Directed by Alan Crosland Jr, Leo Gordon, Paul Landres.
Starring Martin Milner, Kent McCord, Jack Hogan, Claude Johnson, William Stevens, William Boyett, Gary Crosby, Gene Boland, Cloris Leachman, Barry Williams, Bob Hastings, Eve Brent, Jerry Mathers, Richard Crane, Kenneth Washington, Del Moore, Margaret Field.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Log 1, Log 141, Log 11, Log 131, Log 91, Log 161, Log 71, Log 72, Log 101, Log 132, Log 111, Log 61, Log 122, Log 81, Log 36, Log 62, Log 33, Log 112, Log 51, Log 73, Log 102, Log 152, Log 12, Log 172, Log 92, Log 22
Comment: As the box says, "the series that defined the police drama genre." True.
Directed by Bryan Spicer, Greg Beeman, Andy Tennant.
Starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson, Kelly Rutherford, John Astin, John Pyper-Ferguson, Billy Drago, Jeff Phillips.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, Socrates' Sister, The Orb Scholar, No Man's Land, Brisco in Jalisco, Riverboat, Pirates!, Senior Spirit, Brisco for the Defense, Showdown, Deep in the Heart of Dixie, Crystal Hawks, Steel Horses, Mail Order Brides, AKA Kansas, 12 more.
Comment: I can't believe this is already almost 15 years old. Seems like yesterday. All 27 episodes.
Directed by Lee Sholem.
Starring Robert Newton, Connie Gilchrist, Kit Taylor, Billy Kay, Grant Taylor, Eric Reiman, John Brunskill, Harry Hambleton, John Sherwood.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Necklace, Pieces of Eight, The Orphan's Christmas, The Execution Dock, The Eviction, The Pink Pearl, The Tale of the Tooth, Ship of Dead, Sword of Vengeance, Turnabout, Miss Purity's Birthday, Dead Reckoning, Devil's Stew
Comment: First 13 episodes of the very fun pirate series with the best pirate ever, Robert Newton!
Directed by Daniel Birt, Don Chaffey, Ralph Smart.
Starring Richard Greene, Bernadette O'Farrell, Alan Wheatley, Alexander Gauge, Archie Duncan, Paul Eddington, Victor Woolf, Simone Lovell, Brian Alexis, John Arnatt, Peter Asher, Richard Coleman, Jill Esmond, Donald Pleasence.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Too Many Earls, Blackmail, The Vandals, Dead Or Alive, The Fire, Brother Battle, Children of Greenwood, The Miser, Goodbye Little John, The May Queen, Queen Eleanor, Food For Thought
Comment: 12 random episodes of the Richard Greene series.
Directed by Dan Birt, Ralph Smart, Terry Bishop, Sidney Cole.
Starring Richard Greene, Alan Wheatley, Bernadette O'Farrell, Alexander Gauge, Archie Duncan, Ronald Howard, Victor Woolf, Jill Esmond, Ballard Berkeley, Gerald Cross, John Drake, Walter Hudd, Max Faulkner, Willoughby Gray, John Dearth, Patrick Troughton.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 5/10. Extras 1/10.
Includes: Queen Eleanor (ep #8), Ladies of Sherwood (ep #23), Food for Thought (ep #69), The Charter (ep #82)
Comment: Four episodes of variable quality.
Directed by Ralph Smart, Bernard Knowles, Peter Maxwell.
Starring William Russell, Jane Hylton, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Cyril Smith, Peter Bennett, Robert Scroggins, Bruce Seton, David Morrell, Edwin Richfield, Brian Worth, Derren Nesbitt, Frederick Treves, Alfie Bass, Edward Judd, Carol Marsh, Robert Hardy.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Knight With the Red Plume, The Ferocious Fathers, The Queen's Knight, The Outcase, Winged Victory, Sir Bliant, The Pirates, The Magic Sword, Lancelot's Banishment, The Roman Wall, Caledon, Theft of Excalibur, The Black Castle, 17 more.
Comment: This is a VERY fun show, the likes of which could never be made today. I love it.
Directed by Lee Sholem, Harry W Gerstad, Lew Landers.
Starring George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jack Larson, John Hamilton, Robert Shayne.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Superman on Earth, The Haunted Lighthouse, The Case of the Talkative Dummy, Mystery of the Broken Statues, The Monkey Mystery, Night of Terror, The Birthday Letter, The Mind Machine, Rescue, 17 more plus "Superman vs the Mole Men" feature
Comment: Quite a lot of fun, but sometimes a bit too corny.
Directed by Lee Sholem, Harry W Gerstad, Lew Landers.
Starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson, John Hamilton, Robert Shayne.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Five Minutes to Doom, The Big Squeeze, The Man Who Could Read Minds, Jet Ace, Shot in the Dark, The Defeat of Superman, Superman in Exile, A Ghost for Scotland Yard, The Dog Who Knew Superman, The Face and the Voice, The Man in the Lead Mask, 15 more
Comment: Quite a lot of fun, but sometimes a bit too corny. Noel Neill's an improvement.
Directed by Harry W Gerstad, George Blair, Phil Ford.
Starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson, John Hamilton, Robert Shayne.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Through the Time Barrier, The Talking Clue, The Lucky Cat, Superman Week, Great Caesar's Ghost, Test of a Warrior, Olsen's Millions, Clark Kent Outlaw, The Magic Necklace, The Bully of Dry Gulch, Flight to the North, The Seven Souvenirs, 14 more
Comment: Quite a lot of fun, but sometimes a bit too corny. Color helps a bit, since it's a comic book.
Directed by George Blair, Harry Gerstad, Howard Bretherton.
Starring George Reeves, Noel Neill, Jack Larson, John Hamilton, Robert Shayne.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Peril in Paris, Tin Hero, The Town That Wasn't, The Tomb of Zaharan, The Man Who Made Dreams Come True, Disappearing Lois, Money to Burn, Close Shave, The Phony Alibi, The Prince Albert Coat, The Stolen Elephant, Mr Zero, 14 more
Comment: The final two seasons of the Adventures of Superman. Corny fun.
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Paul Henreid, Robert Stevens.
Starring Frances Bavier, Vera Miles, Ralph Meeker, John Forsythe, Cloris Leachman, Gene Barry, Darren McGavin, Ellen Corby, Sidney Blackmer, Alan Napier, Virginia Christine, Elisha Cook Jr, Joseph Cotten, Aaron Spelling.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Revenge, Premonition, Triggers in Leash, Don't Come Back Alive, Into Thin Air, Salvage, Breakdown, Our Cook's a Treasure, The Long Shot, The Case of Mr Pelham, Guilty Witness, Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid, The Cheney Vase, 26 more
Comment: A great anthology series, and oftentimes the introductions by Hitchcock are even better than the stories themselves!
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Starring Wendell Corey, James Donald, Arnold Moss, Vincent Price, James Gregory, Keenan Wynn, Fay Wray, David Wayne.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Poison, The Perfect Crime, Dip in the Pool, One More Mile to Go
Comment: Part of the Universal Hitchcock box set. "Dip in the Pool" is the one I wanted.
Directed by Michael Matessino.
Starring Dan O'Bannon, Ridley Scott, H R Giger, Ronald Shusett, Nick Allder, Mia Bonzanigo, Bob Burns, Ron Cobb, Leslie Dilley, Brian Johnson, John Mollo, Ivor Powell.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Comment: An extremely well-done documentary on the making of and legacy of Ridley Scott's 'Alien'.
Directed by Ron Hughart, Brent Woods, Pam Cooke, Caleb Meurer.
Starring Seth MacFarlane, Wendy Schaal, Scott Grimes, Rachael MacFarlane, Dee Bradley Baker.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: American Dad, Threat Levels, Stan Knows Best, Francine's Flashback, Roger Codger, Homeland Insecurity, Deacon Stan Jesus Man, Bullocks to Stan, A Smith in the Hand, All About Steve, Con Heir, Stan of Arabia (2 parts). Plus extras.
Comment: Mixed bag - sometimes it's good, sometimes weak.
Directed by Mike Binder, Mel Damski, Peter O'Fallon.
