TV Show Boxed Sets - What's In Your Collection?

[TransWarpDrive]

Here's a thread for discussing our favorite TV shows in boxed sets of DVDs. What are your favorites, and how far along are you in collecting the various shows by season?
My collection includes favorites from the 70's; I've got the first four seasons of "The Mary Tyler Moore Show," as well as the first three of "All in The Family." I also have the first season of "The Bob Newhart Show."
I have "The Ultimate Carson Collection Starring Johnny Carson, Vols. 1-3." This is a collection of clips from guests he had on "The Tonight Show" during the 60's, 70's, 80's, and 90's. It also has a bunch of special behind-the-scenes documentaries on Johnny's life and career, and the making of the "Tonight Show." It also includes Johnny's last two shows - the one with Robin Williams and Bette Midler as his final guests; and his very last show on May 22, 1992 where he just reminisced about his years as host. I've got another set of Carson DVDs, titled, "Here's...The Johnny Carson Show," featuring clips from the TV shows he hosted in the 50's, before the "Tonight Show." That's a two-disc set.
I have boxed sets for "Airwolf," seasons 1 & 2 (have yet to get the third season's set). A friend of mine was kind enough to give me an extra boxed set he had of the complete first season of "MacGyver."
I have "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes," a collection of some of the Holmes episodes starring the late Jeremy Brett. That's a 3-disc set.
I've got all the A&E Network's "Horatio Hornblower" movies in boxed sets: "Horatio Hornblower: The Complete Adventures" is a 6-disc set; and the last two "Hornblower" films are included on the 2-disc "Horatio Hornblower: The New Adventures."
On the science-fiction front, I have "Joss Whedon's Firefly - The Complete Series" in a 4-disc set, as well as the complete first season of "Star Trek: The Original Series." That's an 8-disc set.
Since I'm also a Barry Manilow fan, I recently bought "Barry Manilow; The First Television Specials." It's a 5-disc set that includes all the TV specials he created between 1977 and 1988.
Although these last two shows are not released in boxed sets by season, I'm including them here as part of my TV collection. I have all four "Hannah Montana" discs: "Livin' The Rock Star Life!"; "Pop Star Profile;" "Life's What You Make It;" and "One in a Million." Each disc has three episodes of the show on it.
And, of course, I have all four "Kim Possible" DVDs: "The Secret Files;" "The Villain Files;" "A Sitch In Time;" and "So The Drama."

Those are my TV show collections on DVD. What do you have? Feel free to share. :D

[campy]

Not very many. I own seasons 1 and 2 of Teen Titans, which I bought myself, and season 7 of Dallas, which my daughters bought me for Christmas last year.

I'd like to have The Fugitive, but I don't think the whole series is available yet.

[jeriddian]

I have the entire Babylon Five series recorded......I didn't buy it, I actually recorded it all...........I'll have to break down and buy it eventually. I have the entire Shogun mini-series. Like TWD, I have all four of the KP DVD's ("The Secret Files;" "The Villain Files;" "A Sitch In Time;" and "So The Drama."), as well as the Disney Christmas DVD with "AVPC" on it, and then I have the Season One Box Set, and very soon the Season Two Box Set as well.:D

[GoTeamGirl]

I have all the KP DVDs that have been released. I don't have the Disney DVD with 'A Very Possible Christmas' on it, though.

I really, really want the season boxed sets of Full House, but that might have to wait until Christmas. I have a bunch of episodes recorded on my DVR, but there's only so much space. Maybe not Season One, but the rest would be nice...

[TransWarpDrive]

Jeriddian's post reminded me: I, too, have the Disney Holiday DVD with "AVPC" included. It's part of my KP DVD collection. I just forgot to mention it earlier (oops). :o

[Fireand'chutes77]

While they're technically not on DVDs, I do have a few complete collections.

The first is all the seasons of KP; I downloaded them off BitTorrent and iTunes for use in my AMVs.

For the second "boxed set," I bit the bullet and got Season One of "Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex" off of iTunes.

[Cody MacArthur Fett]

Off the top of my head?

