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 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: /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.
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 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 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.
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
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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 Joe Dante, Sam Pillsbury.
Starring Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow, Mary-Margaret Humes, Francis Guinan, Julie Condra, Louan Gideon, Belinda Balaski, Vincent Schiavelli, Gabriel Damon, Patrick LeBecque.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras 1/10.
Includes: Foreverware, The Retainer, The ATM With the Heart of Gold, The Losers, Scariest Home Videos, Just Say No Fun, Heart on a Chain, The Dead Letter, Who's Who, The Lost Hour, Marshall's Theory of Believability, Tornado Days, 7 more
Comment: A terrifically imaginative series with a great sense of humor and of the bizarre.
Directed by Joe Dante, Sam Pillsbury.
Starring Omri Katz, Justin Shenkarow, Mary-Margaret Humes, Francis Guinan, Julie Condra, Louan Gideon, Belinda Balaski, Vincent Schiavelli, Gabriel Damon, Patrick LeBecque.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras 1/10.
Includes: Foreverware, The Retainer, The ATM With the Heart of Gold
Comment: A terrifically imaginative series with a great sense of humor and of the bizarre.
Directed by Henry Behar, Bob Schwarz, John Tracy.
Starring Bill Cosby, Morgan Freeman, Judy Graubart, Lee Chamberlin, Skip Hinnant, Rita Moreno, June Angela, Irene Cara, Todd Graff, Danny Seagren, Hattie Winston, Douglas Grant, Melanie Henderson, Zero Mostel, Mel Brooks, Gene Wilder, Joan Rivers.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 1, 10, 14, 21, 26 (from 1971); 109, 131 (from 1972); 181, 285 (from 1973); 321, 379, 386, 391, 437 (from 1974); 453, 491 (from 1975); 72A, 110A (from 1976); 79B, 130B (from 1977), plus introductions and other extras
Comment: Four disc set covering the first and last episodes, plus 18 others
Directed by Christian Nyby, Bruce Bilson, Alan Crosland Jr.
Starring Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Kevin Tighe, Randolph Mantooth, Ron Pinkard, Dick Hammer, Tim Donnelly, Marco Lopez, Mike Stoker, Vince Howard, Deidre Hall, Patricia Mickey.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot movie, Mascot, Botulism, Cook's Tour, Brushfire, Dealer's Wild, Nurses' Wild, Publicity Hound, Weird Wednesday, Dilemma, Hang-Up, Crash
Comment: One of my all-time favorite tv shows, just brings me right back to being a kid. And it's a show with a remarkable history for doing real good in real life!
Directed by Christian Nyby, Bruce Bilson, Alan Crosland Jr.
Starring Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Kevin Tighe, Randolph Mantooth, Ron Pinkard, Dick Hammer, Tim Donnelly, Marco Lopez, Mike Stoker, Vince Howard, Deidre Hall, Patricia Mickey.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Decision, Kids, Show Biz, Virus, Peace Pipe, Saddled, Fuzz Lady, Trainee, Women, Dinner Date, Musical Mania, Helpful, Drivers, School Days, The Professor, Syndrome, Honest, Séance, Boot, Rip-Off, Audit
Comment: One of my all-time favorite tv shows, just brings me right back to being a kid. And it's a show with a remarkable history for doing real good in real life!
Starring Robert Fuller, Julie London, Bobby Troup, Kevin Tighe, Randolph Mantooth, Ron Pinkard, Dick Hammer, Tim Donnelly, Marco Lopez, Mike Stoker, Vince Howard, Deidre Hall, Patricia Mickey, Kathleen Quinlan, Bobby Sherman.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Frequency, The Old Engine, Alley Cat, An English Visitor, Heavyweight, Snakebite, The Promotion, Insomnia, Inheritance Tax, Zero, The Promise, Body Language, Understanding, Computer Error, Inferno, Messin' Around, Fools, 5 more
Comment: One of my all-time favorite tv shows, just brings me right back to being a kid. And it's a show with a remarkable history for doing real good in real life!
Starring Seth McFarlane.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Death Has a Shadow, I Never Met the Dead Man, Chitty Chitty Death Bang, Mind Over Murder, A Hero Sits Next Door, The Son Also Draws, Brian: Portrait of a Dog, Peter Peter Caviar Eater, Holy Crap, Da Boom, Brian in Love, Love Thy Trophy, 16 more.
Comment: All 28 episodes from the first two seasons.
Starring Seth McFarlane.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Thin White Line, Brian Does Hollywood, Mr Griffin Goes to Washington, One If By Clam Two If By Sea, And the Wiener Is, Death Lives, Lethal Weapons, The Kiss Seen Round the World, Mr Saturday Knight, A Fish Out of Water, 12 more.
Comment: All 21 episodes from the third season.
Directed by Seth MacFarlane.
Starring Seth McFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: North By North Quahog, Fast Times at Buddy Cianci Jr High, Blind Ambition, Don't Make Me Over, The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire, Petarded, Brian the Bachelor, 8 Simple Rules for Buying My Teenage Daughter, Breaking Out is Hard to Do, 4 more.
Comment: The first 13 episodes from season 4 of the revived series that should have never been killed in the first place.
Directed by Seth MacFarlane.
Starring Seth McFarlane, Alex Borstein, Mila Kunis, Seth Green.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: PTV, Brian Goes Back to College, The Courtship of Stewie's Father, The Fat Guy Strangler, The Father The Son and the Holy Fonz, Brian Sings and Swings, Patriot Games, I Take Thee Quagmire, Sibling Rivalry, Deep Throats, Peterotica, 3 more, extras
Comment: The next 14 episodes from the series.
Directed by John Howard Davies, Douglas Argent, Bob Spiers.
Starring John Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs, Connie Booth.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: A Touch of Class, The Builders, The Wedding Party, Hotel Inspectors, Gourmet Night, The Germans, Communication Problems, The Psychiatrist, Waldorf Salad, The Kipper and the Corpse, The Anniversary, Basil the Rat
Comment: Poor packaging, and at least one unforgivable edit, but still a great show.
Directed by Danny Bilson, William A Fraker, Robert Iscove.
Starring John Wesley Shipp, Amanda Pays, Alex Désert, Biff Manard, Vito D'Ambrosio, Mike Genovese, Richard Belzer, Dick Miller, Lois Nettleton, Mark Hamill, Christopher Neame, Denise Crosby, Jeri Ryan, Jeffrey Combs, Bill Mumy, Joyce Hyser.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Out of Control, Watching the Detectives, Honor Among Thieves, Double Vision, Sins of the Father, Child's Play, Shroud of Death, Ghost in the Machine, Sight Unseen, Beat the Clock, Tina Is That You?, The Trickster, Be My Baby, 8 more plus pilot movie
Comment: This was a fun show, with a really talented cast. Entire series.
Directed by Ben Bolt.
Starring Paul McGann, Amanda Burton, Zara Turner, Karis Copp, Kathryn Howden,Tim Faraday, Ian Hogg, Adrian Rawlins, Geraldine Alexander, Christopher Villiers, Gwyneth Strong, Charlotte Curley, Mark Bagnall, Lloyd McGuire, Anna Keaveney, Edward Jewesbury.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Forgotten episodes 1-3
Comment: Three part serial, 51 minutes each episode; a labyrinthian mystery.
Directed by Yves Simoneau, Helen Shaver, David Straiton.
Starring Joel Gretsch, Jacqueline McKenzie, Patrick Flueger, Mahershalalhashbaz Ali, Conchita Campbell, Samantha Ferris, Chad Faust, Richard Kahan, Laura Allen, Peter Coyote, Bill Campbell, Chilton Crane, Brooke Nevin, Ingrid Torrance.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, The New & Improved Carl Morrissey, Becoming, Trial by Fire, White Light
Comment: The first season, comprised of the pilot and 4 additional episodes.
Directed by Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo, Peter Avanzino.
Starring Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Dick Clark, Leonard Nimoy, Tom Kenny, Pamela Anderson, Ron Popeil, Beastie Boys, Dan Castellaneta, Ted Lange, Dawnn Lewis, Claudia Schiffer, John Goodman, Conan O'Brien, Bob Barker.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Space Pilot 3000, The Series Has Landed, I Roommate, Love's Labours Lost in Space, Fear of a Bot Planet, A Fishful of Dollars, My Three Suns, A Big Piece of Garbage, Hell is Other Robots, A Flight to Remember, Mars University, 2 more
Comment: First 13 episodes of the excellent animated series, commentaries for each, animatic, script, storyboard for pilot, featurette, deleted scenes, concept art gallery.
Directed by Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo, Peter Avanzino.
Starring Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Dick Clark, Leonard Nimoy, Tom Kenny, Pamela Anderson, Ron Popeil, Beastie Boys, Dan Castellaneta, Ted Lange, Dawnn Lewis, Claudia Schiffer, John Goodman, Conan O'Brien, Bob Barker.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: I Second That Emotion, Brannigan Begin Again, A Head in the Polls, Xmas Story, Why Must I Be A Crustacean In Love?, The Lesser of Two Evils, Put Your Head On My Shoulders, Raging Bender, A Bicyclops Built For Two, A Clone of My Own, 9 more
Comment: 19 more episodes of the excellent animated series, commentaries for each, animatic, script, deleted scenes, concept art gallery.
Directed by Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo, Peter Avanzino.
Starring Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Dick Clark, Leonard Nimoy, Tom Kenny, Pamela Anderson, Ron Popeil, Beastie Boys, Dan Castellaneta, Ted Lange, Dawnn Lewis, Claudia Schiffer, John Goodman, Conan O'Brien, Bob Barker.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Amazon Women in the Mood, Parasites Lost, A Tale of Two Santas, The Luck of the Fryrish, The Birdbot of Ice-Catraz, Bendless Love, The Day the Earth Stood Stupid, That's Lobstertainment!, The Cyber House Rules, 13 more, many extras.
Comment: 22 episodes from season 3 of Futurama.
Directed by Rich Moore, Gregg Vanzo, Peter Avanzino.
Starring Billy West, Katey Sagal, John DiMaggio, Phil LaMarr, Lauren Tom, Dick Clark, Leonard Nimoy, Tom Kenny, Pamela Anderson, Ron Popeil, Beastie Boys, Dan Castellaneta, Ted Lange, Dawnn Lewis, Claudia Schiffer, John Goodman, Conan O'Brien, Bob Barker.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Kif Gets Knocked Up a Notch, Leela's Homeworld, Love and Rocket, Less Than Hero, A Taste of Freedom, Bender Should Not Be Allowed on TV, Jurassic Bark, Crimes of the Hot, Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles, The Why of Fry, 8 more
Comment: 18 more episodes, commentaries, deleted scenes and a lot more.
Directed by Jim Franklin, Bob Spiers.
Starring Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, George Baker, Beryl Reid, Richard Wattis, Michael Aspel, Corbet Woodall, Milton Reid, Alfie Bass, Eddie Waring, John Cleese, Arthur Ellis, Michael Barratt, Patrick Moore.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Tower of London, Gender Education, Kitten Kong, The Goodies and the Beanstalk, Kung Fu Kapers, Lighthouse Keeping Loonies, Earthanasia, Saturday Night Grease
Comment: Eight episodes of the classic BBC comedy series, spanning the years 1970-1980.
Directed by Jim Franklin, Bob Spiers.
Starring Bill Oddie, Graeme Garden, Tim Brooke-Taylor, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Philip Madoc, Corbet Woodall, Sheila Steafel, Frank Windsor, Michael Barratt, Jane Asher, Frank Thornton, Patrick Moore.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Radio Goodies, Come Dancing, The Movies, South Africa, Gunfight at the OK Tearooms, The End, Scoutrageous, Punky Business
Comment: Eight episodes of the classic BBC comedy series, spanning the years 1970-1980.
Directed by Don Leaver, Peter Sasdy, Alan Gibson.
Starring Jon Finch, Prunella Gee, Patricia Quinn, Kevin Stoney, Julia Foster, Denholm Elliott, Lucy Gutteridge, Gareth Armstrong, Geoffrey Beevers, Janet Fielding, Emma Ridley, Peter Cushing.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Witching Time, The Thirteenth Reunion, Rude Awakening, Growing Pains, The House that Bled to Death, Charlie Boy, The Silent Scream, Children of the Full Moon, Carpathian Eagle, Guardian of the Abyss, Visitor From the Grave, 2 more
Comment: All 13 episodes of the anthology series, mostly good, some excellent (like Silent Scream).
Directed by Alan J W Bell.
Starring Simon Jones, David Dixon, Sandra Dickinson, Mark Wing Davey.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 9/10.
Comment: A terrifically entertaining series, not to be missed.
Directed by Bryan Singer, Peter O'Fallon, Newton Thomas Sigel.
