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Reba - Seasons 1-5

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The Riches - Season 1

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Total reviews: 27 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Great Show 5 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

Excellent. However, a word of warning. Causes family fights when one person watches an episode without waiting for others. You must restart the dvd often as family members enter the room in mid-episode.

Minnie Driver heads a great cast 5 out of 5 stars.
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The Riches was a surprisingly great show with a different spin on family drama. Izzard and Driver are great as the con artist parents of the soapy dysfunctional family whose lives they take over.

Minnie Driver is awesome as Dahlia.

The best show I have ever seen. 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love the Riches. I was in love with Eddie Izzard and his stand-up already when I found out about the Riches. I bought the Season 1 box set and watched it, no joke, from start to finish with hardly a pause for meal and toilet breaks. Yeah, the DVDs are over ten hours in total... It's that good. Since I bought it, I have watched the whole season again TWICE through. I LOVE THE RICHES!!

The special features on the DVDs are great. There is a gag reel (always my favorite) and two episodes (the pilot and finale) have commentaries. I would have, of course, liked more special features - more commentary, more behind-the-scenes, but that's just because I love Eddie so much that I always want more.

My only complaint about the DVDs is that there is no "Play All" for the episodes, of which there are 2-4 per DVD (4 discs in total). You have to select each episode and then "Play". All in all, it's not really a problem. Queer as Folk does the same... meh.

Anyway, buy this set, watch it, watch it again, and write to Fox asking for them to bring back a third season!!!!! It's not officially cancelled yet, so don't give up!

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Studio: Tcfhe Release Date: 09/30/2008 Run time: 616 minutes Rating: Nr

Reno 911 - The Complete Third Season (Uncensored)

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Total reviews: 20 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

"I'm a TURTLE now! I am USELESS!" 5 out of 5 stars.
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The 7th episode of the season features a series-best performance from Cedric Yarborough as Jones, who gains instant fame as the voice-over talent for High Sierra Carpets. The series is based on characters who have varying degrees of insanity and instability (but for the most part let those traits bubble just below the surface). In this episode, however, Yarborough gives an unrestrained, over-the-top tour de force performance. Deputy Jones proves that the higher they climb, the harder they fall, and the episode is laugh-out-loud hilarious. The fun doesn't stop there...the season starts with the entire cast in jail (picking up from season 2), moves toward their inevitable showdown with former D.A. (and part-time serial killer) Mike Powers, and much, much more. The eleventh episode...with the officers performing security duty on the set of "CSI"...features some of their best extended improv to date. The scene with Dangle and Junior guarding "M. Helgenberger's" trailer just keeps getting crazier and crazier. Apparently he REALLY wanted that towel! This is ensemble comedy at its finest.

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Buckle up for another ride with the officers of Reno Nevada’s Sheriff’s Department in this third season DVD of the hit Comedy Central Series. From a stint in prison to an accidental cat killing to close encounters of the S.A.R.S. kind, you can expect nothing but foolish choices and utter mediocrity from these hapless law enforcers!

The Rockford Files - Season Four

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Total reviews: 27 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Time travel 5 out of 5 stars.
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Love them, watched them as a kid on tv. Coffee was 10 cents a cup in one episode and Jim asked for 3 dollars in gas at the gas station in another. Those were the days !!

Tracing Sopranos Roots 3 out of 5 stars.
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I don't want to rain on anyone's parade by giving the series only 3 stars. I can see why people like it so much. My interest was to see early work of David Chase, creator of the immortal series The Sopranos. Chase produced and wrote several of the Season 4 episodes. Who knew such genius lurked behind this hokey series.

My favorite episode is the one involving the hippie chick who follows various New Age gurus. At one point Rockford delivers a stirring lecture about having your own thoughts instead of blindly following opinion makers. It's certainly relevant for today.

My enjoyment was hindered by annoyances. Annoying characters: the dad and Angel. I cringed at the mere sight of Angel. He's just not funny, although I can see why people would think he's hilarious. In matters of taste there is no dispute.

The cloying, irritating, grandiose musical score.

The ridiculous concept. Rockford lives in a dilapidated trailer that is about to fall apart. The outside is filthy. The paint has worn away. Yet, he is allowed to park the trailer in the lot of a trendy beachfront bar & grill in a neighborhood that's described as upscale. No patrons or neighbors complained?

