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

90210: The Complete First Season - This release is of the first season of the new 90210 spin-off of the original series, Beverly Hills, 90210. This releases is a six disc set. This season has 24 episodes. I imagine this release will have some special features, but I could not find any info on any specific special features or even if it has special features.

Adam 12: Season Three - This release is a four disc set of Adam 12, which is a spin-off of Dragnet. It contains the 26 episodes in the show’s third season.

Front Page Detective - This release is a one disc set. It contains the three episodes of Front Page Detective, which aired in 1951-1952 and is labeled as a Lost TV Classic.

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

Are You Being Served? The Complete Collection - This release is a 14 disc set of the British sitcom show. It contains all 69 episodes of Are You Being Served?

The Best of Make Room for Daddy Collection - This release is a two disc set. The bonus features include a promo of the show Make Room for Daddy and television appearances by Danny Thomas on The Jack Benny Show and The Milton Berle Show.

Designing Women: Season Two - This release is a four disc set of the show. This season has 22 episodes.

Hey Abbott!! - This release is of some of the routines of Abbott and Costello.

The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle - This is a release of a British sitcom. The release appears to be just a one disc set.

Pulling: The Complete Second Season - This is another British sitcom. This release is a one disc set of the six episodes of the show’s second season/series.

The Three Stooges in 4 Hilarious Episodes - This release contains four episodes of The Three Stooges.

The Three Stooges: Feudin, Fuss’n - This release features nine episodes of The Three Stooges. The episodes included are “No Smoking Aloud,” “Fuedin, Fuss’n Hillbilly,” “Aloha Ha Ha,” “Land, Ho, Ho, Ho,” “Squauh Valley,” “The Three Marketeers,” “Furry Fugitive,” “Tally Moe With Larry and Joe,” and “Kangaroo Catchers.”

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

Barney: Sharing Is Caring! - This is the latest Barney release. It says All New DVD, but I am not sure if it means it has not aired on television or not.

The Batman vs. Dracula/The Batman Superman Movie - This release features to full-length movies, The Batman vs. Dracula and The Batman Superman Movie.

Johnny Test: Johnny X and Super Pooch - This release is a one disc set of six stories (I assume this is what I think of as half-episodes).

Olivia - This is the first DVD release of Olivia, which is a show that premiered earlier this year as part of the Nick Jr. line up on Nickelodeon. It has a run time of 95 minutes, so I am guessing it only has four or five episodes of the show.

Scooby-Doo Meets Batman/Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters - This release is a double feature with two Scooby Doo movies. The two movies are Scooby-Doo Meets Batman and Scooby-Doo Meets the Harlem Globetrotters.

Super Friends: The Lost Episodes - This release is a two disc set with 24 episodes. The special features include two downloadable Super Friends comics as PDFs using a DVD-ROM.

UFO Ultramaiden Valkyrie: Seasons 3 & 4 (The OVA Collection) - This release is a 2 disc set of the show’s third and fourth seasons of this anime show.

Zorro: Generation Z: Volume 2 - This release features episodes 7 through 11 of Zorro: Generation Z. I am not sure why the switched from 6 episodes in the first volume to only 4 in this volume, but they do seem to be releasing a volume a month with volume one coming out last month and volume three coming out next month.

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

America’s Test Kitchen: Season Nine - This release is a four disc set of the show’s ninth season. This season of the show has 26 episodes.

The City: Season One - This release is an Amazon Exclusive and thus is on the DVD-R on demand type discs, which do not work in all DVD players. They are not guaranteed to work in DVD recorders or computers and are said to only work in DVD play only devices. This release is a three disc set containing the reality show’s 13 episodes in its first season.

Frontline: Breaking the Bank - This release is of a PBS documentary. This documentary is about the banks becoming superbanks and taking the risks that eventually led to bringing the banks to failure and close to failure.

Inspired Ambition: The Complete First Season - This release is a three disc set with the 13 episodes in the show’ first season.

The New Detectives Season 4 - This release is of the fourth season of the Discovery Channel show. This release is a four disc set.

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

Boy Interrupted - This release is a HBO documentary about bi polar and disorder and attempting to defy the stignma of mental illness and suicide.

Days That Shook the World: The Complete Second Season - This release is a two disc set of the ten episodes in the show’s second season.

Hippos & Rhinos - This release features four Animal Planet shows. The four included shows are Jessica the Hippo, There’s a Rhino In My House, Saba and the Rhino’s Secret, and That’s My Baby.