Starring Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps, Robert Sean Leonard, Jennifer Morrison, Jesse Spencer, Robin Tunney, Alex Skuby, Robin Thomas, Wendy Gazelle, Scott Mechlowicz, Hedy Burress, Kenneth Choi, Ann Dowd, Lucinda Jenney, Stacy Edwards, Roxanne Hart.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, Paternity, Occam's Razor, Maternity, Damned If You Do, The Socratic Method, Fidelity, Poison, DNR, Histories, Detox, Sports Medicine, Cursed, Control, Mob Rules, Heavy, Role Model, Babies & Bathwater, Kids, Love Hurts, Three Stories, Honeymoon
Comment: First season of 22 episodes of this great Hugh Laurie series.
Directed by Hollingsworth Morse.
Starring Jack Wild, Billie Hayes, Roberto Gamonet, Sharon Baird, Joy Campbell, Angelo Rossitto, Johnny Silver, Jerry Landon, John Linto, Scutter McKay, Harry Monty, Andy Ratoucheff, Robin Roper, Felix Silla, Lennie Weinrib, Joan Gerber, Walker Edmiston.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Magic Path, The Wheely Bird, Show Biz Witch, The Mechanical Boy, Box Kite Kaper, The Golden Key, The Birthday Party, The Horse with the Golden Throat, The Stand-In, You Can't Have Your Cake, Dinner For Two Please Orson, 6 more, plus extras
Comment: All 17 episodes from the entire series run.
Directed by Herbert Wise.
Starring Derek Jacobi, Siân Phillips, Brian Blessed, Margaret Tyzack, John Hurt, George Baker, Patrick Stewart, Stratford Johns, Sheila White.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: All 13: A Touch of Murder, Family Affairs, Waiting in the Wings, What Shall We Do About Claudius?, Poison Is Queen, Some Justice, Queen of Heaven, Reign of Terror, Zeus By Jove, Hail Who?, Fool's Luck, A God in Colchester, Old King Log
Comment: Deserves its acclaim as one of the finest television productions in history. Three disc version of the box set.
Directed by Pennington Richards.
Starring Tim Turner, Lisa Daniely, Deborah Watling, Lloyd Lamble, Adrienne Corri, Dennis Price, Edwin Richfield, Greta Gynt, Hazel Court, Zena Marshall, Michael Goodliffe, Eric Pohlmann, Peter Sallis, Derren Nesbitt, Derek Sydney, Rupert Davies, Edward Judd.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Secret Experiment, Crisis in the Desert, Behind the Mask, Shadow on the Screen, The Mink Coat, The Locked Room, Jailbreak, Blind Justice, Bank Raid, Strange Partners, Odds Against Death, Picnic With Death, Play to Kill, Point of Destruction, 12 more
Comment: I love this show! Very entertaining, very British. This release is a slight improvement over the previous individuals.
Directed by Pennington Richards.
Starring Tim Turner, Lisa Daniely, Deborah Watling, Lloyd Lamble, Adrienne Corri, Dennis Price, Edwin Richfield, Greta Gynt, Hazel Court, Zena Marshall, Michael Goodliffe, Eric Pohlmann, Peter Sallis, Derren Nesbitt, Derek Sydney, Rupert Davies, Edward Judd.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Secret Experiment (1), Crisis in the Desert (2), Behind the Mask (3), Shadow on the Screen (7), The Mink Coat (8), The Locked Room (4)
Comment: I love this show! Very entertaining, very British.
Directed by Pennington Richards, Ralph Smart.
Starring Tim Turner, Lisa Daniely, Deborah Watling, Derek Bond, Philip Friend, Jack Watling, Dermot Walsh, Willoughby Goddard, Walter Fitzgerald, Patrick Troughton, Griffith Jones, Faith Brook, Michael Ripper, Ronald Fraser, Honor Blackman, Olaf Pooley.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Jailbreak (10), Blind Justice (9), Bank Raid (11), Strange Partners (13), Odds Against Death (12), Picnic With Death (5)
Comment: I love this show! Very entertaining, very British.
Directed by Peter Maxwell, Quentin Lawrence.
Starring Tim Turner, Lisa Daniely, Deborah Watling, Helen Cherry, Duncan Lamont, Lana Morris, James Raglan, Mai Zetterling, Geoffrey Keen, Colin Gordon, Hugh Latimer, Patricia Jessel, Derren Nesbitt, Barry Letts, William Lucas, Bruce Seton, Charles Gray.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Play To Kill (6), Point of Destruction (14), Death Cell (15), The Vanishing Evidence (16), The Prize (17), Flight Into Darkness (18)
Comment: I love this show! Very entertaining, very British.
Directed by Graham Linehan.
Starring Chris O'Dowd, Richard Ayoade, Katherine Parkinson, Christopher Morris, Noel Fielding, Pete Deagle, Nancy Lodder, Peter Serafinowicz, Bennet Thorpe.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Yesterday's Jam, Calamity Jen, Fifty-Fifty, The Red Door, The Haunting of Bill Crouse, Aunt Irma Visits
Comment: Not the funniest thing ever, and I really don't care for episode 1, but it's definitely worth catching the whole run. This is the first series.
Directed by Wes Archer, Gary McCarver, Klay Hall, Monte Young.
Starring Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, Square Peg, The Order of the Straight Arrow, Luanne's Saga, Hank's Got the Willies, Westie Side Story, Hank's Unmentionable Problem, Shins of the Father, Peggy the Boggle Champ, Keeping Up With Our Joneses, Plastic White Female, two more.
Comment: A great animated comedy, the first 13 episodes.
Directed by Wes Archer, Gary McCarver, Klay Hall, Monte Young.
Starring Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root, Ashley Gardner, David Herman, Toby Huss, Jonathan Joss, Lauren Tom.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: How To Fire a Rifle Without Really Trying, Texas City Twister, The Arrowhead, Hilloween, Jumpin' Crack Bass, Husky Bobby, The Man Who Shot Cane Skretteburg, The Son That Got Away, Bobby Slam, The Unbearable Blindness of Laying, 12 more
Comment: A great animated comedy, the 22 second season episodes.
Directed by Wes Archer, Gary McCarver, Klay Hall, Monte Young.
Starring Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root, Ashley Gardner, David Herman, Toby Huss, Jonathan Joss, Lauren Tom.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Death of a Propane Salesman, And They Call It Bobby Love, Peggy's Headache, Pregnant Paws, Next of Shin, Peggy Pageant Fever, Nine Pretty Darn Angry Men, Good Hill Hunting, Pretty Pretty Dresses, A Firefighting We Will Go, To Spank With Love, 14 more
Comment: Third season. Good stuff.
Directed by Wes Archer, Gary McCarver, Klay Hall, Monte Young.
Starring Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root, Ashley Gardner, David Herman, Toby Huss, Jonathan Joss, Lauren Tom.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Peggy Hill Decline and Fall, Cotton's Plot, Bills Are Made to Be Broken, Little Horrors of Shop, Aisle 8A, A Beer Can Named Desire, The Hank's Giving Episode, Not in My Back-Hoe, To Kill a Ladybird, Hillennium, Old Glory, Rodeo Days, 12 more
Comment: Fourth season of more good humor.
Directed by Kyounghee Lim, Mike DiMartino, Adam Kuhlman.
Starring Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root, Ashley Gardner, David Herman, Toby Huss, Jonathan Joss, Breckin Meyer, Lauren Tom.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Perils of Polling, The Buck Stops Here, I Don't Want To Wait For Our Lives To Be Over I Want to Know Right Now Will It Be Sorry Do Do Doo Do Do Do Do Doo Do Do Do Do Doo Do Do Doo, Spin the Choice, Peggy Makes the Big Leagues, 15 more.
Comment: Fifth season of more of the series that redefines stereotypes.
Directed by Tricia Garcia, Anthony Lioi, Allan Jacobsen.
Starring Mike Judge, Kathy Najimy, Pamela Adlon, Brittany Murphy, Johnny Hardwick, Stephen Root, Ashley Gardner, David Herman, Toby Huss, Jonathan Joss, Breckin Meyer, Lauren Tom.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Bobby Goes Nuts, Soldier of Misfortune, Lupe's Revenge, The Father the Son and JC, Father of the Bribe, I'm With Cupid, Torch Song Hillogy, Joust Like a Woman, The Bluegrass is Always Greener, The Substitute Spanish Prisoner, 11 more.
Comment: Sixth season of a show that is remarkably underrated.
Starring Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Jack Grinnage, Ruth McDevitt, John Fiedler, Carol Ann Susi.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Ripper, The Zombie, They Have Been They Are They Will Be, The Vampire, The Werewolf, Firefall, The Devil's Platform, Bad Medicine, The Spanish Moss Murders, The Energy Eater, Horror in the Heights, Mr R.I.N.G., Primal Scream, 7 more
Comment: Easily in my top 10 favorite shows ever.
Directed by Dennis Steinmetz, Bob Lally.
Starring Spencer Milligan, Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman, Ron Harper, Phillip Paley, Walker Edmiston, Sharon Baird, Joe Giamalva.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras 6/10.
Includes: The Stranger (ep 6), Tag Team (ep 5), The Search (ep 11), The Paku Who Came to Dinner (ep 10)
Comment: A great show, always was a memorable favorite! I want more episodes now! And the extras are quite nice, unexpected for such a disc really.
Starring Wesley Eure, Spencer Milligan, Kathy Coleman, Philip Paley.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras 9/10.
Includes: Cha-Ka, The Sleestak God, Dopey, Downstream, Tag Team, The Stranger, Album, Skylons, The Hole, The Paku Who Came to Dinner, The Search, The Possession, Follow That Dinosaur, Stone Soup, Elsewhen, Hurricane, Circle
Comment: The awesome 1974 classic on DVD at last! Thank you Rhino!
Starring Wesley Eure, Spencer Milligan, Kathy Coleman, Philip Paley.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras 9/10.
Comment: Season 2 follows hard on the heels of season 1!
Directed by Rick Bennewitz, Bob Lally, Joseph L Scanlan.
Starring Ron Harper, Wesley Eure, Kathy Coleman, Philip Paley, Jon Locke, Scutter McKay.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Aftershock, Survival Kit, Orb, Repairman, Medusa, Cornered, Flying Dutchman, Hot-Air Artist, Abominable Snowman, Timestop, Ancient Guardian, Scarab, Medicine Man
Comment: Things start to go spectacularly wrong for what was an outstanding show once.
Directed by Ferdinand Fairfax.
Starring Martin Shaw, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Stephen Moore, Susan Woolridge, Hugh Grant, Max Von Sydow, Sylvester McCoy.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Poles Apart, Minor Diversions, Leading Men, Gentlemen and Players, The Glories of the Race, Foregone Conclusion, Rejoice
Comment: A terrific miniseries based on the race between Scott and Amundsen to the South Pole
Directed by Carol Banker, Rob Bowman, Bryan Spicer.
Starring Bruce Harwood, Tom Braidwood, Dean Haglund, Stephen Snedden, Zuleikha Robinson.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, Bond Jimmy Bond, Eine Kleine Frohike, Like Water For Octane, Three Men and a Smoking Diaper, Madam I'm Adam, Planet of the Frohikes, Maximum Byers, Diagnosis Jimmy, Tango de los Pistoleros, The Lying Game, 2 more, plus an X-Files episode, more
Comment: The was a really fun series with great characters (except Yves Adele Harlow, played by Billy Zane in a wig).
Directed by J J Abrams, Jack Bender, Kevin Hooks.
Starring Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, Dominic Monaghan, Maggie Grace, Harold Perrineau Jr, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Malcolm David Kelley, Daniel Dae Kim, Ian Somerhalder, Naveen Andrews, Terry O'Quinn, Yunjin Kim, Emilie de Ravin.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot (pt 1), Pilot (pt 2), Tabula Rasa, Walkabout, White Rabbit, House of the Rising Sun, The Moth, Confidence Man, Solitary, Raised By Another, All the Best Cowboys Have Daddy Issues, Whatever the Case May Be, Hearts and Minds, Special, 10 more
Comment: First season of the show I really wanted to watch but never found the time.
Directed by Anton Leader, Alex Singer, Leo Penn, Sobey Martin.
Starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Jonathan Harris, Bob May, Dick Tufeld, Don Forbes, Warren Oates, Richard Basehart, Byron Morrow, William Bramley, Don Matheson, Michael Rennie, Kurt Russell.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Reluctant Stowaway, The Derelict, Island in the Sky, There Were Giants in the Earth, The Hungry Sea, Welcome Stranger, My Friend Mr Nobody, Invaders From the Fifth Dimension, The Oasis, The Sky is Falling, Wish Upon a Star, The Raft, 18 more
Comment: Eight disc set with all 29 episodes of the B&W first season, plus the unaired pilot. The stories can be rather boring, unfortunately.
