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Weeds - The Complete Second Season: Everyone's talking about this ingenious Showtime dramedy, it's all about a suburban housewife who turns to selling pot to support her family after her husband dies. Weeds sports a superior cast and some of the best scripts anywhere and it's all staged with a sweetly sarcastic edge. Even the kid actors are good. Both riotously funny and breathtakingly tense, Weeds is addictive!

The Closer - The Complete Second Season: Critics are raving about this unusual crime drama about a Southern gal (Kyra Sedgwick) with the people skills of a predatory panther who joins the LAPD to solve their toughest crimes. This show also stars one of my favorites, J.K. Simmons (the nazi prick from Oz) as her boss.

The Shield - The Fifth Season: If you haven't yet experienced The Shield, I can only tell you that you're missing out big time. I suggest you start with season one - you may find yourself hooked like I am, waiting impatiently for the next season's DVD release. It's a joyously wicked roller coaster ride of outrageous behavior so tightly directed, so finely written and acted that it's ultimately bullet proof.

Kyle XY - Season 1: The best science fiction challenges the ordinary in ways that make you wonder. Kyle XY does just that in a stark manner, it's a fascinating enigma, a slowly unfolding thread revealing an intriguing pattern of emotional highs and lows that causes you to re-think what you know and gaze at everything fresh.

Heroes - Season 1

This is one of my favorite TV experiences in a long, long time, superb in every way. A prime example of getting everything, every aspect of production, just right.

I never believed anyone could pull off a super hero show for weekly television, it was a terribly ambitious concept. Can they hit that sweet spot again for season 2?

What better way to watch Heroes than on DVD, when you can decide how much or how little you want at a time? I got hooked big time on Heroes and watched the whole thing over one weekend.

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This was the show's last year and, regrettably, Kaye Ballard is gone while Billy De Wolfe is very rarely seen.

Doris does gain an openly gay couple as her new neighbors which was very odd for the time, perhaps a first, though they were seen only once or twice and referred to thereafter.

The empasis of the show shifted more to Doris' relationship with Peter (Peter Lawford). He's in almost every episode but then, toward the end of the season, a guy we've never seen before - who looks almost exactly like Peter Lawford - comes back into Doris' life and proposes to her and she accepts despite the hot and heavy thing she had going just a few weeks earlier.

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Love American Style - Season 1, Vol. 1

Written and directed by the guys who were working on most of the sitcoms of the day, Love American Style was a skit comedy show with three stories with a series of Laugh-In style blackouts between.

By 1970, Love American Style had joined ABC's powerhouse Friday night line up that included, over the years, The Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Nanny & the Professor, That Girl, Room 222, Odd Couple and other lasting classics.

The show often feels like a haphazard collection of failed pilots and scripts left over from cancelled sitcoms like Love on a Rooftop or Mayberry R.F.D. (in fact, although not included in this set, the original rejected pilot for Happy Days appeared on this series).

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The Untouchables Season 1 Volume 2

The Untouchables was and is the quintessential film noir TV series. The blood flows freely, beatings are commonplace, women are tommy-gunned down in dark alleys, the rivers are littered with weighted bodies, gun fights in the streets are frequent as are drive by shootings.

All par for the course in prohibition era Chicago ruled by vengeful tough guys, violent hoodlums and crooked officials. Despite this, crusading G-man Elliot Ness (Robert Stack) never loses his cool when confronted with hard-boiled mobsters and smack-talking punks.

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Dexter - Season 1

A show that has you rooting for a serial killer? If you try to explain this show to someone they'll look at you with a blank expression, it's all in the execution so to speak, and no TV drama has you clutching the chair like Dexter.

This show just has to be seen to be believed, if you like chills and tense drama this is the one for you. There are few TV dramas that come close to the quality of Dexter, it's one of the best of all time - that makes this DVD collection one of the finest released all year, a must have.

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Entourage Season 3 - Part 2

TV's funniest and most realistic sitcom, with one of the finest casts ever assembled, keeps getting better and better. No wonder, spoofing the world of Hollywood show biz is an ever flowing fountain for laughs. Plus, Jeremy Piven is a howl all by himself.

Entourage will go down in history as one of the greatest sitcoms of all time.

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Ghost Whisperer

Ghost Whisperer was a surprise hit of the 2005 season.

