Television series released on DVD this week include:
Television series released on DVD this week include:
v “The Jim Gaffigan Show”: TV Land’s delightfully quirky, sweet, respectful, laugh-out-loud family-com casts Gaffigan as a New York-based Catholic dad comic (yes, himself), with fine support from Ashley Williams, Adam Goldberg, Michael Ian Black (TV Land’s Season 2 starts June 19), but no bonus features; list price $27, from Paramount.
v “Bob Hope: Entertaining the Troops”: Three shows for servicemen in Korea (1951) and Vietnam (1970, 1971), with comic Hope hosting Ursula Andress, Connie Stevens, Lola Falana, tap’s Nicholas Brothers, astronaut Neil Armstrong, baseball’s Johnny Bench, more; $13, Time Life.
v “Have Gun – Will Travel” (complete series): Richard Boone’s canny gunfighter in smart Western half-hour, now in handy plastic cases: six seasons, 225 episodes, 35 discs, $85, CBS.
v “The Untouchables” (complete series): Robert Stack as 1930s gangster-buster Eliot Ness, in thick plastic case: four seasons, 118 episodes, 31 discs, $90, CBS.
v “Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation” (complete series): Live-action Fox Kids series (1997) adds female crime-fighter; $20 for 26 episodes, Shout (only at Walmart).
“Underground” (10 p.m., WGN America): The provocative and relentlessly gripping slave drama “Underground” closes out its first season as the day of reckoning arrives. New alliances are formed, old relationships take on different dynamics, and everyone is left to ponder what the future holds.
TV listings, B6
ENTERTAINMENT NEWS
Quarter auction for dog group
AUSTINTOWN
Friends of Fido, the advocacy group for the Mahoning County Dog Pound, will present a quarter auction on Thursday at 6 p.m. at the Youngstown Saxon Club, 710 Meridian Road, with more than 80 prizes, gift baskets and door prizes. For information or to purchase tickets ($5) call 330-507-2584 or email FundraisingQuarterAuction@yahoo.com.
A special-needs ‘Willy Wonka Jr.’
COLUMBIANA
Crown Theater Productions will present “Willy Wonka Junior” at 8 p.m. Friday and 2 p.m. Saturday at Main Street Theater, 5 S. Main St. It will be Crown’s second special-needs production. Tickets are $13 at crowntheaterproductions.org or 330-482-9915, ext. 2.
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