Directed by Nathan Juran, Don Richardson, Harry Harris.
Starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Jonathan Harris, Bob May, Dick Tufeld.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Blast Off Into Space, Wild Adventure, The Ghost Planet, Forbidden World, Space Circus, The Prisoners of Space, The Android Machine, The Deadly Games of Gamma 6, The Thief From Outerspace, Curse of Cousin Smith, West of Mars, A Visit to Hades, 4 more
Comment: Four disc set with the first 16 episodes of season two, the first season in color
Directed by Don Richardson, Robert Douglas, Ezra Stone.
Starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Jonathan Harris, Bob May, Dick Tufeld.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Questing Beast, The Toymaker, Mutiny in Space, The Space Vikings, Rocket to Earth, The Cave of the Wizards, Treasure of the Lost Planet, Revolt of the Androids, The Colonists, Trip Through the Robot, The Phantom Family, The Mechanical Man, 2 more
Comment: Four disc set completing season two (last 14 episodes).
Directed by Nathan Juran, Sobey Martin, Don Richardson.
Starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Jonathan Harris, Bob May, Dick Tufeld.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Condemned of Space, Visit to a Hostile Planet, Kidnapped in Space, Hunter's Moon, Space Primevals, Space Destructors, The Haunted Lighthouse, Flight Into the Future, Collision of Planets, Space Creature, Deadliest of the Species, 4 more.
Comment: Four disc set, 15 episodes from late 1967.
Directed by Nathan Juran, Don Richardson, Ezra Stone.
Starring Guy Williams, June Lockhart, Mark Goddard, Marta Kristen, Bill Mumy, Angela Cartwright, Jonathan Harris, Bob May, Dick Tufeld.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Target Earth, Princess of Space, Time Merchant, The Promised Planet, Fugitives in Space, Space Beauty, The Flaming Planet, The Great Vegetable Rebellion, Junkyard in Space
Comment: Three disc set with the final 9 episodes of the series.
Directed by John Blanchard, Matt Davis.
Starring Bryan Callen, David Herman, Orlando Jones, Phil LaMarr, Artie Lange, Mary Scheer, Nicole Sullivan, Debra Wilson.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 1-19, unaired sketches, bloopers, episode 200, plus selected highlights of later seasons
Comment: All 19 episodes of season one, plus a nice amount of extras
Directed by Gene Reynolds, Michael O'Herlihy, Hy Averback.
Starring Alan Alda, Wayne Rogers, McLean Stevenson, Gary Burghoff, Loretta Swit, Larry Linville, Jamie Farr, William Christopher, Harry Morgan, David Ogden Stiers, Jeff Maxwell, Kellye Nakahara, Soon-Tek Oh, Mako, Rosalind Chao, Roy Goldman, Odessa Cleveland.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: M*A*S*H (1970 film), Pilot, To Market To Market, Requiem for a Lightweight, Chief Surgeon Who?, The Moose, Yankee Doodle Doctor, Bananas Crackers and Nuts, Cowboy, Henry Please Come Home, I Hate a Mystery, Germ Warfare, Dear Dad, Edwina, 237 more
Comment: The entire 11-season series (250 episodes), plus the original movie and extras, in one box set.
Directed by Adam Arkin, Jerry Levine, Ron Underwood.
Starring Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Ted Levine, Jason Gray-Stanford, Kane Ritchotte, Stanley Kamel.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Mr Monk and the Candidate, Mr Monk Meets the Psychic, Mr Monk Meets Dale the Whale, Mr Monk Goes to the Carnival, Mr Monk Goes to the Asylum, Mr Monk and the Billionaire Mugger, Mr Monk and the Other Woman, 5 more, extras
Comment: Twelve episodes (including pilot movie) of the first season of this great show.
Directed by Adam Arkin, Jerry Levine, Ron Underwood.
Starring Tony Shalhoub, Bitty Schram, Ted Levine, Jason Gray-Stanford, Kane Ritchotte, Stanley Kamel.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Mr Monk Goes Back to School, Mr Monk Goes to Mexico, Mr Monk Goes to the Ballgame, Mr Monk Goes to the Circus, Mr Monk and the Very Very Old Man, Mr Monk Goes to the Theater, Mr Monk and the Sleeping Suspect, Mr Monk Meets the Playboy, 8 more.
Comment: Sixteen episodes. Great show with an excellent cast.
Directed by Ian MacNaughton.
Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Sex & Violence, Whither Canada?, How to Recognise Different Types of Trees from Quite a Long Way Away, Owl-Stretching Time, Man's Crisis of Identity in the Latter Half of the Twentieth Century, It's the Arts
Comment: The influential comedy series, first six episodes.
Directed by Ian MacNaughton.
Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Oh You're No Fun Anymore, The BBC Entry for the Zinc Stoat of Budapest, Full Frontal Nudity, Untitled, The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Goes to the Bathroom, The Naked Ant, Intermission
Comment: The influential comedy series, wrapping up season 1.
Directed by Ian MacNaughton.
Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Dinsdale, The Spanish Inquisition, Déjà Vu, The Buzz Aldrin Show, Live from the Grill-o-mat, It's a Living
Comment: The influential comedy series, beginning of season 2.
Directed by Ian MacNaughton.
Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Atilla the Hun Show, Archaeology Today, How to Recognise Different Parts of the Body, Scott of the Antarctic, How Not to Be Seen, Spam, Royal Episode 13
Comment: The influential comedy series, finishing the season 2 episodes.
Directed by Ian MacNaughton.
Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Njorl's Saga, Mr and Mrs Brian Norris' Ford Popular, The Money Programme, Blood Devastation Death War and Horror, The All-England Summarise Proust Competition, The War Against Pornography
Comment: The influential comedy series, start of season 3.
Directed by Ian MacNaughton.
Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Salad Days, The Cycling Tour, The Nude Organist, E Henry Thripshaw's Disease, Dennis Moore, A Book at Bedtime, The British Royal Awards Programme
Comment: The influential comedy series, wrapping up season 3.
Directed by Ian MacNaughton.
Starring Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Golden Age of Ballooning, Michael Ellis, The Light Entertainment War, Hamlet, Mr Neutron, A Party Political Broadcast on Behalf of the Liberal Party
Comment: The influential comedy series, last six episodes making up all of season 4.
Directed by Jim Mallon.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Josh Weinstein, Alan Hale Jr, Peter Breck, Kent Taylor.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Crawling Hand MiSTied version, and also unedited original version.
Comment:
Directed by Jim Mallon.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Ross Hagen, Dee Duffy, Sharyn Kinzie.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Hellcats the MiSTied version, and the unedited original version
Comment:
Directed by Jim Mallon.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Michael J Nelson, Tom Neyman, John Reynolds, Diane Mahree.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras 8/10.
Includes: Manos: The Hands Of Fate, Poopie! MST3000 Bloopers
Comment: So very very bad. Deep hurting. But on the plus side, there's Torgo.
Directed by Jim Mallon.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Richard Kiel, Arch Hall Jr, Marilyn Manning, William Watters.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Eegah the MiSTied version, and the unedited original version
Comment: The host segment where they manipulate Joel's face to look like Arch Hall Jr is truly frightening.
Directed by Jim Mallon.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Mary Beth Hughes, Robert Lowell, John Miljan, Vivienne Osborne, George Meeker, Edward Earle, Patricia Knox.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras 3/10.
Comment: One of my personal favorite MST shows.
Directed by Jim Mallon, Andrew V McLaglen.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Joe Don Baker, Martin Balsam, John Saxon, Linda Evans, Merlin Olsen, Morgan Paull, Harold Stone.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras 3/10.
Includes: 'Mitchell', original theatrical trailer
Comment: One of the greats from MST3000, and farewell to Joel.
Directed by Jim Mallon.
Starring Michael J Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Herb Evers, Virginia Leith, Adele Lamont, Leslie Daniel.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras 3/10.
Includes: 'The Brain That Wouldn't Die' un-MiSTied version
Comment: A good one; the disc includes the un-MiSTied version of the movie.
Directed by Jim Mallon, Jerry Warren.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Katherine Victor, George Mitchell, Steve Brodie, Richard Banks, Steve Conte, Bruno VeSota.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras 2/10.
Includes: 'The Wild World of Batwoman' un-MiSTied version
Comment: Godawful and unspeakably painful, and a laugh riot thanks to Joel and the 'bots.
Directed by Jim Mallon.
Starring Michael J Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Peter Graves, Peggie Castle, Morris Ankrum.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Beginning of the End un-MiSTied version, and also uncut original version.
Comment: Giant grasshoppers threaten Chicago and Mike and the 'bots aren't scared.
Directed by Jim Mallon, Trace Beaulieu.
Starring Michael J Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, John Carradine, Coleman Francis, Tony Cordoza, Harold Saunders.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras 3/10.
Comment: Bad bad movie is one of the best MST shows.
Directed by Jim Mallon.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Michael J Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl, Robert Reed.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Bloodlust! (#607), Catalina Caper (#204), The Creeping Terror (#606), The Skydivers (#109), MiSTied versions and unedited original versions of each
Comment: Cool box!
Directed by Jim Mallon, Michael J Nelson.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Michael J Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Angel's Revenge (#622), Cave Dwellers (#301), Pod People (#303), Shorts Vol. 1 (including The Home Economics Story, Junior Rodeo Daredevils, Body Care & Grooming, Cheating, A Date With Your Family, Why Study Industrial Arts?, Chicken of Tomorrow)
Comment: Nice spinner.
Directed by Jim Mallon.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Michael J Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Mary Jo Pehl.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Atomic Brain (#518), The Unearthly (#320), The Sidehackers (#202), Shorts Vol. 2 (including Catching Trouble, What to Do on a Date, Last Clear Chance, A Day at the Fair, Keeping Clean, The Days of Our Years)
Comment: Nice foldout box.
Directed by Jim Mallon, Michael J Nelson.
Starring Michael J Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Mary Jo Pehl, Bill Corbett.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Girl in Gold Boots (#1002), Hamlet (#1009), Overdrawn at the Memory Bank (#822), Space Mutiny (#820)
Comment: Nice die-cut box.
Directed by Jim Mallon, Michael J Nelson.
Starring Michael J Nelson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Mary Jo Pehl, Bill Corbett.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Boggy Creek II: And The Legend Continues (#1006), Merlin's Shop of Mystical Wonders (#1009), Time Chasers (#821), The Touch of Satan (#908)
Comment: Nice embossed cover.
Directed by Jim Mallon, Michael J Nelson.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Attack of the Giant Leeches (#406), Gunslinger (#511), Teenagers From Outer Space (#404), Mr B. Natural, X Marks the Spot, Hired Pt 1, Design For Dreaming, Johnny At the Fair, Are You Ready For Marriage?
Comment: Nice embossed cover. And some GREAT material.
Directed by Jim Mallon, Michael J Nelson.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff, Josh Weinstein.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Women of the Prehistoric Planet (#104), Wild Rebels (#207), The Sinister Urge (#613), The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (#812)
Comment: An okay collection, more miss than hit.
Directed by Jim Mallon, Michael J Nelson.
Starring Joel Hodgson, Trace Beaulieu, Kevin Murphy, Frank Conniff.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Godzilla vs Megalon (#212), Swamp Diamonds (#503), Teen-Age Strangler (#514), The Giant Spider Invasion (#810)
Comment: One of the better collections, some great episodes.
Directed by Lee Shallat-Chemel, Paul Miller, Will Mackenzie.
Starring Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane, Nicholle Tom, Benjamin Salisbury, Madeline Zima, Renee Taylor, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Rachel Chagall, James Marsden, Carol Channing, Nikki Cox, Cloris Leachman, Steve Posner, Tina Hart.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, Smoke Gets In Your Lies, My Fair Nanny, The Nuchshlep, Here Comes the Brood, The Butler The Husband The Wife and Her Mother, Imaginary Friend, The Christmas Show, Personal Business, The Nanny-In-Law, A Plot for Nanny, 11 more
Comment: First season of the show that I don't know why I like.
Starring Fran Drescher, Charles Shaughnessy, Daniel Davis, Lauren Lane, Nicholle Tom, Benjamin Salisbury, Madeline Zima, Renee Taylor, Ann Morgan Guilbert, Rachel Chagall, James Marsden, Carol Channing, Nikki Cox, Cloris Leachman, Steve Posner, Tina Hart.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Fran Lite, The Playwright, Everybody Needs a Bubby Sometimes, Material Fran, Curse of the Grandmas, The Nanny-Napper, A Star is Unborn, Pishke Business, Stock Tip, Whine Cellar, Take Back Your Mink, When You Pish Upon a Star, The Strike, 13 more
Comment: Second season of the show that I don't know why I like. But I do.
Directed by Dewi Humphreys.
