Which shows do you have the COMPLETE series for on DVD?

[Romain]

Well, it's going to be a long list as I never buy a TV show that I don't intend to complete.

Anyway, here's my collection of completed shows so far, in alphabetical order (shows which spell their title with a numeral rather than in full letters at the top). Whenever possible, I tried to give information to avoid confusion with existing shows that have similar titles to the ones I own.

30 Rock
The 4400
The Addams Family
Alias
Ally McBeal
Angel
Angels in America (miniseries)
Army Wives
Babylon 5
Batman
Battlestar Galactica (2003)
Beauty and the Beast (1987)
Beverly Hills, 90210
Bewitched
Breaking Bad
Brothers and Sisters
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Caprica
Charmed
Chicago Hope
China Beach
The Colbys
Columbo
The Cosby Show
Dallas (1978)
Damages
Dawson's Creek
Dead Like Me
Desperate Housewives
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dollhouse
Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23
Doogie Howser, M.D.
Dynasty
Elvis: The Early Years (miniseries)
Empire Falls (miniseries)
Enlightened
ER
Everwood
Farscape
Felicity
The Fresh Prince of Bel Air
Friday Night Lights
Friends
Gilmore Girls
Glee
The Golden Girls
The Good Wife
Here's Lucy
Hill Street Blues
Hot in Cleveland
I Love Lucy
Justified
The L Word
L.A. Law
Las Vegas
Mad Men
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Melrose Place (1992)
Mildred Pierce (miniseries)
Mission: Impossible (1966)
The Mists of Avalon (miniseries)
Moonlighting
Murder, She Wrote
My So-Called Life
The Nanny
Nikita
Nip/Tuck
North and South (US miniseries)
The OC
Oz
Pan Am
Parenthood (2010)
Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Parks and Recreation
Party of Five
Private Practice
Quantum Leap
Alex Haley's Queen (miniseries)
Queer as Folk (UK)
Revenge
Roots (1977, miniseries)
Roots: The Next Generations (miniseries)
Seinfeld
Sex and the City
Six Feet Under
Smallville
Smash
Star Trek
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Star Trek: Voyager
Taxi (1978)
thirtysomething
Three's Company
Treme
True Blood
Ugly Betty
Veronica Mars
Weeds
The West Wing
Wild Palms (miniseries)
The Wire
Wonder Woman
Wonderfalls

I also do have the complete original runs of Twin Peaks, Will & Grace and The X-Files, but those were made incomplete when the shows were revived. The rest of my collection is made up of shows that I either haven't gotten around to buying every season of just yet (Downton Abbey for instance) or of which I have every season available but the DVD releases have stalled (my beloved Knots Landing being the prime example of that). I have what has been released of The Avengers (1961) but cannot consider that as complete since some "lost" episodes are missing from the DVDs. And of course, I have a few shows that are still in production as well (such as Grey's Anatomy, Arrow and Modern Family to name just a few).

 

[J. R.'s Piece]

I have what has been released of The Avengers (1961) but cannot consider that as complete since some "lost" episodes are missing from the DVDs.

And they found the first series episode, Tunnel of Fear, which is due for release next year. But you have a complete collection of what is left. They included reconstructions and photos from many of the missing episodes on the Optimum/Studio Canal releases. And you can get Big Finish audio plays of the missing episodes. Adam Adamant Lives! was released as the complete collection but many episodes are missing. These are represented on the DVD set by the inclusion of the scripts of these missing episodes .

 

[Seaviewer]

QUARK starring Richard Benjamin was there too! Joan Van Ark was the Princess Libido in a two-parter with the one who played Guzzler in a Dallas episode.

Quark was created by Buck Henry (Get Smart, The Graduate, Heaven Can Wait.).

It was a Star Trek parody with Benjamin's Captain recording so-called "Star Notes" in his log. From what I've read, the current Orville seems to be quite similar.

 

[bmasters9]

The rest of my collection is made up of shows that I either haven't gotten around to buying every season of just yet (Downton Abbey for instance)

I have quite a few that are like that, both of which I intend to get all of sometime in the future (Have Gun, Will Travel, for instance; that 1957-63 CBS Western is so good that sooner or later I might complete it) and of which I have no intentions to completion anytime in the future (such as, for example, O-R Jack Lord Five-O, which I had been getting the releases of through the eighth season, but have no intentions of completing because it supposedly went downhill in the latter years [although I did get that 12th and final season's worth, 1979-80, just to see how bad it got in those latter years]).

 

[J. R.'s Piece]

I just found ATV’s Sergeant Cork, starring John Barrie and William Gaunt (who I last met last year). It had slipped behind the Blakes 7 (with Gareth Thomas as Blake) complete collection. Along with TVS’ Knights of God, starring Gareth Thomas, Patrick Troughton, Nigel Stock and John Woodvine. Two of it’s leads died before it aired. ITC’s Skiboy was in there. Along with the BBC’s The Aphrodite Inheritance and ITC’s Seaway. And HTV’s Children of the Stones, with Freddie Jones, Iain Cuthbertson, Veronica Strong (who had betrayed Adam Adamant) and Gareth Thomas as Brake. Vegas was in there too.

 

[bmasters9]

Barney Miller, though set in NYC, was taped in Hollywood at the ABC Television Center there (a.k.a. ABC Prospect), and was originally taped before live audiences; starting around the fourth season (or sometime in that frame), it began to no longer be taped before live audiences (IIRC, it was because the episodes took insanely long times to complete with the audiences, and thus they abolished the audiences and simply went to straight taping on the set; that's just how I've heard it, and I may be incorrect).

