What is the best TV series box set

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Originally posted by Rockingdoc:
Any suggestions for TV box sets we should all investigate?

Poirot

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Originally posted by munch:
Only Fools And Horses.

But make sure you buy it off a dodgy market stall for ultimate authenticity!!

Six Feet Under. The Season one pilot is all you need to assess it's suitability for you. If you like it you won't find any subsequent season or episode lacking. Unlike the Sopranos which did have its high and lows, and Buffy which had its fair share of fillers. The concluding episode of the last season is not only a properly crafted ending to the whole arc but still stands out for me as the best 90 minutes of TV drama I've ever watched.

Sticking with Alan Ball but only by coincidence, I've hugely enjoyed the first two seasons of True Blood although I thought the second season fell back onto some well worn formulaic narratives already exploited skilfully by Joss Whedon - similar subject matter.

For something more left field, quirky, light weight and utterly charming, I recommend Due South. It's one of those seemingly simple series where you can nearly always see the next joke coming yet it draws you in.

For what that's worth. I could go on but I'll stop there.

Alan Bleasdales "The Street" or "Boys From The Blackstuff". Gizza Job.

I would suggest:

Mad Men
Breaking Bad
Dexter

I would recommend from here...

Superb. Not been bettered IMHO.

On a totally different vein - You cant beat



James

Stu, brilliant! Wish there were more. Tomkinson's Schooldays is still a favourite.

"Oh Lord, we give thee humble and hearty thanks for this, thy gift of discipline, knowing that it is only through the constraints of others that we come to know ourselves, and only through true misery can we find true contentment."

I might add the complete Fawlty Towers as a work of true genius that despite many repeat viewings, never fails to make me laugh out loud.

Band of Brothers.
Rome.
Dexter.

Where do I start? DVD sets of TV series are mainly what I buy.

Let's start with :

Babylon 5
Charmed
Buffy (of course)
Angel
Get Smart (the original series)
Sharpe boxed set
Poirot (Suchet)
Inspector Morse
The Dresden Files ...

etc etc ...

I'm not an avid box set collector, but we do have:-
Band of Brothers,
West Wing
Sharpe
Friends.

Currently watching

Sleeper Cell - series 1 excellent, series 2 - not so sure.

IMHO, Sleeper Cell season 2 was a steep drop off from season 1.

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IMHO, Sleeper Cell season 2 was a steep drop off from season 1.

So far have watched 2 episodes from Season 2. Both episodes seem needlessly dragged out. Hope it picks up soon, but I suspect that it may not. They could quite easily have stopped with just one season, as most loose ends were tied up.

Rockingdoc - I would suggest you check out "Chuck" if you haven't done so already. I was given Season 1 as a Xmas present, and just got round to watching it a week or so ago. Enjoyed it so much I immediately ordered and watched Season 2. Just a a little p.o'd as I didn't realise that Season 3 had recently restarted on Virgin1, and I have missed episode 1.

24

The Wire. period.

Second only to Twin Peaks.

I've thoroughly enjoyed Only Fools and Horses over many seasons/years and others I'm happy to recommend:

X-Files ... aggravating at times but watching the characters mature over the 9 seasons is most satisfying. Even the later seasons when David Duchovny went walkabout still worked for me. Add the two films, too, and you have many, many hours of viewing pleasure.

We now enjoy NCIS greatly and it's easy to get involved with the characters.

And, if you can find them, don't miss the three series of The Beiderbecke Collection ... certainly some of the best TV I've watched in nearly 50 years. And worthy of repeat, time and again.

House M.D.
Star Wars - The Clone Wars
Star Trek: TOS, TNG, VOY, DS9, ENT - in that order.

BBC:

Tinker, Taylor, Soldier, Spy.

and

Smiley's People.

Le Carre, and Alec Guinness at a phenomenal octane. Slow burn, but inevitably clinching denouements.

ATB from George

PS: Faulty Towers is good for laugh as well ...

Trumptonshire Box Set - it doesn't get any better than this.

Also recommended

1 Danger Man: Special Edition (13 Discs)
2 The Prisoner (7 Discs)
3 Steptoe & Son: Complete Box Set (13 Discs)
4 Hancock's Half Hour: 50th Anniversary Collection (8 Discs)
5 Thunderbirds: Complete Series Box Set (9 Discs)
6 Space Patrol: The Complete Series Box Set (6 Discs)
7 Fawlty Towers: Remastered (3 Discs)
8 The Office: Complete Box Set
9 Hot Metal: Complete Series 1 and 2

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Originally posted by munch:
The complete two disc set.

Wonderful

Especially like McIntyre, Treadmore and Davitt surely the best forward line Barnstoneworth United ever had.

If you are OK with a certain amount of foul language and a significant element of sex with some nudity you might enjoy :



Which it soon becomes apparent is a sophisticated comedy of adult relationships. Obviously not 'family' viewing but very entertaining. If you enjoy it then there is a second season you can checkout aswell.



regards
Geoff

Totally agree with Thorsten about "House". So much so that I couldn't believe it took a whole page before it was mentioned. A great ensemble cast with Hugh Laurie as a flawed (anti) hero! To this you can add some brilliant one liners and the odd bit of hi-fi porn. Genius!

In addition to this and the OP's original suggestion of "The Wire" I would add "Deadwood"

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Originally posted by Musicmad:
I've thoroughly enjoyed Only Fools and Horses over many seasons/years

Personally though I'd stop watching after they auction the watch ... I really think that would have been the perfect ending to this usually great series.

Eloise