Starring Gary Bakewell, Laura Fraser, Hywel Bennett, Clive Russell, Paterson Joseph, Trevor Peacock, Elizabeth Marmur, Richard Leaf, Sean O'Callaghan, George Jackos, Geraldine McNulty, Damien Lyne, Peter Capaldi, Freddie Jones, Tony Pritchard.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Neverwhere episodes 1-6
Comment: The six-part BBC serial on two discs, plus extras.
Directed by Desmond Davis, Ray Austin, Sidney Hayers.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley, Peter Cushing, Derek Farr, Peter Jeffrey, Jeremy Wilkin, Robert Lang, John Carson, Pik-Sen Lim, Vladek Sheybal, Basil Dignam, Keith Barron, Frederick Jaeger, Ian Hendry, Edward Judd, Derek Waring.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Eagle's Nest, The Midas Touch, House of Cards, The Last of the Cybernauts…?, To Catch a Rat, Cat Amongst the Pigeons, Target!, Faces, The Tale of Big Why, Three Handed Game, Sleeper, Gnaws, Dirtier By the Dozen
Comment: All 13 episodes from the show's first season.
Directed by Richard Gilbert, Claude Fournier, Don Thompson.
Starring Patrick Macnee, Gareth Hunt, Joanna Lumley.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Dead Men are Dangerous, Angels of Death, Medium Rare, The Lion and the Unicorn, Obsession, Trap, Hostage, K is for Kill (in two parts), Complex, The Gladiators, Emily, Forward Base
Comment: All 13 episodes from the show's second season.
Starring Sharon Baird, Larri Thomas, Chuck Woolery, Yanco Inone, Doug Momary, Emily Peden, Fran Ryan, Hazel Shermet,.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Forgiving, Loyalty, Temper Tantrums
Comment: Three episodes on a single disc. There are four single-disc releases, but now there's season sets out too.
Directed by James Burrows, Asaad Kelada, Jay Sandrich.
Starring Harry Anderson, Karen Austin, John Larroquette, Paula Kelly, Richard Moll, Selma Diamond.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: All You Need is Love, Santa Goes Downtown, The Former Harry Stone, Welcome Back Momma, The Eye of the Beholder, Death Threat, Once in Love With Harry, Quadrangle of Love, Wonder Drug, Some Like It Hot, Harry and the Rock Star, Bull's Baby, 1 more
Comment: Another fun sitcom.
Directed by Jack Bender, John David Coles, Dean Parisot.
Starring Rob Morrow, Barry Corbin, Janine Turner, John Cullum, Darren E Burrows, John Corbett, Cynthia Geary, Elaine Miles, Peg Phillips, Richard Cummings Jr.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, Brains Know-How and Native Intelligence, Soapy Sanderson, Dreams Schemes and Putting Greens, Russian Flu, Sex Lies and Ed's Tapes, A Kodiak Moment, Aurora Borealis, plus extras
Comment: Jill's show, not mine.
Directed by Gerald Blake, Fiona Cumming, Eric Davidson.
Starring James Hazeldine, Louise Jameson, John Carlisle, Brown Derby, Cyril Luckham, Natasha Gerson.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Undiscovered Country, Visitations, Night Games, After-Image, Powers of Darkness, Child's Play, St Anthony's Fire, Out of Body Out of Mind, Double Vision, Illusions
Comment: Complete 10-part series from the summer of 1979. The pull-quote on the back from Mary Whitehouse: "Thoroughly evil."
Directed by Leslie Stevens, Byron Haskin, James Goldstone.
Starring Cliff Robertson, Robert Culp, Donald Pleasance, David McCallum, Martin Landau, Sally Kellerman, Martin Sheen, Ed Asner, Janet Blair, Bruce Dern, Barry Morse, Miriam Hopkins, John Hoyt, Richard Jaeckel, Russell Johnson, Ruth Roman, Hari Rhodes.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Galaxy Being, The Hundred Days of the Dragon, The Architects of Fear, The Man With the Power, The Sixth Finger, The Man Who Was Never Born, O.B.I.T., The Human Factor, Corpus Earthling, Nightmare, It Crawled Out of the Woodwork, 21 more.
Comment: Thirty-two episodes of one of the most imaginative television series ever.
Directed by Gerd Oswald, Charles Haas, Byron Haskin.
Starring Lloyd Nolan, Michael Ansara, William Shatner, Geraldine Brooks, Peter Lind Hayes, Joan Freeman, Skip Homeier, Keith Andes, Robert Culp, Eddie Albert, Adam West, Patrick O'Neal, Howard da Silva, Robert Duvall, Robert Webber, Ron Randell, Mary Murphy.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Soldier, Cold Hands Warm Heart, Behold Eck!, Expanding Human, Demon With a Glass Hand, Cry of Silence, The Invisible Enemy, Wolf 359, I Robot, The Inheritors, Keeper of the Purple Twilight, The Duplicate Man, Counterweight, 3 more
Comment: The final 17 episodes of the original monster anthology series.
Directed by Tony Wharmby, John A Davis.
Starring Francesca Annis, James Warwick, Reece Dinsdale, Graham Crowden, Annie Lambert, Arthur Cox, Michael Cochrane, Alan Jones, Bill Dean, Kim Clifford, John Gillett, Noel Dyson, Lynda La Plante, Benjamin Whitrow, Liz Smith, Lynsey Baxter, Ursula Mohan.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Secret Adversary, The Affair of the Pink Pearl, The House of Lurking Death, Finessing the King, The Clergyman's Daughter
Comment: A terrific series based on Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence stories, had their US airing on "Mystery!"
Directed by Tony Wharmby, Paul Annett, Christopher Hodson.
Starring Francesca Annis, James Warwick.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Sunningdale Mystery, The Ambassador's Boots, The Man in the Mist, The Case of the Missing Lady, The Unbreakable Alibi, The Crackler
Comment: A terrific series based on Agatha Christie's Tommy & Tuppence stories, had their US airing on "Mystery!"
Directed by Piers Haggard.
Starring Bob Hoskins, Cheryl Campbell, Gemma Craven, Kenneth Colley, Freddie Jones, Hywel Bennett, Ronald Fraser, Dave King, John Ringham, Peter Bowles, Nigel Havers, Peter Cellier, Rosemary Martin, Arnold Peters, Philip Jackson, Jenny Logan, Spencer Banks.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Down Sunnyside Lane, The Sweetest Thing, Easy Come Easy Go, Better Think Twice, Painting the Clouds, Says My Heart
Comment: The complete Dennis Potter miniseries from 1978.
Directed by William D Russell, Christian Nyby, Arthur Marks.
Starring Raymond Burr, Barbara Hale, William Hopper, William Talman, Whitney Blake, Geraldine Wall, Nancy Kulp, Ralph Clanton, Gloria Henry, Willard Sage, Judith Braun, Virginia Field, Fay Wray, John Hoyt, Morris Ankrum, Jack Gargan, Lyle Latell, Mary Castle.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Case of the Restless Redhead (ep. 1), The Case of the Baited Hook (ep. 14), The Case of the Prodigal Parent (ep. 36)
Comment: Three episodes, first disc of the Columbia House series
Directed by Basil Dearden, Roy Ward Baker, David Greene.
Starring Roger Moore, Tony Curtis, Laurence Naismith, Susan George, Jan-Michael Vincent, Richard Hurndall, Sue Lloyd, Andrew Keir, Melissa Stribling, Paul Whitsun-Jones, Bernard Lee, Gerald Sim, Frederick Jaeger, Derren Nesbitt, Patrick Troughton, James Bree.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Overture, The Gold Napoleon, Take Seven, Greensleeves, Powerswitch, The Time and the Place, Someone Like Me, Anyone Can Play, The Old the New and the Deadly, Angie...Angie, Chain of Events, That's Me Over There, The Long Goodbye.
Comment: First 13 episodes of the adventure series written by Brian Clemens, Val Guest, Terry Nation and others.
Directed by Russell Calabrese, Barry Caldwell.
Starring Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, James Belushi, Corey Burton, Joe Lala.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Das Mouse, Of Mouse and Man, Tokyo Grows/That Smarts/Brainstem, Pinky and the Fog/Where No Mouse Has Gone Before/Cheese Roll Call, Brainania, TV or Not TV, Napoleon Brainaparte, A Pinky and the Brain Christmas, Snowball, 13 more
Comment: Collection of 22 episodes of the spinoff from Animaniacs
Directed by Russell Calabrese, Barry Caldwell.
Starring Maurice LaMarche, Rob Paulsen, James Belushi, Corey Burton, Joe Lala.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Brain of the Future, Brinky, Hoop Schemes, Leave It to Beavers/Cinebrainia, Brain Noir, Pinky and the Brain and...Larry/Where the Deer and the Mousealopes Play, Brain's Bogie/Say What, Earth?, My Feldmans My Friends, 14 more plus extras
Comment: Collection of 22 more episodes of the spinoff from Animaniacs
Directed by Don Weis, Arnold Laven, Bernard McEveety.
Starring Roddy McDowall, Ron Harper, James Naughton, Booth Colman, Mark Lenard, Royal Dano, Marc Singer, Cynthia Eilbacher, Zina Bethune, Roscoe Lee Browne.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: All 14 episodes: Escape From Tomorrow, The Gladiators, The Trap, The Good Seeds, The Legacy, Tomorrow's Tide, The Surgeon, The Deception, The Horse Race, The Interrogation, The Tyrant, The Cure, The Liberator, Up Above the World So High
Comment: A was a devout fan on its original run, and I never ever dreamed I'd have such a wonderful DVD set like this.
Directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker.
Starring Leslie Nielsen, Alan North, Rex Hamilton, Ed Williams, William Duell, Peter Lupus, Tessa Richarde.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: A Substantial Gift (The Broken Promise), Ring of Fear (A Dangerous Assignment), The Butler Did It (A Bird in the Hand), Revenge and Remorse (The Guilty Alibi), Rendezvous at Big Gulch (Terror in the Neighborhood), Testimony of Evil
Comment: Finally, a DVD of these six ridiculous episodes from the criminally short-lived series
Directed by Don Chaffey, Patrick McGoohan.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Virginia Maskell, George Baker, Christopher Benjamin, Eric Portman, Rachel Herbert, Kenneth Benda, Mary Morris, Duncan Macrae, Aubrey Morris, Patsy Smart.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Arrival, Free For All, Dance of the Dead, and the alternate Chimes of Big Ben
Comment: Possibly the best television series ever made, presenting three episodes in Max Hora order.
Directed by Don Chaffey, Pat Jackson, Peter Graham Scott.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Peter Wyngarde, Patricia Jessel, George Coulouris, Leo McKern, Nadia Gray, Christopher Benjamin, Peter Bowles, Colin Gordon, Peter Howell, Keith Pyott.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Checkmate, The Chimes of Big Ben, A B and C, The General
Comment: Next four episodes in Max Hora order.
Directed by Pat Jackson, Patrick McGoohan, Robert Asher.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Jane Merrow, Anton Rodgers, Patrick Cargill, Donald Sinden, Jon Laurimore, Nike Arrighi, Derren Nesbitt, Mark Eden, Wanda Ventham, Michael Bilton.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Schizoid Man, Many Happy Returns, It's Your Funeral
Comment: Three more episodes in Max Hora order.
Directed by Patrick McGoohan, Pat Jackson, David Tomblin.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Alexis Kanner, Angela Browne, John Sharp, George Pravda, Patrick Cargill, Victor Maddern, Hilary Dwyer, Zena Walker, Nigel Stock, James Bree, David Bauer, Valerie French, Gordon Tanner.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: A Change of Mind, Hammer Into Anvil, Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, Living In Harmony
Comment: Some of the best episodes of the best television series.
Directed by David Tomblin, Patrick McGoohan.
Starring Patrick McGoohan, Angelo Muscat, Peter Swanwick, Alexis Kanner, Leo McKern, Kenneth Griffith, Justine Lord, Christopher Benjamin, Sheena Marsh, Max Faulkner, John Cazabon, Kenneth Griffith.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Girl Who Was Death, Once Upon a Time, Fall-Out, and the Prisoner Home Companion
Comment: The amazing conclusion to the best television series ever.
Starring André Morell, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell, John Stratton, Mark Eden, Arthur Hewlett, Michael Ripper, Hilda Barry, Bernard Spear, John Scott Martin, Sydney Bromley.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 5/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Halfmen, The Ghosts, Imps and Demons, The Enchanted, The Wild Hunt, Hob
Comment: The original serial, all six parts edited together. A television landmark in many ways.
Starring Reginald Tate, John Robinson, André Morell, Isabel Dean, Duncan Lamont, Monica Grey, Hugh Griffith, Cec Linder, Anthony Bushell, John Stratton.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Quatermass Experiment episodes 1 & 2 (no other episodes exist), Quatermass II (1955), Quatermass and the Pit (1958)
Comment: All of the existing Quatermass television serials remastered.
