Charles in Charge – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Charles in Charge – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Charles in Charge The Complete First Season (1984-1985) (Universal-2006) Scott Baio, formerly of Happy Days and Joanie Loves Chachi fame, plays Charles, a stylin’ mid-80s college student (dig those skinny ties, suspenders and sweater vests) who decides to pay for his tuition and get free board by playing nanny for a suburban couple and their group of precocious kids. It … Continue reading

The Bob Newhart Show – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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The Bob Newhart Show – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Bob Newhart Show The Complete First Season (1971-1972) (MTM-2005) Just what the doctor ordered for the touchy-feely seventies, The Bob Newhart Show was a powerful cog in the MTM Productions machine that cranked out hit after hit (Mary Tyler Moore, for whom it was named, lead the way for Bob). Part of the golden-goose Saturday night … Continue reading

Entourage – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Entourage – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Entourage The Complete First Season 2004 (HBO Video-2005) Entourage moves like an entourage – messy, aimlessly, shark-like, looking for trouble and always finding it. The next great HBO series screeches up next to you and dares you to jump in the ride. According to this savvy show, it seems that The New Hollywood is nothing … Continue reading

Murder She Wrote – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Murder She Wrote – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Murder, She Wrote The Complete First Season (1984-1985) (Universal-2005) Picture this. A struggling actor (Jeff Conaway of Grease and Taxi) is desperate to become a huge movie star, so he moves to San Francisco (ah, yes, the center of the entertainment world) and takes a job in a local drag-queen cabaret. When the heartless owner of the place … Continue reading

The Brady Bunch – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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The Brady Bunch – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Brady Bunch The Complete First Season 1969-1970 (Paramount Home Video-2005) Check your superior attitude at the door, you smug son of a bitch. You know you want to rip into this Brady Bunch DVD with the same gusto and viciousness that you’ve carefully nurtured with your friends and siblings over the course of decades. However, you must … Continue reading

Everybody Loves Raymond – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Everybody Loves Raymond – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Everybody Loves Raymond The Complete First Season (HBO-2004) The terrific Everybody Loves Raymond is the situation comedy structure stripped down to its barest elements. Because the sitcom genre peaked with Seinfeld and had nowhere else to go, the Raymond creators instead traveled back to the ‘50s, to the very inception of this odd but immortal art form, and hit the refresh button. Its … Continue reading

Columbo – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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Columbo – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

Columbo The Complete First Season 1971 (Universal-2004) Columbo had them at hello. The fun in watching TV’s greatest detective is not merely in piecing together murder mysteries along with him – he’s way past the sniffing stage, and besides, we’ve already spent the first twenty-five minutes witnessing the actual killing, the reasons leading up to … Continue reading

The Munsters – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)
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The Munsters – The Complete First Season (A PopEntertainment.com TV on DVD Review)

The Munsters The Complete First Season – 1964 (Universal-2004) Other than the Seavers on Growing Pains, was there ever a more shockingly grotesque suburban TV family than the Munsters? America’s automatic response, of course, is The Addams Family, but don’t even go there. Sure, the Addams were creepy, kooky and altogether ooky, but they were far from … Continue reading