Nominated for a single Emmy in its short three season stint, Wonder Woman - which premiered in 1976 - was the third attempt by the major networks to bring the popular comic book character to TV. Created as the result of a collaboration between the multi-talented William M. Marston and DC Comics publisher Maxwell Gaines, Wonder Woman made her world premiere in a 1941 comic book. The final product of Gaines’ request for a female comic book hero, Marston never lived to see his creation become a television star (he died prematurely from skin cancer in 1947), but his legacy lives on through the Wonder Woman franchise which continues to entertain worldwide audiences to this day…

Wonder Woman follows the exploits of the Amazonian princess, Diana, who leaves her Paradise Island home in order to bring justice to the world of men. Athletic and intelligent, Diana Prince (as she’s known to the outside world) also possesses special powers that are brought about when she whirls around to transform into Wonder Woman. Her magic belt gives her added strength, her metallic bracelets deflect bullets, and her tiara doubles as a boomerang… In addition, she’s aided by a magic golden lasso which forces her captives to tell the truth! Season 1 of Wonder Woman takes place during the era of World War II where the Allies enlist the help of the female superhero to defeat the Nazis, while Seasons 2 and 3 take place in modern day times (1977-1978)…

The Wonder Woman DVD features a number of exciting episodes including the series premiere “Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther” in which Col. Steve Trevor - the same man who crash-landed on Wonder Woman’s home island, and thus prompted her to enter the world of men - is accused of sabotaging a series of missions under his command. Charged with treason and espionage, Trevor can only have his name cleared by Wonder Woman who uncovers a vast conspiracy by Nazi sympathizers… Other notable episodes from Season 1 include “The Pluto File” in which Wonder Woman must apprehend an Irish-born spy who steals an American-made machine that controls earthquakes, and “Formula 407″ in which Wonder Woman travels to Mexico in order to recover a secret formula stolen by the Nazis…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Wonder Woman (Season 1) DVD:

Episode 1 (Wonder Woman Meets Baroness Von Gunther) Air Date: 04-21-1976
Episode 2 (Fausta: The Nazi Wonder Woman) Air Date: 04-28-1976
Episode 3 (Beauty on Parade) Air Date: 10-13-1976
Episode 4 (The Feminum Mystique: Part 1) Air Date: 11-06-1976
Episode 5 (The Feminum Mystique: Part 2) Air Date: 11-08-1976
Episode 6 (Wonder Woman vs. Gargantua!) Air Date: 12-18-1976
Episode 7 (The Pluto File) Air Date: 12-25-1976
Episode 8 (Last of the Two Dollar Bills) Air Date: 01-08-1977
Episode 9 (Judgment from Outer Space: Part 1) Air Date: 01-15-1977
Episode 10 (Judgment from Outer Space: Part 2) Air Date: 01-17-1977
Episode 11 (Formula 407) Air Date: 01-22-1977
Episode 12 (The Bushwackers) Air Date: 01-29-1977
Episode 13 (Wonder Woman in Hollywood) Air Date: 02-16-1977

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Wonder Woman (DVD).

Nominated for 17 Emmys, including one Golden Globe for Best TV Series - Drama, Little House On The Prairie is one of the most popular shows in television history. Based on the autobiographical series of “Little House” books written by Laura Ingalls Wilder, the show explores the inner-workings of a small town and family on the 19th Century American frontier. Director/Co-Executive Producer Michael Landon (of Bonanza and Highway to Heaven fame) also wrote one-third of the episodes (in addition to playing a lead role as the family’s father, Charles, when the actor originally cast for the part failed to show). Charles would go on to become one of the show’s most popular characters, and Little House On The Prairie would become an American favorite, boasting ten successful seasons to its credit…