Directed by Piers Haggard.
Starring John Mills, Simon MacCorkindale, Barbara Kellerman, Margaret Tyzack, Brewster Mason, Jane Bertish, Carla D Clark, Ralph Arliss, Brenda Fricker, Annabelle Lanyon, Bruce Purchase, Rebecca Saire, Tony Sibbald, David Yip, Neil Stacy.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Ringstone Round, Lovely Lightning, What Lies Beneath, An Endangered Species
Comment: Quite dated, and the Quatermass character is in sad decline, but it's still a must.
Directed by Ray Austin, Roy Ward Baker.
Starring Mike Pratt, Kenneth Cope, Annette Andre, Richard Kerley, Ivor Dean, Garfield Morgan, Judith Arthy, Harold Innocent, Max Faulkner, Gerald Flood, Adrienne Corri, Philip Madoc, Brian Oulton, Valerie Leon, John Fraser, Charles Lloyd- Pack, Peter Jones.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: My Late Lamented Friend and Partner, A Disturbing Case, All Work and No Pay, Never Trust a Ghost, That's How Murder Snowballs, Just For the Record, Murder Ain't What It Used to Be, Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying, The House on Haunted Hill, 4 more
Comment: First 13 episodes of the 1969 oddball detective series created by Dennis Spooner
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Crowd, Marionettes Inc, The Playground, The Screaming Woman, The Town Where No One Got Off, Banshee, The Coffin, Gotcha!, The Emissary, The Man Upstairs, The Small Assassin, On The Orient North, The Fruit At The Bottom Of The Bowl
Comment: 13 episodes of the anthology series.
Directed by Ed Bye.
Starring Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The End, Future Echoes, Balance of Power, Waiting for God, Confidence & Paranoia, Me2
Comment: The hilarious sci-fi comedy debuts on DVD.
Directed by Ed Bye.
Starring Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Norman Lovett.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Kryten, Better Than Life, Thanks for the Memory, Stasis Leak, Queeg, Parallel Universe
Comment: The hilarious sci-fi comedy building to its peak.
Starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Hattie Hayridge.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Comment: Some of the best episodes of the great sci-fi comedy series.
Directed by Ed Bye.
Starring Craig Charles, Chris Barrie, Danny John-Jules, Hattie Hayridge, Robert Llewellyn.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Camille, DNA, Justice, White Hole, Dimension Jump, Meltdown; tons of extras.
Comment: Some of the best episodes of the great sci-fi comedy series.
Directed by Juliet May, Grant Naylor.
Starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Hattie Hayridge.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Holoship, The Inquisitor, Terrorform, Quarantine, Demons & Angels, Back to Reality
Comment: How do they keep coming up with these clever stories?
Directed by Andy de Emmony.
Starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Psirens, Legion, Gunmen of the Apocalypse, Emohawk - Polymorph II, Rimmerworld, Out of Time
Comment: Haven't seen these yet.
Directed by Ed Bye.
Starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Chloe Annett.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Tikka to Ride, Stoke Me a Clipper, Ouroboros, Duct Soup, Blue, Beyond a Joke, Epideme, Nanarchy. Plus tons of extras.
Comment: Haven't seen these yet.
Directed by Ed Bye.
Starring Chris Barrie, Craig Charles, Danny John-Jules, Robert Llewellyn, Norman Lovett, Chloe Annett.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Back in the Red (parts 1-3), Cassandra, Krytie TV, Pete (parts 1-2), Only the Good. Plus tons of extras.
Comment: Haven't seen these yet.
Directed by Robert Butler, Jeff Bleckner, Leo Penn.
Starring Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, James Read, Janet DeMay, Diana Douglas, Curt Lowens, Roxanne Hart, Peter Scolari, Thom Bray, Marta Kristen, Keye Luke, Peter Jurasik, Walter Beery, Paul Reiser, Susan Kellerman, Annie Potts, Sharon Stone.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: License to Steele, Tempered Steele, Steele Waters Run Deep, Signed Steeled and Delivered, Thou Shalt Not Steele, Steele Belted, Etched in Steele, You're Steele the One For Me, In the Steele of the Night, Steele Trap, Steeling the Show, 11 more.
Comment: First season of the pretty-good light detective mystery series.
Directed by Seymour Robbie, Kevin Connor, Alexander Singer.
Starring Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, Doris Roberts, David Warner, Chloe Webb, Delta Burke, Jane Kaczmarek, Jeffrey Jones, Clive Revill, Bibi Besch, Patricia Wettig, Tom Baker, Paul Gleason, Johnathan Frakes, Keone Young, Pearl Shear, Peter Evans.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Steele Away With Me (parts 1-2), Red Holt Steele, Altered Steele, Steele Framed, A Steele At Any Price, Love Among the Steele, Scene Steelers, Steele Knuckles and Glass Jaws, My Fair Steele, Steele Threads, Steele Eligible, Hounded Steele, 9 more.
Comment: Second season of the pretty-good light detective mystery series.
Directed by Don Weis, Burt Brinckerhoff, Seymour Robbie.
Starring Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, Doris Roberts, Andre Maranne, Carmen Filpi, Armin Shimerman, Frederick Jaeger, Susan Penhaligon, Whitey Ford, Maurice Roeves, Meeno Peluce, Ray Wise, Tom Adams, Ron Harper, Dorothy Lamour, Virginia Mayo.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Steele At It, Lofty Steele, Maltese Steele, Second Base Steele, Blue Blooded Steele, Steele Your Heart Away, A Pocketful of Steele, Puzzled Steele, Cast in Steele, Breath of Steele, Let's Steele a Plot, Gourmet Steele, Stronger Than Steele, 9 more.
Comment: Third season of the pretty-good light detective mystery series.
Directed by Seymour Robbie, Christopher Hibler, Harry Harris.
Starring Stephanie Zimbalist, Pierce Brosnan, Doris Roberts, Julian Glover, Caroline Goodall, Jeff Rawle, Cassandra Harris, Nicholas Selby, Efrem Zimbalist Jr, Peter Jurasik, Jennifer Tilly, Vincent Schiavelli, Michael Constantine, Louie Anderson.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Steele Searching parts 1-2, Steele Blushing, Grappling Steele, Forged Steele, Corn Fed Steele, Premium Steele, Coffee Tea or Steele, Dancer Prancer Donner and Steele, Steele on the Air, Steele Inc, Steele Spawning, Suburban Steele, 15 more
Comment: Final two seasons of the pretty-good light detective mystery series.
Directed by Jeremy Summers, Peter Sasdy, Terence Feely.
Starring Ian Ogilvy, Judy Geeson, Kate O'Mara, Ian Hendry, Laurence Naismith, George Cole, Catherine Schell, Gayle Hunnicutt, Stratford Johns, Derren Nesbitt, Linda Thorson, Mary Tamm, Rula Lenska, Britt Ekland, Mel Ferrer, Sam Wanamaker.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Judas Game, The Nightmare Man, Duel in Venice, One Black September, The Village That Sold Its Soul, Assault Force, Yesterday's Heroes, The Poppy Chain, The Arrangement, The Armageddon Alternative, 14 more, plus feature film version of 2 episodes
Comment: This was one of my favorite shows, and it's still great today. Australian release.
Directed by Seth Green, Chris Finnegan, Matthew Senreich.
Starring Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Rachael Leigh Cook, Macaulay Culkin, Seth MacFarlane, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Kurtwood Smith, Abraham Benrubi, Dom DeLuise, Topher Grace, Ashton Kutcher, Matthew Lillard, Burt Reynolds, Mark Hamill, Scarlett Johansson.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 9/10.
Includes: Junk in the Trunk, Nutcracker Sweet, Gold Dust Gasoline, Plastic Buffet, Toyz in the Hood, Vegetable Fun Fest, A Piece of the Action, The Deep End, S&M Present, Badunkadunk, Toy Meets Girl, Midnight Snack, Atta Toy, Joint Point, Kiddie Pool, 5 more
Comment: Adult humor as presented by action figures mixing pop culture references in 11-minute chunks. Marvelous stuff.
Directed by Robby Benson, Peter Baldwin, Liz Plonka.
Starring Melissa Joan Hart, Nick Bakay, Caroline Rhea, Beth Broderick, Nate Richert, Jenna Leigh Green, Michelle Beaudoin, Paul Feig, Emily Hart, Curtis Andersen, Bridget Flanery, James Fields, Melissa Murray, Elizabeth Hart, Donald Faison, Penn Jillette.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, Bundt Friday, The True Adventures of Rudy Kazootie, Terrible Things, A Halloween Story, Dream Date, Third Aunt from the Sun, Magic Joel, Geek Like Me, Sweet & Sour Victory, A Girl and Her Cat, Trial by Fury, Jenny's Non- Dream, 11 more.
Comment: I was quite a fan of Clarissa Explains It All, but mostly for its writing and its cast, not just for Melissa Joan Hart, so it's maybe not too surprising that I never watched this show. Figured I might as well give it a shot now that it's on DVD.
Starring John Candy, Robin Duke, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Tony Rosato, Dave Thomas.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 32, 37, 45, 54, 56, 57, 59, 60, 63, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 76, and extras.
Comment: Early episodes at last! Yay!
Starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Season 4, Episodes 79-87. Includes All The Long-Leggedy Beasties, Polynesiantown, Melvin and Howards, The Man Who Would Be King of the Popes, Street Beef, Mrs Falbo's Tiny Town, Mel's Rock Pile 20th Anniversary, The Fishin' Musician, Fantasy Island
Comment: One of the best comedy variety series.
Starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Season 4, Episodes 88-96. Includes CCCP1, I'm Taking My Own Head.., Zontar, Walter Cronkite's Brain, Doorway to Hell, The Godfather, SCTV Staff Christmas Party, Teacher's Pet, Midnight Video Special, more
Comment: More of one of the best comedy variety series.
Starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis, Martin Short.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Season 4, Episodes 97-104. Includes The Great White North Palace, Pre-Teen World Telethon, The People's Global Golden Choice Awards, 3D Stake From the Heart, Pet Peeves, Chariots of Eggs, Battle of the PBS Stars, Rome Italian Style, more
Comment: More of one of the best comedy variety series.
Starring John Candy, Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Rick Moranis, Catherine O'Hara, Dave Thomas, Harold Ramis, Martin Short, Fred Willard, Robin Williams, Crystal Gayle, Ben Vereen, Betty Thomas, Joe Walsh, John Cougar Mellencamp.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Season 5, Episodes 106-117. Includes Sammy Maudlin 23rd Anniversary/CBC, Indecent Exposure, Melonvote, Jane Eyrehead, Towering Inferno, Christmas, A Star is Born, SCTV Classifieds/Vic Arpeggio, Bobby Bittman's Retirement, Sweeps Week, 2 more, extras
Comment: More of one of the best comedy variety series.
Directed by David Silverman, Wesley Archer, Gregg Vanzo.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Marcia Wallace, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, Kelsey Grammer.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 6/10.
Includes: Simpsons Roasting On an Open Fire, Bart the Genius, Homer's Odyssey, There's No Disgrace Like Home, Bart the General, Moaning Lisa, The Call of the Simpsons, The Telltale Head, Life on the Fast Lane, Homer's Night Out, The Crepes of Wrath, 2 more
Comment: The show begins, and begins to find its footing. Commentaries for every episode!
Directed by David Silverman, Rich Moore, Wesley Archer.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Marcia Wallace, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, James Earl Jones, George Takei, Jon Lovitz, Dustin Hoffman, Danny DeVito, Ringo Starr.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 9/10.
Includes: Bart Gets an F, Simpson and Delilah, Treehouse of Horror, Two Cars in Every Garage and Three Eyes on Every Fish, Dancin Homer, Dead Putting Society, Bart vs Thanksgiving, Bart the Daredevil, Itchy & Scratchy & Marge, 13 more episodes, 2 videos
Comment: The show quickly hits its stride with some of the best episodes.
Directed by David Silverman, Rich Moore, Wesley Archer.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Marcia Wallace, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille, James Earl Jones, George Takei, Jon Lovitz, Dustin Hoffman, Danny DeVito, Ringo Starr.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Stark Raving Dad, Mr Lisa Goes to Washington, When Flanders Failed, Bart the Murderer, Homer Defined, Like Father Like Clown, Treehouse of Horror II, Lisa's Pony, Saturdays of Thunder, Flaming Moe's, Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk, 13 more.
Comment: The show moves into its most fertile, brilliant period.
Directed by Mark Kirkland, Rich Moore, Jim Reardon.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Lona Williams, Jon Lovitz, Doris Grau, Bob Hope, Jo Ann Harris, Phil Hartman.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 10/10.