The trailer is the source of all sorts of nuisance activity (hoodlums stalking Rockford, shootouts and so on). In one episode a guy jumps off the roof of the trailer, drawing paramedics, cops, and ambulance chasers. And yet Rockford's still welcome.

At one point we learn that Rockford still owes money on the eyesore. He's had to refinance it. It's not even worth what it could fetch for salvage! The restaurant probably doesn't charge rent, so what's the problem?

The gold Firebird: The car is involved in all kinds of fender-benders and smashups yet it's always in pristine condition.

You see Rockford, an old man, sprinting after and tackling guys half his age.

You can accept these shortcomings if you're a fan of the show. They could be what make it so entertaining. If you think about it, that dopey trailer is kind of funny.

Rockford is perfect for late-night television when every channel has an infomercial, something to get you through a bout of insomnia. I watched two or three of the disks and decided to end the nice little nostalgia tour.

Being that David Chase worked on Rockford, the episodes are a worthwhile artifact of television history.

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Open an exciting new file from one of the most celebrated TV detective shows as all 21 Season four episodes of The Rockford Files come to DVD! James Garner returns in his Primetime Emmy Award-winning role as Jim Rockford, the wisecracking ex-con-turned-private investigator who solves the biggest crimes in Los Angeles from his no-frills mobile home in Malibu. From identity theft to death threats, Rockford uses his experience behind bars to get an inside edge on crooks even the police can't find. Along for the ride this season are such celebrated guest stars as Robert Loggia, Larry Hagman, Rita Moreno and more. Also included is a bonus episode from Season Five, starring Tom Selleck in a role that ultimately became the foundation for the hit TV show Magnum P.I.

Roseanne - Season Eight

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Total reviews: 26 Average rating: 4.0 of 5

A transfer as sloppy as the scripts 3 out of 5 stars.
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This is a show in decline and although fans will find something to enjoy in this patchy season (especially after paying for a copy), the poor quality transfer to disc almost symbolises the shoddy workmanship behind the show as it begins to fade. Its almost as if the half-hearted production values were channelled by the technicians making the DVD a decade later.

ROSEANNE DVD 8TH SEASON 5 out of 5 stars.
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What can you say about Roseanne. Either you love her or you hate her!!!
The DVD was great. Very pleased with transaction and delivery time.

Total Roseanne Fan 5 out of 5 stars.
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I am a total Roseanne fan and I love EVERY season of this series. She totally cracks me up as she shows America as it really is in most families. Enjoy Roseanne, Good non-violent comedy!!

Just Two Actresses Playing A Role 5 out of 5 stars.
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It's been over a year now since I purchased the 8th season of my all-time
favorite show and I'm still heartsick that the hilarious "Patty Duke
Show" parody between the duelling Beckies wasn't included. Okay, I understand that it's all a matter of securing musical rights, but I wonder if there is a bootleg circuit out there for those of us who would at least like to get a single DVD copy of what we thought we were going to get in the first place? I can live with some of the other omissions, but I NEED that "Patty Duke" pastiche. A little help please!

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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 08/07/2007 Run time: 575 minutes Rating: Nr

Rawhide: Season Three, Vol. 1

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Total reviews: 10 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

Good choice made by CBS/Paramount 5 out of 5 stars.
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If you like this series, you'll love this. it's great to be able to watch the episodes with no commercials. The video quality is excellent and the packaging is also great. I have all the previous seasons and can hardly wait until CBS/Paramount releases Volume Two of the third season, due soon I believe. The package contains 4 discs of 15 episodes, very worthwhile in my view, for the price. Clint Eastwood is interesting to watch in this series, given his now star status. It is unfortunate that Eric Fleming was drowned in a water filming accident. I would have liked to seen more of him.

Rawhide: Season Three Vol I 5 out of 5 stars.
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I'm a big fan of Rawhide, and have all the DVDs released, so far. Don't like the splitting up of the season into volumes. Just put the entire season in one package, as it belongs.

rawhide season 3 volume 1 5 out of 5 stars.
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I love Rawhide. I was thrilled to learn that I could purchase the dvds from amazon. The delivery was prompt and the dvds were in excellent condition. I'm looking forward to purchasing Rawhide season 3 volume 2.

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The tale of Gil Favor, trail boss, and Rowdy Yates, his assistant, as they drive cattle across the old West. Along the way they meet up with adventure and drama.

