The release schedule is getting good again as the summer approaches.

First, the DVD releases:

• The 4400 – The Complete Third Season
• The Adventures of the Black Stallion – The Complete Second Season
• Ah! My Goddess: Season 2, Vol. 1 – Everyone Has Wings
• Battlestar Galactica – Complete Second Season: This is just a shrink wrapped packaging of the 2.0 and 2.5 releases. Those of us who already picked those up wouldn’t get anything new here, and those who waited for the complete season now have the closest they’ll get to it.
• Because I Said So
• Big – The Director’s Cut: This movie felt a little long to me the first time. I’m not sure it really needs an extended cut.
• Cagney and Lacey – Season One
• The Caine Mutiny (Collector’s Edition)
• Catch and Release
• Classic Western Round-Up, Vol. 1: Includes “The Texas Rangers,” “Canyon Passage,” “Kansas Raiders” and “The Lawless Breed.”
• Classic Western Round-Up, Vol. 2: Includes “The Texans,” “California,” “The Cimarron Kid” and “The Man From The Alamo.”
• Clatterford – Season One
• Daniel Boone – Season Three
• Dirty Dancing (20th Anniversary Edition)
• Donnie Brasco (Extended Cut)
• Everybody Loves Raymond – The Complete Eighth Season
• From Other Worlds
• Fungus the Bogeyman
• Fur – An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
• Girls Gone Bad – The Delinquent Dames Collection: A 25 movie set.
• The Guns of Navarone (Collector’s Edition)
• Guyver, Vol. 4: Innocence and Wrath
• Jason of Star Command – The Complete Series
• The John Wayne Collection, Vol. 1: Includes “The Quiet Man,” “The Sands of Iwo Jima,” “Flying Tigers” and “The Wake of the Red Witch.”
• John Wayne Collection, Vol. 2: Includes “Rio Grande,” “A Lady Takes A Chance,” “The Fighting Kentukian” and “Dakota.”
• McLeod’s Daughters Complete Second Season
• Mission – Magic! (Complete Series)
• Music and Lyrics
• Pirates of the Golden Age Movie Collection: Includes “Against All Flags,” “Buccaneer’s Girl,” “Yankee Pasha” and “Double Crossbones.”
• Revenge
• That ’70s Show – Season 6
• That Thing You Do! – The Director’s Cut
• To Catch A Thief (Special Collector’s Edition): A great Hitchcock flick.
• Ultimate Summer Break DVD Giftset: Includes “Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj,” “Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure,” “Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey,” “UHF,” “National Lampoon Presents Dorm Daze,” “National Lampoon’s Gold Diggers,” “Class Reunion,” “Cooley High,” and “National Lampoon Goes to the Movies.” My advice is to just grab the Bill and Ted movies in their own box set and leave the rest behind. (I’ve got all of Weird Al’s albums, but give him a visual medium, and the humour gets cheap and low brow. When he branched out from music, he should have gone to novels instead of movies and television.)
• Ultimate War DVD Giftset: This is a much better collection, including “The Great Escape,” “Flyboys,” “633 Squadron,” “The Battle of Britain,” “The Devil’s Brigade,” “Exodus,” “Paths of Glory,” “Platoon,” “Run Silent, Run Deep” and “Zulu.”
• Ultimate Western DVD Giftset: Includes “The Big Country,” “Fistful of Dollars,” “For a Few Dollars More,” “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly – Extended Cut,” “Hang ‘Em High,” “Heaven’s Gate,” “Hour of the Gun,” “The Magnificent Seven (Collector’s Edition),” “The Missourit Breaks” and “Red River.”
• Voltron – Defender of the Universe – Collection Three
• The Waltons – The Complete Fifth Season
• You and Your Stupid Mate

Now, the Blu-Ray releases:

• Catch and Release
• Dirty Dancing – 20th Anniversary Edition
• Donnie Brasco (Extended Cut)
• Revenge

Here are the HD DVD releases:

• Battle of the Bulge

Finally, the pick of the week. The two best products on this list are new packagings of existing products. The Battlestar Galactica set is just a shrink wrap, and To Catch A Thief has already been released with a different set of extras.