What Is Your BEST & WORST Blind Buy TV On DVD? - Page 2

John Swarce · 04-21-2008, 01:32 AM

Best: Firefly (1st blind buy TV series I ever bought. Loved it, loved Serenity) and Six Feet Under (most expensive blind buy for me, but so worth it...great series)

Worst: Dark Angel, Season 2. Just didn't hold up to Season 1's promise, but Jessica Alba ALMOST made up for it!

--John

BobSchneider · 04-21-2008, 02:12 AM

Hmmm best blind buys, Wanted Dead or Alive s1 and s2 and Have Gun Will Travel s1 and s2 both blind buys and I love the shows although the poor decline in video/audio quality half way though S2 with HGWT makes it sadly doubtful I'll buy s3.

worst : s1 of 24 god how did 24 every made to a second season ? massive plot wholes, massive and too numerous count production continuinty errors, the ludicrous repeated kidnapping of his wife and daughter, it really one of the most massive blind buy blunders Ive made. Blech

Shawn_Sm · 04-21-2008, 05:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Bryan^H

What did you hate about Benson? I love that show!

I don't know. It bored me. I will admit to being rather depressed at the time it came out though. It may have clouded my judgement.

Radioman970 · 04-21-2008, 08:03 AM

Best-Futurama Season 1. It was on sale years ago at Bestbuy and I was very happy with the quality. I had only ever seen a very short clip. I have yet to get the rest but certainly want them. 2nd place-can't think of another. I usually research stuff pretty well and often stuff I've never seen doesn't qualify as a blind buy for this reason. Youtube is your friend!

Worst-Dark Angel Season 1. Glad I'm not alone. We were all buying that preeeetty face.

Whoever designed that DVD set packaging owes us all $40 each!! 2nd place-The Flying Nun Seasons 1 and 2. I've been warming up to it the more I watch. But Bewitched and I Dream of Jeannie it ain't!

I didn't count stuff I watched as a kid like Lost in Space and Buck Rogers, even though I was pretty disappointed in the shows at my current age.

Don Giro · 04-21-2008, 08:26 AM

Off the top of my head (and cribbing from previous posts):

Best: Friday Night Lights, Firefly (but I HATED "Serenity"), Son of the Beach, The Larry Sanders Show, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, Roswell, Popular, Homicide, The Office (UK), Arrested Development, Alias, Grosse Pointe, Lost, Smallville, and of course, Veronica Mars

Worst (well, let's just say these shows didn't do it for me, but they're not BAD by any stretch): Joan of Arcadia, Angel, The Black Donnellys, and Charmed (though I hear "Charmed" gets beter as the series progresses--I'll hold out for the inevitable Mega-Set)

To the poster that didn't care for the first season of Alias (but has the 2nd season unwrapped): Open it up and enjoy it. It was the best season of the series IMHO.

Gary OS · 04-21-2008, 08:51 AM

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WORST Blind Buy: Like many of the posters I've mostly stuck with shows I at least had some recognition of prior to purchase, but one year for Christmas I asked for and received the first season of DANIEL BOONE despite the fact that I had never seen an episode of it. On the whole the show is very good, but the quality of the first season on DVD is awful. A favorable review at DVD Talk mentioned how stellar the transfers were and I based my desire to obtain the DVDs on that... Never trust just ONE critic!

Interesting that you mentioned this dvd, because I almost put it on my "BEST" side. I hadn't seen the show in many, many years and I thoroughly enjoyed that first season set. It's true that the rest of the season sets look better than this one, but the stories are so much better in that first season so I didn't think the less than perfect video lessened my enjoyment of the set. The quality certainly was not as bad as the ROUTE 66 S1, V1 set. Now there's a set to be upset with AV quality about. But I really didn't think the Boone set was that bad.

And for what it's worth, the reviewer you are talking about is the best in the business when it comes to vintage TV, IMHO. I look to him all the time for solid info on sets.

Gary "just my two cents" O.

AndyMcKinney · 04-21-2008, 01:09 PM

Best: Doc Martin
Worst: Son of the Beach, I guess

Jeff Willis · 04-21-2008, 01:25 PM

Interesting how "Firefly" gets threads going

I didn't mention that one earlier since it was a "blind-view" having borrowed the set from my nephew. Surprisingly I liked this series and the sequel film "Serenity". It wasn't quite enough of a "sell" for me to add it to the collection though, but it came close.

Although I'm a collector of mainly late 50's thru mid 90's shows, I liked Firefly, partly due to the interesting score/soundtrack for the series and the "wild-west" flavor in a SciFi series. That's the only series that I've seen since around '95 or so and the only one in this century

Oh well, too many (sports) games on DirecTV and way too much backlog of 60's-80's shows on the shelf for me to watch anything on the networks anyway

MatthewA · 04-21-2008, 01:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Shawn_Sm

I don't know. It bored me. I will admit to being rather depressed at the time it came out though. It may have clouded my judgement.

Even Robert Guillaume admits that the show does not hit its stride until the second or third season, which may never come out.

MatthewA · 04-21-2008, 01:50 PM

I had some other good blind buys:

Fawlty Towers
Three's Company
The Young Ones

I usually don't blind buy TV shows unless it's some popular show I don't actively dislike but never got around to watching, or if I've never heard of it and it looks like something I might enjoy. So far, so good.

Jeff Willis · 04-21-2008, 02:21 PM

Matthew, those are good guidelines for blind-buys that you are using for your buys. Me, I'm probably somewhat over-cautious when it comes to blind-buying, but I've also had good results overall. Matlock's probably going to be my next b/b soon. Also, I hit paydirt with that MacGUYVER series so far (S1 viewing).