Beverly Hills, 90210
7th Season
Paramount

If you were in your teens or early 20s in the ’90s, this set is sheer nostalgic bliss for ya. The rest of us never really got it or cared about the zip code, but that’s okay — a simple case of different strokes/flavors, etc. Rebel without a clue Luke Perry (where is he now? Quick, check Wikipedia) is gone, but Jason Priestly carries on as sensitive model-boy Brandon to anchor things, with Jennie Garth also still around, plus right out of Saved By the Bell on Saturday mornings, Tiffani Thiessen stirs things up as a not-so-nice girl. It’s senior year and going-to-college time, meaning transitions, revelations and more. And there you have it. One thing is for sure: Catch any of the new generation 90210 currently on the air, and the original show looks almost like art.

Dynasty
4th Season, Volume One
Paramount

Now we’re talkin’: Camp and more camp. Thank you, Joan Collins. The last season for Pamela Sue Martin as naughty, disturbed daughter Fallon, while enter Diahann Carroll’s run as the stylish and scheming Dominique Deveraux. John Forsythe remains ever-stoic as patriarch Blake Carrington, and the plots thickens — ah, but of course.

The Paper Chase
Season One
Shout Factory!

Talk about great lost shows. Would a series about Harvard Law students even have a shot at a pilot today? Doubt it. Based on the acclaimed 1973 film adapted from John Jay Osborn, Jr.’s novel, this 1978 series starred John Houseman as the ever-acerbic Professor Charles Kingsfield and James Stephens as the “hero,” wide-eyed young student Hart, along with a fine supporting cast of fellow would-be future lawyers. The show was a critical fave 30 years ago but still only lasted one season on CBS…but PBS reruns led to Showtime picking it up for three more years. In season one, you’ll see a young Marilu Henner as a waitress in the pilot episode, Don Porter (Gidget) as Ford’s father, Robert Reed (Brady Bunch) as a sexually harassing professor, and an also-young Kim Cattrall as the wife of a struggling law student. For those who remember it fondly (as I do), this collection of The Paper Chase will take you back.

Wings
Final (Eighth) Season
Paramount

Wings was the little comedy that could. The darn thing ruled USA Network for a time in syndicated reruns too. Though Thomas Hayden Church is gone as dimwitted Lowell, there’s still the brother axis of Tim Daly and Steven Weber, cutesy girl-next-door Crystal Bernard, the terrific Amy Yasbeck and a pre-monk Tony Shalub. If the show launched now, I wonder how it would do… Would it end up as a USA original comedy rather than NBC? After all, the characters are welcome, and Wings — still managing to be about small airline operations on a little island — was all about characters and some sweetly amusing comedy, plus some story arcs that generally tie up well in this final season run.

Wyatt Earp
Complete First Season
Falcon
(April 21st)

“Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp, brave, courageous and bold.
Long live his fame and long live his glory
And long may his story be told.”

Y’know, TV westerns of the ’50s and ’60s had some of the greatest theme songs, and Wyatt Earp was one of them. Starring Hugh O’Brien in the title role, the series gets the right treatment here, collecting the first season’s episodes from 1955-56 (the show ran through 1961). The show plays fast and loose with the historical details (eventually getting to Tombstone, Arizona a few years down the road). But its TV-western-fun-drama-time here in compact 30-minute episodes.

Hawaii Five-O
Sixth Season
Paramount
(April 21st)

By its sixth season, the crime drama adventures of Steve McGarret (Jack Lord) and his special law enforcement team, which included James McArthur as Dan (as in “Book ‘em Dan-o”) was beginning to wear a bit and run out of tales, but still had its moments, found here in this collection. But the “trouble in paradise” themes still work overall, and some of the best episodes here include “Hookman,” the great con game tale “One Born Every Minute,” and lighter, humorous season-ender, “30,000 Rooms and I Have the Key.” The set features 24 shows on six discs, quite an array of guest-stars who are the who’s-who from the era and, of course, that amazing instrumental theme song.