# Do you have any DVD box sets? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 25, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121 "2025-11-25T15:32:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/1 "2025-11-25T15:32:24Z")
And if so of what genre? Relevant to a discussion in a particular show thread but that discussion is not relevant to the question so no link. Plu1bus if you care to know though. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/2 "2025-11-25T15:40:04Z")
I just dropped the last of them off at Goodwill (I, Claudius, Fawlty Towers, and Futurama). All were 20+ years old. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/3 "2025-11-25T15:40:54Z")
I have several. A **Lord of the Rings** Blue Ray Trilogy. Complete **Monty Python’s Flying Circus** TV series A 10 pack of **Mel Brooks movies**. **The Godfather Trilogy**. Several that are the season packages for a show. I think I have every season of **Night Court** , not sure if that counts. It is 9 multi-disc DVD sets. First 4 seasons of **Get Smart**. Also a complete original run of the **Animaniacs**. There are probably a few others. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/4 "2025-11-25T16:17:08Z")
Rockford Files Monkees Parks & Rec Psych Deadwood Indiana Jones The Office Veronica Mars Back To The Future Beatles Anthology ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/5 "2025-11-25T16:26:48Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > A **Lord of the Rings** Blue Ray Trilogy. > Complete **Monty Python’s Flying Circus** TV series I am not surprised to see that you and I both have these two. 😃 I also have: - Various boxed sets of the original Star Wars trilogy - Firefly - Soap - WKRP In Cincinnati - Farscape - Stargate SG-1 - Emergency! ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/6 "2025-11-25T16:28:08Z")
Not many, compared to the number of individual DVDs I bought. What I can remember, though I haven’t watched them in years. (I’ve rewatched some of the shows, just not from DVD.) _Buffy the Vampire Slayer_ _Greg the Bunny_ _Firefly_ _Dark Angel_ _Beastmaster_ (found it cheap, don’t judge me) _My So-Called Life_ (Probably a couple of more that don’t come to mind.) (I have literally hundreds of complete seasons of shows in digital format, just not as DVD boxes.) The most elaborate is _Buffy_, which is 39 DVDs in a big box. That one was bought at one of those unannounced sales that lasted just a couple of hours that Amazon used to have, paid $40 when at the time it sold for a couple of hundred. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/7 "2025-11-25T16:28:53Z")
I’ve kept several box sets, even though I haven’t had a player connected to my TV for quite some time. I’ve ditched the cases and put the discs in wallets, but I still have a portable Blu-ray player and am happy to continue hanging onto the physical media for the following shows: - _All Creatures Great and Small_ (1978) - drama - _Angel_ - paranormal - _Black Books_ - comedy - _Buffy The Vampire Slayer_ - paranormal - _Firefly_ - scifi - _The Guild_ - comedy - _The Pretender_ - drama - _Sports Night_ - comedy - _Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip_ - drama - _The West Wing_ - drama - _The Wire_ - drama ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/8 "2025-11-25T16:34:05Z")
Spaced (comedy) Freaks & Geeks (comedy) Monty Python’s Flying Circus (sketch comedy) The Venture Brothers (animated comedy) The Kids in the Hall (sketch comedy) The Muppet Show (puppet sketch comedy) I’ve been in to torrenting since way back so everything I have is pre-2000. Except Venture Bros which I got for the commentary. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/9 "2025-11-25T16:42:30Z")
I got seasons 1, 2 and 3 of **Corner Gas** on DVD as a gift. I think I also have some DVD collections I picked up for cheap, like “The Terry Gilliam Collection” (with 12 Monkeys, Brazil, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, etc.). ---
**Author:** ![BrieSpice](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@BrieSpice](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrieSpice)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/10 "2025-11-25T16:43:56Z")
- Northern Exposure - Studio Ghibli - LOTR - The Young Ones ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/11 "2025-11-25T16:44:52Z")
Westerns Randolph Scott Collection James Stewart 6 movie Western Collection Various movies James Stewart 4 movie Collection There are less well known movies that would be hard to find in single dvd’s. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/12 "2025-11-25T16:45:23Z")
