Damski, Mel

Mischief

In 1956 love doesn't come easy for shy Jonathan Bellah. Not without a little help anyway. That's where his new friend Gene comes in the picture. Gene is rebellious and adored by all the girls. And with a few lessons Gene with teach Jonathan the tricks of the trade. But there are a few things they have to learn on their own, if they are to survive adolescence.

Yellowbeard

Yellowbeard, a comedy cast with the all-star comedians of the 1980s, is a unique, corny spoof on pirate films. Like a Mel Brooks movie, Yellowbeard's plot is a series of ridiculous events, á la Airplane, circulating around Yellowbeard's (Graham Chapman) discovery that he has an "intellectual" son. Brain versus brawn is the film's theme, as Yellowbeard is forced to take his kid on a booty-hunt, since the pirate's ex-wife, Betty (Madeline Kahn), tattooed the treasure map on their child's head. As the bumbling British, including Harvey "Blind" Pew (John Cleese) and Gilbert Murvin (Marty Feldman), sail The Royal Navy Frigate to trail Yellowbeard's ship, The Lady Edith, The Spanish Main, captained by El Nebuloso (Tommy Chong) and El Segundo (Cheech Marin) follows in close pursuit. Three ships in constant battle on the open seas make for multiple comedic situations reminiscent of Monty Python. Directed by Mel Damski (Charmed, Lois & Clark), Yellowbeard has a made-for-TV cheesiness, though the talent of the actors, not to mention its off-kilter British humor, rescues the film from utter stupidity. --Trinie Dalton

For twelve years, Yellowbeard (Graham Chapman) has looted the Spanish Main, making men eat their lips and swallow their hearts. Caught and convicted -- for tax evasion! -- he's sentenced to 20 years in St. Victim's Prison for the Extremely Naughty. In a scheme to confiscate his fabulous treasure, the Royal Navy allows him to escape and follows him to the Spanish Main, where saucy tarts, lisping demigods and some awful puns and punishments await. Starring a who's who of comic cutups and cutthroats including Graham Chapman, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Cheech and Chong, Marty Feldman, Peter Cook, Madeline Kahn and more!!!

Picket Fences - Season 1

While Ally McBeal garnered more attention, Picket Fences garnered more acclaim. It was justified. Set in Wisconsin, the Emmy-winning drama plays like The Andy Griffith Show by way of The Commish. The focus is on small-town life from a law and order perspective. The action revolves around Sheriff Jimmy Brock (Tom Skerritt), his physician wife Jill (Kathy Baker), and their children, Kimberly (Holly Marie Combs), Matthew (Justin Shenkarow), and Zack (Adam Wylie). Storylines alternate between personal issues, like puberty and pre-marital sex, and criminal cases. As Matthew quips, "Things happen around here." At city hall, Jimmy works with officers Kenny (Costas Mandylor) and Max (Lauren Holly), dispatcher Ginny (Zelda Rubinstein), and coroner Carter Pike (Kelly Connell), who likes to exclaim, "Let me exhume the body!" Judge Henry Bone (Ray Walston) and attorney Douglas Wambaugh (Fyvush Finkel) dominate the courthouse. Cases include such tragi-comic crimes as a serial bather ("Frank, the Potato Man") and a cupid killer ("Be My Valentine"), but serious issues also come into play, such as assisted suicide ("Sacred Hearts") and incest ("Nuclear Meltdowns"). Unlike Twin Peaks, to which it was sometimes compared, Picket Fences could be heavy-handed, but piety never trumped entertainment, and Baker, Skerritt, Walston, and Finkel all won Emmys for their work.

Notable guests are a hallmark of every David E. Kelley production, from Chicago Hope to Boston Legal (and beyond). The first season attracted Carnivále's Michael J. Anderson ("Mr. Dreeb Comes to Town"), Evening Shade's Michael Jeter ("Frog Man"), and Man of La Mancha's Richard Kiley ("Thanksgiving"). The series also features one of the last of the old-fashioned orchestral scores, Stewart Levin's distinctive piano theme. Picket Fences ran for four seasons on CBS (when Kelley left between seasons three and four, ratings took a nosedive). Afterwards, Combs joined Charmed, Baker joined Kelley's Boston Public, and Holly joined NCIS. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

PICKET FENCES Season 1 is the first season of the critically acclaimed series from creator David E. Kelly ("Ally McBeal", "Boston Legal") starring Tom Skerrit and Kathy Baker, in the story of a sherriff and his family in Rome, Wisconsin, a town where things never seem to be business as usual. This long-awaited fan favorite is available on 6 discs.

