As usual, the first few weeks of the new year have
very limited options for DVD releases. If you must
buy something this week, go for one of the titles
listed below, but my strongest recommendation is to
wait for better choices.

First, the genre releases:

• Alien
  Nation –
  The Complete Series: I enjoyed the movie somewhat,
  but never
  watched the series.
• Zone
  of the
  Enders: The Complete Collection: The full anime
  series.

Now, the non-genre releases:

• All
  In The
  Family – The Complete Fifth Season: There’s no way
  they’d make
  this series today, even though Archie was clearly and
  repeatedly
  wrong.
• Dumb
  and
  Dumber (Unrated Edition): This is one of the few
  movies I truly
  hated. If you don’t think bodily functions are funny,
  you’ll be as
  bored as I was.
• Gunsmoke
  –
  50th Anniversary Edition: This includes 17
  episodes from all 9
  seasons.
• Have
  Gun Will
  Travel – Season Three: Another Western.
• The
  Merv
  Griffin Show: 40 of the Most Interesting People of All
  Time: This
  looks like a “best of” documentary with clips, as it’s
  only a three
  disk set.
• The
  Mob Box
  Set: Includes Donnie Brasco, Snatch, Bugsy and The
  American
  Gangster.

Finally, the pick of the week. I’d have to go with
All In The
Family. Season five was past it’s prime, but
there are just so
few options this week that it still takes the top
spot. My strongest
recommendation is actually to save up for the March
releases, which
include the fourth season of Columbo, the
first seasons of
Justice League and Batman Beyond in
the long overdue
full season box sets, and Babylon 5: Legend of the
Rangers.