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<div > <b id="internal-source-marker_0.9129727990366518">Shout! Factory brings four more new-to-DVD episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 in volume 22, including two Sandy Frank imports from Japan (Time of the Apes and Mighty Jack) as well as two Mike-era episodes (The Violent Years and The...

<p><em>Casper The Friendly Ghost</em> first came to life (if a ghost may accurately be said to come to life) in 1940 as a character in an unpublished children&rsquo;s story book created by Seymour Reit with character design and illustrations by Joe Oriolo. Oriolo later illustrated the <em>Felix...

<p> The triumphant return of&nbsp;<em >The Game</em>&nbsp;– to a staggering 7.7 million viewers on cables BET network on January 11, 2011 is cause for celebration. Not because it’s necessarily a good show (though fans are furiously loyal). No, the cause for celebration is the increase – albeit...

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When Alexander Armsworth (Steve Shaw) and his family move into an antebellum Louisiana mansion, he and his friend Blossom (Katy Kurtzman) discover that the property is haunted by the ghost of Inez Dumaine (Olivia Barash) who cannot rest in peace until Alexander and Blossom solve the riddle that...

Four Southern women (Delta Burke, Dixie Carter, Annie Potts, Jean Smart) and their delivery man (Meshach Taylor) run an interior design firm as they laugh, cry and argue about life, love, politics, culture, womanhood, motherhood, and whatever’s on their minds. Splendidly acted with expertly...

The Best of Star Trek The Original Series Studio: Paramount/CBS DVD Year: 1966-1967 US Rating: Not Rated Film Length: 3 hrs 21 Minutes Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Spanish & Portuguese Mono Subtitles: English, Spanish and Portuguese US Release Date: May 12...

<p> <em>Police Story</em> is the fondly-remembered police procedural TV series created by author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh(<em>The New Centurions</em>, <em>The Onion Field</em>). <em>Police Story&nbsp;&nbsp;</em> was an anthology of sorts in that different police officers were...

<div align="center"><img src="https://static.hometheaterforum.com/imgrepo/c/c7/ronsreviews_covers_PRD013940.jpg"><br /> <b>Star Trek - The Original Series: Season Three Remastered</b><br /> Directed by Marc Daniels et al<br /> <br /> Studio: Paramount<br /> Year: 1968-1969<br /> Aspect...

<p> &nbsp;<em>Mickey Spillane’s Mike Hammer</em> features Darren McGavin(<em>Kolchak: The Night Stalker</em>) as the two-fisted detective. McGavin appeared in 78 episodes of the syndicated TV series that was produced in 1958 and 1959. The series was criticized at the time for being excessively...

<p> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.7947531107347459" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-size: medium; ">Shout! Factory continues to re-release long out-of-print episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000 originally released on DVD by Rhino...

<p> <em>Car 54 Where Are You?</em> is the early 1960s sitcom featuring mismatched officers Toody and Muldoon of the fictitious 53^rd Precinct in New York City. Gunther Toody (Joe E. Ross) is short, stocky, and simple, and partner in Car 54 to officer Muldoon. Francis Muldoon (Fred...

<p> <strong>Suits Season One</strong> arrives on DVD ahead of the premiere of its 2^nd season at the end of May.&nbsp; The series, airing on the USA network, is a legal dramedy with a decided emphasis on its comic aspects.&nbsp; Gabriel Macht and Patrick J. Adams lead the cast in this...

Julia Sugarbaker (Dixie Carter), Mary Jo Shivley (Annie Potts) and Anthony Bouvier (Meshach Taylor) find themselves with two new partners in their Atlanta design firm: Julia’s obnoxious cousin Allison Sugarbaker (Julia Duffy) and Charlene’s cheerful, recently divorced younger sister Carlene...

<p> <em>Fantasy Island </em>is the fondly remembered anthology series produced by Aaron Spelling that aired originally on the ABC network from 1977 until 1984. Mr. Roarke (Ricardo Montalban) was the owner of Fantasy Island and his diminutive assistant was Tattoo (Herve Villechaize). Each week...

