'Get Smart,' Muppets top TV on DVD awards

Time Life's box set of the complete "Get Smart" was a shoe-in for the top honor at Home Media magazine's TV on DVD Awards. Also repping the good old days were The Muppets, which wrapped up three awards.

Last year, I was a judge for this competition, which was fun to do but incredibly hard on the eyes. Classic shows won the majority of awards this time, perhaps because consumers voted on many of the winners.

Best in show winner "Get Smart: the Complete Series" was co-produced by Time Life and HBO Video. The judges liked the phone-booth packaging and the ambitious extras. (Time Life's next project -- "The Man From U.N.C.L.E." -- looks to be of similar quality -- and of similar high price at $249.)

"It’s good to see the care and consideration that fans should expect put into this DVD set," Home Media chief Thomas K. Arnold said. "So many catalog TV DVDs are just thrown out there with little added value beyond the episodes themselves." Amen.

Here's a complete list of winners, as posted on homemediamagazine.com:

Best of Show: Get Smart: The Complete Series, Time Life/HBO Video
Best 2000s Series: Heroes: Season 1, Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Best 1990s Series: Seinfeld: Season 8, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Best 1980s Series: Fraggle Rock: Season 3, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment/HIT Entertainment
Best 1970s Series: The Muppet Show: Season 2, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Best 1960s Series: Get Smart: The Complete Series, Time Life/HBO Video
Best 1950s Series: Adventures of Superman: Seasons 5 & 6, Warner Home Video
Best Animated Series: The Simpsons: Season 10, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Best Children's Series: The Muppet Show: Season 2, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Best Reality Series: Survivor: Vanuatu, CBS DVD/Paramount Home Entertainment
Best Variety Series: The Best of Chappelle’s Show, Paramount Home Entertainment/Comedy Central
Best One-Season Wonder: The Dresden Files, Lionsgate
Best Miniseries or Made-for-TV Movie: Roots: 30th Anniversary Edition, Warner Home Video
Best Foreign TV Series: Doctor Who: Series 2, BBC Video
Best TV Documentary: Planet Earth, BBC Video
Best Bonus Materials: Lost: Season 2, Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Best Complete-Series Set: M*A*S*H: The Martinis & Medicine Collection, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment; Get Smart: The Complete Series
Judges' Special Citation for Best Packaging: The Greatest American Hero: The Complete Series, Starz Home Entertainment/Anchor Bay

Comments

[Alden]

Oh, hey, go Doctor Who! A well deserved award, I think. :)