American Gothic - Complete Series

Finally, the complete cult hit series American Gothic, produced by Sam Raimi, comes to DVD for the first time ever! Visit Trinity, South Carolina, a small town with more chills than charm. Sheriff Lucas Buck (Gary Cole) won't let anyone - including local doctor Matt Crower (Jake Weber) or the determined Gail Emory (Paige Turco) - stand in the way of his evil plans. Marking the tenth anniversary of its broadcast debut and packed with all 22 episodes, including four "lost" ones never broadcast on network television, American Gothic's eerie storylines of intrigue and suspense are sure to hold you captive!

Beautiful People - The Complete Series

Daphne Zuniga (TV's "Melrose Place") stars in the touching new TV drama about chasing your dreams - wherever they may take you - in "Beautiful People." When her husband leaves her for a much younger woman Lynn Kerr (Zuniga) and her daughters Sophia (Sarah Foret) and Karen (Torrey DeVitto) decide to take their chances and leave small-town ways for new possibilities in New York City. But life in the Big Apple is also full of unforeseeable challenges and surprises including fitting in with the "beautiful people" finding romance and staying true to each other. From executive producer Paul Stupin (TV's "Dawson's Creek") and Michael Rauch (TV's "Love Monkey") comes the series audiences everywhere are falling for!System Requirements:Run Time: 800 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 043396155343 Manufacturer No: 15534

Take Dawson's Creek, throw in a dash of My So-Called Life and a smidgen of Melrose Place, and you've got Beautiful People. A night-time soap opera on all levels, the series focuses on Lynn Kerr (Daphne Zuniga) and her daughters Karen (Torrey Devitto), 19, who wants to be a model, and Sophie (Sarah Foret), 16, who just wants to fit into the fancy private school where she's known as the poor scholarship kid. Though the show's title could be used to describe the three leading ladies, it actually is the name for the high school's popular clique. Executive producer Paul Stupin worked on Dawson's Creek, and that earlier show's essence is all over this series. Foret could easily pass as Katie Holmes' slightly less glamorous sister, and she utters the same preternaturally mature dialogue as the Creek kids as well. And while the plot lines are never as concise or thoughtful as it was on the Creek, they do have a clumsy charm. The back story to the series is that Lynn moves her girls from New Mexico to New York after her husband has an affair with Karen's best friend. While Karen (a pouty dead ringer for Angelina Jolie) cuts ties with her dad, sensitive Sophie keeps him filled in on their lives with regular emails. That action, ultimately, will force her to choose between her parents. And Melrose Place fans will delight in seeing Zuniga verbally spar with her estranged TV husband Grant Show (her co-star on Melrose). There are some moments in the series that are heavy on the ick factor: an older man's creepy serial killer-like obsession with Karen; Lynn's involvement with her old college sweetheart, who happens to be the father of Sophie's boyfriend; and the clumsy handling of two of the students' sexual insecurities. There are also some inconsistencies in the characters', well, characters.

For most of the 16 episodes--which aired on ABC Family from April 2005 to April 2006--Sophie's friend Annabelle (Kathleen Munroe) harbors a huge crush on their friend Gideon (Ricky Mabe). But after their first makeout session, she rather coldly tells him that it's not working for her. Flash forward a couple episodes and she's pining for him again. Sophie's dream boy Nicholas (Jackson Rathbone) is presented in the beginning as a good boy with some bad friends who tries to appease her nervousness with quips like: "Don't mistake pretension for what's just old fashioned in breeding." Near the end, viewers are supposed to be convinced he's a nasty boy who takes innocent girls to sex parties. Not buying it. The casting director also could've done a better job of hiring peripheral actors who actually young enough to play high school students. Instead, many of the so-called teenagers look as old as the teachers. Though not up to par with the more sophisticated My So-Called Life or Dawson's Creek, it's more often than not melodramatic and fun. --Jae-Ha Kim

