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Nominated for 16 Emmys and 4 Golden Globes, Coach delighted fans of all ages during its celebrated nine-season run. One of the most underrated sitcoms of its era, the series covers the exploits of fictional Minnesota State Screaming Eagles college football coach Hayden Fox (Craig T.. Nelson), the quintessential male chauvinist pig. But unlike many of his politically-incorrect brethren, Hayden has a heart of gold. It's this softer side that appeals to successful anchorwoman and girlfriend Christine Armstrong (Shelley Fabares). In the locker room, Hayden is joined by assistant coaches Luther Van Dam (Jerry Van Dyke) and Dauber Dybinski (Bill Fagerbakke), the perfect compliments to the coach's oftentimes sketchy logic. Between his estranged daughter Kelly (Clare Carey), her less-than-manly boyfriend Stuart (Kris Kamm), nagging athletic director Howard Burleigh (Kenneth Kimmins), and ladies basketball coach Judy Watkins (Pam Stone), Hayden is always dispensing sarcasm, trading barbs, or being aggravated by someone.

Craig T. Nelson is brilliant in his portrayal of the opinionated and overbearing, yet multidimensional Hayden Fox. His onscreen rapport with co-star Shelley Fabares creates the believable illusion of a true romance. But Coach boasts a cast replete with star power. The series is given a charming comic angle by the underappreciated and long overdue breakout role of Jerry Van Dyke, brother to Dick Van Dyke, who plays the role of Luther Van Dam, the stuttering and kind-hearted bungling best friend of Hayden. Jerry had a few guest appearances in the decades before Coach that were absolute show stoppers (both The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Andy Griffith Show come to mind), but Coach put his talents to use full-time so all the world could see just how funny this man really is. Overall, Coach is a fun and oftentimes brilliant comedy, and the first few seasons are by far the best. So grab yourself a chair and some official Minnesota State Screaming Eagle merchandise and enjoy watching one of the best comedies of its time…!

The Coach (Season 1) DVD features a number of hilarious episodes including the season premiere "Kelly and the Professor" in which Hayden learns that his daughter Kelly, a student at Minnesota State, recently went out on a date with a professor. The revelation drives Hayden crazy, and he'll go to any lengths to uncover the identity of the guilty faculty member… Other notable episodes from season one include "I'm in Love with a Boy Named Stuart" in which Hayden is introduced to Kelly's new boyfriend, Stuart, his future arch-nemesis, and "I'm Sorry I Told You My Wife Was Dead" in which Hayden compromises his integrity in an effort to coerce a widow into handing over the massive donation her dead husband had promised the Minnesota State football program.

Below is a list of episodes included on the Coach (Season 1) DVD:

Episode 1 (Kelly and the Professor) Air Date: 02-28-1989
Episode 2 (Love Me Tender) Air Date: 03-01-1989
Episode 3 (Kelly, Meet Christine) Air Date: 03-08-1989
Episode 4 (I'm in Love with a Boy Named Stuart) Air Date: 03-15-1989
Episode 5 (The Loss Weekend) Air Date: 03-22-1989
Episode 6 (Gambling for Meat) Air Date: 04-05-1989
Episode 7 (19 Candles) Air Date: 04-12-1989
Episode 8 (Parents' Weekend) Air Date: 04-19-1989
Episode 9 (I'm Sorry I Told You My Wife was Dead) Air Date: 04-26-1989
Episode 10 (Define Romance) Air Date: 05-03-1989
Episode 11 (Whose Team is It, Anyway?) Air Date: 05-17-1989
Episode 12 (Hoot, Hoot Hike) Air Date: 05-31-1989
Episode 13 (Dauber's Blow-Out) Air Date: 06-07-1989

Based on the best-selling John Grisham novel titled Skipping Christmas, Christmas With The Kranks resembles the book in almost every facet save for the title. Starring Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, Christmas With The Kranks is an instant Christmas holiday classic. Although not in the same league of Yule tide comedy gems Christmas Vacation and A Christmas Story, this film ranks high on my list of holiday laughers. The supporting cast (led by perpetual funnyman Dan Aykroyd) turns in a superb performance, making Christmas With The Kranks an easy film to relate to and one you'll want to see many times in the years to come…

When the college-age daughter of the Kranks joins the Peace Corps and flies to South America for Christmas, her mother battles with a case of the empty nest blues. But her father, accountant Luther Krank (Tim Allen), takes advantage of the opportunity to shake things up a bit. Tallying all the money he and his wife Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) spend on Christmas, he determines that if they skip Christmas this year, they can afford to go on a week-long cruise instead and still pocket three thousand dollars in savings at the end of the trip.

