 | Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series
Buy new: $173.49 / Used from: $181.90 Gritty, realistic, apocalyptic, amazing - and Starbuck's a woman! Sci-Fi doesn't get any better ...
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 | Firefly - The Complete Series
Buy new: $38.49 / Used from: $19.98 Or does it? Cowboy meets space smuggler meets hilarious misfits that you can watch again and again. Every episode of this far-too-short series is a freakin' gem.
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 | The Bernie Mac Show - Season 1
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $9.02 Oh how we miss you, Bernie Mac! In what other show are you going to find a King of Comedy taking care of his crack-head sister's kids? An unafraid, non-sappy sitcom.
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 | Sex and the City: The Complete Series (Collector's Giftset)
Buy new: $119.99 / Used from: $109.19 I don't have HBO, but I started watching on TBS and then borrowed the DVDs and watched everything. What did they NOT get right about being female and single in the real world - oh yeah, wearing $500 shoes to the park. But still ...
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 | Ghost Hunters - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $13.45 Okay, don't hate me - this is my GUILTY pleasure. Jason's a blow hard but Grant and Steve make the show - and I love how the girl is always "investigator in training" even though she's been on longer than some of the guys. Still - watching those so-called "frightened" homeowners get all pissed off when their house is declared NOT haunted on national television never fails to make my day!
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 | Star Trek: The Next Generation - Complete Series
Buy new: $319.99 / Used from: $179.99 Watched today, TNG episodes can often seem dated and melo-dramatic and even boring (sacrilege, I know!) - but this was the show that MADE the franchise, and for that I am ever grateful. During its first airing I had a crush on Capt. Picard, Data, and Wesley Crusher - so it's got a special spot in my heart.
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 | Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Complete Series (Seasons 1-7)
Buy new: $316.49 / Used from: $226.50 The best Star Trek series. It has: a holocaust, a casino, a Klingon wedding, an evil overzealous religious leader, Dax, a captain-turned-prophet, baseball, and lots of Ferengi. The unfortunate switch of Jadzia with that other annoying twit in season 7 didn't totally ruin it for me, but it was a close call ...
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 | Twin Peaks - The Definitive Gold Box Edition (The Complete Series)
Buy new: $69.99 / Used from: $59.79 Eccentric characters spin infinite plot twists as weird synthesizer music fills the back-ground. David Lynch, you're my hero.
(And who cares who killed Laura Palmer when you have super-hot FBI agent Kyle MacLachlan around?)
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 | Moonlighting - Seasons 1 & 2
Buy new: $20.49 / Used from: $12.98 Remember when Bruce Willis was a TV star and sang Under the Boardwalk on his recently released cassette tape? If not, let Moonlighting bring you back to that simpler time ... you can remember shoulder pads and see the beginning of the will-they/won't-they era of television.
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 | Newhart - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $28.49 / Used from: $23.79 Some will claim The Bob Newhart Show as the true original - but who cares? This one was funnier, and the ensemble cast was better, (except for the wife - give me the severely sexy brunette Suzanne Pleshette over that tepid red-head any day) and Newhart's desert-dry wit fit better with age.
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 | The X-Files: The Complete Collector's Edition
Buy new: $174.99 / Used from: $160.00 The dynamic duo of Mulder and Scully is unparalleled in my book. Yes, it may have followed the ancient TV formula of the unlikely pairing with sexual tension, but their constant exposure to freaks and geeks make the relationship somehow more fascinating. And that made the show great. Until about the 5th season. I got completely lost. And found I didn't really care anymore ...
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 | The Closer: The Complete Seasons 1-4
Buy new: $113.49 / Used from: $131.49 Putting a show on here before its done is risky - I have no idea how badly it'll f-up before its done. But Sedgwick as Brenda is one of the best female leads on TV right now - complex and a**-kicking, but needy and co-dependent - like a REAL PERSON. And crusty, old, seen-it-all Lt. Provenza is hilarious. I hope it goes off before it gets bad.
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 | The Simpsons - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $19.99 / Used from: $4.88 I don't have to tell real Simpson's fans that after 12+ seasons the show is running on empty. But watching past seasons of this animated megalith can still crack you up like the first day you met, and the Halloween specials CANNOT be beat. The Simpson's are an American icon at worst, killer freakin' TV at best.
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 | Arrested Development - The Complete Series (Seasons 1, 2, 3)
Buy new: $44.97 / Used from: $40.49 You know those shows where people are so pathetic, self-deluded, and completely oblivious that you want to leave the room cause you feel bad for them, even though they're just TV characters? That's this entire show. And there's a guy in it who feels just like you do.
I wanted more, but also felt relieved they didn't have time to ruin it.
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