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Features: DVD, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Aspect Ratio 1.33.1, Dolby Digital (5.1), Dolby Surround Sound, Featurette, Fashion Show, Audio Commentary, Documentary, 6 Discs
Experience the television phenomenon that has fans cheering and critics raving. "Refreshingly original, bracingly adult and thoroughly delightful, ''Desperate Housewives'' is like the answer to a TV prayer you didn''t know you''d made," says Robert Bianco of USA Today. Now you can spend the night with the women of Wisteria Lane and relive every minute of the weekly television event that heated up water coolers from coast to coast. With spectacular bonus features including extended, unrated episodes, this sizzling six-disc DVD set is full of surprises and loaded with entertainment.
"One of the most hot, funny, incindiery, innovative TV shows about American family suburbia..." Michael Szymanski, Hollywood.com
"...has everything going for it--a brilliant script, an incredible cast, and handsome production values." Brett Cullum, DVD Verdict
"Deliciously funny and engaging..." Hollywood Jesus
"...plenty of Soprano's-style family intrigue, mischief, mayhem, and even murder..." James Plath, Reel.com
"...brilliantly conceived and relentlessly entertaining..." Tim Goodman, San Francisco Chronicle
"An instant classic." TV Guide
"Great, dishy fun." Variety
Editor's Note
All is not as it seems on Wisteria Lane, the pristinely manicured suburban setting of television's hottest prime-time soap. We learn this within the first few minutes of the DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES pilot episode, when seemingly sane and happy housewife Mary Alice Young removes a revolver from a drawer and shoots herself in the head. In the process of trying to make sense of her sudden and inexplicable suicide, Mary Alice's friends end up revealing just as many secrets about themselves and their neighbors as they do about her past. Narrated by the spirit of Mary Alice, each episode follows the ups and downs in the lives of bored trophy wife Gabrielle Solis (Eva Longoria), klutzy-yet-charming Susan Mayer (Teri Hatcher), frustrated stay-at-home-mom Lynette Scavo (Felicity Huffman), and anal-retentive homemaker Bree Van de Kamp (Marcia Cross). As love-struck Susan competes for the attention of new neighbor Mike Delfino (James Denton) with neighborhood seductress Edie Britt (Nicollette Sheridan), Gabrielle takes a liking to her hunky 17-year-old gardener. Meanwhile, Bree attempts to fix her life's problems through obsessive housecleaning, and Lynette struggles to control her children while at the same time keeping her sanity. Throughout the course of the show's wildly popular debut season, each woman faces her fair share of drama and does her part in helping to uncover a mystery that goes deeper than anyone can imagine.
| Features | Audio Commentary from Series Creator Marc Cherry | | Cast Commentaries | | Making-of the Season One Finale | | Wisteria Lane Fashion show | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Surround Sound | | Alternate Ending | | Unrated and Unintended Episodes | | Full Screen Presentation | | 6-DVD Set Containing The Entire First Season Episodes | | A Stroll Down Wisteria Lane With Creator Marc Cherry | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Behind The Scenes With The View's Meredith Viera | | Deleted Scenes | | Dressing Wisteria Lane -- A Look At The Costume And Set Design | | Interactive Menus | | Oprah Winfrey Is "The New Neighbor" | | Scene Selection | | Secrets Of Wisteria Lane | | Subtitles: English | | Unrated, Extended Episodes | | And Much More Dirty Laundry | | Behind the Scenes with The View's Meredith Vieira | | Oprah Winfrey Is The New Neighbor |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Buena Vista |
| Release Date: 12/26/2008 |
| Running Time: 998 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2004 | | Catalog ID: 3987403 | | UPC: 00786936280326 | | Number of Discs: 6 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Golden Globe (2005) |  | Teri Hatcher, Winner, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy | |
Emmy (2005) | | | Teri Hatcher; Marcia Cross; Felicity Huffman, Nominee, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | |
Screen Actors Guild (2006) | | Felicity Huffman, Winner, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series | |
Emmy (2005) | | Charles McDougall, Winner, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | | Danny Elfman, Winner, Outstanding Main Title Theme Music | |
Golden Globe (2005) | | Desperate Housewives, Winner, Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy | |
People's Choice (2005) | | Desperate Housewives, Winner, Favorite New Television Drama | |
Emmy (2005) | | Felicity Huffman, Winner, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | | Kathryn Joosten, Winner, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | | Michael Berenbaum, Winner, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series | | Scott Genkinger, Junie Lowry-Johnson, Winner, Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series | |
Screen Actors Guild (2005) | | Teri Hatcher, Winner, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series | | Teri Hatcher, et. al., Winner, Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series | |
Winner (2006) | | | Screen Actors Guild, Felicity Huffman, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series | |
Winner (2005) | | | Emmy, Scott Genkinger, Junie Lowry-Johnson, Outstanding Casting for a Comedy Series | | | Emmy, Charles McDougall, Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series | | | Emmy, Kathryn Joosten, Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | | | Emmy, Felicity Huffman, Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | | | Emmy, Danny Elfman, Outstanding Main Title Theme Music | | | Emmy, Michael Berenbaum, Outstanding Single-Camera Picture Editing for a Comedy Series | | | Golden Globe, Teri Hatcher, Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series - Musical or Comedy | | | Golden Globe, Desperate Housewives, Best Television Series - Musical or Comedy | | | People's Choice, Desperate Housewives, Favorite New Television Drama | | | Screen Actors Guild, Teri Hatcher, Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series | | | Screen Actors Guild, Teri Hatcher, et. al., Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series |
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| | Professional Reviews | Movieline's Hollywood Life
"[A] show that ingeniously mined satire, pathos, slapstick, sex, topicality and unabashed soapiness from the still-fertile bedrock of suburban tribulations." 09/01/2005 p.102Rolling Stone
"[T]he laughs keep on bubbling." 12/01/2005 p.100 San Francisco Chronicle 8 of 10
Where Blue Velvet and American Beauty so aptly dissected the underbelly of small towns and happy families, Desperate Housewives takes its own TV version swipe at the complications of unhappiness as well. If the series suffers from anything it's ambition -- the kind that makes you worry that America will tune in, get freaked out by the scattershot emotional chords and flip over to something safer. - Tim Goodman
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