Topic: Completed Series?

[Blair]

I hated that the show went off so suddenly, particularly with the excuse that it was being canceled due to the cost off the effects getting too high.

What effects? Sometimes you see them as a ghost image instead of a solid person, and then there is the fade away into the light. Everything else is basic camera and editing. Reading Wikipedia, I see that Hewitt made a comment which is exactly how i feel about many suddenly-canceled shows: "When you've taken people on a journey for so long, the least you can do is give them a goodbye. For a show that was about unfinished business, we didn't get to finish."

[addicted2dvd]

Completely agree. I would have liked to see one more season at least... and would have liked them to know from the start of the season that it is the final season. Like they did with Smallville this year. That way they have plenty of time to finish off the series the way they want to.

[Dragonfire]

Oh I hate it when shows get canceled without much warning.  It sucks when they can't tie things up.

[addicted2dvd]

Well the good thing is that it is a full season... so they were able to tie up the season just fine. They just didn't know they had to tie up the entire series.

[Dragonfire]

I really hate it when a show sets up something for the next season...and then the show is canceled after the final episode of the season is filmed..so they have no way to try to tie up anything.

Spaced is another completed series for me...I still haven't double checked my count.  I'll get it to.

[samuelrichardscott]

10.5 Apocalypse
Air America
Alias
Ally McBeal
At Home with the Eubanks
Band of Brothers
Batfink
Black Books
Blade
Blood Ties
Bo Selecta
Bonekickers
Boogiepop Phantom
The Catherine Tate Show
Caught On Tape
City of Men
Clerks: Uncensored
Colditz (Mini Series)
The Comeback: Season 1
Comedy of Errors
Coriolanus
Coupling
Dark Angel
Deadly Arts
Dinnerladies
Due South
Early Doors
Eerie, Indiana
Firefly
Fist of Fury: Sworn Revenge (Mini Series)
Fist of Fury: The Legend Lives On (Mini Series)
Flash Gordon (new version)
Gimme Gimme Gimme
Girls on Top
IT (Mini Series)
Jack the Ripper: The Complete Series (Mini Series)
The Kingdom AKA Riget (Mini Series)
The League of Gentlemen
Legit
Little Britain
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Map & Lucia
Max & Paddy's Road to Nowhere
Middlemarch (Mini Series)
Mutual Friends
The Office (UK)
Oktober (Mini Series)
Porridge
Rose Red (Mini Series)
Roswell
The Sensational 70s
Sex and the City
The Shield
Spaced
Starsky & Hutch
Street Ball: The And1 Mix Tape Tour
Storm of the Century (Mini Series)
Surface
That Peter Kay Thing
Thin Blue Line
Tipping the Velvet (Mini Series)
The Triangle (Mini Series)
Tru Calling
Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky (Mini Series)
Visionaries
Viva La Bam
Wacky Races
Wild Caribbean
Yes Minister

I also have quite a lot that are almost complete and a bunch where I have all that are available.

[DJ Doena]

[DJ Doena]

With



I've completed my 45th series. I have now 353 seasons on DVD and Blu-ray.

