TV shows on DVD.

[David]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

Hey, the truth hurts! Easy on Grandpa Dave!
He likes Sanford and Son!

Sanford & Son is one of the great 1970s corrosive subversions of what ultimately became PC minority rhetoric, & I think it's a hoot & a howl. You don't know what you're missing, Dave. Don't you love the corruscating W.C. Fields? Sanford & Son carries on that tradition.

The theme song is also the best theme song with a clavinet ever on TV.

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by David

Sanford & Son is one of the great 1970s corrosive subversions of what ultimately became PC minority rhetoric, & I think it's a hoot & a howl. You don't know what you're missing, Dave. Don't you love the corruscating W.C. Fields? Sanford & Son carries on that tradition.

The theme song is also the best theme song with a clavinet ever on TV.

Sanford and Son is okay, David. I've seen em all though.
If you've noticed, it seems to me like the sitcoms that are really considered classic, seem to revolve around the characters, NOT the times. S&S, I guess, doesn't really play on "the times" as much as some others(although it does to some extent). I can't recall a sitcom that is considered "classic", where the characters lived in virtual poverty.
Stuff like Good Times, Maude, All in the Family(I wasn't INTENDING to name all Norman Lear projects!) just seem to topical to withstand the test of time.
Just my 2 cents. Your mileage may vary....

My alltime favorite is The Dick Van Dyke Show.

[diamondsnake]

Originally Posted by GiniLeaE

Wow! What a collection!



All the ones I've highlighted in bold red I also started collecting because I am a HUGE Lucille Ball fanatic (I love my redhead gals Lucy and Carol Burnette!) and I MUST have them all! I saw Tim Conway and Harvey Korman perform skits live in Atlanta at the Fox Theatre a couple of years ago (lucky for me I got close seats the night of the show!) and it was the funniest thing I have EVER seen live! I wanted to see Vicki Lawrence in her live act, but it was never in my area so that I could attend.



I quickly bought my guilty pleasure as soon as they hit the shelves eat time they were released - SEX IN THE CITY! I regret getting them so fast, as they now have a special edition of them all in a nice package.



I recently started collecting Designing Women and Golden Girls episodes, mainly because I've been to the sets of each show (in Atlanta and Florida) and I just love the actresses and I continue to follow them in all their roles.


I have always watched Desperate Housewives and Charmed, as well as another little known series called Sisters. I use the internet P2P and Torrent files to get copies of these shows instead of the box sets of the ones that are still on (although sadly, Charmed just ended its 8 season run) and Sisters hasn't been released yet on DVD and I have no other alternative.


Since I live in Savannah, I see Paula Deen all the time at her restaurant and around town. I've loved her and her cooking for years! She's remarkable and quite a character! I knew that before Cameron Crowe wrote that role for her in Elizabethtown...

If anyone ever wants any merchandise signed or purchased from the store she owns in her restaurant (she also owns Uncle Bubba's seafood restaurant), I certainly don't mind helping out. She knows me from all the years I've brought new customers in from the UK and everywhere else...she ever comes and sits a spell with us when she can to chat.

Wow!!! We have a lot of similar taste in TV shows! And, Paula rocks! I went to Savannah a few months ago and loved it! It was seriously the coolest little city. I want to move there! The restaurants, the shops, the cobblestone streets, it was so charming. You are so lucky!

[diamondsnake]

Originally Posted by HomerMcvie

I HATE Lucy, even though ya'all seem to love it. Al Bundy was right, "they should've killed em all off, and made Fred the star, and called it 'Mertz's World'".

How can you not love I Love Lucy? I don't think anything makes me laugh so much. Nothing else compares to the belly laughs I get from watching Lucy. Although, Ethel and Fred are my favorite characters...

[Serrart]

Does anyone here like Resurrection Blvd? I think it's very good. And I'm curious about Curb Your Enthusiasm. I was also thinking to write something about it, in Italy isn't very known, this year it debuted here on cable.

Romy

[catinthedark]

Originally Posted by hayley

Felicity- Seasons 1-4 (shut. up.)

i love felicity.

the first time i went to new york city - i went to dean and deluca... well... just because. and i bought a bag there. just because.

[Johnny Stew]

I own more TV shows on DVD boxed-sets than I do movies.