Roseanne: The Complete Ninth Season

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Total reviews: 32 Average rating: 3.5 of 5

What a mess! 1 out of 5 stars.
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So disappointed in the final season of Roseanne. The normalcy and everyday life element was lost to explore fantasy in the head of Roseanne Barr. The only highlight was the explanation given in the final episode that was sad a realistic in its attempt to show how Roseanne Conner was dealing with her grief through her imaginative writing. This to me was not an ending but a beginning for Roseanne Conner and her family and salvaged the last season for me in the midst of the ballyhoo of horrible writing and proposterous situations.

Roseanne: The Complete Ninth Season 5 out of 5 stars.
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The DVD set was great. I enjoyed it very much. It got here in record time. I now have all the episodes and will enjoy them over and over.
Thank you,
K. Rigsby

Roseanne Complete Seasons 5 out of 5 stars.
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I have now purchased all the seasons of Roseanne & am very pleased with the dvds and my buying experience with Amazon.com! Angie E

Variable, raunchy, but worthy. Get it for at least the finale, if nothing else. 4 out of 5 stars.
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From here on there are spoilers, but most of us have seen the show already... wait, this is the start of my review? Oh well. Bees are black and yellow too.

I was surprised this show was renewed for a 9th season, as Dan's heart attack not only ended the 8th season, but the show being about the Conner family.

Season 9 starts with Jackie and Roseanne winning the lottery. This allows for new subplots to be explored (rich vs working class, et al).


The finale is also a shocker - it's not a dream, JR doesn't come back alive (neither does Dan), and it's essentially said that Roseanne's story (everything from when her family gave her the basement as a writer's study in season 2 onward) was the book she was writing; and the fates of the characters given unexpected shake-ups. Roseanne gets real credit for having dared to experiment, though at this point the show wasn't about the Conner family anymore. It couldn't. Dan wasn't around half the time...

And because he wasn't, other characters took his place. More time was spent on Leon, Mark, David, Darlene, et al...

The holiday episodes are also high marks for creativity, if not being unorthodox -- the Halloween episode features the cast of the BBC sitcom "Absolutely Fabulous". This is not, nor can it be, a typical Roseanne Halloween. And it does a good job at being wacky, but it's crude. "Satan, Darling" is the name of that episode.

"Pampered to a Pulp" is another crude but terrific entry, as Roseanne and Jackie go to a spa and get a treatment they were not expecting...

"Home is Where the Afghan Is" is the Thanksgiving episode that features another shake-up or two. It's different with Dan being gone, but it features some great character moments with Roseanne's mom... and a particularly welcoming ending that reminds us the show still thinks of its roots while moving forward...

I also found "Hoi Polloi Meets Hoiti Toiti" amusing; Roseanne and her extended family go and meet this rich snobby family. Some of the one-liners and gags are hilarious, especially the ones pertaining to dinner time and how often clothes get changed...

"The Truth Be Told" is a semi-parallel to Roseanne (the actress) and her rise to fame. At this point it's clear that a lot of the season has a lit of tidbits revolving around Roseanne (the actress)'s personal life, but most comedy stems from real life at one point or another anyway.

"Into That Good Night" is the finale, of course. Already mentioned, if nothing else get the DVD set for this one.

DVD quality is on par. 6~7 episodes per disc is a nicety too.

There's a lot of flak in this season, partly due to the cast being shaken up (actors leaving, reduced roles, altered motivations), but the finale explains all that away.

True, this show is no longer about the Conners, and the heyday is long over with, but there IS something of value in this final season.

Oddly enough, I'm glad I bought it. And the only reason I did was because Roseanne has said some things over the last year that really perked me up - so buying the disc ensures she'll get some residuals. The fact some of these episodes aren't utterly stupid is a bonus. And, yeah, some episodes are worth forgetting... but you'll have to watch and decide for yourself. ;)

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Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: 10/16/2007 Run time: 552 minutes

The Red Green Show - 1997 Season

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Total reviews: 16 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

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Seven years into its 15-year run, The Red Green Show was just hitting its stride, or was that the fan? Anyway, this complete season of the public television comedy hit features some of the show’s greatest moments. It was the year Red made the double-wide limo in Handyman Corner and the year the Repair Shop opened with its motto: "If it ain’t broke, you’re not trying." It was also the year the lodge members first uttered their solemn prayer: "I’m a man, but I can change if I have to, I guess."