Starring Gary Cole, Paige Turco, Jake Weber, Brenda Bakke, Sarah Paulson, Lucas Black, Nick Searcy, John Mease.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, A Tree Grows in Trinity, Eye of the Beholder, Damned If You Don't, Dead to the World, Potato Boy, Meet the Beetles, Strong Arm of the Law, To Hell and Back, The Beast Within, Rebirth, Ring of Fire, Resurrector, Inhumanitas, 8 more
Comment: Never got to see past the first few episodes, been looking forward to this.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 10/10.
Includes: In-flight television transmissions, onboard film footage, astronaut commentary, lunar landing footage, launch footage, much more
Comment: Over ten hours of footage chronicling the Apollo 11 moon-landing mission from training through splashdown.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Rabbot, Escape From Leprechaupolis, Bus of the Undead, Mayhem of the Mooninites, Balloonenstein, Space Conflict from Beyond Pluto, Ol' Drippy, Revenge of the Mooninites, MC P Pants, Circus, Dumber Days, Love Mummy, Dumber Dolls, 3 more, plus more
Comment: This was a blind buy, I know nothing of this show.
Directed by Max Morgan Witts, Gordon Flemyng.
Starring Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass, Ted Lune, Harry Fowler, Harry Towb, Frank Williams.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Snudge and Jimmy O'Goblin, The Take-Over Bid, Enter a Dark Stranger, Snudge's Budgie, Where There's Smoke, The Camera Never Lies, When the Poppies Bloom Again, Miracle in Hut 29, Night Train to Itchwick, Officers and Gentlemen, Tiger Bisley, 15 more
Comment: Not watched yet. Long-running army sitcom for which most of the 154 episodes are missing.
Directed by Max Morgan Witts, Gordon Flemyng.
Starring William Hartnell, Bill Fraser, Alfie Bass, Ted Lune, Harry Fowler, Harry Towb, Frank Williams.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Mad Bull, The New Officer, W.R.A.A.C.S, April Fool, Goodnight Ladies, One of the Lads, Holding the Baby, Pen Pals Anonymous, Are You Receiving Me, The Efficiency Expert, Bull By the Horn, A Touch of the Other, The Feud, 11 more, plus extras
Comment: Not watched yet. Long-running army sitcom for which most of the 154 episodes are missing.
Starring George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Melinda Culea, Dwight Schultz, Mr T.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Mexican Slayride (pilot), Children of Jamestown, Pros and Cons, A Small and Deadly War, Black Day at Bad Rock, The Rabbit Who Ate Las Vegas, The Out-Of-Towners, Holiday in the Hills, West Coast Turnaround, One More Time, Till Death Do Us Part, 2 more
Comment: Two-hour pilot, plus first 12 episodes of season one of this highly entertaining series.
Starring George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Mr T, Marla Heasley.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Diamonds 'N Dust, Recipe for Heavy Bread, The Only Church in Town, Bad Time on the Border, When You Comin' Back Range Rider?, The Taxicab Wars, Labor Pains, There's Always a Catch, Water Water Everywhere, Steel, 12 more, plus one ep of Knight Rider.
Comment: Still highly entertaining and goofy, sadly lacking Melinda Culea now.
Starring George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Mr T, Marla Heasley, William Lucking, Lance LeGault.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Bullets and Bikinis, The Bend in the River (2 parts), Fire, Timber!, Double Heat, Trouble on Wheels, The Island, Showdown!, Sheriffs of Rivertown, The Bells of St Mary's, Hot Styles, Breakout!, Cup A' Joe, The Big Squeeze, Champ!, Skins, 8 more.
Comment: Getting sillier but still fun.
Starring George Peppard, Dirk Benedict, Dwight Schultz, Mr T, Marla Heasley, Lance LeGault.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Judgment Day, Where is the Monster When You Need Him?, A Lease with an Option to Die, The Road to Hope, The Heart of Rock n' Roll, Body Slam, Blood Sweat and Cheers, Mind Games, There Goes the Neighborhood, 13 more, plus an episode from season 5.
Comment: Sillier still, losing some of its fun.
Directed by Bill Bain, Don Leaver, Raymond Menmuir.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, Lee Paterson, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Terence Lodge, Andre Morell, Philip Madoc, Patrick Magee, Ruth Dunning.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 5/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 54-59: The Undertakers, Man With Two Shadows, The Nutshell, Death of a Batman, November Five, The Gilded Cage
Comment: Passable picture quality is the best we'll get; nice to see these episodes but they're not as interesting as the later ones.
Directed by Peter Hammond, Kim Mills, Bill Bain.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, Peter Bowles, Peter Barkworth, Harold Innocent, Colette White, Tenniel Evans, Robert James, Leonard Rossiter, Anneke Wills.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 60-66: Second Sight, The Medicine Men, The Grandeur That Was Rome, The Golden Fleece, Don't Look Behind You, Death a la Carte, Dressed to Kill
Comment: More fairly decent episodes, but still leading up to the more creative ones. These are the chronologically the last ones of 1963.
Directed by Jonathan Alwyn, Richmond Harding, Kim Mills.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, Julia Arnall, Patrick Holt, Paul Eddington, James Bree, Jane Barratt, Dallas Cavell, Peter Arne, John Hollis, Melissa Stribling.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 41-46: Intercrime, Immortal Clay, Box of Tricks, Warlock, The Golden Eggs, School for Traitors
Comment: Chronologically the first episodes from 1963 (earlier than sets 1 and 2).
Directed by Richmond Harding, Kim Mills, Peter Hammond.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, Philip Latham, George Roubicek, Keith Pyott, Daphne Anderson, Ray Barrett, Colette Wilde, John Carson, Philip Madoc, Patrick Magee.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 47-53: The White Dwarf, Man in the Mirror, Conspiracy of Silence, A Chorus of Frogs, Six Hands Across a Table, Killerwhale, Brief For Murder
Comment: Covers the end of season 2 and the first episode of season 3.
Directed by Laurence Bourne, Don Leaver, Bill Bain.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, Godfrey Quigley, Edwin Richfield, Kenneth J Warren, Lois Maxwell, Peter Sallis, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Barry Letts, John Le Mesurier, Philip Locke, John Ringham, T P McKenna.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 67-72: The White Elephant, The Little Wonders, The Wringer, Mandrake, The Secrets Broker, The Trojan Horse
Comment: Getting better as they go! Chronologically the first episodes of 1964.
Directed by Peter Hammond, Jonathan Alwyn, Bill Bain.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Honor Blackman, Athene Seyler, Harold Goodwin, Ronald Mansell, Fenella Fielding, Nigel Stock, Roy Kinnear, John Thaw, Leslie Sands, Burt Kwouk, Jennie Linden.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 73-78: Build a Better Mousetrap, The Outside-In Man, The Charmers, Concerto, Esprit de Corps, Lobster Quadrille
Comment: The last episodes of season 3, and they're starting to settle into a creative groove, getting better and better.
Directed by Charles Crichton, Quentin Lawrence, Sidney Hayers.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Alan MacNaughton, Patrick Newell, Terence Alexander, Ronald Fraser, Wanda Ventham, Michael Gough, Frederick Jaeger, Bernard Horsfall, John Hollis, Andre Morell, Bernard Archard.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 79-84: The Town of No Return, The Gravediggers, The Cybernauts, Death at Bargain Prices, Castle De'ath, The Master Minds
Comment: Entering the best era of the show - seasons 4 and 5.
Directed by Sidney Hayers, Gerry O'Hara, Roy Ward Baker.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Patrick Cargill, John Woodvine, Noel Purcell, Suzanne Lloyd, Roy Kinnear, Peter Bowles, Derek Farr, Julian Glover, Mervyn Johns.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 85-91: The Murder Market, A Surfeit of H2O, The Hour That Never Was, Dial a Deadly Number, Man-Eater of Surrey Green, Two's A Crowd, Too Many Christmas Trees
Comment: Some of the best episodes are in this set.
Directed by Roy Ward Baker, Gerry O'Hara, James Hill.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, William Franklyn, Jack Watson, Isobel Black, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Philip Latham, Liz Fraser, Bernard Cribbins, Donald Hewlett, Eunice Gayson.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 92-97: Silent Dust, Room Without a View, Small Game for Big Hunters, The Girl From Auntie, The 13th Hole, Quick-Quick-Slow Death
Comment: Still in season 4, but chronologically moving into 1966 with these fairly good stories.