Little House On The Prairie follows the lives of the Ingalls family as they settle on the banks of Plum Creek in the township of Walnut Grove, Kansas during the 1870’s. A true pioneer family, the story is seen through the eyes of the Ingalls’ middle-daughter, Laura (Melissa Gilbert), who experiences all the normal growing pains and emotions of a young girl growing up on the prairie. Carpenter Charles Ingalls (Michael Landon) and his former school teacher wife, Caroline (Karen Grassle), head up a family of three that includes two additional daughters, Mary (Melissa Sue Anderson) and Carrie (Lindsay & Sidney Greenbush). The town also includes a loveable cast of supporting characters, such as Walnut Grove School teacher Eva Beadle (Charlotte Stewart), town doctor Hiram Baker (Kevin Hagen), pastor Robert Alden (Dabbs Greer), family friend Isaiah Edwards (Victor French), the wealthy Oleson family, and a host of other characters…

The Little House On The Prairie (Season 6) DVD features a number of dramatic episodes including the season premiere “Back to School” in which Walnut Grove gets a new schoolteacher named Eliza Wilder. Laura falls in love with her brother Almanzo, but is devastated when Nellie invites him over for dinner. Desperate, Laura volunteers to cook the dinner, adding extra spices, and when Nellie takes credit for cooking the dinner, Almanzo ignores her from then on… Other notable episodes from Season 6 include “The Preacher Takes a Wife” in which Mrs. Craig and Reverend Alden get married despite the protests of Mrs. Oleson, and “Sweet Sixteen” in which Laura and Almanzo strike up a romance when Almanzo drives her to a nearby town where she is temporarily teaching school…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Little House On The Prairie (Season 6) DVD:

Episode 113 (Back to School: Part 1) Air Date: 09-17-1979
Episode 114 (Back to School: Part 2) Air Date: 09-24-1979
Episode 115 (The Family Tree) Air Date: 10-01-1979
Episode 116 (The Third Miracle) Air Date: 10-08-1979
Episode 117 (Annabelle) Air Date: 10-15-1979
Episode 118 (The Preacher Takes a Wife) Air Date: 10-22-1979
Episode 119 (The Halloween Dream) Air Date: 10-29-1979
Episode 120 (The Little House Years: Part 1) Air Date: 11-15-1979
Episode 121 (The Little House Years: Part 2) Air Date: 11-15-1979
Episode 122 (The Little House Years: Part 3) Air Date: 11-15-1979
Episode 123 (The Return of Mr. Edwards) Air Date: 11-05-1979
Episode 124 (The King is Dead) Air Date: 11-12-1979
Episode 125 (The Faith Healer) Air Date: 11-19-1979
Episode 126 (Author, Author) Air Date: 11-26-1979
Episode 127 (Crossed Connections) Air Date: 12-10-1979
Episode 128 (The Angry Heart) Air Date: 12-17-1979
Episode 129 (The Werewolf of Walnut Grove) Air Date: 01-07-1980
Episode 130 (What Ever Happened to the Class of ‘56?) Air Date: 01-14-1980
Episode 131 (Darkness is My Friend) Air Date: 01-21-1980
Episode 132 (Silent Promises) Air Date: 01-28-1980
Episode 133 (May We Make Them Proud) Air Date: 02-04-1980
Episode 134 (Wilder and Wilder) Air Date: 02-11-1980
Episode 135 (Second Spring) Air Date: 02-18-1980
Episode 136 (Sweet Sixteen) Air Date: 02-25-1980
Episode 137 (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Part 1) Air Date: 05-05-1980
Episode 138 (He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: Part 2) Air Date: 05-12-1980

About the Author

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Arguably the best comedy of 2004, Meet The Fockers is a hilarious, humor-filled marathon. Screenwriters Greg Glienna and Mary Ruth Clarke (who should have received Oscars for their flawless penmanship of Meet The Parents) turn in another blockbuster manuscript. But, as with its predecessor, Meet The Fockers wouldn’t be the comedy masterpiece it is without the onscreen chemistry of Ben Stiller and Robert De Niro.

