Great Retro TV Show
This set is worth the money, as the video and audio quality are very nice. The stories may seem dated and somewhat contrived to newer viewers because the main character needs to begin and complete a full scale investigation within half an hour. Many of us who grew up with this formula won't mind, and will get a big kick out of the nostalgic look and feel of the show. Watching these shows can actually prove quite relaxing, as it brings one back to a much simpler time when Cops were Cops, Bimbos were Bimbos, and the Bad Guys always got their just deserts.
Another TV gem starring Rod Cameron
Very much in the mold of another Rod Cameron TV vehicle, Coronado 9, the earlier State Trooper (1956-57) stars Cameron as chief investigator for the Nevada State Police. Tough and frequently imaginative as to the nature of criminal acts, the syndicated show is pleasingly direct--a prime example of the 30-minute TV drama. Plots are ostensibly taken from Nevada State Police files, and run the gamut, from murder and kidnapping to extortion and fraud--and even to a fellow who dresses like an old lady, walks into stores and pulls out a ginormous .45. Some of the episodes have that kind of perverse whimsy; you'll enjoy, for instance, the desert family (low tide at the gene pool) who steal uranium prospectors' claims by inviting the hapless guys inside the cabin and then dropping them a looong way through a trapdoor hidden beneath a rug. Many episodes were written by Lawrence Kimble, a prolific TV dramatist of the time whose work is especially concise.
As with Coronado 9, Rod...
can't wait to own this.
I am so delighted that both State Trooper and Coronado 9 have been released together cause now I know exactly where I'm gonna spend my January allowance! I have recently grown to love so much of this old 1950s and 60s tv that I am almost overnight an avid collector of just about anything that is available. I was not even born when these shows went out but the style and era in which these were made makes me wish I had lived way back then, if only to watch tv all day! Rod Cameron is a hero of the old school and not one of the types of modern day shows who choose to sit around behind a desk and try to work things out with a pencil. I hope and pray that the guys at Timeless release lots more of these classic shows and I for one will collect them all, and thats a promise.
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