Airwolf season 3
Seasons 7 and 10 Stargate: SG-1
Stargate: Atlantis season 1
Battlestar Galactica season 1/mini-series
And . . . that's all I can remember. :dubiety:

[canuck31003]

The X-Files: all.
Star Trek: TNG (VHS): all.
Corner Gas: seasons 1,2.
Due South: seasons 1-3(4).
Monk: seasons 1-4.
Stargate SG-1: seasons 1-6.
Avatar - The Last Airbender: seasons 1-3.
Kim Possible: all the eps available on DVD.
Roughnecks, Chronicles of the Starship Troopers: The complete campaign (which isn't so complete. :( )
Escaflowne: eps 1-26 + movie.
Gundam Seed: eps 1-52.

Hmm, that's all I have, I think -- at least, all I have of television series that premiered eps on a weekly basis in North America.

[GoTeamGirl]

I now own Full House, Season 6 and soon hope to own Season 7. :D

[canuck31003]

I now own Full House, Season 6 and soon hope to own Season 7. :D
It's kind of strange thinking about the Olsen twins. They were cute cuddly babies and now they're successful business people in their own right (so I hear).

[TheGreenMagic]

Off the top of my head...

Angel (all of it)
Batman the Animated Series (all of it)
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (all of it)
Cowboy Bebop (all of it)
Darkwing Duck (all of the Disney releases, hopefully they will be a third)
Gargoyles (what little of it Disney released)
Justice League (all of it, including the Unlimited seasons)
Kim Possible (Secret Files, Villain Files, Christmas DVD)
Married With Children (the first six seasons, plan on getting the rest)
Rurouni Kenshin (first and second seasons)
Superman the Animated Series (all of it)
YuYu Hakusho (first season as well as some of the older releases)

At some point I plan on adding Star Trek (original, Next Generation, Enterprise, possibly Voyager) to my collection.

[campy]

I left the 4 KP DVDs I own off my list since they're not boxed sets, but since everyone else is including them I will too.

So the Drama
A Sitch in Time
The Secret Files
The Villain Files

[GoTeamGirl]

I now own Full House, Season 6 and soon hope to own Season 7. :D
It's kind of strange thinking about the Olsen twins. They were cute cuddly babies and now they're successful business people in their own right (so I hear).

I know what you mean...I kind of find it hard to connect their character, Michelle, to who they are now. That was so long ago...

[TransWarpDrive]

I now own Full House, Season 6 and soon hope to own Season 7. :D
It's kind of strange thinking about the Olsen twins. They were cute cuddly babies and now they're successful business people in their own right (so I hear).

I know what you mean...I kind of find it hard to connect their character, Michelle, to who they are now. That was so long ago...
That's OK; I just read that Miley Cyrus turns 16 at the end of November. She was born in 1992; just a few months after I moved back in with my mom and younger brother. Now she's a teenager on the brink of adulthood. :huh:
Time sure flies fast, doesn't it? :unsure:

[campy]

I now own Full House, Season 6 and soon hope to own Season 7. :D
It's kind of strange thinking about the Olsen twins. They were cute cuddly babies and now they're successful business people in their own right (so I hear).

I know what you mean...I kind of find it hard to connect their character, Michelle, to who they are now. That was so long ago...
That's OK; I just read that Miley Cyrus turns 16 at the end of November. She was born in 1993; just a little over a year after I moved back in with my mom and younger brother. Now she's a teenager on the brink of adulthood. :huh:
Time sure flies fast, doesn't it? :unsure:I know it's been a while since my math-major days, but wouldn't someone born in November of '93 be turning 15 this year? :huh:

EDIT: Miley Cyrus was born in 1992.

[TransWarpDrive]

I now own Full House, Season 6 and soon hope to own Season 7. :D
It's kind of strange thinking about the Olsen twins. They were cute cuddly babies and now they're successful business people in their own right (so I hear).

I know what you mean...I kind of find it hard to connect their character, Michelle, to who they are now. That was so long ago...
That's OK; I just read that Miley Cyrus turns 16 at the end of November. She was born in 1993; just a little over a year after I moved back in with my mom and younger brother. Now she's a teenager on the brink of adulthood. :huh:
ANOTHER EDIT (Sorry, gang): Getting back on-topic, I just bought a DVD of the movie "Serenity," which of course is based on Joss Whedon's TV series "Firefly" (which is already part of my collection). Now I have all the videos on that show.
Time sure flies fast, doesn't it? :unsure:I know it's been a while since my math-major days, but wouldn't someone born in November of '93 be turning 15 this year? :huh:

EDIT: Miley Cyrus was born in 1992.

