24 massive TV Blu-ray and DVD box sets for sci-fi completists
Sometimes you just have to have it all, and you have to have it all right now. If you're a sci-fi TV fan, you don't just want one season of a show you like. You want the whole show, every single episode, preferably in a nifty box set.
So for this installment in our 2012 Holiday Gift Guide, we thought we'd show you some of our favorite complete sci-fi TV sets to satisfy the completist fan in your life.
And here's a complete list of all Blastr Holiday Gift Guide features:
20 insanely elaborate movie DVD sets that'd make great holiday gifts
Awesome Serenity replica + 24 other great gifts for Joss Whedon fans
28 perfect Doctor Who gifts that look just like the TARDIS
Amazing Enterprise replica + 15 more sci-fi gifts costing $10,000 and up
22 videogame gift your friends will love (but you may want to keep)
21 awesome Star Trek gifts that look like the Starship Enterprise
21 cute and cuddly sci-fi plush toys that would make great gifts
24 massive TV Blu-ray and DVD box sets for sci-fi completists
16 old-school sci-fi TV gifts: Twilight Zone, Space: 1999 and more!
20 great holiday gifts for your geek girlfriend
21 life-sized comic book props you can give as gifts
A life-sized Iron Throne + 27 more awesome Game of Thrones gifts
Awesome zat gun + 21 more gifts for your Stargate-loving friends
11 must-read sci-fi novels that would make perfect gifts
18 of the cleverest sci-fi shirts you can give as gifts
50 gifts from Middle-earth and beyond for the ultimate Tolkien fan
Superman underwear + 19 more great gifts for your geek boyfriend
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The Twilight Zone: The Complete Series, $178.49: Enter The Twilight Zone over and over again, but be careful. With this many episodes, you might not ever get out.
Lost: The Complete Collection, $355: This Blu-ray set comes with all sorts of extra goodies for the true fan, but unfortunately the ending is still the same.
Star Trek: The Complete Original Series, $129.99: Yeah, we know you've seen them all a dozen times. So have we, but this is a lovely Blu-ray edition, and you know you want to watch them all again anyway.
Charmed: The Complete Series, $112.99: Not only do you get every episode of this magically delicious show. You also get a nifty book that serves as both a case for your discs and a guide to some of the show's secrets.
Doctor Who: The David Tennant Years, $394.99: It might be hard to find, but for hardcore Tenth Doctor fans this box set is worth it. It contains every episode and special Tennant ever filmed as The Doctor, including the animated spinoffs.
Dark Shadows: The Complete Original Series, $344.99: This box set is particularly impressive because it really does contain all 1,225 episodes of the daily supernatural soap opera, on a whopping 131 discs. That's a lot of vampire fun.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer: The Complete Series, $78.65: All seven seasons of the show that made Joss Whedon a geek hero, all right here.
The X-Files: The Complete Collector's Edition, $369.99: The truth isn't out there. It's in this big ol' box of sci-fi.
Stargate SG-1: The Complete Series Collection, $73.99: Head through the Gate over and over again, then hit replay and relive the whole thing as many times as you want.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Complete Series, $303.79: This series is finally beginning to head to Blu-ray, but if you just can't wait to own every episode, this is the box set for you.
Star Trek: Enterprise: The Complete Series, $139.10: It might be the least-beloved of any of the Trek shows, but some fans are bound to want every episode of it.
Star Trek: Voyager, $249.10: Head into deep space with every episode of Voyager.
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Complete Series, $275.90: Because you can't get enough of Star Trek.
Angel: The Complete Series, $63.80: It might not have Buffy's rabid following, but this Joss Whedon series definitely deserved its own box set.
Farscape: The Complete Series, $52.96: Every episode of the classic series, so you can climb aboard Moya and never leave.
Red Dwarf: The Complete Collection, $84.49: They're making more episodes now, but if you want to everything this hilarious show has to offer so far, go for this set.
Babylon 5, $137.49: The year is 2012, the name of the place is (still) Babylon 5. This set includes not only all five seasons of the show, but the entire movie collection as well.
Heroes: The Complete Collection, $124.95: This box set won't make you a superhero, but because of Blu-ray's high-definition, you might feel like you're a part of the action anyway.
The Six Million Dollar Man: The Complete Series, $346: You know you want this one, if only so you can make that Steve Austin sound every time you put a disc in your player.
Transformers: The Complete Series, $60.93: Even if you weren't a kid when this show was on, this box set will make you feel like one.
The Outer Limits Original Series Complete Box Set, $28.99: It's the complete edition of a classic, and it's important to appreciate the classics.
Beauty and the Beast: The Complete Series, $33.43: The CW may have their own thing going, but there's no substitute for the original.
Battlestar Galactica: The Complete Series, $169.80: This particular collection of the acclaimed Syfy series comes with a collectible Cyclon, so you can feel like a Toaster is watching you all day long. Isn't that nice?
Quantum Leap: The Complete Series, $173.95: Take the leap again and again and again and again and (you get the idea).