# 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:** 2
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/21 "2025-11-25T17:45:35Z")
I own a few with dust on them, but the only boxed set I have purchased since the dawn of streaming has been the **Horatio Hornblower** series. It wasn’t on any service. I also purchased **Dogma** , cause it’s awesome and it’s IP legal troubles mean you will never be able to stream this. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/22 "2025-11-25T18:06:22Z")
Quite a few, mostly at our cabin which doesn’t good enough internet to stream shows. Off the top of my head: Venture Brothers, Archer, King of the Hill Battlestar Galactica The Americans, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Muppet Show and lots of others. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/23 "2025-11-25T18:13:02Z")
I have two: the (former) complete Beatles Anthology (which is just getting a reworked and expanded re-release), and a 7 DVD box called “The Blues” of documentaries about blues musicians/styles by renowned directors like Martin Scorcese (who also compiled the box), Clint Eastwood or Wim Wenders and others. I think it’s a bit of a rarity. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/24 "2025-11-25T18:28:26Z")
I have all three LOTR movies on DVD but they were purchased separately, not as a set. I have a few partial TV series DVDs (5 seasons of LOST, 3 or 4 seasons of NewsRadio, a couple of seasons of Community) but no full sets. I did have the complete Monty Python on VHS but not on DVD. ---
**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, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/25 "2025-11-25T18:32:13Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > the only boxed set I have purchased since the dawn of streaming has been the **Horatio Hornblower** series. Oh! I forgot! We have that one, too; my wife bought it shortly after the series ran on cable. ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/26 "2025-11-25T18:33:49Z")
All of my DVDs including box sets have been ripped to digital format. l still have the physical DVDs but they’re packed away somewhere (or in some cases are digital downloads). Going from memory, they include - Fawlty Towers, - The Honeymooners, - Downton Abbey (the series and the movies), - the complete Seinfeld series, - all the original Pink Panther movies with Peter Sellers, - all of the British “Carry On” movies (don’t judge! … some are corny but a few are pretty funny), - the complete Hitchcock series (7 seasons of Alfred Hitchcock Presents and the subsequent 3 seasons of The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) - You Rang, M’Lord (British comedy series) - Hi-de-Hi (British comedy series) - Only Fools and Horses (British comedy series with occasional drama) - The Vicar of Dibley (British comedy series) - Father Ted (British comedy series) - The British “House of Cards” and its sequels, “To Play the King” and “The Final Cut” - Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister … and probably many others that I’m forgetting. Also have many but not all Monty Python and Twilight Zone episodes, so not a box set as such. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/27 "2025-11-25T18:39:14Z")
I used to have a lot of physical media, mostly movies. Of the box sets that have since gone the way of Goodwill, I had: Arrested Development Battlestar Galactica (the new one) Dollhouse The Office Dead Like Me Wonderfalls Band of Brothers (still own!) Firefly Veronica Mars The West Wing Felicity Parenthood Alias Orphan Black I’m sure there were more. I’ve transitioned to digital. ---
**Author:** ![pkbites](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pkbites/32/204_2.png) [@pkbites](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pkbites)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/28 "2025-11-25T19:00:37Z")
Bought almost no VHS or DVD’s over the years. But we did buy the box set of **Breaking Bad** after the series had ended and we had seen none of it. Super binge watching a show like that is the only way to fly! ---
**Author:** ![Wallaby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/dc4da7/32.png) [@Wallaby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wallaby)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/29 "2025-11-25T19:10:47Z")
The World at War The Goodies Red Dwarf (up to Series 8) Several BBC Nature-David Attenborough series - The Blue Planet, Life in the Freezer etc Classical Destinations ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/30 "2025-11-25T19:11:09Z")
In my shelf of shit I’ll never play again because of streaming: Babylon 5 Firefly Aqua Teen Hunger Force Mr. Bean NewsRadio The Venture Brothers Lord of the Rings Fawlty Towers Red Dwarf Battlestar Galactica season 1, still in its original packaging as I never got around to watching it. ---
