Vega$

I don’t know why CBS/Paramount is the only big studio doing TV-on-DVD releases on a regular basis (even if it’s often split-season, music-altered releases), but they are, and their commitment to the Aaron Spelling Productions catalogue continues with the first half of the first season of Vega$. This show, one of the seminal products of TV’s disco era, combined formula storytelling, titillation, insane story ideas, the late Robert Urich in the most successful of his many, many series, and Tony Curtis as a dude named “Philip Roth,” the most bizarre character name choice since the second lead in Kiss Me Kate was named “Lois Lane.”