You're right; she was born in '92. I didn't realize that until after I'd posted my comments. I'll go fix that right now.
Thanks for pointing that out though, campy! :thumbup:
EDIT: That post is now corrected.
ANOTHER EDIT (Sorry, gang): Getting back on-topic, I just bought a DVD of the movie "Serenity," based of course on Joss Whedon's TV series "Firefly." I now have a complete set, so to speak, of all videos of that show.

[GoTeamGirl]

I have 'Season 7' of Full House now. It has what I think is the saddest episode of Full House. At least, that I've ever seen, since I haven't seen the whole series yet.

The rest will just have to wait until Christmas. :D

[canuck31003]

It has what I think is the saddest episode of Full House.
Which one was that?

[GoTeamGirl]

It has what I think is the saddest episode of Full House.
Which one was that?

The Last Dance, in which Jesse's grandfather and the Tanner girls' great-grandfather dies while visiting, and he was supposed to go into Michelle's school to teach a Greek dance to her class.

[kyojikasshu]

That's right... I was going to get around to doing this one, but just kept forgetting about it...

Let's see... since I'm not home at the moment, I'll have to recall from memory... but, at least, I've got the time to kill.

Stargate SG-1 - seasons 1, 5, 7, and 8 (thus far)
The Transformers - all five box sets released by Rhino

Everything else is anime; either boxed, or the complete series collected individually:
Mobile Suit Gundam - 10 volumes
Mobile Suit Gundam: The 08th MS Team - 4 volumes plus "Miller's Report"
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War In The Pocket - 2 volumes
Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory - 4 volumes
Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam box set
Mobile Fighter G Gundam - 4 box sets of 3 volumes each
Mobile Suit Gundam Wing - 10 volumes plus Endless Waltz
Martian Successor Nadesico box set
Tenchi Muyo! OAV box set
Tenchi Universe box set
Excel Saga box set
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor TV series box set
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor OAV box set
Neon Genesis Evangelion - 8 volumes (original release)
Love Hina - "Perfect Collection" box set (TV series and OAVs)

One side note - while I haven't picked up any Star Trek DVDs outside of the ten movies, I do still have the complete original series on VHS from Columbia House, that I've had for about 20 years now. And they're still in excellent condition! But, they're boxed up in my storage area in the basement right now; they take up a lot of shelf space!

[TransWarpDrive]

Hang onto those Star Trek tapes, Rob. Not only can you still play them on VHS recorders, they'll probably become a collector's item in a few years. :thumbup:

[lunchmeat]

The only thing I've got is the BBC Hornblower series, lots of movies, though.

[TransWarpDrive]

The only thing I've got is the BBC Hornblower series, lots of movies, though.

You mean the ones starring Ioan Gruffudd? Good, aren't they? :thumbup:

[savingkp]

CSI! i have all 9 season. they are on season 10 right now.

i wish they would all season of Kim Possible availbe to buy. becasue i would proplely buy it

[jeriddian]

CSI! i have all 9 season. they are on season 10 right now.

i wish they would all season of Kim Possible availbe to buy. becasue i would proplely buy it

You do know that there are Box Sets available from Germany for Seasons One and Two, don't you? ;)

[savingkp]

CSI! i have all 9 season. they are on season 10 right now.

i wish they would all season of Kim Possible availbe to buy. becasue i would proplely buy it

You do know that there are Box Sets available from Germany for Seasons One and Two, don't you? ;)

one probulm with that.. i don't speek germany? unless if it's in english, but i don't know if my dvd player will play it

[jeriddian]

CSI! i have all 9 season. they are on season 10 right now.

i wish they would all season of Kim Possible availbe to buy. becasue i would proplely buy it

You do know that there are Box Sets available from Germany for Seasons One and Two, don't you? ;)

one probulm with that.. i don't speek germany? unless if it's in english, but i don't know if my dvd player will play it

The box sets do come in four languages from which you can choose the one you want; English, German, French, and Dutch. But the sticking point is that they are region 2 Disks, so they are meant only to play on DVD players set to region 2, which are the ones sold in Europe. In the US we are all going to have region 1 DVD players, so it won't automatically play these disks. There are ways to change the region playing ability on your DVD player, but you would have to do some research on how to do that for your particular DVD player.

