- The Wire
- The first 6 seasons of The X-Files
- Angel
- The first 3 seasons of The Muppet Show
- The first 5 seasons of Futurama
- The Sopranos
I threw away all the actual boxes and the discs are all in a book.
I threw away all the actual boxes and the discs are all in a book.
I do the same, except I never got my act together to build a NAS. My digital files are on a scattered bunch of external drives with backups of the most important ones. Probably about 30 TB in total. It would be so cool to have everything on a single NAS storage array with RAID-5 or -6 redundancy and something like a Plex server for streaming!
But it turns out that I do a great deal of my watching in bed on my tablet, which is a perfect match to my near-sightedness and effectively has the field of view of a big movie screen. Best bang-for-the-buck little gadget I ever bought for it was a 256 GB micro-SD card!
Some of the recent posts reminded me of two I forgot to list – Mr. Bean (entire series) and Rocky and Bullwinkle (partial collection).
And I admit with a certain amount of shame to having a substantial collection of Bugs Bunny cartoons (damn, some of those were actually clever and obviously intended to appeal to parents as well as kids) and the entire series of I Love Lucy. The latter I can’t really explain. It’s dated, it has misogynistic views of the role of women, and much of it is corny – but to my simple mind it’s worth watching both as a classic piece of television history – arguably the most popular TV show of all time – and also for the occasional flashes of pretty good writing and the comedic skills of both Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. My interest in it was revived after seeing the biopic Being the Ricardos.
A couple I missed in my earlier post:
007 Sean Connery Collection
Band of Brothers
Scrubs Seasons 2 & 3
The McCartney Years
I think I only have 2: Lord of the Rings (complete with extras but not blue ray) and Rumpole of the Bailey. I love Rumpole as a character, and the part seems tailor-made for Leo McKern, but I haven’t watched more than one or two of the shows on DVD, and they all seem to be available on YouTube now.
I used to have quite a few of the ones mentioned. But I’m shocked that nobody so far has mentioned The Larry Sanders Show, which is an hysterically funny send-up of the late night talk show business. I also didn’t see The Detectorists, the delightful British comedy
LotR, DeadWood, Rome, Nero Wolfe, and a couple others.
I have the first Alien quadrilogy box set but sadly not the head set
I’d love to have lots of the fancy box sets
Probably not a surprise to anyone, but I have the two Marx Brothers box sets to complete the 13 movies.
I have the complete Murder, She Wrote series.
The Vicar Of Dibley - Comedy
Blackadder - Comedy
Bones - Crime procedural
Porridge - Comedy
And I have VHS box set of the original Star Wars trilogy
Stargate, Buffy, Farscape, Heros… and a couple I can’t remember.
I found this after enjoying Father Ted and looking for some other comedy centered around English vicars. As it turned out, IMHO The Vicar of Dibley was even better! Great writing, great acting, lots of deliberate Pythonesqeue silliness, and even some seriously poignant moments.
Would I recommend it? In the words of its famously stuttering Jim Trott character, no, no, no, YES! ![]()
I still have my box sets of The Sandbaggers and Coupling.
I’ve got many, most of which others in this thread have listed in their own collection already. Here’s one that nobody else will have: I have the complete Terrahawks.
LOTR extended editions.
The Wire
The Best of Monty Python’s Flying Circus
Classic Musicals collection
QB VII (a miniseries)
A couple of seasons of Seinfeld
When the Levees Broke (a documentary about Katrina by Spike Lee)
The Civil War Ken Burns documentary
A Les Blank collection, with Always for Pleasure and a bunch of other films
Columbo (not a complete collection)
Fawlty Towers
The Godfather trilogy
A Buster Keaton collection
Lost
A film noir collection
In addition to ones I mentioned earlier. Doc Martin and Columbo.