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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![Highest Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/4.png) | Posts: 17,330 |
| Posted: | | | | As most of you know... I love collecting TV Series. Even more then collecting movies. I started way back when the first season of The X-Files was released at a $150 retail price back then. I am so glad prices came down so much for season sets! My favorite thing about collecting TV Series is being able to complete a series... and have every episode. Today I got this in the mail... Jason of Star Command / Space Academy / Ark II All Regions Released: 10/28/2008 Which is 3 complete TV series in 1 boxset. With this set I now have 150 Completed TV Series! I am so thrilled I hit this milestone! You can see my list of completed series HERE | | | Pete |
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Registered: October 30, 2008 | Posts: 1,249 |
| Posted: | | | | You need a less addictive hobby ![](/images/emoticons/laugh.gif) | | | If at first you don't succeed, skydiving isn't for you.
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![Highest Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/4.png) | Posts: 17,330 |
| Posted: | | | | or more money! ![](/images/emoticons/laugh.gif) | | | Pete |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![High Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/1.png) | Posts: 5,635 |
| Posted: | | | | I understand completely. I await season six of Have Gun - Will Travel, which will finish the series. My wife and I revisit Bones and Castle often, and there are other series (especially westerns) I watch gleefully.
I suspect collectors enjoy some recent shows, but actively seek out shows from our childhood and youth... the cherished memories of our individual pasts. | | | If it wasn't for bad taste, I wouldn't have no taste at all.
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,796 |
| Posted: | | | | Addicted2DVD: “I am so thrilled I hit this milestone!....”
Me too!
I started collecting TV series in December 1999 with The Twilight Zone Vol. 14, These be will completely updated next month when series 5 Blu-ray is released. These were shortly joined by the The Sopranos, The X-Files, Inspector Morse and the Avengers in 2000.
After battling computers and online communications since 1956 and short sabbatical from computers in January 2000 I retired my old 86 and bought a new computer and joined the mob on the internet. That and buying the DVD Profiler was all that was needed to complete a serious addiction of collecting TV series. After all now with a few clicks I could have the darn things delivered right to my front door.
I mainly collect crime drama (detective, police) mysteries, sci-if and westerns. And some classic sitcoms like I Love Lucy, I Dream of Jeanie, etc. .
I have added a tag to mark complete TV series and as time permits checking and verifying my collection for complete TV series. I have 286 that are candidates for completes series.
For crime/dramas I have recently branched out to Scandinavian and Italian TV series. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own. Ineptocracy, You got to love it. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln | | | Last edited: by Srehtims |
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Registered: May 9, 2007 | Posts: 1,536 |
| Posted: | | | | I am a collector of TV series as well, but have some catching up to do with you guys...
My favorite peeve: companies bringing out only part of a TV series, varying from half of the first season to all but the last season.
A growing trend I fear, since I notice many recent TV series being available on VOD, but not on DVD/BD. At the same time, some well remembered TV series from the '80s and '90s still need to be detected by the publishers. In those cases there are also often copyright issues (shouldn't happen with newer ones though). | | | Hans |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,796 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote: I am a collector of TV series as well, but have some catching up to do with you guys...
My favorite peeve: companies bringing out only part of a TV series, varying from half of the first season to all but the last season.
A growing trend I fear, since I notice many recent TV series being available on VOD, but not on DVD/BD. At the same time, some well remembered TV series from the '80s and '90s still need to be detected by the publishers. In those cases there are also often copyright issues (shouldn't happen with newer ones though). I agree. Starting a series on DVD then abandonment. | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own. Ineptocracy, You got to love it. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,796 |
| Posted: | | | | . | | | We don't need stinkin' IMDB's errors, we make our own. Ineptocracy, You got to love it. "Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power." - Abraham Lincoln | | | Last edited: by Srehtims |
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Registered: October 19, 2008 | Posts: 409 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote: As most of you know... I love collecting TV Series. Even more then collecting movies. I started way back when the first season of The X-Files was released at a $150 retail price back then. I am so glad prices came down so much for season sets!
My favorite thing about collecting TV Series is being able to complete a series... and have every episode.
Today I got this in the mail...
Jason of Star Command / Space Academy / Ark II All Regions Released: 10/28/2008
Which is 3 complete TV series in 1 boxset.
With this set I now have 150 Completed TV Series!
I am so thrilled I hit this milestone! You can see my list of completed series HERE I collect Tv shows, alot as well. It is the largest genre in my collection. It probably turned out this way because in the VHS days it was not an option. The generally try to complete a seerise, with a few exceptions. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![Highest Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/4.png) | Posts: 17,330 |
| Posted: | | | | on a few things brought up in this thread... Quoting Staid S Barr: Quote: I am a collector of TV series as well, but have some catching up to do with you guys...