Alice: The Best of Alice/TV Favorites
Batman - The Animated Series: Seasons 1 - 4
Bewitched: Season 1
Charlie's Angels: Seasons 1 & 2
Chico & The Man: The Best of Chico & The Man/TV Favorites
Coupling: Season 1
Family Guy: Volumes 1 - 3
Friends: Seasons 1 & 2
Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries: Season 1
I Dream Of Jeannie: Season 1
Justice League: Seasons 1 & 2
Lost: Season 1
Mr. Bean: The Complete Mr. Bean
Scrubs: Season 1
The Simpsons: Seasons 1 - 4 & 6
Super Friends/Challenge Of The Super Friends: Seasons 1 & 2
Superman - The Animated Series: Seasons 1 - 3
Thin Blue Line: Complete Series
Three's Company: Season 1
Wonder Woman: Seasons 1 - 3

[seeker007nmss]

Here is my list:

Xena 1-6
Hercules 1
Mash 1-8
Are You Being Served 1-14
Monty Python 1-14
Logans Run TV - complete
Planet of the apes TV - complete
Battlestar Galactica (new one) 1-2
Murphy Brown -1
South Park 1-2
Simpsons 1
Danger UXB - complete
Spoung Bob 1 (sorry, I like him!)
'Allo 'Allo -1-2
Emergency - 1
Adam 12- 1
Mcguiver 1,2
American Chopper 1,2,3
Space 1999 1,2,3
Are you being Served again? - complete
Futurerama 1
Various National Geographic specials
Hogans Heros 1


Still a ton I want to get,

[Miss Vicky]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Thin Blue Line: Complete Series

You know, I bought this set without ever having seen any of the episodes because I LOVE Blackadder and Mr. Bean and assumed that I would like this show, too, but I really didn't like it. A lot of that seemed to have to do with me not understanding what the hell was going on or what the characters were talking about. It just didn't seem to have the same sort of universal appeal as the other two - I mean, Mr. Bean is essentially a mute. Most of the comedy is physical so there's not much in the way of cultural differences (like the use of slang, for example) to get past. The comedy of Blackadder comes mostly from making fun of stupid people and who doesn't love that? But I just didn't get The Thin Blue Line. I don't know, maybe I'm just dense. (No comments from the peanut gallery, please. Just snicker to yourselves.)

On a side note, I saw that you have the Mr. Bean boxed set, have you seen any of animated Mr. Bean series yet?

[HomerMcvie]

Originally Posted by diamondsnake

How can you not love I Love Lucy? I don't think anything makes me laugh so much. Nothing else compares to the belly laughs I get from watching Lucy. Although, Ethel and Fred are my favorite characters...

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She's noisy, and kinda dumb. That's how.

[markolas]

I love TV on DVD. Mainly because all TV shows are crap now. I actually only have the first 5 seasons of the Golden Girls personally, but I'd love to have:

Mary Tyler Moore Show
Bob Newhart Show ('70s)
Taxi (I have a thing for Judd Hirsch)
Sanford & Son
All in the Family (maybe just the first few seasons)
Maude
Good Times (maybe just the first 2 or 3 seasons until John Amos left)
Who's the Boss?
Moonlighting

I'm sure there are more, but that's what I came up with so far...

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by Miss Vicky

I LOVE Blackadder and Mr. Bean and assumed that I would like this show, too, but I really didn't like it. A lot of that seemed to have to do with me not understanding what the hell was going on or what the characters were talking about. It just didn't seem to have the same sort of universal appeal as the other two....

I watch a lot of Britcoms, so the slang doesn't really phase me. Every now and then there might be a reference that goes over my head, but not too often. 'Thin Blue Line' is definitely one of my favorites (hence the reason I own the boxed-set! ) -- I just wish they had filmed more episodes.

I haven't seen the animated Bean series yet, but I've heard it's really cute. I'm sure I'd love it.

[DrummerDeanna]

Originally Posted by markolas

Maude
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Maude is out on DVD?? How did I miss that!?! OMG...well add that to my list

[wondergirl9847]

Originally Posted by Johnny Stew

Coupling: Season 1
Lost: Season 1
Mr. Bean: The Complete Mr. Bean

Well, I have Mr. Bean on VHS, but I do have the whole thing. I have the first 2 seasons of Coupling too. "Nudity buffer", "sock gap", "giggle loop", "Lesbian Spank Inferno"...hilarious!


Oh and Homer, I don't love Lucy either.

[Johnny Stew]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

I have the first 2 seasons of Coupling too.

I only have the first season so far... those sets are SO expensive for just a handful of episodes on each. I love that show though.

My list would've also included the 'Dark Shadows' revival from the '90s, but I boycotted that set when I learned that they cropped the footage to create a faux widescreen effect. What an idiotic idea. Grrr.
I do have every episode on VHS though. MPI released them about 10 years ago, and some of the volumes included deleted/extended scenes.