I ordered the TV series Hearts Afire recently. It arrived promptly and I was surprised at how fast my order arrived.

This political sitcom stars many TV veterans,those being the late great John Ritter,Markie Post,Wendie Jo Sperber and George Gaynes. Ritter,late of The Waltons,Three's Company and Hooperman is Congressman John Hartman who appoints Georgie Lahti(Post) as his personal secretary. Gaynes is another senator and Sperber is a secretary also. Rounding out the cast is Billy Bob Thornton,another congressman. This sitcom led to the longtine friendship between Ritter and Thornton. The pair would later do the films SLING BLADE(written and directed by Thornton) and BAD SANTA(Ritter's last film that was finished shortly before his death). Post wasn't unemployed for long because this series began just after her previous NBC sitcom Night Court got the Nielsen axe. Gaynes was previously a cast member of NBC's Punky Brewster. He also delighted audiences in the six POLICE ACADEMY movies,made one by one between 1983 and 1988. Gaynes also returned for the sixth and most recent sequel POLICE ACADEMY-MISSION TO MOSCOW,released in 1994. Sperber previously played Amy,a friend of the respective characters of Tom Hanks and Peter Scolari on ABC's Bosom Buddies from 1980 to about 1983. This CBS sitcom premiered on September 14,1992 and almost got the Nielsen axe after the first season. This is dedicated to the memory of Ritter who died suddenly of a heart ailment at age 54 in September 2003. Post-Hearts Afire,Ritter and Katey Sagal,late of Fox's Married...With Children starred on ABC's 8 Simple Rules For Dating My Teenage Daughter". 8 Simple Rules is still aired on the network and Sagal is still on that sitcom.

For all Hearts Afire fans, this is a true gem. Billy Bob Thornton is excellent in this sitcom, showing 100% of his funny side. You won't be disappointed!!

Excellent sit-com: funny, sexy, intelligent humor. Looking forward to the next DVD of this series.

I have been waiting for this series to be released in some fashion since it went off the air.

Image Entertainment did a very nice job in transferring the first season to DVD. The menus are easy to use. The episodes, I believe, are uncut/unedited. I hear that when reruns were shown on the USA Network, that they had edited the episodes. They are shown on DVD in all their original glory.

I had very few complaints concerning this set. Unfortunately it looks as though IE was unable to obtain rights to some of the music that had been in the episodes originally - such as Born on the Bayou, Respect, Let's Give Them Something To Talk About and I'm A Believer. They filled in it in with some instrumental music and it's not so bad. I just wish we could have had the original tunes because they so fit the scenes.

I also noticed that some of the scenes seem a little fuzzy as if they didn't transfer well - could have been something from the original filming though. It in no way takes away from the show itself. And last, but not least, there is no "Play All" option available on the discs. It does get a little annoying having to go through two different menus to get to an episode - though the menus are easy to use as I stated earlier.

Overall this DVD set is well worth the price I paid for it and I'm on pins and needles waiting for season two. If you are a John Ritter or Markie Post fan in the least, please do yourself a favor and get this DVD set. The two of them fit together so well and made this show my absolute all-time favorite. I don't think you'll regret it in the least!