a birthday gift a couple of weeks ago and she went looking for the complete Cowboy Bebop series.  She found this and thought perhaps it was a fluke in the pricing since the stat page says "7discs."  She ordered this one and she loves me.  I have a wife who gives me anime.  I am lucky.

But this set only has three discs.  Yes, it does have every episode from the series but there are ZERO special features.  No behind the scenes or anything like I know the original is supposed to have.

The video quality is OK.  Slightly better than if you recorded it off of the TV with a VCR.  Not great, but not bad.  I will stay with this copy though because it was a gift, but I really have to recommend paying the money for the official 6-disc version.  If you just want the episodes, then get this.  Its not bad, but not good either.  Kinda' like Purgatory.
4679146
REVISED 07-19-13: I had been hoping that this complete series would someday become available as an ebook in the Kindle store, and now it finally has, all 6 books (4 novels and 2 collections of short stories) bundled together in one collection. (I had read and enjoyed several of the titles that constitute this series a good many years ago, and I now look forward to finally reading the rest.)

Just to clear up two areas of possible confusion:
FIRST, "The Four Just Men" is the title of ONE book that was later followed by FIVE others (for a total of SIX), all of which became known collectively under that umbrella title. Technically, a complete "Four Just Men" could refer to the full, unabridged text of just that one, first book -- but here it refers to a complete COLLECTION of ALL of them.
SECOND, the publisher (Wordsworth) includes this title in its "Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural" series, an umbrella term to include books that are mysteries OR supernatural (and occasionally both). This collection falls under the "mystery" category; it is NOT in any way supernatural.

When I purchased this Wordsworth edition, it was the only truly complete set available in the Kindle Store. Others have since followed, including one by Jame-Books and another by Timeless Wisdom (each of those only $.99). But this Wordsworth edition has an informative introduction the others do not.

Although this Wordsworth edition lacks a TOC, you can easily right/left click (on a Kindle Keyboard) to every one of the 6 titles (then bookmark each for future, direct acess); right/left clicking also leads to specific chapters within each book. On the Kindle Paperwhite, tapping GO TO provides a list of all titles; then, for a particular book, an additional tap lists chapters or stories within it.

Be wary of some other so-called "complete" sets which do NOT contain ALL six books. Trying to acquire all six of these books separately can be both challenging and confusing since U.S. titles frequently differ from the British. That's why a bundle for this series is particularly convenient; it's all done for you. I highly recommend this ebook edition to any discerning reader in search of some good, old-fashioned, British crime drama.

FYI: Edgar Wallace was a prolific author of "thrillers" and was VERY popular in the early decades of the 1900's. The first volume of this series was written in 1905; it was also the very first of some 170+ books he eventually wrote. Inasmuch as the last volume in this series was published (in Britain) in 1928, and he died in 1932, this particular series pretty much spans his entire writing career. Many of his other books are available in the Kindle Store (quite a few as public domain freebies but many more are not), and the ones I have read thus far were generally quite good (though a few humorous klunkers should probably be avoided).
4908205
The series is wonderful of course. But this product is not. I purchased this again, although I had all the separate seasons already, just to have a nice set. They removed the subtitles....they existed on the separate series. There was no cost involved in developing them or keeping them. They just decided to spit in the eye (or ear?) of their hearing-impaired customers, for no reason whatsoever.
1497935
The episodes in this DVD box set all appear in other classic TV westerns DVD box sets.

Two classic TV western DVD box sets that you should consider getting instead are:

<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Classic-TV-Westerns-300-Episodes/dp/B0012VCMPM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Classic TV Westerns 300 Episodes</a>&nbsp;(which contain all the episodes that also are on this DVD box set)

<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Essential-TV-Western-150-Episodes/dp/B0014CKCLU/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Essential TV Western 150 Episodes</a>

if you get the above mentioned two DVD box sets, then you won't need any of the other classic TV westerns DVD box sets that appear on this web site,  because all the episodes that appear on all those other DVD sets are all in the above mentioned two DVD box sets.

Additional Information:  The 300 episode DVD box set&nbsp;<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Classic-TV-Westerns-300-Episodes/dp/B0012VCMPM/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Classic TV Westerns 300 Episodes</a>&nbsp;is really a combination of the two 150 episodes classic TV Westerns DVD box sets:

<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Ultimate-TV-Westerns-150-Episodes/dp/B000EOR0BY/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Ultimate TV Westerns - 150 Episodes</a>

<a data-hook="product-link-linked" class="a-link-normal" href="/Western-TV-Classics-150-Episodes/dp/B000TZX5LC/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_rvw_txt?ie=UTF8">Western TV Classics 150 Episodes</a>
195203
[added this in March 2013] I've been asked to remove my one-star review because it doesn't directly relate to the contents of the DVD. That's a fair critique, so I'm giving it 3 stars. I don't want to remove the review entirely, since other people might also be confused about the format of this item.

[original review] I bought this item thinking it was a book, based on the headline and the description. It turned out to be a DVD. I contacted Amazon and they said they will be changing the item name and description so it is clearly stated that it is a DVD. I only realized my mistake after it arrived, and then noticed that when I magnified the photo of the item, I could see the words "DVD" along the spine of the cover. Thanks Amazon for quickly handling my issue. (I'm returning it, so I haven't opened the DVD, and can't comment on the quality of the content.)
2986987
Let me preface this by saying that I'm extremely excited that 20th Century Fox has resumed releasing this fantastic series on DVD; every season is great and this one is no exception!

That being said, the packaging used for this box set is just not up to par with the previous releases. Instead of the nice format that they used for the majority of the previous sets, this one is just the bare-bones. There are no episode titles or descriptions, just a movie-style package with the three discs inside.

