Second season of 'Police Woman' finally released on DVD

After a six-year wait, the second season of "Police Woman" is finally on DVD, along with a highly anticipated concert performance of "The Phantom of the Opera" musical.

"Police Woman: Season Two" (Shout! 1975-76, six discs, $44.99). Six years ago, Sony released the first season of this groundbreaking '70s police procedural, which made a star of Angie Dickinson and paved the way for subsequent dramatic series with female leads. But it apparently didn't sell well enough for the studio to follow up with subsequent seasons.

Enter the Shout! Factory, which has created a cottage industry of releasing TV shows the studios don't feel are profitable enough. And if this "Police Woman" set sells well – which for Shout! isn't quite what Sony demands – we'll see more.

Dickinson, in her mid-40s when the show began (and looking a decade younger), is Sgt. Pepper Anderson, working undercover as part of the LAPD's Criminal Conspiracy Unit to break up a traveling casino, bust drug dealers, foil kidnappers, unravel an insurance scam and, in the double-episode season-ender, take part in a task force to track down a cop killer.

The show flaunts Dickinson's sex appeal to a near-campy degree, but she's a good enough actress to hold her own with such guest stars as Sam Elliott, Ida Lupino, Joan Collins, Amy Irving, Roddy McDowall, Robert Vaughn and Diane Baker, among others.

Extras: full frame, 24 episodes

"The Phantom of the Opera at the Royal Albert Hall" (Universal/Blu-ray, 2012, $39.98). Fans of Andrew Lloyd Webber's stage-musical version of the horror story — and especially those who were disappointed in the overblown 2004 movie — will love this version, recorded live and in full costume.

More than a concert, this performance is flamboyant and vivid, with a group of terrific singers, led by Ramin Karimloo, Sierra Boggess and Hadley Fraser. And the curtain calls bring out Webber and many who worked on his original production, including Sarah Brightman and Michael Crawford.

Extras: widescreen

"Father Dowling Mysteries: The First Season" (CBS/Paramount, 1989, two discs, $29.99). Tom Bosley ("Happy Days") stars as novelist Ralph McInerny's Father Dowling, a Catholic priest who solves crimes in Chicago, aided by a nun (Tracy Nelson), a priest (James Stephens) and his housekeeper (Mary Wickes). Gentle murder mysteries, a la "Matlock" and "Murder, She Wrote."