Directed by Charles Crichton, James Hill, Bill Bain.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Nigel Davenport, Moray Watson, Peter Wyngarde, Colin Jeavons, Carol Cleveland, Thorley Walters, John Le Mesurier, Kynaston Reeves, Michael Goodliffe, Nigel Stock, Sarah Lawson, Ron Moody.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 98-104: The Danger Makers, A Touch of Brimstone, What the Butler Saw, The House That Jack Built, A Sense of History, How To Succeed At Murder, Honey for the Prince
Comment: Continuing season 4, a bit better than the episodes in set 1.
Directed by Robert Day, Gordon Flemyng, John Krish.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Barbara Shelley, Jon Pertwee, Philip Locke, Derek Newark, Patrick Cargill, Andrew Keir, Bernard Horsfall, Peter Bowles, Geoffrey Bayldon, Judy Parfitt, Moira Lister, Roy Kinnear, Ron Moody, Ilona Rodgers, Nigel Green.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 105-110: From Venus With Love, The Fear Merchants, Escape in Time, The See-Through Man, The Bird Who Knew Too Much, The Winged Avenger
Comment: Some of the best, the first color episodes, the beginning of both season 5 and 1967
Directed by John Krish, Sidney Hayers, Charles Crichton.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Julian Glover, Ronnie Barker, Anna Quayle, Michael Gough, Philip Madoc, Peter Barkworth, Christopher Lee, Christopher Benjamin, Peter Wyngarde, Charlotte Rampling, Brian Blessed.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 111-116: The Living Dead, The Hidden Tiger, The Correct Way to Kill, Never Never Say Die, Epic, The Superlative Seven
Comment: More of the best episodes as season 5 continues.
Directed by John Krish, James Hill, John Llewellyn Moxey.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, James Hayter, John Laurie, Isla Blair, Patrick Newell, Peter Jeffrey, Sally Nesbitt, Ronald Lacey, Patricia Haines, Freddie Jones, Peter Cushing, Frederick Jaeger, Fulton Mackay, Clifford Evans.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 117-122: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Station, Something Nasty in the Nursery, The Joker, Who's Who???, Return of the Cybernauts, Death's Door
Comment: Straddling the end of season 5 and beginning of season 6, more of the best.
Directed by Robert Day, Sidney Hayers, Robert Asher.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Diana Rigg, Cecil Parker, Anneke Wills, Norman Bowler, Valerie Van Ost, Edwin Richfield, Barrie Ingham, Colin Blakely, Ronald Radd, Jane Merrow, Nicholas Courtney, Kevin Stoney, Linda Thorson.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 123-129: The £50000 Breakfast, Dead Man's Treasure, You Have Just Been Murdered, The Positive-Negative Man, Murdersville, Mission Highly Improbable, The Forget-Me-Knot
Comment: The end of the Emma Peel era (and season 6) and the start of season 7.
Directed by Robert Fuest, John Hough, Roy Ward Baker.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Peter Jeffrey, Aubrey Richards, Allan Cuthbertson, Ivor Dean, Donald Gee, Roland Culver, Valentine Dyall, Fulton Mackay, Nigel Davenport, Julian Glover, Bernard Archard, Christopher Benjamin, John Bennett.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 130-135: Game, The Super Secret Cypher Snatch, You'll Catch Your Death, Split, Whoever Shot Poor George Oblique Stroke XR40, False Witness
Comment: Some of the episodes have startlingly bad picture quality. The first of the Tara King stories.
Directed by Ray Austin, Don Chaffey, Peter Sykes.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Dinsdale Landen, Edwin Richfield, Tenniel Evans, Stratford Johns, Kynaston Reeves, Richard Hurndall, John Hollis, Peter Swanwick, T P McKenna, Anthony Ainley, John Cleese, Bernard Cribbins, John Woodvine, Ian Ogilvy.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 136-141: All Done With Mirrors, Legacy of Death, Noon Doomsday, Look (Stop Me If You've Heard This One Before) But There Were These Two Fellers, Have Guns Will Haggle, They Keep Killing Steed
Comment: Just about bringing up the end, three more sets to go.
Directed by Charles Crichton, Robert Fuest, Don Sharp.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Christopher Lee, Gerald Sim, William Lucas, Jennifer Croxton, Peter Barkworth, Anthony Bate, David Sumner, Eric Barker, Harold Innocent, Lucy Fleming, William Franklyn, Harry Towb, James Bree, Penelope Horner.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 142-147: The Interrogators, The Rotters, Invasion of the Earthmen, Killer, The Morning After, The Curious Case of the Countless Clues
Comment: Just about bringing up the end, two more sets after this.
Directed by Don Chaffey, Robert Fuest, John Hough.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Liam Redmond, Derek Newark, Louise Pajo, Gary Bond, Kate O'Mara, Roger Delgado, Patrick Barr, Nigel Green, Guy Rolfe, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Joyce Carey, Edward Brayshaw, Veronica Strong, Andrew Keir, Peter Bowles.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Wish You Were Here, Stay Tuned, Take Me To Your Leader, Fog, Homicide and Old Lace, Love All, Get-A-Way
Comment: The penultimate Avengers set.
Directed by Leslie Norman, Robert Fuest, Don Chaffey.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Linda Thorson, Dora Reisser, Julian Glover, Angela Douglas, Tom Adams, William Marlowe, Peter Vaughan, Roy Kinnear, Iain Cuthbertson, Hugh Manning, Kathleen Byron, Alan Wheatley, Philip Madoc, Fulton Mackay, John Savident, Edward Fox.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Thingumajig, Pandora, Requiem, Take-Over, Who Was That Man I Saw You With?, My Wildest Dream, Bizarre
Comment: The final 7 episodes of the series.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 10/10.
Comment: The best disc for home theater system setup and calibration.
Directed by Russ Mayberry, Larry Doheny, Walter Doniger.
Starring Robert Conrad, Simon Oakland, Dana Elcar, James Whitmore Jr, Dirk Blocker, W K Stratton, Robert Ginty, Joey Aresco, John Larroquette, Larry Manetti, Jeff MacKay, Red West, Steve Richmond, Sharon Gless, Lance LeGault, George Gaynes, Charles Napier.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Flying Misfits (2 part pilot), Best Three Out of Five, Small War, High Jinx, Prisoners of War, Presumed Dead, The Meatball Circus, Up for Grabs, Anyone for Suicide?, New Georgia On My Mind, The Cat's Whiskers
Comment: I love this show due to watching it all the time on CBS Late Night in the late 1970s.
Directed by Richard Colla, Chris Nyby Jr, Rod Holcomb.
Starring Richard Hatch, Dirk Benedict, Lorne Greene, Herb Jefferson Jr, Maren Jensen, Laurette Spang, Tony Swartz, Noah Hathaway, Terry Carter, John Colicos, Sarah Rush, David Greenan, Anne Lockhart, Patrick Macnee, Lew Ayres, Wilfred Hyde-White, Ray Milland.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Saga of a Star World, Lost Planet of the Gods, The Lost Warrior, The Long Patrol, The Gun on Ice Planet Zero, The Magnificent Warriors, The Young Lords, The Living Legend, Fire in Space, War of the Gods, The Man With Nine Lives, 7 more
Comment: Six disc set covering the entire series, 24 episodes, over 19 hours long.
Directed by Michael Rymer.
Starring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Full miniseries, 33, Water, Bastille Day, Act of Contrition, You Can't Go Home Again, Litmus, Six Degrees of Separation, Flesh and Bone, Tigh Me Up Tigh Me Down, The Hand of God, Colonial Day, Kobol's Last Gleaming (2 parts)
Comment: Haven't seen most of it. Saw part of the miniseries, didn't care for it. Saw "33", liked it. Ready to give it a shot.
Directed by Michael Rymer, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan.