Includes: Kamp Krusty, A Streetcar Named Marge, Homer the Heretic, Lisa the Beauty Queen, Treehouse of Horror III, Itchy & Scratchy the Movie, Marge Gets a Job, New Kid on the Block, Mr Plow, Lisa's First Word, Homer's Triple Bypass, 11 more
Comment: Easily one of the best seasons of any television show ever.
Directed by Mark Kirkland, Rich Moore, Jim Reardon.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Lona Williams, Jon Lovitz, Doris Grau, Bob Hope, Jo Ann Harris, Phil Hartman.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 10/10.
Includes: Homer's Barbershop Quartet, Cape Feare, Homer Goes to College, Rosebud, Treehouse of Horror IV, Marge on the Lam, Bart's Inner Child, Boy-Scoutz 'N The Hood, The Last Temptation of Homer, $pringfield, Home the Vigilante, Bart Gets Famous, 10 more
Comment: Probably the best season of any television show ever.
Directed by Mark Kirkland, Rich Moore, Jim Reardon.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Lona Williams, Doris Grau, Jo Ann Harris, Phil Hartman.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 10/10.
Includes: Bart of Darkness, Lisa's Rival, Another Simpsons Clip Show, Itchy & Scratchy Land, Sideshow Bob Roberts, Treehouse of Horror V, Bart's Girlfriend, Lisa on Ice, Homer Badman, Grampa vs Sexual Inadequacy, Fear of Flying, Homer the Great, 13 more
Comment: Probably the best season of any television show ever. Oh wait, I said that last time.
Directed by Mark Kirkland, Rich Moore, Jim Reardon.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Lona Williams, Doris Grau, Jo Ann Harris, Phil Hartman.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 10/10.
Includes: Who Shot Mr Burns 2, Radioactive Man, Home Sweet Homediddly-dum-doodily, Bart Sells His Soul, Lisa the Vegetarian, Treehouse of Horror VI, King-Size Homer, Mother Simpson, Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming, The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular, 15 more
Comment: Probably the best season of any television show ever. Oh wait, I said that last time. And the time before that.
Directed by Mike B Anderson, Mark Kirkland, Jim Reardon.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Lona Williams, Doris Grau, Jo Ann Harris, Phil Hartman.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 10/10.
Includes: Treehouse of Horror VII, You Only Move Twice, The Homer They Fall, Burns Baby Burns, Bart After Dark, A Milhouse Divided, Lisa's Date with Density, Hurricane Neddy, El Viaje Misterioso De Nuestro Jomer, The Springfield Files, 15 more
Comment: How can you go wrong kicking off with a Treehouse of Horror with a pigeonrat, followed by "You Only Move Twice"? THIS is the best season. Again.
Directed by Mike B Anderson, Mark Kirkland, Jim Reardon.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Tress MacNeille, Maggie Roswell, Russi Taylor, Marcia Wallace, Lona Williams, Doris Grau, Jo Ann Harris, Phil Hartman.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras 10/10.
Comment: This show still rocks hard.
Starring Dan Castellaneta, Julie Kavner, Nancy Cartwright, Yeardley Smith, Hank Azaria, Harry Shearer, Pamela Hayden, Marcia Wallace, Russi Taylor, Tress MacNeille.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras 2/10.
Includes: Treehouse of Horror V, Treehouse of Horror VI, Treehouse of Horror VII, Treehouse of Horror XII
Comment: Four random Halloween episodes
Directed by Jon Amiel.
Starring Michael Gambon, Janet Suzman, Joanne Whalley, Patrick Malahide, David Ryall, Gerard Horan, Leslie French, Alison Steadman, Janet Henfrey, Imelda Staunton, David Thewlis, Lyndon Davies, Ron Cook, George Rossi, Geff Francis, Sharon D Clarke.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Skin, Heat, Lovely Days, Clues, Pitter Patter, Who Done It (all six episodes), plus bonus features - documentary and interview on Dennis Potter, galleries, articles and more.
Comment: Genre-warping BBC miniseries is a television classic.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: All episodes
Comment: Bought Jill the big box set.
Directed by Alan Ball, Miguel Arteta, John Patterson.
Starring Peter Krause, Michael C Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St Patrick, Jeremy Sisto, Rachel Griffiths.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, The Will, The Foot, Familia, An Open Book, The Room, Brotherhood, Crossroads, Life's Too Short, The New Person, The Trip, A Private Life, Knock Knock, extras
Comment: First season of the HBO series. This one's Jill's, it ain't mine.
Directed by Rodrigo Garcia, Kathy Bates, Rose Troche.
Starring Peter Krause, Michael C Hall, Frances Conroy, Lauren Ambrose, Freddy Rodriguez, Mathew St Patrick, Jeremy Sisto, Rachel Griffiths.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: In the Game, Out Out Brief Candle, The Plan, Driving Mr Mossback, The Invisible Woman, In Place of Anger, Back to the Garden, It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year, Someone Else's Eyes, The Secret, The Liar and the Whore, I'll Take You, 1 more
Comment: Second season of the HBO series. This one's Jill's, it ain't mine.
Directed by Jay Sandrich.
Starring Katherine Helmond, Cathryn Damon, Richard Mulligan, Robert Mandan, Robert Guillaume, Arthur Peterson, Jimmy Baio, Diana Canova, Billy Crystal, Jennifer Salt, Robert Urich, Ted Wass, Sal Viscuso, Jay Johnson, Udana Power, Gordon Jump, Dinah Manoff.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 1-25
Comment: One of the greatest comedy series ever!
Directed by Jay Sandrich, John Bowab.
Starring Jimmy Baio, Rebecca Balding, Diana Canova, Billy Crystal, Cathryn Damon, Robert Guillaume, Katherine Helmond, Jay Johnson, Gordon Jump, Charles Lane, Robert Mandan, Dinah Manoff, Richard Mulligan, Arthur Peterson, Jennifer Salt, Sal Viscuso, Ted Wass.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 26-47, plus episode 1 as an extra.
Comment: Second season of one of the best-conceived comedy series ever.
Directed by Jay Sandrich, J D Lobue.
Starring John Byner, Diana Canova, Billy Crystal, Cathryn Damon, Robert Guillaume, Randee Heller, Katherine Helmond, Robert Mandan, Richard Mulligan, Arthur Peterson, Jennifer Salt, Jay Johnson, Candice Azzara, Marla Pennington, Ted Wass, Donnelly Rhodes.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 48-69 (Episodes 1-22 of season 3).
Comment: Third season of one of the best-conceived comedy series ever.
Starring John Byner, Diana Canova, Billy Crystal, Cathryn Damon, Robert Guillaume, Randee Heller, Katherine Helmond, Robert Mandan, Richard Mulligan, Arthur Peterson, Jennifer Salt, Jay Johnson, Candice Azzara, Marla Pennington, Ted Wass, Donnelly Rhodes.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 70-90 (Episodes 1-21 of season 4). Shame on you, Sony, for not making any effort on the liner notes this time. Some people really DO care about the credits to the TV shows they watch.
Comment: Fourth (final) season of one of the best-conceived comedy series ever.
Directed by Trey Parker.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes, Robert Smith.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Starvin' Marvin, Mecha-Streisand, Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo, Tom's Rhinoplasty
Comment: Includes the best ever episode of South Park, and some other top classics
Directed by Trey Parker.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Cartman's Mom is a Dirty Slut, The Terrance and Philip Show, Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut, Chicken Lover, Ike's Wee Wee
Comment: More marvelous and hilarious Trey Parker shit - 5 episodes this time.
Directed by Trey Parker.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Conjoined Fetus Lady, The Mexican Staring Frog of Southern Sri Lanka, Flashbacks, Summer Sucks
Comment: More episodes of the very funny animated series.
Directed by Trey Parker.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Mary Kay Bergman, Isaac Hayes.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls, Chickenpox, Roger Ebert Should Lay Off the Fatty Foods, Clubhouses
Comment: More great episodes of South Park
Directed by Trey Parker.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes, Mary Kay Bergman, Karri Turner, George Clooney, Jennifer Howell, Jesse Howell, Jerry Seinfeld, Michael Buffer, Natasha Henstridge, Toddy Walters, Robert Smith, Jay Leno, Franchesca Clifford.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Cartman Gets an Anal Probe, Volcano, Weight Gain 4000, Big Gay Al's Big Gay Boat Ride, An Elephant Makes Love to a Pig, Death, Pink Eye, Starvin' Marvin, Mr Hankey the Christmas Poo, Damien, Tom's Rhinoplasty, Mecha- Streisand, more
Comment:
Directed by Trey Parker, Eric Stough.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Henry Winkler, Jay Leno, Elton John, Stan Sawicki, Mary Kay Bergman, Eliza Schneider, Isaac Hayes, Mona Marshall.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Terrance & Phillip in "Not Without My Anus", Cartman's Mom is Still a Dirty Slut, Ike's Wee Wee, Chickenlover, Conjoined Fetus Lady, The Mexican Staring Frog of Sri Lanka, Flashbacks, Summer Sucks, Chef's Salty Chocolate Balls, Chickenpox, 8 more.
Comment: Three disc set with all 18 episodes of season 2.
Directed by Trey Parker, Eric Stough.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar, Henry Winkler, Jay Leno, Elton John, Stan Sawicki, Mary Kay Bergman, Eliza Schneider, Isaac Hayes, Mona Marshall.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Rainforest Shmainforest, Spontaneous Combustion, The Succubus, Jakovasaurs, Tweek vs Craig, Sexual Harassment Panda, Cat Orgy, Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub, Jewbilee, Korn's Groovy Pirate Ghost Mystery, Chinpoko Mon, Hooked on Monkey Phonics, 5 more
Comment: Three disc set with all 17 episodes of season 3.
Directed by Trey Parker, Eric Stough.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Dian Bachar.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Tooth Fairy Tats 2000, Cartman's Silly Hate Crime 2000, Timmy 2000, Quintuplets 2000, Cartman Joins NAMBLA, Cherokee Hair Tampons, Chef Goes Nanners, Something You Can Do With Your Finger, Do the Handicapped Go To Hell?, Probably, 7 more
Comment: Three disc set of season 4, with the series still going strong.
Directed by Trey Parker, Eric Stough.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: It Hits the Fan, Cripple Fight, Super Best Friends, Scott Tenorman Must Die, Terrance and Phillip Behind the Blow, Cartmanland, Proper Condom Use, Towelie, Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants, How to Eat With Your Butt, The Entity, 3 more
Comment: Three disc set of season 5, with the series still going strong.
Directed by Trey Parker, Eric Stough.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Jared Has Aides, Asspen, Freak Strike, Fun With Veal, The New Terrance and Phillips Movie Trailer, Professor Chaos, The Simpsons Already Did It, Red Hot Catholic Love, Free Hat, Bebe's Boobs Destroy Society, Child Abduction Is Not Funny, 6 more
Comment: Three disc set of season 6, still as great as ever.
Directed by Trey Parker, Eric Stough.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Cancelled, Krazy Kripples, Toilet Paper, I'm a Little Bit Country, Fat Butt and Pancake Head, Lil' Crime Stoppers, Red Man's Greed, South Park is Gay, Christian Rock Hard, Grey Dawn, Casa Bonita, All About Mormons, Butt Out, Raisins, 1 more
Comment: Three disc set of season 7, still as great as ever.
Directed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Eric Stough.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes, Adrien Beard, Gracie Lazar, Mona Marshall, April Stewart.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Good Times With Weapons, Up the Down Steroid, The Passion of the Jew, You Got F'd in the A, AWESOM-O, The Jeffersons, Goobacks, Douche and Turd, Something Wall-Mart This Way Comes, Pre-School, Quest for Ratings, 3 more
Comment: The show never weakens... Season 8!
Directed by Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Eric Stough.
Starring Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Isaac Hayes, Adrien Beard, Gracie Lazar, Mona Marshall, April Stewart.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Mr Garrison's Fancy New Vagina, Die Hippie Die, Wing, Best Friends Forever, The Losing Edge, The Death of Eric Cartman, Erection Day, Two Days Before the Day After Tomorrow, Marjorine, Follow That Egg, Ginger Kids, Trapped in the Closet, 2 more.
Comment: The show STILL doesn't weaken... Season 9 is great too!
Directed by Jeffrey Hayden, George Tyne, Ezra Stone.
