![]() | Nero Wolfe - The Complete Classic Whodunit Series
Buy new: $53.49 / Used from: $37.95 Snappy dialog, alluring characters and interesting mysteries. This show is so much better than most of what's on the air, if for no other reason than style.
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![]() | Dead Like Me: The Complete Collection
Buy new: $46.99 / Used from: $31.41 You'd think this show would be grim, but it was anything but. Full of life affirming humor and wry insight it was doomed to a short life. But we who watched could have watched forever. There is a new DVD movie in the works, and if it hits on disc, the show may come back to cable. So, watch it! (You know you're dying too!)
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![]() | Odyssey 5 - The Complete Series
Buy new: $39.49 / Used from: $20.00 This one starts with the end of the world. It was thought of as the new "X-Files" but it ran only 10 episodes. If you haven't seen it, get ready for a ride! Science Fiction for people who don't always like science fiction, and for those who love it too!
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![]() | Quark - The Complete Series
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.13 Buck Henry who co-created "Get Smart" took a loving sot at Science Fiction here. It doesn't always hit the target, but it is more fun than a lot of spoofs of the time.
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![]() | Joan of Arcadia - The First Season
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $23.99 This one had everything. Heart, action a Scooby-gang and, oh yeah, God was a regular character. Not the "Hellfire and Brimstone" God, but one who had things we all need to hear to say. It didn't preach, but it sure had something to say. You should give it a listen.
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![]() | The Lone Gunmen - The Complete Series
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $15.50 Even if you didn't know them from "The X-Files" these guys defined "Quirky." You know someone like each of these guys, you just may not realize it. (Unless you are the one, but we won't talk about that)
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![]() | Surface - The Complete Series
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $13.95 This show really built to a hell of a climax, and everyone who stuck with it would have loved to see where they would have gone from there. And as good as it was, they probably had something cool in mind. To bad the show couldn't keep its head above water. (Sorry)
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![]() | Carnivale: The Complete First Two Seasons
Buy new: $55.99 / Used from: $35.00 This one was definitely dark, but so well done that it is hard not to love it. Done in the depression (no the happy one of the 30's musicals, but the dusty dirty one of John Ford and William Wyler) Dark Forces are moving to take over the world and the most unexpected forces rise up to meet them. ItÂ’s a corker!
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![]() | Eerie, Indiana - The Complete Series
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $19.38 We have all had that childhood feeling that, "I live in the weirdest place in the Universe." Well here it is for real. The Joe Dante series was a wonderful half hour of WTF comedy. There was a later Disney Channel attempt but it was just too vanilla to work. This is the real deal.
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![]() | The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. - The Complete Series
Buy new: $72.99 / Used from: $22.79 This is the best science fiction/comedy/western/adventure series Bruce Campbell was ever the star of, and who knows how many of those there are? If you need to have fun, this is just what you are looking for!
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![]() | Voyagers! - The Complete Series
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $15.99 It was obviously aimed at Kids, but that was okay. It was an adventure show that showed that a knowledge of history was cool, and how many of them are there? They could certainly do something like this today, if anybody was creative enough.
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![]() | Firefly - The Complete Series
Buy new: $38.49 / Used from: $14.50 Many people thought this should be the first on the list, they might be right. It has everything going for it that any series that was canceled and shouldn't have been should. It is character driven, wry, intelligent and warm. Plus there is no little adventure! Plus there is the hero of Canton! Just the thing to watch when you aim to misbehave!
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![]() | Roar - The Complete Series
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $20.73 This one was unlike anything we had seen before. A true homage to the Celtic England that so many of us adore. Celtic mysticism, Druidism, early Christianity, Roman Mythology and just the right amount of politics to keep everyone dishonest. Oh, and did I mention Heath Ledger?
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![]() | Space Above and Beyond - The Complete Series
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $13.98 'm not a big military guy, but this show was about Brothers (and sisters) at arms. It also spoke to the mental attitude warriors must take, and when it is and isn't right. And it has space battles and insect aliens! Damn cool! A lot of the things people like about the new Battlestar Galactica were here, just a bit to soon for the public.
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![]() | Tru Calling: The Complete Series
Buy new: $41.49 / Used from: $36.48 This was one I was more than reticent about. Eliza Drusku had just come off of Buffy and Angel, the show just couldn't be that good. Then it was! Even when they added a bad guy from 90210 it got better, not worse. Hold your hat for that final Christmas Party episode!
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![]() | Earth 2 - The Complete Series
Buy new: $26.98 / Used from: $11.71 After all the "Let's make a new world" movies (most of which start with us having destroyed or abandoned ours" movies, you'd think everything had been done. But this Spielberg show had a lot of ideas and was just getting to break even point when it disappeared. Hey, when it starts off with a villain played by Tim Curry it can't be all bad!
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![]() | The Flash - The Complete Series
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $21.00 There have been a lot of attempts to bring Comic Book Superheroes to the small screen, and for my money this was the best done. It had action, humor and, well, flash!
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![]() | Alien Nation - The Complete Series
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $15.08 It was a great movie, but the series might have been better (Something like Stargate SG-1) There were also a series of TV movies brought out with the same case, and they were excellent also! You will discover a whole new world within a familiar looking one.
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![]() | American Gothic - Complete Series
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $24.94 You want to talk creepy? This fable about a small southern town where the sheriff may be the devil himself will serve you up healthy helpings of creepy. And every bit of it is good! No series ever screamed so loud for a "tie up the plot lines" movie! "Someone's knocking at the door!"
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![]() | Sledge Hammer! - Season One
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $13.24 Here is one of the best parody shows ever done. The whole thing was a rank on the "Dirty Harry" movies and worked like a charm. I still show it to folks who hadn't seen it before and they laugh their pahooties off! "Trust me, I know what I'm doing!"