But skipping Christmas turns out to be more difficult than they thought - especially when it comes to participating in neighborhood traditions such as the mounting of the roof-bound 'Frosties' (giant snowmen all the neighbors plant on their roofs). The neighborhood struggle over the Kranks' reluctance to put up their Frosty leads to some memorable and quite funny scenes where the couple encounters Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Aykroyd), the de facto leader of the neighborhood Christmas celebration. The Kranks continue to avoid all things Christmas related, and having visiting the tanning salon, they're prepared to go on their cruise Christmas Eve.

But when their daughter Blair (Julie Gonzalo) calls with the announcement that she's getting married, and more importantly, that she's on a plane bound for home - the Kranks are forced to miss their cruise and recreate all the festivities of Christmas Past for Blair and her fianc้e. But attempting to do a whole month's preparation in one evening proves to be a monumental task, and one filled with hilarious pitfalls and obstacles…

Offering hilarious scene after hilarious scene, Christmas With The Kranks is one of the funniest comedies in years, and certainly one of the top ten Christmas comedies of all time. At no time does the humor become outlandish or utterly ridiculous as so many such films tend to do. Overall, one of the more lovable aspects of this film is its ability to relate to so many American families. In fact, you might see a bit of your own family in Christmas With The Kranks… The fact that it's one of those rare holiday classics with the potential to be seen year after year makes Christmas With The Kranks a definite must-see movie…

One of the best comedies on television to date, is essential for those who already have a place to see "where everyone knows your name." The exhibition focuses on fourth-friendly Boston bar Cheers (Bull & Finch Pub in real life). In the hands of former Boston Red Sox, Saturday Malone (Ted Danson), has three employees health, with the exception of Saturday: Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson), Carla Tortelli (Rhea Pearlman) and Diane Chambers (Shelley Long). Ps gehaltenychiatriquey Dr. FrasierCrane (Kelsey Grammar) and his wife Dr. Lilith Sternin Crane (Bebe Neuwirth) are regulars of the bar (with Dr. Crane, and later played the main role in his own series Frasier). Norm Peterson (George Wendt) and Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger), regular barflies to an excellent support for the characters.

 The Cheers (Season 5) DVD offers a series of funny episodes of the first season in which the public finds  out that shuconfidentielles to the proposal last year was the end of the season against Diane. But Diane Saturday in the view that the rebound Jane, the - the most romantic of requests for their participation. Offered on Saturday, when a ship is Diane spend several episodes to beat back to Sam. Meanwhile, in love with Carla, the custodian of the Boston Bruins Eddie Lebec (Jay Thomas) and John Cleese is an appearance as a famous old maridoconseilseur and a  Friend of Frasier Crane. The season ends with Diane left Sam at the altar, a novel, a publisher is interested in ...

 Here is a list of episodes, on health (Season 5) DVD:

 Episode 96 (the proposal) Air Date: 09.25.1986
 Episode 97 (The Cape CAD) Air Date: 10/02/1986
 Episode 98 (Dear Money) Air Date: 10/09/1986
 Episode 99 (Abnormal Psychology) Air Date: 10.16.1986
 Episode 100 (House of Horrors Förderungrmal and dining ladrillosutilizado) Air Date: 10.30.1986
 Episode 101 (Tan N 'Wash) Air Date: 11-06 - 1986
 Episode 102 (Young Dr. Weinstein) Air Date: 11.13.1986
 Episode 103 (Knights of the Scimitar) Air Date: 11.27.1986
 Episode 104 (Orphan's Thanksgiving) Air Date: 11.27.1986
 Episode 105 (The whole world imitates art) Air Date: 12/04/1986
 Episode 106 (The Book of Samuel) Air Date: 12/11/1986
 Episode 107 (Dance, Diane, Dance) Air Date: 12.18.1986
 Episode 108 (Salas VS Badner) Air Date: 01.08.1987
 Episode 109 (Diamond Saturday) Air Date: 01.15.1987
 Episode 110 (Spellbound) Air Date: 01.22.1987
 Episode 111 (Never Love a goalkeeper: Part 1) Air Date: 01.29.1987
 Episode 112 (Never Love a goalkeeper: Part 2) Air Date: 02/05/1987
 Episode 113 (One Last Fling) Air Date: 02/12/1987
 Episode 114 (time Cliff Dog) Air Date: 02.19.1987
 Episode 115 (dinner at eight-ish) Air Date: 02.26.1987
 Episode 116 (Simon Says) Air Date: 03/05/1987
 Episode 117 (The Godfather, Part III) Since irdate: 03.19.1987
 Episode 118 (Standard First Hoeren) Air Date: 03.26.1987
 Episode 119 (Cheers: The Motion Picture) Air Date: 04/03/1987
 Episode 120 (A House Is Not a Home) Air Date: 04.30.1987
 Episode 121 (I Do "and" Goodbye) Air Date: 05/07/1987

