Strap yourself in for hours of high-speed high jinks and jaw-dropping fun as Smokey and The Bandit: The 7-Movie Outlaw Collection puts you in the driver's seat of the rowdiest road-movie franchise of all time. With the three original movies that turned Burt Reynolds and CB radios into national obsessions and the four television movies that spread Bandit mania to a whole new generation, this seven-movie, four-disc collection puts every legendary performer, every outrageous stunt, every dadgum catchphrase in the whole Bandit universe into one place--yours!

Original moves:
Smokey and the Bandit (1977)
Smokey and the Bandit II (1980)
Smokey and the Bandit 3 (1983)

Bandit (Brian Bloom) TV Movies:
Bandit Goes Country (1994)
Bandit's Silver Angel (1994)
Beauty and the Bandit (1994)
Bandit Bandit (1994)
648 minutes, List Price: $26.98

I actually enjoyed the 4 TV movies alot more than Part 3 and can't wait for this set to come out.

Wow, the TV movies too? Holy shit. Universal must be getting desperate!

Is there a Midnight Run set in the works too?

Wow that is pretty cool, I was hoping they would include "Smokey is the Bandit" the original cut of Smokey part 3 which had Gleason playing both roles.
It tested horrible and many scenes were re shot with Jerry Reed as the Bandit as well as Burt's cameo.

I wonder if all seven movies will be on one double sided disc.

...this seven-movie, four-disc collection...

Presumably not.

Twas a joke, but yeah, reading fail on my part.

I'd be all for that

I enjoyed the TV movies as well, which will make this set worth picking up again. (already own the original Smokey & the Bandit 3-movie set).

I never even knew there were 4 TV movies. I'll probably pick this up for curiosity alone.

I heard this was an urban legand and there never really was such a version.

Good price. I will be looking into getting this! I never did get this movie when it was first released.

Is the car in the tv movies ?

Possible, but that wouldn't explain why the stunt double for Jerry Reed looked like a shorter fat guy. (Supposed to have been Gleason).

UPDATE...

Found this in a search, it's from 1983.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id...e-bandit&hl=en

I seem to remember hearing about this release a few weeks ago, and that was the first time I ever heard of the TV movies. The original movie was one of the first DVDs I ever bought, and I probably got rid of when I got a 16x9 TV (the original DVD wasn't enhanced), and I never got around to picking up any of the reissues.

Might put this on the Christmas list, but that's already pretty loaded with that Making of The Empire Strikes Back book coming out.

Universal Television created "The Action Pack" where it revealed movies of the week back in 1994. They featured different characters and themes in hopes of turning these films into a tv show. One of these, Bandit, never made it to full television show status.

Bandit was loosely based on the famous Burt Reynolds film Smoky and the Bandit. It starred 80's teen heartthrob Brian Bloom in the title role. Throughout all four made for tv movies that aired Bandit was assisted in his adventures by the governor's son Lynn. Lynn was played by Charmed's Brian Krause.

Other Action Pack releases included Hercules (which did make it to a television series), Vanishing Son (had short-lived success on tv), and two half hour tv shows: Jack of All Trades and Cleopatra 2525. The later was later made into an hour-long series of episodes.

It was actually a Dodge Stealth in Bandit.

/\ Midnight Run and TekWar were also part of The Action Pack rotation

I didnt know Smokey and the Bandit have TV movie. I love the first one and 2 is ok and I own both separate DVD with part 1 (with SE) & 2.

any word for part 3 with separate DVD?

Which was the martial arts one on the Action Pack? There were 3 movies, which were pretty good, then a short lived tv series that was pretty bad.

I never knew there were tv movies either. The original was the only good one of the film trilogy though.

Are you thinking of Kung Fu: The Legend Continues? If so, that was on the Prime Time Entertainment Network, a similar concept from Warners that's most notable for producing Babylon 5.

That was Vanishing Son.

TV movies? Wow, didn't know that. Tempting...

Yeah! Hope the 3 Films will be anamorphic!

Are the TV movies that recent to be widescreen? Or do you mean the theatrical films?