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Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the comedy category.

Eastbound & Down: The Complete First Season - This release is a two disc set of the series first season’s six episodes.

Entourage: The Complete Fifth Season - This releases is a three disc set of this dramedy’s (comedy-drama) fifth season. The special features on this set includes cast commentaries and a behind-the-scenes featurette.

The IT Crowd: The Complete Second Season - This release is a one disc set of the show’s second season. The bonus features include outtakes, Recording The IT Crowd, and commentary.

The Lucille Ball Specials: Lucy Gets Lucky/Three for Two - This release includes two Lucille Ball television specials. The bonus features include long-lost radio interviews with Dean Martin, bloopers, featurette with guest actor Gino Conforti, and rare Lucy footage.

Parker Lewis Can’t Lose: The Complete First Season - This release is a four disc set. The special features include The History Of Coolness: A Look Back At Parker Lewis Cant Lose With The Cast And Creators and Audio Commentaries.

Trailer Park Boys: The Complete Series - This release is a 13 disc set of the complete Canadian mockumentary series. It is packaged in a cooler lunch bag.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the animated category.

Dinosaur King: Volcanic Panic - This is the third volume of episodes from this show. It includes 5 episodes of Dinosaur King.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the documentary and reality categories.

American Revolution: Battle of Monmouth - This release is a History Channel documentary about the Battle of Monmouth.

Ben Franklin Tech - This is a documentary about Franklin’s inventions.

Biography: George Armstrong Custer - America’s Golden Cavalier - This is a biography documentary about George Armstrong Custer.

Biography: George Washington - American Revolutionary - This is a documentary about George Washington.

Biography: Sherlock Holmes - The Great Detective - This is a documentary about the fictional character Sherlock Holmes as well as his creator Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Blood And Treasure In Peru - This release is a History Channel documentary about treasure hunting and the discovery of the Royal Tombs of Sipan in Peru.

The Bloody Aleutians - This is a History Channel documentary about the battle on the US Aleutian islands during World War II.

Extreme Trains: The Complete Season One - This release is a two disc set. The episodes included are “Amtrak’s Empire Builder,” “The Burlington Northern Santa Fe Freight Train,” “The Norfolk Southern Coal Train,” “The Ringling Bros. Circus Train,” and “The Union Pacific Refrigeration Train.”

Face Off: Pershing vs. Gallwitz - This documentary is about the final battle of the first World War.

Fireboats of 9/11 - This documentary is about New York’s fireboats with emphasis on their use on 9/11.

FRONTLINE: Poisoned Water - This release is about the issues around clean water.

Ghost Ships - This release is a History Channel documentary about seafaring ghost tales.

Haunted History: Caribbean - This documentary is about haunted sites in the Caribbean.

Haunted History: Chicago - This release is about the most haunted sites in Chicago, Illinois.

Haunted History: Hawaii - This release is about the most haunted places in Hawaii.

Haunted History: Savannah - This release is about the most haunted sites in Savannah, Georgia.

Haunted History: Tombstone - This release is about the haunted history of Tombstone, Arizona.

Haunted History: Washington D.C. - This release is about haunted history in the nation’s capital.

Inside Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade - This is a documentary about the Thanksgiving Day parade in New York City.

The Last Day of World War I - This release is a History Channel documentary about D-Day, the final day of the First World War.

Mexico’s Great Pyramids - This release is mostly about the pyramids of the Aztecs.

Modern Marvels: Racetrack Tech - This release is about the safety technology in car racing.

MonsterQuest: Season Three, Set One - This release is a two disc set of the show that tries to search out the truth behind the legends and sightings of mythical monsters.

Nostradamus 2012 - This is a History Channel documentary about the believed end of the world on December 21, 2012.

Number 10 - This release is a seven episode series about prime ministers that have lived at Number 10 Downing Street in London.

The Odessa File - This documentary is about the secret organization believed to help the Nazi war criminals escape capture.

