I was also one of the many here that got X-Files: Season 1 when it was originally released. and like Bill above.. I was happy to get it at the price at that time!
I finally broke down and started buying TV on DVD with M*A*S*H Season 1. Season 3 had just come out and I think I bought seasons 2 and 3 within the week.
Wow! X-Files S1 was $150?! Geez! I don't feel so bad about my early puchases now.
I started buying those Star Trek TOS dvds. I only just completed my collection late last year by buying S1. :frowning: I believe the second was that Monty Python 14 DVD set for $125.00 from a yahoo seller.
MASH Season 1, which started me on a craze. It changed the way I watch television. I have over 100 season DVD sets of episodic programming and love watching television that way. I actually wait to watch the program on DVD, such as Battlestar Galactica - which is a huge difference watching it on DVD vs. weekly on television and commercials. Commercials kill the momentum of a show like that and this watching week after week of a storyline is torture.
My So Called Life 12/27/02 from DDD for $45.78. I had a one set of vhs that had been released for the show. Wow in over four years I now have 64 shows most average three sets. Don't want to think about the $$ epspecially in the beginning now i try not to spend more then $20 per tv boxset unless complete series like Alias, Buffy and Sex in the City.
Before televsion programming on DVD became really popular, I bought the feature-length pilot episode of Quantum Leap, the two "best-of" Wonder Years releases (which appear to be somewhat valuable now despite the conspicuous music substitutions), and the individual (but in-order) South Park releases.
I recall that The X-Files was the first high-profile show to get full-season box sets, and sparked the whole TV on DVD phenomenon. I never really got into that show, however--my first proper DVD season set was The Simpsons.
Since then, I've purchased more television shows on DVD than theatrical releases. I only recently got around to replacing those South Park discs with the proper season sets--I'd like to do the same for Quantum Leap but I just can't justify it with the music substitutions.
In spite of the occasional problems with music rights or syndication edits, I cannot describe how pleased I am that TV on DVD has become so popular in the last couple of years. There's no feeling quite like having the entire run of one's favorite series at one's fingertips.
THUNDERBIRDS Mega-Set. I was in a Best Buy just browsing around and an Employee was putting some sets on the shelf. When I saw what he was putting there the next one he pulled out of the box never made it to the shelf! Shortly therafter I got BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (Cylon Head) for Xmas.