Makoto Mizuhara's high school science project is sabotaged by his rival Katsuhiko Jinnai and explodes throwing Makoto and his friends into the Magnificent World of El-Hazard! In this magical world, Makoto must deal with beautiful priestesses and princesses, strange superpowers, and the evil ambitions of the insects of the Bugrom Empire, now lead by his rival Jinnai! Will Makoto's ingenuity be a match to the magic and mystery within this fantastic world? Will he be able to deny his feelings for the beautiful princess, Rune Venus? Will they ever be able to figure out a way home? Will they want to?

From the Oscar and Emmy winning team of Berry Levinson (Rain Man, Diner) and Tom Fontana, OZ is set deep inside the Oswald Maximum Security Prison, in an experimental unit known as Emerald City. Em City focuses on prisoner rehabilitation over public retribution. There's one set of rules from the outside looking in, and another once you're inside. Every group - Muslims, Latinos, Italians, Aryans - stick close to their mutual friends and terrorizes their mutual enemies. OZ is a wake-up call. HBO's violent men-behind-bars drama is an addictive, testosterone-driven soap opera for guys. The eight episodes of the first season set the style for the show: a massive cast of a vivid characters on both sides of the bars, four or five stories unleashed at a breakneck pace and framed by angry, oddball introductions, and a soaring casualty rate. Created by Homicide producer Tom Fontana, this drama quickly earned its rightful reputation as the most brutal show on TV. It's simple chemistry: combine volatile ingredients in a confined space, shut tight, and shake. The yellow brick road of the Oswald Correctional Facility (affectionately known as "Oz" among the inmates) leads to "Emerald City," an antiseptic cellblock of cement and glass overseen by prison-reform advocate Tim McManus (Terry Kinney). [+]

Based on a novel by best-selling crime writer P. D. James, Helen Baxendale stars as private detective Cordelia Gray in this murder mystery series, featuring two three-part mysteries-Sacrifice and A Last Embrace. Inheriting a ramshackle detective agency from her eccentric ex-policeman boss, Cordelia is thrown into a world of excitement and danger as she takes on an unlikely career as a private detective! Young, headstrong, and sometimes scared, Cordelia quickly learns the ropes. In Sacrifice, she investigates an apparent suicide in which things are not what they seem. In A Last Embrace, Cordelia's investigation of a man's alleged infidelities uncovers lies, secret lovers, betrayal^Eand murder!.

Generations of mystery lovers and movie buffs have followed the exploits of Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond, the ex-British army officer with a flair for adventure. Based on Herman Cyril McNeile's detective stories, the popular series flourished for decades. During the 1930s, a range of top character actors and film legends portrayed Bulldog, his archenemies, and his fellow crime smashers. These eight magical episodes capture the era's grand style, wit, and priceless performances.

It was America's coming-out party a decade-long celebration of growth and power, fueled by the victory in WWII. Based on Pulitzer Prize winner David Halbertstam's bestselling book, this lively series casts a nostalgic eye back on the years of Ozzie and Harriet and the Hula Hoop, years which nonetheless paved the way for the tumult of the decades to follow. From Sputnik to Elvis, bobby-socks to the Kinsey Report, DAVID HALBERTSTAM'S THE FIFTIES is a breathtaking collage of the people, music, memories, fads and issues that sent the first Baby Boomers on their way. Countless interviews, clips from landmark TV shows and movies like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, and specially-produced music videos set to original '50s hits capture the intense tapestry of optimism and fear, repression and discovery that was THE FIFTIES. The 1950s are fast becoming what the 1960s were not all that long ago. Which is to say that the era that set the stage for the obviously upheaval-heavy '60s is getting its own undressing, and the interlocutors are finding all sorts of fascinating stuff. Historian David Halberstam, who logged time in the era as a journalist and civil rights struggle participant, helped nudge the era's current popularity with his book, which gives this exhaustive six-tape series its name. And given art historian Karal Ann Marling's consideration of the era as the dawn of "visual culture" in her own book on the 1950s, it's fitting that this set is so geared towards the visual. From its coverage of the McCarthy era and the baby boom to its study of the growth of affluence as a national ideal, the set roots many of its themes through the ways 1950s culture came together as a visual spectacle. First there is television ad-mogul Rosser Reeves and the leveraging of the television as a sales machine, then there's Richard Nixon's first career salvage job via television, then there are the running visual (and literary) constructions and interrogations of domesticity, and much more. [+]

Nyuks x 10 includes 10 tapes: All the World's a Stooge with "Grips, Grunts, and Groans" and "3 Dumb Clucks"; A Bird in the Head with "Dizzy Pilots" and "Three Sappy People"; Three Little Pirates with "Uncivil War Birds" and "Back to the Woods"; A Plumbing We Will Go with "Violent Is the Word for Curly" and "Punch Drunks"; So Long Mr. Chumps with "Three Loan Wolves" and "Even as IOU"; Rhythm and Weep with "Back from the Front" and "The Three Troubledoers"; What's the Matador? with "Boobs in Arms" and "Mutts to You"; Healthy, Wealthy, and Dumb with "Disorder in the Court" and "Pardon My Scotch"; Micro-Phonies with "Uncivil Warriors" and "Three Missing Links"; Idiots De Luxe with "I Can Hardly Wait" and "Idle Roomers. " This boxed set of 10 tapes offers 30 Curly shorts from the long-running Columbia series. It can be used as an excellent representative sampling of how Curly, Larry, and Moe made a fortune for their studio (although their share was quite low) or as the perfect first step toward owning the entire series. The years range from 1934 ("Punch Drunks") to 1946 ("Three Little Pirates")-their 2nd and their 96th short respectively-and one might wish they were in chronological order. Curly's illness sadly shows in his last features before Shemp took his place in the 98th short. Still, such a wide time period, out of order or not, allows us to consider how much of their material and basic situations were recycled. Curly is always the one who goes berserk at the scent of a particular perfume, the sound of a certain tune, or the sight of a mouse. In only one episode, "I Can Hardly Wait," is Moe the one inflicted with a malady (nervous collapse), and in a plot reminiscent of Laurel and Hardy's Saps at Sea, everything conspires to make him worse. Often the plots are so weak that in some cases, a goodly percent of the 18 minutes is spent on a single routine, like trying to get Curly out of a tight sweater. [+]

Contains three videos: Bugs Bunny Hare Raising Tales Daffy Duck's Madcap Mania Porky Pig Tales