'Gunsmoke,' other TV series come out on DVD

Here's the latest batch of new-to-DVD television programs, arriving in stores between now and next week.

TV series

• "Unsuitable Job For a Woman: Series 1 & 2" (WGBH, 1997-2001, four discs, $49.95). Helen Baxendale is quite good as P.D. James' English private eye Cordelia Gray in this collection of four feature-length episodes. Cordelia inherits a rundown detective agency and gets training on the job as she investigates mysteries where nothing is quite as it seems, including an apparent suicide, a philanderer who may be guilty of much more, a routine surveillance that uncovers a murder, and another murder that gets her tangled up with Scotland Yard.

Extras: full frame, four episodes

• "Gunsmoke: The Second Season, Volume 1" (CBS/Paramount, 1956-57, b/w, three discs, $39.99). This is the first half of the second season of this seminal Western TV series — at this point still a half-hour drama in black and white, as U.S. Marshal Matt Dillon (James Arness) encounters a variety of characters who pass through Dodge City — including an Army deserter, a former member of Billy the Kid's gang and a mountain man with an Indian wife (played by a very young Angie Dickinson).

Extras: full frame, 20 episodes, sponsor spots

• "Growing Up Arctic" (Animal Planet/Genius, 2007, $14.95). Families can enjoy this enjoyable cable program together as episodes focus on an orphaned walrus, seal and polar bear, with a bonus episode about penguins adapting to warmer climes.

Extras: full frame, four episodes

• "The Tudors: The Complete First Season" (Showtime/Paramount, 2007, $42.99). Typical R-rated Showtime fare, with Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Henry VIII, who becomes king at 19 and begins to indulge in appetites that would become legendary.

Extras: widescreen, featurettes, episodes of other Showtime series

Documentaries

• "Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends" (Warner, 2007, two discs, $24.98). Clint Eastwood interviews Tony Bennett, with archival clips and contemporary performances for a look at Bennett's half-century career as a crooner. Harry Belafonte, Alec Baldwin, Christina Aguilera, and in historical clips, Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, are among those who pay tribute.

Extras: widescreen, Bennett performing at the 2005 Monterey Jazz Festival, featurette