| PRODUCT DETAILS | | Cannon - Season One, Vols. 1-2 |  | |
Cannon - Season One, Vols. 1-2
The weekly adventures of Frank Cannon, an overweight, balding ex-cop with a deep voice and expensive tastes in culinary pleasures, who becomes a high-priced private investigator. Since Cannon's girth didn't allow for many fist-fights and gun battles (although there were many), the series substituted car chases and high production values in their place.
Manufacturer: Paramount
Price Range: $49.99 - $64.99
 Cannon - Season One, Vols. 1-2
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| User Reviews |  | Conrad's Urbane, Gourmet Private Detective Comes To DVD
rating: 5
William Conrad had been around for quite some time before he became best known for being private eye Frank Cannon in the Quinn Martin television series, "Cannon." He had been an actor, producer, and director for movies and television shows, and was best known for three programs that used his voice only - being the voice of Matt Dillon on the radio version of "Gunsmoke," the narrator of the classic cartoon series "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle," and the narrator of another Quinn Martin series, "The Fugitive."
When Martin looked for someone to play an overweight, but very capable private eye in Cannon, he could have picked a better actor than Conrad. Even though he was best known for his vocal talents, Conrad made Cannon a flesh and blood character - charming, humorous, compassionate, and on occasion, violent. For once, Conrad had a chance to show as much talent on camera as he had off camera. And with Martin's penchant for creating solid detective dramas, Cannon became a very popular series.
Conrad would have other notable gigs after Cannon, the emcee of CBS' Thanksgiving Day festivities, the DA in "Jake and the Fatman," and for too brief a time, "Nero Wolfe," but he will always be remembered at the portly detective who drove a Mark IV, had a car phone (very rare at the time), and who knew as much about cooking as he did the law.
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Keep Them Coming!
rating: 5
Alright the 2nd half of the first season.Really looking forward to this release as well as the rest of the series.My only complaint with the first release is that CBS did not give the master tapes any remastering and it's kinda blurry.All the other CBS releases are perfect picture but not the Season 1 Vol 1.Very upset about that.
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