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Here’s some long-awaited news for fans of small-screen police pro­ce­du­rals: Police Story, the plat­inum stan­dard of the genre, is finally mak­ing its debut on DVD.  Shout Factory will release a box set of the show’s first sea­son on September 6th.  For those not famil­iar with the title, Police Story was the cre­ation of leg­endary author Joseph Wambaugh and was an anthol­ogy show that brought pre­vi­ously unseen amounts of real­ism and psy­chol­ogy to the genre.  This disc will col­lect all of the Season 1 episodes plus the show’s pilot film, Slow Boy, and will also fea­ture extras that involve show cre­ator Wambaugh.  Read on for all the cop’s-eye view details…

Police Story: Season One

Featuring 21 Original Episodes from 1973–74, Television Pilot Film,

Movie of the Week and All-New Interview with Series Creator


AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME ON HOME ENTERTAINMENT SHELVES, OWN THIS COLLECTIBLE 6-DVD SET SEPTEMBER 6, 2011
FROM SHOUT! FACTORY

Created by Joseph Wambaugh (The Onion Field), ex-cop-turned-author, Police Story is an anthol­ogy series detail­ing the lives of LAPD offi­cers in a col­lec­tion of real­is­tic and gritty accounts of what it meant to be a cop in 1970s Los Angeles . The series became the arche­type for many crit­i­cally acclaimed shows that fol­lowed, includ­ing Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life On The Street.

On September 6, 2011, Shout! Factory will bring the long-awaited Police Story: Season One 6-DVD set to home enter­tain­ment shelves nation­wide. Boasting 21 orig­i­nal episodes from the com­plete first sea­son (1973–74), this highly col­lectible DVD set is packed with spe­cial bonus fea­tures, includ­ing all-new inter­view with series cre­ator and pro­duc­tion con­sul­tant Joseph Wambaugh, pilot film and movie of the week.  A must have for clas­sic TV fans and col­lec­tors, Police Story: Season One DVD set is priced to own at $39.97 SRP.

Throughout its five-year (1973–1978) run on net­work tele­vi­sion, this Primetime Emmy® Award-winning series dis­tin­guished itself from its pre­de­ces­sors by a multi-dimensional por­trayal of its pro­tag­o­nists — these cops were flawed, not car­toon­like heroes. From week to week, grip­ping episodes addressed com­plex issues such as police cor­rup­tion and the chal­lenge of lead­ing a cop’s life.

With no reg­u­lar cast, the show fea­tured dif­fer­ent stars each week, as well as a rotat­ing act­ing ensem­ble includ­ing James Farentino (Jesus Of Nazareth), Tony Lo Bianco (The French Connection), Don Meredith (NFL Monday Night Football), Vic Morrow (Combat!), and Laraine Stephens (Matt Helm). Season One stars also included Ed Asner, Angie Dickinson, Kurt Russell and Dean Stockwell.

DVD Bonus Features:

  • “Slow Boy”: Pilot Film
  • “Big John Morrison”: Movie of the Week
  • Cop Talk: New inter­view with show cre­ator, author and for­mer LAPD Detective Sergeant Joseph Wambaugh
Police Story: Season 1 Police Story: Season 1

Created by ex-cop-turned-author Joseph Wambaugh (The Onion Field), Police Story is an anthol­ogy series detail­ing the lives of LAPD offi­cers in a col­lec­tion of real­is­tic and gritty accounts of what it meant to be a cop in 1970s Los Angeles. The series became the arche­type for many crit­i­cally acclaimed shows that fol­lowed, includ­ing Hill Street Blues, NYPD Blue and Homicide: Life On The Street. The series dis­tin­guished itself from its pre­de­ces­sors by a mul­ti­di­men­sional por­trayal of its pro­tag­o­nists — these cops were flawed, not car­toon­like heroes. From week to week, grip­ping episodes addressed dif­fi­cult issues such as police cor­rup­tion and the stresses and hell that can come with lead­ing a cop’s life. With no reg­u­lar cast, the show fea­tured dif­fer­ent stars each week, as well as a rotat­ing act­ing ensem­ble includ­ing James Farentino (Jesus Of Nazareth), Tony Lo Bianco (The French Connection), Don Meredith (NFL Monday Night Football), Laraine Stephens (Matt Helm) and Vic Morrow (Combat!). Season One stars included Ed Asner, Lloyd Bridges, Angie Dickinson, Dean Stockwell and Kurt Russell.