<p> Take a crisis situation that often involves hostages or innocents being held at gunpoint, and you’ve got a job for the Strategic Response Unit (SRU) in another winning season of the U.S.-Canadian (filmed in Toronto) co-production <em>Flashpoint</em>. An often gripping and sometimes even...

<p> ABC’s <em>The River</em> took a terrific premise which could have become another suspense classic like <em>Lost</em> and instead evolved it into something miserably ridiculous and irritating. A suspense/horror series is nothing new for network television, but <em>The River</em> wanted to be...

<p> <em>Let's cut to the chase. <strong>Route 66: The Complete Series</strong> from Shout! Factory is a mixed bag. Those who are familiar with the previous releases of Seasons 1-3 by Roxbury/Infinity are well aware of the problems with those releases. The first release of Season One was in the...

<p> <em>VEGA$, </em>one of Aaron Spelling’s typically slick but somewhat&nbsp;journeyman private eye shows, ended after its third season drew in a less sizable audience than before dropping it from the list of TV’s thirty most popular shows. (The previous two seasons had landed in this elite...

<p> Viewer levels had fallen for Joe Mannix during his seventh season on the air. No longer CBS’ top crime fighter, Joe had been supplanted by Kojak, Cannon, Barnaby Jones, and the guys at <em>Hawaii Five-O.</em> Still, with the clock clicking down on its network run, it’s surprising how many...

<p> Season three for <em>The Streets of San Francisco</em>, and the ratings and award recognition continued unabated. In fact, despite retaining its rank of 22nd in the national ratings, the numbers actually went up in season three, and the show’s Emmy nominees this season not only included...

In Diff'rent Strokes: The Complete Third Season, white millionaire Philip Drummond (Conrad Bain), his adopted black sons Arnold (Gary Coleman) and Willis (Todd Bridges), and his biological daughter Kimberly (Dana Plato) form an unlikely family that has to deal with the harsh realities of life as...

<p> <b id="internal-source-marker_0.07798526715487242" style="font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: medium; line-height: normal; text-align: -webkit-auto; font-weight: normal; ">The 24th collection of episodes from Mystery Science Theater 3000 arrives on DVD from Shout! Factory, including...

<p> Season three for <em>The Streets of San Francisco</em>, and the ratings and award recognition continued unabated. In fact, despite retaining its rank of 22nd in the national ratings, the numbers actually went up in season three, and the show’s Emmy nominees this season not only included...

Another year, another set of cast changes for Designing Women: The Final Season. This time, it’s Judith Ivey as the ebullient Texan multimillionaire B.J. Poteet. Arguably a better-defined character than the one she replaced, Julia and Suzanne’s cousin Allison, the actress is given more of an...

<p > A mixture of drama, suspense, action, goofiness and playful misadventure make up the DNA of the Syfy Channel’s popular show&nbsp;<em>Eureka</em>. Throughout five seasons the small&nbsp;town full of geniuses has caused no end of potentially catastrophic disaster in the pursuit of...

NBC's ensemble comedy about the world’s most off-task study group hits its stride in the third season, balancing its high concept ambitions with satisfying character developing moments. The DVD release is another solid one across the board, even though the absence of a high definition version...

<p> Another season of <em>The Streets of San Francisco</em> and another yearly placement&nbsp;among the top thirty most popular shows on television. Though the audience levels slipped a little in its fourth season, the industry still considered this a quality show once again nominating it for...

<p> CBS’ <em>The Good Wife</em> had nowhere to go but down in its third season on the air. After mounting a near-perfect season during its second year and winning its timeslot handily in total viewers, CBS saw fit to move it to a Sunday night timeslot often disrupted by NFL overruns in the fall...

<p> Season seven was a bumpy ride for CBS’ <em>Criminal Minds</em>. With the return to the cast of previously written-out actors handled rather clumsily and with the clichés of the show’s formula beginning to show a little wear and tear around the edges, the show had its problems. Individual...