Even more unfortunate is the fact that nobody seemed to care about updating the cast listing on the back of the package. Valerie Harper is still credited as a star, when in fact she doesn't appear in a single episode this season! Betty White has now become a predominate cast member, yet she isn't mentioned.

Overall, I'm just really glad that I get to own the episodes and that they are good quality, but it would have been nice if they were accompanied with a more elegant package.
1038285
This review is not based on the series, but on the new packaging of the DVD sets. I had all the original releases of seasons 1-12 on DVD. The original packaging was pretty bad, the internal DVD holders were cheap plastic ones, only held into place by glue, which, eventually, they would come loose. The new ones are made of a stronger plastic. It's still held in with glue, but it seems like a stronger glue as well, but that's just the base of the internal holder, the rest snap into place and turn like the pages of a book.
23858
My kids LOVE little einsteins. We have had access to episodes any time through our cable on-demand service.  We recently downgraded to basic cable to save $$$, so I decided to buy some DVDs for after-work/trying to cook dinner/etc. I am writing this review because the product description has a MAJOR ISSUE-It doesn't say which 3 DVD's are included in this 3-pack.  After reading the other customer review and comments, (why the reviewer didn't include this info in the first place, I just don't know.)I decided I had to buy this 3-pack before buying any other DVDs so that I could find out. Without going into detail of the individual episodes per DVD, the titles of the three DVD's are:
Mission Celebration!
Team Up For Adventure
Our (Big) Huge Adventure
It looks like amazon sells each of these DVD's individually as well.  I will probably buy the Fall 2008 3 pack next, since it includes a different set of DVDs. After we watch the DVD's I will check back in with more details about the individual episodes.
2356687
Hard to say just how to rate this. Mostly I just wanted to let buyers know what this consisted of.
It's a fan book for the Oreimo (the short name) anime, which lasted one season. It is all in Japanese, which I don't read.

If the wide bars on the cover, blocking part of the view, make you suspect nude pictures inside - well, that's not the case. This is the slipcase cover, the actual book cover shows Kirino and Kuroneko in very skimpy bikinis. Honestly for me this alone is worth the price. Very few of the inside illustrations are anywhere that revealing. The TV show itself didn't really indulge in "fan service", and this book is true to that.

Inside, there is a 20 page illustration gallery, most of them full page. Then a map of the area where the characters live. Then 20 pages of photographs of the voice actresses for those two characters. Followed by Character Guides for all the main characters (a few pages each), including photos of, and interviews with, their voice actors/actresses.

Next are episode guides, two pages for each of the regular season episodes, and the additional episodes which are in the Oreimo DVD/Blu-Ray package. These are accompanied by several small scenes for each.

A few pages go into Kirino's and Kuroneko's favorite characters, Scarlet Witch Meruru and Maschera, respectively.

There's lots of other little details - like illustrations and I guess brief descriptions of all the other games that are shown in the series.

Fan books for TV shows are not really my thing, and even if I could read Japanese I probably wouldn't care about the interviews anyway. But, I'd say it is a really well done package. So I'll give it 4 stars.
3798214
The music is fine: its Mazzy Star.  My problem is the minimal packaging.  For example, the credits mention that Bert Jansch plays on this record; however, no mention of what song or songs he plays on.  My point is, if I'm going to pay a couple extra bucks over and above the price of the download for a CD, what I expect is some information.
3883164
I have always purchased the Summer Wine episodes from amazon.co.uk and feel the organizing and packages are better.  I know the episode numbers and years are subject to question having read many reviews.  My last purchase was of Series 23 & 24 (23 & 24 are printed on the package), about 2 years ago.  An excellent review by D. Williams (of West Bromwich, West Midlands, England) lists each episode and refers to DVD 23 as Series 22.  and of course DVD 24 as Series 23.  Probably more information then anyone wants.  D. Williams shows DVD 23 as being vintage 2001.  For a reference the fifth show was dated 29 April 2001 and titled "Enter the Hawk" with Keith Clifford as Billy Hardcastle.  There are 4 DVDs covering the two series which came in the set.

The referenced review states there are only 8 series left (4 DVD boxsets), we would like to have them released, why not now?  I ask. The local PBS station in West Florida no longer shows the series, but the PBS in Knoxville Tennessee is currently showing the series and the shows are all new to me.
4065207
I bought this set without fully reviewing it first, which was a huge mistake.  I just read the packaging as being the ORIGINAL trilogy episodes which I took as being the original theater releases and not the special edition episodes with added scenes and graphics.  I am not a fan of the prequels at all, but do like Episodes 4, 5 and 6.  I am somewhat glad I have these on a Blu-Ray/DVD set,  but would been happier with the the proper original releases.  Lucas Films and those who market Star Wars films went from being brilliant to being awful and deceiving.
1065690
I like how is package and the quality. I don't like the fact that the book is not a printed book.
584473
I share the same reviews with the other people.  A series is just that, however, one episode alone - no way.  The other sets do indeed have more than one d/v/d enclosed.  I carefully scanned the sellers' to make sure I wasn't just buying one episode from a series.  I received this through the post today, immediately thinking "...hmmm, it's a bit small..." and annoyed after opening it with one title and one disc (was looking forward in watching 1-3 of them at least).  I believed right away someone was pulling a fast one - after browsing them all, and reading these reviews, it sure is just the one episode - bizarre.  I'm yet to watch it, so can't recall what it's about even as it has been over 15 years now!  Incidentally, why was there the only one episode and is series(!) 15 the same?  Thanks...
4384118
I had previously bought series 1-6.  Was excited to get series 7. Unfortunately series 7 was NOT anything new it was series 6 in a package that said it was series 7.  ????????