One of the most popular television sitcoms ever, Cheers is the perfect series for anyone who's ever been to a regular getaway "where everyone knows your name". The show revolves around a friendly neighborhood Boston bar on Beacon Street named Cheers. Owned by former Red Sox relief pitcher Sam Malone (Ted Danson), the bar is frequented by a host of regular customers and has three employees: bartender Woody Boyd (Woody Harrelson), waitress Carla Tortelli (Rhea Pearlman), and Diane Chambers (Shelley Long). Celebrated psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane (Kelsey Grammar) is a common fixture at the bar (and later stars in his own award-winning series, Frasier). Barflies Cliff Clavin (John Ratzenberger) Norm Peterson (George Wendt) finish off a strong supporting cast of zany characters.

The Cheers (Season 4) DVD offers a number of hilarious episodes, including the first episode of the season which features the gang at Cheers and their remembrance of the late Ernie Pantusso (Coach). In this first episode, Indiana farm boy Woody Boyd arrives to meet his pen-pal (who happens to be Coach), but upon learning of Coach's death, Woody is hired by Sam to be a bartender. We also learn in the initial episode that Diane left Frasier at the altar during the couple's trek across Europe. The season ends with an improbable romance between Sam and the beautiful and intelligent city councilwoman Janet Eldridge (Kate Mulgrew). Diane is insanely jealous of Sam and Janet's romance, and the season ends with Sam's over-the-phone marriage proposal to a mysterious woman…

Below is a list of episodes included on the Cheers (Season 4) DVD:

Episode 70 (Birth, Death, Love and Rice) Air Date: 09-26-1985
Episode 71 (Woody Goes Belly Up) Air Date: 10-03-1985
Episode 72 (Someday My Prince Will Come) Air Date: 10-17-1985
Episode 73 (The Groom Wore Clearasil) Air Date: 10-24-1985
Episode 74 (Diane's Nightmare) Air Date: 10-31-1985
Episode 75 (I Will Gladly Pay You Tuesday) Air Date: 11-07-1985
Episode 76 (2 Good 2 Be 4 Real) Air Date: 11-14-1985
Episode 77 (Love Thy Neighbor) Air Date: 11-21-1985
Episode 78 (From Beer to Eternity) Air Date: 11-28-1985
Episode 79 (The Barstoolie) Air Date: 12-05-1985
Episode 80 (Don Juan is Hell) Air Date: 12-12-1985
Episode 81 (Fools and Their Money) Air Date: 12-19-1985
Episode 82 (Take My Shirt, Please) Air Date: 01-09-1986
Episode 83 (Suspicion) Air Date: 01-16-1986
Episode 84 (The Triangle) Air Date: 01-23-1986
Episode 85 (Cliffie's Big Score) Air Date: 01-30-1986
Episode 86 (Second Time Around) Air Date: 02-06-1986
Episode 87 (The Peterson Principle) Air Date: 02-13-1986
Episode 88 (Dark Imaginings) Air Date: 02-20-1986
Episode 89 (Save the Last Dance For Me) Air Date: 02-27-1986
Episode 90 (Fear is My Co-Pilot) Air Date: 03-13-1986
Episode 91 (Diane Chambers Day) Air Date: 03-20-1986
Episode 92 (Relief Bartender) Air Date: 03-27-1986
Episode 93 (Strange Bedfellows: Part 1) Air Date: 05-01-1986
Episode 94 (Strange Bedfellows: Part 2) Air Date: 05-08-1986
Episode 95 (Strange Bedfellows: Part 3) Air Date: 05-15-1986