Starring Edward James Olmos, Mary McDonnell, Katee Sackhoff, Jamie Bamber, James Callis, Tricia Helfer, Grace Park.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Scattered, Valley of Darkness, Fragged, Resistance, The Farm, Home (pt 1), Home (pt 2), Final Cut, Flight of the Phoenix, Pegasus. Includes deleted scenes, commentaries, other extras
Comment: First half of season two (10 episodes).
Directed by David Comtois, Kevin Burns.
Starring Roddy McDowall, Charlton Heston, Kim Hunter, Edward G Robinson.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Full AMC documentary, three hours of bonus material including interviews, behind-the-scenes footage, makeup tests, dailies, outtakes, featurettes
Comment: Not yet watched, never seen.
Directed by Marty Callner.
Starring Pat Benatar, Neil Giraldo, Myron Grombacher, Roger Capps, Charlie Giordano.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Anxiety, Fire and Ice, You Better Run, Little Too Late, Fight It Out, Looking for a Stranger, I Want Out, We Live for Love, In the Heat of the Night, Shadows of the Night, Heartbreaker, Hit Me With Your Best Shot, Hell is for Children
Comment: A blast from the past, and this was one of the first things I ever bought on videotape (Beta) back in the early 1980s.
Directed by Robert Garofalo.
Starring Big Country.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: (1) Restless Natives, Where the Rose is Sown, Wonderland, Look Away, Just a Shadow, Steeltown, Porroh Man, The Seer, Chance, In a Big Country, Fields of Fire, Honky Tonk Woman. (2) Harvest Home, King of Emotion, Driving to Damascus, 19 more.
Comment: Two disc set including "Live In Berlin" (1988) and "Glasgow Barrowlands" (2000).
Directed by Robert Garofalo.
Starring Stuart Adamson, Mark Brzezicki, Tony Butler.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Harvest Home, Fields of Fire, In a Big Country, Chance, Wonderland, East of Eden, Where the Rose Is Sown, Just a Shadow, Look Away, The Teacher, One Great Thing (+ 12"), Hold the Heart, King of Emotion, Broken Heart, Peace in Our Time, 6 more
Comment: 22 videos from the career of Big Country
Starring Stuart Adamson, Tony Butler, Mark Brzezicki.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Harvest Home, Peace in Our Time, 13 Valleys, The Storm, Chance, Look Away, What Are You Working For, Steeltown, Ships, Wonderland, Long Way Home, Alone, In a Big Country, Lost Patrol
Comment: One of Big Country's finest concerts.
Directed by Michel Gondry, Sophie Muller, Spike Lee.
Starring Björk.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras 1/10.
Includes: Human Behaviour, Venus as a Boy, Play Dead, Big Time Sensuality, Violently Happy, Army of Me, Isobel, It's Oh So Quiet, Hyperballad, Possibly Maybe, I Miss You, Jóga, Bachelorette, Hunter
Comment: All of Bjork's videos through 1997.
Directed by Alasdair MacMillian, Geoff Posner.
Starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Patsy Byrne, Miranda Richardson, Brian Blessed, Elspet Gray, Helen Atkinson-Wood, Robert East.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 7/10.
Includes: The Foretelling, Born to Be King, The Archbishop, The Queen of Spain's Beard, The Witchsmeller Pursuivant, The Black Seal, Bells, Head, Potato, Money, Beer, Chains, Dish and Dishonesty, Ink and Incapability, Nob and Nobility, 9 more plus 3 specials
Comment: Every episode of every series including the specials - and easily one of the funniest shows in television history. Just wish there was a slipcase.
Directed by Graham Linehan, Martin Dennis, Nick Wood.
Starring Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig, Tony Way, Graham Linehan, Paul Beech, Ben Homewood, Daisy Campbell.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Cooking the Books, Manny's First Day, Grapes of Wrath, The Backout, The Big Lockout, He's Leaving Home, The Entertainer, Fever, The Fixer, Blood, Hello Sun, A Nice Change, Manny Come Home, Elephants and Hens, Moo-Ma Moo Pa, 3 more, outtakes, etc
Comment: Hilarious series with Dylan Moran as the owner of a bookshop.
Directed by Michael Drumm.
Starring Eric Bloom, Allen Lanier, Donald "Buck Dharma" Roeser, Danny Miranda, Bobby Rondinelli.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Stairway to the Stars, Burning For You, OD'd On Life Itself, E.T.I., Dance on Stilts, Harvester of Eyes, Buck's Boogie, Quicklime Girl, Flaming Telepaths, Harvest Moon, Last Days of May, Cities on Flame, seven more plus interviews, behind the scenes
Comment: Live concert at Chicago's Navy Pier on the night of the longest day of the year, the summer solstice, June 21 2002.
Directed by Gilbert M Shilton, Bernard McEveety.
Starring James Farentino, Dana Carvey, Bubba Smith, Dick Butkus, Sandy McPeak, Ann Cooper, Kurtwood Smith, Richard Lynch, Geoffrey Lewis, Edward Grover, Tracy Scoggins, Ray Wise, Kelly Preston, Robert DoQui, Carolyn Seymour, Eugenia Wright, Ken Letner.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Second Thunder, A Clear and Present Danger, Arms Race, Revenge in the Sky, Trojan Horse, Skydiver, Clipped Wings, Payload, The Long Flight, Godchild, The Island.
Comment: Short-lived series based on the movie. 11 episodes from 1984. I watched this, never watched Airwolf.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Bond Girls Are Forever documentary, Bond girls photo gallery, Bond girls timeline, DVD catalog trailer, Bond Vs Oakenfold music video
Comment: Promotional James Bond disc.
Directed by Stephen Lawless, Humphrey Burton, Andrei Tarkovsky.
Starring Robert Lloyd, Alexei Steblianko, Olga Borodina, Sergei Leiferkus.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: The complete 1872 version, filmed at the Mariinsky Theatre in 1990, recreation of original production by Andrei Tarkovsky
Directed by Rick McKay.
Starring Alec Baldwin, Tom Bosley, Marlon Brando, Carol Burnett, Carol Channing, Hume Cronyn, Charles Durning, Ben Gazzara, Robert Goulet, Uta Hagen, Celeste Holm, Jeremy Irons, Derek Jacobi, Martin Landau, Frank Langella, Angela Lansbury, Fay Wray.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: Rick McKay's documentary about Broadway and the memories of its legendary stars.
Directed by Brothers Quay.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Nocturna Artificialia, The Cabinet of Jan Svankmajer, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Street of Crocodiles, Rehearsals for Extinct Anatomies, Dramolet, The Comb, Anamorphosis, Are We Still Married?, Tales from the Vienna Woods, more
Comment: Bizarre and beautiful stop-motion animation, including two His Name Is Alive videos
Directed by Ralph Smart, Leslie Arliss, Terry Bishop.
Starring Robert Shaw, Peter Hammond, Edwin Richfield, Paul Hansard, Brian Rawlinson, Wilfrid Downing, Andrew Keir, Alfred Burke, Adrienne Corri, Jane Asher, Ewen Solon, Derek Waring, Roger Delgado, Sarah Lawson, Alfred Burke, Robert Hardy, Frederick Treves.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Blackbeard, The Raiders, Captain Dan Tempest, Dan Tempest's War with Spain, The Wasp, Whale Gold, The Slave Ship, Gunpowder Plot, The Ladies, The Sugreon of Sangre Rojo, Before the Mast, Dan Tempest and the Amazons, The Articles of War, 26 more
Comment: The swashbuckling adventures of reformed pirate Captain Dan Tempest. All 39 episodes.
Directed by Daniel Haller.
Starring Gil Gerard, Erin Gray, Pamela Hensley, Tim O'Connor, Henry Silva.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Buck Rogers in the 25th Century (aka Awakening), Planet of the Slave Girls, Vegas in Space, The Plot to Kill a City, Return of the Fighting 69th, Unchained Woman, Planet of the Amazon Women, Cosmic Whiz Kid, Escape from Wedded Bliss, 22 more
Comment: Five discs of the entire series beginning with the theatrical "pilot" movie.
Directed by Charles Martin Smith, Stephen Cragg, Reza Badiyi.
Starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendan, Alyson Hannigan, Anthony Stewart Head, Kristine Sutherland, David Boreanaz, Charisma Carpenter, Armin Shimerman, Mark Metcalf, Robia LaMorte, Brian Thompson, Julie Benz, Ken Lerner, Musetta Vander, Robin Riker.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Welcome to the Hellmouth, The Harvest, Witch, Teacher's Pet, Never Kill a Boy on the First Date, The Pack, Angel, I Robot You Jane, The Puppet Show, Nightmares, Out of Mind Out of Sight, Prophecy Girl
Comment: Never seen this show. Yet.
Directed by Rodrigo Garcia, Jeremy Podeswa, Peter Medak.
Starring Nick Stahl, Clancy Brown, Amy Madigan, Clea DuVall, Ralph Waite, Michael J Anderson, Adrienne Barbeau, Patrick Bauchau, Debra Christofferson, Tim DeKay, Cynthia Ettinger, John Fleck, Carla Gallo, Toby Huss, Diane Salinger, Karyne Steben, Sarah Steben.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Milfay, After the Ball is Over, Tipton, Black Blizzard, Babylon, Pick a Number, The River, Lonnigan Texas, Insomnia, Hot and Bothered, The Day of the Dead, The Day That Was the Day
Comment: All 12 episodes from the first season. Haven't seen it yet.
Directed by Quentin Lawrence.
Starring Geoffrey Bayldon, Charles Tingwell, Neil McCarthy, Robin Davies, Derek Baker, Marjie Lawrence, Peter Sallis, Anne Jameson, Kim Butcher, June Jago, Ruth Kettlewell, Ursula Smith, Hattie Jacques, Marcella Markham, Brian Wilde, Peter Butterworth.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Sun in a Bottle, Castle Saburac, The Curse of Rapkyn, The Witching Hour, The Eye of Time, The Magic Face, The Telling Bone, The Power of Adamcos, The Demi Devil, The House of the Sorcerer, The Flying Broomsticks, The Wisdom of Solomon, one more
Comment: Two-disc set with the first 13 episodes of the magical children's comedy series from 1970.
Starring Batman, Superman, Flash, Hawkman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Robin, Aquaman.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Wanted: The Super Friends, Invasion of the Fearians, The World's Deadliest Game, The Time Trap, Trial of the Super Friends, The Monolith of Evil, Giants of Doom, Secret Origins of the Super Friends, Revenge on Gorilla City, 7 more
Comment: Silly and amateurish but fun animated series wherein the superheroes and villains exist solely to fight each other.
Directed by Cyril Frankel.
Starring Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt, Anthony Nicholls.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras 3/10.
Includes: The Beginning (ep 1), The Invisible Man (ep 2)
Comment: Three top-secret spies are given superpowers. An interesting series, I'd like to see more.
Directed by Cyril Frankel, Paul Dickson, Sam Wanamaker.
Starring Stuart Damon, Alexandra Bastedo, William Gaunt, Anthony Nicholls.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Beginning, The Invisible Man, Reply Box No. 666, The Experiment, Happening, Operation Deep-Freeze, The Survivors, To Trap a Rat, The Iron Man, The Ghost Plane, The Dark Island, The Fanatics, Twelve Hours, The Search, The Gilded Cage
Comment: Four disc set including 15 episodes of the ITV series from 1968
Starring Tim Burgess, Rob Collins, Mark Collins, Martin Blunt, Jon Brookes, Jon Baker, Tony Rogers.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 5/10.
Includes: The Only One I Know, Then, Sproston Green, Over Rising, Me In Time, Weirdo, Tremelo Song, I Don't Want To See the Sights, Can't Get Out of Bed, Easy Life, Jesus Hairdo, Crashin' In, Just Lookin', 5 more videos, 13 live
Comment: Compilation of all Charlatans videos plus a lot of live footage
Directed by Bill Melendez.
Starring Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Ann Altieri, Chris Doran, Sally Dryer, Bill Melendez, Karen Mendelson, Geoffrey Ornstein, Kathy Steinberg, Tracy Stratford.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: Peanuts Christmas special. A total classic.
Directed by Bill Melendez, Phil Roman.
Starring Todd Barbee, Jimmy Ahrens, Kip DeFaria, Robin Kohn, Bill Melendez, Hilary Momberger, Robin Reed, Stephen Shea.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: Peanuts Thanksgiving special. A near-classic.
Directed by Austin Hoyt, Patricia Garcia Rios.
Starring Geoffrey Baer.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Part I: Mudhole to Metropolis, Part II: The Revolution Has Begun, Part III: Battle for Chicago, Bonus Disc: Chicago by 'L': Touring the Neighborhoods
Comment: Three-part documentary about the city of Chicago, plus extras.
Directed by Peter Graham Scott.
Starring Gareth Thomas, Peter Demin, Veronica Strong, Katharine Levy, Iain Cuthbertson, Freddie Jones, Ruth Dunning, Peggy Ann Wood, June Barrie, Ian Donnolly, John Woodnutt, Richard Mathews, Darren Hatch, Gary Lock.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Into the Circle, Circle of Fear, Serpent in the Circle, Narrowing Circle, Charmed Circle, Squaring the Circle, Full Circle
Comment: They took "Let's get stoned" literally.
Directed by Christopher Hodson, Vic Hughes.
Starring James Hazeldine, Carol Drinkwater, Andrew Ellams, Glynis Brooks, Penny Brownjohn, Prentis Hancock, Zoe Hart, Colin McCormack, Devin Stanfield.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Chocky
Comment: Based on the novel by John Wyndham.
Directed by Bob Blagden.
Starring James Hazeldine, Andrew Ellams, Anabel Worrell, Prentis Hancock.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Chocky (episodes 13-18)
Comment: The final six episodes of the series, continuing the story, based on characters from the original John Wyndham novel.
Directed by Vic Hughes, Peter Duguid.
Starring James Hazeldine, Carol Drinkwater, Andrew Ellams, Anabel Worrell.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Chocky (episodes 7-12)
Comment: The middle six episodes of the series, continuing the story, based on characters from the original John Wyndham novel.
Directed by Kevin Brownlow, David Gill.
Starring Kenneth Branagh.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Six-part miniseries: Where It All Began (Introduction), Art's Promised Land (Sweden), The Unchained Camera (Germany), The Music of Light (France), Opportunity Lost (Britain), End of an Era (Finale)
Comment: Not yet watched, never seen.
Directed by David Mallet, Franco Dragone.
Starring Audrey Brisson-Jutras, Isabelle Chasse, Franco Dragone, Amélie Landry.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 3/10.
Includes: Quidam
Comment: A terrific disc and show.
Directed by Nick Morris, Franco Dragone.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Alegria
Comment: The performance, not the so-called movie. Only available through Cirque du Soleil (when I got it, that is).
Directed by Jocelyn Barnabé.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Corteo, plus extras
Comment: One of the better Cirque du Soleil shows, DVD released 2006.
Starring Duncan Renaldo, Leo Carillo.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 5/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Big Switch, Convict Story, Oil Land, Chain Lightning, Haven for Heavies, Confession For Money, Freight Line Feud, Phoney Heiress, The Puppeteer, Monkey Business, Pancho and the Pachyderm, Face of Death, Talking Dog, Canyon City Kid, 6 more
Comment: Disappointing picture quality is easy to overlook because this show is so damn entertaining!
Directed by Carl Lauten, Liz Plonka, Maureen Thorp.
Starring Melissa Joan Hart, Joe O'Connor, Jason Zimbler, Elizabeth Hess, Sean O'Neal.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Clarissa's Revenge, School Picture, No T.V., Urge to Drive, Clarissa News Network, Haunted House, The Bully, New Addition, Brain Drain, Clarissa Makes a Cake, Parents Who Say No, Cool Dad, Sick Days
Comment: Very enjoyable and silly series, an acquired taste and not for everyone.
shill's feature Rating: 3/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 3/10. Extras 1/10.
Comment: They rushed this one out. It's abysmal. They should have spent more time to make it right.
Directed by Richard Irving, Steven Spielberg, Jack Smight.
