Calista Flockhart Movie:

		List Price: $39.98		Label: 20th Century Fox Salesrank: 1987 Released: October 6, 2009
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		MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated) Media: DVD

Editorial Review:
All 23 episodes from Season 1 on 6 discs – on DVD for the first time ever.

Description of Ally McBeal: The Complete First Season:
Ally McBeal, Calista Flockhart, and Vonda Shepard fans are finally being given the entire first season of the groundbreaking, and wildly entertaining, show--all 23 episodes and original music collected and presented as originally broadcast. What a treat! David E. Kelley presents a legal series set in Boston (two of his favorite subjects) with a believable heroine reportedly loosely based on his lovely actress wife, Michelle Pfeiffer. As played by Flockhart, Ally is an intellectual, a brilliant legal mind--and one of the most neurotic young heroines ever to grace TV screens. It's not that Ally isn't confident--given a thorny legal issue or complex case, she's one of the best. But Ally's rocky love life, and vivid imaginations that materialize right in the middle of a scene, make her believable, slightly annoying, and altogether endearing.

Ally McBeal rocketed Flockhart to stardom when it first aired in 1997, and rightly so. Her Ally is nervous, hard on herself, yearning, vulnerable, a girl's girl still secretly (and not so secretly) hoping for Mr. Right. As a young associate at the law firm of Cage & Fish (Peter MacNicol and Greg Germann), Ally has to navigate around working with her first true love, Billy Campbell (Gil Bellows), who's now married to yet another associate, Georgia Thomas (Courtney Thorne-Smith). The entire cast throw themselves into their comic/serious/absurd roles and stemwinders--many of which take place in the now-infamous single-sex restroom.

Ally McBeal also launched the careers of Jane Krakowski (30 Rock), Lucy Liu (Charlie's Angels), and Portia de Rossi (Arrested Development). Additionally, it shone the spotlight on a crazy-talented singer-songwriter named Vonda Shepard, whose music provides the theme song ("Searchin' My Soul") and who anchors most of the episodes as a local bar singer reinterpreting '60s soul through a late-'90s prism--brilliantly. The boxed set has not only every episode, but every memorable Shepherd song from the first season for the true fan. Bring on the dancing babies! --A.T. Hurley 

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Ally McBeal: The Complete First Season Reviews:
Amazing, wonderful and cutting edge
2009-11-08 - This series broke ground in every area possible and each week went to a new place with a new idea. It never grew old and always entertained. I have waited too many years for this to come out on DVD and bought the full set the day it did.

It's here, finally
2009-11-06 - This was one of those quirky little shows set in a law firm. It uses its cases to set the mood for each episode but also relies on the peccadillos of its main characters to anchor the show. We have the wattle man, the Barbie doll, the nose noise man; even the unisex bathroom almost becomes a character.

Ally had once dated one of the other lawyers who works at the firm with his current wife which sets the mood for a lot of sexual tension. Ally is supposedly still in love with him though she manages to fall in love with most other hunky men who walk through her door.

It's too bad the music licensing issue keep this funny show out of the market for so long. There is a large current group of the purchasing public who will probably not buy this series because it's now just too old......bg


Music Included
2009-10-18 - I have not purchased the item, only seen it on the shelf at stores, and I wanted to tell on-line buyers that the sticker proclaims that it includes all the original music. That's what a lot of us were waiting for before buying the show. I will definitely own it soon. Maybe a Christmas present. Love this show.

At long last!
2009-10-04 - Yes, Yes, Yes!!! It is finally being released in the US on Oct. 6, 2009!

coming soon!!!
2009-07-23 - According to [...] season 1 and The Complete series will be released on October 6, 2009!!!!!! I love, love, love this show and am so happy that it is finally available on R1 DVD!!!!