I received my DVDs of "Murdoch Mysteries" - Season 4 today.

Murdoch Mysteries is a Canadian mystery series, set in Toronto in the late 19th century. Detective Murdoch solves crimes in Sherlock Holmes style, often applying "new inventions" during his investigations, which are the prototype of today's forensic techniques. He's assisted by the female ( Read more... )

Part 2 arrived yesterday, containing episodes 13-26 on 3 discs. No additional extras except the audio commentaries.

The booklet contains in addition to episode synopses short biographies on Catherine Disher, Nigel Bennett (they even noted his appearance in the German co-production of Sea Wolf), John Kapelos, Deborah Duchene and Natsuko Ohama (Ger' ( Read more... )

After some delivery issues, part 1 of the German season 2 Forever Knight DVD set arrived today. There were some unexpected surprises: The DVDs contain the same extras as the American DVDs, all subtitled in German. PLUS: They put the blooper reel on the DVDs. It's a very poor quality, transferred from a video tape, but a nice treat nonetheless. I'm ( Read more... )

All good things take their time: Finally season 2 of Forever Knight is being released in Germany on May 27, 2011.

Part 1
Part 2

Whoever designed the cover, had no idea who the Captain is in season 2, but I'm happy that we get the DVDs after all. :)

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"Passage" is a documentary about John Rae (1813-1893), The Hudson's Bay Company doctor, who solved the two great mysteries of the 19th Century: the fate of the doomed Sir John Franklin expedition, and the location of the last navigable link in the North West Passage ( Read more... )