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Ultimate Guide to Faith Based (and Life and Death) TV Shows on DVD
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American Gothic - Complete SeriesAmerican Gothic - Complete Series
Buy new: $37.99 / Used from: $26.99
Visit Trinity, South Carolina, a small town with more chills than charm. Sheriff Lucas Buck (Gary Cole) won’t let anyone - including local doctor Matt Crower (Jake Weber) or the determined Gail Emory (Paige Turco) - stand in the way of his evil plans.
The Barchester ChroniclesThe Barchester Chronicles
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $19.95
The first two episodes of this BBC miniseries only hint at the delights to come. A lawsuit aimed at church reform in the town of Barchester forces a decent middle-aged clergyman (Donald Pleasence) into a moral crisis and a conflict with his son-in-law, a pompous archdeacon (Nigel Hawthorne.)
The Book of Daniel - The Complete SeriesThe Book of Daniel - The Complete Series
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $16.99
A pill-popping Episcopalian priest, an affair between the clergyman's father and the female church bishop, and a wisecracking Jesus Christ. Is it any wonder that there was so much controversy surrounding the January 2006 debut of The Book of Daniel? The series, which lasted less than a month before NBC canceled it, isn't quite as controversial as it was made out to be.
The Cadfael CollectionThe Cadfael Collection
Buy new: $134.99 / Used from: $99.99
In this unique mystery series based on the bestselling books by Ellis Peters, Sir Derek Jacobi (I, Claudius) stars as Brother Cadfael, a compassionate seeker of truth and justice in chaotic world medieval England.
Carnivale - The Complete First Two SeasonsCarnivale - The Complete First Two Seasons
Buy new: $98.99 / Used from: $43.00
1934. The Dustbowl. In a time of titanic sandstorms vile plagues drought and pestilence - signs of God's fury and harbingers of the Apocalypse - the final conflict between good and evil is about to begin. See the conflict of good vs. evil played out against a pair of vivid and unusual backdrops: a traveling carnival working the American Dustbowl circuit and an evangelical ministry in California.
Christy - The Complete SeriesChristy - The Complete Series
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $21.50
Strength determination and faith guide young Christy Huddleston through unforeseen difficulties help her to gain understanding of the proud mountain people and win her mentorship friendship and the love of two men.
Christy - Return to Cutter GapChristy - Return to Cutter Gap
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $7.28
Set in early 20th century Tennessee, this touching family film tells the story of a schoolteacher, Christy Huddleston, who learns lessons in loyalty, faith, and friendship when she attempts to force a small community into progressing with the outside world.
Christy - A Change of SeasonsChristy - A Change of Seasons
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $5.44
Christy returns to Cutter Gap with her adult daughter, Catherine, and narrates an episode in her life as a young schoolteacher.
Christy - A New BeginningChristy - A New Beginning
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.99
Christy (Lauren Lee Smith) and the rest of the Cutter Gap community are just beginning to recover from a typhoid epidemic when a storm hits the rural alcove.
Dead Like Me - The Complete First SeasonDead Like Me - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $21.28
18 year old slacker Georgia Lass dies a comic and virgin death when a Mir space station toilet seat hits her in the head. If that is not bad enough, she has to earn her living in the afterlife as a grim reaper.
Dead Like Me - The Complete Second SeasonDead Like Me - The Complete Second Season
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $17.50
The character driven episodes of Season 1 and 2 left viewers wanting more. A Dead Like Me straight to DVD movie was filmed but has not been released.
Eli Stone: The Complete First SeasonEli Stone: The Complete First Season
Buy new: $27.99
What happens when a lawyer with a brain aneurism starts having visions? Is he a modern day prophet? Or is George Michael really singing and dancing in front of him? A terrific show renewed for a second season.
Father Brown - Set 1Father Brown - Set 1
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $18.95
What Agatha Christie did for genteel spinsters with her intrepid crime-solver Miss Marple, G.K. Chesterton did with the splendid Father Brown, a bumbling yet wily cleric in 1920s England, bumping into and then solving the most outlandish crimes. This boxed set includes seven full-length episodes of Father Brown (shown in the U.S. on PBS) in all his twinkly, slightly clueless glory.
Father Brown: Set 2Father Brown: Set 2
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $19.90
Kenneth More truly inhabits Chesterton’s unlikely hero in these six classic television tales, as seen on the PBS Mystery! series. You’ll surely agree that the good father’s sly wit, benign manner, and steel-trap mind never fail to delight.
