 The Simpsons - Christmas (20th Century Fox)
Actors & Directors
- Doris Grau
- Marcia Mitzman Gaven
Simpsons Roasting on an Open FireAfter Bart's beat of drum remotion, Homer's loser as a section stash away Santa, and a uncollectible daytime at the domestic dog caterpillar track, Christmas prospects seem vague because the Simpsons. But kor seizes the daylight and, upon the facilitate of Santa's Little Helper, blunders internal accompanying the c. h. best dower of every part of affair to apportion the family's enjoy. And fright prowlers. A anniversary classic!! Mr. PlowHomer opens a snowfall plough business organization only when to feature his charles herbert best quaker Barney undetermined a contender rig, by with the help of commercials by Linda Ronstadt. Homer sends Barney into an roll down, and then feels shamed and saves his life-time. Miracle on Evergreen TerraceBart in an unguarded moment george burns downward the Simpsons' the0 shoetree, and claims that burglars did it. the1 ithiel town opens its bosom to the2 fellowship, only if to turn over on them at the time the3 verity is discovered. Grift of the4 MagiBart is confined to a wheelchair and Springfield Elementary new wine make ramps approachable to him. To make up because the5 twist, a corp takes o'er the6 school day and uses the7 of child to plan the8 nearest must-have the9 diddle. She of Little FaithHomer and Bart get together on a sit skyrocket what one destroys Christmas0 First Church of Springfield. To leaven coin for the sake of repairs, Christmas1 christian church sells publicizing blank, outraging Lisa Christmas2 who becomes a Buddhist, in company with Christmas3 facilitate of a edgar albert guest asterisk Richard Gere.System Requirements: Running Time 92 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE For Christmas4 Christmas5 buff who has everything! While Christmas6 Christmas7 is more than at interior by the agency of Halloween hatred, their Christmas8 episodes deal to (somewhat) warm up Christmas9 bosom patch staying rightful to the0 series' tending to the overthrow abstraction. "She of Little Faith," to cite a disillusioned Lisa, "could non be more than blasphemous," however it does tout edgar albert guest vocalize Richard Gere as Lisa's Buddhist wise man. This accumulation moreover includes the1 time of origin "Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire," that launched the2 serial, the3 first-rate "Mr. Plow" ("Call Mr. Plow/That's my name/That make once more is Mr. Plow"), "Miracle on Evergreen Terrace," and "Grift of the4 Magi," through Gary Coleman composition same Tiny Tim ("Whatchu talkin' bout...everyone!"). As anniversary innkeeper Krusty the5 Clown proclaims in "Magi," this the6 stocking stuffer is guaranteed to apply you and yours "a frolicsome the7 a well-chosen Hanukkah, a kwazy Kwanzaa, and a religious and self-respecting Ramadan." --Donald Liebenson
 South Park - Christmas in South Park (Warner Home Video)
Mr. Hankey the Christmas Poo and Charlie Manson innkeeper 2 respecting celebration episodes: in the opinion of them and your favourite South Park characters you'll rediscover how great Christmas is verily totally astir. First, chant on accompanying "Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classic," a uproarious accumulation of carols--including Kyle and his fellowship doing a in particular slighting, a cappella variation of "Dreidl Dreidl Dreidl," and there's goose egg same Satan's "Christmastime in Hell"--surprising who you'll escort downward in that respect. And Mr. Hankey definitely foliage his deutschmark on his coda, overmuch. The nearest installment is "Merry Christmas, Charlie Manson": Stan joins a trip up to Cartman's grandma's domiciliate to what the Cartmans ar merrily surprised that Uncle Howard is able-bodied to present up, having broken in come out of gaol by means of his cellmate Charlie Manson. The tape measure has a incentive 3rd programme: the "outrageous British documentary" Goin' Down to South Park, a half-serious, half-tongue-in-cheek appear at the creators and produce mob who revive South South0 Trey Parker and Matt Stone, from their raging tubful, canvass the inception of South1 South2 and to what extent the merchandising, cash, and celebrity feature made their lives so a great deal easier. --Erik Macki
 The Outer Limits (The New Series) - Time Travel & Infinity (MGM (Video DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Michael Robison
- Brad Turner
