What TV box-set DVD or streaming are you watching right now?

**Wendigo** · September 9th, 2019, 11:45 AM

Similar to the what film are you currently watching and what book you are currently reading threads

Please do not just post a list of box sets tell us something about the show

Possible tie in with
Best / Worst Box Sets / TV Series of current and all time etc etc !.

I have not been watching as many films recently as I have been going through a whole pile of DVD box sets of TV series

DC's Legends of Tomorrow series 1 & 2
Lost Girl
Grimm
Whodunnit?
Gotham series 1 to 5

I am currently going through some 1970's series and right now am watching Zodiac a TV series from 1974
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161207/

a Police Inspector David Gradley (Anton Rogers) meets an astrologer Esther Jones (Anouska Hempel) whilst investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a bathtub. The series only lasted 6 episodes - all collected here on 2 discs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8BI6O_two

There are a few full episodes on Youtube

2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JUG9E5rcHo

3 - with Jenny Hanley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX_GLTqVY_A

6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPI7F-b-8HA

**Mister Fide** · September 9th, 2019, 04:21 PM

I have between 100-130 box sets most of US or UK television from the 1960s/70s and am currently working my way through 15 series, watching one episode of each a week.

1st season of

The Addams Family
Get Smart
Department S
Danger Man
Journey To the Unknown
Ghost Squad
The Sandbaggers
The Baron
The Invaders
The Outer Limits
My Name Is Earl
Sledge Hammer
Public Eye
Heroes (2006)

3rd season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents......

also, the complete Dark Shadows which is about 130 discs & more than 1,200 episodes!

**Wendigo** · September 10th, 2019, 07:32 PM

By an odd coincidence I've just started on my next box-set also mentioned above

The Baron
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059966/

Just one series made 1966-1967, I remember watching this on Sunday afternoon's in my youth

Steve Forrest plays John Mannering aka 'The Baron', is an antiques expert who is persuaded to double as an undercover agent who uses his daily trade as a cover to solve crimes mainly involving stolen antiques.

Not the best of the 60's TV shows by far but it has a really memorable theme tune by Edwin Astley

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_l6dnoYlM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGjMdVqHeY

**-Wizz-** · September 10th, 2019, 07:41 PM

Mission Impossible Collection

**DrSerizawa** · September 11th, 2019, 10:13 PM

The Time Tunnel

I'd forgotten how bonkers this gets, although it:s nowhere near as crazy as Lost in Space. I've just got to where the first load of silver aliens to turn up.

Star Fleet (aka X-Bomber)

I loved this when I was a little nipper and I've just started watching the DVD box set. It's still a lot of fun. Here's the opening sequence to give the uninitiated an idea of what it was like:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExC6OEQazrc

It was required viewing on Saturday mornings - brings back a few memories!

**-Wizz-** · September 11th, 2019, 11:58 PM

Alien,Aliens,Alien 3,Resurrection.

Prometheus and Covenant are for me no relevant to the story

**Wendigo** · September 13th, 2019, 05:17 PM

Pausing the Baron for a while

DC's Legends of Tomorrow - series 3

After the terribly named Vandal Savage in series 1 and series 2 with the triple alliance of evil series 3 will feature Mallus, on episode 5 now which features apparent vampire attacks in Victorian London.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cYdxE_3dG8

The trips through time are ok enough but I prefer the episodes with appearances of some of the lesser lights of the DC Universe

**Wendigo** · September 14th, 2019, 07:35 PM

She-Wolf of London
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098909/

4 DVD box-set of a lesser known 1990's TV series.
Kate Hodge is Randi

an American student who whilst researching the supernatural is bitten by a werewolf, her professor Ian Matheson (Neil Dickson) teams up with her to try and find a cure.
Along the way they meet a bog man, ghosts, mad scientists, a succubus, zombies, a vampire, witches and much more

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdmq3yeMY-o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy1e1M7HxSo

**tsunamiSD** · September 16th, 2019, 08:56 PM

My internet connection dropped right as I was getting ready to click submit reply, so I might not be able to recreate everything I said. I also have the one season DVD set for She Wolf of London, haven't looked at it in a while but remember liking Kate Hodge a lot, always wondered why no other TV shows or movies didn't feature her. Some of the English characters, including the family she boarded with, were a hoot. Below is my scan of the back of the cheaply made cardboard slip case. I just noticed that the un-enlarged version had a moon that looks like a girl's bent over moon

.

