“I’ll say it anyway. Winifred Burkle. Go.”
I am – Hercules!!
The big news on Dec. 26 is “Angel” season-box prices just fell below $20 for the first time ever , just as they did about a year ago with the “Buffy” sets. Remember that the “Buffy” sets did not stay under $20 long (last week the "Angel" sets were $35.99 each!), so if you share the love for Cordy, Fred, Darla, Dru, Krevlornswath, the Senior Partners, Skip and the Pee-Pee Demon, ORDER THESE NOW. Stick them in your closet for future gifting or donations to libraries. One of the greatest TV shows in the history of history.
$19.97 Angel Season Two
$19.97 Angel Season Three
$19.97 Angel Season Four
$19.97 Angel Season Five
More good news! The “Buffy” sets have also been momentarily reduced again to $19.97 as well. Again you are encouraged to stock up and share the adventures of Willow, Giles, Xander, Kendra, Oz, Spike, Tara, Jenny Calendar, the Buffy-bot and the various and sundry Nerds of Doom:
$19.97 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season One
$19.97 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Two
$19.97 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Three
$19.97 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Four
$19.97 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Five
$19.97 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Six
$19.97 Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Seven
For those who haven’t checked in since Christmas Eve, Amazon is having what’s essentially an insano twofer sale. Buy one already-reduced DVD on the lists below and get another of equal or lesser price free. Some illustrations:
$23.09 Soap 1.x
$21.99 Soap 2.x
$21.99 Soap 3.x
$21.99 Soap 4.x
This means the last two seasons of “Soap” for $11 per season.
$21.99 All in the Family 1.x
$20.99 All in the Family 2.x
$21.99 All in the Family 3.x
$26.99 All in the Family 4.x
Math says first two seasons of “All in the Family” for $11 per season.
$35.49 Seinfeld 1.x/2.x
$35.49 Seinfeld 3.x
$35.49 Seinfeld 4.x
$35.99 Seinfeld 5.x
$35.99 Seinfeld 6.x
Meaning two seasons of “Seinfeld” for $16 per season.
$19.99 NewsRadio 1.x/2.x
$29.99 NewsRadio 3.x
$29.49 NewsRadio 4.x
Two seasons of “NewsRadio” for no more than $15 per season.
$36.49 Rescue Me 1.x
$36.49 Rescue Me 2.x
Two seasons of “Rescue Me” at $18.25 per season.
And of course you can mix and match:
$21.99 The Tick: The Complete Series
$18.99 Action: The Complete Series
That means you get both series at $11 per season.
Amazon has divided the sale into two TV epochs, 1960-1989 and 1990-2006.
1990-2006
Action: The Complete Series
Air America: The Complete Series
Beautiful People 1.x
Boondocks 1.x
The Critic: The Complete Series
Dawson’s Creek 1.x
Dawson’s Creek 2.x
Dawson’s Creek 3.x
Dawson’s Creek 4.x
Dawson’s Creek 5.x
Dawson’s Creek 6.x
Dilbert: The Complete Series
The Ellen Show: The Complete Series
Huff 1.x
The Jeff Foxworthy Show 1.x
Just Shoot Me 1.x/2.x
King of Queens 1.x
King of Queens 2.x
King of Queens 3.x
King of Queens 4.x
King of Queens 5.x
King of Queens 6.x
Mad About You 1.x
Mad About You 2.x
My Big Fat Greek Life: The Complete Series
The Nanny 1.x
The Nanny 2.x
Ned and Stacey 1.x
NewsRadio 1.x/2.x
NewsRadio 3.x
NewsRadio 4.x
Party of Five 1.x
Party of Five 2.x
Rescue Me 1.x
Rescue Me 2.x
Seinfeld 1.x/2.x
Seinfeld 3.x
Seinfeld 4.x
Seinfeld 5.x
Seinfeld 6.x
Significant Others: The Complete Series
Strong Medicine 1.x
S.W.A.T 1.x
The Tick: The Complete Series
VIP 1.x
1960-1989:
All in the Family 1.x
All in the Family 2.x
All in the Family 3.x
All in the Family 4.x
All in the Family 5.x
Archie Bunker’s Place 1.x
Barney Miller 1.x
Bewitched 1.x
Bewitched 2.x
Bewitched 3.x
Blue Thunder: The Complete Series
Charlie’s Angels 1.x
Charlie’s Angels 2.x
Charlie’s Angels 3.x
Diff’rent Strokes 1.x
Diff’rent Strokes 2.x
The Facts of Life 1.x/2.x
Family 1.x/2.x
Fantasy Island 1.x
The Flying Nun 1.x
The Flying Nun 2.x
Gidget: The Complete Series
Good Times 1.x
Good Times 2.x
Good Times 3.x
Good Times 5.x
Good Times 6.x
Hart to Hart 1.x
Hart to Hart 2.x
Hazel 1.x
Here Come The Brides 1.x
I Dream of Jeannie 1.x
I Dream of Jeannie 2.x
The Jeffersons 1.x
The Jeffersons 2.x
The Jeffersons 3.x
The Jeffersons 4.x
The Jeffersons 5.x
Married With Children 1.x
Married With Children 2.x
Married With Children 3.x
Married With Children 4.x
Married With Children 5.x
The Partridge Family 1.x
The Partridge Family 2.x
Riptide 1.x
Sanford & Son 1.x
Sanford & Son 2.x
Sanford & Son 3.x
Sanford & Son 4.x
Sanford % Son 5.x
Sanford & Son 6.x
Soap 1.x
Soap 2.x
Soap 3.x
Soap 4.x
Starsky & Hutch 1.x
Starsky & Hutch 2.x
Starsky & Hutch 3.x
Tabitha: The Complete Series
That’s My Mama 1.x
That’s My Mama 2.x
T.J. Hooker 1.x/2.x (HOLY SHATNER!!)
