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Nominated for 20 Emmys and 6 Golden Globes, including Best TV Series - Drama, CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) quickly rose to become the number one show on television following its Fall 2000 premiere. The brainchild of creator Anthony Zuiker, the show follows the investigations not of traditional TV detectives working the streets, but forensic scientists who unravel complicated crime mysteries in their ultra-modern laboratory. Either the #1 or the #2 Nielsen rated show since the start of its second season, CSI has helped CBS to reemerge as the #1 network television station, spawning (similar to predecessor Law & Order) two series spin-offs CSI: Miami and CSI: New York. Each exciting hour-long episode begins with the theme song “Who Are You” by The Who, a song more than befitting of a show where criminals are aggressively tracked down, sometimes years after committing their crimes…

CSI focuses on the Las Vegas Police Department’s Crime Scene Investigation nightshift unit headed by Gil Grissom (William Petersen), a quirky outsider whose obsessive quest for the facts and dedication to his work dominates his life. The CSI team is composed of a number of individuals with differing backgrounds and personalities - single mother Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger) specializes in blood-splatter analysis, the highly competitive Nick Stokes (George Eads) specializes in hair and fiber analysis, recovering gambling addict Warrick Brown (Gary Dourdan) specializes in audio/visual analysis, and the rambunctious Sara Sidle (Jorja Fox) specializes in materials and element analysis. Throw in hard-nosed homicide captain Jim Brass (Paul Guifoyle), CSI understudy Greg Sanders (Eric Szmanda), and lab coroner Al Robbins (Robert David Hall) and all the ingredients are present for a show wrought with suspense, drama, and tension. As transients from all walks of life travel to Las Vegas to enjoy the wonders of its adult playground, increased levels of crime accompany them, and the team at CSI is determined to stay a step ahead of the criminal element…

The CSI (Season 4) DVD features a number of dramatic episodes including the season premiere “Assume Nothing” in which the CSI team investigates a series of murders involving couples. When one couple meets another in a bar, and the second couple turns up dead, the police suspect a tandem of serial killers are on the loose… Other notable episodes from Season 4 include “Jackpot” in which a severed head is mailed to the CSI coroner, Dr. Robbins, from Jackpot, Nevada, and “Early Rollout” in which the CSI team investigates the execution-style murder of a porn star and her husband while the CSI also suffers from some internal difficulties…

Below is a list of episodes included on the CSI (Season 4) DVD:

Episode 70 (Assume Nothing) Air Date: 09-25-2003
Episode 71 (All for Our Country) Air Date: 10-02-2003
Episode 72 (Homebodies) Air Date: 10-09-2003
Episode 73 (Feeling the Heat) Air Date: 10-23-2003
Episode 74 (Fur and Loathing) Air Date: 10-30-2003
Episode 75 (Jackpot) Air Date: 11-06-2003
Episode 76 (Invisible Evidence) Air Date: 11-13-2003
Episode 77 (After the Show) Air Date: 11-20-2003
Episode 78 (Grissom Versus the Volcano) Air Date: 12-11-2003
Episode 79 (Coming of Rage) Air Date: 12-18-2003
Episode 80 (Eleven Angry Jurors) Air Date: 01-08-2004
Episode 81 (Butterflied) Air Date: 01-15-2004
Episode 82 (Suckered) Air Date: 02-05-2004
Episode 83 (Paper or Plastic) Air Date: 02-12-2004
Episode 84 (Early Rollout) Air Date: 02-19-2004
Episode 85 (Getting Off) Air Date: 02-26-2004
Episode 86 (XX) Air Date: 03-11-2004
Episode 87 (Bad to the Bone) Air Date: 04-01-2004
Episode 88 (Bad Words) Air Date: 04-15-2004
Episode 89 (Dead Ringer) Air Date: 04-29-2004
Episode 90 (Turn of the Screws) Air Date: 05-06-2004
Episode 91 (No More Bets) Air Date: 05-13-2004
Episode 92 (Bloodlines) Air Date: 05-20-2004

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of the CSI (Season 4) DVD.