I've been going through the 'complete' (2 season) version of the Witchblade series, which includes some extras, one of which talks in part about changes that had to be made from the comic books that Michael Turner drew. Cast over all is as good as I remembered, but the writing doesn't seem as good. This TNT show got good ratings, but there wasn't a third season because of Yancy's problem with alcohol addiction. Below is my scan of the box cover and the first two pages of the episode guide.

Series Opening
Scene from Pilot

**DrSerizawa** · September 16th, 2019, 09:14 PM

Blakes Seven Complete Series

Blake's Seven has a.really bad reputation for being complete tat, which is completely undeserved. Something to bear in mind: it had exactly the same budget as a show called Softly, Softly which was a cop show. To go from a cop show to a sci-fi saga on the same budget is extremely difficult, but Terry Nation & company managed to pull it off.

The main reason it succeeds is because of the characters and the relationships that develop between them, for example between Blake and Avon, where Blake doesn't trust Avon. The stories are also why it works, because it doesn't have to rely on lots of special.effects to tell the story.

It also helps that the actors manage to pull the whole thing off as well; the late Jacqueline Pearce is wonderful as the series villain Servalan and the late Paul Darrow is also excellent as the scheming Kerr Avon.

As I heard it put, "it's the Dirty Dozen in space".

September 9th, 2019, 11:45 AM	#1
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,794 Thanks: 259,900 Thanked 1,139,378 Times in 113,910 Posts	What TV box-set DVD or streaming are you watching right now? Similar to the what film are you currently watching and what book you are currently reading threads Please do not just post a list of box sets tell us something about the show Possible tie in with Best / Worst Box Sets / TV Series of current and all time etc etc !. I have not been watching as many films recently as I have been going through a whole pile of DVD box sets of TV series DC's Legends of Tomorrow series 1 & 2 Lost Girl Grimm Whodunnit? Gotham series 1 to 5 I am currently going through some 1970's series and right now am watching Zodiac a TV series from 1974 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0161207/ a Police Inspector David Gradley (Anton Rogers) meets an astrologer Esther Jones (Anouska Hempel) whilst investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a bathtub. The series only lasted 6 episodes - all collected here on 2 discs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx8BI6O_two There are a few full episodes on Youtube 2- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JUG9E5rcHo 3 - with Jenny Hanley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX_GLTqVY_A 6 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPI7F-b-8HA __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

September 9th, 2019, 04:21 PM	#2
Mister Fide Veteran Member Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Nearly there Posts: 892 Thanks: 23,075 Thanked 17,987 Times in 890 Posts	Hope to live long enough to watch them all I have between 100-130 box sets most of US or UK television from the 1960s/70s and am currently working my way through 15 series, watching one episode of each a week. 1st season of The Addams Family Get Smart Department S Danger Man Journey To the Unknown Ghost Squad The Sandbaggers The Baron The Invaders The Outer Limits My Name Is Earl Sledge Hammer Public Eye Heroes (2006) 3rd season of Alfred Hitchcock Presents...... also, the complete Dark Shadows which is about 130 discs & more than 1,200 episodes!

September 10th, 2019, 07:32 PM	#3
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,794 Thanks: 259,900 Thanked 1,139,378 Times in 113,910 Posts	By an odd coincidence I've just started on my next box-set also mentioned above The Baron https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059966/ Just one series made 1966-1967, I remember watching this on Sunday afternoon's in my youth Steve Forrest plays John Mannering aka 'The Baron', is an antiques expert who is persuaded to double as an undercover agent who uses his daily trade as a cover to solve crimes mainly involving stolen antiques. Not the best of the 60's TV shows by far but it has a really memorable theme tune by Edwin Astley https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP_l6dnoYlM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GGjMdVqHeY __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

September 10th, 2019, 07:41 PM	#4
-Wizz- Vintage Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Montreal,Canada Posts: 4,935 Thanks: 17,363 Thanked 74,771 Times in 5,083 Posts	Mission Impossible Collection __________________ Wizz Please PM me if i have some dead links thanks!

September 11th, 2019, 10:13 PM	#5
DrSerizawa Mad Scientist Join Date: May 2019 Location: In my lab, working on the oxygen destroyer Posts: 2,835 Thanks: 90,209 Thanked 48,112 Times in 2,842 Posts	The Time Tunnel I'd forgotten how bonkers this gets, although it:s nowhere near as crazy as Lost in Space. I've just got to where the first load of silver aliens to turn up. Star Fleet (aka X-Bomber) I loved this when I was a little nipper and I've just started watching the DVD box set. It's still a lot of fun. Here's the opening sequence to give the uninitiated an idea of what it was like: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExC6OEQazrc It was required viewing on Saturday mornings - brings back a few memories! __________________ Senator: So, We should make Godzilla our pet? Dr Serizawa: No. We would become his!

