If you can live with these edits, then this is a good story which can be watched over and again.

Hail to the Chiefs!
Review date: 2003-04-27 Rating: 4 out of 10

As is often the case when you get older, people get real nostalgic about the things they did, listened to and watched growing up. And whats better to take you back to being a kid then tv-shows and movies? Chiefs was one of those tv-series I remembered watching with my parents when I was younger, and so for several years I tried finding out what the name was of this series. Once I found out it was called Chiefs and starred an excellent cast, among them movielegend Charlton Heston, I desperatly started looking for a DVD edition, and was excited to see that Amazon UK actually had this in store. After watching it I can honestly say that it truly is as good as I remembered it. Chiefs is a story about this small southern town, where a series of murders have been puzzeling three generations of police chiefs for a period of 40 years. The series takes you back to 1924 when the murders started, and when the first "chief" was appointed by local politician Hugh Holmes, played by Charlton Heston. Over the next several years we see two more police chiefs hold office, one of which is played by Brad Davis, better known for his role in Midnight Express, and the final chief, an african american officer (Billy Dee Williams), who ends up solving the murders and bringing this serial killer to justice.
If there's one thing I like about this edition, I would have to say it's the fact that it makes it possible for me to relive the excitement I experienced when I first saw this series on tv back in the eighties. Hollywood DVD however has not put a lot of effort into this DVD, to make this a good release. The quality of the picture for starters is nothing to brag about. It is very dark and seems to have been copied from a rather bad source. The audio could've been much better also. As far as special features go, don't even bother. Besides playing the movie and jumping to a scene, there's nothing more being offered here then a very bad release.
This series initially lasted 6 hours, and it looks like this is the cut version, which sometimes shows up on tv. Sadly enough this only lasts 206 minutes, and skims away most of the middle story featuring the late great Brad Davis.
If you, just like me, really desperatly want to see this series again, and can't wait for a proper version to be released, I would recommend buying this DVD. If not, spend your money more wisely, and just wait for a more deserving edition of what's still considered to be a great series.

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