Van der Valk Mysteries

Disc 1
Episode 1:A Death by the Sea
Van der Valk suspects foul play when a midnight swim leaves a man unconscious and his wife missing.

Episode 2:A Man of No Importance
A dead man turns up on the deck of a barge with few clues to his identity, but only Van der Valk seems to care.

Episode 3:A Rose from Mr. Reinhart
Arlette’s instincts prove truer than her husband’s after a young woman is threatened in the park.

Episode 4:A Dangerous Point of View
A private detective is stabbed to death on the job, leaving Van der Valk to find who was watching the watcher.

Disc 2
Episode 5:Season for Love
After the young lover of a rich American woman goes missing, she may be in danger herself.

Episode 6:Rich Man, Poor Man
Van der Valk looks for a link between two apparently unrelated crimes: a factory explosion and a barber’s murder.

Episode 7:The Rainbow Ends Here
The commissaris searches for an abducted teenager, but her brother interferes with the investigation.

• Biographies of creator Nicolas Freeling and star Barry Foster.

Packaging: Boxed set
Run Time: 353 minutes
Format: Full screen
Number of discs: 2
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: No
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: NR

Based on novels by Edgar Award Winning novelist Nicolas Freeling.

Disc 1
Episode 1:One Herring’s Not Enough
A teacher confesses to murdering his wife and her young lover, but the police find no evidence of a crime. Commisaris Van der Valk is reluctant to dismiss him as a crank, though. The man may not be a killer yet, but he could still harbor deadly intent.

Episode 2:Destroying Angel
Van der Valk investigates the poisoning death of a man renting a room above a seedy Amsterdam bar. Believing the murder method points to a female culprit, he suspects a link with the brothel that also operates upstairs.

Episode 3:Blue Notes
When a world-famous Dutch violinist returns to Amsterdam for a rare performance, he receives a series of death threats. Someone even smashes his Stradivarius. Van der Valk can’t fathom why anyone would want to hurt the virtuoso—but that doesn’t mean the threat isn’t real.

Disc 2
Episode 4:Elected Silence
When the daughter of a controversial right-wing journalist disappears, Van der Valk has trouble keeping his personal feelings for the man private, despite warnings from his boss. The ransom demand leaves the detective perplexed and the father struggling with his past.

Episode 5:Thicker Than Water
A young English aristocrat turns up dead in an Amsterdam canal, but his mother shows little interest in finding the killer. Van der Valk and Kroon begin to piece together the man’s history, which leads them on a tour of the city’s transvestite clubs and bars.

Episode 6:The Adventurer
A deadly car crash has Van der Valk flummoxed—and fearful. Why was the victim carrying a gun and a photo of a local stonemason? No one shares his concern, however, including the mason, who dismisses the offer of police protection. But Van der Valk can’t walk away just yet.

• Biography of Van der Valk creator, novelist Nicolas Freeling

Packaging: Thinpak
Run Time: 306 minutes
Format: Full screen
Number of discs: 2
Language: English
Subtitles: N/A
Color or B&W: Color
CC: No
SDH: No
Region Code: 1
Aspect Ratio: 4:3
Rating: N/A

Based on novels by Edgar Award Winning novelist Nicolas Freeling.