Starring Peter Falk, Lee Grant, Jack Cassidy, Gene Barry, William Windom, Nina Foch, Eddie Albert, Suzanne Pleshette, Kate Reid, Ross Martin, Kim Hunter, Don Ameche, Vic Tayback, Susan Clark, Richard Anderson, Leslie Nielsen, Roddy McDowall, Anne Francis.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Prescription Murder, Ransom for a Dead Man, Murder By the Book, Death Lends a Hand, Dead Weight, Suitable for Framing, Lady in Waiting, Short Fuse, Blueprint for Murder.
Comment: Instantly a classic character was born. Nine movie length episodes.
Directed by Nicholas Colasanto, Boris Sagal, Jeremy Kagan.
Starring Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Blythe Danner, Myrna Loy, Pat Morita, Ray Milland, Bradford Dillman, Robert Culp, Dean Jagger, James Gregory, Valerie Harper, Dean Stockwell, Richard Basehart, Honor Blackman, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Bernard Fox, John Fraser.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Etude in Black, The Greenhouse Jungle, The Most Crucial Game, Dagger of the Mind, Requiem for a Falling Star, A Stitch in Crime, The Most Dangerous Match, Double Shock.
Comment: Seasond season of Columbo, superb entertainment. 8 full-length television movies.
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc, Leo Penn, Boris Sagal.
Starring Peter Falk, Vera Miles, Martin Sheen, Vincent Price, Donald Pleasance, Gary Conway, Dana Elcar, Julie Harris, Walker Edmiston, Jackie Cooper, Katey Sagal, Robert Culp, Ann Driscoll, Jack Cassidy, Mariette Hartley, Johnny Cash, José Ferrer.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Lovely But Lethal, Any Old Port in a Storm, Candidate for Crime, Double Exposure, Publish or Perish, Mind Over Mayhem, Swan Song, A Friend in Deed.
Comment: Third season of eight Columbo movies. Television at its finest!
Directed by Bernard L Kowalski, Alf Kjellin, Harvey Hart.
Starring Peter Falk, Robert Conrad, Gretchen Corbett, Dick Van Dyke, Don Gordon, Larry Storch, Patrick McGoohan, Bruno Kirby, Robert Vaughn, Jane Greer, Dean Stockwell, Bernard Fox, Patrick Macnee, Oskar Werner, Gena Rowlands, Herb Jefferson Jr.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: An Exercise in Fatality, Negative Reaction, By Dawn's Early Light, Troubled Waters, Playback, A Deadly State of Mind.
Comment: Fourth season of six Columbo movies.
Directed by Harvey Hart, Ted Post, Patrick McGoohan.
Starring Peter Falk, Janet Leigh, Maurice Evans, Sam Jaffe, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hector Elizondo, Sal Mineo, Kenneth Tobey, Jeff Goldblum, Patrick McGoohan, Leslie Nielsen, Vito Scotti, Ricardo Montalban, Enrique Lucero, Robert Loggia, Nehemiah Persoff.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Forgotten Lady, A Case of Immunity, Identity Crisis, A Matter of Honor, Now You See Him, Last Salute to the Commodore.
Comment: Fifth season - six more Columbo movies.
Directed by Bernard L Kowalski, Robert Douglas, Sam Wanamaker.
Starring Peter Falk, William Shatner, Bert Remsen, Walter Koenig, Joyce Van Patten, Celeste Holm, Eloise Hardt, Theodore Bikel, Sorrell Booke, Samantha Eggar, Jamie Lee Curtis, Ruth Gordon, Mariette Hartley, G D Spradlin, Nicol Williamson, Kim Cattrall.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Fade In to Murder, Old-Fashioned Murder, The Bye-Bye Sky-High IQ Murder Case, Try and Catch Me, How to Dial a Murder, Murder Under Glass, The Conspirators, Make Me a Perfect Murder.
Comment: Sixth and seventh seasons of Columbo - 8 total movies.
Starring Peter Falk.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Columbo Goes to the Guilltine, Murder Smoke and Shadows, Sex and the Married Detective, Grand Deceptions, Murder A Self Portrait
Comment: More of the entertaining detective.
Directed by Mick Jackson.
Starring James Burke (Host).
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Trigger Effect, Death in the Morning
Comment: Possibly the best documentary series ever made - effortlessly educates and entertains. Available only from ambrosevideo.com
Directed by Mick Jackson.
Starring James Burke (Host).
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Distant Voices, Faith in Numbers
Comment: Possibly the best documentary series ever made - effortlessly educates and entertains. Available only from ambrosevideo.com
Directed by Mick Jackson.
Starring James Burke (Host).
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Wheel of Fortune, Thunder in the Skies
Comment: Possibly the best documentary series ever made - effortlessly educates and entertains. Available only from ambrosevideo.com
Directed by Mick Jackson.
Starring James Burke (Host).
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Long Chain, Eat Drink and Be Merry
Comment: Possibly the best documentary series ever made - effortlessly educates and entertains. Available only from ambrosevideo.com
Directed by Mick Jackson.
Starring James Burke (Host).
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Countdown, Yesterday Tomorrow and You
Comment: Possibly the best documentary series ever made - effortlessly educates and entertains. Available only from ambrosevideo.com
Directed by Adrian Malone.
Starring Carl Sagan.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean, One Voice in the Cosmic Fugue, Harmony of the Worlds, Heaven and Hell, Blues for a Red Planet, Travelers' Tales, The Backbone of Night, Journeys in Space and Time, Encyclopedia Galactica, plus extras and updates
Comment: I only ever saw one or two episodes back in 1980. I can finally catch up now!
Directed by Ad Hoc, Seren Dipity.
Starring Robert Smith, Porl Thompson, Simon Gallup, Jason Cooper.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Open, Fascination Street, alt.end, The Blood, A Night Like This, The End of the World, If Only Tonight We Could Sleep, The Kiss, Shake Dog Shake, Us or Them, Never Enough, The Figurehead, A Strange Day, Push, Just Like Heaven, 15 more
Comment: 30-song live video compiled from nine European festival concerts
Directed by Tim Pope, Dave Hillier, Richard Anthony.
Starring Robert Smith, Boris Williams, Laurence Tolhurst, Simon Gallup, Porl Thompson, Roger O'Donnell, Phil Thornalley, Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras 3/10.
Includes: Boys Don't Cry, A Forest, Let's Go To Bed, The Walk, The Lovecats, Inbetween Days, Close To Me, Why Can't I Be You?, Just Like Heaven, Lullaby, Lovesong, Never Enough, High, more
Comment: Nice, but why not do a DVD of ALL their videos instead of leaving a few out?
Directed by Nick Wickham.
Starring Robert Smith, Simon Gallup, Perry Bamonte, Jason Cooper, Roger O'Donnell.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The three albums Pornography, Disintegration, Bloodflowers, all performed live in their entirety and in sequence, plus If Only Tonight We Could Sleep and The Kiss
Comment: Two disc set recorded live in the Tempodrom, Berlin, November 2002.
Directed by David Croft, Harold Snoad, Bob Spiers.
Starring Arthur Lowe, John Le Mesurier, Clive Dunn, Arnold Ridley, Bill Pertwee, Colin Bean, Edward Sinclair, Frank Williams, Harold Bennett, Ian Lavender, John Laurie, Talfryn Thomas.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 4/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Day the Balloon Went Up, Sons of the Sea, Don't Forget the Diver, Asleep in the Deep, Boots Boots Boots, A Soldier's Farewell, Big Guns, Menace from the Deep, The Bullet is Not for Firing, Mum's Army, Put That Light Out, The Test, 6 more
Comment: Ranges from very funny to mildly amusing, but the image quality is very poor. Three disc box set.
Directed by Terry Bishop, Ralph Smart, Charles Frend.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Richard Wattis, Lionel Murton.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: View From the Villa, Time to Kill, Josetta, The Blue Veil
Comment: The first four half-hour episodes of the excellent spy series.
Directed by Peter Graham Scott, Ralph Smart, Charles Frend.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Richard Wattis, Lionel Murton.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Lovers, The Girl in Pink Pyjamas, Position of Trust, The Lonely Chair, The Sanctuary, An Affair of State, The Key, The Sisters
Comment: Eight more episodes of the excellent spy series.
