Super-duper TV! (38 titles)

Some mighty-fine TV stuff. If there's more than one season I've just stuck to the first for the sake of brevity but I generally mean the whole series.

by: GK from UK

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Angel - Season One

Spin-off from Buffy. Starts strong, then flounders before improving again.

Angel - Season One (6 discs) on DVD (1999)
Starring: David Boreanaz, Glenn Quinn, Charisma Carpenter
Director: Joss Whedon, James A. Contner
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A box set featuring the complete season one. The episodes include: 'City Of', 'Lonely Hearts', 'In The Dark', 'I Fall To Pieces', 'Rm W/A Vu', 'Sense And Sensitivity', 'The Bachelor Party', 'I Will Remember You', 'Hero', 'Parting Gift' and 'Somnambulist', 'Expecting', 'She', 'I've Got You Under My ..read more »

Rate this: 77% from 8,176 members

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 1

It starts off pretty laughable but as the acting and the scripting improve throughout the series it becomes something rather special.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 1 (3 discs) on DVD (1997)
Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Nicholas Brendon, Alyson Hannigan
Director: Joss Whedon
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The entire first season of BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER is presented here, including six never-before-seen episodes. Buffy is an ordinary teenager who learns she's not so ordinary; she is the Slayer, a single exceptional girl who must do battle with vampires, demons, and other supernatural bad guys ..read more »

Rate this: 78% from 9,745 members

V - The Mini Series

OK - it looks pretty dated and some of the special effects may make you chuckle, but it's still really good.

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V - The Mini Series on DVD (1983)
Starring: Jane Badler, Faye Grant, David Packer
Director: Kenneth Johnson
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First part of the V Series. Aliens with nice faces and reptilian habits descend over the earth bringing a new and menacing world order with them in this landmark television miniseries. Sixty-five million viewers reportedly viewed the original broadcast. Disguised to look just like humans, the ..read more »

Rate this: 71% from 3,170 members

Cambridge Spies

I do love a good spy story! This is based on the true events of four Cambridge undergraduates who are recruited by the KGB. Toby Stephens and Tom Hollander are fantastic as Burgess and Philby.

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Cambridge Spies (2 discs) on DVD (2003)
Starring: Toby Stephens, Tom Hollander, Rupert Penry-Jones
Director: Tim Fywell
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Based on a true story, CAMBRIDGE SPIES is a BBC drama detailing the biggest spy scandal in British history. In 1934, four outstanding students at Cambridge University--Guy Burgess, Anthony Blunt, Kim Philby, Donald Maclean--who shared a passion for communism, were recruited to spy for the Soviet ..read more »

Rate this: 68% from 2,255 members

This really is American comedy at its finest. Mary-Louise Parker stars as suburban soccer-mom turned drug-peddler. The tension ratchets up in the 2nd season and there are great big belly-laughs to be had! I only wish the episodes were longer... That's US TV for you, I suppose.

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Weeds - Season 1 (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
Starring: Romany Malco, Mary Louise Parker, Kevin Nealon
Director: Lee Rose, Burr Steers, Brian Dannelly
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This intelligent comedy stars Mary Louise Parker (ANGELS IN AMERICA) as Nancy Botwin, a recently widowed mother of two who finds herself in difficult financial straits. Her ingenious solution is to become the local pot dealer. Nancy's business really takes off, but she struggles to maintain her ..read more »

Rate this: 77% from 4,537 members

House M.D. - First Season

One of our finest exports is Hugh Laurie. It's mind-boggling to watch Blackadder or Jeeves & Wooster alongside this. You've got to wonder whether many Americans realise that he's one of ours! He stars as the pithy misanthropic doctor who's the go-to-guy for conditions no-one else can explain.

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House M.D. - First Season (6 discs) on DVD (2004)
Starring: Hugh Laurie, Lisa Edelstein, Omar Epps
Director: Bryan Singer, Peter O'Fallon, Greg Yaitanes
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Golden Globe winner Hugh Laurie, wonderfully cast against type, stars as the brilliant but caustic Dr. Gregory House, a maverick physician who is devoid of bedside manner. While his behaviour can border on the antisocial, Dr. House thrives on the challenge of solving medical puzzles that other ..read more »

Rate this: 82% from 13,015 members

Grey's Anatomy - Season 1

OK - so it's a soap - but I still love it. You'll spend a lot of time getting quite angry with this show's protogonist, Meredith Grey, who wallows in self-pity more than seems strictly necessary. It's hugely entertaining and marvelously addictive.

Grey's Anatomy - Season 1 (3 discs) on DVD (2005)
Starring: Ellen Pompeo, Patrick Dempsey, Sandra Oh
Director: Peter Horton
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Meet Meredith Grey a brilliant first-year surgical intern at Seattle Grace Hospital. Together with her fellow residents-in-training, Meredith navigates her way through the daily traumas and social land mines of the life inside the hospital and out in the real world. Grey's Anatomy is a smart and ..read more »

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Wire, The - Season 1

This is a proper gritty American drama. Set in Baltimore amongst the housing projects and drug-lords' territories you get an equal look into the lives of the individuals on both sides of the law. You may occasionally require subtitles as the authentic gangland Baltimore patois can be fairly unintelligible at times.

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Wire, The - Season 1 (5 discs) on DVD (2002)
Starring: Dominic West, Sonja Sohn, John Doman
Director: Brad Anderson, Daniel Attias
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From David Simon, creator and co-writer of HBO's triple Emmy-winning mini-series 'The Corner', this unvarnished, highly realistic HBO series follows a single sprawling drug and murder investigation in Baltimore. Told from the point of view of both the police and their targets, the series captures a ..read more »

Rate this: 82% from 12,180 members

West Wing, The - Complete Season 1

Oh, how much do I love the West Wing? So very very much! Martin Sheen stars as US President Jed Bartlett in this 7 season epic. Aaron Sorkin is in the driving seat script-wise for the first four seasons, and the fast paced dialogue is fairly ground-breaking in style. The final seasons have remarkable resonances with the recent US election (of Nov 2008). This is solid gold television!

West Wing, The - Complete Season 1 (6 discs) on DVD (1999)
Starring: Rob Lowe, Martin Sheen, Dule Hill
Director: Thomas Schlamme
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The West Wing provides a glimpse into the inner workings of the Oval Office as seen through the eyes of an eclectic group of staffers led by President Josiah Bartlett (Martin Sheen). Pacing the West Wing morning, noon and night, Bartlet's loyal group strive to keep press and the public informed at ..read more »

Rate this: 83% from 15,023 members

Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip

This subsequent offering from Aaron Sorkin was much maligned by the critics for not being as good as West Wing - but I loved it. The roles played by Bradley Whitford and Matthew Perry as head writer and director of a live comedy sketch show are based heavily upon Sorkin's own character - megalomanic genius with addiction problems. Halfway through the show suffered a hiatus owing to poor ratings and then on its return becomes an allegory of itself. It was great - and it's such a shame it was axed after just one season.

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Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip (6 discs) on DVD (2006)
Starring: Matthew Perry, Amanda Peet, Bradley Whitford
Director: Timothy Busfield, Thomas Schlamme
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WEST WING creator Aaron Sorkin presents a revealing and very funny look at the backstage workings of a late-night comedy sketch show in STUDIO 60 ON THE SUNSET STRIP. The show (which is named STUDIO 60) is plummeting in the ratings and it looks like the network, NBS, might be about to axe it. In a ..read more »

Rate this: 82% from 4,111 members