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

Charlie’s Angels - The Complete Fourth Season – This release is a six disc set of the show’s fourth season.

Hotel: The First Season – This release is a six disc set. It includes the film pilot and the 22 episodes from the show’s first season.

Monk: Season Seven – This release is a four disc set of the show’s seventh season. This season includes 16 episodes. This season includes the 100th episode in the series, which is called “Mr. Monk’s 100th Case!”

Prison Break: The Final Break – This release is a Prison Break movie. I do not think it ever aired on television, but it is part of the show’s overall series of events.

Psych: The Complete Third Season – This release is a four disc set. This set includes all 16 episodes from the third season.

Pushing Daisies: The Complete Second Season – This release is a four disc set of the show’s second season. The episodes in this season include “Bzzzzzzzzz!,” “Circus Circus,” “Bad Habits,” “Frescorts,” “Dim Sum Lose Some,” “Oh Oh Oh It’s Magic,” “Robbing Hood,” “Comfort Food,” “Lighthouse,” “The Norwegians,” “Window Dressed to Kill,” “Water & Power,” and “Kerplunk.” This release is also being released in Blu-Ray format.

Stargate SG-1: Children of the Gods – This release is of the show’s pilot episode. The episodes new features include a New Edit with Never-Viewed Scenes, New and Enhanced Visual Effects, Revoiced Performance by Christopher Judge, Original Score by Joel Goldsmith. The DVD special features include Commentary by Co-Creator Brad Wright and Actor Richard Dean Anderson and Back to the Beginning Featurette.

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. This is the wrap up of Side B of the fourth disc.

“The Soldier on the Grave” - A burned body is found on a gravestone in Arlington National Cemetery. At first it seems it is a war protester suicide, but the initial examination of the body proves that the man was a soldier and murdered before burned. The man was one of those saved by the person who was buried at the gravestone he was found at. As they look into who murdered the man Bones finds the war hero soldier’s autopsy was very incomplete and has the body exhumed. They discover he was killed by friendly fire. They begin to suspect the lawyer national guard soldier, but when they go to confront him again they find him having hung himself with a note saying he killed the man in friendly fire. However, he could not have murdered the burned man to cover up the truth, as he was out of town when that happened. The cover up of the incident goes farther with the soldier that died having killed a family of innocents in the incident that ended with him killed by friendly fire. One of the others in the unit killed and burned the man to keep him from telling the truth about the incident. In the end Booth opens up to Bones and tells her about being an army ranger and taking out a man at his son’s birthday party.

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

Grey Gardens - This is an HBO movie about the aunt and first cousin of Jackie Kennedy.

Guns of Will Sonnett Complete Seasons of 1 & 2 - This release is a six disc set with 49 episodes.

Ironside The Best of Season One - This release includes the first five episodes of season one including the feature length pilot.

Leverage: The First Season - This release is of the show’s first season.

Mad Men: Season 2 - This release is a four disc set of the show’s second season. This release contains the season’s 13 episodes and audio commentaries for all episodes. The featurettes include Birth Of An Independent Woman Parts 1 & 2, An Era Of Style, and a Time Capsule. This release is also coming as a Blu-Ray release.

Mary White - This release is a television made for ABC about a father reflecting on his last year with his daughter.

Peyton Place: Part Two - This release is a five disc set.

Swamp Thing - This release contains eight episodes of the show.

Wire in the Blood: The Complete Sixth Season - This is a four disc set.

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 fourth disc.

“The Man in the Morgue” - Bones is in New Orleans helping identify bodies that died in Hurricane Katrina or unearthed from graves. Suddenly it cuts to a scene of Bones being bloody in a bathroom and receiving a call about it being Thursday, but she cannot recollect Wednesday ever happening. Booth arrives shortly after. Back at the lab there are x-rays of a murdered John Doe. Bones learns she had dinner with an orderly that practices voodoo the night (Tuesday) she got injured. They find a medical examiner Bones had been working with dead in his house and she remembers that she was there that night and got away hence her injuries. The local detective thinks Bones did it and Booth helps hide the fact that Bones was even at the scene by picking up her earring that she finds. The John Doe remains and the related file have disappeared. The detective comes to arrest Bones and Booth tries to prevent it, but she willingly allows the detective to arrest her. John Doe is found along with a new dead body that leads them to suspect the voodoo shop owner’s daughter. When they go there they find her on a spike in the wall. Bones suggests that the girl was pushed on the spike and they then suspect her father.

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

Agatha Christie’s Poirot: The Movie Collection Set 4 - This release is a three disc set with two movie length episodes. The episodes are “Mrs. McGinty’s Dead” and “Cat Among the Pigeons.”

Callan: Set 1 - This release is a three disc set. It includes 9 episodes from the show’s third season, which was the first season of the show that was filmed in color. The bonus features include Callan trivia and a biography of Edward Woodward (plays Callan).

Coco Chanel - This release is of the television movie about the fashion designer, Coco Chanel.

Matlock: The Third Season - This release is a five disc set.

Murder, She Wrote: The Complete Tenth Season - This release is a 5 disc set with the 21 episodes from the show’s tenth season. The bonus feature on this release is the episode “Amsterdam Kill” from the 11th season of the show.

Third Watch: The Complete Second Season - This release is a six disc set of the show’s 22 2nd season episodes.

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.

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 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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