I am – Hercules!!
I praise “The Larry Sanders Show” a lot; some say too much. Those who say “too much” are eleven kinds of wrong. I know in my heart it’s probably the funniest sitcom ever engineered.
I get at least two emails a day asking when “Sanders” 2.x is coming out. And I reply that I don’t know. And I don’t know why I don’t know. But I have theories!
"Sanders" 1.x
maybe didn’t sell so good because it’s miserably overpriced. (Thirteen episodes at $31.96 equals $2.45 per half hour.) So if 1.x didn’t sell so good, Sony's home-video division may not be in a hurry to issue “Sanders” 2.x. Which sucks, because the world needs to hear Larry’s producer, Artie, discuss again how easy it is to hose off an electric fence.
Pricing on all the HBO shows sucks. $64.99 for a season of “Sopranos.” $74.99 for “Carnivale.” $29.99 for ten half-hours of “Curb Your Enthusiasm.” Horrible.
Having said this, I quite enjoyed “Entourage” when it ran on HBO. It’s about a fast-rising hetero movie star and offers an unapologetic look at the mercenary fun someone like him can have boozing and whoring in modern Los Angeles. I love Kevin Connolly as the de facto manager, I love Jeremy Piven as the agent, I love Debi Mazar as the publicist, I love Samaire Armstrong as the agent’s rogue assistant, I love Kevin Dillon as the insecure older brother, I love Adrian Grenier as the movie star. I love how happy-go-lucky Vincent Chase’s lieutenants have to battle for his career, careening between crappy, huge-paycheck actioners that could derail the gravy train and an indie project that might not leave movie audiences feeling fleeced. Writers Doug Ellin (“Kissing A Fool”) and Larry Charles (“Seinfeld,” “The Tick”) slapped together a sharp first season. But save yourself some money and tape it off HBO.
With “Entourage,” you get eight half-hour episodes at $27.99. That works out to more than $3.49 per episode.
With “Have Gun Will Travel” (c. 1958) you can get 39 half-hour episodes for $31.49. That’s 81 cents per episode from our good friends at Paramount Home Video.
And since you can’t tape “Have Gun Will Travel” off HBO (or anywhere else as far as I can tell), this is maybe the one to buy. I haven’t seen “Travel” since I was a kid, but I do remember loving on it pretty hard. Check out the supercool premise:
Set in the 1870s, it’s about this exceedingly brainy Civil War vet, name of Paladin, who serves as kind of an Old-West Batman. Seemingly the most accomplished gunfighter of his generation, Paladin comes from old money and lives most of his days as a refined figure familiar to the San Francisco gentry. But for $1,000, you could hire the guy to don his signature all-black cowboy outfit, hike out to some piece-of-shit corner of 19th century Montana (or anywhere else west of the Mississippi) and mete out frontier justice. Learn more of the show here.
More season-box DVD headed your way:
Last Week
Dawson’s Creek 5.x
Everybody Loves Raymond 1/2/3.x
Everybody Loves Raymond 3.x
Gilmore Girls 3.x
I Love Lucy 4.x
King of the Hill 4.x
The Man Show 3.x
The Partridge Family 1.x
Star Trek: Enterprise 1.x
Three’s Company 4.x
Touched by an Angel 2.x
May 10
American Chopper 1.x
American Chopper 2.x
Dastardly & Muttley 1.x
Ed, Edd & Eddy 1.x
Entourage 1.x
Have Gun Will Travel 2.x
In Living Color 3.x
Joan of Arcadia 1.x
Monster Garage 1.x
Monster Garage 2.x
Mutant X 2.x
My Favorite Martian 2.x
Penelope Pitstop 1.x
Quantum Leap 3.x
May 17
Adventures of Pete & Pete 1.x
Cheers 5.x
Clarissa Explains It All 1.x
Golden Girls 2.x
Monarch of the Glen 3.x
Scrubs 1.x
Seinfeld 4.x
Six Feet Under 1/2/3.x
Six Feet Under 3.x
May 24
Airwolf 1.x
The Andy Griffith Show 2.x
Baa Baa Black Sheep 1.x
Batman: The Animated Series Vol. 3
The Batman 1.x Vol. 1
Chapelle’s Show (Uncensored) 2.x
Combat 4.x
The Dick Van Dyke Show: The Complete Series
Fat Actress 1.x
The Job 1.x
Law & Order 3.x
M*A*S*H 8.x
NewsRadio 1/2.x
Samurai Jack 1/2.x
Samurai Jack 2.x
Speed Racer Vol. 3
Super Friends 2.x
Voyage to the Planets and Beyond
May 31
Danger Mouse 1/2.x
Dukes of Hazzard 3.x
Home Movies 2.x
Moonlighting 1/2.x
The Tomorrow People 1/2.x
June 7
Davey and Goliath Vol. 1
The Dead Zone 3.x
Degrassi Junior High 2.x
Dragnet 1967 1.x
Father of the Pride 1.x
Frasier 5.x
Frasier 1/2/3/4/5/11.x
Home Improvement 2.x
Lois & Clark 1.x
MacGyver 2.x
Newlyweds Nick & Jessica 2/3.x
Quincy 1/2.x
Rescue Me 1.x
Sanford & Son 6.x
The Sopranos 5.x
Too Close For Comfort 2.x
Wanted: Dead or Alive 1.x
Wonder Woman 3.x
June 14
Good Neighbors 1/2/3.x
Highlander: The Raven 1.x
The King of Queens 4.x
Little House on the Prairie 8.x
Northern Exposure 3.x
Reno 911 2.x
Rosemary & Thyme 1.x
Saved by the Bell II 3.x
Tilt 1.x
Two's Company 3.x
Walker: Texas Ranger 9.x
June 21
Bewitched 1.x
Oz 5.x
Tabitha 1.x
June 28
The Doris Day Show 1.x
Homicide 7.x
La Femme Nikita 3.x
Ren & Stimpy 3.x
A Touch of Frost 6.x
The Twilight Zone 3.x
July 5
Fantastic Four 1.x
Monk 3.x
Starship Troopers 1.x
Tour of Duty 3.x
Undeclared 1.x
July 12
Hercules 6.x
Hunter 2.x
The Nanny 1.x
Tales From the Crypt 1.x
Sealab 2021 3.x
Titus 1/2.x
July 19
Dead Like Me 2.x
Earth 2 1.x
Laguna Beach 1.x
Lost in Space 3.x Vol. 2
Sliders 4.x
July 26
The Brady Bunch 2.x
Gilligan's Island 3.x
Mary Tyler Moore Show 2.x
Remington Steele 1.x
Silk Stalkings 3.x
Star Trek: Enterprise 2.x
3rd Rock From the Sun 1.x
August 2
The Cosby Show 1.x
August 9
Dallas 3.x
Greatest American Hero 3.x
Profit 1.x
Thundercats 1.x Vol. 1
August 23
Boy Meets World 3.x
Life As We Know It 1.x
The OC 2.x
Once and Again 2.x
21 Jump Street 3.x
August 30
Nip/Tuck 2.x
The Saint 1.x
September 6
Lost 1.x
September 20
Crime Story 2.x
Desperate Housewives 1.x
October 4
Three's Company 5.x