Stiller, son of comedian Jerry Stiller (Seinfeld & King Of Queens), is a comic genius in his own right and has recently dominated the Hollywood box office with a string of smash spoof comedies such as There’s Something About Mary (1998), Meet The Parents (2000), Zoolander (2001), Along Came Polly (2004), and Dodgeball (2004). De Niro, on the other hand, moves from the less serious roles of his early career into the comedy genre with an ease fully indicative of his enormous talent. Earlier comic roles in Wag The Dog (1997), Analyze This (1999), and Meet The Parents (2000) prepared movie-goers for the veteran actor’s zinging one-liners. Throw Dustin Hoffman (who’s also surprisingly funny) into the mix, and Meet The Fockers becomes one of those rare comedies that movie aficionados will want to see over and over again…

Meet The Fockers follows the continuing hardship of Gaylord “Greg” Focker (Ben Stiller), a male nurse whose future father-in-law, Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro), is a never-ending source of torment. A retired CIA operative, Jack is paranoid and controlling, and Greg’s previous attempts to win over Jack’s affections have always come up short. Now, Greg’s life problems are multiplied by the imminent first meeting between his in-laws-to-be and his “birth parents”.

Traveling by RV, Greg, his fiancée Pam (Teri Polo) and the rest of Byrnes family arrive in Florida where Bernie (Dustin Hoffman) and Roz Fockers’ (Barbra Streisand) free-love, hippie lifestyle stands in stark contrast to Jack’s serious faade. Throughout the visit, Greg works overtime to avoid having Jack learn of his mother’s thriving sex therapy business, his own youthful indiscretion with the family maid, and his inability to supervise Jack Jr. for even a single afternoon. When Jack gets the idea that Greg fathered a child back in high school, he administers truth serum to Greg, sparking a series of events that is sure to make even the most ardent critic of ridiculous and juvenile movies (and this is one of them) burst forth in laughter…

Meet The Fockers is a rarity in that it’s a sequel to a fairly successful film that manages to live up to the reputation of the original. Although Meet The Parents is probably the better film, Meet The Fockers is a truly hilarious comedy in its own right. Directed by Jay Roach (director of the Austin Powers franchise), Meet The Fockers is a highly entertaining comedy, deploying all the tricks of the trade - slap-stick, bathroom humor, zinging one-liners, classic “fish-out-of-water” sequences, and situation humor. By no means is it a cinema classic worthy of artistic awards and praise from sophisticated critics. But it delivers on its promise. It promises to make you laugh, and it performs that task with relative ease…

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Meet The Fockers (DVD).

Along with Seinfeld and Frasier, Friends is undoubtedly the most watched and followed sitcom on the 1990s. Set in New York City, the series follows the exploits of six twenty-something (and later, thirty-something) friends who often hang out in a local coffee shop and each others’ apartments. Monica Geller (Courteney Cox), Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc), Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry), and Ross Geller (David Schwimmer) form a wildly talented cast that easily made the transfer from TV to the big screen…

The Friends (Season 5) DVD offers a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere in which we learn that Ross and Emily’s wedding continued despite Ross’s accidentally saying Rachel’s name instead of Emily’s. However, Emily is not happy, and Ross cannot seem to make it up to her. Meanwhile, Monica and Chandler go to great lengths to conceal their newly blossoming romance from the rest of the friends. As the season progresses, the various friends learn one-by-one that Monica and Chandler are an item. The season finale follows the entire cast through Las Vegas (where they followed Joey who went there to shoot a movie). While in Vegas, Chandler and Monica agree to get married, but when they get to the chapel, they find that Ross and Rachel have beat them there…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Friends (Season 5) DVD:

Episode 98 (The One After Ross Says Rachel) Air Date: 09-24-1998
Episode 99 (The One with All the Kissing) Air Date: 10-01-1998
Episode 100 (The One Hundredth) Air Date: 10-08-1998
Episode 101 (The One Where Phoebe Hates PBS) Air Date: 10-15-1998
Episode 102 (The One with the Kips) Air Date: 10-29-1998
Episode 103 (The One with the Yeti) Air Date: 11-05-1998
Episode 104 (The One Where Ross Moves In) Air Date: 11-12-1998
Episode 105 (The One with the Thanksgiving Flashbacks) Air Date: 11-19-1998
Episode 106 (The One with Ross’s Sandwich) Air Date: 12-10-1998
Episode 107 (The One with the Inappropriate Sister) Air Date: 12-17-1998
Episode 108 (The One with All the Resolutions) Air Date: 01-07-1999
Episode 109 (The One with Chandler’s Work Laugh) Air Date: 01-21-1999
Episode 110 (The One with Joey’s Bag) Air Date: 02-04-1999
Episode 111 (The One Where Everybody Finds Out) Air Date: 02-11-1999
Episode 112 (The One with the Girl Who Hits Joey) Air Date: 02-18-1999
Episode 113 (The One with the Cop) Air Date: 02-23-1999
Episode 114 (The One with Rachel’s Inadvertent Kiss) Air Date: 03-18-1999
Episode 115 (The One Where Rachel Smokes) Air Date: 04-08-1999
Episode 116 (The One Where Ross Can’t Flirt) Air Date: 04-22-1999
Episode 117 (The One with the Ride Along) Air Date: 04-29-1999
Episode 118 (The One with the Ball) Air Date: 05-06-1999
Episode 119 (The One with Joey’s Big Break) Air Date: 05-13-1999
Episode 120 (The One in Vegas: Part 1) Air Date: 05-20-1999
Episode 121 (The One in Vegas: Part 2) Air Date: 05-20-1999

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Friends (Season 5) DVD.

Nominated for 39 Emmys and 8 Golden Globes, including 3 (and one win) for Best TV Series - Drama, Six Feet Under is widely considered one of the best dramas currently on television. Creator Alan Ball, Oscar-winning screenwriter for American Beauty, introduces a series known for its darkly comical portrayal of a typical dysfunctional American family attempting to live their lives while running a business that thrives on death. Boasting a catchy main title theme song composed by Thomas Newman (brains behind the scores of Real Genius, Shawshank Redemption, American Beauty, Finding Nemo, and many others), Six Feet Under continues the long-running string of critically and popularly acclaimed original drama series created by HBO, following in the footsteps of Oz (1997), Sex And The City (1998), and The Sopranos (1999). Premiering in mid-summer 2001, the series takes a unique look at the highs and lows of life and death, sporting the tagline, “Your whole life is leading up to this…”

Six Feet Under follows the lives of a hardworking American family in Pasadena, California as they deal with the everyday rigors of running their family business - an independent funeral home. Nate and Ruth Fisher (Frances Conroy of The Aviator) operate the business on a daily basis with the aid of their youngest son David (Michael C. Hall), while their daughter Claire (Lauren Ambrose) deals the tribulations of high school life and their eldest son Nate Jr. (Peter Krause) works in an organic grocery store in Seattle. But family affairs take a turn for the worse when Nate Jr.’s latest visit is marked by the tragic death of his father. With the family in mourning, it’s soon revealed that the late patriarch left the funeral home to be owned and run jointly by David and Nate Jr. With a massive corporation hounding the family to sell out, coupled with their own personal problems, the Fishers must learn to deal with their grief as well as each other. Well-written and well-cast, Six Feet Under continues to offer some of the most entertaining drama on TV today…

The Six Feet Under (Season 4) DVD features a number of dramatic episodes including the season premiere “Falling Into Place” in which Nate is having a difficult time dealing with Lisa’s death. To further complicate matters, he gets in an argument with Lisa’s mother over what to do with her body. Nate wants to respect Lisa’s wishes to be buried, while Lisa’s mother wants her cremated and placed in the family mausoleum. In the end, a compromise is in order… Other notable episodes from Season 4 include “That’s My Dog” in which David picks up the wrong hitchhiker and ends regretting it, and “The Bomb Shelter” in which George is enthusiastic when he discovers an old bomb shelter on the Fisher property built long ago by Nathaniel’s parents…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Six Feet Under (Season 4) DVD:

Episode 40 (Falling Into Place) Air Date: 06-13-2004
Episode 41 (In Case of Rapture) Air Date: 06-20-2004
Episode 42 (Parallel Play) Air Date: 06-27-2004
Episode 43 (Can I Come Up Now?) Air Date: 07-11-2004
Episode 44 (That’s My Dog) Air Date: 07-18-2004
Episode 45 (Terror Starts at Home) Air Date: 07-25-2004
Episode 46 (The Dare) Air Date: 08-01-2004
Episode 47 (Coming and Going) Air Date: 08-08-2004
Episode 48 (Grinding the Corn) Air Date: 08-15-2004
Episode 49 (The Black Forest) Air Date: 08-22-2004
Episode 50 (The Bomb Shelter) Air Date: 08-29-2004
Episode 51 (Untitled) Air Date: 09-12-2004

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Six Feet Under (Season 4) DVD.

THE NOTEBOOK (2004) is the film version of the mega tear-jerker romance novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. Nick Cassevetes (son of John C.) directed his mom and a good cast including good old James Garner for this a truly romantic movie shot in incredibly beautiful locations in South Carolina.

Two kids (the handsome Ryan Gosling as NOAH and the radioactively attractive Rachel McAdams as ALLIE) from wrong ends of the social spectrum fall in love despite the vociferous objection of the girl’s super rich family.

The girl leaves town for Sarah Lawrence College while the boy continues to work at a lumberyard. Then there is WW2. The boy goes to fight in Europe. His letters (365 letters in 365 days) are conveniently hidden from ALLIE by her manipulative mother. So she decides to marry the handsome boy of the cotton king of south, a boy she meets as a wounded soldier when she was volunteering as a nurse to help the ailing vets in hospital.

After coming back home, NOAH refuses to quit dreaming about ALLIE and builds the home he promised long time ago to ALLIE as their future home.

Just before the wedding, ALLIE sees the house and a bearded and older NOAH posing in front of it in her local paper — and she just flat passes out in front of a dozen ooohing and aaaahing southern dames while trying out her spectacular wedding gown!

Then she visits NOAH and after a few more twists (will she? won’t she?), she decides to forgo the millions of the cotton king and live her life with the working class NOAH as his wife.

Now, this story is told by a much older NOAH in a nursing home to his wife ALLIE, the same kids just grown very old, in an attempt to beat ALLIE’s dementia by reading her the NOTEBOOK she kept for all those years — the very story of their love that is told in long flashbacks.

At the end, despite some lapses, she manages to regain her memory and the movie ends with a Mother of All Tear Jerkers final scene. If you don’t cry during this movie, just forget it. You never will.

What a relief in this day and age of terrorism and scandals and hurricanes and global warming to watch a story of pure childish love, holding over decades despite all ods, sticking around for ages and for a lifetime. It would be unbearable to watch this kind of a movie everyday.

I still need my CHINATOWN, BLOOD SIMPLE by Coen Brothers, for example, or CRASH by Paul Haggis. But I’m also very glad that unabashedly romantic writers like Nicholas Sparks do exist. We are all fortunate that he is not selling pharmaceuticals for a living anymore. We are richer for it.

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Along with Seinfeld and Frasier, Friends dominated the must-see TV of the 1990’s. Winner of innumerable television awards, the show features the lives of six friends in their late-twenties/early-thirties living in New York City - Monica Geller (Courteney Cox), Phoebe Buffay (Lisa Kudrow), Rachel Green (Jennifer Aniston), Ross Geller (David Schwimmer), Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc), and Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry). The six friends spend the majority of their time in a coffee house named “Central Perk” or in either Monica’s apartment or Joey and Chandler’s apartment.

