I've been waiting for years for this show to come to DVD (or even VHS). This was a show I loved upon watching it thirty years ago. With Sam Elliott, David Soul (yes, I was a Starsky & Hutch fan), Cybil Shephard in her glorious prime and Chuck Connors in a juicy bad guy role, this show snapped. Trying to capture the glory of the prime time soap days, this show focused on a cattle ranch family that was struggling to survive. The cast makes the show. The writing was very well done as well as the sets, characters and atmosphere. Critics raved about it on NBC, but the strong Dallas and Dynasty kept people from tuning in. A pity. Even seven years later, the accolades were so good, NBC reran it in prime time in 1990 to see if it could find an audience. A very strong show if you liked the grand old prime time soap-style story telling. The cast, and their portrayals, are alone worth the price of admission.

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I remembered seeing this TV series advertised back in the early 1980's but never watched it until I bought the complete series from Amazon recently. I really enjoyed this show and especially liked seeing Chuck 'Rifleman' Conners as the nasty main villain Jeb Hollister. All of the Champion characters are very likable as are the two crusty old geezers who hang around with them. It would have been nice to see a second season where Jeb Hollister makes a comeback to further bedevil the Champions and the characters played by actresses Deborah Shelton and Kerrie Keane, who escapes being murdered, returns to battle over Roy. However, if there was a second season of The Yellow Rose, Cybill Shepard wouldn't have starred in Moonlighting and as a result, Bruce Willis may not have been cast in Die Hard.

Sure, we have "Yellowstone," which is good, no, great! But unlike that...The Yellow Rose is a family show. No F bombs, no outright sex scenes, and the love of FAMILY is so evident here, unlike the other two competitions shows, Dallas and Dynasty, in which everyone had it in for one another. I cried at the end of the series...and a couple of episodes, too had me in tears. It hasn't been mentioned in the other comments here, but Ken Curtis (Festus on "Gunsmoke") and Noah Beery, "Rockford's" dad, add so much to this series! Buy this, treasure this, only the one set of 5 discs and like any good Western, the good guys rode off into the sunset, with a prayer that, like I said, had me in tears.

I purchased this for a friend that talked about this series, and he is really enjoying it, having watched it several times through!