Not unless your DVD player speaks Danish.

"The Macahans" was a TV movie that premiered in 1976 and also served as the pilot episode of the subsequent series "How the West Was Won," a TV adaptation of the hugely successful 1962 film of the same name.

It aired three mini-seasons -- 25 episodes in total -- from 1977 to 1979. It failed to make a huge splash over here during that time, but oddly enough when it started premiering in Europe a few years later, it was quite a different story.

The series was a huge hit on European TV and has been repeated off and on since. It was finally released as a DVD boxed set in 2009, but the discs were made to play on European DVD players only (the business has a regional coding system to prevent piracy). You can get European (called Region 2) players over here, as well as multi-region ones, but they're harder to find (and usually more expensive).

If you can manage to get one, though, you're laughing. Though it was released specifically for continental Europe, it's still all in English, with just the subtitles in Danish, Norwegian, and a few others.

The series starred James Arness and Bruce Boxleitner, and told of the epic westward trek of the Macahan family, who left their Virginia home to be pioneers in the unsettled American West -- Oregon, to be specific.

Arness clearly had a taste for the era, as he'd barely gotten his "Gunsmoke" boots off when he took on the role. He was, of course, a household name, having played Marshall Matt Dillon on "Gunsmoke," a classic of western TV, for a whopping 20 years.

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