Judd Apatow wasn't really a dysfunctional household name until he hit it big with a string of successful big screen films like the 40-Year-Old Virgin, Knocked Up, and Superbad. And although most of his die-hard fans and critics usually mourn the loss of Freaks and Geeks, it was his last foray on the small screen, Undeclared, that I've become re-obsessed with lately. Recently one of my colleagues offered to burn the first and only season of Undeclared for me onto DVD. I brought the three discs home and watched them all, and fell in love with them all over again.

Not sure this series qualifies as "brilliant" per se, but it was a pretty clever concept and it sure was cancelled. Sid and Marty Krofft (the guys who concocted the trippy H.R. Pufnstuf) created D.C. Follies back in 1987, right before the presidential election. It was a satire of current events and politics but had puppets and Fred Willard. Oddly entertaining, it had potential to be a decent series if it had just been a little bit edgier or a little more biting. To me some of the then presumably lame jokes are kind of funnier in retrospect.

He's a sexy beast. A raging biker. A self-centered superhero. He's one of those actors who never plays himself, or the same person twice. Even when Ron Perlman isn't quite playing a person.

His starmaking turn as the latter character of Beauty and the Beast is being showcased anew in a complete-series DVD giftset of CBS' cult classic, just as Perlman revs up cable as the scary cycle gang leader in FX' Sons of Anarchy.

And the superhero? On Fox' short-lived 2001 live action version of The Tick, Perlman guested as arrogant Fiery Blaze, memorably hogging all heroic credit away from resentful sidekick Friendly Fire. Even in a comic-book comedy, Perlman conveys surprising emotional meat beneath the surface.

From deliciously venal Hollywood producer to silly single dad -- oh, how far mighty comic Jay Mohr has fallen. Of course, with his new CBS sitcom yawner Gary Unmarried, Mohr may also fall into a longer run and higher residual checks. But we'll stick with his classic Fox half-hour Action, which crisply dissected Tinseltown with a sharp scalpel.

How sharp? Back in 1999, Action was the first network comedy series purposely and regularly bleeped for language. Which added a certain je ne sais quoi. Some fans do, however, go for the full monty as delivered on Sony's uncensored DVD set, memorializing all 13 single-camera episodes, alongside extras like creator commentaries and a making-of half-hour.