It's cold and rainy here in Southern California, but on Baywatch, it's always warm and sunny. We started Box Set Saturday with an episode from the new Season One DVD I got for my birthday. The real Season One, not the one NBC released in 2006 -- that's the syndicated first season, but the real first season which you can only get from Australia.

The big difference is that guy sitting down there in the sand. That's Parker Stevenson from Hardy Boys and one of my current obsessions.

The episode we chose was called "Heat Wave." It's the hottest day of the year, the beaches are full of crazy people and Mitch (David Hasselhoff) is short handed. Meanwhile, Craig (Parker Stevenson) gets an ultimatum from his boss, be a lawyer or a lifeguard. A silly start ends with a suspenseful rescue when two kids get caught in a flooded storm drain.

Now, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat. . .

My husband's choice for box set night was Rocky and Bullwinkle: Season Three.

This classic cartoon may look like it was made for kids, but only grownups will get a large number of the jokes. In the main story, "Missouri Mish Mash," Rocky accompanies Bullwinkle on a trip to a moose convention. They run into Boris and Natasha along the way, but after a knock on the head, Boris becomes a good guy.

Good, right? Not so. Because Fearless Leader has ordered Boris to keep Bullwinkle safe and Boris is determined to do the opposite of what he's told -- which means killing Bullwinkle for his own good. Yes, that's Jay Ward logic.

We also got a dose of "Fractured Fairy Tales," "Aesop and Son," and "Mr. Peabody's Improbable History." Peabody is my favorite and I loved seeing him help Calamity Jane live up to her namesake and Beethoven give up cooking in favor of composing.

Since we got an early start this week, we also had time to pluck a movie from our complete Abbott and Costello set. Who Done It? features the boys as a pair of soda jerks who want to write mysteries for the radio. When the head of the radio station is murdered, the boys become suspects and the chase begins.

Who Done It? is a little more slapstick than some of their movies, very Three Stooges but it's a clever plot. It also stars a very young Mary Wickes (Sister Act), Don Porter (Gidget) and the lovely Louise Allbritton who has a gorgeous wardrobe!

Next Saturday is Christmas Eve so we'll have to shift our viewing to Friday night. I'm thinking we can pull out some holiday episodes from shows like Here Come the Brides and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Till then, happy holidays to you!

We collect TV on DVD. Box sets are a dream come true that dates back to my childhood. I used to sit in front of the TV watching Rat Patrol and Here Come the Brides and Dark Shadows and wish I could keep the episodes to watch over and over again.

Back then, I audio taped episodes with a Sears cassette recorder parked in front of the TV. Then VHS was born and I began collecting first run episodes of my favorite shows. But when it came to older shows, I was stuck with the viciously cut, often fuzzy, syndicated versions and that simply didn't work.

Then DVDs came into this world and the box set was born. I wish I could remember the first set I purchased. I'm sure it was expensive and exciting. I know that Buffy the Vampire Slayer was the first show I bought every year - making it my first complete set. For my husband, it was Lost in Space.

Since then, we've filled our shelves with box sets and we buy a dozen or more every year. Funny thing about all those shows, is that we still have a tendency to watch the same DVDs over and over when we aren't watching TV.

The solution? Box Set Saturday. Since there's very little new TV on Saturday nights, and since we rarely leave the house, we've made it our night for DVD watching. But not just any DVDs. The point is to pull a box set (and sometimes a movie) off the shelf that we haven't seen or rarely seen since we bought it.

We started a few weeks ago with Wild Wild West. I got the full series set (in a cool collector box) for Christmas some years ago and we've only watched a handful of the episodes. We chose an early Doctor Loveless episode, "Night of the Whirring Death" which was penned by Jackson Gillis who wrote many of our favorite Lost in Space episodes.

Since then, we've put on Barnaby Jones, Twilight Zone and Yellow Rose. What box set will we crack open this week? Stay tuned and find out. And if you decide to join us in this quest, let me know what box set you watched in the comments below.

Soft Kitty,
Warm kitty,
Little ball of fur.
Happy kitty,
Sleepy kitty,
Purr purr purr.

Fans of The Big Bang Theory will love this plush toy that plays the Soft Kitty song when you press her paw. Add a jar of Vapor Rub to the gift box and it's the perfect get well present for any Geek on your holiday list.

Click here to get the Big Bang Kitty only at the CBS Online Store.

