Current TV DVDs you plan to buy in 2009

Just picked up "Heroes" Season 3 today.

"The Mary Tyler Moore Show" Season 5 pre-ordered from Amazon.

I'll finish those two series off, but after that, will probably wait until complete season sets are released. Way to many shows that get a season or two released, we wait years and still never see another season.

There are some shows where I only like particular seasons, but for the most part, if I like the show, I want to see all of it, not just a small portion. Luckily, studios seem to be a little more in touch with the consumer, and are releasing everything, uncut, full music, etc. of recent and current series.

Here's my Currant Shopping List for the next DD Sale.

Mannix Seasons 1-3

Season 7 of Mission Impossible

Season 9 of JAG

Season 4 of Charlies Angles

Seasons 6 & 7 of Hawaii Five-O

Mill Creeks Western TV Treasures

Patty Duke - Season 1
Donna Reed - Season 3
NCIS - Season 6
Vegas - Season 1 Volume 1  This one makes me grumpy and I may skip over it.  I hate the idea of eleven episodes for the price of a normal season set.

UNTOUCHABLES S3 V1	08/25/09
VEGA$ S1 V1	10/20/09
DONNA REED SHOW S3	11/03/09
THE FUGITIVE S3 V1	10/27/09
MANNIX S3	10/27/09
UNTOUCHABLES S3 V2	11/10/09
WAGON TRAIN S1	11/17/09
THE FUGITIVE S3 V2	12/08/09
PERRY MASON S4 V2	12/08/09

From my Excel file. 

Color-codes: Blue=sure buy eventually. 
Green=undecided or must come in Santa's sleigh on the night of the 24th.

Fugitive: buy only if backscore is restored to "S1" set templates.
Vega$: Same as Tim.  Don't like the s/s sets for this one.

the flistones season 2
batman beyond seson 3
moonlight the complete series
supermairo brothr supershowvloume two
Early ediiton seaosn2
family ties season 5
BEN 10 ALINE FORCE VLOUME TWO ,AND THREE 
LIFE ON MARS THE COMPLETE SERIES
hE-mAN MASTER OF THE UNIVSER2002 CARTOON COMPLETESERIES
mY TWO DADS SEAOSN ONE
hOMEINPROVMEN SEASON TWO
HEREOS SESON TWO 
GET SMART SEAONS TWO AND THREE
 

1.Star Trek Enterprise 1,2,3
2. Good Times - The Complete Series
3. Sanford and Son - The Complete Series
4. Cheers 5, 6, 7

2010
1. Seinfeld - The Complete Series
2. Man from UNCLE - The Complete Series
3. Brady Bunch 1,2,3 and 5

iwouod liketo add:
sanfrod and sonseaosn two
muder,sheworte seaosn one
dick van dyke show seaosnone
Clomblob seaosn one
I DREAM OF JENNIE FAN FAVORITES

After my recent purchase of BONANZA, the rest of 2009 looks like this for me:

UNTOUCHABLES SEASON 3 (I'll probably get both volumes at same time later this year)
ROBIN HOOD SEASON 4
ONE STEP BEYOND SEASON 1 (once in goes below $20)
HAWAII FIVE-O SEASON 7
MANNIX SEASON 3
MR. ED SEASON 1
BARBARA STANWYCK SHOW V. 1
DONNA REED SHOW SEASON 3
PATTY DUKE SEASON 1
ROUTE 66 SEASON 3, V2
WAGON TRAIN SEASON 1
3 STOOGES V. 7
PERRY MASON SEASON 4, V.2
THE FUGITIVE SEASON 3, V.1 & 2 (if the original music is restored)

Regardless of how much I like any of the shows listed above, I'm going to wait until I can get them at a minimum of 50% off MSRP.  That's been my holdout price for almost every single dvd I've bought this year, and I'm not moving off that new threshold of pricing.

Gary "I expect I'll be able to purchase most of these by Christmas for the prices I'm holding out for" O.

Edited by Gary OS - 9/18/09 at 9:41pm

I plan to purchase the fifth season of the Mary tyler Moore show.  Even the fourth season of Get Smart (Although, I ask myself why).  Now after that.....we all know what the center of a donut looks like......!