You would have to be careful as some methods only allow you to change your region playing status four times and then freezes your DVD player in the last one you chose. But there is software with which you could can play the disks region free on your computer, and if you have the skill you could do a rip of the actual disk with some software that would remove the copy protection and region restriction problems both from the file, which you could then burn onto a disk for playing on your DVD. Technically this is illegal, but if you owned the actual German Box set, then ripped a region free disk for your own usage only, that would probably be allowed as a "backup copy."

[Fireand'chutes77]

Let's see....

I don't have any "brick and mortar" box sets on me (in fact, I swapped my laptop's CD drive out for an extra battery to extend runtime) but I've got wonderful copies of the German disks on my external hard drive, along with both seasons/movies of the anime "Ghost in the Shell," the anime series "Elfen Lied," and the Jason Bourne series, transferred during winter break off the disks my family owns.....

What with my AMVs, the movies, and a backup of all my files, the 600 GB drive is about halfway filled.

[recon228]

About half of our DVD and Blu-Ray collection was lost when we moved to Phoenix, so currently the only boxed sets I've got are:

- Seasons 1 and 2 of Breaking Bad
- Firefly
- Seasons 1, 2, and 3 of Arrested Development
- Season 1 and 2 of Southland (I was a technical advisor on seasons 1 and 2, so you guys should watch it... Tuesdays @ 10pm on TNT... seriously, watch it! /shameless plug)
- And the Generation Kill HBO mini-series

[jeriddian]

Season 1 and 2 of Southland (I was a technical advisor on seasons 1 and 2, so you guys should watch it... Tuesdays @ 10pm on TNT... seriously, watch it! /shameless plug)

Wow! Pretty cool!:cool:

[TransWarpDrive]

About half of our DVD and Blu-Ray collection was lost when we moved to Phoenix, so currently the only boxed sets I've got are:

- Seasons 1 and 2 of Breaking Bad
- Firefly
- Seasons 1, 2, and 3 of Arrested Development
- Season 1 and 2 of Southland (I was a technical advisor on seasons 1 and 2, so you guys should watch it... Tuesdays @ 10pm on TNT... seriously, watch it! /shameless plug)
- And the Generation Kill HBO mini-series

You were a technical advisor on a TV show? Cool!:thumbs:
Good to hear from you again, recon. I was beginning to wonder if something had happened to you. Sorry to hear about you losing your DVDs and Blu-Rays. Hope you can replace them.

[kyojikasshu]

Wow, I really haven't added to my collection in the last couple of years.

Although I did end up having to give up my Star Trek tapes when it came time to move last year. But I couldn't watch them anymore anyway, without risk of destroying them, as the two VCRs I had were wrecking tapes left and right. So, as I parted with the dying machines, so too did I part with my tapes.

And since I do have the KP German box sets for seasons 1 and 2, ASiT and StD, and my favorite season 3 and 4 episodes courtesy of iTunes, I didn't bother saving my Every Possible Episode Ever tapes. After all, what's the point of keeping tapes with commercials, channel ID bugs, and intrusive scrolling banners, that I can't even play anymore, when I've got what I want in a clean, pristine format?

(Still, though, that was fun, and great that the marathon coincided with my vacation time, allowing me to watch the entire thing!)


Oops, I forgot to mention that I have all three seasons of Arrested Development as well. In fact, I had them just before my first move back in 2006, but I'd loaned them to my dad to watch. He never got around to it in nearly three years, though, so I reclaimed them before the last move. That, and I've also received the two seasons of Stargate Farscape - err. that is, seasons 9 and 10 of SG-1, and the first season of Atlantis. But I haven't gone out and bought any new sets myself in a long time.