In the 1990's, Nickelodeon reinvented the cartoon genre with a brand new collection of edgy, modern shows that brought all new meaning to the word wacky. A psychotic chihuahua teams up with a nitwit cat in The Ren & Stimpy Show, a wallaby and a cow learn about the ways of the world in Rocko's Modern Life and three comical monsters go to scare school in Aah! Real Monsters. And then there was the crazy brainchild of Peter Hannan known as CatDog.

As the title suggests, CatDog features a creature that is half cat, half dog with an extended, rubbery body connecting them just past the front paws on either end. Like all brothers, these two both love and despise each other depending on the moment. Dog (voiced by Tom Kenny) can hardly abide Cat's taste in books and music and Cat has had enough of Dog's propensity to chase trash-trucks. Even though they must be the same age, Cat is the "older" brother, always looking for a way to make life better for the both of them, and always ready to help when his counterpart needs a paw (or two.)

Dog is the baby brother who needs constant looking after. He's very much a victim of his primal instincts so food and fun are high on his list from the time he wakes until the time they go to sleep in their communal bed.

As with all good cartoons, CatDog have a variety of antagonists for our heros to deal with. The Greasers Dogs are a street gang who get their kicks making fun of CatDog. Rancid Rabbit is the stereotypical angry boss who blows his stack whenever CatDog is near and there's my favorite, Eddie the Pulverizer who is voiced by A-Team's Dwight Schultz.

From an adult viewpoint, it's not as well-written as Rocko's Modern Life. The stories are based on repetitive humor such as repeated attempts to sneak into a taco restaurant that are constantly thwarted. It is the kind of humor kids will enjoy and if you have siblings that can't get along, CatDog's obvious message might help the situation.

The new DVD release of CatDog features the first ten episodes of the first season. It includes "Mush, Dog, Mush" where Cat enters Dog in a sled race, "The Collector" where Cat gets wrapped up in his Mean Bob action figure collection and "Work Force" where CatDog go to work at the Kavity Crunch cereal factory.

Now here's a clip to get you in the mood for some great 90's Nickelodeon!

I've always dreamed of owning an old, spooky house with oddly-shaped rooms and secret cubbies. As long as it didn't come fully equipped with a collection of creatures who call my name in the dark. That's the problem Kim Darby faces, when she moves into her grandmother's old home in the 1973, TV movie Don't Be Afraid of the Dark.

Kim plays Sally, a stay-at-home wife dedicated to her upwardly mobile husband (Jim Hutton). Though he's not sold on the merits of country living, Sally happily dives into the task of turning the quaint building into a showplace where she can have cocktail parties with her granny-gown wearing friends. (Granny-gowns were all the rage in 1973.).

To help her with the job, she hires a temperamental, shi shi, interior designer and Uncle Charlie (Willian Demarest) to do the carpentry work.

Sally discovers a small, dark room off the kitchen that was once her grandfather's study. The two by four room has a fireplace which has been bricked up with great vigor and the ash door has been bolted shut. Uncle Charlie tells Sally that it must stay that way but he won't explain why. He should have told her that building a fire in a room the size of a VW bus would be akin to relaxing in front of a metal smelting furnace, but no, he has to be contrary and make her curious.

As soon as he leaves, Sally pries the bolts off the ash door and peers in. It's a bottomless chute and from this angle she sees that unbricking it would be hard. Never mind the fact that the fireplace has no floor, so no place to actually put the burning logs, but that's apparently not important.

What is important, is that Sally has inadvertently set them free. At first, they're nothing but squeaky, whispered voices who are a little too excited about the possibilities. Then they go on the attack. They grab Sally's dress as she walks down the stairs and steal her napkin at a dinner party. When she finally gets a glimpse of the two-foot beasts, she freaks out in front of her guests who all think she's gone mad.

But I Want To!

The creatures are truly a thing of wonder in this movie. They have fat, furry bodies and heads that look like a moldy pumpkins. They move beautifully because they're real. Diminutive actor, Felix Silla, who played Cousin Itt on The Addams Family fills out one of the three monster suits. The set designers then created large scale objects such as books and phones to make the creatures look even smaller as the crawl around spying on Sally.

The best scene in the movie takes place in the bathroom. Sally is in the shower, when the creatures come out of the closet. They use a coat hanger to turn off the lights, then one grabs a straight razor with intentions of doing some damage. "No, don't hurt her," whispers the leader. "But I want to!" razor boy whispers back. It's truly creepy and so much fun.

As Sally spirals downward, her husband gets more annoyed than concerned. She's jeopardizing his shot at full partner at the agency and he wants her to knock it off. Her solution, sell the house which angers not only the designer but the whispering creatures as well. They up their terror campaign, but they don't count on Sally's best friend, Barbara Anderson, the one person who believes Sally's story.