Starring Jonathan Harris, Pamelyn Ferdin, Ric Carrott, Ty Henderson, Maggie Cooper, Brian Tochi, Eric Greene, Erika Scheimer, Lou Scheimer, George DiCenzo, Larry Dobkin, Arnold S Soboloff, Don Pedro Colley, Paula Wagner, John Berwick, Dena Dietrich.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Survivors of Zalon, Castaways in Time and Space, Hide and Seek, Countdown, There's No Place Like Home, The Rocks of Janus, Monkey Business, The Phantom Planet, Planet of Fire, Life Begins at 300, The Cheat, 4 more, tons of extras
Comment: Only nostalgia can make a guy watch this. It worked on me. :)
Directed by John Glen, Sidney Hayers, Colin Bucksey.
Starring Ted Shackleford, Rob Youngblood, Simone Bendix, Nancy Paul, Nic Klein, Megan Olive, Mary Woodvine, Jerome Willis, Tom Watt, Richard James, Lou Hirsch.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Double Duty, Protect and Survive, Flash, Enforcer
Comment: Gerry Anderson show is adventurous, ambitious, corny, melodramatic, and on the average fairly decent. Two disc box set.
Directed by John Glen, Alan Birkinshaw, Sidney Hayers.
Starring Ted Shackleford, Rob Youngblood, Simone Bendix, Nancy Paul, Nic Klein, Megan Olive, Mary Woodvine, Jerome Willis, Tom Watt, Richard James, Lou Hirsch.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Snake, Body and Soul, Time To Kill, Deadline
Comment: Gerry Anderson show is adventurous, ambitious, corny, melodramatic, and on the average fairly decent. Two disc box set.
Starring Jack Curtis, Peter Fernandez, Jack Grimes, Corinne Orr.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Great Plan (parts 1 and 2), Challenge of the Masked Racer (parts 1 and 2), The Secret Engine (parts 1 and 2), The Race Against the Mammoth Car (parts 1 and 2), The Most Dangerous Race (parts 1 2 and 3)
Comment: The first 11 episodes of the series.
Directed by Marc Daniels, Lawrence Dobkin, James Goldstone.
Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Grace Lee Whitney, Jeanne Bal, Robert Walker Jr, Gary Lockwood, Sally Kellerman, Jim Goodwin, Roger C Carmel, Michael Strong, Sherry Jackson.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Man Trap, Charlie X, Where No Man Has Gone Before, The Naked Time, The Enemy Within, Mudd's Women, What Are Little Girls Made Of?, Miri, Dagger of the Mind, The Corbomite Maneuver, The Menagerie, The Conscience of the King, 16 more
Comment: I'm a big sci-fi fan, but I hated this show as a kid, so never watched it. Here I go, seeing this series for the first time ever...
Directed by Joseph Pevney, Marc Daniels, Ralph Senensky.
Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Byron Morrow, Michael Forest, David Soul, Celeste Yarnall, William Windom, Antoinette Bower, Roger C Carmel, Mark Lenard.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Amok Time, Who Mourns for Adonais?, The Changeling, Mirror Mirror, The Apple, The Doomsday Machine, Catspaw, I Mudd, Metamorphosis, Journey to Babel, Friday's Child, The Deadly Years, Obsession, Wolf in the Fold, The Trouble With Tribbles, 11 more
Comment: I'm a big sci-fi fan, but I hated this show as a kid, so never watched it. Here I go, seeing this series for the first time ever...
Directed by Marc Daniels, John Meredyth Lucas, Jud Taylor.
Starring William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, George Takei, Nichelle Nichols, Majel Barrett, Walter Koenig, Jack Donner, Richard Hale, Sabrina Scharf, Pamelyn Ferdin, Diana Muldaur, Michael Ansara, Byron Morrow, Barbara Babcock.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Spock's Brain, The Enterprise Incident, The Paradise Syndrome, And the Children Shall Lead, Is There in Truth No Beauty?, Spectre of the Gun, Day of the Dove, For the World Is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky, The Tholian Web, 17 more
Comment: I'm a big sci-fi fan, but I hated this show as a kid, so never watched it. Here I go, seeing this series for the first time ever...
Directed by Peter Medak, Charles Crichton, Robert Asher.
Starring Anthony Quayle, Kaz Garas, Anneke Wills, Gerald Sim, Pamela Franklin, Ed Bishop, Hugh Burden, Erik Chitty, Charles Lloyd Pack, Dennis Chinnery, Jeremy Bulloch, Lisa Daniely, Zienia Merton, Julian Glover, Gerald Flood, Kika Markham, Sally Geeson.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Heart, Racist, Skeleton, Cult, Kidnap, Sniper, Epidemic, Swindle, Revenge, Cover Girls, X-Ray, Hand, Grenade, Shrapnel, Hostage, Lonelyhearts
Comment: Retired Scotland Yard commissioner Adam Strange investigates bizarre mysteries in "Swinging Sixties" London. Haven't watched any of it yet.
Directed by E W Swackhamer, Harry Falk, George McCowan.
Starring Steve Forrest, Robert Urich, Rod Perry, Mark Shera, James Coleman, Georg Stanford Brown, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Walden, Jamie Lyn Bauer, Dick Van Patten, Arte Johnson, Donna Mills, Annette O'Toole, Jesse Vint, Sal Mineo, William Windom, Robert Loggia.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: S.W.A.T., The Killing Ground, A Coven of Killers, Death Carrier, Pressure Cooker, Hit Men, Jungle War, Death Score, The Bravo Enigma, The Steel-Plated Security Blanket, Omega One, Blind Man's Bluff, Sole Survivor.
Comment: Three disc set with pilot and first 12 episodes.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Comment: The excellent anthology series from the late 1970s.
Directed by Pennant Roberts, David Askey.
Starring Ann Bell, Jeffrey Hardy, Stephanie Beacham, Jonathan Newth, Jeremy Gittins, Ivor Danvers, Daniel Hill, Burt Kwouk, Stephanie Cole, Patricia Lawrence, Louise Jameson, Ann Queensberry, Jeananne Crowley, Renee Asherson, Wendy Williams, Claire Oberman.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 1-10 of the first series (two separately packaged discs in a box set)
Comment: Tale of the women being held in a Japanese prison camp in Singapore in 1941.
Directed by Jeffrey Melman.
Starring Timothy Bottoms, Carrie Quinn Dolin, Kurt Fuller, Marcia Wallace, Kristen Miller, John D'Aquino, Chris Borkovec, Toddy Walters, George Brandon, Eugene Roche, Juanita Jennings, Gabriella Bern, Madison Mason, Guy Siner, Shelley Berman, Christopher Birt.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: An Aborted Dinner Date, A Poorly Executed Plan, Eenie Meenie Miney MURDER!, S.D.I-Aye-AYE!, The First Lady's Persqueeter, Mom 'E' D.E.A. Arrest, Trapped in a Small Environment, Fare Thee Welfare
Comment: Sitcom satire of sitcoms is generally spot-on, not really much of a political satire.
Directed by John Birkin.
Starring Rowan Atkinson, Mark Addy, Kevin Allen, Mina Anwar, James Dreyfus, Serena Evans, David Haig, Rudolf Walker.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 1/10.
Includes: Rag Week, The Queen's Birthday Present, Night Shift, Honey Trap, Fire & Terror, Kids Today, Yuletide Spirit, Court in the Act, Ism Ism Ism, Fly on the Wall, Alternative Culture, Come On You Blues, Road Rage, The Green Eyed Monster
Comment: All 14 episodes of both series, terrific Ben Elton scripts, great Rowan Atkinson character, beautiful Mina Anwar…
Starring John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley, Richard Kline.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras 2/10.
Includes: A Man About the House, And Mother Makes Four, Roper's Niece, No Children No Dogs, Jack the Giant Killer, It's Only Money
Comment: The six-episode first season is presented here.
Starring John Ritter, Joyce DeWitt, Suzanne Somers, Norman Fell, Audra Lindley, Richard Kline.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Comment: Second season of the beloved comedy series.
Directed by Barry Sonnenfeld, Boris Damast, Dean Parisot.
Starring Patrick Warburton, David Burke, Liz Vassey, Nestor Carbonell.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, The Terror, Arthur Interrupted, The License, Arthur Needs Space, Couples, The Funeral, The Tick Vs Justice, The Big Leagues
Comment: A live action comedy series that's just as good as the cartoon.
Directed by Art Vitello, Henry Tucker.
Starring Townsend Coleman, Rob Paulsen, Cam Clarke, Kay Lenz, Jess Harnell, Jim Cummings, Maurice LaMarche, Kevin Schon, Susan Silo, Tony Jay.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Tick vs.: the Idea Men, Chairface Chippendale, Dinosaur Neil, Mr Mental, the Breadmaster, El Seed, the Tick, the Uncommon Cold, Brainchild, Pineapple Pokopo, the Proto Clown, Arthur's Bank Account
Comment: Ridiculously clever comedy with the animated superhero The Tick! All of season 1 minus episode 11 "The Tick vs the Mole Men"
Directed by John Cooper, Ron Francis, Peter Jeffries.
Starring Cheryl Burfield, Spencer Banks, Dennis Quilley, Iris Russell, Derek Benfield.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Wrong End of Time parts 1-6, The Time of the Ice Box parts 1-6, The Year of the Burn Up parts 1-8, The Day of the Clone parts 1-6
Comment: Interesting British science fiction serial, original color episodes are lost so these are in b&w.
Directed by Sobey Martin, William Hale, Nathan Juran.
Starring James Darren, Robert Colbert, Whit Bissell, John Zaremba, Lee Meriwether, Sam Groom, Wesley Lau.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Rendezvous With Yesterday, One Way to the Moon, End of the World, The Day the Sky Fell In, The Last Patrol, Crack of Doom, Revenge of the Gods, Massacre, Devil's Island, Reign of Terror, Secret Weapon, The Death Trap, The Alamo, 17 more
Comment: Not my favorite Irwin Allen series, but it's kind of neat.
Directed by William Hale, Herschel Daugherty, Sobey Martin.
Starring James Darren, Robert Colbert, Whit Bissell, John Zaremba, Lee Meriwether, James Lanphier, Mako, Tristram Coffin, Byron Foulger, John Hoyt, Eduardo Ciannelli, Richard Jaeckel, John Crawford, Alex Montoya, Robert Duvall, Victor Jory.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Revenge of Robin Hood, Kill Two By Two, Visitors From Beyond the Stars, The Ghost of Nero, The Walls of Jericho, Idol of Death, Billy the Kid, Pirates of Deadman's Island, Chase Through Time, 6 more, plus TV movie and unaired 2002 remake pilot
Comment: Fascinating pack of coincidences. :) Not very highly recommended, but enjoyable anyway. Last 15 episodes.
Directed by Paul Bernard.
Starring Nicholas Young, Peter Vaughan-Clarke, Sammie Winmill, Stephen Salmon, Phillip Gilbert, Francis de Wolff, Derek Crewe, Michael Standing, Peter Weston, Neville Barber, Patricia Denys, Christine Shaw, Robert Bridges.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 6/10. Extras /10.
Includes: 'The Slaves of Jedikiah' all 5 episodes
Comment: First Tomorrow People serial is certainly aimed at kids.
Directed by Roger Price.
Starring Nicholas Young, Peter Vaughan-Clarke, Sammie Winmill, Stephen Salmon, Phillip Gilbert, Richard Speight, Roger Bizley, Michael Standing, Roger Booth, Dave Prowse, Norman McGlen.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: 'The Medusa Strain' all 4 episodes
Comment: The second Tomorrow People serial.
Directed by Roger Price.
Starring Nicholas Young, Peter Vaughan-Clarke, Sammie Winmill, Stephen Salmon, Phillip Gilbert.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: 'The Vanishing Earth'
Comment: The third Tomorrow People serial.
Directed by Graham Theakston, Christopher Barry.
Starring John Shackley, Jim Baker, Ceri Seel.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 7/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 1-13
Comment: A very good adaptation of the novels by John Christopher; it gets better in the second series but that DVD's release was cancelled.
Directed by Stephen Hopkins, Winrich Kolbe, Bryan Spicer.
Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Leslie Hope, Sarah Clarke, Elisha Cuthbert, Dennis Haysbert.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot episode, and episodes 1-23
Comment: Six disc set of the first season - the assassination attempt.
Directed by Jon Cassar, James Whitmore Jr, Rodney Charters.
Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Sarah Wynter, Elisha Cuthbert, Xander Berkeley, Carlos Bernard, Dennis Haysbert, Michelle Forbes, Sara Gilbert, Laura Harris, Reiko Aylesworth, Skye McCole Bartusiak, Billy Burke, Tamlyn Tomita, Penny Johnson, Michael McGrady.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Season two episodes 1-24 (starting at 8:00 am)
Comment: Seven disc set of the second season - the nuclear threat.
Directed by David Butler, Ted Post, Joseph M Newman.
Starring John Williams, Jack Weston, Burt Reynolds, Mark Richman, Hazel Court, Mary Badham, Dee Hartford, Tod Andrews, Tim Stafford, Kim Hector, Rod Serling.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 8/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Bard, The Fear, The Bewitchin' Pool
Comment: Last hour-long and two last half-hour episodes, a lot of people don't like them but I do.