The Friends DVD offers a number of hilarious episodes including season premiere in which Rachel leaves her fiancée Barry at the altar and moves in with Monica. Without her daddy’s credit cards to live off of, Rachel is forced to get a job at the Central Perk coffee house. As the season progresses, we learn that Ross has harbored a life-long crush on Rachel, but he is continually unable to tell her because of a number of obstacles that get in his way. Season 1 also features the antics of Ross’s pet monkey Marcel who would later be fazed out of the show because of the strain an animal placed on the show’s production schedule…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Friends (Season 1) DVD:

Episode 1 (The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate) Air Date: 09-22-1994
Episode 2 (The One with the Sonogram at the End) Air Date: 09-29-1994
Episode 3 (The One with the Thumb) Air Date: 10-06-1994
Episode 4 (The One with George Stephanopoulos) Air Date: 10-13-1994
Episode 5 (The One with the East German Laundry Detergent) Air Date: 10-20-1994
Episode 6 (The One with the Butt) Air Date: 10-27-1994
Episode 7 (The One with the Blackout) Air Date: 11-03-1994
Episode 8 (The One Where Nana Dies Twice) Air Date: 11-10-1994
Episode 9 (The One Where Underdog Gets Away) Air Date: 11-17-1994
Episode 10 (The One with the Monkey) Air Date: 12-15-1994
Episode 11 (The One with Mrs. Bing) Air Date: 01-05-1995
Episode 12 (The One with the Dozen Lasagnas) Air Date: 01-12-1995
Episode 13 (The One with the Boobies) Air Date: 01-19-1995
Episode 14 (The One with the Candy Hearts) Air Date: 02-09-1995
Episode 15 (The One with the Stoned Guy) Air Date: 02-16-1995
Episode 16 (The One with Two Parts: Part 1) Air Date: 02-23-1995
Episode 17 (The One with Two Parts: Part 2) Air Date: 02-23-1995
Episode 18 (The One with all the Poker) Air Date: 03-02-1995
Episode 19 (The One Where the Monkey Gets Away) Air Date: 03-09-1995
Episode 20 (The One with the Evil Orthodontist) Air Date: 04-06-1995
Episode 21 (The One with the Fake Monica) Air Date: 04-27-1995
Episode 22 (The One with the Ick Factor) Air Date: 05-04-1995
Episode 23 (The One with the Birth) Air Date: 05-11-1995
Episode 24 (The One Where Rachel Finds Out) Air Date: 05-18-1995

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Friends (DVD).

One of the more absurd movies of the decade, Napoleon Dynamite nonetheless manages to be a hilarious comedy in its own right. Featuring a unique brand of alienated-teenage humor, the film relies more on its well-timed pauses and character body language than on zinging one-liners. If you enjoy its subtle humor, then Napoleon Dynamite is a film you’ll find utterly hilarious. Otherwise, it might cause boredom or outright confusion. The film has a near non-existent storyline, but what it lacks in plot, it makes up for with its witty and hilarious comedy sequences…

Jon Heder plays the title role of Napoleon Dynamite, an estranged and nerdy high school youth living with his grandmother and older brother, Kip (Aaron Ruell), in Preston, Idaho. Sporting a clueless, unchanging facial expression throughout the movie, Napoleon simply glides through life, getting kicked around, pushed into lockers, and watching life pass by. When a Spanish student named Pedro (Efren Ramirez) moves into town, Napoleon befriends the social outcast. The two drone on and on about myriad subjects, such as who to take to the upcoming dance. Fellow socially-challenged student Deb (Tina Majorino) becomes the object of their affections.

Meanwhile, Kip trolls the Internet chat rooms in search of women, and Napoleon’s Uncle Rico (Jon Gries) moves in with the boys while their grandmother is away. Uncle Rico’s own exploits add to the hilarity of a film with little in the way of substance, at least until Pedro decides to run for class president against the school’s most popular girl, Summer (Haylie Duff). Now, Napoleon and Pedro must work against all odds to win the school election…

The true strength of Napoleon Dynamite is its clan of outrageous characters, characters that are so outrageously ridiculous that every viewer can point out the mirror image of that character from his own high school yearbook or current life experience. The arrested social development of Napoleon and his friends are amplified for effect within the film’s context, drawing the viewer into a Lord of the Flies world of Darwinian adolescence. The humor is sometimes subtle, and Napoleon Dynamite is not to be confused with an Academy Award winning drama. But if you like stupid movies such Dumb And Dumber, then this is the film for you.