In the end, its a full-on battle for Sally's soul as the creatures find ways to eliminate everyone around her. Her only weapon against them is light but these sneaky little monsters are out to prove a point. Flashlights and candles won't help you. You should be very afraid of the dark.

Warner Archive has recently released a remastered version of this excellent TV movie. It's scary without being gruesome and full of chilling cat and mouse play between Sally and her not-so-inner demons. The movie is available through Warner Archive's burn-on-demand program. Visit their movie page to see a sample of the remastered film quality which is much better than the clip I've included below.

Spoiler alert: This clip does show the creatures, so don't watch it if you'd rather be surprised!

If you love collecting stuff, then you should be on American Pickers like a like a duck on a June bug. This History Channel series is the folksy cousin of Antiques Roadshow but with a lot more personality.

Mike Wolfe and Frank Fritz run Antique Archaeology and their shop couldn't be more aptly named. By "picking" small towns all over the US, they've managed to uncover some amazing treasures and every week they take you along for the ride. In the vernacular of the show, "rusty gold" is a thing of beauty. Old gas station signs that are pitted and warped, bicycles from the turn of the century, oil cans and motorcycle emblems - condition isn't always a prime concern when you're looking at a piece of Americana. And Americana is what American Pickers is all about.

Each episode is a mini-history lesson with trivia pop-ups that tell you the story behind a brand or an object. But more importantly, the show gives you a look into the history of ordinary people and it turns out, they're not so ordinary after all. The finds are fun, but the folks are fabulous. Some of them live on dozens of acres, every inch of it filled with stuff. Others have turned their passion for collecting into a museum that will never be seen by more than a hundred people. And then there are the eccentrics, like the guy who dug an underground tunnel in order to have more room for his stuff.

Mike and Frank have no qualms about getting their hands dirty. They'll climb to the top of any pile if it means finding that one amazing item they've never seen before. Sometimes it's huge and heavy, like the old film projector they bought from a woman who's dad was a pioneer in the industry. Sometimes it's small, like the A.C. Gilbert James Bond Aston Martin tin toy car they find in "Gordon's Gold Mine." And just when you think you've seen it all, they find something completely wacky like a folding bathtub.

If you are a collector, you may be put off by the price haggling that is a huge part of the show but remember, these guys are running a business so they've got to make a profit. And considering that most of what they buy is rotting away in a shed somewhere, any price is a good price. But you can't tell that to folks like Robin. He wants to liquidate the inventory from his antique store that went belly up, but when the guys try to buy the good stuff, he tells them it's not for sale. It's amazing to see how emotionally attached people (myself included) are about stuff that other see as junk. At least with Mike and Frank on the job, these objects will find their way out of storage and into the hands of a collector where they'll be protected and enjoyed.

American Pickers: Volume Two includes the first eight episodes of the second season. There are no extras on the DVD and that's a shame, because it would be nice to get a look at objects that didn't make the TV edit, learn more about the history of some items, or even spend more time in the van with the boys. Their nonsensical banter is always amusing from Frank's practical jokes to Mike's conversations starters (Who is hotter? Taylor Swift or Lady Gaga?).

On the upside, the DVD is currently under $10.00 on Amazon and it would make a great gift for anyone who collects anything.

The Fact or Faked team returns tonight with the first of six new episodes where they try find out the secrets behind some very compelling video footage.

First up is a famous UFO video from White Sands, New Mexico. In the video, which you see below, a saucer-shaped object speeds through the air, bounces off the ground then rises up only to crash completely.

The video was taken in 1996 and though many would like to believe it's an actual UFO, the more likely answer is that it's some kind of missile test from the White Sands military base. Tonight, the Fact or Faked team puts several theories to the test in an attempt to recreate the actual footage.

In one attempt, they use a model flying saucer on a set of guide-wires then force it to bounce using gravity and a spring release. It's quite an elaborate set up and it's unlikely that an amateur could have faked the footage that way. Still, it's fun to watch, because it's similar to the method used to create the Jupiter II landing in Irwin Allen's Lost in Space. FBI agent Ben Hansen, journalist Jael and tech-specialist Devin are like little kids when it comes to rockets and blowing things up, so they have a great time working out the origins of this video, even though they had to be roasting in the desert sun.