Nowhere Man - The Complete Series

Unknown forces conspire to erase the identity of photographer Thomas Veil (Bruce Greenwood, I, Robot), and without warning, every aspect of his life is erased during the course of one evening. His wife acts as if he's a stranger, his credit cards are suddenly invalid, his keys no longer fit the door to his home and in one way or another, his family and friends are silenced. Completely alone, Veil sets out on a desperate cross-country quest for an answer while eluding his powerful and unknown enemy. His only clue to the possible motivation behind the harrowing ordeal is the disappearance of one of his photographs, "Hidden Agenda," which depicts the execution of natives in a war-torn Third World country. SPECIAL FEATURES: - Audio and video commentaries (Larry Hertzog, Bruce Greenwood, Peter Dunne, Steve Rodman, Art Monterastelli and Ian Toynton) - Interviews (Larry Hertzog, Art Monterastelli, Guy Magar, Steve Rodman, Bruce Greenwood, Michael Levine, Megan Gallagher) - Deleted and extended scenes - Promotional spots - Outtakes - Featurette -- "Networking" (UPN executive Mike Sullivan and series creator Larry Hertzog reminisce) - Featurette -- "Fact or Fiction?" (an anonymous ex-CIA operative reveals real world government conspiracies, mind control techniques and how fragile our identity really is)

Ally McBeal - Ally on Sex and the Single Life

When Ally McBeal premiered on the Fox network in 1997, the series was already riding high on critical praise, with its upscale mix of savvy humor and hot-topic legal drama. Created, produced, and written entirely by the amazingly prolific David E. Kelley, the show immediately found an appreciative audience of women drawn to the title character's frank perspectives on dating, sex, and career objectives, and men lured by a cast full of attractive, outspoken women with vibrant personalities and flattering wardrobes. (If you think that's a sexist observation, you haven't tuned in to the show's brilliant balance of male chauvinism, feminist attitude, and hilariously turbulent office politics.)

This two-disc compilation of episodes from the show's first season is aptly titled, because Ally McBeal--a Boston lawyer played by Calista Flockhart--is defined by her seemingly perpetual singlehood, her sexual and emotional yearnings, her professional passions, and--by one of Kelley's creative masterstrokes--her flights of imagination (often visualized via amusing computer-generated effects) that give the series a constant, unpredictable edge of humor and emotional depth.

These well-chosen episodes offer a comprehensive summary of the first season's major developments, including the emotional history shared by Ally and her now-married colleague Billy (Gil Bellows); the notorious "dancing baby" (in "Cro-Magnon") symbolizing the insistent ticking of Ally's biological clock; the amiable quirks of John "the Biscuit" Cage (Peter MacNicol); and the dubious pearls of wisdom known as "Fishisms." Here we witness the sublime chemistry of the ensemble cast, and each member is given ample time in the spotlight. Regular guest star Dyan Cannon is strongly featured in "Silver Bells," prior to the second-season addition of Nelle (Portia DeRossi) and Ling (Lucy Liu). That leaves plenty of room to establish Ally McBeal as the lively focus of the series--confused, opinionated, sexy, neurotic, frustrated, ecstatic, intelligent, emotional... and never, ever boring. --Jeff Shannon

THEME OF LIFE-Ally agrees to see Dr. Tracy Clark(Tracey Ullman), John Cages therapist. Not only does Dr. Clark tell Ally to go ahead with her scheduled kickboxing match with Georgia, but she tells her to get a theme song, "something with bounce." Will this help relieve Ally's stress over a "real" case, defending an attractive doctor from a malpractice suit? Or is it just another chance to fantasize? THE PLAYING FIELD-Dr. Tracy Clark (Tracey Ullman) tells Ally, "You can't stand being liked for your sex appeal and you can't stand not being liked for it." Then she tells Ally to get rid of the dancing baby. Unfortunately, Ally kicks a 'little person' by mistake thinking it's her dancing baby.

The Bionic Woman - Complete Season 2 [Region 2- Import - Non USA Format] [Region 2]

The Bionic Woman - Season 1 [Region 2 Import- Non USA Format] [Region 2]

Harts of the West - The Complete Collection

After suffering a minor heart attack - and a major midlife crisis- Chicago lingerie salesman Dave Hart (Beau Bridges) says adios to the big city uproots his less-than-enthusiastic family and heads West in search of his inner hombre.But when the beautiful Flying Tumbleweed Ranch Hart thinks he has bought turns out to be a broken-down dump with only a crusty ex-con ranch-hand (Lloyd Bridges) still in residence it's gonna take a lot more than Hart's cowboy can-do spirit to tame this new frontier!System Requirements:Length: 750 minsFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS UPC: 844628050050