Palenque: Metropolis of the Maya - This documentary is about the lost Mayan city of Palenque in Central America.

POWs of the American Revolution - This release is about the prisoners of the American Revolution kept on board ships in New York’s harbour.

The True Story of the Fighting Sullivans - This release is a History Channel documentary about five brothers that served together as sailors and died when their ship was hit by a torpedo in 1942.

True Story of Killing Pablo - This release is a History Channel documentary about Colombian drug lord, Pablo Escobar.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the drama category.

Blue Murder: Set 4 - This release is a two disc set. It includes the six episodes.

Hi-5: Season Two - This release is a three disc set of the show’s second season. It includes 20 episodes of the show.

Princess Protection Program - This release of the latest Disney Channel Original Movie, which just premiered last weekend in the US. The bonus features include an Exclusive music video, Royal and Loyal BFFs Selena and Demi reveal their secrets, A Royal Reality, real life princesses share their realities.

Secret Diary of a Call Girl Season 2 - This release is a two disc set of the show’s second season.

The Swiss Family Robinson - This releases is a three disc set with the 26 episodes of the show.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the science fiction category.

Eureka: Season 3.0 - This release is a two disc set of the SciFi Channel show.

Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Fifth Season - This release is a five disc set of the show’s fifth season.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the documentary and reality categories.

The Best of…The FBI Files. - This release is a six disc set. The episodes included are Polly Klass Kidnapped, Above the Law, Human Prey, Death in Alaska, The Murdering Cowboy, The Unabomber, Melissa Brannen: Missing, The World Trade Center Bombing, John Gotti - Convicted, Cat and Mouse, The Hunter’s Game, The Dixie Mafia, Shattered Shield, Deadly Paradise, The True Story of Mississippi Burning, The Crazy Don, Killing Spree, A Model Killer, Hired Gun, Cracking the Cartel, A Stranger in Town, Blood Brothers, Crime Spree, Family Secrets, Master Plan, and Firefight.

Bizarre Foods with Andrew Zimmern: Collection Three - This release is a two disc set.

Cry for Help - This release is a PBS documentary about teens dealing with depression, expression, and mental illness.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the animated category.

Bob the Builder: Bob’s Top Team

Thomas & Friends: Track Stars - This release has a run time of about 50 minutes.

Tom and Jerry: The Chuck Jones Collection - This is a two disc set with 34 shorts done by Chuck Jones. It includes two documentaries called Tom and Jerry…and Chuck and Chuck Jones: Memories of a Childhood.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the drama category.

Barney: Let’s Pretend - This release is a DVD release of the Let’s Pretend episode of the show.

Doodlebops: Get on the Bus - This release includes four episodes of the Doodlebops.

The Monster Squad: The Complete Collection - This release is a two disc set.

Reba: Season 6 - This release is a two DVD set. It contains the sixth season’s 13 episodes. These are the last episodes of the series.

Two Outs, Bottom of the 9th Inning - This release is a six disc set of the Korean television drama. The show is about a woman trying to choose between a childhood friend and a baseball star.

This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. This wrap up is of the content on Side B of Disc 3.

