TV on DVD for August 11

After a few weeks in a row with big releases, things are slowing down a bit this week. None of the big network shows are represented. It looks like they all decided to gang up on your wallets next week. 90210 and Life With Derek are the most contemporary offerings, with my personal pick being the big Scooby-Doo double feature. Other offerings of possible interest include some lost episodes from The Super Friends, the women of questionable morals from Pulling, and the sassy Dixie Carter from Designing Women. All that, and more, after the jump.

Scooby-Doo Movies: Double Feature Batman and Globetrotters Scooby Dooby Doo! I couldn’t begin to count how many hours I’ve spent watching Scooby-Doo, in one form or another. It just never gets old, and this is a fun collection. You have the Mystery Inc. team joining forces with Batman & Robin in part one. Better than that, they meet up with Joker and Penguin. Then, as if that wasn’t enough, the gang teams up with The Globetrotters for part two. It’s fun for the whole family.

Life With Derek: The Complete Second Season I never really set out to watch Life With Derek; it just kind of happened. Like Suite Life, it’s just on all the time. If you surf channels, at all, you have to have at least caught a glimpse of this one at some point. Disney could certainly use a little more variety on the schedule, but that doesn’t change the fact that this is a fun show. That is, a fun show with a totally misleading title. Life with Derek kind of implies that he’s the star of the show, but it’s really all about Casey, right? Also, it’s all totally Canadian.

• 90210: The Complete 1st Season – I know, it’s confusing…. This is the new version. Less Brandon, more Annie, and still with plenty of Kelly.
• Super Friends: The Lost Episodes – A great retro collection. They had me at “Mxyzptlk’s Revenge.”
• Designing Women: The Complete 2nd Season – Revisit Sugarbaker and Associates. Dixie Carter is awesome.
• Adam-12: Season 3 – Interesting trivia: Adam-12 was created by Jack Webb, and was a spin-off of Dragnet.
• The City: Season 1 – Follow Whitney from The Hills to Manhattan, but read up first. There are some strange disclaimers about where these disks will, and won’t play, on the Amazon page.
• The Life and Times of Vivienne Vyle – From BBCTV, Jennifer Saunders in a dark comedy looking at media, talk shows, and the cult of celebrity.
• New Detectives: Case Studies in Forensic Science: Season 4 – The Discovery Channel goes inside the world of high-tech detection and crime solution.
• Pulling: The Complete 2nd Season – “In a world of unrealistic shows about modern relationships, only one series has the balls to celebrate single women who get drunk, sleep around and make horrible choices in men.”
• Zorro: Generation Z: Volume 2 – Five more episodes from the modern-day Diego de la Vega.

Clacked by Brett Love
on Aug 11, 2009 @ 11:00 EST5EDT