[savingkp]

i think i'll stick with youtube and late night kp. sounds like alot of work. why wasn't season 3 and 4 realsied. and why wasn't it reasled at all here in the US?

[recon228]

You were a technical advisor on a TV show? Cool!:thumbs:

Yup... was an extra in an episode too... also got to be an extra in an episode of Sons of Anarchy, as well as an advisor for another episode. I did some production design and advisory work on a few movies of various production size as well. Most of this was through Independent Studio Services in Sunland and was done on my days off, of course (don't worry, your tax dollars weren't spent paying me to train SAG actors :P). Once I moved out to Phoenix, I stopped doing all that stuff.

[jeriddian]

i think i'll stick with youtube and late night kp. sounds like alot of work. why wasn't season 3 and 4 realsied. and why wasn't it reasled at all here in the US?

We don't know why Seasons Three and Four weren't released in Germany. I can only speculate that the Germans felt there wasn't enough interest in buying them. If they are ever released, they will only be released in Germany, I'm afraid. There was never enough interest in the US to release any of the box sets here.

[TransWarpDrive]

I almost forgot - I added the complete fifth season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to my boxed-set collection. Got it after Christmas with a Best Buy gift card from my sister.:biggergrin:
Now all I need are seasons 6 and 7 (not yet released on DVD) of that show, and my collection will be complete - well, almost, because I'd also like to get a disc of a made-for-TV movie called Mary and Rhoda. It takes place in present-day New York, where Mary Richards and her best friend Rhoda Morgenstern bump into each other after almost 30 years. It's kind of a sequel to the MTM series itself.

[Beaglebub]

Ghost Hunters Season One
Ghost Hunters Season Two, Part I
Ghost Hunters Season Two, Part II

The Flash, Complete Series

[lunchmeat]

Aside from KP, the only boxed series or season sets I have are the BBC Hornblower series and Victory At Sea.

[Twila Starla]

I became hooked on DVD sets after I started watching anime and making AMVs; it's much easier to get clips that way, and you're less likely to get viruses, so I have quite a collection so far! It includes...

Doctor Who Series 2
Robin Hood Season 1
Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season 1-3
Kim Possible Season 1-2
Fullmetal Alchemist (both seasons + OVAs + movie)
Inuyasha (seasons 1-7 + 4 movies)
Hellsing Series 1
Trinity Blood Complete Series
Full Metal Panic!: Heavy Metal Collection (season 1-2)
Black Cat Complete Series
Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles (season 1 + movie)
Ouran High School Host Club Part 1 and 2
Fruits Basket Complete Series
Romeo x Juliet Part 1 and 2
Clannad Part 1
Special A Part 1 and 2
Ragnarok Part 1-3
Oban: Star Racers Part 1 and 2
Baccano! Part 1 and 2
Le Portrait de Petite Cossette (Three part OVA)

--

The next ones I wanna get are for the animes D.gray Man and Darker Than Black

[TransWarpDrive]

What I like best about the boxed sets is that you get to watch each episode in its entirety, without commercial interruptions or any of those other little annoyances the networks inflict on us these days - like channel ID bugs or those idiotic banners scrolling across the bottom of the screen. And with the older shows, you even get to watch the complete, uncut opening and closing credits instead of having them shrunk or squished into a little box and flashed by in seconds too fast to read while the network runs a pushy ad in the rest of your screen for some show you really don't want to watch.
Nope - none of that junk on the boxed sets. Just entertainment, pure and simple....:biggergrin:

[savingkp]

i think i'll stick with youtube and late night kp. sounds like alot of work. why wasn't season 3 and 4 realsied. and why wasn't it reasled at all here in the US?

We don't know why Seasons Three and Four weren't released in Germany. I can only speculate that the Germans felt there wasn't enough interest in buying them. If they are ever released, they will only be released in Germany, I'm afraid. There was never enough interest in the US to release any of the box sets here.

so unfair, maybe some day the'll relase all of them here in the US

[jeriddian]

i think i'll stick with youtube and late night kp. sounds like alot of work. why wasn't season 3 and 4 realsied. and why wasn't it reasled at all here in the US?

