David Boreanaz

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment have sent us info that they are releasing the first season of the hit Sky One show BONES on DVD on 9th October (region two).

Bones is inspired by real-life forensic anthropologist and best-selling novelist Kathy Reichs, who acts as a consultant on the show. The series follows her semi auto-biographical character Temperance "Bones" Brennan (Deschanel, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit) on missions to identify corpses that are badly decomposed, burned or destroyed beyond recognition. Temperance’s special expertise lies in her uncanny ability to read the clues left behind in the victim’s bones.

Temperance often finds herself paired with Special Agent Seeley Booth (Boreanaz, Angel), of the FBI’s Homicide Investigations Unit. Booth has great faith in good old-fashioned investigative work, and distrusts both science and scientists, who pore over physical evidence. Needless to say, this leads to some personal, and professional clashes with Temperance, and some unwanted sexual chemistry...

In the pilot episode of Bones Season 1, Temperance returns from a gruelling two-month assignment in Guatemala identifying victims of genocide, to be paired with Booth in order to identify a body of a young African American woman. With Temperance’s forensic expertise the victim is quickly identified as Chloe Louise Eller, a woman who was rumoured to have had an affair with a Senator two years ago, and who vanished shortly afterwards.

With this new evidence in hand, Temperance is eager to confront the Senator until Booth’s investigation throws up three additional suspects. Chloe’s former boyfriend, a particularly suspicious political aid, and a speechwriter who had been stalking Chloe before her disappearance...

The DVD box-set contains extensive extras including an episode commentary by Boreanaz, Deschanel, creator Hart Hanson and Executive Producer Barry Josephson. Character profiles and a selection of featurettes focusing on the science behind the series, and the real-life of Kathy Reichs are also included.

Here’s the full episode guide.

Disc 1
Pilot
The Man in the S.U.V
The Boy in the Tree
The Man in the Bear

Disc 2
The Boy in a Bush
The Man in the Wall
The Man on Death Row
The Girl in the Fridge

Disc 3
The Man in the Fallout Shelter
The Woman at the Airport
The Woman in the Car
The Superhero in the Alley

Disc 4
The Woman in the Garden
The Man on the Fairway
Two Bodies in the Lab
The Woman in the Tunnell
Commentary for "Two Bodies in the Lab"

Disc 5
The Skull in the Desert
The Man with the Bone
The Man in the Morgue
The Graft in the Girl
Will the Real Kathy Reichs Please Step Forward featurette
Squints featurette
The Real Definition featurette

Disc 6
The Soldier in the Grave
The Woman in Limbo
Bones - Inspired by the Life of Forensic Anthropologist Kathy Reichs featurette
Character Profiles