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UPDATE!! All Seven Seasons Of BUFFY Just Fell To $19.97!!X-FILES Under $25!! H-Vault!!
HOLY SHIT!! On closer inspection, I see that Fox actually just reduced a bunch of its Sci-Fi titles to 50-percent off, including every season of “X-Files” to just $24.97!! Lowest price for "X-Files" probably ever!! Check out all of them here!!
Back to the original post!
Entourage: The Complete Second Season was the season Vincent Chase was chasing the title role in Jim Cameron’s “@qu@m@n.”
Harry Knowles tells me one of the “Entourage” producers once phoned to tell him the Rainn Wilson character in the ComicCon episode, the one who threatened to deride DC’s newest big-screen franchise as “Aquafag,” was not based on Harry. So I guess it was based on the Internet critic over at JoBlo.com. Because that was the guy the newspapers and books and magazines are always crediting for crippling “Batman & Robin’s” opening weekend.
I judged the adventures of E, Ari, Vince, Turtle and Johnny Drama highly entertaining from episode one, but there were few kind words in talkback for the show when HBO premiered it July 18, 2004. Just for fun, let’s go back and revisit some appraisals!
“Jeremy Piven. Am I supposed to be thrilled to see him on TV again? He's not a good actor - he's NEVER funny and the only reason he has a career is because of John Cusack.” – “Peter Venkman”
“the worst ever. That could have been the worst show I have ever seen” – “callmesnake”
“Man was that terrible. It had to be one of the worst shows I had ever seen on cable television.” – “Steal_Dragon”
“entoura—zzzzzzeee. what a lame excuse for a show.” – “Dr Farragammo”
I guess it got better!
The Time Tunnel Vol. 2 contains not only the 1967 final half of the series' first and only season, it contains two failed efforts to revive the series:
1) There’s Irwin Allen’s 1976 TV-movie “Time Travelers” starring Sam Groom, which dealt with a 1976 scientist trying to find a cure lost in the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.
2) The set also contains Fox’s never-aired two-hour 2002 “Time Tunnel” pilot starring David Conrad (“Miss Match,” “The Ghost Whisperer”) and Andrea Roth (“Rescue Me”).
It’s interesting to note that neither of the two revival attempts would have employed the “lost in time” element featured in the original series.
If you’ve got to own half of the original 30-episode “Time Tunnel,” the weirder and less formulaic second half – which contains three of the four episodes set in the future - is almost certainly the way to go. In episode 24, the protagonists have to chase an evil tunnel technician to 1,000,000 A.D., where they tangle with force fields employed by the era’s ruling class. In episode 28, they’re transported to a distant planet in 8,433 A.D. to deal with (and not for the first time) meddling extraterrestrials. And in the series finale, set in 1978, they have to fend off space-androids determined to siphon off Earth’s oxygen. The new set also contains interviews with cast members Robert Colbert, James Darren, Whit Bissel and Lee Meriwether.
The Wild Wild West: The Complete First Season is genius from the Beatles era. Somebody thought to marry the long-entrenched TV Western with the James Bond craze of the early 1960s. Secret service agent Jim West (Robert Conrad) teamed with master-of-disguise Artemis Gordon (Ross Martin) to combat weekly sci-fi madness at the behest of President U.S. Grant. It also employed the best TV theme music this side of “Hawaii Five-O” – which, incredibly, was all but ignored in Barry Sonnenfeld’s vastly inferior big-screen version.
The $34.98 28-episode set is crammed silly with extras, among them: commentary by Robert Conrad (who also provides audio intros), the “lost” original opening and bumpers, pilot promos, blooper, network promos, “a Ross Martin sketch” and an Eveready commercial, plus audio interviews with series writer John Kneubuhl, casting director Ethel Winant, producer Fred Freiberger, special effects supervisor Tim Smyth and composer Richard Markowitz.
Herc’s Popular Pricing Pantry
A few years ago, the seventh season of “The X-Files” cost well north of $100. Last week it was down to $89.99. Today it’s only $34.99 for that season’s slimcase edition, which has all the episodes but apparently lacks some of the (some say overrated) extras found on the old cardboard version.
Many disparage the later episodes with Doggett and Reyes, but I always thought the series benefited from abandoning Spooky’s baggage (all packed with bees and oil) and striking out in less-confusing directions. 8.20, a Chris Carter-penned episode featuring Krycek and a Terminator-like Billy Miles, nabbed four stars on the Herc scale.