The second half of the episode is devoted to a ghostly apparition captured at the Tonopah Cemetery in Nevada. At the turn of the century, Tonopah was a prosperous mining town. They even had a luxury hotel with baths, steam heat and elevators. But in 1911, tragedy struck. A small fire broke out at the bottom of a mine shaft and 17 men were killed from either breathing the toxic fumes or falling to their deaths when they tried to escape. The victims were all buried in a lonely little cemetery which is said to be haunted by the spirit of man who died trying to rescue others.

The video in this case, is a moving figure caught on a full spectrum camera by a ghost hunting crew. The figure pops up from behind a tomb, moves a few yards then vanishes. At the same time, there is a growing glow at the far end of the frame, which corresponds with the site of a nearby highway.

Lead scientist Bill Murphy, joins stunt expert Austin Porter and photographer Lanisha Cole as they attempt to recreate the footage on a dark and spooky night. They start with the most likely scenario, that of another person walking around in the dark, then proceed to a hypothesis that requires a convoy of emergency vehicles with full-on lights and sirens.

Both cases are fascinating both from a historical and paranormal perspective but are the accompanying videos fact or fakes? Find out when you tune in to Fact or Faked: Paranormal Files, tonight at 10:00 on Syfy.

FACT OR FAKED: PARANORMAL FILES -- "Humble, Texas" -- Pictured: (l-r) Devin Marble, Lanisha, Bill Murphy -- Photo by: Kim Christensen/Syfy. © NBCUniversal, Inc.

When I saw this new Supernatural photo, I thought, wow Thelma and Louise and sure enough, they're from the upcoming episode "Slash Fiction."

Season 7: "Slash Fiction"
DOUBLE THE WINCHESTERS, DOUBLE THE FUN — Sam (Jared Padalecki) and Dean (Jensen Ackles) are once again on the FBI’s “Most Wanted” list when two Leviathans clone the brothers and go on a killing spree.

The subject of a nationwide manhunt, Sam and Dean need to drop off the grid so Bobby (Jim Beaver) sends them to Frank Deveraux (guest star Kevin R. McNally), a quirky surveillance expert, for help. Meanwhile, Bobby continues to search for a way to kill the Levianthans, or at least slow them down, so the real Winchesters can stop their evil doppelgangers.

John Showalter directed the episode written by Robbie Thompson (#706).

"Slash Fiction" - (L-R): Jared Padalecki as "Sam" and Jensen Ackles as "Dean" in SUPERNATURAL on The CW. Photo: Jack Rowand/The CW©2011 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

On October 21, Chuck returns to television for one last hurrah. This, the show's fifth season will be the show's last and this time the Save Our Show campaigns won't help.

Before the season begins, catch up on anything you missed with Chuck: The Complete Fourth Season, now on DVD and Blu-Ray. It was a big season for the head of the Nerd Herd. Not only did he have to work extra hard to keep his spy life from leaking into his normal life, but he also had the added pressure of being head-over-heels in love! As the wedding bells start to chime for Sarah and Chuck (Zachary Levi), Chuck's missing mother surfaces (Linda Hamilton), and vicious arms deal Alexi (Timothy Dalton) throws everyone for a loop.

There's plenty of action and even more laughs as Chuck's pals at the Buy More get into the spy biz, whether they're aware of it or not.

The DVD includes all 24 hour-long episodes from "Chuck Versus the Anniversary" to "Chuck Verses the Cliffhanger." There's also a mildly amusing gag reel and the usual Declassified (aka Missing) scenes.

Also included is the webseries "The Chronicles of Jeff and Lester's Quest for an Elusive Video Game" and Blu-ray owners will have access to "The Top Secret Chuckapedia Interactive Experience." Say that five times fast.

If you want to learn more about how TV shows are made, check out the featurette, "Chuck Versus Directing." Here, the cameras follow Zachary Levi as he steps behind the big cameras to direct an episode.The featurette spends a lot of time with Zach's support team and at times it gets too elementary. Still, it's nice to see what goes on behind the scenes of this hard-working, but warm and friendly set.

Chuck's pal Morgan, Joshua Gomez, gets his own featurette this time around and it's beyond wacky. It's called "Operation Gomez: Spying on the Cast" and it's all about how the actor is using his new on-screen spy skills, to protect his castmates in real life.

If you've never seen Chuck before, you can start with this season on DVD but you'll probably end up pretty confused. Then again, this season has some great guest stars such as Steve Austin, Lou Ferigno, Robert Englund, Summer Glau and of course, Linda Hamilton. And hey, if you can't follow the story, the action and laughs will sustain you.

Chuck: The Complete Fourth Season is available now on DVD and Blu-ray. Remember that Chuck moves to Friday's at 8:00 for its final season and that begins on October 28 on NBC.