Directed by Jack Smight, Douglas Heyes, Lamont Johnson.
Starring Art Carney, Agnes Moorehead, Gladys Cooper, Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Claude Akins, Barry Atwater, John Anderson, Lee Marvin, Jack Klugman, Jonathan Winters, Gig Young, Ron Howard, Don Rickles, Elizabeth Montgomery, Charles Bronson.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Night of the Meek, The Invaders, Nothing in the Dark, Time Enough At Last, The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street, The Odyssey of Flight 33, Steel, A Game of Pool, Walking Distance, Kick the Can, Mr Dingle The Strong, Two, 22 more
Comment:
Directed by William Claxton, Norman Z McLeod, Buzz Kulik.
Starring Rod Serling, Kenneth Haigh, Buster Keaton, Cliff Robertson, Brian Ahern, Telly Savalas, Anne Francis, Joseph Schildkraut, Alma Platt, Ida Lupino, Martin Balsam, Dan Duryea, John Hoyt, Inger Stevens, Nehemiah Persoff, Burgess Meredith, Fritz Weaver.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Last Flight, Once Upon a Time, A Hundred Yards Over the Rim, The Trouble With Templeton, The Dummy, The Fever, Living Doll, The After Hours, The Trade-Ins, Sixteen Millimeter Shrine, Mr Denton on Doomsday, The Lateness of the Hour, 22 more
Comment: Random selection of 34 episodes of the classic anthology series.
Directed by Douglas Heyes, Anton Leader, Ted Post.
Starring Rod Serling, Dennis Hopper, Diana Hyland, Ivan Dixon, Larry Blyden, Arch Johnson, Barry Morse, Gladys Cooper, Vera Miles, Albert Salmi, Roddy McDowall, Robert Lansing, Kevin McCarthy, Russell Johnson, Howard Duff, Cecil Kellaway, Patrick O'Neal.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: A Most Unusual Camera, The Jungle, The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms, Uncle Simon, Elegy, The Thirty-Fathom Grave, A Short Drink from a Certain Fountain, Mirror Image, Dust, Five Characters in Search of an Exit, Ninety Years Without Slumbering, 22 more
Comment:
Directed by David Lynch, Duwayne Dunham, Tina Rathborne.
Starring Kyle McLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Richard Beymer, Ray Wise, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Warren Frost, Peggy Lipton.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 9/10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 1-7 (not including the TV Movie pilot), interviews, selected commentaries, script notes, introductions, more
Comment: Not yet watched. A series so unusual it's astounding it was on American network television.
Starring Kyle McLachlan, Michael Ontkean, Madchen Amick, Dana Ashbrook, Richard Beymer, Ray Wise, Lara Flynn Boyle, Sherilyn Fenn, Warren Frost, Peggy Lipton.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 8-29
Comment: It's about damn time.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Identified, Computer Affair, Flight Path, Exposed, Survival, Conflict, The Dalotek Affair, A Question of Priorities, Ordeal, The Square Triangle, Court Martial, Close Up, Confetti Check A-O.K.
Comment: First 13 episodes of the Gerry Anderson series.
Directed by George Waggner, Herbert L Strock, Paul Landres.
Starring Boris Karloff, Booth Colman, Kay Stewart, Tudor Owen, Morris Ankrum, Niall MacGinnis, Patrick Macnee, Robert Hardy, Jennifer Raine, Whit Bissell.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Two episodes of '13 Demon Street' and all 10 episodes of 'The Veil': The Crystal Ball, Destination Nightmare, The Doctors, Food on the Table, Genesis, Girl on the Road, Jack the Ripper, The Return of Madame Vernoy, Summer Heat, 2 more.
Comment: Not yet watched, never seen.
Directed by Irwin Allen, Leonard Horn, Alan Crosland Jr.
Starring Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Del Monroe, Paul Trinka, Robert Dowdell, Eddie Albert, Booth Colman, Hurd Hatfield, Henry Kulky, Martin Kosleck, Jill Ireland, Arch Whiting, Robert Cornthwaite, Yvonne Craig, Michael Ansara, John Banner, James Doohan.
shill's feature Rating: 10/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Eleven Days to Zero, The City Beneath the Sea, The Fear-Makers, The Mist of Silence, The Price of Doom, The Sky is Falling, Turn Back the Clock, The Village of Guilt, Hot Line, Submarine Sunk Here, The Magnus Beam, No Way Out, 4 more.
Comment: First half of season one of this interesting Irwin Allen underwater adventure series.
Directed by Felix E Feist, Sobey Martin, James Goldstone.
Starring Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Del Monroe, Paul Trinka, Arch Whiting, Robert Dowdell, Henry Kulky, Joe De Santis, Lew Brown, Richard Bull, Ford Rainey, Paul Carr, Robert Duvall, Michael Constantine, Barry Atwater, Walter Sande, James Brolin.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Last Battle, Mutiny, Doomsday, The Invaders, The Indestructible Man, The Buccaneer, The Human Computer, The Saboteur, Cradle of the Deep, The Amphibians, The Exile, The Creature, The Enemies, The Secret of the Loch, The Condemned, The Traitor.
Comment: Second half of season one of this interesting Irwin Allen underwater adventure series.
Directed by Nathan Juran, Sobey Martin, Harry Harris.
Starring Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Del Monroe, Paul Trinka, Arch Whiting, Robert Dowdell, Henry Kulky, Gia Scala, Arch Whiting, John Zaremba, Teru Shimada, Nancy Hsueh, Victor Buono, Regis Toomey, Lloyd Bochner, Robert Cornthwaite, Audrey Dalton.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Jonah and the Whale, Time Bomb, And Five Of Us Are Left, The Cyborg, Escape From Venice, The Left-Handed Man, The Deadliest Game, Leviathan, The Peacemaker, The Silent Saboteurs, The X Factor, The Machines Strike Back, The Monster From Outer Space
Comment: The show gets more outlandish and silly... And more interesting.
Directed by Leonard Horn, Harry Harris, Sobey Martin.
Starring Richard Basehart, David Hedison, Del Monroe, Paul Trinka, Arch Whiting, Robert Dowdell, Henry Kulky, Terry Becker, Paul Carr, James Frawley, Michael Ansara, Patrick Wayne, Bruce Mars, Nehemiah Persoff, Marian McCargo, Albert Salmi, Allen Jaffe.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Terror on Dinosaur Island, Killers of the Deep, Deadly Creature Below!, The Phantom Strikes, The Sky's on Fire, Graveyard of Fear, The Shape of Doom, Dead Men's Doubloons, The Death Ship, The Monster's Web, The Menfish, The Mechanical Man, 1 more
Comment: Wrapping up season two with 13 more episodes. Terror on Dinosaur Island!
Directed by Paul Krasny, Ray Austin, Victor Lobl, Cliff Bole.
Starring Jane Badler, June Chadwick, Jennifer Cooke, Robert Englund, Faye Grant, Michael Ironside, Marc Singer, Lane Smith, Blair Tefkin, Michael Wright, Jeff Yagher.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Liberation Day, Dreadnought, Breakout, The Deception, The Sanction, Visitors' Choice, The Overlord, The Dissident, Reflections in Terror, The Conversion, The Hero, The Betrayal, The Rescue, The Champion, The Wildcats, The Littlest Dragon
Comment: Complete 16-episode run of the regular series based on the miniseries.
Directed by Norman Foster.
Starring Fess Parker, Buddy Ebsen, Helene Stanley, William Bakewell, Basil Ruysdael, Mike Mazurki, Hans Conried, Kenneth Tobey, Jeff York, Walter Catlett.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Davy Crockett Indian Fighter, Davy Crockett Goes to Congress, Davy Crockett at the Alamo, Davy Crockett's Keelboat Race, Davy Crockett and the River Pirates.
Comment: All five episodes of the landmark television series, plus extras. Limited edition #094253 of 150000
Starring Walt Disney.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Disneyland Story, Dateline Disneyland, Disneyland After Dark, Disneyland Tenth Anniversary Show
Comment: Disneyland stuff. Limited edition #125037 of 150000
Directed by Charles F Haas.
Starring Tim Considine, Tommy Kirk, Carole Ann Campbell, Russ Conway, Mort Mills, Sarah Selby.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Stranger, A Real Case, The First Clue, The Fugitive, Applegate's Gold, Dig for Treasure, A Pirate's Chest, Boys In Trouble, Female Detective, Iola's Bravery, Footsteps in the Tower, The Prisoner Speaks, The Strange Confession, 6 more
Comment: 19 parts of the first Hardy Boys serial on The Mickey Mouse Club, 1 October 1956: "The Mystery of the Applegate Treasure"
Directed by Sidney Miller, R G Springsteen.
Starring Jimmy Dodd, Roy Williams, Nancy Abbate, Sharon Baird, Bobby Burgess, Lonnie Burr, Ruth Carrell, Tommy Cole, Johnny Crawford, Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk, Robert Klosterman, Cubby O'Brien, Karen Pendleton, Paul Petersen, Doreen Tracy.
shill's feature Rating: 8/10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Episodes 1-5 originally aired 3 October 1955 - 7 October 1955.
Comment: Two disc set containing all five episodes of the first week of the Mickey Mouse Club show. Limited edition #92391/130000
Directed by Bill Persky, Sam Weisman, John Tracy, Jim Drake.
Starring Tony Danza, Judith Light, Alyssa Milano, Danny Pintauro, Katherine Helmond.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Pilot, Briefless Encounter, Dinner For Two, Sorority Sister, Angela's First Fight, Truth In Dating, Mona Gets Pinned, A Rash Decision, Samantha's Growing Up, Sports Buddies, Protecting The President, Paint Your Wagon, Requiem, 9 more
Comment: Three disc set with the first 22 episodes of the series. Not great television, but entertaining in its own way.
Directed by Leonard Horn, Barry Crane, Richard Kinon.
Starring Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Richard Eastham, Beatrice Colen, Debra Winger, Carolyn Jones.
shill's feature Rating: 9/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The New Original Wonder Woman, Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther, Fausta: The Nazi Wonder Woman, Beauty on Parade, The Feminum Mystique, Wonder Woman vs Gargantua!, The Pluto File, Last of the Two-Dollar Bills, Judgment From Outer Space, 3 more
Comment: Fabulous fun series, Pilot TV movie plus 13 regular episodes, and a documentary.
Directed by Alan Crosland, Bob Kelljan, Seymour Robbie.
Starring Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Normann Burton.
shill's feature Rating: 7/10.
Disc ratings: Picture 10/10. Extras /10.
Includes: The Return of Wonder Woman, Anschluss '77, The Man Who Could Move the World, The Bermuda Triangle Crisis, Knockout, The Pied Piper, The Queen and the Thief, I Do I Do, The Man Who Made Volcanoes, Mind Stealers From Outer Space (2 parts), 11 more
Comment: Episodes 1-22 of the second season, regrettably no longer set during WWII, which makes it a lot less fun.
Directed by Seymour Robbie, Dick Moder, Alan Crosland.
Starring Lynda Carter, Lyle Waggoner, Tom Kratochzil, Leif Garrett, Dawn Lyn, Lance LeGault, Ron Ely, Deacon Jones, Craig T Nelson, Ed Begley Jr, Roddy McDowall, Gavin MacLeod, Russell Johnson, Wolfman Jack, Robert Alda, Joan Van Ark, Ted Shackelford.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: My Teenage Idol is Missing, Hot Wheels, The Deadly Sting, The Fine Art of Crime, Disco Devil, Formicida, Time Bomb, Skateboard Wiz, The Deadly Dolphin, Stolen Faces, Pot of Gold, Gault's Brain, Going Going Gone, Spaced Out, 8 more.
Comment: Episodes 1-24 of the third and final season.
Starring Groucho Marx.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: 50-01, 50-06, 50-22, 51-20, 51-30, 51-32, 51-35, 52-16, 52-22, 52-26, 53-20, 53-33, 54-06, 55-08, 55-15, 56-03, 57-28, 59-13; behind the scenes, stag reel, outtakes, commercials, radio shows, more
Comment: Unsyndicated episodes from the classic 528-episode-long comedy "game show" series.
Directed by Paul Jackson, Geoff Posner, Ed Bye.
Starring Rik Mayall, Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Christopher Ryan, Alexei Sayle, Steve O'Donnell.
shill's feature Rating: /10.
Disc ratings: Picture /10. Extras /10.
Includes: Demolition, Oil, Boring, Bomb, Interesting, Flood, Bambi, Cash, Nasty, Sick, Time, Summer Holiday
Comment: Every episode of The Young Ones, plus an episode of both Bottom and Filthy Rich & Catflap, and more.