I am – Hercules!!

Starting Tuesday, July 26, Best Buy is offering its “exclusive” four-disc version of “Battlestar Galactica’s” first season for $48.95.

But. If you can hold off another two months, other retailers will make available on Sept. 20 what’s said to be a better, less-expensive season-one “Galactica” set, one that contains not only the first regular season but also the entire 2003 miniseries and commentaries by series creator Ron Moore on the miniseries and nine of the first season’s 13 hours. The five-disc Sept. 20 version is said to contain also deleted scenes, behind-the-scenes material, sketches, art and other extras. Amazon.com has the Sept. 20 version of “Galactica” available for pre-order now at only $41.99 per copy.

Seventeen perfect half-hour episodes from the last year of the 20th century. Errol Morris – the genius documentarian behind the features “Gates of Heaven,” “The Thin Blue Line,” “Mr. Death,” “Fast, Cheap & Out of Control,” “A Brief History of Time” and “The Fog of War” - turns on his “Interrotron” and creates again fascinating filmed entertainment. Have a gander at who Morris interviews and see if you can resist Errol Morris' First Person: The Complete Series.

Until John Cleese pretty much trumped all other sitcoms with “Fawlty Towers” in 1975, The Mary Tyler Moore Show was probably the best and funniest sitcom ever engineered. Ted Baxter’s increasingly transparent insecurity was the reason to tune in each week, but there was also something wonderfully sick about subjecting perky, sheltered Laura Petr … er, Mary Richards to a hard-drinking, seen-it-all veteran newsman and war vet like Lou Grant. In season two, Lou babysits young Bess Lindstrom. We learn that Ted’s brother is a horny professional model. Mary dates both her journalism instructor and a handsome architect old enough to be her dad. Ted dates Chuckles’ daughter. Lou hires Rhoda Morgenstern to redecorate. Mary hires a “feeb.”

In a Hugo-winning episode of Star Trek: Enterprise 2.x we learn that, more than a century before Cochran discovered warp drive, Vulcans lived among humans in Carbon Creek, Pa., in 1957. Also? A transporter accident traps Hoshi in her skimpy workout outfit. Trip takes a liking to a member of a species with three genders. Some time-lost frozen Borg thaw out in the Arctic. Season two starts with Daniels and Archer trapped in the future and ends with the Xindi carving up Trip’s sister with death rays.

Highly, highly recommended sets from the first half of 2005:

* The Andy Griffith Show: Season Two
* Angel: Season Five
* The Bob Newhart Show: Season One
* Cheers: Season Five
* Columbo: Season Two
* Gilmore Girls: Season Three
* Miracles: The Complete Series
* Moonlighting: Seasons One and Two
* Murder One: Season One
* Newsradio: Seasons One and Two
* Northern Exposure: Season Three
* Seinfeld: Season Four
* The Sopranos: Season Five
* South Park: Season Five
* The Twilight Zone: Season Three
* Wonderfalls: The Complete Series

TV on DVD:

Last Week
All Creatures Great & Small 5.x

Andromeda 4.x

Cleopatra 2525 1.x
Dead Like Me 2.x
Def Poetry 3.x
Dora The Explorer: Super-Babies
Earth 2: The Complete Series
Laguna Beach 1.x

Lost in Space 3.x Vol. 2
Michael Palin: Himalaya
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 1
A Pup Named Scooby-Doo, Vol. 2
Saved by the Bell 5.x

Sliders 3.x
WildCATS: The Complete Series

July 26
All Grown Up: Dude, Where's My Horse?

