NYPD Blue Season 3

DVD Wholesale Quick Overview:

The third season of ABC-TV’s long-running series “NYPD Blue” (1995-96) continues the tradition of superb police drama established during the initial season. This was the first full season with Jimmy Smits playing Detective Bobby Simone. There are budding romances between Simone and Detective Diane Russell (Kim Delaney) and between Detectives James Martinez (Nicholas Turturro) and Adrienne Lesniak (Justine Miceli); meanwhile, Detective Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and ADA Sylvia Costas (Sharon Lawrence) settle into married life, and tragedy strikes close to home for Sipowicz, causing him to resume some of his former bad habits. Throughout the 15th Squad detectives’ many personal travails, they must work to solve a myriad of tough, difficult criminal cases that cross their desks every week.

There’s very little I can add to the steady stream of high praise that the first three seasons of this show has received. Every episode features a superbly written story that’s taut, tense, grittily realistic, and acted to perfection by every cast member.

Both the 6-DVD set and the streamed video from Amazon are technically excellent, with top-notch video and audio quality. Episodes are shown in their original 4:3 aspect ratio. Video is clean, crisp, sharp, and imbued with vivid natural colors. Audio is in the original 2-channel stereo format that’s also clean and bright.

“NYPD Blue” is the very first TV series I ever bought on DVD. Since then, I’ve watched it many times and have always derived tremendous entertainment from it. Highly recommended.

– Mike Powers

DVD Wholesale Main Features:

Actors: Austin Majors, Farrel Levy, Robert J. Doherty, Dick Lowry, Alan Rosenberg
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Subtitled, Full Screen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.1)
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Dubbed: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 4
Rated: NR-Not Rated
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Release Date: February 21, 2006
Run Time: 1014 minutes
ASIN: B000BZISRG