Elvis Presley: The Ed Sullivan Shows: The Performances - This collection contains Elvis Presley’s appearances on three episodes of The Ed Sullivan Show. The three air dates were September 9, 1956, October 28, 1956, and January 6, 1957. The bonus features include one of the very early Elvis performances, which was shot on August 7, 1955 at Magnolia Gardens near Houston, Texas; a featuretter about Elvis and Ed Remembered; Ed Sullivan Show clips of Elvis is on his way!; special Elvis moments; home movies of Elvis and Priscilla, Elvis and his friends on a film set, and some of the first shots of daughter Lisa Marie; and collectible booklet featuring liner notes by Griel Marcus.

Project Runway: Season Five - This release is a four disc set of this fashion reality show’s fifth season. This season has 14 episodes.

Unsolved Mysteries: Ghosts 1 - This release is a two disc set.

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

Adventures of Black Beauty: Season Two - This release is a three disc set. It includes all 26 episodes of the show’s second season.

Agatha Christie’s Marple: Series 4 - This release is a four disc set of the British mystery show. The set includes four Marple mysteries. The included mysteries are “A Pocket Full of Rye,” “Murder Is Easy,” “They Do It with Mirrors,” and “Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?”

Emma’s Wish - This release is television movie about a 75 year old getting a magical ring as a birthday present. The ring grants her the wish to be reunited with her estranged daughter and two grandkids. The wish is granted by making her younger (35 year old). She moves in with her daughter, who does not recognize her, as a nanny for her grandkids.

The Battle of Mary Kay - This release is a television movie about the true story about the businesss battle for customers between two cosmetic companies.

Following Her Heart - This release is a 1994 television movie about a woman going to Nashville to pursue her dream of being a country singer.

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

Flight of the Conchords: The Complete Second Season - This release is a two disc set of the Flight of the Conchord’s second season, which has 10 episodes.

The Love Boat: Season Two Volume 2 - This release is a four disc set of the second part of the The Love Boat’s second season. This half of the second has 12 episodes (episodes 14 through 25). This release of the second half of season 2 includes the double length episode 17 as it original was aired and not as it was later split for syndication.

Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!: Season Three - This release is a one disc set of the Adult Swim show. The show’s third season has 10 episodes.

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

The Backyardigans: Singing Sensation! - This release is a one disc set of a few episodes from the Nick Jr show that focuses on using your imagination to have backyard adventures.

Bakugan Volume 4: Heroes Rise - This release is a one disc set with four episodes of Bakugan Battle Brawlers.

Sid the Science Kid: The Bug Club - This release is a one disc release of the PBS Kids show that teaches science concepts through the curiosity of the preschool character named Sid. For a limited time it is supposed to come with a bonus disc that has over 2.5 hours of other NCircle Entertainment shows, such as WordWorld and Will and Dewitt.

Sid the Science Kid: Change Happens - This release is another one disc four episode release of Sid the Science Kid. It also comes with the same extra disc for a limited time.

Slayers: Seasons 1-3 Box Set - This release is a 12 disc set of the shows first three seasons.

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

Battlestar Galactica Season 4.5 - This release is a 4 disc set. It includes over 10 hours of bonus features including never before seen extended episodes. This release is also being released on Blu-Ray.

Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead - This release is a one disc release with the “Planet of the Dead” episode of Doctor Who. The only bonus feature is an hour long episode of Doctor Who Confidential, which is about the production and location filming of the “Planet of the Dead” episode. This release is also being released on Blu-Ray.

Dollhouse: Season One - This release is a four disc set. This release includes the 13 episodes from the show’s first season along with a good amount of bonus features. The bonus features include audio commentary version of two episodes, the original unaired pilot, deleted scenes, and the following featurettes: Making Dollhouse, Coming Back Home, Finding Echo, Designing the Perfect Dollhouse, and A Private Engagement. This release is also being released on Blu-Ray.

Life On Mars: Series 1 - This release is a four disc set of the first series/season of the British Life on Mars show. The bonus features include audio commentaries, an hour long documentary called “Take a Look at the Lawman,” interview with director Bharat Nalluri, “The Music of Life on Mars” featurette with composer Ed Butt, “Get Sykes” featurette with production designer Brian Sykes, and outtakes.

Torchwood: Children of Earth - This release is a two disc set of the show’s third series/season. This season has only 5 episodes compared to 12 that the first two had. This release is also being released on Blu-Ray.

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

Charles in Charge: Season 5 - This release is an Amazon Exclusive DVD release, so probably one of their burn on demand projects.

Comic Legends: 4-Disc Collection - This release is a four disc set that features five comic legends. The featured comic legends are Dick Van Dyke, Phyllis Diller, Tim Conway, Redd Foxx, and Groucho Marx.

The Donna Reed Show: The Complete Second Season - This release is a four disc set. It contains the 38 episodes in the show’s second season.