Tour of Duty 1.x
Tour of Duty 2.x
Tour of Duty 3.x
227 1.x
Walking Tall: The Complete Series
What’s Happening!! 1.x
Who’s The Boss 1.x
The first season of “24” is still just $23.49. Two weeks ago it was $43.49, and I suspect it will soon be $43.49 (or more) again. See what Kim looked like before the cougars ruined her looks. Feliz Gravitas.
Also? At $19.99, every episode of “Firefly” is still momentarily 60% off! Inara and all the other lovely space-hookers continue to be included.
New To Pre-Order:
“TAKE A LOOK, SONNY, IT’S GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN!!”
The long-awaited second-season “Twin Peaks” DVD (revealing, among many other things, who wrapped Laura Palmer in all that plastic) will finally hit DVD April 10.
One forgets how huge “Twin Peaks” was at the beginning its second season. David Letterman interviewed Kyle McLachlan between seasons one and two, and told McLachlan he believed McLachlan’s character, FBI man Dale Cooper, killed Laura. On “Saturday Night Live” during the same hiatus, guest-host McLachlan reveals in his monologue Q&A that Shelley the waitress killed Laura, then is taken aback when he finds himself on the receiving end of a telephone tirade from “David Lynch.” In the SNL sketch that followed, Sheriff Harry S. Truman (Kevin Nealon) reveals that Leo (Chris Farley) killed Laura. Conan O’Brien plays Deputy Andy. Victoria Jackson play Audrey Horne. Jan Hooks plays both Nadine Hurley and the Log Lady. Phil Hartman plays a hilariously grief-stricken Leland Palmer. Mike Myers concludes the sketch with as the backwards-talking dwarf. One doesn’t expect any of this stuff will be on the DVD, but it’s fun to remember.
The second season was much longer than the first season - 22 episodes versus eight. It begins with the aftermath of Cooper’s shooting. Hilarious and mesmerizing, the first, very long scene of the season, directed by Lynch, spotlights a very elderly Great Northern Hotel employee FBI agent Albert Rosenfield will refer to as “Senor Droolcup.” Droolcup delivers warm milk to Cooper, even as Cooper lies in a rapidly expanding pool of his own blood. With words and action, Lynch wonderfully underscores the enduring appeal of Cooper, still one of the most memorable characters in TV history.
Near the end of Lynch’s two-hour premiere, Alicia Witt makes her second onscreen appearance anywhere (the first was as Paul’s baby sister in “Dune”) as Donna and Harriett Hayward’s kid sister, playing piano in a fairy costume as Leland Palmer undergoes an emotional implosion.
In 2.2, we meet a kid who can teleport creamed corn. And we learn that Margaret the log lady never stops cradling her timber (IF you know what I mean), even when she sits at the diner counter to enjoy a bear claw. Michael Parks (the lawman from “From Dusk Till Dawn” and “Kill Bill”) turns up as the sinister French-Canadian Jean Reneault, who menaces Audrey Horne and wishes Cooper dead.
In 2.3 Big Ed’s wife loses a huge chunk of her memory and gains superhuman strength.
In 2.4 Royal Dano offers a winning turn as avuncular traveling judge Clinton Sternwood. The judge shares his Winnebago with his impossibly hot law clerk Sid (played by runway model and 6’1” “Xena” icon Claire Stansfield in her first filmed appearance).
In 2.5, Cooper and Truman get to rough up some bad guys in a bid to liberate Audrey. Donna and Maddie betray a very unstable young man in bid to liberate Laura’s “secret” diary.
In 2.6 David Lynch himself begins to steal the show as Cooper’s nearly deaf boss, FBI regional director Gordon Cole. One of the series’ – indeed, television’s - finest moments comes in 2.19 when Cole shares a scene with gorgeous Shelly Johnson and her sulky teen dirtbag boyfriend Bobby Briggs. Cole’s concluding line, “TAKE A LOOK, SONNY, IT’S GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN!!” is inspiration itself.
Because of this thousand-dollar chunk of dialogue and the many others like it, I was among the very few who never lost any enthusiasm for the series. Laura’s murderer was revealed in 2.7, yes, but her strange end turned out to be a tiny component of a much larger story.
In my view one of the two best TV series ever forged, “Peaks” is the only show I ever tried to save by writing into a TV network. The cliffhanger series finale was a typically thrilling and fascinating Lynch-directed installment, and one that made too bitter the news of the show’s demise. (It also stung that Lynch decided to make “Peaks’” wildly uneven theatrical version a prequel – and a prequel that made little effort to further explore the town’s bigger mysteries. Though I couldn’t help but love the FBI stuff with the new Keifer Sutherland, Chris Isaak and David Bowie characters.)
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