DVD BOX SETS Alias Smith and Jones DVD Collection

Title: Alias Smith and Jones DVD Collection
Description: Alias Smith and Jones DVD Collection. The Complete Collection of the hit TV Series on DVD.
Genre: DVD BOX SETS
Price: $99.99
$49.95
Language: English
   
       

Limited Edition DVD Box Set
Every Memorable Episode in One Huge Collection - Lowest Price Online Guaranteed


Alias Smith and Jones is a Western television series on ABC from 1971 to 1973. It starred Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes and Ben Murphy as Kid Curry, a pair of Western outlaws trying to reform.

When Duel died suddenly on December 31, 1971 (reportedly of a self-inflicted gunshot), an attempt was made to continue the series with another actor, Roger Davis, in the role of Heyes. The series continued for another seventeen episodes, but never regained its popularity after the loss of Duel. Davis first voiced the intro theme, which explained the storyline. When he was hired to play Heyes/Smith, Ralph Story assumed the intro narration. In the final season the intro referred to Heyes and Curry as "Kansas cousins". Two episodes that season also made reference to them as cousins.

Alias Smith and Jones began with a made-for-TV movie of the previous year called The Young Country, about con artists in the Old West. It was produced, written and directed by Roy Huggins, who served as executive producer of AS&J and, under the pseudonym of John Thomas James, at least shared the writing credit on most episodes. Roger Davis starred as Stephen Foster Moody, and Pete Duel had the secondary but significant role of Honest John Smith, while Joan Hackett played a character called Clementine Hale, the same name as a part played on two AS&J episodes by Sally Field. This pilot was rejected, but Huggins was given a second chance and, joined by Glen A. Larson, developed Alias Smith and Jones. Both The Young Country and the series pilot movie originally aired as ABC Movie of the Week entries.

Alias Smith and Jones was made in the same spirit as many other American TV series, from Huggins' own The Fugitive to Renegade, about men on the run crisscrossing America and getting involved in the personal lives of the people they meet. One major difference was that Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry were guilty of the crimes that they were accused of committing, but were trying to turn over a new leaf.

The series was inspired by the success of the 1969 film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford. There were a number of connecting themes: one of the heroes was named Kid Curry which was also the nickname of Harvey Logan, an associate of the real Butch Cassidy (unlike the TV version however, the real Kid Curry was a cold-blooded killer).

The series also featured a group of outlaws called the Devil's Hole Gang which was based on the Hole in the Wall Gang from where Cassidy recruited most of his outlaws.

However, in order to give them an element of sympathy, Heyes and Curry were presented as men who avoided bloodshed (though Curry did once kill in self-defense) and trying to reform.

Operating primarily in Wyoming Territory, Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry are the two most successful outlaws in the history of the west. However, the west is starting to catch up with the modern world: safes are becoming harder to crack, trains more difficult to stop, and posses more skilled at tracking them down.

Heyes, the leader of the Devil's Hole Gang, falls out with the other members and he and Curry decide to "get out of this business". Since they have never killed anyone, they qualify for pardons. Through an old acquaintance, Sheriff Lom Trevors (James Drury in the pilot, variably by Mike Road and John Russell in the series, due to the sporadic nature of the character's appearances), they manage to contact the territorial governor. He agrees to grant them amnesty, but cannot do so openly without angering the public. He therefore makes a deal with them: if they can stay out of trouble for a considerable but unspecified period of time ("until the governor feels we deserve it") and not tell anyone about their arrangement, they will be cleared of all charges. Until then, they will still be wanted ("That's a good deal?").

However, the straight and narrow path is not easily traveled. Heyes and Curry (now calling themselves Joshua Smith and Thaddeus Jones) often find themselves tangling with lawmen, bounty hunters and operatives of the Bannerman Detective Agency (a satire of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency), not to mention other outlaws. To get out of these sticky situations, they must rely on Heyes' silver tongue, Curry's fast draw, and occasionally a little help from their friends from both sides of the law.

What an amazing DVD Set for the Alias Smith and Jones Fan! 

ALL 50 Uncut Episodes - 3 Seasons on 12 DVDS

  • Excellent video and audio quality
  • 100% in chronological order
  • Commercial free and unedited
  • This box set contains all 12 DVDs with Custom Artwork.
  • These DVDs are region free so they will play on any DVD player Worldwide and DVD-Rom, X-Box or PS2 worldwide.

These are brand new, in stock and ready to ship.  On Sale for a Limited Time only.

 

User comments

Whether you choose to make a clean breast it or not, quality web happy writing does actually help to begin you as an connoisseur in your niche. Thoughtful, all right in print comfortable will always victory out over the tons of less than informative crap cursory for information that clutters so many websites. Your web visitors are always looking for moral information, and if you can provide it to them through exceptional web at ease text, then your website will stop out from the take it easy. Alias Smith and Jones Many website owners are at a debit when it comes to only if benefit gratify for their visitors and possibility customers. Many believe that they do not have the time or talent for web comfort symbols and/or that getting substance formed is just too dear.

Nothing could be further than from the candor - there are abundant ways to take good comfortable for your website without writing it yourself. It is valid, though, that the best gist is that which is sole and created specially for your noteworthy . The Internet is a usually interactive forum, mainly along with the advent of a tangled web 2. 0 sites, next dwell in darling to cut their opinions and erudition. You can make the most of on this very actuality by appealing your visitors and clients to part their acquaintance and experiences.

If your site gets enough interaction, it can become enormously popular most important to its being viewed as the expert site for your distinct recess. However, you quieten need to get the orb rolling by adjoin some expert web contents. If you are a intermediate proper critic, web subject matter writing should not be too arduous for you. Just stock in care that relations on the Internet like to think as if you are tongue to them. So there is rejection requirement to survive tremendously conventional.

This is the top off arena in support of allowing your personality shine from side to side. However, if web content writing seems like some great figure of torture and you just cannot think sitting d. ownhearted for a half hour or so and typing a few hundred words, possibly it may be time to explore other options. Alias Smith and Jones complete dvd box set series on DVDs One of the best options for getting superiority information on your junglesite is to hire a supplier for your web satisfied prose needs. There are literally hundreds of them available - a prompt search on the Internet for terminology such as "article poet" or "web content essayist" will certify to that fact.

Once you find a service provider that you are willing to work with, be sure that you both get it the provisions of the settlement and what you require in take forward.

Leave a comment