“Three Stories” - House’s ex-girlfriend Stacy comes to see him to ask House to take on her husband as a case. House gives a lecture because another doctor is sick. He comes up with three cases involving leg pain. One is a farmer with pain in his leg. The class fails at first because they do not first come up with the idea of looking at the leg. A snake bite wound is found on the leg. The second is a 16-year-old female volleyball player. The patient has tendonitis and it leads them to a nodule. The third is a male golfer that wants pain meds. A rattlesnake is found by Chase and Foreman on the farm and Cameron gives the farmer the antivenom. The man then has an allergic reaction. The volleyball player also has a thyroid condition. It turns out they were wrong about what type of snake bit the farmer. So, they give them the antivenom for another snake common in New Jersey. The drug addict golfer comes back saying his leg hurts. They do a urine test by putting a catheter in, which supposedly proves that he really is sick and not just an addict. The volleyball player is not responding to treatment. She is hypersensitive to touch while Cameron is trying to draw blood. Nothing is working for the farmer. The drug addict has blood in his urine. The farmer wants to go home now that he knows he is dying and worries about his dog. It turns out that it was his dog that bit him. Back to the man with leg pain with blood in his urine. The students cannot figure out the brown in the urine is for and Cameron pops in and suggest muscle death. He then slips back to the girl getting an MRI because the case with the man was not treated for muscle death until three days later when the patient suggested muscle death (i.e. this is House’s personal story). Bone cancer is found in the girl’s leg and they might have to amputate the leg. The farmer also might have to have the leg removed because of the flesh eating disease from the dog bite. House also gets the diagnosis they might have to lose his leg, but he refuses to lose his leg. He has them do a by pass instead of amputation. The by pass and muscle death being left led to the pain he might have for the rest of his life. House predicts his going into cardiac arrest. House’s ex tries to convince him to give up his leg. He asks to be put in a chemically induced coma to sleep through the worst of the pain. Once in a coma it is her call as his medical proxy. She gives the okay to have the muscle death removed as the middle ground option. In the end he calls his ex and says he will take a look at her husband the next day.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side A of Disc 3.

“Role Model” - An African American Senator running for President vomits and collapses after a speech. Volger asks House to do a talk about a new drug being much better and to diagnosis the Senator or fire one of his team. While looking at the Senator Foreman notices that the Senator lacks reflexes when they tap his knee. Thus the issue appears to be in his brain. The Senator begins to stutter. They think that he has AIDS, but the Senator refuses that diagnosis. The test confirms he has AIDS. The anti-retrovirals are not working, though. It turns out the first AIDS test was a false positive. The Senator’s breathing than seriously fails. It seems that he has some sort of fungus. House finds out that when the Senator was younger he had a seizure when he was 6 and was on meds for the seizures until he was 10. The med is know to have caused a disease, which House thinks presented itself with the recent stress of the campaign. When House gets up to do the speech to promote the new drug, he says the drug is pretty much the same as the old version and not that much better. Cameron then decides to leave, so House does not have to choose who to fire.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side B of Disc 2.

“Cursed” - A boy thinks he is dying after his friends scaring him with a ouiji board. The boy’s symptoms are pneumonia and rash. The boy confides in Chase about the ouiji incident and Chase suspects the problem might be mold in the attic they did the ouiji board thing in. Chase’s father suddenly shows up and Chase blows him off. In the insulation of the house they find anthrax. They treat him for anthrax and they have trouble getting a tube in. Foreman is convinced he should tube him, while Cuddy says trache him and Chase almost does it. House involves Chase’s father (also a doctor) in the differential diagnosis and they eliminate anthrax. As they are about to treat for something else the rash has changed to make it seem like it is anthrax. It seems it might be anthrax and something else. A rash breaks out on the boy’s back and they are back to having no idea what it is. House realizes that Chase’s father has stage four lung cancer. The boy starts to have paralysis. House suspects that the boy’s father was secretly in Asia for two years. This leads him to thinking it is leprosy. In the end Chase hugs his father before he leaves to go home to Australia, but Chase still does not know his father is dying.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side A of Disc 2.

“DNR” - A jazz musician has trouble breathing while playing his horn. Foreman is given the case of musician’s pneumonia because he did his residency with the musician’s primary doctor. House wants to treat the 2-year-old paralysis the patient has that has been ruled ALS. The man decides he wants to sign a DNR. The team refuses to revive the man, except House comes in and bags him. A restraining order is brought against House and House goes to court to allow life support to continue. The court allows life support to continue, so House can face his accuser that resulted in the restraining order. They drop the restraining order in order to pull the plug. The breathing tube is removed and he is able to breathe on his own. A clot is found and they decide to go in to pull it out, as he will either die or keep his hand movement, which to him is a win win situation. The clot is successfully removed. He wakes up with the paralysis gone. House has him takes him off of all the drugs we gave him in order to try to figure out what is helping. He gets worse and they reintroduce the first drug they used. They find out the problem is swelling around the spine and remove it and the paralysis is cured.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the three two-sided disc House, M.D. Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until this Saturday. This wrap up is of the content on Side B of Disc 1.

