It appears to me that August is getting everyone ready for the upcoming fall television season because there are tons of TV DVD box sets on the way, and I don’t just mean this week. But let’s start there shall we? Old school hits the DVD waves as sets of Caroline In The City, That Girl, The Love Boat, and Dave’s World laugh it up for everyone. Comic book fans will be happy to see Filmation’s DC Superheroes series also making it into their DVD players. Other then that…wow, there really is virtually nothing but TV DVD sets this week. Well, hope you like thirty minute to hour long shows instead of feature length films because that’s all you’re gonna get!
Caroline in the City – The First Season
Caroline Duffy is a successful comic-strip writer who models her toons on her life as a single woman in Manhattan. Through the ups and down she’s always able to count on her witty friend, Richard, an aspiring painter who works his days filling in the inked panels at Caroline’s apartment. It’s there that much of the series’ sexual tension simmers, allowing for more than a few of the sitcom’s love triangles and season-ending cliffhangers.
DVD Features: All 24 episodes from the first season
Comedy Central’s Kenny vs. Spenny: Volume One – Uncensored
The rivalries are remarkably fierce and the competitions astonishingly stupid in this reality-TV show. Kenny and Spenny are two friends whose apartment provides the staging ground for a revolving series of hilarious, disgusting, and just plain bizarre competitions. Who can remain tied to a goat the longest? Who will be able to commit the most crimes? Will it be carefree Kenny, always looking to gain an advantage, or straight-man Spenny, principled in the face of Kenny’s cruel stratagems?
DVD Features: Audio commentaries, “Kenny Answers Fan Mail” featurette, “Who Can Pick The Biggest Booger?” featurette, and much more
Dave’s World – The First Season
As a writer for the fictional Miami Record-Dispatch, Dave Anderson offers his hilarious perspective on the chaotic world around him. It’s a wry take on life that serves him well when dealing with the antics of his own family: wife Beth and two sons, Tommy and Willie.
DVD Features: All 23 episodes from the first season
DC Super Heroes: The Filmation Adventures
From the 1960s to the ’80s, Filmation Animation Studio produced some of the most beloved Saturday-morning cartoons, including He-Man And The Masters Of The Universe Fat Albert And The Cosby Kids. Presented here are some of the company’s early adaptations of DC Comics superheroes, rendered in the studio’s instantly recognizable animation style. This collection showcases awesome cartoons featuring the exploits of crusaders such as Hawkman, Justice League, Teen Titans, Green Lantern, and the Flash.
DVD Features: Includes 18 episodes
Frightfully Funny Collection Volume 1
Saturday mornings have gotten way too syrupy and feel good. This collection includes episodes of the animated series Ghostbusters and Groovie Goolies that are sure to frighten and amuse you.
DVD Features: None
The Love Boat: Season One, Vol. 2
Take a voyage to romance aboard this ocean liner that whisks its passengers, and surprising guest stars, on panoramic journeys that lead to love. Playing tour guide and matchmaker are the Pacific Princess’ trusty crew, including cruise director Julie, yeoman Gopher, ship’s doctor Adam Bricker, drink-slinger Isaac, and, of course, Captain Merrill Stubing. Amid luxurious surroundings, and the tempestuous heat of the tropics, anything can happen in a series that is by heartwarming, sentimental, and slapstick funny.
DVD Features: The remaining episodes from the first season
Martin Lawrence’s First Amendment: Season 2
Martin Lawrence acts as a comic curator by presenting some of his favorite underground acts on this program. In keeping with Lawrence’s humor, the stand-up routines are full of foul language, dirty images, and racially charged jokes. These comedians walk the fine line between gross-out and knockout comedy and they don’t pull any punches. Donell Rawlings, Darryl Brunson, AJ Jamal, Finesse Mitchell, and Paula Bel are just a few of the outrageous voices Lawrence has put together in this showcase.
DVD Features: All episodes from the second season
Prison Break – Season 3
Michael Scofield finds himself once again imprisoned, but this time at SONA, a Panamonian Prison without rules and without guards. Along with fellow inmates T-Bag, Mahone, and Bellick and with the outside aid of brother Lincoln, Michael not only must fight to survive, but is also tasked with breaking out of prison… again.
DVD Features: All 13 episodes from the third season, alternate scenes, deleted scenes, bonus shorts, trailers, and more
Smart People
When a loved one does, you never really can tell what will happen as things begin to change. But this story that of a widowed professor that has a new love come into his life, and an unexpected visit from his adopted brother.
DVD Features: Audio commentary, deleted scenes, interviews
South Park: The Complete Eleventh Season
Stan, Kyle, Cartman, and Kenny are back again in this small mountain town in Colorado and have to deal with such things as head lice, rescuing ImaginationLand from complete annihilation, and learning the secrets of the Easter Bunny.
DVD Features: All 14 episodes from the eleventh season
Strawberry Shortcake: Rockaberry Roll
Music and perseverance are the names of the game with these back-to-back rock-themed episodes of Strawberry Shortcake. Beginning with two episodes, “It Takes Talent” and “Playing to Beat the Band,;” Strawberry and her friends Ginger Snap, Angel Cake, and Peppermint Fizz have all grown up. They’re in their teens and have a fabulous new look! They’re going to have to practice and learn how to communicate, however, if they want their new rock band to improve.
DVD Features: Music video, collectible book, DVD-ROM features
That Girl Season 4
Years before Mary Tyler Moore became TV’s iconic modern independent woman, Marlo Thomas captured American hearts as quirky single gal Ann Marie on this hit series. From 1966 to 1971, viewers followed Ann who was a struggling actress, worked a variety of odd jobs, wore a slew of mod fashions, and spent time with her dryly witty boyfriend, Donald Hollinger.
DVD Features: All 26 episodes from the fourth season
Tom and Jerry: Tales, Vol. 5
Tom and Jerry are brought up to date with this early-21st-century rendering of the classic cartoons pitting them against one another in situations that are not only chaotic, not only disastrous, but also extremely funny.
DVD Features: Includes 12 episodes from the series
Tru Calling Complete Series
Many often wish that they could help others. Many of those same people also wish they could do something, anything to prevent the pain and turmoil that others suffer through. Well one girl by the name of Tru Daines is one that does more then wish. Tru is a university graduate working in the city morgue who is able to repeat the same day over again to prevent murders or other disasters.
DVD Features: All 27 episodes from the entire series, music videos, trailers, interactive features, numerous featurettes, audio commentary
Wide Awake
Author, pastor, lecturer and Christian film producer Erwin Raphael McManus illustrates the essential components necessary to find and pursue one’s passion, realize the ultimate dream life, achieve contentment, and give all one has to offer to the world. Based on McManus’s own novel, this release is comprised of several short films to help guide the way to the necessary characteristics: “Dream,” “Explore,” “Adapt,” “Create,” “Invest,” “Enjoy,” “Focus,” and “Expect.”
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The Wire – The Complete Fifth Season
As budget cutbacks for both the police and the press threaten their public missions, they also gives rise to corruption. Show creator David Simon (a former Baltimore reporter himself) interweaves the story of a young journalist faking stories for the Baltimore Sun with that of Detective McNulty, who concocts a serial killer in order to funnel funds to an underground investigation of drug dealer Marlo Stanfield.
DVD Features: All 10 episodes from the fifth and final season
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