Napoleon Dynamite is a unique comedy which pushes the boundaries of plot-challenged, immature filmmaking. In short, you’ll love it. Most of the characters are so pathetic, you’ll find yourself laughing at them simply because they exist. One of the biggest surprises of 2004, Napoleon Dynamite is an oddball comedy that definitely ranks as a must-see movie…

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the Napoleon Dynamite (DVD).

Making its debut in the fall of 1985, The Golden Girls quickly established itself as a fixture of Saturday night prime time television. Following the lives of four older women living together as roommates in Miami, the show displayed a raw wit and a biting humor. The women live in the house of Blanche Devereaux (Rue McClanahan), a Southern belle who loves men of every kind and has dated every eligible bachelor in the Miami area. Her roommates are former high school teacher Dorothy Zbornak (Bea Arthur) and St. Olaff housewife and widower Rose Nylund (Betty White). Rose loves to tell stories about her former hometown, much to the chagrin of the other girls. The three are joined by Dorothy’s mother, firebrand Sophia Petrillo (Estelle Getty), a spunky Italian immigrant who always speaks her mind. In her early-eighties, Sophia may walk at a measured pace, but the velocity of her sarcasm only increases with age.

The Golden Girls (Season 4) DVD offers a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere “Yes, We Have No Havanas” in which Blanche and Sophia discover that they’re both dating the same sweet-talking Cuban, prompting a heated competition for his affections… Other notable episodes include “The Auction” in which the girls try to pay for a new roof by profiting from the impending death of a celebrated painter, and “You Gotta Have Hope” in which Dorothy’s hospital charity event is headed for disaster, at least until Rose reveals that her father, Bob Hope, will perform at the show…

Below is a list of episodes included on The Golden Girls (Season 4) DVD:

Episode 77 (Yes, We Have No Havanas) Air Date: 10-08-1988
Episode 78 (The Days and Nights of Sophia Petrillo) Air Date: 10-22-1988
Episode 79 (The One That Got Away) Air Date: 10-29-1988
Episode 80 (The Yokel Hero) Air Date: 11-05-1988
Episode 81 (Bang the Drum, Stanley) Air Date: 11-12-1988
Episode 82 (Sophia’s Wedding: Part 1) Air Date: 11-19-1988
Episode 83 (Sophia’s Wedding: Part 2) Air Date: 11-26-1988
Episode 84 (Brother, Can You Spare That Jacket?) Air Date: 12-03-1988
Episode 85 (Scared Straight) Air Date: 12-10-1988
Episode 86 (Stan Takes a Wife) Air Date: 01-07-1989
Episode 87 (The Auction) Air Date: 01-14-1989
Episode 88 (Blind Date) Air Date: 01-28-1989
Episode 89 (The Impotence of Being Ernest) Air Date: 02-04-1989
Episode 90 (Love Me Tender) Air Date: 02-06-1989
Episode 91 (Valentine’s Day) Air Date: 02-11-1989
Episode 92 (Two Rode Together) Air Date: 02-18-1989
Episode 93 (You Gotta Have Hope) Air Date: 02-25-1989
Episode 94 (Fiddler on the Ropes) Air Date: 03-04-1989
Episode 95 (Till Death Do We Volley) Air Date: 03-18-1989
Episode 96 (High Anxiety) Air Date: 03-25-1989
Episode 97 (Little Sister) Air Date: 04-01-1989
Episode 98 (Sophia’s Choice) Air Date: 04-15-1989
Episode 99 (Rites of Spring) Air Date: 04-29-1989
Episode 100 (Foreign Exchange) Air Date: 05-06-1989
Episode 101 (We’re Outta Here: Part 1) Air Date: 05-13-1989
Episode 102 (We’re Outta Here: Part 2) Air Date: 05-13-1989