I have a shelf unit about 10’ wide that is all boxed sets of TV shows. All different genres - SF, detective, comedy shows, and assorted others. Offhand, in addition to most of Star Trek, Stargate, Babylon 5, Barney Miller, Dick van Dyke, Rockford Files, Get Smart, The Man From Uncle, the Equalizer, Benny Hill, and Peter Whimsy. ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/13 "2025-11-25T16:46:27Z")
I have the complete series of _The Sopranos_ on DVD. I have it because I didn’t subscribe to HBO when it was in its original run, I wanted to watch this show that everyone was saying was one of the best shows on TV, and it wasn’t on Netflix (this was back in the days when Netflix had nearly everything, and it was the only streaming service I subscribed to). So I figured the best way to see it was to ask for the box set for Christmas. I suppose I could just give it to Goodwill now; if I ever want to rewatch it I have HBO Max now. I’ve also got _Futurama_ and _Pinky and the Brain_, purchased back before streaming video was even a thing. They didn’t even sell them as full seasons back then – the Futurama set is just labled “Volume 1” and the first 13 episodes of season one on three discs. Pinky and the Brain is labeled “Volume 2”. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/14 "2025-11-25T16:47:31Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > I’ve been in to torrenting since way back So those aren’t physical media sets, then…? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/15 "2025-11-25T16:52:26Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > So those aren’t physical media sets, then…? The ones I listed are physical media sets that I have. Torrenting means I download files and store them digitally. So any post-2000 shows I have enjoyed enough to keep around as a collection have been in digital format on a hard drive. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/16 "2025-11-25T16:56:45Z")
Chiming in to say “none.” (I hope that’s not considered a threadshit, as t he question was ‘do you have any..”) ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/17 "2025-11-25T17:06:08Z")
**TV** (complete series unless otherwise indicated) Moonlighting My Name Is Earl Green Acres The Prisoner The Avengers (Mrs. Peel era) Monty Python’s Flying Circus Home Movies Lost in Space (original series) Twin Peaks (first two seasons) Deadwood **Movies** Criterion box set of 39 Ingmar Bergman films (purchased in a recent half-off sale) Criterion Stan Brakhage collection Rambo, box set of the first three movies A box of a half-dozen Jean-Luc Godard films ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/18 "2025-11-25T17:08:18Z")
Definitely not. Probably should have put up a poll. I’m frankly surprised that so many people do! And that comedy is up there with sci fi. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/19 "2025-11-25T17:09:03Z")
A probably incomplete list of boxed sets rather than individually collected movies1: - The original Star Wars trilogy - The original Die Hard trilogy - The Lethal Weapon series of films - The original Jurassic Park trilogy plus Jurassic World - Northern Exposure the complete series (each boxed set is one season though) - Downton Abbey the series (don’t have the movies) - How Clean Is Your House? the American series - As Time Goes By the complete series. - King of the Hill the complete series (each set is one season) - Home Improvement the complete series (same as above, each season is one boxed set) - I think my wife has the Castle series - I _think_ I have The Mentalist complete series All my DVDs are in a box buried in the back of my garage; we haven’t had them readily accessible for 5 or 6 years now which is why we don’t have the newer Jurassic World movies or the Downton Abbey movies. Thus the above list is going strictly by memory. I’m sure I’m forgetting a few. 1For instance we have all of the James Bond movies but we collected them individually rather than as boxed sets even though boxed sets were available at the time. So I don’t count those. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/20 "2025-11-25T17:43:55Z")
I only have two - Lost and Babylon 5. Which is coming in handy today since I had my oak tree trimmed and they broke my cable wire. I’ve been rewatching Babylon 5 off and on, so I guess I’ll get back to that since the AT&T tech can’t come until tomorrow evening. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121.md?page=2)