David E. Kelley’s beloved creation, Picket Fences: Season One (1992), has finally arrived on DVD with a six-disk set, including the pilot (take that, “Twin Peaks: Season One”!) and an all-new featurette. Kelley’s stamp is all over this show, so if you like his familiar antics—an eclectic ensemble cast, quirky plotlines, spontaneous song and dance–you’ll be sure to enjoy discovering (or revisiting) the tiny, troubled town of Rome, Wisconsin.

Tom Skerritt stars as the sage, solid (but sometimes underhanded) Sheriff Jimmy Brock, and the show centers on him and his family—played with panache by Kathy Baker, as his doctor wife, and Holly Marie Combs, Justin Shenkarow, and Adam Wylie as their perfectly age-staggered kids. Jimmy’s deputies and co-workers include clueless Kenny (Costas Mandylor), solid Max (Lauren Holly), know-it-all dispatcher Ginny (Zelda Rubinstein), and overzealous coroner Carter Pike (Kelly Connell). On their side of the law is the court: Judge Henry Bone (Ray Walston) and fervent defense council Douglas Wambaugh (Fyvush Finkel), while a host of co-stars perpetrate crimes of all kinds (those of the heart and, of course, various murders, sex offenses, drug-pedaling, and even bird-killing).

In the extended-length pilot episode, Sherriff Brock deals with Rome’s first suspicious death in many years, when the actor playing The Tin-Man in a local stage play of “The Wizard of Oz” suffers from a myocardial infarction (”If Only I Had A Heart Attack!” screams the local paper’s headline) and dies. Was it really natural causes, or did his bitter wife have something to do with it? Or maybe it was the father of the teenager the dead man allegedly dallied with. Or maybe…it was somebody else. Meanwhile, Deputy Kenny falls for a traveling prostitute and the littlest Brock suffers a major embarrassment in front of the whole school. And so on. It’s episodic and it’s a bit dated (big glasses, shoulder pads, pagers), but overall “Picket Fences: Season One” is a can’t-go-wrong DVD buy.