This month offers a huge variety of comedy, drama, and mystery television series newly released on DVD.
From the old (Father Knows Best) to the new (Reaper) and the comic (Whose Line is it Anyway) to the serious (Prison Break) June television series on DVD offer a variety of great choices for Father’s Day gifts or just an evening’s entertainment.
Television on DVD Available June 2
Weeds: Season 4 (Also on Blu-ray)
This DVD includes the entire fourth season of the Golden Globe-winning series about a widowed suburban mother who sells marijuana to support the family.
Starring Mary-Louise Parker, Elizabeth Perkins, Hunter Parrish, Kevin Nealon, Alexander Gould
Discs: 1
Run Time: 362 minutes
Prison Break: Season 4
In this popular series, an engineer who designed a prison aids his convicted brother in escaping a conspiracy against him.
Starring Dominic Purcell, Wentworth Miller, Amaury Nolasco, Robert Knepper, Sarah Wayne Callies
Discs: 6
Run Time: 976 minutes
Quincy, M.E.: Season 3
This classic series about a medical examiner who studied suspicious deaths ran from 1976 through 1983, and was nominated for 10 primetime Emmy Awards.
Starring Jack Klugman, Robert Ito, Garry Walberg, John S. Ragin, Joseph Roman, Val Bisoglio
Discs: 4
Run Time: 993 minutes
Cannon: Season Two, Vol. 1
This classic series from 1971 through 1976 was about a heavy-set private investigator who over-charged his clients but always delivered on his promises.
Starring William Conrad, Patrick Culliton, Tom Pittman, Charles Bateman
Discs: 3
Run Time: 609 minutes
Television on DVD Available June 9
The Shield: The Complete Seventh Season
The winner of two Golden Globe awards, The Shield surrounds an inner-city Los Angeles police precinct where some cops will do anything to survive, both on the job and off.
Starring Michael Chiklis, Catherine Dent, Walton Goggins, Michael Jace, Jay Karnes, Benito Martinez
In this series from 2007, a man learns on his 21st birthday that his parents sold his soul to the devil, and he must now work as a bounty hunter for the underworld.
Starring Brett Harrison, Tyler Labine, Rick Gonzalez, Missy Peregrym, Andrew Airlie, Ray Wise
Discs: 4
Run Time: 572 minutes
The Best of Whose Line is it Anyway?
This DVD features improvisational comedy at its best by a cast of regular performers and special guests on the hit show hosted by Drew Carey.
Also starring Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Laura Hall, Wayne Brady, Linda Taylor, Greg Proops
Discs: 2
Run Time: 216 minutes
Father Knows Best: Season 3
This classic Emmy-winning series from the 1950s is now on DVD with 37 episodes from the famous family sitcom.
Starring Robert Young, Jane Wyatt, Billy Gray, Elinor Donahue, Lauren Chapin
Discs: 5
Run Time: 990 minutes
Television on DVD Available June 16
Family Guy, Vol. 7
This DVD picks up where vol. 6 ended, but does not include a full season of the irreverent animated series about a dysfunctional family. In addition to some episodes from seasons 6 and 7, it contains commentaries and featurettes.
Starring the voices of Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, Mila Kunis, Mike Henry, Danny Smith, Patrick Warburton
Discs: 1
Run Time: 499 minutes
Burn Notice: Season Two
A former U.S. Government spy uses his training to help people in trouble in the new drama series (2007).
Starring Jeffrey Donovan, Gabrielle Anwar, Bruce Campbell, Sharon Gless
Discs: 4
Run Time: 690 minutes
Lost: The Complete First Season (Blu-ray)
Lost: The Complete Second Season (Blu-ray)
Seasons one and two of the top-rated series about survivors of a plane crash from creator J.J. Abrams (Star Trek).
Starring Naveen Andrews, Matthew Fox, Jorge Garcia, Josh Holloway, Daniel Dae Kim, Yunjin Kim, Evangeline Lilly, Terry O’Quinn
Discs: 7 (per season)
Television on DVD Available June 23
Reba: Season 6
This DVD contains the entire sixth season of the sitcom starring Reba McEntire as a Southern soccer mom raising three children.
Also starring Joanna Garcia, Christopher Rich, Steve Howey, Mitch Holleman, Melissa Peterman
Discs: 2
Run Time: 265 minutes
Television on DVD Available June 30
Entourage The Complete Fifth Season
This Golden Globe winner features a Los Angeles movie star and his close circle of friends, followers, and his agent.
Starring Adrian Grenier, Kevin Connolly, Kevin Dillon, Jerry Ferrara, Jeremy Piven
Discs: 3
Run Time: 360 minutes
Stargate Atlantis: The Complete Fifth Season
The discovery of a new Stargate network in the Pegasus Galaxy brings opportunities and dangers in this science fiction action drama.
Starring Joe Flanigan, Rachel Luttrell, David Hewlett, Jason Momoa, Torri Higginson, Paul McGillion
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