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Didn't buy it, but received The Avengers: Complete Emma Peel megaset for Christmas.

I buy each season of Supernatural as it comes out... I started watching it several seasons late and have watched the whole series on DVD. Also Game of Thrones, which I watched as it aired but have collected on DVD as well. Just the final season left to go. I'm holding off on The Good Place in...

In the early 90's when I got my first apartment. Complete-series sets were tremendously expensive back then, and I think the first one I had was Monty Python's Flying Circus on DVD, which I collected gradually over the course of a few years. IIRC the first TV on home video I ever owned...

Brits tend to play Americans a lot more convincingly than Americans play Brits. I don't know why that is.

The Albert Finney "Scrooge" is my favorite version of A Christmas Carol, and probably my second-favorite Christmas movie after the original "Miracle on 34th Street." I love the score, I think Finney was excellent as Scrooge. The only downside to the movie is that bewilderingly awful "Hell" scene...

The same thing happened with Lost in Space. The early B&W episodes made an attempt to tell a serious story and had much less of the wackiness of the later episodes. I thought maybe it was because their sets and props looked too cheesy in color to be taken seriously... but Star Trek managed it...

I still wonder what's going to happen when ISP's start metering bandwidth and charging users for heavy streaming. Which they inevitably will, now that net neutrality is no more. It's going to be an even bigger issue once the pressure grows for streamers to start large scale offering of 4K UHD...

The first dozen shows are all classics, except maybe the clip show. And all of season 1 was strong. "Hoodlum Rock" might have been my favorite if Scum of the Earth had played anything resembling punk rock. "Bailey's Show" was great. "Turkeys Away" was deservedly famous but it's become so...

Does this set have any music replacement or censoring of politically incorrect stuff?

If I were 20 or 30 years younger, I'm sure I'd be streaming all my music and not caring. But I grew up in a time when the music experience was something much different than it is today. Pop songs aren't really written or performed anymore... they're produced, often by a computer program that...

Bonanza, The Big Valley, Gunsmoke, Maverick, Rawhide. I never really saw much of The Wild Wild West but it sounds like something I'd probably like. For more modern westerns, Deadwood and Westworld. Oh, and The Life and Times of Grizzly Adams, though I haven't seen it since it originally aired...

Though it obviously can't happen this year, one big release I'd love to see is a Saturday Night Live collection compiling the best sketches from all the show's eras. I envision a 100-sketch compilation chosen by critics, cast members, and fans. Throw in 20 or so of the best musical performances...

Alright, I've pared it down to a top 10, but there are a lot of honorable mentions that could easily leak into the top 10. In alphabetical order: 1. Angel 2. The Big Valley 3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4. Game of Thrones 5. Monty Python's Flying Circus 6. Mystery Science Theater 3000 7. Star...

Yeah, I have a similar experience... I've already bought so much of the video and music I want that the stuff I still need tends to get more and more obscure, and places of the Best Buy/Wally World type don't even come close to having it. I'm more likely to find stuff at flea markets and yard...

Went into Best Buy today. This store had been holding out pretty well in terms of physical media... last week they finally eliminated all CD's, except for the clearance bin up front. (They apparently consider $5.99 to be a good clearance price...) This week, they cut their DVD space roughly in...

I'm currently watching season 1 of I Dream of Jeannie, in the original B&W. I have to say that it would have been much better in color. It's set in Florida, and shows set in sunny tropical places generally look pretty depressing in black and white. (SEE ALSO: Season 1 of Gilligan's Island). But...

Whenever I see a thread like this I always try to start making a list, then get frustrated at trying to get it down to 10, and then I quit.

Matheson was a genius. Just last night I watched his "A World of Difference" Twilight Zone episode. Brilliant.

I remember seeing this when it aired and enjoying it. I was 14 years old at the time and it motivated me to go buy the book, which led to me becoming a lifelong Bradbury fan. I don't know how it would hold up today, but I know that nostalgia gives me a lot of extra tolerance for the stuff I...

She was only in six episodes. Unless you count Al Harrington, who was a regular for three seasons although he was only in 64 out of 281 total episodes. If we're being strict and saying what's the most recent show where *every* credited regular is dead, I think Mannix is still the one to beat.

All the stars of Chico and the Man (ended 1978) are dead, except for the kid who played the replacement Chico in the fourth and final season. Not sure if he would count. Otherwise, Mannix has The Odd Couple beaten by about 3 months.

Yep, with Joe Campanella gone now I guess that's right.

Not counting single-star shows, Bonanza might be the most recent with an all-dead main cast. (Ended in 1973.) Mitch Vogel is still alive, but I don't know if he would count or not. He was a regular for only about 10% of the show's lifetime.

Thing is, if you're my age (grew up in the 70s and 80s), you DID grow up watching the same shows your parents watched. Thanks to daytime syndication I watched probably more shows from the 50s, 60s and early 70's than shows from my own time.

Watching "That 70's Show" (and the short-lived "That 80's Show") was as cringe-worthy for me as watching "Happy Days" was for my parents. Another one is when you watch older science fiction shows, supposedly set hundreds of years in the future, and the tech is already light years behind what we...

That's Gypsy... she's moving the "payload" is what we're told, though what the payload is is a mystery. It's a tethered satellite so I don't know what they could be "moving." But I think these Gypsy scenes are just an excuse to get a female voice in there once in a while.

I was a backer of this Kickstarter, even though I had a lot of trepidation on how it would work out without the original cast and, even more importantly, without the original writers (especially Mike Nelson). But I put my trust in Joel, and I enjoyed this season quite a bit. It did take some...

I think ABC is abandoning DVD releases of its shows in favor of keeping them back for the upcoming Disney streaming service. The last few Agents of SHIELD seasons haven't been released. OUAT itself has the first 6 seasons on DVD, but they may be going out of print... on Amazon they have them...

I already have my copy. I bought it even though the episodes are kind of past the time when I was watching the show. Since it's all about the nostalgia for me, I don't mind the 1969 episode although it would have been interesting to see the first B&W one. (They were all B&W to me since we didn't...

I just picked up the complete I Dream of Jeannie at Best Buy for $19.99. Thought that was a great deal, but turns out Amazon has it a dollar cheaper. Meh, that extra dollar was worth "in my hand now" as opposed to "two day shipping."