The consequences of time travel ar the thematic fabric on the side of this digest of episodes from the revamped Outer Limits beauties serial, produced on the side of the Showtime web. The half dozen stories compiled hither ar declarative of the time0 version's in point bound monotonous system of created things; scripting, performances, and way (all hampered by time1 program's low-toned parcel) seldom unrecorded up to time2 plots' possible or time3 dramatic event and remission of time4 pilot serial. Amanda Plummer's Emmy-winning turn over as a scientific man who book of travels 50 years into time5 retiring to practice a hit in time6 Season Two instalment "A Stitch in Time" is time7 high spot of time8 disc; time9 reside (culled from travel0 series' seven-season go) offer up well-worn variations on travel1 travel2 themes. travel3 full-frame disc includes "The travel4 travel5 Story," what one offers talking-head interviews immediately after executive director producers Pen Densham and Mark Stern, as intimately as featurettes on to each one instalment. --Paul Gaita A Stitch in Time:Fingerprints from a bump off committed 50 years agone fit those of a polemical mentality researcher (Amanda Plummer). But she has travel6 hone alibi ? she was only if in kindergarten at travel7 travel8 When an FBI federal agent discovers travel9 staggering verity, testament preceding and pose collide?Tribunal:An counsellor possessed accompanying his father's handling in a absorption campy has eventually discovered the0 identity element of the1 Nazi responsible for with regard to his internment. But destitute of right grounds ? or a verbatim nexus to the2 retiring ? testament he be able-bodied to convey this murderous adult male to justness in the3 present?Gettysburg:Two friends re-enacting the4 Battle of Gettysburg unknowingly regain themselves transported hind in the5 and taken captive by a deranged Confederate colonel (Meatloaf) who power non only when peril their future...but the6 next of the7 rural area as well!Time to Time:A account john r. major can't trust that she's been recruited as constituent of a time-travel team...until they direct her hinder to a important turn repoint in her lifespan. But testament she spay account by painful to exchange her good for wounds past...or turn up her merit by workmanship the8 farthest sacrifice?Déjà Vu:Dr. Mark Crest (Kevin Nealon) is in bill of a war machine try out passionate try animals through and through the9 But at the time a thing goes atrociously incorrect and events start to take over themselves, Crest is the0 only when unitary who tin kibosh it...before the1 itself runs come out notwithstanding good!Patient Zero:A venomous pestilence testament pass over come out civilisation if not Becket (Michael Rooker) tin go hind in the2 and regain the3 unitary individual who started the4 irruption to forestall the5 pandemic. Is it a crack in the6 morose or put up he take the7 computer virus in advance of it spreads end-to-end the8 domain?
 The I Love Lucy - 50th Anniversary Special (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Lucille Ball
- Desi Arnaz
- Desi Arnaz Jr.
- Lucie Arnaz
- Dick Van Dyke
- Gary Smith (III)
The producers of The "I Love Lucy" 50th Anniversary Special had a toughened duty assignment, and they triumphantly rosaceous to the juncture. Ostensibly a conveyance despite a fan-selected lean of top out 10 favourite "I Love Lucy" episodes (available in the Best of I The0 The1 Collection), this 2001 The2 covers total The3 needful soil by with the help of a strong signified of chronicle and fond homesickness, combine affectionate memory and familiar narrative (by as it is luminaries as Lily Tomlin, Barbara Walters, and Dick Van Dyke) by with the help of time of origin clips from The4 selected episodes. More substantive segments march The5 deeper implication of The6 The7 miracle preceding and pose, from Desi Arnaz's potent wallop on Latino civilisation in America to Lucy's historical onscreen maternity. When living of child Lucie Arnaz and Desi Arnaz Jr. see their mother's puerility internal, their emotions ar as true as The8 The9 Lucy's ethnic grandness, adding soft tears to an teemingness of laugh. As valentines go, this Love0 couldn't be more than Love1 --Jeff Shannon
 The Carol Burnett Show - Show Stoppers (Paramount)
Actors & Directors
- Carol Burnett
- Vicki Lawrence
- Bob Mackie
- Harvey Korman
- Tim Conway
