Adventures of Superman (1950s series)
Arrested Development
Community (still in progress)
Red Dwarf
Soap
Not exactly “series” but multi-boxed sets and sort-of series:
Jeeves and Wooster (British with Fry and Laurie)
Nero Wolfe (with Tim Hutton)
I, Claudius
Peter Wimsey
Slings and Arrows (all three seasons)
Babylon 5 including the pilot, all the movies, all of Crusade and Lost Tales
Black Books
Fifteen Storeys High
Firefly
For some reason I’ve only managed to watch the first two episodes of Black Books even though I’ve had it for months. Just too busy, I guess.
As Time Goes By and Surgical Spirit.
I also have up to Series 4 of Breaking Bad.
I really want the mini-series Mother Love but ‘they’ won’t release it.
A couple I overlooked the first time:
Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett)
Sherlock (1st season, preorder in for 2nd)
The Flash
The Prisoner
Black Adder
Of the top of my head, because a lot of them are still packed (and they’re all at home, where I don’t have internet)
Thundercats
Excel Saga
Hellsing (the TV series, not the new one)
Quantum Leap
Freakazoid
The Tick
Danger Mouse (which I need to finish watching)
Complete:
Lost
Dilbert
MASH
Night Court (2 seasons legally, the rest bootleg)
As much as released to date:
Desperate Housewives
Simpsons
Spongebob Squarepants
As much as released, except for the most recent release:
Futurama
South Park
And more
Lone Gunmen
Miracles
Bones
Again, i’m sure there are more.
Firefly
Green Wing
Coupling
Mighty Boosh
The Pink Panther (the Peter Sellers movies - I don’t have the cartoon series and obviously not any of the films starring a different actor as Clouseau, as that was just a terrible idea that thankfully never came to fruition)
Angel
Buffy
Charmed
Dead Like Me
Dexter
Eerie Indiana
Family Guy
Futurama
Golden Girls
Mad Men
Six Feet Under
Supernatural
Vampire Diaries
XFiles
Knew I forgot a couple:
Justice League/JLI
Batman Beyond (including both versions of “Return of the Joker”)
Off the top of my head:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (all 7 seasons)
Angel (2 seasons official, 3 are copies to be replaced as I find them)
Firefly + Serenity (1 season, 2 versions of the movie)
Doll House (2 seasons)
[Why, yes, I AM a Whedon fan-boy]
Band of Brothers (10 episodes)
La Femme Nikita (Peta Wilson version, 1 season official, 4 copies to be replaced as found)
Babylon 5 (5 seasons, not the specials or [ptui] pilot)
Battlestar Galactica (reboot, full series set, 4 seasons)
Burn Notice (ongoing, 4 seasons so far)
I also have/had seasons from:
Boston Legal (#2, #4)
C.S.I. L.V. (Seasons #1-#4 official, 5-7 copies)
West Wing (#1, plus copies of #2-#4, to be replaced)
Homicide, Life on the Street (had seasons #1-#3, purged in a move)
I’m sure I’ve missed a few things here and there as well.
-DF
Ooo, and Doll House!
Six Feet Under
The Tudors
Arrested Development
Sex and the City
True Blood (so far)
Dexter (so far)
Pee Wee’s Playhouse
The Larry Sanders Show
Breaking Bad
Weeds (so far)
Big Love
I think that’s it.
I tend to fall in love with shows long after they’ve stopped airing. A couple years ago, I bought all seven seasons of Buffy. A few months ago, I finally got into Six Feet Under. I had caught a few episodes on Bravo, but I was way too young to appreciate it then. I’ll probably buy the fifth season next month.
Cadfael
Roar (Heath Ledger’s Celtic short lived series)
Northern Exposure
Absolutely Fabulous
oh yeah, Poldark
Remembered a couple more, so here’s the revised list:
The Addams Family
Black Adder
Cosmos
Coupling
Eerie, Indiana
Father Ted
From The Earth To The Moon
Get Smart
The Little Rascals
Lost In Space
Max Headroom
McHale’s Navy
Monty Python’s Flying Circus
The Outer Limits
Pee Wee’s Playhouse
The Prisoner
Red Dwarf
The Storyteller
Space: 1999
Stingray
Thunderbirds
Twin Peaks
U.F.O.
The Young Ones
The Young Riders
And the second season of The Monkees
Complete:
Bliss
Boomtown
Bubblegum Crisis (I think this was an OVA, actually)
Buffalo Bill
Clerks: The Animated Series
Dark Angel
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Family Dog (laserdisc)
Firefly
How I Met Your Mother
The L Word
Mutant X
Nip/Tuck
Police Squad!
Robotech
The Secrets of Isis
Significant Others
South of Nowhere (Amazon DVD-on-demand)
Spawn (First two seasons on laserdisc, third on DVD)
Tabitha
Tenchi Muyo! Ryo-Ohki (laserdisc, OVA series)
Tenchi Universe (laserdisc)
Tenchi in Tokyo (laserdisc)
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Blu Ray)
This Is America, Charlie Brown (miniseries)
Twin Peaks (laserdisc)
Unscripted
Voltron
The Weird Al Show
Partial series, but I own everything that’s been released:
Exosquad (Season two was canceled due to poor sales of season one)
Hex (I could complete this series by importing the PAL sets, I guess)
Peanuts TV specials/The Charlie Brown and Snoopy Show (releases slowly continue from Warner Bros.)
Robotech (laserdiscs, this format never got to New Generation episodes)
Partials:
The Awful Truth
Lexx
The Simpsons
Penn & Teller’s Bullshit!
Buffy
Angel
Firefly
Jeeves & Wooster
Chef!
The Young Ones
Father Ted
Twin Peaks
Homicide
Due South
Twitch City
Northern Exposure
Max Headroom
Adventures of Brisco County, Jr
Sherlock (BBC) BluRay of Series 2 just arrived!
Netflix streaming has satisfied many of my needs. Except for the More Obscure, or Bargain Sets. But I’ve been watching Dollhouse on my Netflix-Free TV–hey, I’d forgotten about commentaries; might need to buy season 2. When will they release more Animaniacs?
Inherited Blackadder on VHS from Mom…
Six Feet Under - For some reason which I don’t understand, I really enjoyed watching SFU whenever it played live on TV. I watched it several times.
BUT! — Once I had recorded all the episodes to DVD, I could just never bring myself to watch them ever again. I could never understand the reason for that.
But once I realized what was happening, the same thing became true for almost every other TV series I had recorded. And it remains true to this day.
Does anyone have any idea why this is?
It is also true for many other series that I have recorded.
Once I got it into my mind to get the stuff and record it onto DVD, I felt very compelled to git 'em and record 'em. But just as soon as I had recorded 'em, I just never felt like watching them agin.
The one exception is Big Bang Theory. I can watch those episodes over and over again no matter how many times I have seen 'em.
Here are all the series that I have recorded but just never can seem to want to watch them again.
COMEDY
Family Guy
Larry Sanders
Sports Night
Two And A Half Men
The Dick Van Dyke Show
The Larry Sanders Show
The Office
Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
Veep
Weeds
DRAMA
Boardwalk Empire
Mad Men
Sopranos
SCI-FI
Eureka
Game Of Thrones
True Blood
Twilight Zone (from 1959)
DOCUMENTARIES
BBC Documentary On Stupidity
BIG BIGGER BIGGEST - Aircraft Carriers, Airports, Sky Scrapers, Trains, What The Bleep Do We Know
Is this some basic facet of Human Nature? Like for instance, …
“Getting something is more fun than Having it?”
Could this be a universal truth? And, if so, could it apply in this case? It certainly seems to be true for me.