Father Murphy - Season 1Father Murphy - Season 1
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $24.46
Burly drifter John Murphy (Merlin Olsen) becomes the unlikely caretaker of a group of orphaned children growing up in America#s Wild West. Touched by their plight, he poses as a priest with lovely local school teacher Mae Woodward (Katherine Cannon) and his miner buddy (Moses Gunn) assisting with the children.
Father Murphy - Season 2Father Murphy - Season 2
Buy new: $24.49 / Used from: $23.49
In the second season, Merlin Olsen gives up the ruse and marries the school marm.
Father Ted - The Definitive CollectionFather Ted - The Definitive Collection
Buy new: $59.99 / Used from: $56.00
If you already have Father Ted the Holy Trinity, and earlier DVDs, you have everything you need. There is only ten minutes additional footage in this set.
The Flying Nun - The Complete First SeasonThe Flying Nun - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $18.97
Two-time Academy Award®-winner Sally Field (Places in the Heart Norma Rae) flies in and out of trouble as Sister Bertrille in this classic and timeless series.
The Flying Nun - The Complete Second SeasonThe Flying Nun - The Complete Second Season
Buy new: $16.49 / Used from: $19.00
Two-time Academy Award© winner Sally Field (1984 best actress in a leading role Places in the Heart 1979 best actress in a leading role Norma Rae) returns for a second season of fun in "The Flying Nun."
Highway to Heaven - Season OneHighway to Heaven - Season One
Buy new: $25.49 / Used from: $4.79
The premiere season of Michael Landon's Highway to Heaven is consolidated into this collector’s edition box set of seven discs containing 24 episodes of faith and love. The television series (1984-1989) has a loyal following because of its compelling storylines and uplifting messages characteristic of Landon, an icon of family-friendly entertainment since the early days of Littleand Bonanza.
Highway to Heaven - Season TwoHighway to Heaven - Season Two
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $16.31
Jonathan Smith, an angel with a mission from God, and his trusted sidekick Mark Gordon travel from town to town, help the lost find their way back to the HIGHWAY TO HEAVEN. Blessed with heavenly powers, it is usually Jonathan Smith's more human gifts that bring grace and peace to the troubled souls he meets--but he isn't afraid to use a touch of divine intervention here and there.
Highway to Heaven - Season ThreeHighway to Heaven - Season Three
Buy new: $62.99 / Used from: $29.95
A pair of angels as down-to-earth as they are divine Jonathan Smith and Mark Gordon have only one goal in their newfound afterlife--to help others reach higher ground.
Joan of Arcadia - The First SeasonJoan of Arcadia - The First Season
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $27.19
16 year old Joan finds herself talking to God, in the form of random people who give her assignments to help the people around her. Joan keeps following God's assignments, never sure if she's really speaking to him, or just going crazy!
Joan of Arcadia - The Second SeasonJoan of Arcadia - The Second Season
Buy new: $31.99 / Used from: $29.90
For two years, CBS's Joan of Arcadia managed the neat trick of warming the heart, while keeping the gag reflex at bay. And for a family drama based around faith--and the lack thereof--preachiness was always in short supply.
John from Cincinnati - The Complete First SeasonJohn from Cincinnati - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $50.99 / Used from: $23.81
In the coastal town of Imperial Beach CA live 3 generations of Yosts: surfing royalty turned society misfits. The Yost's reign and reputation once defined in the cure of a perfect wave has been eroded by years of bad luck, addiction and hubris. Just as things are looking like they can't get worse a stranger named John arrives - and the Yost's banal existence is lifted into something miraculous.
Miracles - The Complete SeriesMiracles - The Complete Series
Buy new: $44.99 / Used from: $18.46
Miracles had a sizable viewership during its brief 2002-2003 primetime run, but the network's coverage of the Iraq war broke the show's momentum, resulting in cancellation after a mere six episodes. Those half-dozen shows and seven more unaired stories are included in this boxed set, which certainly underscores the series' unfulfilled promise as a kind of spiritually based version of The X-Files.
Point Pleasant - The Complete SeriesPoint Pleasant - The Complete Series
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $14.50
What would you do if your daddy was the devil and every time your teenage hormones twitched the entire town went crazy? For those frustrated by Fox TV's decision to cancel this 2005 series after just eight episodes, the good news is that this three-disc set includes the five episodes that never made it to the airwaves.
