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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543409311
Format: AC-3, Box set, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: June 19, 2007
Running Time: 1055 minutes
Sales Rank: 10739
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1992
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Description:
PICKET FENCES Season 1 is the first season of the critically acclaimed series from creator David E. Kelly ('Ally McBeal', 'Boston Legal') starring Tom Skerrit and Kathy Baker, in the story of a sherriff and his family in Rome, Wisconsin, a town where things never seem to be business as usual. This long-awaited fan favorite is available on 6 discs.
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While Ally McBeal garnered more attention, Picket Fences garnered more acclaim. It was justified. Set in Wisconsin, the Emmy-winning drama plays like The Andy Griffith Show by way of The Commish. The focus is on small-town life from a law and order perspective. The action revolves around Sheriff Jimmy Brock (Tom Skerritt), his physician wife Jill (Kathy Baker), and their children, Kimberly (Holly Marie Combs), Matthew (Justin Shenkarow), and Zack (Adam Wylie). Storylines alternate between personal issues, like puberty and pre-marital sex, and criminal cases. As Matthew quips, 'Things happen around here.' At city hall, Jimmy works with officers Kenny (Costas Mandylor) and Max (Lauren Holly), dispatcher Ginny (Zelda Rubinstein), and coroner Carter Pike (Kelly Connell), who likes to exclaim, 'Let me exhume the body!' Judge Henry Bone (Ray Walston) and attorney Douglas Wambaugh (Fyvush Finkel) dominate the courthouse. Cases include such tragi-comic crimes as a serial bather ('Frank, the Potato Man') and a cupid killer ('Be My Valentine'), but serious issues also come into play, such as assisted suicide ('Sacred Hearts') and incest ('Nuclear Meltdowns'). Unlike Twin Peaks, to which it was sometimes compared, Picket Fences could be heavy-handed, but piety never trumped entertainment, and Baker, Skerritt, Walston, and Finkel all won Emmys for their work.
Notable guests are a hallmark of every David E. Kelley production, from Chicago Hope to Boston Legal (and beyond). The first season attracted Carnivále's Michael J. Anderson ('Mr. Dreeb Comes to Town'), Evening Shade's Michael Jeter ('Frog Man'), and Man of La Mancha's Richard Kiley ('Thanksgiving'). The series also features one of the last of the old-fashioned orchestral scores, Stewart Levin's distinctive piano theme. Picket Fences ran for four seasons on CBS (when Kelley left between seasons three and four, ratings took a nosedive). Afterwards, Combs joined Charmed, Baker joined Kelley's Boston Public, and Holly joined NCIS. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Awesome
-Truly amazing. I remember when I was twelve watching Picket Fences and playing tag football in the hallway. I have tried many different places and finally found it on amazon.com. The show has everything that I remembered and more. The show isn't afraid of sharing difficult issues with the viewers. My only problem was the one disc didn't want to play properly.
Rating:  - Picket Fences - a must see!!!
This is an all around GREAT sequence, one I am hoping to see the second and all seasons. It covers all areas, sometimes funny,sometimes very serious, but always of a subject matter that we all face in our day to day existance. The husband is the town sheriff, the wife is the town doctor. Their kids are what we would all like our own kids to be like.
Rating: - A very great show
When Picket Fences began airing on CBS, I was a "tween"- the show, though, was amazing. I remember Friday nights with my BFF watching this show and loving it. We loved Max and Kenny- and really liked Holly Marie Combs.
I faithfully followed as much as I could considering that CBS kept switching it around from a Fri to a Wed, to even a Tuesday night show- and I remember when it made the TV Guide Save these Shows list.
Years later, my parents began watching The Practice, and when they told me it was by David E Kelley, I gave that a try and loved it. And loved Ally McBeal, also. But I always wished for Picket Fences to come to DVD.
Finally, it did- my brother ordered it immediately for me and we began watching it when the package arrived. Becasue he was a good 6 years younger than I, he had missed out on Picket Fences during it's CBS run.
We sat down and watched the first couple of shows- and for me- it was like welcoming an old friend to my house. And he was rather astonished that such big issues were discussed in this show given it's time period.
But, both of us really enjoyed the viewing on DVD.
This show had so much charming and quirky things going for it- it was an aquired taste- and yes there are things that make so much more sense watching it now as opposed to when I was a tween- but all in all this show is great. We need the rest of the seasons released soon...
Rating: - Finally!
Finally! Picket Fences out on DVD. It was all I hoped for, the price was great and it arrived quickly. A great show - I can't wait for the other seasons to come out.
Rating: - I love this show...When is Season Two coming out?....
I love this show, and was thrillled when they released it on DVD. I bought it immediately when it was released, and had a "Picket Fences" marathon. It proved to be as fulfilling, if not more, than when I used to watch it on TV, in its original run.
That was a year ago. I am still waiting for Season Two to come out. Could someone at Amazon at least let us know when the next season will appear? It would have a huge audience, I'm sure.
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