Numb3rs - The Complete First Season |  | Actors: Rob Morrow, David Krumholtz
Studio: Paramount
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Rating:  144 reviews
Sales Rank: 4442
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Widescreen, NTSC
Languages: English (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Number Of Items: 4
Running Time: 544 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.6 x 0.9
MPN: D047534D
UPC: 097360475340
EAN: 0097360475340
ASIN: B000ERVJKE
Theatrical Release Date: January 23, 2005
Release Date: May 30, 2006
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Product Description
FBI Special Agent Don Eppes (Rob Morrow) recruits his mathematical genius brother Charlie (David Krumholtz) to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles. The two brothers take on the most confounding criminal cases from a very distinctive perspective. Assisting Don at the FBI is his partner Terry Lake (Sabrina Lloyd) and new recruit David Sinclair (Alimi Ballard).Dr. Larry Fleinhardt (Peter MacNicol) is Charlie s friend and colleague who urges Charlie to focus more on his university studies than on FBI business. Don and Charlie s father Alan Eppes (Judd Hirsch) is pleased to see his two sons working together but fears their competitive nature will lead to trouble.System Requirements:Running Time 544 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR UPC: 097360475340 Manufacturer No: 047534
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"Everything is numbers," states Charlie Eppes (David Krumholtz) in the pilot of Numb3rs, a satisfying (and educational!) new crime drama. Executive-produced by brothers/film directors Ridley Scott (Gladiator) and Tony Scott (Top Gun), it's like CSI with algorithms and probabilities instead of blood spatter and DNA swabs, which separates it from the slew of gruesome forensics-centered cop shows currently on the air. In this case, it's a brains-vs.-brawn matchup: a brilliant math professor (Krumholtz) consulting on crimes for an FBI agent (Rob Morrow) who happens to be his older brother. While Don, Morrow's character, busts the baddies with his team of agents, Charlie's scribbling formulas on chalkboards and statistically deducting a rapist's next target by comparing his pattern to a sprinkler system. (Yes, it sounds geekier than it is). As the show progresses, Charlie--not yet desensitized to people's fates relying on his findings--takes it harder and harder when his hypotheses don't always result in justice. It sounds very cerebral, but the cops and robbers concept plus brother-to-brother dynamics make it all go down easy. There's an unpretentious way the premise is executed, which ends up making math--get this--fun. The DVD set features episode commentary by cast and crew, and a peek at the unaired pilot that starred many different actors (including Anna Deveare Smith and Michael Rooker) who were dropped when the episode was overhauled. Morrow, who wasn't even in the pilot, was cast later with Judd Hirsch as their father to replace the original (blonder) actors because, as producers admitted, casting Krumholtz as Charlie took the family in an "ethnically specific direction." The jokes also abound in a behind-the-scenes featurette, where Morrow defines the series as "Rain Man … plus an extra Jew." --Ellen A. Kim
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 Math works for me! March 17, 2010
Cremekat (Idaho)
I never get tired of the math that is used to help solve crimes. It always reminds me of when I was a kid..."Why do I have to learn Algebra...I'm never going to use it after this." It's fun to see that our everyday actions are indeed infused with math.
It also helps that Both David Krumholtz and Rob Morrow look good doing their jobs and are backed up by an amazing cast including: Peter McNichol, and Judd Hirsh. Both of whom have the experience of drawing an ensemble cast together.
Excellent show, and gets better all the time.
 Numb3rs- The Complete First Season February 11, 2010
K Kaiser
Bought this DVD set for my son for Christmas. He watched one after the other and is already asking for The Complete Second Season.
connected the dots January 30, 2010
Paula S. Mckay (Holt, MI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
We love Numbers, but unfortunately, we didn't start watching it the first season. The first several episodes really help you understand how it all began. A great addition to our video library!
 So upset with dvd's January 16, 2010
Mother of 2 (Trinidad, W.I.)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I love the show, & was thrilled to receive season 2 as a b'day present, there's no close-captioning...& if that's not enough, let's throw in that discs 4 thru 6 are showing BLACK & WHITE(there's nothing wrong with my tv)!!!!!!!!!!!! WTH????? I don't even live in the USA ,this purchase was made while a relative was on vacation, so there's absolutely no recourse for me.....BUMMER! Quality control at it's best!
Grade "A" Police Procedural October 7, 2009
Mark J. Fowler (Okinawa, Japan)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Television has had a love affair with cop and detective shows for decades, from Dragnet through Hill Street Blues to CSI - Large-Metropolitin-City-of-your-Choice.
The best ones endure in memory and frankly make compelling viewing. Not meaning to cast stones, but the mediocre ones are the television equivalent of cotton candy. There are a few (The Mentalist) that almost, but don't QUITE reach the highest heights.
Right now there are two "cop shows" that started with a unique angle, then added great casts and writing. In my mind "NUMB3RS" joins "Dexter" at the top of the current police heap.
Both have writing - dialogue and storylines - that easily match up with the best cop movies. (Why couldn't someone have provided a better vehicle for Pacino and De Niro than "Righteous Kill", which looks like a high-school production compared to Dexter and Numbers?) But I digress.
NUMB3RS is the "genius" drama. (The Big Band Theory is the genius comedy, and it really IS comic genius.) Rob Morrow, from another of our favorite shows, Northern Exposure, shows impressive range. On NE his Dr. Fleischman was a slight of stature New York Doctor transplanted to Alaska. In NUMB3RS he plays Don Eppes, a tough dedicated-to-his-career FBI professional with commanding stature. Almost every episode features Don and a team of FBI professionals storming a room with weapons brandished. On "Exposure" he played the intellectual. Although Eppes is not dumb - he's an observant professional - Don is easily the least intelligent of the leading characters. Don's math genius brother is Charles, played by David Krumholtz. Five years younger than Don, Charles has become an internationally renowned mathematician. The sibling rivalry angle provides many plot points, and we see goes back to the time that Charles graduated in the same high school class as Don - only at age thirteen.
Charles, now 30-ish, still lives at home with their father, played brilliantly with heart and intelligence by Judd Hirsch.
Don was building his federal law enforcement career away from home until their now deceased mother became sick. The series begins apparently soon after their mother's death, leaving a house with two men, frequently visited by still-single brother Don.
Alimi Ballard is solid as a fellow FBI man, and Navi Rawat looks like a young Catherine Zeta-Jones as a graduate student who studies under Charlie. Peter MacNicol gets another hit TV show (after Ally McBeal and 24) as a physicist colleague of Charlie.
The show is equal parts brains and heart - contemplation and action. Almost every episode has me at the edge of my seat, and while the scripts sometimes require at least a momentary suspension of disbelief, they are smart and not insulting.
As cop shows go - right now NUMB3RS is good enough to spend my time.
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