“Damned if You Do” - Cuddy makes House see a patient in the clinic. The patient is a nun. He thinks it is simple dermatitis, but when he gives her the medicine she has an asthma attack. She then goes into cardiac arrest and Cuddy and Foreman think it could have been because of House gave her too much epi to control the asthma attack. The nun hallucinates and seizes while in the MRI. The patient keeps getting worse and it seems to be due to the treatment. Cuddy takes House off the case. House goes to the monastery to talk to the mother nun to learn about the sick nun’s past. He learns that the nun was a troubled teen including having a failed pregnancy. House brings the tea from the monastery to Cuddy because it could have caused the symptoms. There still is an original allergen that they have to track down. It is revealed that Chase studied in Seminary School when he prays with the nun. The nun goes into shock in the clean room. The nun wants to check out and go back to the monastery. House goes to talk to her to get her to stay. House believes that there is something inside the nun’s body causing the allergic reactions. They find that there is a copper cross birth control IED inside her causing the allergic reactions.

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Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the drama category.

Burn Notice: Season Two - This release is a four disc set. This season has 16 episodes.

Everwood: The Complete Second Season - The second season of Everwood has finally coming out. This release is a six disc set.

H20 Season 1 Volume 1 - This release contains the show’s first season.

I Can’t Believe I’m Still Single: Season 1 - This release is a three disc set.

Jesse Stone: Thin Ice - This release is the fifth installment in the Jesse Stone movies based on the novels by Robert B. Parker.

Murdoch Mysteries: Series 1 - This release is a four disc set with 13 episodes of the show.

Saving Grace: Season Two - This release is a four disc set.

The Secret Life of the American Teenager: Season Two - This release is a three disc set. The special features include Cast secrets revealed, exclusive music video of the Strange Familiar, behind the scenes with the cast, and on set interviews.

South of Nowhere Season 3 - This release is a four disc set made as an Amazon on demand release, which means it might only play in play only DVD devices.

Taggart Death Without Dishonour Set - This release is a three disc set. It includes Gingerbread, Death Without Dishonour, and Instrument of Justice.

Taggart Hellfire Set - This release is a three disc set. It includes Forbidden Fruit, Secrets, and Hellfire.

Taggart Prayer for the Dead Set - This release is a two disc set. It includes Prayer for the Dead and Black Orchid.

Zoey 101 The Complete 3rd Season - This release is a six disc set with the show’s 24 episodes in the season.

Zoey 101 The Complete 4th Season - This release is a three disc set. It includes the 12 episodes from the show’s 4th season. It is on Amazon on demand DVDs, which might only play in play only DVD players.

Here is this week’s edition for TV on DVD Releases in the animated category.

Barney: Sing and Dance with Barney - This release two disc set. One disc is the DVD and the other is a music CD with the songs on the DVD. It features 27 songs to sing and dance along to.

Family Guy Volume 7 - This release is a three disc set of the adult animated show.

Thomas & Friends: Hop on Board Songs and Stories - This release contains a DVD sing along disc and a music CD of the songs.

Tom and Jerry’s Greatest Chases Volume 2 - This release includes 14 shorts of the show.

Transformers: The Complete First Season 25th Anniversary Edition - This release is a three disc set. The bonus features include Restored to the original broadcast versions with a new stereo soundtrack created from the original audio, Triplechanger: From Toy To Comic To Screen: The Origins Of The Transformers, Printable Transport to Oblivion Script, Rare PSAs, Archival Hasbro toy commercials, and Limited edition Autobot magnet inside.