DVD Direct 4 Less Tells You What Became of the Columbia House TV Greats and How to Get Your Your Favorite TV Shows on DVD or VHS Cassette
Whatever Happened to The Columbia House TV Greats Program?
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The TV Greats Club is no longer accepting new members, but you can still buy TV shows through the regular Columbia House DVD Club.

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The Cosby Show First Season on DVD and VHS
The Twilight Zone - Season 2 DVD
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Columbo: The Complete Second Season DVD
Hogan's Heroes: The Complete First Season
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Looking For TV Greats?
We Have Good News and Bad News about Columbia House TV Greats!

If you're looking for the TV Greats membership club from Columbia House, we have some good news and some bad news for you. The bad news is that Columbia House is about to close down the club and is not accepting any new members. But that's also the good news!

You see, the TV Greats program through Colombia House used to be pretty much the only way to buy popular TV shows on home video, in both the VHS and DVD format. This was a membership club through which you bought TV shows through the mail, a few episodes at a time.

Once you signed up and selected a specific show, a video or DVD was sent to you, one at a time, every four to six weeks. Your first video or DVD was generally sent free, but each subsequent one was $14.95 (VHS) or $19.95 (DVD). Each DVD or video would usually feature four to six episodes of a show and in many cases, these Columbia House Collector's Editions were the only ones commercially available.

But the TV Greats club was born in an age before the big DVD revolution and the runaway success in the home video market of selling popular TV shows on DVD direct to consumers. Shows such as The Sopranos, Star Trek, Sex and The City, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Cheers, Frasier, The Cosby Show and I Love Lucy have since enjoyed enormous success in full season boxed sets.

The studios - which used to love TV Greats because it was an ancillary revenue stream for what they viewed as old properties that had little chance of commercial success - suddenly realized that they were sitting on a goldmine, so they decided to release these shows themselves.

Many of these are the very same shows that Colombia House used to sell through the TV Greats program, four or six episodes at a time. Buying a full season could cost $100 or more that way, but now with full season sets released by the studios, you'll only pay $30 -70 or so (depending on the number of DVD's in each set, which is determined by the number of episodes and the length of the program - 30-minute sitcom vs. hour-long drama series, for instance).

The TV Greats program ended simply because it no longer had any TV shows to distribute!


Partial List of TV Shows on DVD


Listed below are some of the comedy, drama and variety shows that were at one time offered through Columbia House TV Greats.

Most - not all, but most - are now available in complete season boxed sets at considerable savings.

Click the individual TV show titles to check availability.

(Please note: if a TV show title is not a clickable link, that means it has not yet been released commercially.)


Friends
Miami Vice Law & Order The Carol Burnett Show I Love Lucy The Twilight Zone Star Trek

The Cosby Show
All in the Family The Avengers The Incredible Hulk Flintstones Equalizer Gunsmoke

Xena: Warrior Princess
Good Times Perry Mason Sanford and Son Laverne and Shirley Charlies Angels

The Partridge Family
The Honeymooners I Dream of Jeanie Gilligan's Island The Jeffersons Cheers

South Park
Dallas Columbo Bewitched The Brady Bunch Barney Miller The Dick Van Dyke Show

ER
Family Ties Magnum P.I. Starsky and Hutch Wonder Woman Star Trek: The Next Generation

Rawhide
V Batman: The Animated Series The Powerpuff Girls The Scooby Doo Video Collection

CSI Crime Scene Investigation
My Favorite Martian Hercules: The Legendary Journeys The Facts of Life

Scarecrow and Mrs. King
Star Trek: Deep Space 9 Hogan's Heroes The Prisoner Dr. Quinn Medicine Woman

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Murder She Wrote Soap The A-Team Dexter's Laboratory

Thunderbirds
Babylon 5 The Andy Griffith Show Hart to Hart Emergency! Kung Fu Untouchables

Dukes of Hazzard
Dragon Ball Z (DBZ) Three Stooges Woody Woodpecker & Friends Looney Tunes

S.W.A.T
Knight Rider Space 1999 Airwolf Have Gun Will Travel Touched By An Angel M*A*S*H

Roseanne
Alien Nation Lexx Who's the Boss? Star Trek: Voyager Dark Shadows CHIPS

YU GI OH!
La Femme Nikita Hawaii Five-O Mission Impossible Roots Smallville

Mystery Science Theater
NYPD Blue Little House on the Prarie The Ultimate Anime Collection


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