At times cute as hell, sometimes too conveniently far out, Ghost Whisperer season 2 doesn't quite come up to the creepiness found in Carnivale or the first year of Lost but there is suspense and eerieness galore, a show that wins you over by keeping you guessing at every turn and not cheating you out of a chilling payoff.

Happily, not seeing season one didn't lessen my enjoyment of year two at all; funny thing about this show, the more I watched the more I enjoyed it. Hewett is a winning actress, a jewel of an empath for viewers to latch on to. She's clean cut sexy and always in the moment but with spirits showing up at all hours of the day and night when does her character ever get any sleep?!?

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Extras - The Complete Second Season

"Are you havin' a laugh?" You darn sure will be when you pop this 2 disc set into the player.

In the acclaimed HBO series Extras, Ricky Gervais stars as struggling working actor Andy Millman who can't seem to catch a break from the series of mishaps instigated by the incompetent, mendacious people he's surrounded by.

This show is Gervais' follow-up to one of my all time favorite comedies The Office - the original British version, not the lame American knockoff.

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This Is Tom Jones

That's right, one of the greatest pop stars of all time had his own variety series for two seasons on ABC from 1969-71 and what a show it was!

This new DVD collection of 8 episodes focuses on 'Rock 'n' Roll Legends' - it's an amazing array of performances not just from the dynamic Tom Jones but also the Tommy-era Who, The Moody Blues, Joe Cocker, Janis Joplin, Aretha Franklin, Stevie Wonder and many other sixties superstars.

Not many singers have the chops to duet with the likes of Janis Joplin, Little Richard, Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Joe Cocker but Tom Jones handled it easily and with style.

Sixties' rock enthusiasts will be especially pleased that these artists are captured at the peak of their majesty. The guest artist's solo spots are remarkable - Janis Joplin's heartbreaking 'Little Girl Blue' (one the finest performances she ever gave on film), The Who performing 'Pinball Wizard,' Joe Cocker doing 'Delta Lady' and 'My Baby Wrote Me A Letter,' Aretha Franklin's soulful rendition of 'Say A Little Prayer'... and on and on. It just doesn't get any better than this.

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The Outer Limits - The Original Series, Season 1 Volume 1

Aficionados agree that the first season of The Outer Limits was the best - not that the second season was bad (some episodes were among the best) but season one was a phenomenal breakthrough in TV sci-fi drama.

In fact, it can be said without fear of much contradiction that The Outer Limits was the finest science fiction series of the 20th century. It certainly was the creepiest, with bizarre special and make-up effects and truly horrifying storylines. After four decades The Outer Limits still packs a wallop, bouncing between the whimsical and the eerie in that way that TV can't seem to manage anymore leading the way for Star Trek, not to mention the successful Outer Limits revival in the 1990s.

This collection represents the first 16 Outer Limits episodes (half the first season), the best according to many experts, with classics like 'The Galaxy Being,' the first episode and perhaps the best of the bunch; 'The Man Who Was Never Born' and 'The Architects of Fear' where Robert Culp is transformed into an alien to scare the population into peace.

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The Wire - The Complete Fourth Season

I literally got chills up my spine when I held this DVD set in my hands, The Wire is absolutely my favorite TV drama of all time, I just finished watching all 3 seasons for a second time this fall and I've been greatly anticipating season 4.

Though there are major plot treads that interweave and evolve through the years, each season of The Wire focuses in on a different segment of Baltimore's appalling underbelly. This year they zoom in on an inner city middle school to focus on the kids that get lured into gangs and the drug trade. This is no cheap plot device, show co-creator and writer Ed Burns started out as a public school teacher in Baltimore. No wonder Entertainment Weekly called this season, "dazzling... a staggering achievement."

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea - Season 3, Vol. 1

Most fans agree that Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea season 3 took a nosedive in quality from season 2 but if you're a die hard Irwin Allen fan like I am it really doesn't matter that much. I love every scenery chewing moment, the colorful monsters of the week, the underwater shots, the cool special effects & set designs and the simplistic storylines. It all harkens back to a different television era.

Standout episodes for this second year in color include 'Deadly Waters' (with the Seaview trapped at ocean's bottom), 'The Wax Men' (with Michael Dunn as an evil clown), 'Thing From Inner Space,' and the first episode, 'Monster From The Inferno' where the crew go up against an atomic brain.

