Shout! Factory has released the first season — all 22 episodes of it — on a six-disc set. It was worth the wait. Now I just pray the remainder will follow. “Police Story” makes for terse drama. As Wambaugh states on the bonus interview with him, the series is not about the cop on the […]
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Sanctuary: The Complete Third Season
When we last left team Sanctuary — always battling the world’s “abnormals” — its members were fighting a giant spider named Big Bertha. In the first of season three’s generous 20 episodes, they’re still trying to undo the arachnid’s anarchy, namely in the form of tidal waves. Once that’s foiled, it’s time for a new […]
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Man from Atlantis: The Complete TV Movies Collection / The Complete Television Series
Those fans — and the curious, like me — should embrace Warner Archives’ pair of releases that bring the show to the DVD surface for the first time: “The Complete TV Movies Collection” and “The Complete Television Series,” at two and four discs, respectively. Yes, before NBC made it an official series, the fantasy first […]
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Zen: Vendetta / Cabal / Ratking
Too bad BBC canceled it less than a month after it aired earlier this year. The reason? “Too much crime,” which is a terrible excuse when the programming is par excellence. Zen — “It’s Venetian,” he says — is played by Rufus Sewell (TV’s “The Pillars of the Earth”); his love interest is the seemingly […]
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Supernatural: The Anime Series
The storyline remains the same: brothers Sam (Jared Padalecki, who reprises his role for the anime) and Dean Winchester (Jensen Ackles, who voices only a few episodes) travel the country in their ’67 Chevy Impala, encountering monsters, spirits and other paranormal activity along the way. They ain’t ‘fraid of no ghosts. The actors and series […]
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Conan the Adventurer: Season One
For one thing, he’s no longer “the Barbarian,” but “the Adventurer.” For another, he asks for help. And kindly! He’s even … how to put this nicely? … kind of a wussy. But to catch any fervor there may be over this month’s big-screen, 3-D “Conan” remake, Shout! Factory has released the first 13 episodes on […]
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Eastbound & Down: The Complete Second Season
Now, as “Eastbound & Down“‘s second season opens, his mullet is in cornrows and he’s making scratch as a cockfighter. Still a legend in his own mind, Kenny (Danny McBride, “Your Highness”) relents and joins the local baseball team, the Charros; inexplicably lands a new gal pal in a sexy, single-mom songstress (Ana de la […]
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The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Collection
And speaking of technology, it took seemingly forever, but the ever-popular ’70s superhero series “The Six Million Dollar Man” has finally made its way to DVD in a massive, mind-blowing, 40-disc set (no, that’s not a typo — I wrote 40) from Time-Life, offering $6 million worth of fun for a relatively bargain-basement $239.95. It’s […]