September 11th, 2019, 11:58 PM	#6
-Wizz- Vintage Member Join Date: Jul 2014 Location: Montreal,Canada Posts: 4,935 Thanks: 17,363 Thanked 74,771 Times in 5,083 Posts	Alien,Aliens,Alien 3,Resurrection. Prometheus and Covenant are for me no relevant to the story __________________ Wizz Please PM me if i have some dead links thanks!

September 13th, 2019, 05:17 PM	#7
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,794 Thanks: 259,900 Thanked 1,139,378 Times in 113,910 Posts	Pausing the Baron for a while DC's Legends of Tomorrow - series 3 After the terribly named Vandal Savage in series 1 and series 2 with the triple alliance of evil series 3 will feature Mallus, on episode 5 now which features apparent vampire attacks in Victorian London. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cYdxE_3dG8 The trips through time are ok enough but I prefer the episodes with appearances of some of the lesser lights of the DC Universe __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content

September 14th, 2019, 07:35 PM	#8
Wendigo Former Staff Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Blighty Posts: 113,794 Thanks: 259,900 Thanked 1,139,378 Times in 113,910 Posts	She-Wolf of London https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098909/ 4 DVD box-set of a lesser known 1990's TV series. Kate Hodge is Randi an American student who whilst researching the supernatural is bitten by a werewolf, her professor Ian Matheson (Neil Dickson) teams up with her to try and find a cure. Along the way they meet a bog man, ghosts, mad scientists, a succubus, zombies, a vampire, witches and much more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdmq3yeMY-o https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wy1e1M7HxSo __________________ RIP Doctor Who To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 0 or greater. You currently have 0 posts. 23 November 1963 to 25 December 2017, sacrificed on the altar of identity politics. The show is dead to me, but my DVD's live on If you can re-up dead links please consider adding this to your signature. It helps when looking at reports of dead posts. Please PM me re any dead images although it is likely if it is outside Celebs I may no longer have the content Last edited by Wendigo; September 14th, 2019 at 07:36 PM.. Reason: site duping posts

September 16th, 2019, 08:56 PM	#9
tsunamiSD Veteran Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Posts: 53,033 Thanks: 633,387 Thanked 640,359 Times in 53,115 Posts	2nd attempt at post re She Wolf & Witchblade My internet connection dropped right as I was getting ready to click submit reply, so I might not be able to recreate everything I said. I also have the one season DVD set for She Wolf of London, haven't looked at it in a while but remember liking Kate Hodge a lot, always wondered why no other TV shows or movies didn't feature her. Some of the English characters, including the family she boarded with, were a hoot. Below is my scan of the back of the cheaply made cardboard slip case. I just noticed that the un-enlarged version had a moon that looks like a girl's bent over moon. I've been going through the 'complete' (2 season) version of the Witchblade series, which includes some extras, one of which talks in part about changes that had to be made from the comic books that Michael Turner drew. Cast over all is as good as I remembered, but the writing doesn't seem as good. This TNT show got good ratings, but there wasn't a third season because of Yancy's problem with alcohol addiction. Below is my scan of the box cover and the first two pages of the episode guide. Series Opening Scene from Pilot __________________ Fortitudo, Fidelitas, Decus I can re-up all my celeb posts, most of my funny posts, and many of my misc funny posts.

September 16th, 2019, 09:14 PM	#10
DrSerizawa Mad Scientist Join Date: May 2019 Location: In my lab, working on the oxygen destroyer Posts: 2,835 Thanks: 90,209 Thanked 48,112 Times in 2,842 Posts	Blakes Seven Complete Series Blake's Seven has a.really bad reputation for being complete tat, which is completely undeserved. Something to bear in mind: it had exactly the same budget as a show called Softly, Softly which was a cop show. To go from a cop show to a sci-fi saga on the same budget is extremely difficult, but Terry Nation & company managed to pull it off. The main reason it succeeds is because of the characters and the relationships that develop between them, for example between Blake and Avon, where Blake doesn't trust Avon. The stories are also why it works, because it doesn't have to rely on lots of special.effects to tell the story. It also helps that the actors manage to pull the whole thing off as well; the late Jacqueline Pearce is wonderful as the series villain Servalan and the late Paul Darrow is also excellent as the scheming Kerr Avon. As I heard it put, "it's the Dirty Dozen in space". __________________ Senator: So, We should make Godzilla our pet? Dr Serizawa: No. We would become his!