In the Fall of 1961, CBS first aired The Dick Van Dyke Show, one of funniest sitcoms in television history. Similar to I Love Lucy, but featuring more docile and less eccentric characters, the show became a mainstay in the top 10 Nielsen ratings for its first four seasons. When the show’s ratings slipped in the fifth season, the network cancelled the show. But in the four decades since, The Dick Van Dyke Show has continued to entertain its fans and their children (and their children’s children) via syndicated re-runs…

The Dick Van Dyke Show is centered around the life of Rob Petrie (Dick Van Dyke), a family man living in suburban New York. As the head writer for the fictional “Alan Brady Show,” he works with co-writers Buddy Sorrell (Morey Amsterdam) and Sally Rogers (Rose Marie). Rob’s work life is always interesting given Buddy’s constant wisecracks, Sally’s never-ending search for a husband, and the trio’s unified harassment of Alan Brady’s brother-in-law, Mel Cooley (Richard Deacon). At home, Rob’s loving yet overly-nervous wife Laura (Mary Tyler Moore) stays at home with the couple’s son Ritchie (Larry Mathews). Surrounded by all these unique characters, Rob is always embroiled in someone’s scheme, fantasy, or shenanigan…

The Dick Van Dyke Show DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere “The Sick Boy and the Sitter” in which Rob convinces Laura to go to a party at Alan Brady’s house, despite the fact that their five-year-old son Ritchie is sick. The two get a babysitter, but Laura’s maternal instincts don’t disappear… Other notable episodes from Season 1 include “Jealousy” in which Laura grows jealous of Rob’s work relationship with a beautiful TV star, and “Where Did I Come From?” in which Ritchie asks Laura and Rob about his origins, and they struggle to come up with the right answer…

Below is a list of episodes included on The Dick Van Dyke Show (Season 1) DVD:

Episode 1 (The Sick Boy and the Sitter) Air Date: 10-03-1961
Episode 2 (The Blonde-Haired Brunette) Air Date: 10-10-1961
Episode 3 (Sally and the Lab Technician) Air Date: 10-17-1961
Episode 4 (Washington vs. the Bunny) Air Date: 10-24-1961
Episode 5 (Oh We Met the Night That We Danced) Air Date: 10-31-1961
Episode 6 (Harrison B. Harding of Camp Crowder, Mo.) Air Date: 11-06-1961
Episode 7 (Jealousy!) Air Date: 11-07-1961
Episode 8 (To Tell or Not to Tell) Air Date: 11-14-1961
Episode 9 (The Unwelcome Houseguest) Air Date: 11-21-1961
Episode 10 (The Meershatz Pipe) Air Date: 11-28-1961
Episode 11 (Forty-Four Tickets) Air Date: 12-05-1961
Episode 12 (Empress Carlotta’s Necklace) Air Date: 12-12-1961
Episode 13 (Sally is a Girl) Air Date: 12-19-1961
Episode 14 (Buddy, Can You Spare a Job?) Air Date: 12-26-1961
Episode 15 (Where Did I Come From?) Air Date: 01-03-1962
Episode 16 (The Curious Thing About Women) Air Date: 01-10-1962
Episode 17 (Punch Thy Neighbor) Air Date: 01-17-1962
Episode 18 (Who Owes Who What?) Air Date: 01-24-1962
Episode 19 (The Talented Neighborhood) Air Date: 01-31-1962
Episode 20 (A Word a Day) Air Date: 02-07-1962
Episode 21 (The Boarder Incident) Air Date: 02-14-1962
Episode 22 (Father of the Week) Air Date: 02-21-1962
Episode 23 (The Twizzle) Air Date: 02-28-1962
Episode 24 (One Angry Man) Air Date: 03-07-1962
Episode 25 (Where You Been, Fassbinder?) Air Date: 03-14-1962
Episode 26 (I Am My Brother’s Keeper) Air Date: 03-21-1962
Episode 27 (The Sleeping Brother) Air Date: 03-28-1962
Episode 28 (The Bad Old Days) Air Date: 04-04-1962
Episode 29 (Sol and the Sponsor) Air Date: 04-11-1962
Episode 30 (The Return of Happy Spangler) Air Date: 04-18-1962

About the Author

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of The Dick Van Dyke Show (DVD).

How do you decide whether or not online movie rental is right for you? Every time I log onto my computer, in every delivery of mail I get, and at nearly every commercial television break I see something about online movie rental. It seems like a good idea, but it is hard to know if it is right for me, or even to know how it works.

There are basically two types of online movie rentals. One kind offers you the chance to do your rental selecting online, but you have to eventually go to the store and pick up your rental movie. On the other hand, there are the online movie rentals that have you choose your movie and rent it online, then it is mailed to you. There are advantages and disadvantages with both.

There are movie stores that are now offering online movie rental where you come into the store to pick up the movie. Their inventory is electronically linked to their website. You simply log on and browse for the movie you want. Once you find what you want and see that the store has it in, you go to a screen where you can check out. Then, once it is all taken care of, you go to the store and just pick up the movie that is ready for you. It works well because you can get the movie right away, but as online movie rentals go it does have the drawback of limiting you to the inventory of your local store with online capability.

There is also a plethora of online movie rental that is based on national online rental companies or large movie rental stores. That trend is to allow you to choose a number of movies you want to see. The company sends you the movies a few at a time, and you can watch them at your leisure. Most of these online movie rental companies then do not require you to send them back at any certain time. Once you do send a movie back, though, you are immediately sent another movie off of your list. With this method, you are in a possession of a new online movie rental at any given time. These types of online movie rentals are good only if you are someone who rents movies often. That is because you are charged a monthly fee to do it.