My favorite peeve: companies bringing out only part of a TV series, varying from half of the first season to all but the last season. I know what you mean... feel the same way... but when it gets down to it... I am usually at least happy I have some of the series to enjoy. I figure it is better then none at all. Quoting Srehtims: Quote:
I have added a tag to mark complete TV series and as time permits checking and verifying my collection for complete TV series. I have 286 that are candidates for completes series. I have done the same thing... plus some. Tags I have for TV Series is... - Completed - Originally Aired ------ ABC ------ CBS ------ CW ------ Fox ------ HBO ------ NBC ------ Sci-Fi ------ Showtime - Play All Feature - Themed Episodes ------ Birthday Episodes ------ Christmas Episodes ------ Halloween Episodes ------ Thanksgiving Episodes ------ Valentine Episodes I need to add a few more to the originally aired section now though. ![](/images/emoticons/tongue_smilie.gif) Quoting VibroCount: Quote: I suspect collectors enjoy some recent shows, but actively seek out shows from our childhood and youth... the cherished memories of our individual pasts. I have a nice handful of shows that are from my childhood... such as the boxset in the first post. It is a lot of fun watching some of them again... especially now being able to share the show with my daughter. But sometimes memory and genre just isn't enough... and all you can think is "what was I thinking back then!?!" ![](/images/emoticons/w00t.gif) A few had me shaking my head trying to watch it again... like... H.R. Pufnstuf: The Complete Series Region 1 Released: 2/10/2004 Full Frame 1.33 Monster Squad: The Complete Series All Regions Released: 6/23/2009 Full Frame 1.33 But still... part of my childhood so... | | | Pete |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,380 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting Addicted2DVD: Quote: My favorite thing about collecting TV Series is being able to complete a series... and have every episode. For this reason i tend to only buy "complete collection" sets of TV series these days. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 4,596 |
| Posted: | | | | What really pisses me off is that the studios will hook you with the first season then stop because they don't want to pay the rights to the music in the series like they did with "WKRP in Cincinnati". They butchered the first season DVD release by editing out all the original music and replaced it with royalty free crap and by doing this they actually had to cut out entire scenes and even dubbed over original dialogue. It was a travesty. The first season was released over 4 years ago and was received with nothing less than utter disdain from fans of the show. We'll never see the other 3 seasons ![](/images/emoticons/angry.gif) . | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 1,380 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting 8ballMax: Quote: What really pisses me off is that the studios will hook you with the first season then stop because they don't want to pay the rights to the music in the series like they did with "WKRP in Cincinnati". They butchered the first season DVD release by editing out all the original music and replaced it with royalty free crap and by doing this they actually had to cut out entire scenes and even dubbed over original dialogue. It was a travesty. The first season was released over 4 years ago and was received with nothing less than utter disdain from fans of the show. We'll never see the other 3 seasons . Northern Exposure (on that show they changed the music from the original) was the first series i encountered this. What i gathered is that the DVD's would actually cost twice as much if they paid the royalties of the music used on the show. Personally i blame on the greed of the music industry on these ones, not the studios. |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: ![Highest Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/4.png) | Posts: 17,330 |
| Posted: | | | | Yeah... but I think if they need to completely butcher a show to release they just shouldn't bother. Now don't get me wrong... I can see one or two small changes if there is something they can't get the rights to... but if they need to change more then that it probably shouldn't be released at all. | | | Pete |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Reputation: ![High Rating](/images/Ratings/Small/1.png) | Posts: 1,819 |
| Posted: | | | | I too love collecting TV Shows (definitely started with VHS....Star Trek: TNG)....but, even so, when I read your opening post Pete I was gobsmacked!
150 TV shows!!!! Wow, I thought, that's inconceivable....so, I thought I'd look through mine and I cannot believe the results:
1. Queer As Folk (UK) 2. X-Files 3. Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4. V 5. Planet of the Apes 6. Angel 7. Miss Marple 8. Dinotopia 9. Once and Again * 10. Crime Traveller 11. Will & Grace 12. The Dead Zone 13. To the Manor Born 14. Hornblower 15. Kindred The Embraced 16. Babylon 5 17. LeXX 18. Class Act 19. The Scarlet Pimpernel 20. Randall & Hopkirk {deceased} (Remake) 21. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine 22. Dark Angel 23. Rosemary & Thyme 24. Dawson's Creek 25. Charlie's Angels * 26. 24 27. Spooks 28. Urban Gothic 29. The Incredible Hulk * 31. Friends 32. Roswell 33. Murder Rooms 34. Smallville * 35. The Borrowers 36. Chocky 37. Star Trek: The Next Generation 38. Jonathan Creek 39. Party of Five 40. Blake's 7 41. Wonder Woman 42. Poirot 43. Millennium 44. Dead Like Me 45. North and South 46. By the Sword Divided 47. Quantum Leap 48. Shoebox Zoo 49. Jeremiah 50. The 4400 51. Gargoyles * 52. Tru Calling 53. The Outer Limits (New Series) 54. Tenko 55. Danger UXB 56. The Cazalets 57. Charmed 58. The Forsyte Saga 59. We'll Meet Again 60. Shillingbury Tales 61. Ally McBeal 62. Stargate: SG1 63. The Hardby Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries * 64. Murder, She Wrote * 65. Marple * 66. Peanuts 67. Murder One 68. Eerie Indiana 69. Lois & Clark * 70. Alias 71. Goodnight Sweetheart 72. Island at War 73. Blue Murder * 74. The Mrs. Bradley Mysteries 75. Tales from the Crypt * 76. The OC 77. 21 Jump Street 78. Earth 2 79. Star Trek: Voyager 80. One Tree Hill 81. Deadwood 82. Bewitched 83. Lost 84. Crusade 85. Battlestar Galactica (remake) 86. Veronica Mars 87. The Twilight Zone (2002) 88. Firefly 89. American Gothic 90. Buck Rogers 91. Without a Trace * 92. Afterlife 93. Sea of Souls 94. Sliders * 96. Stargate: Atlantis 97. Doctor Who (New Series) * 98. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation * 99. Desperate Housewives * 100. 2point4 Children 101. Absolutely Fabulous 102. Bugs 103. CSI: Miami * 104. CSI: NY * 105. Poltergeist: The Legacy * 106. Sex and the City 107. Anne of Green Gables 108. The West Wing 109. Teen Titans * 110. Band of Gold 111. X-Men Animated * 112. Dinosaurs * 113. Blue Gender 114. Hex 115. Farscape 116. You Rang M'Lord 117. Carnivale 118. Medium 119. Robocop 120. Wire in the Blood * 121. Amazing Stories * 122. Upstairs Downstairs 123. Sapphire and Steel 124. The Grand 125. Surface 126. Invasion 127. Prison Break 128. Highlander The Series 129. Supernatural 130. Murder in Suburbia 131. Rome * 132. Nightmares & Dreamscapes 133. Ghost Whisperer 134. Boomtown 135. Butterflies 136. Jericho (UK Show) 137. Love Hurts 138. House M.D. 139. Doctor Who (Original Series) 140. Beauty and the Beast 141. Beverly Hills 90210 142. Bones 143. Melrose Place 144. Doc Martin 145. Kavanagh Q.C. 146. Chip n' Dale: Rescue Rangers * 147. Primeval * 148. Hart to Hart * 149. Fat Friends 150. Picket Fences * 151. Heroes * 152. Campion * 153. The House of Elliot 154. Brothers and Sisters * 155. Criminal Minds * 156. Cold Feet 157. This Life 158. Dante's Cove * 159. Young Indiana Jones * 160. The Smurfs * 161. The Tudors 162. The Vicar of Dibley 163. Kyle XY 164. Prime Suspect 165. Wish Me Luck 166. George & Mildred 167. Man About the House 168. Murder Most Horrid 169. The Net 170. Are You Being Served? 171. Roman Mysteries 172. DuckTales * 173. The Sarah Jane Adventures * 174. Bonekickers 175. Lark Rise to Candleford * 176. Secret Diary of a Call Girl * 177. Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 178. Robin Hood 179. Nanny * 180. Kingdom * 181. LIfe on Mars 182. Ashes to Ashes 183. Blood Ties 184. Torchwood 185. Gimme Gimme Gimme 186. Baywatch * 187. The Good Life 188. The Invaders 189. Midsomer Murders * 190. Nip/Tuck * 191. Darling Buds of May 192. Sherlock Holmes 193. Fame * 194. Oh Doctor Beeching! 195. Foyle's War 196. The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries * 197. Different Strokes * 198. The Inspector Lynley Mysteries 199. Terry & June * 200. Blade: The Series 201. Moonlighting * 202. Damages * 203. Star Trek: Enterprise 204. Dollhouse 205. Whitechapel 206. My So Called Life 207. Outnumbered * 208. A Town Called Eureka * 209. Demons 210. ER 211. Survivors 212. The Dresden Files 213. Robin's Nest 214. Penmarric 215. Life * 216. Fringe * 217. Bionic Woman (remake) 218. Dynasty * 219. Queer As Folk (US) 220. Being Human (UK) * 221. Casualty 1900s 222. Bramwell 223. Numb3rs * 224. The Mentalist * 225. The Vampire Diaries * 226. Warehouse 13 * 227. Downton Abbey * 228. Being Erica * 229. The Walking Dead * 230. SGU * 231. Glee * 232. The Listener * 233. White Collar * 234. Sherlock * 235. Sanctuary * 236. Upstairs Downstairs (remake) 237. Moonlight 238. Jericho 239. The Outer Limits (Original) 240. The Simpsons * 241. Tabitha 242. Pushing Daisies *
These are in the order I purchased them too. The asterix is to indicate shows that I need to complete or aren't fully released yet.
I honestly thought I had about 90 TV shows...so this result completely floored me! Especially when I think that there are quite a few shows I don't own that I will once I get a job! | | | Last edited: by Pantheon |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 4,596 |
| Posted: | | | | I would gladly pay more for "WKRP in Cincinnati". It was a great show with outstanding music. I just wish the music rights holders would be a little more flexible so the fans of the show can enjoy it as it was originally aired ![](/images/emoticons/sad.gif) . | | | My WebGenDVD online Collection |
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