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That '70s Show - Season 6

That 70's Show lasted 8 years, almost as long as the decade it spoofed. By season 6 (1998) the writers and cast were fully in the zone, pumping out one hilarious situation after another.

This show will go down in history as one of the great family sitcoms of all time and season 6 in particular delivers belly laughs galore; a throughly pleasant run of storylines with tremendous re-watchability.

This was the year Kelso knocks up a waitress, Red recovers from a heart attack, Jackie's mom (Brooke Shields) hooks up with Bob while Eric and Donna prepare to get married. Standout episodes: Eric gets caught masturbating, Donna's wedding dress is destroyed, and Luke Wilson & Seth Green return to plague the gang in some very funny moments.

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WKRP in Cincinnati
This is undoubtedly the most anticipated, most talked about, most written about, most controversial DVD release of the last decade. The reason for the controversy - music royalties for the pop songs used on the show are now too costly so substitutions had to be made.

The music cuts are massive and deep, dozens of the 1970's hits that were woven into the shows had to be excised - in many episodes all the songs were removed and replaced with mostly generic riffs.

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Cagney & Lacey - Season One

"I'd like to thank, actually, ‘Cagney & Lacey,’ who led the way…"
– Oscar®-nominee Helen Mirren (Best Actress, The Queen) in her 1996 Emmy® acceptance speech (Outstanding Actress In A Miniseries/Special, "Prime Suspect 4 -Scent of Darkness")

Cagney & Lacey is one show that people have been requesting on DVD for years and, according to producer Barney Rosenzweig, it's been a tumultuous journey to disc. In fact, just a couple of months ago he announced the project was in limbo.

Cagney & Lacey was grittier and significantly more realistic than the typical TV drama of the era, genuinely exciting with compelling storylines shot in and around New York City during the early eighties. Big Apple dwellers will enjoy seeing what their city looked like 25 years ago; because so much of the production was shot on location in the streets the city was as much a character as the main protagonists. Cinematography throughout is superb, soaring angular depictions of concrete and glass give the gut level scenarios even more weight.

The Milton the Monster Show - The Complete Series

One of the best animated series of the 1960s comes to DVD from Shout! Factory and what a treat to see this beautifully designed for a Saturday morning cartoon series with brilliant colors and sharp sound; if you haven't heard the Milton the Monster theme song since this show first aired you may be surprised to find yourself singing along.

This is a good one for the kids as well, they'll enjoy the adventures of Penny Penguin, Stuffy Durma and Fearless Fly, the breakout star of the show.

Milton the Monster was one of those cartoons from the golden age of Saturday Mornings with an indefinable charm, a collaboration of some of the genre's top talent. Produced and created by Hal Seeger (Batfink) and features the vocal talents of Bob McFadden, Dayton Allen (The Steve Allen Show), Larry Best and Beverly Arnold. One of the writers was Jack Mercer, the voice artist and scriptwriter for the original Popeye cartoons (the good ones).

You get all 26 episodes plus these DVD features: Hal Seeger home movies and a bonus cartoon, Wilbur the Wanted. For some reason Seeger decided to take the weakest feature, Flukey Luke, and do it up as a live action 'cartoon' short and two lame but historically interesting attempts at it are included as an extra on disc two. The Krofft Brothers later perfected this technique.

Comic Legends - Groucho Marx & Redd Foxx

Here's a surprise offering from MPI - two episodes of a show I wasn't familiar with called One Man Show. These programs star Redd Foxx in one and Groucho Marx in the other, both filmed around 1971.

Redd was about to jump start his TV career with Sanford and Son and Groucho is seen here in one of his last major TV appearances. Groucho is only half "on" here, clearly out of his element; he hadn't been performing that much during the previous half decade before this hour long program was taped. Still, his wit shines though at various points and it's a joy to watch this master-past-his-prime at work.

As a bonus on this disc you get Groucho's bits from one of his Hollywood Palace appearances in the mid-sixties and that's a glimpse at Groucho at his TV best.

Poor Redd Foxx had to tone his nightclub act down quite a bit for TV but this is one of the rare opportunities to see this great comic at work on the stage where he made his mark - decade after decade - long before and after TV was done with him.