The internet is good for many things and for creating convenience in your life. One of the most recent advances it online movie rentals. There are, of course, a couple of different types of online movie rental. Each has its own pros and cons, but they both also have positives to them as well. The best thing to do to help you determine if online movie rental is right for you is to look over both options. You will also want to take some time figuring out how much you spend on rentals each month. Do your homework and you will know which type of online movie rental is right for you.

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If the Flintstones are the modern stone-age family, then the Jetsons are the quintessential post-modern futuristic family, complete with flying cars. Following the massive commercial success of the animated classic The Flintstones (1960), Hanna-Barbera followed with additional prime-time cartoon series Top Cat (1961) and The Jetsons (1962). Cancelled after one season on ABC, The Jetsons lived on through the success of syndicated reruns on Saturday morning cartoons, through TV movies and specials, comic books, games, and toys. Its enduring success prompted Hanna-Barbera to revive the series from 1985 to 1988, using many of the same animation techniques and characters as found in the original…

The Jetsons follows the lives of George Jetson and his average middle-class family. George is a bumbling, yet kind-hearted family man who works for Spacely Sprockets, a sprocket manufacturing concern owned and run by the slave-driving dwarf Mr. Spacely. George’s wife Jane is a homemaker who dials up breakfast for the family and pushes all the proper buttons necessary for cleaning the house and taking care of the domestic affairs. Son Elroy is a boy genius, and daughter Judy is a typical teenage rock-and-roller. Throw in a sarcastic robot maid named Rosie and a talking dog named Astro, and The Jetsons has all the elements of a modern TV classic. With flying cars, stilted high-rise houses, and automated gadgets for almost every conceivable form of work, the show matches The Flintstones pound-for-pound in respect to the artist/producers’ breadth of creativity and imagination…

The Jetsons DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the series premiere “Rosie the Robot” in which Jane urges George to buy a robot maid, but George feels they can’t afford it. And with his boss, Mr. Spacely, due to come over for dinner, George doesn’t think he can get raise out of Mr. Spacely if he sees a robot maid at the Jetson home. Meanwhile, Jane has taken a free one-day trial of an older-model ‘Rosie’ who makes Spacely the best dinner he’s ever had, but not before he fires George, prompting Rosie to runaway from home. When the Jetson family finally tracks Rosie down, she decides to stay with the family permanently… Other notable episodes from Season 1 include “Rosie’s Boyfriend” in which Rosie falls in love with the building super’s rag-tag robot assistant, and “Miss Solar System” in which Jane enters the Miss Solar System pageant against George’s wishes, not knowing that George is one of the secret judges…

Below is a list of episodes included on The Jetsons (Season 1) DVD:

Episode 1 (Rosie the Robot) Air Date: 09-23-1962
Episode 2 (A Date with Jet Screamer) Air Date: 09-30-1962
Episode 3 (Jetsons Nite Out) Air Date: 10-07-1962
Episode 4 (The Space Car) Air Date: 10-14-1962
Episode 5 (The Coming of Astro) Air Date: 10-21-1962
Episode 6 (The Good Little Scouts) Air Date: 10-28-1962
Episode 7 (The Flying Suit) Air Date: 11-04-1962
Episode 8 (Rosie’s Boyfriend) Air Date: 11-11-1962
Episode 9 (Elroy’s TV Show) Air Date: 11-18-1962
Episode 10 (Uniblab) Air Date: 11-25-1962
Episode 11 (A Visit From Grandpa) Air Date: 12-02-1962
Episode 12 (Astro’s Top Secret) Air Date: 12-09-1962
Episode 13 (Las Venus) Air Date: 12-16-1962
Episode 14 (Elroy’s Pal) Air Date: 12-23-1962
Episode 15 (Test Pilot) Air Date: 12-30-1962
Episode 16 (Millionaire Astro) Air Date: 01-06-1963
Episode 17 (The Little Man) Air Date: 01-13-1963
Episode 18 (Jane’s Driving Lesson) Air Date: 01-20-1963
Episode 19 (G.I. Jetson) Air Date: 01-27-1963
Episode 20 (Miss Solar System) Air Date: 02-03-1963
Episode 21 (Private Property) Air Date: 02-10-1963
Episode 22 (Planet Dude) Air Date: 02-17-1963
Episode 23 (TV or Not TV) Air Date: 02-24-1963
Episode 24 (Elroy’s Mob) Air Date: 03-03-1963

Britt Gillette is author of The DVD Report, a blog where you can find more reviews like this one of The Jetsons (DVD).