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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the four double sided disc Bones Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side B of the third disc.

“The Skull in the Desert” - Angela is on vacation in the desert and her boyfriend has disappeared for days in the desert. She calls Bones and tells her that a skull has been found in a box on the sheriff’s porch. Bones heads off to meet up with Angela and look at the skull, which she does not really think it is her boyfriend’s. The sheriff reluctantly lets Bones look at the skull. Bones calls in Booth to get the sheriff to send the skull to the Jeffersonian. The skull proves to be Angela’s boyfriend. The woman guide he was last with remains missing. They find the rest of Angela’s boyfriend’s body and his camera. The sheriff suspects Angela and reluctantly lets her develop her boyfriend’s film. They find the actual murder site further in the desert where the body was driven to a plane and then dropped where it was found in the desert. It seems related to drug smuggling. Bones, Angela, Booth, and the sheriff go back to the murder site and go off in different directions to find the missing women, who they find alive although dehydrated.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the four double sided disc Bones Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side A of the third disc.

“The Woman in the Garden” - A recently dug up body is found in a vehicle. As Booth arrests the man driving a car a drive by shooting occurs, which is done to help the man being arrested escape. Bones find out that the victim was pregnant when killed. They find a garden where the body was likely buried, where they find another spot where another body was buried. They find the other body on a Senator’s property. The second body is the father of the other body. They find a bullet in this body, but it turns out he survived for years from that bullet and died of cancer. They find the man that was driving the vehicle and interview him in the hospital where Bones realizes he is the brother of the woman and not the murderer. He is also a gardener at the Senator’s. Bones beats up one of the gang members Booth brings in for questioning. Bones then reveals to Angela that last time she was in El Salvador she was held captive by similar gang members for three days. It turns out the woman was involved with the Senator’s son. They discover that the woman was murdered by having her head bashed against the son’s bed post. Bones and Angela use the holographic machine to find out that the woman’s head hit the bed post when being yanked off a ladder. Booth finds out that a hit has been put out on Bones probably for attacking the gang member brought in for questioning. Booth goes and confronts the gang member and threatens him with a gun put in his mouth to get him to take the hit off.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the four double sided disc Bones Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side B of the second disc.

“The Woman in the Car” - Bones has an uncomfortable interview with a Good Morning, D.C. anchor. Booth takes Bones to a scene with a burned body in a car that is suspected to be include a child that was kidnapped. Bones works on trying to identify the body to help identify if there was a child kidnapped and if so who it was. A Homeland Security agent comes to interview the employees at the Jeffersonian. They identify the body using immigration records. When Bones and Booth go to the husband’s house they end up encountering U.S. Marshals and learn that the husband is in the witness protection program. They find an ear in her mouth. Hodgins confronts the Security agent and finds out that they are not interested in interviewing him at all because they already have looked into him due to his cousin being appointed a job in some secret part of the government. It turns out that the Attorney General’s office lost the victim’s husband. Booth and Bones find him threatening the head of the company he is was to testify against. He will not testify unless Booth can get his son back. Booth receives the kid’s finger in an envelope with a note saying back off. When interviewing Bones the security person asks Bones about meeting a specific person and Bones calls someone she is supposed to call if ever asked about that person and the whole security review is suspended and the notes are to be destroyed. In the end Booth helps rescue the kid from his kidnappers.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the four double sided disc Bones Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side A of the second disc.

“The Man on Death Row” - The episode begins with Booth interviewing Bones to fill out a form to carry a gun. Bones denies her the weapon because of her shooting the unarmed guy in the first episode. A defense lawyer comes to see Booth to ask him to look at evidence again for a man on death row sentenced to die the next day. Booth asks Bones to help look into into the case. Bones thinks the fragments on a x-ray is not bone fragments as previously thought, so she has the the body unburied. They finally identify the DNA to a pubic hair from the lawyer she worked for. When they go to find the murder weapon they find two more bodies. Booth does not want to make the call about finding the bodies because it means the execution will be put on hold, although he thinks the guy killed the other two women as well. In the end they meet with the guy in jail again and when he tries to touch Bones she slams his hand against the table and agree that maybe she should not carry a gun.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the four double sided disc Bones Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side B of the first disc.

