I remember when this show first aired, I think I was about 11 years old or so. This was around the time that I always watched those Rhonda Shear USA "Up All Night" programs, and it seems like during every commercial break there would be some sort of seductive ad for "Silk Stalkings." What I remember the most was that there was always this bluesy seductive music playing, and in the deep pink and purple lit scenery they would be a slow motion shot of a woman putting on stockings. Now, to a normal 11 year old, that would be a sign from heaven that it was my duty to watch "Silk Stalkings," but you don't understand. I had Cinemax. Why watch the USA Network, when I could watch "The Bikini Carwash Company." So, I never did check out "Silk Stalkings" at any point during its 9 years on television.

Now that the show is over and the 3rd Season is out on DVD, I sit here reviewing this "Silk Stalkings" Box Set. And lo and behold, check this out, it's a cop show! Wow! I just always thought it was some soft core, lets hide all the nudity we can, series about women putting on clothes! Well how about that. You learn something new every day. Actually I knew that it was a cop show anyway, I'm just exited because I rarely see the show advertised as such.

Watching the show I've come to the conclusion that while it certainly isn't very good )if you look up the dictionary definition of the word "good"), it is most certainly pretty damn entertaining. The show is basically like "Miami Vice" crossed with "Law & Order: SVU," only written and directed in the style of whatever Zalman King movies and tv series were popular at the time. If you ever wanted to see a show that milked itself from the sexy excesses of the early 1990's, then this is the show that you need to see. It's fluff, preposterous, and full of some of the most inane dialogue I've heard in a series. At one point, a character tells a woman that the pom poms she currently has look pretty good to him. Ha! Naturally, without giving it any second thoughts, I can definitely see why this show was a hit on cable. Once you watch one episode on this DVD, you have to see more, and more, and more. And it doesn't even matter what season you come in on. I've never seen the first 2 Seasons of this show, and I did not feel in the least bit lost at the beginning of Season 3. I take it Season 2 didn't end on a cliffhanger.

In case you aren't familiar with the show, it all revolves around two Palm Beach detectives, Chris Lorenzo (Rob Estes) and Rita Lee Lance (Mitzi Kapture, who is the hottest and best actress named Mitzi I can think of). Chris and Rita specialize in solving high profile sex crimes amongst the wealthy and spoiled of Palm Beach. The show obviously revolved a lot around the sexual chemistry of its two gorgeous stars, and I'll admit there was some pretty good chemistry here, in the way that any 90's sultry programming featured two hot stars wanting to screw eachother. In each episode, these stars have to come up with some new and clever way to say "I want to screw you," and when you look at it like that, Estes and Kapture have what it takes. They really are very good in this series, especially Kapture.

The show was created by Stephen J. Cannell, who seems to create every other series that I review. I had no idea that this guy created so many series, not to mention how many of them are more superficial than a modeling agent. But this series isn't just the basic Cannell series. This is him taking apart bits and pieces of every one of his former shows and trying to create some 100 foot sexy busty crime fighting leggy gun toting metallic giant of a cop show. To his credit, it is very sexy.

But just look at some of the titles of these episodes. Most of them beg you with their sad droopy eyes to watch them, even if you've got previous episodes to watch first (not that it matters). There's an episode in here called "Wh*re Wars." Yes, "Wh*re Wars." I've rarely been so excited to watch an episode in my life. In this episode, the mob, headed by Don Donnie "Dogs" Dibarto (wow), gets involved in a case involving a murdered prostitute. There's also an episode here called "Sex, Lies, and Yellow Tape," which could have been the title to every single one of the episodes in this series.

There's some famous faces who turn up, either from people who were already names when the show aired, or who have since gained a bit of popularity. A young Jenny McCarthy is credited as playing Totally Positive Rush Model in the episode "The Deep End" where there owner of a porno magazine dies, and Lorenzo has to question a hoard of beautiful women. Isn't that convenient. Carrie Anne Moss plays two characters in "The Perfect Alibi," in which the murderer may have some scratches somewhere on their back. And watch for Robert Forster in "Tough Love" in which a killer is blackmailed by one of their neighbors.

The series went through 3 different pairs of leading hot police officers, and I must say I look forward to seeing the later box sets in which we find out why the new sets of stars have to deal with the job, sleeping with eachother, and investigating the attractive members of Palm Beach. By the way, in a few shots, Palm Beach looks suspiciously like San Diego. I don't know if I'm strictly at a loss for missing out on this show when I was younger, but I will say that if the show actually did have nudity in it, then maybe I'd be kicking for wasting all my precious pre-teen youth watching the Skin-emax flicks.

This is a colorful series in terms of image, with a lot of shots of the purple sunsets and neon set designs, and that's clearly evident from just looking at any of the series' box covers. But when you watch the show, the transition onto DVD seems to have caused a lot of the colors to melt together. There's also quite a bit of fuzziness. As far as the sound goes, it is loud enough to make out what the actors are saying, but there's an annoying hissing noise that is present through many of the episodes.

The first two box sets of the season contained interviews with the actors and the creators, plus a DVD rom option to read some of the scripts. I think it probably is possible that everyone involved may have run out of things to say about the series come time to produce this season of DVDs, but do you know what I would like to have seen on this set? Zalman King commentary. Sure, he had absolutely nothing to do with the series, but come on. He might as well have. For that matter, maybe even Fred Olen Ray commentary. Or even Andrew Stevens. Actually, wait, Andrew Stevens did direct some episodes. Damn it, why isn't there Andrew Stevens commentary?

Recommended: Yes