TV-on-DVD Calendar
Selected season-sets of Herc’s All-Time Favorite TV Shows on DVD! Behold the comparative value:
(+) = price increased since last week
(-) = price decreased since last week
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Reader Talkback
FIRST!
by Shermdawg | Jun 6th, 2006
02:59:07 AM | What was Carter thinking when
he casted...
by Shermdawg | Jun 6th, 2006
03:03:51 AM | like the weeds DVD cover
by newc0253 | Jun 6th, 2006
03:31:47 AM | acapulco heat
by jinamina | Jun 6th, 2006
03:32:31 AM | ULTIMATE AVENGERS 2: ULTIMATE
POOP
by Shermdawg | Jun 6th, 2006
06:41:14 AM | The X-Files
by Halloween68 | Jun 6th, 2006
07:04:05 AM | Making Talkbackers Eat Their
Own Words?
by Sean38 | Jun 6th, 2006
07:45:56 AM | Everyone
by ChorleyFM | Jun 6th, 2006
07:58:44 AM | Galaxy High!
by Purgatori | Jun 6th, 2006
08:59:10 AM | Godzilla
by KnightEternal | Jun 6th, 2006
09:35:04 AM | To be fair...
by mattw | Jun 6th, 2006
11:03:50 AM | Venture Bros. is the best show
on Adult Swim
by Bean_ | Jun 6th, 2006
11:22:33 AM | x-files
by emeraldboy | Jun 6th, 2006
12:21:27 PM | I forgot my 2nd fave show of
the 90's was the simpsons
by emeraldboy | Jun 6th, 2006
12:22:47 PM | I forgot my 2nd fave show
by emeraldboy | Jun 6th, 2006
12:23:45 PM | F*CK!
Weeds/Entourage/JL/Simpson;
DVD Planet's got me
by R.C. the "Wise" | Jun 6th, 2006
12:24:46 PM | Venure Bros is fucking GENIUS!
by Regenhund | Jun 6th, 2006
01:35:54 PM | aaahahahahaha poseurs/haters
by Freakemovie | Jun 6th, 2006
03:24:33 PM | Godzilla animated series!!
by nofate | Jun 6th, 2006
04:18:55 PM | Charmed cover
by Little Beavis | Jun 6th, 2006
04:46:12 PM | when the hell do we get
doug!?!?!?!!
by McLuvin | Jun 6th, 2006
04:50:23 PM | Herc Is Wrong About X-Files
Slimcases...$24.97 Apiece!
by Hell's Cigarette | Jun 6th, 2006
05:32:38 PM | I like the Time Tunnel episode
with Robert Duvall...
by Flim Springfield | Jun 6th, 2006
06:09:10 PM | Entourage...
by vinceklortho | Jun 6th, 2006
06:26:30 PM | talkback quotes
by fatsackowind | Jun 6th, 2006
06:51:20 PM | Venture Brothers
by fatsackowind | Jun 6th, 2006
06:52:21 PM | Ghosts of the Sargasso Sea is
my favorite episode.
by Lenny Nero | Jun 6th, 2006
07:00:36 PM | Picked up WWW.
by mrfan | Jun 6th, 2006
07:01:59 PM | The Wild Wild West!
by Real Deal | Jun 6th, 2006
07:27:51 PM | Battlestar Galactica 2.5 on
9/19?
by paulh | Jun 6th, 2006
07:47:39 PM | Entourage is a GREAT fucking
show ...
by Lamerz | Jun 6th, 2006
08:53:49 PM | Actually...
by SeedyAl | Jun 6th, 2006
10:38:09 PM | "Scariest thing on modern era
TV"...
by DanielKurland | Jun 6th, 2006
10:39:48 PM | Was anyone watching David Lee
Roth on LENO????!!!
by George Newman | Jun 6th, 2006
11:42:21 PM | Obviously HERC, Fox read my
first post. :P
by Shermdawg | Jun 7th, 2006
12:01:40 AM | RE: Roth on LENO
by Shermdawg | Jun 7th, 2006
12:04:54 AM | Moviemack-not sure who that
was 4, but eat a dick ...
by Lamerz | Jun 7th, 2006
12:13:27 AM | But I don't understand....
by superhero | Jun 7th, 2006
12:46:58 AM | What is with these Godzilla
movie Doritos commercials?
by George Newman | Jun 7th, 2006
01:29:02 AM | Amazon pricing and refunds
by eveelcapitalist | Jun 7th, 2006
01:56:56 AM | Buffy Season Sets - lower
price
by JohnIan | Jun 7th, 2006
02:37:35 AM | You'd have to pay me to
watch Buffy
by ZeroCorpse | Jun 7th, 2006
05:27:21 AM | Retailers...Quick..Unload your
DVD stock!
by zekmoe | Jun 7th, 2006
05:58:05 AM | Actually. . . .
by gurglesnap | Jun 7th, 2006
07:38:51 AM | I'd take Buffy over
Entourage any day
by Novaman5000 | Jun 7th, 2006
10:45:42 AM | Its been said before but its
ok to like more than one
by Lando Griffin | Jun 7th, 2006
01:21:38 PM | Oh yeah
by Lando Griffin | Jun 7th, 2006
01:28:52 PM | its true
by Cory849 | Jun 7th, 2006
01:35:56 PM | The John Laroquette Show
by Art_Vandelay | Jun 7th, 2006
02:14:29 PM | Classic Brit Comedy on DVD
by Demon Disco | Jun 7th, 2006
07:13:25 PM | August 29th can't get here
soon enough
by Lando Griffin | Jun 8th, 2006
02:07:02 AM | In the Buffy debate I think
the first
by Spike fan | Jun 8th, 2006
03:48:28 AM | Roth on Leno link >_
by Shermdawg | Jun 8th, 2006
09:16:29 AM | Best brit comedy of the moment
by Babyshamble | Jun 8th, 2006
01:44:23 PM | What about.........
by Legend67 | Jun 10th, 2006
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