“A Boy in the Bush” - Bones is giving a lecture at American University and Booth shows up to take her to a field to find bones that were tipped off to in a 911 call. They think it could be a missing six year old. Zack wears a special thermal imaging suit to find the body. It turns out to be the missing boy. Interviewing the boy’s brothers Booth finds out that the boy was snatched from the mall and not the park. Booth realizes for the first time that Angela is a squint like the others in the lab. Angela begins to think about quitting and go back to her passion for art, which just is not the same when she is drawing dead people rather than how she used to draw naked men. It turns out that the boy was a foster child just like his brothers. Zack, Angela, and Booth realize that Hodgins is part of a very wealthy family that is the biggest donor to the Jeffersonian. Hodgins does not want to go to the benefit banquet because he does not want his secret to be out including not telling Bones. The younger brother is afraid to tell the truth, but Bones talks with him and has an unique moment of being able to relate with a person due to her own foster care experience. She gets him to talk and the neighbor is arrested for sexually assaulting and killing the boy. Booth gets Hodgins off the hook for the banquet by making it up that he is needed to analyze something for the FBI.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the four double sided disc Bones Season 1 set. I will be posting about one side of a disc each day until next Monday. This is the wrap up of Side A of the first disc.

“Pilot” - This episode begins with Angela in the airport trying to find the incoming of a flight from Guatemala. It turns out that she is picking up Dr. Bones. Bones ends up attacking a Homeland Security officer that she thinks is following her. It turns out to have been a set up by FBI agent Booth to rescue her. He needs her to help in a case involving a body found in Arlington National Cemetery. Booth gets permission to take Bones out in the field, which is the role in the investigation that Bones required if she was to help him again. Bones takes a bat to a television being carried by who turns out to be Peter, who is her ex-boyfriend. Using holographic recreation they discover that it is a woman that had an affair with a Senator. Booth now does not want Bones to be involved in the investigation, but she sort of blackmails him into still allowing her to be part of it. They find out that the woman was pregnant when killed. Bones begins to realize that she best relates with dead people and cannot relate with the living. Bones gets DNA from the Senator by taking his gum and attacking a man that tried to get it from her. Booth and Bones search the stalker’s house. The find a sledge hammer in the Senator’s house, but not the possible crime scene. Bones realizes that it is the Senator’s aide that did it and she goes to confront him and shoots him in the leg before Booth gets there. In the end Bones reveals to Booth about her parents disappearing when she was 15 and Booth tells her that he took a lot of lives as an army sniper and would like to catch at least that many murderers.

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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.

This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. This is the wrap up of the sixth and final disc.

“Split Decision” - Some teenagers find a dead body when doing a human slingshot stunt. The body has a hole in it with a wood piece through it, but Ducky does not think the wood formed the hole. The hole was created by an anti-tank missile. In autopsy Palmer (I think this is his first appearance in NCIS) annoys Ducky by repeating everything Ducky says into a recorder and then his cell phone continuously ringing. Tony is surprised that Gibbs lets McGee use his computer (remember McGee is not a true member of the team until the second season). The dead marine was a staff sargeant in charge of weapons inventory at Quantico and was also a boxer. Tony and Kate search the marine’s apartment. Kate finds the harddrive of his computer has been reformatted. Abby is able to get the data back from the harddrive. Tony goes undercover to a pawn shop as a weapons dealer, as they suspect that the dead marine was selling weapons to the pawn shop. The woman at the pawn shop is suspicious and as she is getting the money to buy the weapons he identifies himself as NCIS and she identifies herself as ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms). Gibbs has Abby make him an arms dealer cover id. Gibbs and the ATF agent meet up with the militia group that was buying the weapons by pretending to be an arms dealer. The militia gets mad when the guns do not work and shoot Gibbs in the chest. The ATF agent then makes a call and Kate and McGee arrest a woman boxer that worked with the marine. Gibbs being shot was a set up with the militia men helping them also get the ATF agent, as she was also involved in the selling of the weapons.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday. This is the wrap up of the fifth disc.