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

Green Lantern: First Flight - This release is coming out in a one disc and two disc set. This release is a Green Lantern movie, which is why it has a short run time and not because it is a few episodes featuring the Green Lantern put together as a limited release. I think the two disc set has some Justice League episodes. This is also being released on Blu-Ray and the Blu-Ray version comes with a digital copy of the movie.

Spectacular Spider-Man: Complete First Season - This release is a two disc set. Finally a full season release, but only after they did smaller volume releases of the show. This set includes all 13 episodes from the show’ first season.

Voltron: Fleet of Doom - This release has a run time of 48 minutes, so I think it is a Voltron movie or special episode, but I know nothing about the series other than the final box set has already been released and this was not in it.

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

Ancient Aliens - This release is a History Channel documentary that investigates the possibility of alien visitors helping ancient civilizations technologically.

Cowboys & Outlaws DVD Set - This release is a two disc set. This documentary set is from the History Channel.

How Bruce Lee Changed the World - This is a History Channel documentary about Bruce Lee’s life from birth to death. It focuses on him introducing ancient martial arts to the modern world.

The Judy Garland Show Volume 1 - This release contains remastered footage of the Judy Garland music show that originally aired in the 1960s. The bonus features include outtakes from the show.

The Mafia DVD Set - This is a four disc History Channel documentary release. The release includes the following episodes of Mafia: The History of the Mob in America: The Prohibition Years, Birth Of The American Mafia, The Kennedys and the Mob, Unions and the Mob, Empire of Crime, Lucky Luciano: Chairman of the Mob, Meyer Lansky: Mob Tycoon, Genovese: Portrait of a Crime Family, Bugsy Siegel, Al Capone and the Machine Gun Massacre, America and the Mob: Wartime Friends, and The Gambinos: First Family of Crime.

Shouting Fire: Stories From the Edge of Free Speech - This release is a HBO documentary about the state of free speech in America today. This is an Amazon on demand release, so it is only expected to play in DVD Play only players and not recorders or computers.

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

Agatha Christie: Poirot & Marple Crime Anthology Collection - This release is a 17 disc set with 21 Agatha Christie cases.

Armchair Thriller: Set 1 - This is a four disc set. This release includes four episodes from the British series. The includes episodes are “Dying Day,” “The Limbo Connetion,” “Rachel in Danger,” and “The Victim.”

Doc Martin: Series 2 - This release is a 3 disc set. The bonus features include photo gallery and cast filmographies. This season has 9 episodes.

- This release is a five disc set of the show’s second season.

Knight Rider Season One - This release is a four disc set.

The Middleman: The Complete Series - This release is a four disc set. The bonus features include audio commentaries, deleted scenes, extended scenes, web featurettes, gag reel, audition footage, The Complete The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome Table Read, and A Gallery of Middleman Photography by Ralph King.

Red Hand Gang - This release is a two disc set of the classic 1970s kids tv show about five inner city kids.

A Touch of Frost: Season 14 - This release is a two disc set with three episodes. The included episodes are “Mind Games,” “Dead End,” and “In the Public Interest.”

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

The Lucy Show: The Official First Season – This release is a four disc set of the second show done by Lucille Ball. This show is about living as a widow with her divorced friend and the two woman raising their kids without the help from men. It sounds like it has a bunch of special features on it including interviews, original network sponsor openings and closings as well as cast commercials to recreate the original television viewing experience, vintage network promos, and more.

The Mighty Boosh: The Complete Season 1 – This release is a two disc set.

The Mighty Boosh: Season 2 – This is another two disc set of the show.

The Mighty Boosh: Season 3 – The third season release is also a two disc set.

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

Robot Chicken: Star Wars Episode II – This release is a special Robot Chicken stop motion animated episode that parodies Star Wars Episode II.

The Secret Saturdays Volume 1 – This release contains five episodes of the show in a one disc release.

SpongeBob SquarePants: To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants – The stories on this release are “To SquarePants or Not to SquarePants,” “Squid’s Visit,” “The Splinter,” “Slide Whistle Stooges,” “Boating Buddies,” “The Krabby Kronicle,” “The Slumber Party,” and “Grooming Gary.” The special features include an Animation Art gallery, which I think is pretty unique for a kids television show release.

Voltron Volume 8 – This release is a three disc set. Note this is the Amazon release date and several people have said that they found this at Best Buy already this month.

Wolverine and the X-Men: Deadly Enemies – This release is a simple one disc one with five episodes of the show. It is as can be expected for a kids series, but this is one of those that people talk more about being ripped off from because the is an older crowd that enjoys them as well and it is not just uninformed parents being suckered into buying a minimal release for their kid.