Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #13227 in DVD
• Released on: 2003-12-08
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Number of discs: 6
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 984 minutes

DVD Description
This Box Set Contains The Following Episodes On DVD:

1.1. Pilot 1.2 Cool Change 1.3 Crate And Burial 1.4 Pledging Mr. Johnson 1.5 Friends And Lovers 1.6 Who Are You 1.7 Blood Drops (A.K.A If These Walls Could Talk) 1.8 Anonymous 1.9 Unfriendly Skies 1.10 Sex, Lies And Larvae 1.11 I-15 Murders 1.12 Farenheit 932 1.13 Boom 1.14 To Halve And To Hold 1.15 Table Stakes 1.16 Too Tough To Die 1.17 Face Lift 1.18 35K O.B.O 1.19 Gentle Gentle 1.20 Sounds Of Silence 1.21 Justice Is Served 1.22 Evaluation Day 1.23 Strip Strangler

Special Features
Cast And Crew Interviews Character Profiles CSI Featurette Behind The Scenes Footage Production Notes Trailer

Synopsis
A smash hit from the moment of its 2000 debut, CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION has continued to remain one of the most popular, innovative, and critically acclaimed crime dramas in television history. Created by Anthony Zuiker and executive produced by movie maven Jerry Bruckheimer, the thrilling series centres on the Las Vegas Police Department's night-shift forensics unit, which utilizes cutting-edge technology to solve the often grisly crimes of a glamorous city whose constant influx of visitors makes it rife with criminal elements. Quickwitted detective Gil Grissom (William Petersen) leads the highly skilled investigative team that includes his single-mother partner, Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger); hair and fiber expert Nick Stokes (George Eads); former gambling addict Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan); and fresh-faced newbie Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) with the help of a tough-as-nails police captain, Jim Brass (Paul Guilfoyle), and an efficient lab coroner, Dr. Al Robbins (Robert David Hall). Heavy on science, creative camerawork, and uncomfortably graphic depictions of violence, CSI is praised by fans and critics alike for its consistently gripping and well-written storylines, often inspired by real-life cases. This collection presents all 23 episodes from the series' first season.

Customer Reviews

C.O.N.W - Criminal Offence Not to Watch!
CSI's first season is unrelenting in its immediate appeal to the audience;not only does it succeed where many other similar shows have failed infinding the right balance between characters and plot, its ultra-hipmanipulation of new technology perfectly compliments the show's gravitas.
Whilst typical British dramas tend to over-emphasise characterinteractions and forsake plot, CSI manages to give the viewer enough of asense of each character's personal life to understand their motivations,whilst maintaining the gradual reveal of each crime. (Special mentionmust of course be made of Jerry Bruckheimer/Anthony Zuicker's passion forthe music of Paul Townsend, used to great effect in this classy serieswhich never loses its cool).
Classic cases include:
PILOT
COOL CHANGE
CRATE 'N BURIAL
PLEDGING MR JOHNSON
FRIENDS AND LOVERS
WHO ARE YOU?
BLOOD DROPS
ANONYMOUS
UNFRIENDLY SKIES
SEX, LIES & LARVAE
I-15 MURDERS
FAHRENHEIT 932
BOOM
TO HALVE AND TO HOLD
TABLE StAKES
TOO TOUGH TO DIE
FACE LIFT
$35K O.B.O
GENTLE, GENTLE
SOUNDS OF SILENCE
JUSTICE IS SERVED
EVALUATION DAY
THE STRIP STRANGLER
This DVD set presents the show in fullscreen and has little or no extrafeatures, nevertheless its interactive menus are smooth and impressive,and isn't presentation in full boxset always more appealing than the halfseason equivalent?

an awesome start to an incredible series
i got into csi a little late in the game... maybe season two? a lot of the other students in my human osteology class were talking about it, so i decided to check it out. i was hooked from the first episode i saw.

i just rented the first season to watch it for the first time. it was great to get a bit more background on the characters and to see how far the show has come from the pilot episode. the acting of the primary cast started out strong and has since gotten better.

yes, there's blood and gore, but it's presented in a way that leaves you caring more about the terrible things that go on in our world rather than steeling your heart and mind against them.

Top rate crime drama
CSI is simply the best US police procedural drama (which, given how many there are, is saying quite a lot).

The stories are strong and there is a cast of interesting characters. The central character, Gil Grissom (brilliantly played by William Peterson) is the reason it works so well. Grissom is wonderful character - an introverted and rather unemotional man, a serious scientist who happens to be a criminologist. As such he is free for most of the traditional TV cop baggage, giving the whole series a fresh and interesting perspective. In this series, the CSI team gets on with investigating crime scenes and solving mysteries attempting, but not always succeeding, to do this without bias or preconceptions. They leave the police work to others. Unfortunately, this model was abandoned with CSI: Miami making it a much less interesting program.

The rest of the cast is also very, very good bringing complex and interesting characters to life. Marg Helgenberger as ex-exotic dancer Catherine Willows is particularly good.

Danny Boyle directs most of the episodes with great style (redeeming himself after the failure of Judge Dread), even his habit of focussing in at a microscopic level (e.g. looking at blood vessels etc) works well. Setting the series in Las Vegas works well - the city, the desert, the mountains - they all provide great backdrops and look fantastic.

This is not the best CSI series (the show really got going in series 2) but it makes sense to start at the beginning.