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PR TV Shows: Adam-12, Designing Women, Simon and Simon Available August

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Aug 11 for Adam-12: Season Three starring Martin Milner and Kent McCord. Also Aug 11 is Designing Women: The Complete Second Season starring Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts and Jean Smart. Simon and Simon: Season Three with Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker will be available Aug 18.

Shout! Factory August 2009 DVD Releases

August 11 - Adam-12: Season Three
In the Seventies, Pete Malloy (Martin Milner) and Jim Reed (Kent McCord), two intrepid police officers guarded the streets of Los Angeles in the iconic police drama Adam-12. Season Three offers more drama and excitement as the officers fight crime alongside Academy Award®-winning actresses Jodie Foster and Margaret O'Brien as well as other notable guest stars such as comedian Norm Cosby and child actor Butch Patrick (The Munsters).



Created and produced by Jack Webb, Adam-12 was a spin-off of the popular NBC-TV series Dragnet and similarly portrayed incidents and situations that were based on real LAPD cases. Brimming with gritty realism, the groundbreaking show was one of the first realistic portrayals of LAPD life to air for seven seasons on NBC from 1968–1975. Adam-12 is currently on syndication on Nick At Nite and TV Land. The 4-DVD box set priced to own for $34.99.

August 11 – Designing Women: The Complete Second Season
The staff of Sugarbaker & Associates returns as the sizzle and shake of the South when Designing Women: The Complete Second Season, featuring all 22 laugh-packed episodes, arrives on DVD. Suzanne (Delta Burke), Julia (Dixie Carter), Mary Jo (Annie Potts) and Charlene (Jean Smart) bring their sexy, strong and smart Southern style to the Sugarbaker interior design firm. Personalities collide, power struggles ensue, egos are bruised – it's all in a day's work. Having joined the women midway through the first season, Anthony Bouvier (Meshach Taylor) continues on as a series regular and part of the Sugarbaker team as the ex-con with a heart of gold turned male sounding board.



This second season also offers the delightful presence of the "just a little off the beam" feisty widow Bernice Clifton (Alice Ghostley). Season Two guest stars include Hal Holbrook (Evening Shade) and Gerald McRaney (Jericho). Created by Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, Designing Women aired on CBS from 1986 to 1993. Designing Women: The Complete Second Season is priced to own at $44.99

August 18 – Simon & Simon: Season Three
Explosions, bar fights, stakeouts, bikini-clad blondes, car chases and more explosions – behind these action-packed adventures were the remarkable Simon brothers, primetime's favorite sibling private eyes.



Portrayed by Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker, Simon & Simon: Season Three finds A.J. (Parker) and Rick Simon (McRaney) tracking down missing radio personalities, crooked magicians, gamblers, horse smugglers and murderers. Season Three also introduces viewers to Detective Marcel "Downtown" Brown (Tim Reid) in addition to special guest stars James Avery, Michael Constantine, Mario Lopez and John Reilly.

Created by Philip De Guere, the producer of NCIS, JAG and Max Headroom, the deluxe 6-DVD box set will include all 23 original one-hour episodes from 1983-1984. Simon & Simon: Season Three is priced to own at $49.99.

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Posted by: News Editor - July 18, 2009, 10:04 am - PR
Keywords: television

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