Elliot James Coronet Blue is the surprise DVD release of 2017, 50 years after its CBS summer airing. A real cult oddity, its reputation is greater than the reality. All 13 episodes are on 4 discs. (Two were never aired.) The picture and sound quality is good considering the age of the show but not excellent.This is a bare bones package which is a disappointment. No subtitles, no commentary, no liner notes by any TV historians. Frank Converse is notably absent. Creator Larry Cohen is in a bonus clip talking about the show and offers his take on why the show didn't survive the tough business of network TV broadcasting. He also mentions hiring Converse years later for a production and said that Converse didn't want to discuss Coronet Blue.I saw some episodes a few years ago and bought the DVD. I love the theme song sung by Lenny Welch. At heart this is another "wandering man" anthology series that often inserts the lead into the stories of other people, along the lines of The Fugitive, The Invaders, Branded, Then Came Bronson, Route 66, Run For Your Life and The Immortal but comes close to surrealism in its quirky, improbable stories and improbable people. Michael Alden is not nearly as sympathetic and likable as Richard Kimble and Paul Bryan and the series doesn't come close to the writing of those shows. Converse is good in the role and has leading man looks but his character is thuggish, cold and dislikable. In the first episode, he tries to steal cash out of a woman's purse and punches out a guy. This first entry also has one of the worst, clichéd endings that could be hacked out. This series could also boast the most inept professional assassins ever. They would either miss him or only wound him, injuring or killing other people. These guys needed vision exams.Cohen had little to do with the show during production and said that his amnesia/spy concept eroded over time. In any event it was never resolved although Cohen explains in a book The Radical Allegories of an Independent Filmmaker who Alden really was. Do I recommend the DVD? Yes.

Adam Sainthill Hi all, As a seven year old my recollections are vague however I always thought that the main character remembers Coronet Blue as the name on the stern of a yacht (that he is thrown overboard from in the initial murder attempt) Yacht sails off and he washes up on shore to try and put the pieces together The show is born ! It's funny that the theme song stuck in my head, it was really haunting and I never found anyone who had actually seen the show (apart from my mother who let me stay up to watch it) until I met this one girl Debbie. She must have been pretty good because we fell in love and had a baby together ! I would love to see the series again and an updated remake would rate its behind off

pkeo03 Coronet Blue: was a summer replacement series. I think the show was a premise for a regular TV series and it didn't fly as such.The episodes were left open ended (in my opinion anyway) and I was a teenager when the TV series was aired. In New York it was summer. The only reason I was watching this series is because I come from a dysfunctional family and the only entertainment we had was a TV.The show ended in late October I believe, and there was no ending at all. It was left open ended. I didn't ever know what Coronet Blue was and who Frank Converse's character was. If I hadn't read the IMDb summary I still would NOT have known what the TV series was about.That was why I gave it a one star rating despite other watchers positive feedback. The Fugitive was one of a kind giving an ending to it's series, and no other show followed that.

Cleo-2 Only about a dozen episodes of Coronet Blue were made and it wasn't chosen for broadcast during the regular season. Someone had the idea to show it during the summer - and it was a ratings sensation. Everyone wondered what the mysterious words "coronet blue" really meant, and hope that the show would go into production again so we'd find out. But no more episodes were ever made, and no writer stepped forward to give viewers the answer to the mystery!