Alias Smith and Jones: The Complete Series

Came well packaged. Love program.

The awesome thing about well done westerns is they stand the tests of time; since they were set in a time long since past. Fast draws, fast horses, fast women; dirty trails, dirty tricks, dirty deals. All set against the American code of the cowboys of the West. We never needed honest codes of living and role models more than today.

I watched this series on tv a long time ago and loved it then. I'm loving it now. Alias Smith and Jones are so funny and keep getting in tight spots but the way they get out of them is very entertaining.

I fell in love with this show from the first time I watched it on TV back in Spring of 2015. Couldn't decide which one of the main characters was the cutest; Ben Murphy as "Kid" Curry (alias Thaddeus Jones) or Pete Duel as Hannibal Heyes (alias Joshua Smith ). I decided I'll take them both. I was particularly impressed with "Kid" Curry's fast draw; Let some slime ball come along picking a fight with him just for the he** of it, thinking the Kid is a punk and will grovel at the bully's knees for mercy; The Kid, taking on the bully, eying him down, while the tough guy's hand is on this gun at the hip of his holster, and the Kid's right hand handing carefree down by his side...and faster than a blink of the bully's eye, the Kid's quick to draw his gun; sometimes he shoots it, and at whatever part of his adversary's body he deemed necessary to make his point; and other times, all is necessary for him to make his point is to whip it out faster than his opponent could even start to reach for his gun. Wooo weee...now that's fast! A few of my favorite episodes are: -- The Posse That Wouldn't Quit; starring Vera Miles (A rancher who assisted the outlaw cousins, Alias Smith and Jones from a posse of 13 bounty hunters looking to capture the boys for a 20,000 reward) -- The McCreedy Bust; staring Burl Ives ( A wealthy art collector who owns half the town; hires the duo for unethical purposes that could jeopardize their chances for pardon of all past crimes by the governor who says the pair must stay out of trouble for one year to get a clean slate. -- What's in it for Mia: starring Ida Lupino (A con artist who's used all her ill-gotten money to control an entire town, and destroys George Austin's newspaper (newspaper owner: played by Buddy Ebsen). Austin, with the help of Smith and Jones, Mia finally gets what 's coming to her. The DVDs to the set is without any problems; picture bright and clear, audio is great. Glad I made the purchase.

First I love this series and was glad to own it, now the DVDs are as good as the original series (old). The only thing that stopped me from giving 5 stars is that they should have marked each DVD in order you know 1 - 2 - 3 and so on , not just label season 1 on 3 disk and seasons 2 and 3 on the rest . I would have liked to watch the episodes in order as the many other series I own of other shows '

I'm like everyone else. This is my favorite tv show of all time. The writing, performance, and direction are second to none. Pete and Ben were made for each other. The guest stars always brought their A game. I will always mourn Pete Duel, he WAS Hannable Heyes. Brilliant actor. Roger did his best, but in this case, Pete was irreplaceable.

This was one of my favorite shows as a pre-teen, so I was excited to get the complete set for my birthday! When you watch something you loved as a kid, you often realize it was really pretty lame, but watching this series again was such a pleasure. Even my hubby, who rarely enjoys watching my old tv classics, enjoyed watching it! Reliving the loss of Pete Duel wasn't fun, but now that I'm over the resentment of having Roger Davis take over the part of Hannibal Hayes, I realized he did a much better job with the role than my broken hearted pre-teen heart gave him credit for back in the day. I'd recommend it to anyone who enjoyed the show originally or likes westerns in general.

Unfortunate ending: At age 30, Peter Duel blows his brains out after the second season. w/o Duel, the show fails. Duel had "it", that one indefinable trait that leads to stardom, fame and fortune. Destined to be the 1970's version of James Dean. A tragic loss. Buried at Oakwood Cemetery in Penfield NY, his childhood town.

I bought this for my dad. He's watched it many times over. Really enjoys it. Better quality than some of the older western series.

I fell in love with this series straightaway as a 12 year old in the early 1970s. For starters, not only does it have the most awesomely fun theme music imaginable but its weekly re-telling of who Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry really are ("They were the most successful outlaws in the West but they never shot anyone, which made our two cousins from Kansas very popular with everyone except the banks and the railroads" - what a great chat-up line !) puts one in great feel modus before the episode has even begun. The outlaws are then usually shown romping on horses through the glorious American West and, although they are shown griping and feeling hungry, the music inspires the viewers to believe that this poor, lonesome Lucky Luke-style life is just one ever-lasting holiday. I even knew a retired teacher who insisted that she only watched the series for the glorious scenery - yet I strongly suspect that she had a secret crush on the two young outlaws. Inspired by the 1969 movie "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" (which was in turn based on the real-live but always amicable outlaw Butch Cassidy) our Kansas heroes are so nice and decent that they often end up naively falling into trouble where they mean no harm. My only gripe is that the story writer (John Thomas James – a pen-name more fit for another genre of movies !) thought that plots that were as complicated as hell are better than ones with simple, emotional punches. Even the technology of dvds often doesn't leave one any the wiser – which is why I also recommend Sagala's and Bagwell's book to the film. The sad fact of this very popular series was that the original actor of Hannibal Heyes, Pete Duel, suffered from depression and accidentally shot himself after the 35th episode. He was immediately replaced by Roger Davies, who looked older and acted perhaps a little sleezily. I never had any qualms with the change but the series soon lost its popularity and was cancelled after the 50th episode.

Brings back a lot of memories

Excellent picture quality considering that the episodes are over 50 years old. I always loved this show as a kid and I'm very happy now that I can watch it all over again

A great entertaining boxset full of action and fun & shooting and getting out of tight spots