DVD releases include recent and vintage titles

Published: Monday, Jan. 15 2007 9:58 a.m. MST

Here are some new-to-DVD releases, including titles that are both recent and vintage.

TV shows

"King of Queens: The Complete Seventh Season" (Sony, 2004-2005, three discs, $39.95). Kevin James and Leah Remini are still a funny team seven seasons into this enjoyable blue-collar sitcom, with Jerry Stiller as the meddling, slightly wacko live-in father-in-law.

Among the guests this season are Burt Reynolds, Hal Linden and "Incredible Hulk" Lou Ferrigno.

Extras: Widescreen, 22 episodes

"The Street: The Complete First Season" (Koch, 2006, two discs, $29.98). These hourlong episodes, about neighbors in a London suburb, are soap operas of high quality and high-mindedness. But, being from England, they are also filled with a surprising amount of graphic sex and foul language.

In fact, most of the first 10-15 minutes of the initial episode is spent chronicling sexual encounters between two married neighbors having an affair. After that, the show finally kicks into a serious look at how people react to a child being hit by a car when everyone involved knows each other.

Good, but requires slogging through an awful lot of raunchiness.

Extras: Widescreen, six episodes

"Golden Age Theater, Volume 4" (Alpha, 1954-55, b/w, $6.98).

"Golden Age Theater, Volume 5" (Alpha, 1953-57, b/w, $6.98). These collections offer more half-hour vintage TV shows — dramas, thrillers, soap operas and even a pair of Westerns — which should appeal to baby boomers.

Episodes for "Volume 4" are: "Four Star Playhouse: 'The Wild Bunch,"' (1955), with Charles Boyer and Natalie Wood as one of his daughters; "TV Reader's Digest: 'America's First Great Lady"' (1955), about Pocahontas (Gloria Talbot); and two from "The Star and the Story" — "Payment in Kind" (1954), with Howard Duff and Beverly Garland, and "Dark Stranger" (1954), with Edmund O'Brien and Joanne Woodward. (The plot of the latter episode resembles the Will Ferrell movie "Stranger Than Fiction.")

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