Things I want to see on DVD
TV shows are making it onto DVD in seemingly record time and numbers now, and TVShowsonDVD.com is a great resource to keep track of what’s out, what’s coming out, and what’s still being forgotten in the vaults.
The shows I want to see on dvd (meaning, I’d buy them if they were available) are:
American Gothic
Brimstone
Invisible Man (SciFi Channel series)
Jeremiah (season 2, supposedly coming sometime in 2005)
The shows that I still might buy, but haven’t yet:
Forever Knight (first 3 seasons)
The Pretender (coming March 2005)
Dark Angel (season 1)
The Dead Zone
The 4400
Kimba the White Lion
Powerpuff Girls
V (original miniseries)
If Forever Knight were available in proper full season formats, I might have already bought seasons 1 and 2 by now. Andromeda currently exists in full season box sets, so I might get the first season box, then either get the full second season, or just pick up the individual discs for the first half of the second season, since after that’s when things started going down hill fast.
The shows that I wouldn’t buy but would enjoy renting to watch again are:
The Hitchhiker (HBO’s old Twilight Zone style series)
Starsky & Hutch
Silk Stalkings (first 2-3 seasons)
Earth: Final Conflict (first two seasons)
Nero Wolfe
The Shield
MI-5
I’m told there are problems with the domestic US dvd of The Hitchhiker… like the fact that the US releases are “best of” episode collections, 10 episodes each, while the Canadian releases are entire seasons of the series. What up with that?
The shows that aren’t speculative fiction that I would buy are:
Miami Vice (coming soon!)
Daria
Def Poetry Jam
and the shows that I’d consider buying, if they were available, are:
Vengeance Unlimited
The Young Riders
The Magnificent Seven (short lived 1998-1999 series starring Michael Biehn and Eric Close)
Can you tell I have a thing for Mysteries and Westerns? And as much as I love the CSI’s and the Law & Order’s, I don’t feel the need to buy them on dvd… mostly because they’ll be in syndication forever.
This list is by no means complete, and I’ll just keep adding to it as I remember shows. But if anyone in the Fox/Universal camp is listening, I’d buy two copies of Brimstone… people want this show.
