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DVD DEAL: 'Ally McBeal' complete

This one's definitely in our 2009 TV DVD gift guide (coming soon!), and Amazon.com's deal of the day makes it an even bigger bargain.

On Friday only, get all five seasons of Ally McBeal, plus a bonus disc AND a bonus soundtrack CD, for $79 (down from a list price of $200 and Amazon's usual discount to $122). It's a total of 32 discs, each season in a separate plastic case inside a horizontal-format hardbox.

Calista Flockhart and David E. Kelley teamed for one of Kelley's most delightful creations, tracking the mental adventures of a winsome young Boston attorney whose flights of fancy led her to conjure dancing babies, arrows in the chest and other fantastical metaphors. This Fox show's style defined the early 2000s (skyhigh miniskirts), and its whimsy opened up the hour drama format to comedy and musical numbers. There were even topical stories addressing current issues. And romance. And reclamation (Robert Downey Jr., cast as Ally's guy out of his drug and arrest depths).

Ally McBeal: The Complete Series includes a 40-minute retrospective look back by cast and crew, plus vintage featurettes and a crossover episode with Kelley's other Boston legal series, The Practice (more serious before its Boston Legal reincarnation).

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Diane Werts has been glued to the tube since she can remember, growing up in a household where the TV came on first thing in the morning and stayed on till bedtime and beyond. She worked for the USA Film Festival, then for The Dallas Morning News writing about everything from Shakespeare to macrame art to rock music (and has the hearing loss to prove it). She moved to New York's Newsday to edit their glossy TV magazine, then returned to writing about television, specializing in its stranger permutations. She's a past president of the Television Critics Association.

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