I am – Hercules!!

“The Walking Dead,” was only my 6th favorite hourlong of 2010, suggesting 2010 was a pretty good year for TV. It’s an ongoing sci-fi zombie epic from the great writer-director Frank Darabont (“The Shawshank Redemption,” “The Green Mile,” “The Mist”).

This series demands flashbacks; I want to learn where all these above-ground dead people came from and how they came to outnumber the living so quickly. Did virus-riddled asteroids riddle the Earth at some point, creating seed corpses?

Sadly, Darabont seemed to indicate at the current Paley Fest in Los Angeles that the source of the zombies will never be revealed.

“Dead,” which started strong and kept getting better, goes a long way toward filling the weekly post-apocalyptic drama hole in my heart left by the cancellation of “Battlestar Galactica.”

Things get gory and scary, more than one expects from a basic cable series, even if it does air after 10 p.m. I was plenty hooked by the third episode, which shifts the focus to the social dynamic shared by a tiny community of survivors who have found a tenuous refuge in the woods outside Atlanta. Things get very agreeably complex.

This is the biggest thing AMC has ever aired and a 13-episode second season greets us next autumn.

Season one comes in both DVD and Blu-ray

The 20th four-movie collection of “Mystery Science Theater 3000” in unusual in that it contains only episodes starring Joel Hodgson:

1.9 “Project Moonbase” (1953);

3.22 “Master Ninja I” (1984);

3.24 “Master Ninja II” (1984); and

5.5 “The Magic Voyage Of Sinbad” (1962).

Extras include:

* A featurette on the look of MST3K with DP Jeff Stonehouse

* An intro to Magic Voyage of Sinbad by Trace Beaulieu

* Mystery Science Theater Hour Wraps

* A look back at Master Ninja with guest star Bill McKinney

* Servo vs. Servo at Dragon*Con

* Original Trailers

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Judge John Deed 3.x

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Who Do You Think You Are 1.x

March 22
The Ambassador: The Complete Series
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Marcus Welby: Best of 1.x

Piece of Cake: The Complete Miniseries <--- NEW!!
The Scarecrow and Mrs. King 2.x

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Anything Goes
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Gangland 7.x
Gangland 7.x (Blu-ray)
Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown
Hercules 2.x
Here's Lucy 4.x
In Plain Sight 3.x
Mad Men 4.x

Mad Men 4.x (Blu-ray)
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Stan Lee's Superhumans
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Treme 1.x (Blu-ray)
Upstairs Downstars: The Complete Series
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