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Amazon’s pre-order price for the “Game of Thrones” Blu-ray, $55.99 in June and $44.99 last week, has just plummeted to an all-time low of $34.99!! (56% Off!!) LOCK IT IN!! If you pre-order now Amazon can’t raise the price on you; if the price falls further between now and its March 6 street date, you’ll automatically be charged the lowest price. Plus you automatically get free shipping. THIS WAS MY FAVORITE SERIES OF 2011!!

The complete series set for “Babylon 5” spinoff “Crusade” (starring Gary Cole and Daniel Dae Kim), $59.98 in June and $37.49 last month, has just plummeted to an all-time low of $12.87!! (79% Off!!)

The “Foyle’s War” 5-season set, $149.99 in 2010 and $111.49 in 2011, has plummeted (this week only) to an all-time low of $56.49!! (62% Off!!)

The superb final season of “Everwood,” $29.99 last month, has plummeted to an all-time low of $13.59!! (66% Off!!)

The complete-series set for “Land of the Lost,” $46.99 in 2010 and $31.99 in November, has plummeted to $14.24!! (64% Off!!)

The first two seasons of the Louis CK-scripted “Chris Rock Show,” $27.99 last month, has plummeted to an all-time low of $10.99!! (69% Off!!)

Season seven of “Monk,” $49.99 in 2009 and $31.99 last month, has plummeted to an all-time low of $11.99!! (70% Off!!) Three other seasons carry the same price!!!

The Blu-ray fifth season of “The Office,” $51.49 in 2010 and $37.99 in November, has plummeted to an all-time low of $17.99!! (70% Off!!)

The Blu-ray sixth season of “The Office,” $62.99 in 2010 and $40,99 in November, has plummeted to an all-time low of $15.99!! (73% Off!!)

The Blu-ray sixth season of “House,” $55.49 in 2010 and $42.49 in November, has plummeted to an all-time low of $18.49!! (69% Off!!)

“Birds of Prey,” which depicts the daughters of Bruce Wayne, James Gordon and Dinah “The Black Canary” Lance teaming up to fight evil, was $34.49 in 2010 and $28.99 in October. It now stands at an all-time low of $11.72!! (71% Off!!)

The third and fourth seasons of “Battlestar Galactica” on Blu-ray, $70.99 last year and $35.49 last month, have for the moment fallen to an all-time low of $19.99 each!! (67% Off!)

Most of the “Columbo” seasons have plummeted to all-time lows of $14.99 or less!! (63% Off!!)

The complete series set for the Apatow-scripted “Ben Stiller Show” (starring Bob “Better Call Saul” Odenkirk), $17.99 last month, has fallen to $7.72!! (71% Off!!)

New This Week

Justice League: Doom is a 2012 adaptation of Mark Waid’s “JLA: Tower Of Babel” graphic novel , in which a legion of doom gets hold of Batman’s “contingency plans” for neutralizing superheroes who might stray to the dark side.

Voice talent returning from the “Justice League” TV series:

Batman: Kevin Conroy
Flash: Michael Rosenbaum
Martian Manhunter: Carl Lumbly
Wonder Woman: Susan Eisenberg
Jimmy Olsen: David Kaufman
Vandal Savage: Phil Morris
Star Sapphire: Olivia D’Abo
Mirror Master: Alexis Denisof

Plus! Tim Daly, who played Superman in the 1996-2000 animated series but did NOT participate in the 2001-2006 “Justice League” series, is back as Clark Kent!

Plus! Green Lantern Hal Jordan, who was NOT a character in the 2001-2006 “Justice League,” joins via the voice of Nathan Fillion, who played Jordan in last year’s “Green Lantern: Emerald Knights”!

Quality-wise, “Doom” is a middling title, not nearly as good as “Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths” or “Justice League: The New Frontier” but nowhere near as putrid as “Superman/Batman: Public Enemies.”

Still, it’s especially disappointing because “Doom” was scripted by the late Dwayne McDuffie, who did such a spectacular job with “All-Star Superman,” my all-time favorite of these straight-to-Blu movies based on the DC Comics characters.

If you haven’t heard, it’s about the Legion of Doom sneaking into the Batcave and stealing Batman’s plans for neutralizing his fellow Justice Leaguers (should they become mind-controlled or compromised in some other fashion). Thing is, Batman’s plans don’t seem that impressive. Vandal Savage couldn’t think up on his own the idea of shooting Superman with a kryptonite bullet?

The new set contains a preview of “Superman Vs. The Elite,” an upcoming Blu-ray movie based on the excellent March 2001 story in Action Comics #775 that pits Superman against a superhero team very much like Warren Ellis’ wonderfully murderous Wildstorm creation The Authority. I don’t know who plays Elite leader (and Jenny Sparks surrogate) Manchester Black, but it amuses me that he sounds like Bono.

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Heathcliff 1.x Vol. 1
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Last of the Summer Wine 1991
Lawrence Welk Vol. 1-4
Matlock 7.x
Matlock 7-Season Pack
Nurse Jackie 3.x (Blu-ray)
Rules of Engagement 5.x
Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century: The Complete Series
That Show with Joan Rivers: Vol. 1-3
Underdog: The Complete Series
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Weeds 7.x (Blu-ray)
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