Directed by Terry Bishop, Julian Aymes, Pennington Richards.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Richard Wattis, Lionel Murton.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Prisoner, The Traitor, Deadline, Colonel Rodriguez, The Island, Find and Return, The Girl Who Liked G.I.s, Name Date and Place
Comment: And more episodes of the great spy series - I prefer these earlier half-hour episodes over the later hour-long episodes.
Directed by Patrick McGoohan, Michael Truman, Anthony Bushell.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Richard Wattis, Lionel Murton.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Vacation, The Conspirators, The Honeymooners, The Gallows Tree, The Relaxed Informer, The Brothers, The Journey Ends Halfway, Bury the Dead
Comment: More episodes of the excellent spy series.
Directed by Don Chaffey, Charles Crichton, Robert Day.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Richard Wattis, Lionel Murton, Dawn Addams, Niall MacGinnis, Patrick Newell, Jane Merrow, Peter Bowles, Francesca Annis, Ivor Salter, Joan Hickson.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Battle of the Cameras, A Room in the Basement, Fair Exchange, Fish on the Hook, No Marks for Servility, Yesterday's Enemies
Comment: Presented in US broadcast order, not UK. Six hour-long episodes, two disc box set.
Directed by Michael Truman, Quentin Lawrence, Don Chaffey.
Starring Patrick McGoohan.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras 2/10.
Includes: The Professionals, A Date With Doris, The Mirror's New, Colony Three, It's Up to the Lady, Whatever Happened to George Foster?, The Galloping Major, The Colonel's Daughter
Comment: More episodes of the excellent spy series.
Directed by Quentin Lawrence, Don Chaffey, Peter Maxwell.
Starring Patrick McGoohan.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras 2/10.
Includes: That's Two of Us Sorry, Such Men Are Dangerous, A Man to Be Trusted, The Affair at Castelevara, Don't Nail Him Yet, The Ubiquitous Mr Lovegrove, Have a Glass of Wine, You're Not In Any Trouble Are You?
Comment: More episodes of this excellent spy series.
Directed by Brian Cosgrove.
Starring David Jason, Terry Scott, Edward Kelsey, Brian Trueman.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Rogue Robots, Who Stole the Bagpipes?, Trouble With Ghosts, Chicken Run, The Martian Misfit, The Dream Machine, Lord of the Bungle, Die Laughing, The World of Machines, Ice Station Camel, A Plague of Pyramids, Custard, 6 more plus extras
Comment: It's the sly pop culture references that make this one so much fun.
Directed by Brian Cosgrove.
Starring David Jason, Terry Scott, Edward Kelsey, Brian Trueman.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Custard, Close Encounters of the Absurd Kind, The Duel, The Day of the Suds, The Bad Luck Eye of the Little Yellow God, The Four Tasks of Dangermouse (debut of Count Duckula)
Comment: Gotta love the world's greatest mouse detective! For lovers of British humor.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Invasion of Colonel K, Dangermouse Saves the World Again!, The Oddball Run-a-round, The Wild Wild Goose Chase, The Return of Count Duckula, Demons Aren't Dull
Comment:
Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, Roy Ward Baker.
Starring Anthony Andrews, Maurice Roeves, Ken Kitson, Gordon Kane, George Innes, Jeremy Sinden, Deborah Watling, Norman Chappell, Marilyn Galsworthy.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Dead Man's Shoes, Unsung Heroes, Just Like a Woman (first 3 of 13 episodes)
Comment: A terrific series revolving around an unexploded bomb disposal squad in London during the Blitz. First three episodes.
Directed by Jeremy Summers, Henry Herbert.
Starring Anthony Andrews, Maurice Roeves, Ken Kitson, Robert Longden, Gordon Kane, Robert Pugh, Kenneth Cranham, Judy Geeson, Iain Cuthbertson, Deborah Watling.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Cast Iron Killer, The Silver Lining, The Quiet Weekend (episodes 4-6 of 13)
Comment: Episodes 4-6 of the outstanding WWII drama.
Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax, Douglas Camfield.
Starring Anthony Andrews, Maurice Roeves, Ken Kitson, Robert Longden, Gordon Kane, Robert Pugh, Kenneth Cranham, Judy Geeson, Iain Cuthbertson, Deborah Watling.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Digging Out, Bad Company, Seventeen Seconds to Glory
Comment: Episodes 7-9 of the outstanding WWII drama.
Directed by Roy Ward Baker, Simon Langton, Douglas Camfield.
Starring Anthony Andrews, Maurice Roeves, Ken Kitson, Robert Longden, Gordon Kane, Robert Pugh, Kenneth Cranham, Judy Geeson, Iain Cuthbertson, Deborah Watling.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Butterfly Winter, Dead Letter, The Pier, With Love From Adolf (conclusion)
Comment: Episodes 10-13 of the outstanding WWII drama.
Starring Daphne Ashbrook, Paul McGann, Alan Barnes, Gary Russell.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: Was free with Tenth Planet purchases. Documentary on Ashbrook's UK visit in 2004.
Directed by Ray Peck.
Starring Norma McMillan, Hal Smith.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Waterfall, The Parade, Officer Bob, The Dog Show, The New Skates, Cousin Barney, The Time Machine, The Mechanical Man
Comment: Eight episodes of the Art Clokey animated series produced by the Lutheran Church in America.
Directed by Bill Baggs.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture 3/10. Extras /10.
Comment: Documentary about Doctor Who, cheaply produced and poorly presented (probably mastered from VHS)
Directed by Waris Hussein, Christopher Barry, Richard Martin.
Starring William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Carole Ann Ford, Derek Newark, Alethea Charlton, Eileen Way, Jeremy Young, Howard Lang, Alan Wheatley, John Lee, Virginia Wetherell, Philip Bond, Marcus Hammond, Gerald Curtis, Jonathon Crane.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: An Unearthly Child, The Cave of Skulls, The Forest of Fear, The Firemaker, The Dead Planet, The Survivors, The Escape, The Ambush, The Expedition, The Ordeal, The Rescue, The Edge of Destruction, The Brink of Disaster, plus many extras
Comment: The first three stories (13 episodes in all) of the best television series ever.
Directed by John Crockett.
Starring William Hartnell, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, John Ringham, Ian Cullen, Keith Pyott, Margot van der Burgh, Tom Booth, David Anderson, Walter Randall, Andre Boulay.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras 9/10.
Includes: The Temple of Evil, The Warriors of Death, The Bride of Sacrifice, The Day of Darkness
Comment: A must-have Doctor Who DVD with the best extras yet.
Directed by Richard Martin.
Starring William Hartnell, William Russell, Carole Ann Ford, Jacqueline Hill, Bernard Kay, Peter Fraser, Alan Judd, Martyn Huntley, Peter Badger, Robert Jewell, Robert Aldous, Ann Davies, Michael Goldie, Michael Davis, Richard McNeff, Graham Rigby.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras 10/10.
Includes: World's End, The Daleks, Day of Reckoning, The End of Tomorrow, The Waking Ally, Flashpoint
Comment: Two disc set of the epic First Doctor tale, the first time the Daleks are seen on Earth.
Directed by Richard Martin.
Starring William Hartnell, William Russell, Jacqueline Hill, Maureen O'Brien, Robert Jewell, Martin Jarvis, Ian Thompson, Barbara Joss, Hugh Lund, Kevin Manser, John Scott Martin, Catherine Fleming, Roslyn de Winter, Arne Gordon, Arthur Blake, Jolyon Booth.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Web Planet, The Zarbi, Escape to Danger, Crater of Needles, Invasion, The Centre
Comment: One of Doctor Who's freakiest outings. Not for the casual fan.
Directed by Morris Barry.
Starring Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Deborah Watling, Roy Stewart, Aubrey Richards, Cyril Shaps, Clive Merrison, Shirley Cooklin, George Roubicek, George Pastell, Alan Johns, Bernard Holley, Ray Grover, Michael Kilgarriff.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 9/10.
Includes: The Tomb of the Cybermen episodes 1-4
Comment: The first black and white Doctor Who DVD at last! 8th release.
Directed by David Maloney.
