Shaft: The TV Movie Collection [4 Discs] [DVD]

I liked this regular DVD set of "made-for-tv" films. (This set, so far as I know, is not available in Blu-ray). These films don't have the edge that the three original Richard Roundtree theater Shaft films have but they are entertaining TV films. (The three Richard Roundtree theater Shaft films are available in Blu-ray). These TV films are also an opportunity to get more of Richard Roundtree as Shaft. They have a good guest list and are familiar types of 1970s style TV drama that older viewers such as myself enjoyed. The writing, acting and directing are competent. Cautionary viewing note: The films were made for older televisions and are presented in the older "square format". However, some regular DVD players can compensate for this by increasing the picture size to completely fill a flat-screen TV's screen without much stretching. Things look pretty normal on this type of player. The four discs in this set are regular DVD discs, not Blu-ray. If you play these discs (which you can) in a Blu-ray player, you will have to adjust the "square format" if you want to fill your flat-screen TV screen. However, Blu-ray players tend to stretch the "square format" picture a lot for regular and Blu-ray films. People will usually be extra fat, cars will be noticeably longer and other features look rather funny. My regular region-free DVD player does not do this and it automatically makes the "square format" fill my 55" flat-screen TV" screen. Of course, If you don't care about the smaller square format, you can just play the discs in that fashion. By the way, different types of DVD players can be very useful to have attached to your TV system to handle all sorts of film formats.

Great Movie! Shaft the complete series is great because it is not available to buy from most places. Ongoing action throughout the whole series. This series was done at a time when most people of color was not depicted in lead positive roles. My opinion of this series was the best of Richard Roundtree at his best.

All seven TV movies from the Shaft television series are included. All episodes include an instrumental version of the Theme From Shaft. Since it was on television there are some elements that are missing from the theatrical movies.

I finally got The Shaft TV Show that I'm going to add to my Shaft Collection and with Richard Roundtree reprising his iconic role from the trilogy.

I remember seeing the shows. They were part of a short-lived action adventure series