I plan to buy the following

1. Hawaii Five-O - 7th Season
2. Saturday Morning Cartoons 60s and 70s, volume #2
3. Married with Children - 11th
4. Get Smart! - 4th and 5th Season
5. Vega$ - Season 1, Volume 1
6. Mannix - 3rd Season
7. Melrose Place - 5th, Volume #2
8. Spin City, 3rd Season
9. Cheers 5,6, and 7
10. Enterprise, Season #2
11. Nash Bridges, 3rd Season
12. The Paper Chase, 2nd Season

just recently ordered Ellen - Season 5 and Homicide Life On the Streets - Season 4 from my list

just ordered Stargate SG-1 - Season 1 from my list

I also just ordered The Pretender - Season 1 from my list

melrose place season 5 vol 2
90210 season 8

You''ll like that show.  I have seasons 1 & 2.  I haven't started watching S2 yet.

My list for the rest of this year:

MISSION:IMPOSSIBLE S6	04/28/09
TAXI  S3
TAXI  S4
UNTOUCHABLES S3 V1	08/25/09
VEGA$ S1 V1	10/20/09
MANNIX S3	10/27/09
THE FUGITIVE S3 V1	10/27/09
UNTOUCHABLES S3 V2	11/10/09
WAGON TRAIN S1	11/17/09
DONNA REED SHOW S3	12/01/09
PERRY MASON S4 V2	12/08/09
THE FUGITIVE S3 V2	12/08/09

Not sure about Wagon Train yet.  Exclusive to Sam's Club for now.

For the remainder of the year I'm looking at the following things that I've yet to purchase (still holding out for 50% off on all of them):

The Untouchables Season 3, V.1 & 2
Robin Hood Season 4
The Fugitive Season 3, V. 1 & 2
Barbara Stanwyck Show Season 1
Donna Reed Show Season 3
Route 66 Season 3, V.2
Three Stooges V. 7
Wagon Train Season 1 (only if I can get it for under $40)

That's it for me up through the end of the year.  Nothing else on the list that I don't already own or have on pre-order (I think the only pre-order I have is Perry Mason S4, V2). 

BTW, the 4th Quarter of this year pales in comparison to the last several years when it comes to vintage releases.  No one can tell me we are not seeing a serious, serious decline in classic releases.  News Flash for anyone who's been hiding under a rock for the last 8 or so months: the golden age of vintage TV on DVD has peaked and we are now on the downside.  Don't look for things to get any better, quantity-wise, in 2010 either.  You'd be shocked if you reviewed the last 3 months of last year and compared it to the last 3 months of this year, release wise.  50's and 60's shows have taken a terrible downturn.  If it were not for 3 companies in particular - CBS/P; Shout Factory; and Timeless - we'd literally be starving to death for vintage material.  And unfortunately I know for a fact that CBS/P has already nixed a few planned classics for next year that were on their schedule a few months ago, so I look for them to have less output of b/w material.  Shout looks to be at about the same level, and Timeless has some things brewing that will hopefully come to fruition.  So perhaps two of the three will at least keep pace.  All the others... slim pickins for sure.


Gary "not a pessimist - just a realist calling a spade a spade" O.

Gary,

At DD (40% off sale) right now you can use the following code N4V24RVDNH to get an additional $5 off a $25 order. So for example, you could get:

- Barbara Stanwyck Show Season 1 for $24, and
- Robin Hood Season 4 for $12

$36 - $5 = $31 and free shipping from an MSRP of $60 which pretty close to 50% off. There maybe other deal combinations in there as well but that one comes to mind since I just got the Barbara Stanwyck Show Season 1 myself.

Brad, thanks for that.  Believe it or not, I used that code Saturday night on Mister Ed Season 1.  It brought that set down to just about 50% off.  It was a coin flip for me to go with that set or the Stanwyck one. 

Gary "that Mister Ed set was almost assuredly the only one I'll be buying from DD this time around - I'm content to wait for better sales on the others" O.

I just used the code to get season 7 of Mission Impossible for about $24.95 at DD.

I was looking at the same think but my coin flipped the other way. Of course that meant I had to pick up something else as well since the Stanwyck show was just under $25. So I went with the Columbia Pictures: Film Noir Classics - Vol. 1 as my add-on.

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Again, we think alike Brad.  I probably would have gone with the Stanwyck set over the Mr. Ed one if I wouldn't have had to add something to get over the $25 threshold. 


Gary "got your PM and will be responding soon, buddy" O.

Currently airing shows that I will buy when they come out:

Desperate Housewives
Eureka
Glee
Gossip Girl
Heroes
Lost
Melrose Place 2009
90210
The Simpsons
South Park
Ugly Betty