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Brooklyn South: The Complete Series | 
 enlarge | Directors: Elodie Keene, James Whitmore Jr., Jean De Segonzac, Marc Buckland, Michael W. Watkins
Actors: Jon Tenney, Michael Deluise, Gary Basaraba, James Sikking, Yancy Butler
Studio: A&E Home Video
Category: DVD
List Price: $99.95
Buy New: $12.78
You Save: $87.17 (87%)
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Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 37495
Format: Box Set, Color, Dvd-video, Full Screen, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 6
Running Time: 990 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.5
ISBN: 0767057899
UPC: 733961710144
EAN: 9780767057899
ASIN: B0000C5RPT
Theatrical Release Date: September 22, 1997
Release Date: October 28, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: BRAND NEW AND FACTORY SEALED
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.com
Though its pedigree was top-drawer, the fine CBS police series Brooklyn South never really clicked with primetime audiences (or, according to critics of the network, never got a chance to click). All the same, the program offered interesting possibilities for its famous creators to decant old wine into new bottles. Steven Bochco and his lead writer on NYPD Blue, David Milch, produced this show about uniform cops working a tough New York City beat while coping with the professional and personal fallout of sundry catastrophes. If the series didn't establish, as NYPD Blue did, a new benchmark in stylish television from the start, it certainly shocked audiences into high-stakes drama with a premiere in which several key characters are slaughtered during an ambush by a rooftop sniper. This made for a hell of a way to introduce a series cast, i.e., by establishing most of them as survivors, but Milch and Bochco made inspired use of ethical and emotional ripples from that horrifying event to inform the rest of Brooklyn South's first (and only) season's storylines. Not surprisingly, Brooklyn South's ensemble approach and busy episodes (comprised of multiple, character-driven stories) most closely resemble the form and balanced tones of Bochco's classic Hill Street Blues. As such, each installment can be as ghoulishly funny (Michael DeLuise's officer Phil Roussakoff, moonlighting at a funeral home, causes some consternation when he takes a nap in a coffin) as it is brutal (the usual murders, suicides, etc.) and emotionally stark (love as a sure path to despair). Brooklyn South had its problems (too many characters), which were compounded by network ambivalence. This DVD set, however, will keep an abbreviated but worthy project from disappearing into oblivion. --Tom Keogh
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| Customer Reviews: Read 13 more reviews...
 brooklyn south September 27, 2008
dvd bill
buyer beware is right. i bought brand new from amazon the first time and like the person said before me all the disc had fingerprints and marks on them. the picture would begin to break up and stop. i sent the set back to amazon and received the new package. all the disc have fingerprints and marks on them. I have not had time to play them yet.I will report on how the dvds play. I am very upset with the producers of dvds. they do not check the quailty of the product. but to amazons credit they do make it right when you have a problem with a purchase.
Buyer beware - defective DVD's June 25, 2008
Car Guy (Phoenix, AZ USA)
This is a good show that has been ill-served by defective copies. I bought two new, sealed copies of "Brooklyn South" from Amazon sellers and each disc in each set is marked and smeared. Maybe it's a bad coating, I don't know, but the discs are unplayable. The best bet may be to purchase a "Like New" or "Very Good" copy; at least those have been inspected and perhaps proven to be playable.
 SOUTH BROOKLYN January 23, 2008
Enid Small (CALGARY CANADA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really enjoyed the police-series, SOUTH BROOKLYN, and noticed that many of the players went on to other tv series.
IT WAS JUST A PITY THAT THEY ONLY MADE THE ONE SERIES. AS THE CHARACTERS WERE WELL SKETCHED AND BELIEVABLE,AND THE STORY LINES CONSISTANT
B.B.WALMSLEY
Great Series June 14, 2007
Dominique
I picked this up from the Amazon marketplace brand new for about $5. What a great series; a shame that it lasted for such a short time. I suppose though, that if it had a long run then many of the series we have seen since would not have been so great. Pretty much every single actor in this show has been on another related popular TV series. Definitely worth a look.
 Average Police Drama April 12, 2007
Tyler Hendrick (Brooklyn, NY)
Well this will be short, but this is by no means a bad show. But being a huge fan of NYPD Blue, and Third Watch, i just feel like Brooklyn South is not as good as either one of them. I dont think the acting is all that good, nor do i think that the plots are all that good. But its still an interesting show worth the watch, if your a fan of Police Dramas
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