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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: UNIVERSAL STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAIN.
EAN: 0025195031776
Format: Box set, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Universal Studios
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Universal Studios
Region Code: 1
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Running Time: 1252 minutes
Sales Rank: 267
Studio: Universal Studios
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Journey to the Wild West in the sweeping, sensational epic drama Centennial: The Complete Series! Relive the grand hopes, dreams, loves, and adventures of generations of residents in Centennial, Colorado - from their risky attempts to establish a settlement in 1795 through the politics and power plays of the 20th century. With over 26 TV hours of content on DVD for the first time, this incredible set gives fans the opportunity to own the complete chronicle that showcases one of the finest casts ever assembled, including Richard Chamberlain, Robert Conrad, Timothy Dalton, Mark Harmon, Andy Griffith, Raymond Burr, Dennis Weaver, Lynn Redgrave, Sharon Gless, Stephanie Zimbalist, Sally Kellerman and many more. Based on James Michener’s best-selling novel, this Primetime Emmy®Award-nominated saga is a captivating look at the intertwining lives of the brave men and women in a fictional American town that endured the growing pains of a nation on the rise.
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A remarkably ambitious and engrossing project, this 1978 television miniseries ran 26-and-a-half hours, cost a then-enormous $25 million, and involved 4 directors, 5 cinematographers, and somewhere in the neighborhood of 100 speaking parts. Based on James Michener's panoramic bestseller about the settling of the American West--as reflected in the history of a fictional town called Centennial, Colorado--the story begins in the late 18th century and ends with a typical 20th century conflict over land usage. Centennial, however, largely concentrates on various memorable frontiersmen, trappers, Indians, ranchers, cowboys, and farmers from long ago. Richard Chamberlain shines as the pioneer Alexander McKeag, Robert Conrad does some of his best work as French-Canadian Pasquinel, and performances by Alex Karras, Chad Everett, Sally Kellerman, Raymond Burr, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, and Dennis Weaver effectively add to a tapestry of adventure, tragedy, violence, and dubious Western progress. Produced at a time when TV networks were in the throes of acknowledging America's history of racial injustice, the program paints a starkly villainous portrait of opportunists exploiting and destroying Indians in the name of manifest destiny. While the project's great length might make one wary of diving in, Centennial is the sort of carefully paced drama that makes one care about the intertwined destinies of unique characters and how they illuminate America's past. --Tom Keogh
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This series covers a lot of years. Not the best series I have ever seen, but am glad to have this DVD anyway.
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I loved the book and the series follows it very closely. Would recomend it to anyone who read the book and history.
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If you were alive in the 1970's, you most likely remember settling down with the family and watching "Roots". That phenomenal mini-series was a landmark and a television event. Well close on it's heels came "Centennial". And while "Centennial" doesn't garner the press or praise "Roots" still generates three decades later...it should. "Centennial" doesn't play out like a conventional mini-series. It actually aired in similar fashion to "Prison Break" or "24". A season long series which aired weekly, ... Read More
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In a series that is some 20 hours long, it should have had chapter breaks (there are none!). The scenes are broken down into about 1 hour segments. This is far too long and it makes it impossible to pick up where you left off if you remove a disc (there are 6) for any reason. You can only get to within an hour of where you were. In an epic this long, they should have made a chapter break about every 10 minutes or so.
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This series is one of the great memories I have from growing up in the 70s.
It is hard to single out films and series from 1980 to the present day that give me the feel of watching Centennial, and I think I'd much rather buy the box set than wear on our familys few remaining working VCRs, and play our recordings from the rerun in early 1990, though I have been known to restore the VCRs when parts allow.
I was born in 1970 and this series with Richard Chamberlain and the How The West ... Read More
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