Attached are two of the ABC Television Center taping credits from Barney Miller, one from the audience taping time in 1975, the other from beyond that time in 1980 (both captured from Shout!'s all-in-one DVD).

 

[J. R.'s Piece]

I just found a DVD set of Channel 4’s Green Wing, lurking behind Gideon’s Way and various releases of The Prisoner and it’s soundtrack.

 

[bmasters9]

Mannix, expanded (fronts and backs of each individual release); only the first release had any bonuses, the others being barebones, episodes-only; also, the second and third seasons had 25 episodes apiece (the first one, and fourth through final ones, had 24 apiece)

 

[bmasters9]

Bumping up: Future Cop (all-in-one of this short-lived 1977 ABC sci-fi/police series w/the late, great Ernest Borgnine, plus John Amos and Michael Shannon [Shannon playing the titular android cop]; includes the 1976 pilot film, and also includes the 1978 NBC reboot attempt film The Cops and Robin)

 

[Snarky Oracle!]

Barney Miller, though set in NYC, was taped in Hollywood at the ABC Television Center there (a.k.a. ABC Prospect), and was originally taped before live audiences; starting around the fourth season (or sometime in that frame), it began to no longer be taped before live audiences (IIRC, it was because the episodes took insanely long times to complete with the audiences, and thus they abolished the audiences and simply went to straight taping on the set; that's just how I've heard it, and I may be incorrect).

And it hurt the show badly. As Bob Newhart once observed, a live audience guides and corrects.

BTW: I've decided that BARNEY MILLER and NIGHT COURT actually had the same theme song. And MAYBERRY RFD's theme was just F-TROOP's theme slowed down -- they didn't even had to recast!

 

[Willie Oleson]

It's mine now

 

[bmasters9]

It's mine now

That's great that you have a R2 L.A. Law all-in-one-- we can't even get past the third go (1988-89) in R1, for reasons unknown!

 

[Willie Oleson]

we can't even get past the third go (1988-89) in R1, for reasons unknown!

Yes, it's strange how these things work.
Scandinavia had the complete How The West Was Won long before the R1 version.
They never completed the Melrose Place collection in Europe, although I'm sure it was popular over here.
Some out-and-out British TV classics were only (or first) released in Holland, not the UK.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

It's mine now

Enjoy, Willie.

Sadly, I've now eBayed my copy, but I rewatched the entire series earlier this year and loved it. You may like to check out this thread in due course to see how our viewing experiences compare.

 

[Willie Oleson]

Sadly, I've now eBayed my copy

But why? One of the reasons I've bought it is because I wanted to add it to my collection of High Quality TV shows. I would never buy just anything, no it has to be really good (or at least "so bad it's good").
And have you seen the spines of the individual DVD sets? Have you ever seen a set of DVDs (8 volumes or more) with such consistent font & artwork? It's almost perfect, and I say almost because the first three volumes don't have the logo printed on the spine.

You may like to check out this thread

I will! I like to read reviews of shows that I have watched recently. I never missed an episode of L.A. Law when it was on television, but that is such a loooooong time ago.
I remember The Elevator Scene, the earthquake that didn't happen (kinda like when the Sumner Group building was on fire and I just kept waiting for the big spectacle) and when Stuart Markowitz overturned his mother-in-law's china cabinet.
"Now you really have a reason to dislike me!" he said. That made so much sense I just never forgotten it.

 

[Mel O'Drama]

But why?

To get scientific about it: space and time. As you'll see from my list earlier in this thread, I have a fairly extensive collection of TV shows on DVDs and I'm running out of room. I tend to hang on to all of them, but I recently got brave and decided to part with some I'm unlikely to rewatch anytime soon.

The LA Law set is a chunky box, and as I've recently finished watching it I couldn't imagine watching it again for at least another decade, which is a long time for it to sit there taking up that much space. So I'll let someone else enjoy it. I may regret it later, but so far, so good.

I never missed an episode of L.A. Law when it was on television, but that is such a loooooong time ago.
I remember The Elevator Scene, the earthquake that didn't happen (kinda like when the Sumner Group building was on fire and I just kept waiting for the big spectacle) and when Stuart Markowitz overturned his mother-in-law's china cabinet.
"Now you really have a reason to dislike me!" he said. That made so much sense I just never forgotten it.

It was the same for me. Up until this year I hadn't watched it since it originally aired in the late Eighties/early Nineties (though I don't think I watched it to the very end). You've remembered more than I did. I too remembered the infamous lift scene and not much more than that. You're in for a treat.

 

[bmasters9]

Rockford Files from Mill Creek

 

[Willie Oleson]

I couldn't imagine watching it again for at least another decade

Yes, the shows should have some re-watchability (does that word exist?) and in my case that only goes for the classic shows, and a few of the HBO series like Carnivale, Six Feet Under and Rome.

So I'll let someone else enjoy it

That's a lovely thought, now I wish I had bought it from you. Your set would have gotten a nice and friendly new home and I think you would have liked that[/Saccharine]

 

[J. R.'s Piece]

I just dug out The Life and Loves of a She-Devil, which I had forgotten about. It was hiding behind Man in a Suitcase Umbrella DVD set, Man in a Suitcase Network DVD set, Man in a Suitcase original soundtrack 5 CD set and In Conversation with Richard Bradford DVD (star of Man in a Suitcase). And Thriller. So I'm going to spend tomorrow evening with Joanna Pettet twice. And with three Donna Mills, one of whom has to deal with twin Ian Hendrys.

 

[J. R.'s Piece]

I've got all of Wizards Vs Aliens.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=my7RfqPl0vE