About the Author

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Nominated for 12 Golden Globes and 61 Emmys, including 4 for Outstanding Drama Series, The X-Files is one of the world’s most popular science-fiction drama shows. Premiering in the Fall of 1993 on the Fox Network, home of popular programs such as The Simpsons (1989) and King Of The Hill (1997), The X-Files created an entire fictional world of conspiracies and secret organizations, building a legion of fanatic followers as devoted to the series as Trekkies are to Star Trek. Creator Cris Carter, a former writer for numerous TV shows in the late-80s/early-90s - The Nanny (1993) is one example - brings together the finest aspects of suspense-laden spy novels and alien science fiction. The result is one of the top sci-fi franchises ever produced, spawning its own line of merchandise and even a full length feature film - The X-Files: Fight The Future (1998). With nine successful seasons to its credit, The X-Files is one of the longest-running sci-fi series in television history…

The X-Files follows the exploits of four FBI agents assigned to investigate a series of unsolved and mysterious cases known only as “The X-Files”. FBI special agents Fox Mulder (David Duchovny), Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson), John Doggett (Robert Patrick), and Monica Reyes (Annabeth Gish) are the primary agents investigating these unusual cases which could never be solved by conventional investigatory methods. But Mulder and Scully in particular play prominent roles in the series. The partnership and friendship the two develop during the course of the series sets the tone for their investigations into the paranormal with Scully, a medical doctor, playing the skeptic to Mulder’s deeply held beliefs in widespread government conspiracies and alien abductions. Through the course of the series, The X-Files covers a wide-range of frightening and mysterious subjects from killer insects and secret world government organizations to the colonization of Earth by parasitic aliens. In so doing, it adds its own unique brand of humor and an original blend of creativity that fans of the genre will certainly appreciate…

The X-Files (Season 2) DVD features a number of suspense riddled episodes including the season premiere “Little Green Men” in which we learn the fate of our heroes in the aftermath of the closing of The X-Files. Scully is working as an FBI instructor at Quantico while Mulder is tasked with an endless array of mundane “busy-work”. But Mulder refuses to quit. He meets with one his supporters in regard to The X-File project - Senator Matheson, and the meeting prompts him to investigate an abandoned SETI site in New Mexico which might hold clues to the existence of alien life-forms… Other notable episodes from Season 2 include “One Breath” in which Scully ends up in a coma for reasons unknown and Mulder must find out the truth about what happened to her, and “Fearful Symmetry” in which Scully and Mulder investigate a series of attacks at a zoo perpendicular to a tract of land notorious for its UFO sightings…

Below is a list of episodes included on The X-Files (Season 2) DVD:

Episode 25 (Little Green Men) Air Date: 09-16-1994
Episode 26 (The Host) Air Date: 09-23-1994
Episode 27 (Blood) Air Date: 09-30-1994
Episode 28 (Sleepless) Air Date: 10-07-1994
Episode 29 (Duane Berry) Air Date: 10-14-1994
Episode 30 (Ascension) Air Date: 10-21-1994
Episode 31 (3) Air Date: 11-04-1994
Episode 32 (One Breath) Air Date: 11-11-1994
Episode 33 (Firewalker) Air Date: 11-18-1994
Episode 34 (Red Museum) Air Date: 12-09-1994
Episode 35 (Excelsis Dei) Air Date: 12-16-1994
Episode 36 (Aubrey) Air Date: 01-06-1995
Episode 37 (Irresistible) Air Date: 01-13-1995
Episode 38 (Die Hand Die Verletzt) Air Date: 01-27-1995
Episode 39 (Fresh Bones) Air Date: 02-03-1995
Episode 40 (Colony) Air Date: 02-10-1995
Episode 41 (End Game) Air Date: 02-17-1995
Episode 42 (Fearful Symmetry) Air Date: 02-24-1995
Episode 43 (Dod Kalm) Air Date: 03-10-1995
Episode 44 (Humbug) Air Date: 03-31-1995
Episode 45 (The Calusari) Air Date: 04-14-1995
Episode 46 (F. Emasculata) Air Date: 04-28-1995
Episode 47 (Soft Light) Air Date: 05-05-1995
Episode 48 (Our Town) Air Date: 05-12-1995
Episode 49 (Anasazi) Air Date: 05-19-1995

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Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of The X-Files (Season 2) DVD.