Join Red, Harold, and all the guys at Possum Lodge for a year’s worth of doing what men do when women aren’t around—and some things that are even worse. "The funniest thing to hit public television since Monty Python’s Flying Circus"—The Milwaukee Journal.

The Episodes:
Running of the Bulls—The guys at Possum Lodge stage a wild race.
Swiss It Up—Red and Harold sell the show to Switzerland.
The Implosion—A fundraiser for the Historical Society goes awry.
Adopt-a-Highway—Possum Lodge adopts a challenging stretch of highway.
The Strange Ranger—Ranger Gord goes missing from his tower.
Big Guy, Little Guy—Red joins a Big Brothers club just for the soapbox derby.
The Movie—Red and Harold make a feature film on Super 8 MOS.
Expropriation—Red speculates in real estate after a new highway is announced.
The Stool Pigeons—Harold creates an informer’s club to snitch on criminals.
Celebrity—Werner Klemperer buys a cottage in the Possum Lake area.
Let Me Count the Ways—The men fix up their cabins for their wives’ visit to the lake.
Pardi Gras—Possum Lodge inherits 137 tubas and the guys decide to have a parade.
The Splinter Lodge—Some of the men rebel against Red’s leadership.
The Good Old Hockey Game—The men argue for hockey and against curling.
Step Outside—Red encourages Harold to stand up and fight for himself.
The Town Mall—Using the sewers, the men turn downtown into a mall.
The Winter Carnival—The men stage a carnival to entertain their wives.

Roseanne - Season 7

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loved it! 5 out of 5 stars.
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i have ordered things off the computer before and it took forever to get it, so i was excepting the same. I was very happy when it came before it was even suppose to, i will definately order from you again!

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Perhaps more than any other time in its remarkable history, this is the season in which ROSEANNE pushed the sitcom envelope like never before. It was the unforgettable year that began with Roseanne’s unexpected pregnancy and went on to tackle such issues as abortion, alcoholism, drug abuse, sexual dysfunction and racial prejudice. There’s also erotic dreams, nude neighbors, scandalous secrets, both Beckys, a gay Halloween, a turkey of a Thanksgiving, the Sitcom Moms’ Welcome Wagon, and the Conner’s all-time classic visit to Gilligan’s Island. Relive all 25 uncut episodes from this landmark season that was nominated for four Emmy Awards® and featured such guest stars as Sharon Stone, Ellen DeGeneres, Shelley Winters, Estelle Parsons, Danny Masterson, Traci Lords, Joseph Gordon- Levitt, Martin Mull, Sandra Bernhard, Michael O’Keefe and many more.

Roseanne - The Complete Sixth Season

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And the best sitcom in TV history is.... 5 out of 5 stars.
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Ahh Roseanne, quite easily the greatest sitcom in TV history (sorry Seinfeld [overrated and repetitive] and move over MASH). For a great many Americans, Roseanne was the ONLY sitcom depicting house life that even remotely approached ringing true. My wife and I are both such big fans that we periodically watch the show from beginning to end (yes, all the episodes), something made easy by the fact that we never watch TV, only DVDs (greater freedom, no commercials). As I do in many of my reviews I will try to offer a few observations that other reviews haven't already made.

The show was serendipitously blessed by its cast, the best any sitcom has ever enjoyed. The comic timing between Roseanne and John Goodman was not only flawless, but their chemistry rang so true that they really did seem like they were married. The show was lucky to cast both Goodman and Metcalf, two actors whose performances really raised the entire show up another level.

The show starts off wonderfully, portraying a blue-collar family that not only seems real, but is real funny (and that says a lot--most sitcoms are not actually all that funny, and, believe it or not, studies show that people are not actually laughing at the jokes [which suck] but because they hear the sound of other people laughing). This in-and-of-itself had a lot to do with the show's immediate appeal: finally here was a family most Americans could actually relate to. Forget the Cosby family (the No. 1 show at the time).

