Father Dowling Mysteries: The Third and Final Season

Before you come unglued at the price of Season #3, keep in mind that Season #3 has more episodes (22) than Seasons ##1 & 2 did combined (21). Season #1 has only 8 episodes, including the pilot, and Season #2 has 13 episodes, so the total for the first two seasons is less than Season #3 by itself.Moreover, you should consider that Season #3 has "The Prodigal Son Mystery," the single-best piece of TV entertainment ever filmed. "The Prodigal Son Mystery" is worth the price of Season #3 even if it were the only episode on the disks. Also Season #3 has the second-best Father Dowling episode, "The Christmas Mystery," so you would be getting good value for Season #3 if it cost twice what it does.Finally, kudos are in order to CBS for finally getting out the official Father Dowling Mystery sets--it only took them 22 years! I have spent the last two-plus decades watching deteriorating VCRs and lousy pirated Chinese versions (complete with un-turn-offable Chinese subtitles). I even had to buy an all-region DVD player so I could watch this pirated garbage. Bless you, CBS, and may your reward be great in TV heaven for finally supplying us Father Dowling fans with this wonderful blessing. If you want to see some good, thoughtful, witty TV, turn off the inane singing contests, and buy a set of the Father Dowling Mysteries.What a pity that Mary Wickes, Tom Bosley, and author Ralph McInerny are no longer with us!

Like Lay's potato chips "I couldn't see just one." I loved all three seasons. This series features a main character in an unlikely profession for solving murders. Father Frank Dowling is a fine Catholic parish priest in Chicago, drives housekeeper Marie to despair by his habit of being late for dinner as he and his assistant (streetwise nun Stephanie 'Steve' ) solve numerous neighborhood crimes, usually involving at least one murder. Wherever Father Dowling and his assistant Sister Steve Oskowsky go, someone turns up dead.While the local police are usually quick to find a likely suspect, the snooping priest just as quickly finds a good reason to take acloser look. They generally outsmart the police as well as the criminals. The sometimes live-in priest Father Philip Prestwick, whose priority is his own ecclesiastical career prospects, takes a very dim view of their crime fighting even when he unintentionally gets involved.

Fun to watch, uplifting, and entertaining

I pre-ordered the first two seasons of Father Dowling as soon as they became available. I have been anticipating the release of Season 3. However, I was shocked at the price for this final season! For less than double the episodes of Season 2, consumers must pay over two times the cost of Season 2. I am very disappointed and will continue to hope that the price will go down soon. Otherwise, I will have to wait to complete my collection of one of my favorite shows.Follow up: The price went down $15 after six months, which was much more reasonable and so I ordered it. The set is five discs of Father Dowling fun. It includes both my favorite and least favorite episodes of the series. It also includes several that I never remembered seeing before, which was great to experience. I'm thrilled to now own the entire series!

I have all three seasons. My favorite of the who-dun-it series with a religious background. Interesting that only in America can a Jew (Tom Bosley) play a Catholic Priest. And both Tom Bosley and Tracy Nelson were good in their parts. Together with Father Prestwick and Marie a clear family orientation was in view (in the sense of a mother, two very unnalike brothers and one sister). There is the who-dun-it series of Cadfael played by Derek Jacoby and the Movie "by any other name" with Sean Connery that might be enjoyed if one enjoys religious background in their who-dun-its.

The series is moderately entertaining. But I'm surprised and disappointed with the amount of time spent in bars and skin shows. Pole dancing, thongs up the butt, etc.Perfectly good show if they hadn't crapped it up with smut. If you want a decent show, this isn't it.

Were waiting for several years for this to come out - completes the set. A light-hearted light comedy about a Chicago Catholic priest willing to bend the rules a bit to solve mysteries and murders that he walks into, and a nun who is more than willing to break the rules into poker chips if that is what it takes to sole the crime - they balance each other nicely. Pretty reminscent of Murder She Wrote - many of same actors and production people, but not so dry or intense. Well worth the price, and more interesting for 3 seasons than Columbo or Matlock or Magnum PI, which all got repetitious pretty quickly.

This is a wonderful mystery series. My entire family including a grand-daughter loves this. We bought DVD for all three seasons. We feel sad that this series ran three seasons only.

loved the dvd

Highly recommend this series to fans of cosy murder mysteries. It is light hearted and escapism also which appeals to me.

It doesn't work in New bluray DVD player as it is for the American region. As you were selling it through the Australian Amazon I naturally assumed it would suit our region. Silly me

Love Father Dowling and Sister Steve. Great combo sleuths. Great stories. I wish there are had been more seasons in this series.

VERY WELL DONE.....