“The Truth is Out There” - A petty officer’s body is found having fell through the ceiling in a night club. The teen that found the body is the owner of the moving night club the body was found at. When they go to interview him at his school, the teen beams the contact info for the doorman to Kate’s PDA. Searching the petty officer’s room they find cash in his stereo speakers. Gibbs and Abby have an interesting conversation about fetishes to try to explain the latex and baby powder found on the man. The petty officer was killed by being run down with a car. Kate and Tony bring in the four that went to the night club with the petty officer. Gibbs interviews them and the tell them that the petty officer left the club with a girl. Tony and Kate interview the bouncer and learn that the petty officer never left the club and it was one of his friends that left with a girl. They suspect the Master Chief was getting kickbacks from a contract and the petty officer was blackmailing him to keep it secret and that explains the money found in the stereo. In a abandoned lot they find evidence that the three along with the petty officer filmed the Wong making out with a call girl they set him up with. They find out that the petty officer was run over by Wong when the petty officer pranked him dressed up as an alien. The call girl messes up the story of it being an accident by saying that Wong knew it was his friend. The episode ends with Gibbs sitting and watching the search trying to identify who Ari is.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday. This is the wrap up of the fourth disc.

“One Shot, One Kill” - A Marine recruiter is shot by a sniper. Kate and Tony end up looking for the bullet in a doll warehouse next door. The bullet ends up being in a doll head in a shipment that recently left. Gibbs and Tony go to an abandoned building to find the sniper nest. It turns out to be a place with no windows and the sniper only removed the one brick he needed to. While they interview a possible Marine sniper suspect another Marine recruiter was shot. The FBI and NCIS have jurisdiction issues with the second murder taking place in a second state. Tony and Gibbs create a distraction while Kate gets the bullet out of the wall and then they leave the scene to the FBI to deal with. Before leaving the scene, though, Gibbs finds a feather that seems to be the snipers signature. Tony and Kate go back to the first crime scene and find another feather. Gibbs and Kate go undercover taking over one of the recruitment offices. It turns out to be the water delivery guy. They figure out a little too late, though, and the sniper fires, but the new glass they put in is bulletproof and also special technology that located the sniper’s nest. Tony corners the sniper in the alley and ends up shooting the sniper before the FBI takes over again.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday. This is the wrap up of the third disc.

“Marine Down” - This episode begins with a marine’s wife getting a phone call from her husband while mourning his death after his funeral. Tony and Kate practice at hostage situation shooting. Gibbs tapes Tony’s hat and Kate’s palm pilot to the hostage image and both end up with bullets through their items they really care about. The team ends up looking into the death of the marine that called and the other marine that supposedly died with him. An imposter commanding officer tells them that the two were murdered by a prostitute. Kate ends up sketching the imposter after Tony and her cannot agree when they try to create the likeness using software with Abby. Tony then finds her sketches of him and Abby in her sketchbook. A tape of the believed to be dead marine leaving a message on a friend’s answering machine is found and proves to be him. However, when they open the casket it ends up being the dead marine. Ducky has trouble telling when and how the marine died. The same imposter poses as Tony and interrogates the other dead marine’s wife. It turns out the imposter is a CIA agent. It turns out that the CIA agent took the money for the two marines ransom and was involved in a cover up. Kate, Tony, and Gibbs fly on a cargo plane to Colombia to hopefully find the other marine still alive. To rescue the marine Kate and Tony end up having to shoot the CIA agent while missing the marine hostage much like the beginning scenes of them practicing and again Tony hits the hostage’s ear, but at least they save him. In the end Gibbs gets into the convertible driven by the mysterious redhead that I do not think we ever find out about who she really is before she just stops appearing in the show.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday. This is the wrap up of the second disc.

“The Curse” - In this episode a mummified body of a Navy Lieutenant Commander is found in a drop tank. The mummy had been reported missing and charged with stealing $1.2 million from the ship’s safe in 1994. In this episode it was revealed that four years before Gibbs third wife hit him in the head with a baseball bat and Ducky stitched him up. There is also a scene with Gibbs having trouble reading the case file from 1994 showing that he is farsighted, which is something Tony then gives him trouble about throughout the rest of the episode. Gibbs and Abby also share a joke about Tony using sign language after Tony contemplates aloud that it would have been an awesome ride in the pod if the Lieutenant has still been alive. Kate makes a reference to a the movie, Bounce, in this episode.