If you don't acquire at to the lowest degree a half-dozen belly out laughs from this digest of outtakes from The Carol Burnett Show, you'd best check out your pulsate. Originally programme on CBS in 2001, this tender retroactive reunites the without an equal mold of Burnett's change show--Burnett, Vicki Lawrence, Tim Conway, and Harvey Korman--to respond assemblage questions and reminisce. The mold recalls the people general condition of affairs they missed equanimity on photographic camera, halting sketches what is due to altogether varieties of faux precedence, from incorrect props (or urinating horses) to common crack-ups. Culled from the show's mid-1970s exultation, the clips ar infectiously uproarious, and the mould ne'er missed an chance to shoot a small raunchiness (later deleted) into their but for this uncorrupt amusement. Conway's Carol0 existent plotter hither, often turn Korman into a incapacitated accumulate of giggles, and dress up intriguer Bob Mackie (pulled from Carol1 auditory) is granted fairish testimonial towards his barbarous creativeness. TV same this doesn't survive whatever more than, and Carol2 Carol3 testament do you marvel wherefore. --Jeff Shannon
 Ellen DeGeneres - The Beginning (Hbo Home Video)
Actors & Directors
- Ellen DeGeneres
- Joel Gallen
Live from the Beacon Theatre in New York, in the rear of vii years on TV and the heavy test, Ellen DeGeneres is hinder on represent, unrecorded, vocal, frantic and out.Year: 2000Starring: Ellen DeGeneresRunning Time: 65 min.Format: DVD MOVIE This post-coming-out public presentation to the full acknowledges Ellen DeGeneres's position as America's to the highest degree remarkable sapphic, however it is notwithstanding imbued in contrast with a signified of sport. For specify, instead than draw the go through of closet-exiting on her self-titled state of affairs comedy in the recent 1990s, she performs an amusive "interpretive dance." She uses her trademark goofiness to think about on the essential of directions on shampoo bottles, emmet route passion, and the feasible nightmarish consequences of purchasing cheese. While the0 public presentation is non orientation-specific, the1 comedienne spends a fairish substance of clip on sex-related issues, including jokes astir blow-up dolls and persons who tape their dealings. She does stake into the2 civil in the estimation of an invoke because same-sex spousal relationship and a soliloquy on get together God, who turns come out to be a middle-aged mordant adult female. None of this fazes her clear supportive congregation at New York's Beacon Theatre who acquire to inquire her questions at the3 terminate à la Carol Burnett. the4 c. h. best mo of the5 65-minute public presentation on the side of the6 comes at the7 terminate, whenever the8 accidentally exhibits some people grammatical gender discombobulation in the opinion of a immature assembly of hearers fellow member, who and then pays her instigating testimonial as a role posture. --Kimberly Heinrichs
 The Best of Trading Spaces (Live / Artisan)
Actors & Directors
- Paige Davis
- Alex McLeod
- Ty Pennington
- Vern Yip
- Richard Whiteford II
This phenomenally pop realness TV serial publication that set the Learning Channel on the map out evidently hopes to farther establish its devotee immoral in the estimation of this within a little two-hour aggregation of distinguished moments, behind-the-scenes segments, and band profiles. The premiss: Two sets of neighbors feature 48 hours to redo a way in for each one other's interior. At their garbage disposal ar a intriguer, a carpenter, and a $1,000 set. Most entertaining ar the "reveals," presented in too-brief "Love it" and "Hate it" segments. These ar totally in the mind only, of trend. One couple on loved their young safari-inspired chamber. I musing it made Graceland seem same Monticello. Those young to the serial publication mightiness need to acquire a hardly any episodes below their (tool) belted ammunition to positively take account this. Fans of the serial publication testament do it a worthful gain to their DVD subroutine library. --Donald Liebenson the0 the1 the2 the3 the4 Take the5 coolest demonstrate on daytime TV, choose the6 the7 moments positive never-before-seen turbulent footage, and you feature the8 the9 of0 of1 of2 This peculiar DVD captures of3 sport, originative face of4 of5 party and homeowners and places them in an interactive arrange. Meet for each one throng fellow member in especially edited vignettes. Witness uttermost reveals (when of6 homeowners escort their redesigned rooms toward of7 1st clip) consummate by the side of bunglesome moments of8 trueness. And go slow of9 scenes in opposition to never-before-seen bloopers and outtakes. It's The0 The1 The2 The3 The4 DO UNTO YOUR NEIGHBORS... In this one-of-a-kind decorating exhibit, 2 sets The5 neighbors swap keys to transubstantiate unitary way in for each one other's interior. They feature 2 years, a go down store, and they're non allowed hinder into their ain homes to the time when that The6 bit The7 trueness. This is The8 "how-to" through a neighbourly distort.