Pushing Daisies - The Complete First SeasonPushing Daisies - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $18.99
Pie maker Ned can bring people back from the dead for less than a minute. If he does it longer, someone (or something) else dies in the near vicinity. He saves his lady love from death but can never touch her again or she dies for real. A sweet fairy tale with a touch of murder each week.
ReaperReaper
Release Date 11/4/08. What would you do if your father sold your soul to the devil? Sam learns on his 21st birthday that he is to be a demon catcher for the devil. His buddies Ben and Sock (a scene stealer) help him every week.
Saving Grace - Season 1Saving Grace - Season 1
Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $24.70
In this tense and gritty drama, Holly Hunter plays an unapologetic police officer literally destroying her soul. One night she prays for help and gets archangel Earl. She can't decide if he is real and she needs to change her ways or if she is hallucinating. Renewed for a second season.
7th Heaven - Seasons 1-57th Heaven - Seasons 1-5
Buy new: $89.99 / Used from: $100.67
A critically acclaimed drama about a minister, his wife, their seven children and their children's teenage angst ran for ten seasons.
7th Heaven: The Sixth Season7th Heaven: The Sixth Season
Buy new: $33.99 / Used from: $24.89
As the children grew into teenagers and adulthood, the drama centered on their lives and their newly established families.
Touched by an Angel - The Complete First SeasonTouched by an Angel - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $19.50
The first thirteen episodes deliver inspiration in the form of Monica (Downey), Tess (Reese) and Andrew (Dye), three angels dispatched from heaven to inspire people who are at a crossroads in their lives. Features notable guest appearances by Randy Travis, Phylicia Rashad and Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
Touched by an Angel - The Second SeasonTouched by an Angel - The Second Season
Buy new: $22.99 / Used from: $20.15
Episodes feature a wide range of guest stars: Movie actors like Elliott Gould (M*A*S*H) and Stacy Keach (Fat City); old television hands like Hal Linden (Barney Miller) and Cindy Williams (Laverne & Shirley); non-actors like poet Maya Angelou and singer Natalie Cole. John Dye joins the series in this season as Andrew, a handsome angel of death.
Touched by an Angel - The Third Season (Vol. 1 & 2)Touched by an Angel - The Third Season (Vol. 1 & 2)
Buy new: $39.99 / Used from: $42.14
Tess, Monica and Andrew continuet to help people find faith in themselves.
Touched By An Angel - The Fourth Season (Vols. 1-2)Touched By An Angel - The Fourth Season (Vols. 1-2)
Buy new: $71.99 / Used from: $59.02
Andrew, who, in addition to his duties as the Angel of Death, now helps out as a caseworker on carious assignments. Gloria, an angel for the 21st century, continues to seek guidance from Monica performing her angelic duties. While the angels may not bring solutions to every problem, they always deliver a message of hope.
Tru Calling: The Complete SeriesTru Calling: The Complete Series
Buy new: $41.99 / Used from: $47.45
A college student moonlights in a morgue to pay for med school and finds out the dead can talk to her. They ask for help and the day rewinds. Tru has a chance to save their lives. If you already have the two dvd sets of Season 1 and 2, do not buy this one.
The Vicar of Dibley - The Immaculate CollectionThe Vicar of Dibley - The Immaculate Collection
Buy new: $74.99 / Used from: $75.85
The winner of an International Emmy(R) Award for Best Comedy Program The Vicar of Dibley is one of the most popular series ever produced by the BBC. It boasts the brilliant comic writing of Richard Curtis (Love Actually Bridget Jones's Diary) and a gifted ensemble cast led by Dawn French of the hilarious comedy duo French and Saunders.
The Vicar of Dibley - A Holy Wholly Happy EndingThe Vicar of Dibley - A Holy Wholly Happy Ending
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $13.83
The Handsome Stranger - Gerry is fed up with all the "townies" buying weekend cottages in Dibley -- that is until she meet one particularly charming newcomer. Could he be the one? Or is it Gerry's destiny to end up heartbroken in another 6-foot deep puddle? The Vicar in White - After presiding over the marriages of hundreds of other people it appears Gerry's big day has finally arrived.
Wonderfalls - The Complete SeriesWonderfalls - The Complete Series
Buy new: $29.99 / Used from: $18.95
College grad Jaye lives in a trailer and works at a tourist shop in Niagara Falls. All seems to be going well for this self-proclaimed slacker, until one day a small toy lion speaks to her, commanding her to help people. Soon she finds herself to be an unwilling humanitarian and accidental hero when more inanimate objects start talking to her, and more people turn out to need her help.