Family Affair Season Three

This is one of those shows that was requested for DVD release for years, and now the third season turns up from MPI. From the press release: "A highly paid consulting engineer, Bill Davis' carefree existence as a swinging bachelor was just about perfect. Maintaining an elegant apartment off Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, he had his domestic needs cared for by a very English gentleman's gentleman, Mr. French. Into this life of independence came three young orphans, whose parents, Davis' relatives, had died in an accident."

It's amazing that this old-fashioned, sweet family program lasted 5 seasons on CBS, from 1966-1971 - and the characters never lost their simple innocence even as they grew older. A can imagine a large number of parents out there that will purchase this so their kids can experience one of the seminal shows of their youth.

Guests this season included Joe Flynn, Butch Patrick, Eve Plumb, Jamie Farr and a host of other studio supporting players who went on to do other TV shows. All 28 episodes are here from the 1968-69 season on five discs along with a Family Affair reunion special as a bonus. Fans will be very pleased!

McHale's Navy - Season One

McHale's Navy's entire 1962-63 season is here in glorious black and white; all 36 half-hour episodes on 5 discs along with a bonus cast reunion filmed especially for the DVD.

The stellar cast includes Ernest Borgnine, Tim Conway, Carl Ballantine, Gavin MacLeod, Joe Flynn and Bob Hastings among others and they are backed by some of the best writers and directors of TV's early days.

This was the one of a series of popular shows set in the military, a trend that started with the hilarious Sgt. Bilko in You'll Never Get Rich in the 1950s and continued through Hogan's Heroes, F-Troop & Gomer Pyle in the 1960s and M*A*S*H in the 1970s.

Dallas - The Complete Sixth Season

Now I know what you're saying - Dallas?!? It's my guilty pleasure! I got hooked on the show in the 1980s when it began running in syndication and it's one of the funniest shows ever produced for TV. Campy, biting, bitchy, reflective of a by-gone era; it all emerges as frothy fun, the kind of mindless entertainment TV was meant for.

The most popular show of the 1980s, Dallas is like a hot fudge sundae with too much whipped cream - but there are no cherries in sight here!

These 6th season episodes start out with JR's cloddish nemesis Cliff Barnes in the hospital after a suicide attempt and old JR on the outs at Ewing Oil. This leads into a poolside wedding (if you've watched Dallas for any period of time you know what that means) and a Ewing BBQ that, of course, ends up in drunken disarray.

Read more about Dallas on DVD here.

The Best of Hootenanny

This is - I'm not kidding - the most exciting DVD product I've seen in a long time, maybe of all time. I can't think of another DVD collection I viewed all the way through, and then watched again at the very first opportunity. It's like a CD you want to play over and over.

If you're a folk/ country/ gospel/ jazz/ bluegrass/ world music lover - or just interested in the roots of American rock music - this is the ultimate early-sixties collection; an exciting, eclectic mix with heart-stopping performances from Trini Lopez, Mariam Makeba, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Johnny Cash, Hoyt Axton, The Dillards, Flatt & Scruggs, Ian & Sylvia, Marion Williams, Jimmie Rodgers, The Tarriers, Doc Watson and many others. Continuity is preserved and the performances are, every one, a gem. There are also some seriously genius comedy routines sprinkled throughout from Vaughn Meader, Louis Nye, Bill Cosby, Jackie Vernon and Woody Allen.

The Dukes of Hazzard - The Complete Seventh Season

Good ol' boys can now complete your Dukes of Hazzard collection with one of the most memorable seasons of all for the Duke boys. Their last!
It's amazing that this series aired for 7 years - actually this season was cut short with only 17 episodes filmed (which come here on 6 discs) but it's family entertainment that continues to excite fans twenty years later.

As in the previous year, the 1984-85 season employed models for some of the more spectacular jumps the General Lee made - stuntmen had worn out dozens of Dodge Chargers, they were littering the Universal lot.

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Superman - The 1948 & 1950 Theatrical Serials Collection

Fans of the Adventures of Superman TV program will want to add this collection to the set - these serials shared a lot of the same production personnel and features Noel Neill playing Lois Lane. (Horror movie heavyweight Lyle Talbot appears as Luthor and Jimmy Olsen is played by Tommy Bond who played "Butch" in the Our Gang comedies.)

These two 15 chapter thrillers were produced at the tale end of the movie serial era - the production values are better than some of the earlier but more popular serials. Keep in mind that the Superman character was a mere 10 years old at this point, this was the first live-action Superman the public had seen.

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