Doc Marin is, quite simply, one of the best British series ever. The doctor is unbelievably rude and surly and yet extremely likable. Louisa is beautiful and extremely relatable. The other characters are quirky and fun and interesting. We are loving every minute of this show and highly recommend it to anyone seeking something 'different'.
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I looked forward to reliving the China Beach collection, unfortunately I have so far been disappointed. The stories are as good as I remember but the quality of the video is far poorer than a 1970s VHS converted to DVD. What happened to 35mm masters? When a DVD has an on screen statement that warns about audio and video quality issues you should believe it. While many of the scenes are shot at night or in dimly lit rooms the overall video quality is all very dark. Lastly the product is listed as "full screen", "wide screen", which is it? It's "full screen" - more disappointment, sad.
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I remembered this television show fondly, but it's not available for streaming. It really holds up all these years later. Great characters and storylines. Had a little difficulty playing a couple of the discs on some of my dvd players (I have several). They either wouldn't load, or had skipping issues. It may be that may dvd players are just too old. But I eventually got all the discs to play on one of them.
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This is without a doubt, One of the Best T.V. shows to come out on DVD. The stories told are very much what our troops both women and men had to face in one of are most controversial military actions in our history. Vietnam was declared a police action and not a war but the Men and Women along with Many Civilians who were there will tell you it was in fact a War with some of the most intense combat fighting. This DVD set tries to show all aspects of this conflict and the affects it had on both sides. It shows the very harsh reality of combat without glorification and shows the courage displayed by our troops along with the stories of the many men and women who's job it was to try to save them after being wounded to get them back from the front lines for further needed medical treatment. China Beach The Complete Series is also not all blood and gore and sometimes takes us on a journey to the lighter side of the people that were there, giving it a true believable story line that all should enjoy. I highly recommend this series for your DVD collection.Read full review
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Seasons 1,3,and 4 are excellent. For my wife and i season 2 was very boring and just about made us stop watching, if not for the fact we bought all of the series. Thankfully season 3 was right back to the china beach we loved and season 4 does a excellent job of concluding the series. Very few shows can say that.
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Video quality is not bad. The only things that keep this from 5 stars is the lack of closed captioning & an episode guide. There are booklets for each of the 4 seasons with some interesting tidbits, and there is a series guide that again has trivia and facts but no details of each episode. Annoying but not fatal. The potential fatality is the missing CC. For deaf & hard of hearing folks this is a crucial oversight. Bottom line is it's great to have the series available, even with its flaws.
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