Though the scenes at the plastic factory are pretty flat (which Roseanne was aware of--she joked that the set was built over a burial ground and cursed), the rest of season one is dynamite. In season two the show peters out with a few episodes that are actually quite boring and stupid. Many people say the show got worse in later seasons, I actually think (excepting the last season) that some of season two's episodes are the worst the show ever saw. In fact, in my opinion, the season two episode Sweet Dreams is the worst episode in the entire show's run. Other than this it's still excellent. Seasons three, four, and five are all great, maintaining the show's high standard. At times more episodes focus on incidences outside the Conner residence, which to me is unfortunate as the shows staying inside the house (especially the kitchen) and focusing on the whole family together are the ones that really shine. Thus, when a season focused too much on Roseanne at work (such as endlessly boring scenes of Roseanne at the beauty salon or in the mall's café) it really detracted from the humor.

With season six Sarah Chalke was devastatingly miscast as Becky. It really didn't matter that she didn't at all look like Lecy Goranson, the problem was that the performance she turned in was of an entirely different character (and it was quite a bad performance at that). Sure, other characters changed as the show progressed, but this was ridiculous. Roseanne, for instance, becomes more sarcastic and bitchy as the show progresses, but as my wife pointed out to me, if you revisit season one you'll see that she didn't at all start out that way (in fact she was quite the loving mother at first). And yes, her appearance constantly changed as she lost weight, tanned and had surgeries. Jackie's character changes too, dramatically, as many others have noted here. Many here say that season seven or eight is the beginning of the end of the show. I however think that the beginning of the end was Roseanne's real-life marriage to show producer Tom Arnold. After that fiasco, if I recall, Roseanne went kind of nuts in real life, becoming all new agey and crap, and it started to show in the show. Though the show's very last episode tried to bring things home a little bit, the debacle that was season nine needs a lot of explaining. How did they EVER think that having the Conners win the lottery was in ANY WAY a good idea? Was Roseanne trying to give a comic blue-collar commentary on the wealthy? I don't know, but that simply didn't work.

Some trivia and observations (and feel free to discuss some of this by leaving comments, and by all means, explain the reasoning behind season nine): Lanford Illinois does not really exist. The footage is from Evansville Indiana. Most if not all of Dan's comic mannerisms John Goodman seems to have borrowed from Curly (The Three Stooges), which he justified by making the character of Dan a big fan. When the Conners are watching TV, from the sound of it they are usually watching old movies, especially old B horror movies, sci fi and westerns. The coffee table is almost always covered with comic books. Season one disappointingly does not have a Halloween episode, but Nightmare on Oak Street kind of counts, starting off with a great Halloween feel to it. There are, throughout the first three or four seasons, a great many references to corn and creamed corn (can somebody please explain the significance of this in-joke?) In the pilot Dan tries to make a giant can of corn for dinner. In other episodes Roseanne is called the corn goddess, we see decorative corn hanging on the wall, Dan jokes that he's afraid that aliens are after their creamed corn, and, in the worst episode in the history of Roseanne, Dan's method of execution is to be boiled in creamed corn.

On a side note, it's amusing that Anchor Bay's disclaimer of the "Roseanne trivia" that laces the inside of every jacket reads that they in no way guarantee the accuracy of the information provided. It's a good thing too, because quite a few of their answers are wrong! Examples: In the fourth Halloween episode Roseanne does not dress up as "the goddess of gore," but as the Statue of Liberty. It's not Roseanne who refuses to serve Loretta Lynn, but Darlene.

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Welcome to one of the best-loved – and most daring – seasons in ROSEANNE history. It was the year in which Roseanne finds a surprising stash, Dan (John Goodman) re-connects with an old flame, Jackie (Laurie Metcalf) becomes pregnant, Darlene (Sarah Gilbert) leaves for college, Becky (Sarah Chalke) returns home, and DJ (Michael Fishman) sneaks off to church. There’s the series’ shocking lesbian kiss, a Halloween to remember, a Thanksgiving the Conners wish they could forget, the fan favorite "White Trash Christmas", and much more in these 25 classic and uncut episodes nominated for 5 Emmy® Awards. Glenn Quinn, Johnny Galecki, Michael O’Keefe, Estelle Parsons, Sandra Bernhard and Martin Mull co-star in this top-rated season featuring performances by Mariel Hemingway, Vicki Lawrence, Shelley Winters, Ned Beatty, Florence Henderson, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ahmet Zappa and even Fabio!

DVD Features:THE COMPLETE SIXTH SEASON All 25 Original UNCUT Episodes From Season 6