Starring Patrick Troughton, Wendy Padbury, Frazer Hines, Emrys Jones, Hamish Wilson, John Atterbury, Ralph Carrigan, Bernard Horsfall, Bill Wiesener, Terry Wright, Barbara Loft, Christine Pirie, Christopher Robbie, Philip Ryan, Gerry Wain, David Cannon.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Mind Robber episodes 1-5
Comment: Looking great on DVD!
Directed by Douglas Camfield.
Starring Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Nicholas Courtney, Kevin Stoney, John Levene, Sally Faulkner, Murray Evans, Walter Randall, Geoffrey Cheshire, Peter Halliday, Ian Fairbairn, James Thornhill, Robert Sidaway, Edward Burnham.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Invasion episodes 1-8 (episodes 1 and 4 are animated re-creations with 1968 original audio)
Comment: The classic Cyberman story, the first UNIT story, with the two missing episodes finished as animation.
Directed by Michael Ferguson.
Starring Patrick Troughton, Frazer Hines, Wendy Padbury, Alan Bennion, Louise Pajo, John Witty, Ric Felgate, Harry Towb, Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Terry Scully, Christopher Coll, Martin Cort, Philip Ray, Steve Peters, Tony Harwood, Sonny Caldinez, Derrick Slater.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 8/10.
Includes: The Seeds of Death episodes 1-6
Comment: A stunning restoration of a classic Ice Warriors story.
Directed by Douglas Camfield.
Starring Jon Pertwee, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Olaf Pooley, Derek Newark, Sheila Dunn, Christopher Benjamin, David Simeon, Derek Ware, Walter Randall, Ian Fairbairn, Roy Scammell, Keith James, Dave Carter, Pat Gorman, Philip Ryan.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras 9/10.
Includes: Inferno episodes 1-7
Comment: 7-parter, terrific stuff, one of the best-ever stories.
Directed by Derek Martinus.
Starring Jon Pertwee, Caroline John, Nicholas Courtney, Hugh Burden, Neil Wilson, John Breslin, Antony Webb, Helen Dorward, Talfryn Thomas, George Lee, Prentis Hancock, Hamilton Dyce, Derek Smee, John Woodnutt.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 9/10.
Includes: Spearhead From Space episodes 1-4
Comment: The Doctor Who DVDs hit their stride with this one, and it looks fantastic as it was shot entirely on film.
Directed by Michael Ferguson.
Starring Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Roger Delgado, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Richard Franklin, Paul Grist, Peter Bathurst, Fernanda Marlowe, Donald Hewlett, David Savile, Derek Ware, Bernard Holley, Michael Walker, David G March, Tim Piggott-Smith.
shill's feature Rating: 6/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Claws of Axos episodes 1-4
Comment: It's Doctor Who. Filer!
Directed by Lennie Mayne.
Starring Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Patrick Troughton, William Hartnell, Nicholas Courtney, John Levene, Stephen Thorne, Rex Robinson, Laurie Webb, Clyde Pollitt, Roy Purcell, Graham Leaman, Denys Palmer, Patricia Prior.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Three Doctors episodes 1-4
Comment: Mediocre 10th anniversary story in a good presentation.
Directed by Barry Letts.
Starring Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Peter Halliday, Michael Wisher, Terence Lodge, Leslie Dwyer, Cheryl Hall, Tenniel Evans, Ian Marter, Jenny McCracken.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 9/10.
Includes: Carnival of Monsters episodes 1-4
Comment: Not one of my favorites but still great.
Directed by Michael Briant.
Starring Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney, Stewart Bevan, John Levene, Richard Franklin, Jerome Willis, Tony Adams, Ben Howard, Mostyn Evans, Talfryn Thomas, Roy Evans, Mitzi McKenzie, Ray Handy, John Scott Martin, John Rolfe, John Dearth.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Green Death episodes 1-6
Comment: One of the best Third Doctor stories.
Directed by Rodney Bennett.
Starring Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Wendy Williams, Kenton Moore, Christopher Masters, John Gregg, Richardson Morgan, Brian Jacobs.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras 8/10.
Includes: The Ark in Space episodes 1-4
Comment: An excellent fourth Doctor story, great extras. The 9th release.
Directed by Rodney Bennett.
Starring Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Kevin Lindsay, Glyn Jones, Donald Douglas, Peter Walshe, Peter Rutherford, Terry Walsh, Brian Ellis.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Sontaran Experiment episodes 1-2
Comment: An excellent two-parter from Tom Baker's first season.
Directed by David Maloney.
Starring Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Ian Marter, Michael Wisher, Peter Miles, Dennis Chinnery, Guy Siner, John Franklyn-Robbins, Harriet Philpin, Stephen Yardley, James Garbutt, Drew Wood, Jeremy Chandler, Andrew Johns, Pat Gorman, Tom Georgeson.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Genesis of the Daleks episodes 1-6
Comment: This is some of the best Doctor Who ever had to offer.
Directed by Paddy Russell.
Starring Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Bernard Archard, Michael Sheard, Gabriel Woolf, Peter Copley, Peter Mayock, Michael Bilton, Vik Tablian, Nick Burnell, Melvyn Bedford, Kevin Selway, George Tovey.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pyramids of Mars episodes 1-4
Comment: One of the best ever stories of the entire series.
Directed by Lennie Mayne.
Starring Tom Baker, Elisabeth Sladen, Judith Paris, Stephen Thorne, Rex Robinson, Renu Setna, Roy Skelton, David Purcell, Glyn Houston, Roy Pattison, Robin Hargrave, Roy Boyd, Frances Pidgeon, John Cannon.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Hand of Fear episodes 1-4
Comment: Sarah Jane Smith's farewell story is a cracker.
Directed by Michael E Briant.
Starring Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, Russell Hunter, Pamela Salem, David Bailie, Rob Edwards, Brian Croucher, Tariq Yunus, David Collings, Tania Rogers, Miles Fothergill, Gregory de Polnay.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 7/10.
Includes: The Robots of Death episodes 1-4
Comment: Simply outstanding television, and a great second Doctor Who DVD.
Directed by David Maloney.
Starring Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Bennett, Christopher Benjamin, Trevor Baxter, Deep Roy, Michael Spice, Chris Gannon, David McKail, Conrad Asquith, Alan Butler, Patsy Smart, Tony Then, John Wu, Judith Lloyd, Vaune Craig- Raymond, Penny Lister.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Talons of Weng-Chiang episodes 1-6
Comment: Two disc set of the Hinchcliffe fan favorite.
Directed by Paddy Russell.
Starring Tom Baker, Louise Jameson, John Abbott, Colin Douglas, Ralph Watson, Sean Caffrey, Alan Rowe, Annette Woollett, Rio Fanning.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Horror of Fang Rock episodes 1-4
Comment: Has never been one of my favorites, but I'm ready to see it again.
Directed by Michael Hayes.
Starring Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Julian Glover, Catherine Schell, Tom Chadbon, David Graham, Kevin Flood, Pamela Stirling, Peter Halliday, Eleanor Bron, John Cleese.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: City of Death episodes 1-4
Comment: One of the most acclaimed Doctor Who stories. It's fun.
Directed by Lovett Bickford.
Starring Tom Baker, Lalla Ward, Adrienne Corri.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Leisure Hive episodes 1-4
Comment: Taking Doctor Who in a new direction with John Nathan-Turner's first production.
Directed by John Black.
Starring Tom Baker, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Anthony Ainley, Geoffrey Beevers, Sheila Ruskin, Denis Carey, John Woodnutt, Margot van der Burgh, Robin Soans, Roland Oliver, Liam Prendergast, Philip Bloomfield.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Keeper of Traken episodes 1-4
Comment: The penultimate Tom Baker story has a lot of style. Adric... Three three seven!
Directed by Peter Grimwade.
Starring Tom Baker, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Anthony Ainley, Dolore Whiteman, John Fraser, Tom Georgeson, Christopher Hurst, Peter Davison.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Logopolis episodes 1-4
Comment: Positively funereal and simmering with atmosphere (and cardboard cutouts).
Directed by Fiona Cumming.
Starring Peter Davison, Matthew Waterhouse, Sarah Sutton, Janet Fielding, Anthony Ainley, Frank Wylie, Derek Waring, Michael Sheard, Dallas Cavell, Souska John.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extra