TV shows you discovered on DVD? (1 Viewer)

[Chris Lockwood]

Has anyone else fallen for a show on DVD, of which you had never seen a single episode on the air? I can't be the only one. For me it was Buffy the Vampire Slayer, which I never saw first run due to the premise sounding dumb and it being on a minor network that I didn't pay attention to.

It's a nice luxury seeing the episodes for the first time uncut and on my own schedule. Only downside is having heard more than I want to know about what will happen in future episodes, so I can't read any of the Buffy threads until I finish all the seasons.

 

[Aaron_Brez]

Grabbed Stargate: SG-1 Season 1 DVDs on the recommendation of Usenet personality Gharlane of Eddore (RIP), and was very impressed. Since then I've become a *big* fan.

 

[LanieParker]

ALIAS ( the wonderful members of this forum pushed me in the right direction as it is now one of my favorite shows)

Six Feet Under (another great forum suggestion)

Nip/Tuck (Thanks to my sister in law)

 

[MikeAB]

Buffy also for me. I had heard good things about it and saw a good deal on the first season so i picked it up. Before I knew it, I had watched six seasons of the show in six months. It is definitely an interesting experience to watch that much of a show in a short time period and watch the characters grow and evolve at a ridiculous speed. It was also great not to have to wait a week not to find out what would happen next. I did know a lot of the key plot points, so some of the surprises didn't catch me as off guard as they would have.

Another show I blind bought and loved was Firefly. I only very sporadically watched La Femme Nikita, but have really enjoyed the first two seasons and hope they can work out the legal problems or whatever is holding them up.

 

[Matthew Green]

Don't laugh...

I recently bought and never saw...

Dallas
Star Trek Original series
Punky Brewster
Battlestar Gallactica
Superman Fleischer cartoons
Lost in Space

I am watching some of them...I have alot to watch though. I just completed Dukes of Hazzard, What's happening, Different Strokes...

 

[StacyV]

For me: 24
The Sopranos
Freaks & Geeks

 

[Casey Trowbridg]

What's Happening, King of Queens, the Office, those make up my list.

 

[Brian Kaz]

Dead Like Me
Six Feet Under
Freaks & Geeks
Sopranos
Curb Your Enthusiasm

I like 'em all. Especially Freaks & Geeks.

Upcoming:
Alias
24
The Shield

 

[Dillon*G]

24
Alias
Angel
SCTV

All good shows

 

[Greg_S_H]

You too, eh? I saw the pilot when it originally aired, but it didn't hold my interest. Since buying the first box, I've now got all the available boxes, and will buy season 7 the day it's released. I can't get enough.

Others I watched for the first time on DVD:

[*]Magnum, pi

 

[Chris Bardon]

Twin peaks...

Never saw it when it first came out, loved the first season, and am now incredibly pissed off at artisan/paramount/whoever else is responsible for denying us season 2. I've managed to go this far without finding out how things end, and I want to be able to find out by seing the damn episodes by myself...on DVD.

 

[Greg Walker]

The West Wing.

Never seen an episode, but what a great show.

 

[Andrew Radke]

For me, it was "The Jeffersons". I had not once seen the show prior to the first season DVD release. It was nowhere to be seen in syndication around here. I asked a few people about the show, as well as if it would be worth picking up the set. It is now one of my all-time favorite sitcoms. I think this is why I complain about having to wait for the season three set. Every single episode is new to me, therefore I've only seen the season 1 and 2 episodes. Knowing there are 8 more seasons chock full of episodes I have NEVER seen, I can't help but be a little anxious about these getting released.

 

[Ron_Wi]

POPULAR...never saw this show, probably because it was on the WB. Bought the Season 1 set and couldn't stop watching it. I am hoping that the 2nd , and final, season of POPULAR will be released in the future.

 

[Will_B]

Same here. Buffy, the Angel spin off of course, but the best unseen show for me had been Dead Like Me, and Firefly a close second.

 

[Nick Senger]

Alias
Monk

 

[Moe Maishlish]

24
The Sopranos
Sex & the City
Farscape

All AMAZING shows!

Upcoming:
Stargate
Babylon-5
Buffy
Angel

Thanks to Zip.ca (think Netflix Canada), I can rent these series' that I normally wouldn't be able to find in the local video store.

Moe.

 

[Pete Battista]

I have discovered a handful of shows from the dvds... and luckily I have never been disappointed yet!

- 24
- Alias
- Kindred: The Embraced
- King of Queens
- Mutant X

 

[Nate Anderson]

24
Queer as Folk

 

[Eric Paddon]

In my case the original Outer Limits, and possibly I can add Night Gallery since my previous exposure to the latter was just one syndicated episode from season 1 ("Lone Survivor").