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Posted: March 22nd, 2002.Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment announces the VHS & DVD release of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation – Season 1: Part 1
Release date: 01 July 2002
Time to break out a fresh pair of latex gloves and seal the living room withincident tape!
Cult forensics drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation series one is out to own on video and DVD, with the unorthodox Gil Grissom and his team using any scientific means necessary to secure the evidence required for a conviction.This highly acclaimed series produced by Alliance Atlantis and aired on Channel5 gripped the crime-obsessed public in the UK and the US – where it has even overtaken the no.1 show ER in the ratings and lives up to its hype.
‘CSI is shaping up to be this year’s Sopranos’ – Sunday Times
The DVD includes: exclusively designed menu screens with 3d animated virtual labs for you to browse, interviews with all main cast members, executive producer Jerry Bruckheimer, Anthony E Zuiker (Executive Producer and Creator) and Elizabeth Devine (Technical Advisor – Forensic scientist) and make-up artists.
On DVD the first 3 disc set, covering episodes 1-12, will be released on 1st July 2002. DVD box set: £39.99.
On VHS the series will be divided up into 2 x 3 VHS sets, episodes 1-12 released on July 1st 2002. VHS box set: £29.99
‘I haven’t missed an episode. Ask me, ask me anything’: Quentin Tarantino
Series synopsis
Producer Jerry Bruckheimer, a film veteran whose name is synonymous with explosive big screen action (Pearl Harbour, Black Hawk Down,Armageddon) puts his stamp on series television with the premiere of a new and different crime drama. British Director Danny Cannon (Young Americans,Judge Dredd)who combines experience of cinematic & TV drama direction creates the film noir, twilight look of the show.
Dark and uncompromising, CSI’s plots refuse to glamorise either the crimes or those who solve them: murder is a seedy, gritty affair. The characters have a dynamic relationship with each other and a commitment to their gruesome work. The real stars of the show are the unflinchingly recreated crime scenes themselves and the weird, but entirely genuine, forensic procedures – from using super glue to reveal fingerprints on difficult surfaces to burning pig carcasses to gain an insight into cases of spontaneous combustion. The challenge for Gil and his team is to establish the chain of events, the cause of death and point the finger at the guilty. A filmic, Hollywood touch gives the viewer a bullet-path view of each victim and crime – in flashback we are given the opportunity to build on the evidence with the team as each murder mystery unfolds in shocking and realistic detail.
Gil Grissom (William Petersen) is the 17-year veteran who leads the investigators working the graveyard shift for the Criminalistics Bureau in Las Vegas. Under Grissom’s watchful eye, the CSI team uses both cutting-edge scientific methods and old-fashioned savvy to solve their crimes, driven to succeed by the pact they have made with the public they serve – “Let no victim say we did not try.”
His crime lab team includes Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), a street-smart forensic expert who balances her love for the job with her devotion as a single parent to her young daughter; Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan), a sharp analyst with a passion for his job, yet with an attraction to gambling he knows he has to beat; Nick Stokes (George Eads), who’s got the charm and the chops, and craves the number-one spot on the board for clearing cases; and Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox), the newest member of the team, Grissom’s trusted former co-worker who sometimes plays fast and loose with the rules to get the job done right. The CSI team often clashes with Captain Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), their former chief, now assigned to the homicide division.
News page content input by Dominic Robinson, 2002.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.