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| Jericho - The First Season | 
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| Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Sprague Grayden, Asley Scott, Gerald Mcraney, Pamela Reed
Studio: CBS DVD/Paramount Pictures
Category: DVD
List Price: $49.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  184 reviews
Sales Rank: 7905
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 964
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.6 x 1.6
MPN: PARD123914D
UPC: 097361239149
EAN: 0097361239149
ASIN: B000SQFC2C
Release Date: October 2, 2007
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Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/02/2007 Run time: 960 minutes
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Part-Lost, part-The Day After, television's first Code Orange serial drama very effectively taps into palpable post-9/11 dread. The residents of Jericho are literally in the dark when they are cut off from civilization in the wake of a nuclear blast. Has the United States been attacked? How many cities were destroyed? Was it terrorists, or something way more sinister? It is up to Johnston Green (an Emmy-worthy Gerald McRaney), the town's mayor (and series bedrock), to calm the community, keep its citizens from turning on each other, and protect them from predatory outsiders. Johnston's son, Jake (Skeet Ulrich), a "screw-up," returns home just prior to the blast following a mysterious five-year absence. Jake is at odds with his estranged father, who is running for reelection, and his brother, Eric (Kenneth Mitchell), his deputy. Nor is he welcomed back by his former girlfriend, Emily (Ashley Scott), now engaged to a man who is missing following the blast. With the fate of America in the balance, one would think that "small town problems" wouldn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy new world, but it is Jericho's human dramas that resonate most deeply. On the most cherished TV shows, characters come to feel like family. Jericho's characters come to feel like neighbors. Dale (Erik Knudson), the orphaned teenage outcast, forms an unexpected friendship with the town's spoiled mean girl, Skylar (Candace Bailey). Robert Hawkins (Lennie James), just arrived in town, introduces himself as a former cop from St. Louis, but his secret basement command center suggests otherwise. Gray Anderson (Michael Gaston), a mayoral candidate, politicizes the disaster to undermine Johnston. Stanley (Brad Beyer), a farmer, falls in love with his condescending IRS auditor from Washington, D.C. (Alicia Coppola). And Eric plans to leave his wife, Alice (Darby Stanchfield) for bartender Mary (Clare Carey). But at the heart of Jericho's first season is Jake's hard-earned redemption in his family's (and Emily's) eyes (suddenly, he's a regular MacGyver, able to perform a tracheotomy with a juice box straw!). Star Trek has its Trekkies/-ers and Laurel and Hardy its fraternal organization, the Sons of the Desert. Jericho has its "Nuts," who, in heroic It Takes a Village spirit, mounted a monumental campaign to rescue the series after it had been cancelled. Fans posted a barrage of videos on You Tube and deluged the studio with peanuts (the significance is explained in the season finale). "What is it about this town that has you so addicted to it?" someone asks Emily at one point. Just watch a couple of episodes, and you'll also be hooked. This First Season set should rally Jericho's army and inspire new recruits. --Donald Liebenson
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| Customer Reviews: Read 179 more reviews...
A pleasant surprise July 8, 2007
118 out of 122 found this review helpful
When I first saw the previews for Jericho, I thought "Another show trying to capitalize on Lost." Granted, I enjoy watching Lost and other serial dramas, but I wasn't sure if I would enjoy a post-nuclear drama. But I recorded it, and decided to give the show a try.
After watching the pilot, I wouldn't say I was hooked, but I was definitely engaged and was willing to see where the show went. It didn't take much longer before I was looking forward to watching Jericho each week. I became hooked on the characters, learning more about their backstories, and their present motivations. Who was Robert Hawkins, and how was he involved in the attacks? Why did Jake leave Jericho and where has he been all these years? Not to mention, who dropped the bomb and what was left of the nation?
Unfortunately, the Nielson ratings went their to support the show. And so CBS canceled the show. And then CBS was shocked to discover the massive protest that erupted. Fans sent over 20 tons of nuts to CBS in protest. Fans had also raised over $20,000 in charity to be sent to Greensburg, KS, a town wiped out by tornadoes.
Many viewers, like myself, watched through alternative means. We watched it later on our DVRs or online. And we weren't counted. When CBS actually looked that those numbers, CBS discovered that they had a solid show and renewed it. So, during the next season, CBS will air 7 new episodes to wrap up the show and if it does well, then more episodes will come.
For new viewers, I highly recommend this show. Watch it, see why so many fans fought so hard to bring it back. Don't be afraid to get hooked. Answers are given :)
Though provoking and Meaningful July 11, 2007
61 out of 65 found this review helpful
One of the few shows in many years that I have actually raced home each and every week to make sure I never missed a single episode!!
The acting abilities of the entire cast is amazing and will draw you in! Not to mention the plot (there actually is one!) and the storyline that will hold you enthralled once you do watch. Start from the beginning and fall in love with Jericho!
In a very subtle way it can also teach us all a thing or two about our friends, neighbors and how to work and live together as actual communities now.
GREAT SHOW July 4, 2007
45 out of 54 found this review helpful
This is a great show with an amazing story line and a fabulous cast. I never missed an episode and couldn't wait for the next one.
 Better than expected - stick with it August 25, 2007
21 out of 25 found this review helpful
I have to say when I first started watching this series I was somewhat disconcerted that after the bombs went off half the town seemed to spend the following weeks in the bar. It had me scratching my head that they didn't really seem to understand that their food was all about to dissapear and that this was only the beginnings of their problems. That life could not go back to its old patterns.
However, the second half of the season really pulled the series together and it became much more interesting. You start getting answers to questions set up in the first half of the season - the stakes become even higher if that is possible - till the season ends on a bang. It would be criminal not to have given the series at least a movie to finish it. (Still that's never stopped TV execs before with their rather random renewl schedules)
I had thought the days of fans being able to revive shows were over. The last example I remember was Farscape - but I'm glad that the Jericho fans had have success here and I hope the network does the series justice with a second season that lives up the second half of season 1.
Jericho is the best show on TV July 7, 2007
15 out of 16 found this review helpful
I rarely get involved in serial type TV programs because I can't seem to keep up with them, but Jericho had me hooked right from the start. I never missed an episode although I had to record it because nobody's home on Wednesday nights. The writing is terrific and the cast is wonderful! It's about how real people cope and hang onto their humanity when their entire world has changed - and how some people don't. It has everything - it's edge of your seat suspenseful, funny, sad and altogether fantastic.
I'm going to watch the re-runs this summer on Friday nights and I can't wait to see the new episodes!
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