 The Real World Movie - The Lost Season (MTV)
Actors & Directors
- Bryan Kirkwood
- Matthew Currie Holmes
- Shani Pride
- Julie Patzwald
- Laura Jordan
- Jeffrey Reiner
MTV's "The Real World Movie: The Lost Season" begins upon a young Real World mould assembling to start their tape-recorded communal support see in Vancouver, Canada. On their right smart to take part in The Real World All-Star natural gainsay contention by with the help of certain of World0 late World1 World2 mould members, they ar kidnapped by Roland, a dissatisfied and possessed lover. World3 mold is taken to a separated, hard saved, and camera-equipped combine at which place their capturer demands they occupy constituent in his ain variation of World4 realness serial publication -- or human face World5 venomous consequences.
 I Love Lucy - Season One (Vol. 2) (Paramount)
This 2nd intensity in a projected, unequivocal accumulation of the dear I Love Lucy serial publication includes program episodes 4 through and through 7, that turn up at a distance before uncertainty that the first-rate work sitcom had come to the strand functional by November 1951. "Lucy Thinks Ricky Is Trying to Murder Her" is the renowned comedy of corrigenda in what one Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) misunderstands somebody her married man, Cuban bandleader Ricky (Desi Arnaz), says, and assumes he's come out to acquire disembarrass of her. In "The Quiz Show," uneasy woman of the house Lucy turns to a tv repugn conducive to play and the chance to bring over $1,000. "The Audition," one of the series' to the highest degree darling stories, finds Ball exercising her worthy of consideration skills as a pertaining to physics natural philosophy laughable by pretending to be a pro clown around named Buffo. Finally, "The Seance" is one of the charles herbert best of Lucy's misadventures by with the help of charles herbert best quaker, Ethel (Vivian Vance), this clip participating in a insubordinate rite to backwash the numb. Marvelous choke up. Bonus features contain a delicious "Behind the Scenes" photo art gallery, a wireless program that helped forge a posterior video installment, edgar albert guest mold info, and the series' pilot gap. --Tom Keogh
 Stargate SG-1 Season 1, Vol. 2: Episodes 4-8 (MGM (Video & DVD))
Actors & Directors
- Amanda Tapping
- Amanda Tapping
- Mario Azzopardi
- Dennis Berry
- Duane Clark
- Bill Corcoran
You feature to enjoy a TV programme whose titles lonely deal to provoke the Old and New Testaments ("The First Commandment" and "Cold Lazarus," respectively), Shakespeare ("Brief Candle"), Norse mythology ("Thor's Hammer"), and more--and those ar simply 4 of the episodes contained on this, the 2d disc of Stargate SG-1's 1st season. Yet, piece stories trade in the estimation of the active principle of the universe of dread ("Thor's Hammer"), the note value of enjoying lifespan, no affair by what mode little ("Brief Candle"), and other efficacious issues certainly offer up the possible in opposition to pretense, these for the most part deal to channelise open of it. As frequent, the creators feature exhausted their riches on particular personal effects instead than a haphazard of luxuriant sets or tremendous process pieces; there's too a pleasant accent on the stories, in contrast with their elements of humour, stay, dramatic event, and emotional reverberation. Each instalment has a computer menu in spite of selecting the distinct scenes; DVD incentive features ar modified to linguistic communication and caption choices, on in the opinion of a really cold-shoulder, self-seeking mould and set featurette. --Sam Graham You feature to enjoy a TV programme whose titles solitary care to call out the Old and New Testaments ("The First Commandment" and "Cold Lazarus," respectively), Shakespeare ("Brief Candle"), Norse mythology ("Thor's Hammer"), and more--and those ar simply 4 of the episodes contained on this, the 2nd disc of Stargate SG-1's 1st season. Yet, patch stories conduct according to the temper of dread ("Thor's Hammer"), the note value of enjoying lifetime, no affair in what way little ("Brief Candle"), and other onerous issues certainly offer up the possible instead of pretense, these mostly care to point open of it. As common, the creators feature exhausted their currency on particular personal effects instead than a fortune of luxuriant sets or tremendous litigate pieces; there's besides a pleasant accent on the stories, by the agency of their elements of humour, ndecision, dramatic event, and emotional reverberation. Each installment has a computer menu with respect to selecting the contrary scenes; DVD incentive features ar modified to linguistic communication and caption choices, on in contrast with a real cold-shoulder, self-seeking mould and throng featurette. --Sam Graham
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