At Last the 1948 Show
America's Funniest Home Videos, Vol. 1
Benny Hill: Early Years Set 3
Beulah Land
The Blue and the Gray
The Brady Bunch 2.x
Cold Feet 3.x
Dark Shadows Vol. 19

Do Not Adjust Your Set
Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman 6.x
Errol Morris' First Person: The Complete Series
Gilligan's Island 3.x
The Mary Tyler Moore Show 2.x
Mike Hammer: The Complete Series
Remington Steele 1.x
Rumpole of the Bailey: Seasons 5.x/6.x/7.x
Silk Stalkings 3.x
Star Trek: Enterprise 2.x
3rd Rock From the Sun 1.x
The Wind in the Willows 2.x
Xena: 10th Anniversary Collection

August 2
Arthur's First Crush
Austin Stevens, Snakemaster: Vol. 1
Berenstein Bears: Vol. 5
Blue's Room: Alphabet Power
Candid Camera: 5 Decades of Smiles
The Cosby Show 1.x
The Dick Cavett Show: Ray Charles
Dragon Tales: Sing and Dance in Dragon
The Dukes of Hazzard 4.x
The First World War: Complete Series
Hearts Afire 1.x
Jeff Corwin: Out on a Limb
Over There: Pilot
Sid & Marty Krofft: Pilots
Wubbulous World of Dr. Seuss: Gink Cat
The X-Files: Black Oil

August 9
Cartoon Network: Grossest Halloween 2
Columbo 3.x
Dallas 3.x
Farscape: Starburst Edition Vol. 5

The Greatest American Hero 3.x
McCloud 1/2.x
McMillan & Wife 1.x
The Muppet Show 1.x
Profit 1.x

Roswell 3.x
Thundercats 1.x Vol. 1
T.J. Hooker 1.x/2.x
What's New Scooby Doo, Vol. 6

August 16
'Allo 'Allo 3.x
The Andy Griffith Show 3.x
The Dick Cavett Show: Rock Icons
I Love Lucy 5.x
Little Britain 1.x
The Office 1.x (NBC Version)
Phil of the Future - Gadgets & Gizmos
Saved By the Bell: New Class 4.x
The Simpsons 6.x
That's So Raven, Vol. 2

Undeclared 1.x
Will & Grace 4.x

August 23
ABC Afterschool Specials: 13 Discs
Adam-12 1.x
ALF 2.x

Bliss 1.x <--- NEW!!
Boy Meets World 3.x
Britney & Kevin: Chaotic
Codename: Kids Next Door, File Two
Cyberchase: Ecohaven Cse
Emergency! 1.x
1st & 10 1.x
1st & 10 2.x
Good Times 5.x
Kung Fu 3.x
Life As We Know It 1.x

The OC 2.x
Once and Again 1.x
Once and Again 2.x

Six Feet Under 4.x
That's My Mama 1.x
That's My Mama 2.x
Twice in a Lifetime Vol. 1 / Vol. 2
What's Happening!! 3.x

August 30
As Time Goes By 8.x / 9.x
As Time Goes By: Complete Series
Chef 1/2/3.x
Clifford: Doggie Detectives
Combat 5.x Invasion One
Combat 5.x Invasion Two

Curb Your Enthusiasm 4.x
Fairly Oddparents: Scary Godparents
Garfield Vol. 4
Highway to Heaven 2.x
House 1.x
HR Pufnstuf: Four Favorites <--- NEW!!
Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge
Land of the Lost: 'Stak Attack <--- NEW!!
Married With Children 4.x
The Mind of the Married Man 1.x
My Favorite Martian: Time Travelers <--- NEW!!
My Little Pony: The Movie
Nip/Tuck 2.x
Petticoat Junction: Ultimate Collection
Ripping Yarns: The Complete Series
Roseanne 1.x
The Saint 1.x
Strawberry Shortcake: Moonlight Mystery

September 6
Buffalo Bill: The Complete Series
Charmed 2.x

Degrassi Junior High 3.x
Doctor Who: The Horror of Fang Rock
Doctor Who: The Mind Robber
Doogie Howser M.D. 2.x
Fat Albert Halloween Special
Fraggle Rock 1.x
Fraggle Rock Vol. 4
Goosebumps: Chillogy