Picket Fences - Season 1
starring: Tom Skerritt, Kathy Baker, Costas Mandylor, Lauren Holly, Holly Marie Combs
directed by: Mel Damski, Donald Petrie, Alan Myerson
directed by: Mel Damski, Donald Petrie, Alan Myerson
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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: 11556
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: September 18, 1992
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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
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- Awesome -Truly amazing. I remember when I was twelve watching Picket Fences and playing tag football in the ... Read More
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- 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 ... Read More
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- A very great showWhen Picket Fences began airing on CBS, I was a "tween"- the show, though, was amazing. I remember Friday ... Read More
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- Finally!Finally! Picket Fences out on DVD. It was all I hoped for, the price was great and it arrived quickly. ... Read More
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- 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, ... Read More
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