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This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the six disc NCIS Season 1 set. I will be posting about one disc each day until this Saturday. NCIS is one of my favorite television shows and I really like rewatching the show because the main characters have such interesting interactions.

Yankee White - Unlike most series the first episode actually has a name and is not just boringly called pilot. Then again unlike most series its pilot episodes were part of another series (JAG). In this episode the football carrier (I still never really fully understood what this role really is) dies on Air Force One after dining with the President. Thus introduces the beginning of jurisdiction issues that often come up in the show, including introducing Fornell from the FBI, who has been a slightly regular character since then. This episode introduces Agent Todd, as a Secret Service agent. Ducky has a county coroner stall the FBI and Secret Service until NCIS gets to Wichita. Gibbs then has them slickly take over the case and fly the body back to D.C. They further trick the FBI from getting the body by having Tony pose as the dead body as NCIS takes the real deal body to their labs. This episode has Gibbs making several references to the Harrison Ford movie, Air Force One, which nowadays seems kind of odd because by now I always think of Tony has being the character that makes movie references. This episode also has Gibbs telling Todd the first three rules and a fourth unnumbered one she doesn’t have to crochet. At the end of the episode it introduces the mysterious red haired woman picking up Gibbs and Gibbs working on his boat.

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

The Closer: The Complete Fourth Season - This release is a four disc set of the show’s fourth season. The special features probably include Police Files deleted scenes like the previous season releases.

Edward II - This release is a BBC release of the historical play by Christopher Marlowe.

Gunsmoke Season 3 Volume 2 - This release is a three disc set with 20 episodes from the show’s third season.

The Invisibles: Series 1 - This release is a two disc set of the British crime drama series. This release includes six episodes.

Land of the Lost: The Complete Series - This release is an 8 disc set. This release also comes in a limited edition lunch box set.

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit The Ninth Year - This release is a five disc set with the shows 19 episodes.

The Lost Treasure of the Grand Canyon - A Smithsonian expedition disappears looking for a rumored hidden city in the Grand Canyon. Susan, the expedition leader’s daughter and also an archeologist, leads a rescue mission and discover an ancient civilization of savage warriors.

The Mod Squad: Season 2 Volume 2 - This release is a three disc set.

Murder Most English - This release is a BBC television series based on the novels by Colin Watson. It includes 7 episodes.

T.V. Sets: Action Packed - This release is an interesting collection of four different action drama series. It includes one episode of each of the following shows: MacGyver, Walker, Texas Ranger, NCIS, and Mission: Impossible.

This week’s TV on DVD Season I am going through and doing wrap ups of is the four disc The Closer Season 2 set. This wrap up is of disc 4, the final disc.

“No Good Deed” - A male high school junior is killed when shot several times while riding his bike. The boy’s priest leads them to search the kid’s room. The boy might have been killed because of testifying in a convenience store robbery and murder. The boy’s testimony does not match that of the person on trial. Brenda misplaces her purse. She has Flynn and Sanchez work on trying to find it. Brenda begins to think that the boy’s testimony was false related to the call for witnesses to try and prove the man on trial was innocent. Pope’s ex-wife, Estelle, comes to see Brenda at work and confronts her in front of everyone about her thinking that Brenda would take up the affair with Pope now that he is unmarried and warns her against it. They find a photo of a girl in the boy’s room and the cell of the man in prison. They bring in the girl for questioning since she appears to be connected to both. Fritz confronts Brenda about her past with Pope. They search the girl’s locker and finds letters written from the man in prison. They interview the prisoner about the letters he wrote to the girl and he admits that he was using her and pretending to like her while he actually had other more real girlfriends. It turns out the prisoner was trying to set up a friend named Stevie by having the girl find someone to lie for him using the description of his friend. Brenda finally finds out that she left her purse in Pope’s office.

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