Name	# of aired Seasons	Has ended?	# of Seasons on DVD	Continue buying?
8 Simple Rules	3	yes	2	no
21 Jump Street	5	yes	1	no
24	8	yes	7	yes
4400, The	4	yes	2	no
The A-Team	5	yes	5	-
Airwolf	3	yes	3	-
Alias	5	yes	5	-
Alien Nation	1	yes	1	-
Arabela	1	yes	1	-
Babylon 5	5	yes	10	-
Crusade	1	yes	1	-
Battlestar Galactica (1978)	1	yes	1	-
Galactica 1980	1	yes	1	-
Battlestar Galactica (2003)	4	yes	4	-
Being Human (UK)	3	no	2	? -> yes
The Big Bang Theory	4	no	3	yes
Bones	6	no	4	yes
Buck Rogers in the 25th Century	2	yes	2	-
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	7	yes	15	-
Angel	5	yes	5	-
Burn Notice	4	no	3	yes
Castle	3	no	2	yes
Charmed	8	yes	4	no
Chuck	4	no	3	yes
Community	2	no	1	yes
Coupling (UK)	4	yes	4	-
Desperate Housewives	7	no	2	? -> yes
Dexter	5	no	4	yes
Doctor Who	5	no	4	yes
Torchwood	4	no	3	yes
The Sarah Jane Adventures	4	no?	2	? -> maybe
Dollhouse	2	yes	2	-
Dragon Ball Z	10?	yes	1	no
Due South	4	yes	4	-
The Dukes of Hazzard	7	yes	7	-
Early Edition	4	yes	1	no
ER	15	yes	10	no
Eureka	4	no	2	no
The Fall Guy	5	yes	1	no
Farscape	5	yes	5	-
Firefly	1	yes	1	-
Friends	10	yes	20	-
Joey	2	yes	1	no
The Good Wife	2	no	1	yes
Gossip Girl	4	no	3	yes
The Guild	4	no	3	yes
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys	6	yes	1	no
Xena	6	yes	6	-
Heroes	4	yes	3	no
Highlander	6	yes	6	-
Home Improvement	8	yes	2	no
House, M.D.	7	no	5	yes
How I Met Your Mother	6	no	5	yes
The IT Crowd	4	no	3	yes
JAG	10	yes	9	yes
Justified	2	no	1	yes
The King of Queens	9	yes	4	no
Knight Rider (1982)	4	yes	4	-
Létající Cestmír	1	yes	1	-
Leverage	3	no	2	yes
Life on Mars (UK)	2	yes	2	-
Ashes to Ashes	3	yes	1	?
Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman	4	yes	4	-
LOST	6	yes	5	? -> yes
M*A*S*H	11	yes	11	-
MacGyver	7	yes	7	-
Mad Men	4	no?	4	yes
Married...with Children	11	yes	1	no
Merlin	3	no	1	? -> yes
The Nanny	6	yes	1	no
Night Court	9	yes	1	no
North and South	3	yes	2	no
Primeval	3	no?	2	no
Quantum Leap	5	yes	5	-
Roseanne	9	yes	1	no
Scarecrow and Mrs. King	4	yes	1	no
Scooby Doo, Where Are You!	2	yes	2	-
Scrubs	8	yes	1	no
SeaQuest DSV	3	yes	1	no
Sherlock	1	no?	1	yes
Shogun	1	yes	1	-
The Simpsons	22	no	4	no
Sledge Hammer	2	yes	2	-
Sliders	5	yes	2	no
Smallville	10	yes	10	yes
Space Patrol	1	yes	1	-
Space: Above and Beyond	1	yes	1	-
Star Trek	3	yes	3	-
Star Trek: The Next Generation	7	yes	7	-
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine	7	yes	7	-
Stargate SG-1	10	yes	10	-
Stargate Atlantis	5	yes	2	no
Superman	3	yes	3	-
Supernatural	6	no	4	yes
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles	2	yes	2	-
Tru Calling	2	yes	2	-
True Blood	3	no	1	yes
Two and a Half Men	8	yes?	7	yes
V (1983)	1	yes	1	-
V: The Final Battle	1	yes	1	-
V (1984)	1	yes	1	-
V (2009)	2	no?	1	? -> maybe
The Vampire Diaries	2	no	1	yes
Veronica Mars	3	yes	3	-
White Collar	2	no	1	yes
	483		353	45

[Blair]

I like the way that you broke that down.

Why do you have two copies of Babylon 5, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Friends?

[DJ Doena]

Babylon 5 was the first really affordable TV show here. Before that I bought Star Trek: TNG and DS9 for 100-110 euros per season. When B5 came out they sold it for €40 and later for €30. It was then when I swore never to pay that much money for a TV season again.

But that's not the point.

I bought B5 on a season basis when each season came out. Later the distributor went through the forums and asked for people who were willing to attend a brain-storming session for a complete box set. We had some wonderful ideas that evening (like a plastic model of the station which could be opened and would hold the discs (the station has basically the form of a cylinder).

I didn't have that much creativity but was more practical and in the end that was basically my idea, down to the images that are on each side of the box:



(on the other sides is a Starfury and an Omega Destroyer).

So how could I not buy it when it came out?




I first bought the Friends superbox from UK. It was only then that I learned that the US box contained quite a number of extended episodes. So I double dipped.




And the UK Buffy box contained the 16:9 episodes from the fourth season onwards. But I read somewhere that Joss Whedon intended the 4:3 image as the target, so I bought the US 4:3 version. The irony is that I still prefer the 16:9 variant. You can sometimes see why the framing wasn't intended to be 16:9 in certain shots (like seeing Marsters's flesh-coloured slip when Spike was supposedly naked), but most of the time you don't see any difference.



In fact, I have the thirst season of Buffy three times. Because after I watched the first season and decided to buy the rest, the complete box was far cheaper than the seasons 2-7 combined.

[DJ Doena]

As for the list, I simply keep an Excel file that I update regularily and the post here:

[addicted2dvd]

With the addition of...


Defenders of the Earth: Complete Series

...I now have 139 Completed Series! 

[DJ Doena]

With

, , and

I've got 49 completed series.

[DJ Doena]

With



I've got my 50th completed series.

[addicted2dvd]

Congrats Karsten!... I am only at the half way point on collecting JAG.