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I just finished my latest revisit of The Prisoner (A&E Blu-ray)--it's still in my top 5 TV shows of all time! This morning, I started watching Hammer House of Horror (Network Blu-ray) again--such delightfully creepy, bewitching tales! I wish I had the OOP Via Vision set that has a lot...

Via Vision in Australia released Rawhide S1 on Blu-ray (and it’s region free!) late last month. https://viavision.com.au/shop/rawhide-the-complete-first-season-blu-ray/

I was going to continue with The Magician this morning, but my partner woke up early and she does not share my fondness for classic ‘60s/‘70s TV shows. (She prefers Married at First Sight or docu-series on cults. 😉) She graciously allowed me to watch the ‘80s Mission: Impossible pilot, the...

Growing up in the ‘80s, I watched reruns of all the ‘60s spy classics except for Mission, which didn’t air where I lived in Western Canada at the time. My first exposure was the 1988-1990 TV sequel, which I enjoyed greatly (and still revisit via its own DVD releases), but once I saw the classic...

All during the week, I watched one episode of Mission: Impossible a night from my Complete Series DVD set. I love all the ‘60s spy shows and MI is one of the best of them (at least the first three seasons). It compelled me to pull out my old Mission: Impossible: The Complete Dossier book. I’m...

I’ve been watching some episodes of Kolchak: The Night Stalker and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century from the respective Kino Blu-ray releases and these shows have never looked better! Yesterday, I pulled out a disc from the complete Columbo DVD set to watch “Fade In to Murder”, with William...

Recently, I finished a couple of Space: 1999 retrospective books, so of course I pulled out my S1 A&E Blu-ray set and watched some episodes. (I have the S2 Network Region B set, but I'd have to hook up my region-free player and I'm too lazy at the moment. ;)) I revisited some of my old...

Last night, I convinced my partner to let me watch an episode of The Outer Limits, so I played “Fun and Games”, which I realized I hadn’t watched since buying Kino’s fabulous Season 1 Blu-ray set! It’s quite the feat to get her to put her phone down, but a quarter of the way through the episode...

Last night, inspired by the Blu-ray announcement, I watched The Incredible Hulk telefilm/pilot (and "Death in the Family", after I struggled with insomnia) from the S1 DVD. As a child, I loved watching the series with my mom, despite not having read the comics (I was a DC kid, so I knew nothing...

My Maverick S1-2 sets arrived arrived early, just in time for the weekend! I’ve sampled from both sets, starting with the pilot, “War of the Silver Kings”, which does a great job of establishing Bret Maverick’s wit, quick thinking, and out-conning unscrupulous characters like Phineas King. I...

I'm embarrassed to admit that I've been watching early episodes of Murder, She Wrote via Amazon Prime--I find its formula very soothing, despite never having watched it before (it was a favourite of one of my grandmas, so I avoided it). I love that the show seemed to cast a lot of Old Hollywood...

A Year Two supporter! A rare sighting! :P Seriously, I do enjoy many elements of S2 and I'm glad to have it on Blu-ray. As much as I love S1, its coldness and lack of character development resulted in reduced viewership in the USA (it was particularly popular in Canada, but that's because the...

I'm continuing my revisit of Space: 1999 Season 2, but I keep falling asleep lol. The AV quality on Network's Region B Blu-ray is astounding, but the actual episodes are very disappointing, quality-wise. I remember "Space Warp" as the second half of the Cosmic Princess compilation movie from my...

While waiting for several British TV Blu-rays to arrive, I'm having a blast revisiting Gerry Anderson's UFO and Space: 1999 on Blu-ray--the AV presentations of both shows are spectacular in HD and are superior to the episodes streaming currently on Amazon Prime. I watched Space: 1999's "The...

I'm catching up on the various Star Trek series, so recently I decided to watch Star Trek: Enterprise's "Xindi" storyline of Season 3. While there are the inevitable clunkers associated with producing 26 episodes a season, I really enjoyed this season-long arc. Scott Bakula never felt like a...

I've ignored cable in favour of revisiting some 70s classics: a smattering of HARRY O (the two telefilms and some S1 episodes), THE ROCKFORD FILES on Blu-ray, and QUINCY M.E. S3. The latter was so good, I finally ordered S4 and S5 (the latter is fetching exorbitant proces from third-party Amazon...

Thank you for the kind words. My partner’s dad was only diagnosed 3 weeks ago, so it’s shocking to us. It’s such an aggressive cancer—I’m sorry you had to experience it with the loss of your brother. I hadn’t seen WKRP since the 80s (I watched the first few episodes of the New WKRP in the 90s...

Dealing with the pandemic and a recent family loss because of pancreatic cancer prompted me to revisit all 4 seasons of WKRP. I forgot how comforting its characters and plots were—no weak characters in the bunch! I’m still impressed with Shout! Factory’s feat in licensing the majority of the...

I watched some S1 episodes of Star Trek from the Roddenberry Vault Blu-ray set--listening to Dorothy Fontana's commentary for "This Side of Paradise" was bittersweet, but I'm glad it exists. I've been resisting the urge to watch TNG episodes like "Measure of a Man" before episode 2 of Picard...