We don't know why Seasons Three and Four weren't released in Germany. I can only speculate that the Germans felt there wasn't enough interest in buying them. If they are ever released, they will only be released in Germany, I'm afraid. There was never enough interest in the US to release any of the box sets here.

so unfair, maybe some day they'll release all of them here in the US

I hate to say it, but realistically I doubt it will ever happen. But there is a slight chance I could be wrong. There have been box sets of other old shows, even shows from the 60's and 70's that have gone on sale. As is gets cheaper and cheaper to produce the box sets, it gets more and more appealing. The only limiting factor is that it is a Disney show, and they have a definite attitude and opinion as to this sort of thing, which is why I think the chances are very low. The only thing I think that would trigger it is if KP somehow made a resurgence, but we all know the chances of that........:ohwell:

[Beaglebub]

The only thing I think that would trigger it is if KP somehow made a resurgence, but we all know the chances of that........:ohwell:

Maybe if Kim wore a blonde wig, spoke with a twang, and sang pop songs.

[TransWarpDrive]

The only thing I think that would trigger it is if KP somehow made a resurgence, but we all know the chances of that........:ohwell:

Maybe if Kim wore a blonde wig, spoke with a twang, and sang pop songs.

That might not work. Even "Hannah Montana's" starting to wind down; I read that the show's upcoming fourth season will be their last. Miley Cyrus is getting ready to move on.

[TransWarpDrive]

I recently added the complete sixth season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to my collection. I found it the same day I acquired the 3-disc set holding the complete 1991 Dark Shadows mini-series they ran on NBC (it was an unsuccessful attempt to revive the series). I got a real bargain with the Dark Shadows set; it normally retailed for $34.99. I only paid $14.99 for mine!:biggergrin:

[garnetblack]

Police Squad! complete series
Animaniacs volumes 1-3
Pinky and the Brain volumes 1-3
Frisky Dingo season 1

Will acquire more when I have time to watch much of anything.

[TransWarpDrive]

Police Squad! complete series
Animaniacs volumes 1-3
Pinky and the Brain volumes 1-3
Frisky Dingo season 1

Will acquire more when I have time to watch much of anything.

I loved Animaniacs! Them and Tiny Toon Adventures! Lots of irreverent humor and zany slapstick in cartoon form. Great fun! :biggergrin::thumbup:

[NinjaNaco]

Well, on the KP side of things, I've got StD and ASiT, as well as a good number of episodes on iTunes (I recently found out they expanded their Season 1 lineup. Yay!)

But iTunes is not what this thread is about.

On the whole DVD boxed set thing, I've got two volumes of Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers (a third volume should complete the episodes, but whether or not Disney will release it...), the second season of Hogan's Heroes, the Band of Brothers miniseries, and the "Time Travel" Star Trek episode collection.

[TransWarpDrive]

While at Smarty-Mart the other week, I spotted a real bargain in the DVD racks: the entire WWII TV series "Victory at Sea" in a 2-disc set for only $5.00! So naturally I snapped it right up...:biggergrin:
- Only to find the exact same set on sale at a Big Lots in Columbus, OH for just $4.00!!!:angry:
The irony is just sickening.....:thumbdown:

[jeriddian]

Yeah, but it's only a buck's difference. It's a fantastic bargain either way....:)

[TransWarpDrive]

Yeah, but it's only a buck's difference. It's a fantastic bargain either way....:)

You're right about that - it is a bargain. I 'm just grumping due to my current budget conditions (thanks to being unemployed).:thumbdown:
Any time I can save a buck, I'll do it.
In fact, there are days when I haven't driven anywhere or spent a dime - times like those help my minuscule resources go farther.

[TransWarpDrive]

Since my last entry, I've added the sixth season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to my collection, as well as two six-episode discs of The Underdog Show from the sixties and the 11-disc boxed set of The World at War.

[TransWarpDrive]

I finally added the seventh season of The Mary Tyler Moore Show to my collection. I now own the entire series on DVD!:biggergrin:
Now I want to get a disc of that made-for-TV movie, Mary and Rhoda, starring Ms. Moore and Valerie Harper, that came out in 2000. It picks up 23 years after the series ended, with Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern reuniting in New York City. I know it's out on DVD because I saw a copy on display in a store back in January 2004 (should have picked it up back then, blast it).