**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, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/31 "2025-11-25T19:16:30Z")
> [@ZipperJJ](#): > > 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. Ahhh, gotcha. I know what torrenting is, I just misunderstood your timeline reference. My bad. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/32 "2025-11-25T19:22:22Z")
I have a set of _Beavis and Butt-head_ DVDs and a complete season of _The Simpsons_. The _Simpsons_ one includes two of my favorite episodes, the one where Poochie is added to the Itchy and Scratchy Show and the one where Frank Grimes (Homer’s Enemy) tries to be a model employee but is driven mad by Homer’s incompetence and dies while trying to imitate him. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/33 "2025-11-25T19:27:30Z")
Yes, several, but I don’t know which ones are DVDs and which ones are video. They are on the top of a shelf in my bedroom, unwatched for years or decades, and I am not going to look now. I believe some season of Dr. House, the three LOTR, a five set of Louis Malle movies, something with dinosaurs/BBC are DVDs, Monthy Python almost sure are video, the rest I am not sure. I have no video player anymore, haven’t had since the last time we moved house, and the only DVD reader I have is a tiny USB powered thing that goes into the laptop and I only keep in case I have to use a DVD for data. I hope it still works. ---
**Author:** ![Meatwater](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meatwater/32/20074_2.png) [@Meatwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meatwater)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/34 "2025-11-25T19:30:50Z")
I have a various degree of DVD’s to Blu-Ray to 4K editions of box sets. I suppose I’m old school cause I have 2 bookshelves sometimes 2-3 deep of media. I mostly collect them because they ban stuff and change stuff all the time. I also enjoy the extras and the commentaries. To name a few I have; Dragon Ball/Z/Kai/GT, Supernatural, LotR in every media released (to my knowledge), Attack on Titan, Spongebob (I have mostly cause they banned episodes), My Name is Earl, Futurama, Mission Impossible, Planet of the Apes (both the older and newer ones), Batman motion pictures collection, Twin Peaks Complete, Whitest Kids You Know. That’s what I could think of off the top of my head. Majority of my collection is physical video games. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/35 "2025-11-25T19:34:22Z")
Many. About 60-70% bought by me, and another 30-40% offloaded by friends who were moving and couldn’t be bothered. And it’s funny, because once I get them, I make a personal copy for my home NAS and then stream entirely from there. Off the top of my head Battlestar Galactica (original, reboot, and Caprica) Babylon 5 (5 seasons in boxed sets, + others) Crusade TV series Farscape A half dozen anime series Forever Knight (Seasons 1 & 2) Dark Angel (1 & 2) Alien (1-3) Preacher Blade (TV series) Terminator (Movie series) Terminator Sara Connor Chronicles Ash Vs. Evil Dead Constantine (TV series) Wednesday (S1) Tremors TV (S1) ST: Enterprise (all) Red Dwarf (all) Watchmen (Tv series) Space Above and Beyond Jack of All Trades Black Adder (all) American Gods Dresden Files Penny Dreadful Adventures of Brisco County Junior That’s probably 1/3 to 1/2 of them. 🤷 ---
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TV: All in the Family The Jeffersons Wings Psych Monk Police Squad Bean Newsradio Coach Movies: Naket Gun Police Academy National Lampoon Vacation Maybe more. ---
**Author:** ![BrickBat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac91a4/32.png) [@BrickBat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrickBat)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/37 "2025-11-25T19:37:18Z")
- ‘ **Rome** ’ - ‘ **Deadwood** ’ - ‘ **The Naked City** ’ ( the series ) - ‘ **Leave It To Beaver** ’ ---
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A handful, sitting around gathering dust somewhere, to include the “original” three _Star Wars Flicks_, the orignal _Harry Potter_ movies, and the original three in the _Alien_ franchise. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2025, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121/39 "2025-11-25T19:52:17Z")
Too many to list, but my X-files collection of every episode is probably the biggest. ---
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Star Trek TOS - remastered, all three seasons Danger Mouse Rocky and Bullwinkle Cult movies and shorts - think Reefer Madness SciFi TV from the early 1950s, some of which you’ve seen on MST3K A DVD set of commercials from the ‘50s and ‘60s Comedy “classics.” Some good, like Steamboat Bill Jr., some not so good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-have-any-dvd-box-sets/1025121.md?page=3)