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![]() | Freakylinks - The Complete Series by Ethan Embry
A man runs a website about strange and paranormal phenomenon. Amidst weird circumstances he dies and his surfer brother takes over. What happens next is equal parts absolute adventure and surrealistic comedy.
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![]() | Pushing Daisies - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $19.49 / Used from: $11.97 This one has only just passed, but that doesn't make it any less of a loss. This one had magic and style, music and mystery, life and death. Perfect example of being touched without being touched.
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![]() | The Greatest American Hero - The Complete Series (Free Cape and Notebook Included)
Buy new: $69.99 / Used from: $44.94 Here was a case of a great show that was pre-empted out of existence. It was moved around until no one really knew when it was going to show up. We loved Ralph and the kids, the girlfriend and even the FBI guy. We just couldn't find them! "Hey mister, you take 3 steps and then you jump!" (Never lose the instruction book!)
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![]() | Police Squad! The Complete Series
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.99 Only six episodes before being pulled from the air. Followed by three hugely successful films and launching a second career for Leslie Neilsen. But these 6 episodes are still amazingly like nothing you've seen on television before (except the shows they were parodying). Police work is not like laying bricks. Unless you arrest the bricks first.
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![]() | The Addams Family - The Complete Series
Buy new: $48.49 / Used from: $39.66 Charles Addams creations come to glorius life. Hurrah Gomez, Hurrah Mortitia, Hurrah Thing & Lurch
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![]() | The Munsters: The Complete Series
Buy new: $46.99 / Used from: $39.63 This entire series is worth watching just to see Herman Munster laugh. It always makes me happy.
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![]() | Rome - The Complete First Two Seasons
Buy used from: $61.99 Politics, War, Back Stabbing and Sex. A proud successor to the mantel of "I, Claudius." You will never hear the words "Rome wasn't built in a day," quite the same way ever again. See children, history can be fun!!
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![]() | Invasion - The Complete Series
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $2.99 This one took a bit to hook me, but the characters were involving and the story built like a good novel. You have to watch all of it to understand what we lost when this one died. There is something in the water!
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![]() | Kolchak - The Night Stalker
Buy new: $32.49 / Used from: $17.54 If you ever enjoyed "The X-Files" or any of the paranormal investigation series (or "flash light shows" as I like to call them) this is the father of them all. Darren McGavin created an at once annoying and lovable character that led up through 20 amazing adventures. It started with two of the top rated made for TV films ever, and kept getting better. No one will ever live up to that straw hat!
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![]() | The Invaders - Seasons 1 - 2
Buy new: $49.99 / Used from: $46.94 "If "Kolchak the Night Stalker" was the father to "The X-Files" then this show was the mother. UFO Paranoia played to the James Bondian hilt. Watch those pinky fingers!"
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![]() | Amazing Stories - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $38.99 / Used from: $16.50 It has been awhile since somebody put an anthology show, specially a fantastic themed one, on a network. This one had its share of clunkers, but so did "The Twilight Zone." When this one worked, it was the best stuff that TV had to offer.
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![]() | M.A.N.T.I. S: Complete Series
Buy new: $47.49 / Used from: $27.26 Sam Reimi wass known for off beat superheroes, even before the Spider-man movies. He gave us Darkman and Hercules and Xena, but this one was the kind of Superhero that made people proud and excited. Good stuff!
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![]() | Battlestar Galactica - The Complete Epic Series
Buy new: $65.49 / Used from: $42.94 Many who are smitten with the new version were rarely born when this one was on the. What made the show was the mythology. That mythology that lives on in the new show. It's like the stories of the Greek Gods versus the Roman ones. Both have their own values, but the family resemblance is too strong to dismiss.
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![]() | Night Gallery - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $38.49 / Used from: $25.00 Nowhere near "The Twilight Zone," but if you think about "They're Tearing Down Tim Rielly's Bar" and "The Messiah on Mott Street" this show offered some rare gems to enjoy.
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![]() | The Outer Limits Original Series Complete Box Set
Buy new: $32.99 / Used from: $31.49 This one started out to be just the "Monster of the Week," but it ended up asking some important questions and dealing with some issues that couldn't be dealt with anywhere else at that time.
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![]() | V: The Complete Series
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $11.97 V--ery memorable. There are still rabid fans out there.
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![]() | Planet of the Apes: The Complete TV Series
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $18.24 It is hard to tell people who weren't there what a phenomenon the movies were. Not quite as big as "Star Wars," they were on that level. There were conventions, magazines and comic books, so it only made sense that they would come to the small screen. BTW: The show was huge in the U.K.. Still better than the remake.
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![]() | Wonderfalls - The Complete Series
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $13.70 Bryan Fuller has given us "Dead Like Me" and "Pushing Daisies." He is committed to fueling our dreams. This show was another little fantasy petit four that will make you happy while you consume it and you will want to share it with your friends. Just the kind of fantasy that finds a place in your heart and refuses to be dislodged.
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![]() | The Magnificent Seven: The Complete Series
Buy new: $37.49 / Used from: $25.28 When there wasn't any other kind of western of TV, this one had the cajones to use the name of one of the great ones. It didn't always live up to it, but, given time, it might have.
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![]() | The Time Tunnel - Volume One
Buy new: $21.99 / Used from: $9.95 Before "Quantum Leap" there was Time Tunnel. Irwin Allen saw it as a great way to use stock footage from historical epics, but for fans it was the incredible idea of two men lost in time, always searching for a way home. And it featured one of my favorite "Wait a minute, I've seen that guy, who is he?" actors Whit Bissell!
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