This week’s home entertainment offerings include new Blu-ray editions of classic, cult-hit Stephen King miniseries, a compendium of all extant Twin Peaks sagas, more of the revived Doctor Who, and a couple of 2016 movie sequels that flopped, though one of them isn’t all that bad.

TV on DVD

This week’s offerings include some items that “geek viewers of a certain age” might find enjoyable including a Blu-ray edition of the 1979 Salem’s Lot Miniseries (Warner Bros., BD $14.97), an adaptation of Stephen King’s novel that was directed by Tobe Hooper (Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Poltergeist) and starred James Mason and David Soul, as well as a new Blu-ray edition of the cult hit 1990 miniseries Stephen King’s It (Warner Bros., BD $14.97), which features a great performance by Tim Curry as Pennywise the Dancing Clown.

With a new Twin Peaks series set to debut on Showtime next year, it makes sense to release Twin Peaks: The Original Series, Fire Walk With Me, & The Missing Pieces (Paramount, BD $72.99), a new lower-priced, nine-disc collection that includes every episode from the series in both the U.S. and International versions plus the follow-up feature Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, and nearly 90 minutes of deleted footage from the film.

For fans of Doctor Who, there is Doctor Who: Series 8, Part 1 (BBC, 270 min., $24.98), which includes the first six episodes of the revived Doctor Who series that aired in 2014 and was the first to feature Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor.

The parade of recent seasons of current shows continues with the last season of the excellent CBS drama The Good Wife: The 7th & Final Season (Paramount, 850 min., $55.98), as well as the seventh season of the popular ABC single-camera sitcom, Modern Family: The Complete 7th Season (Fox, 500 min., $38.98), the raunchy Chuck Lorre sitcom, 2 Broke Girls: The Complete 5th Season (Warner Bros., 484 min., $24.98), the Tom Selleck-starring CBS cop drama Blue Bloods: The Sixth Season (Paramount, 921 min., $55.98), the first season of the CBS spin-off Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders (Paramount, $55.98), the BD of the gritty western detective series Longmire: The Complete 4th Season, and the Vampire Diaries spin-off The Originals: The Complete Third Season (Warner Bros., 997 min., $44.98, BD $47.98).

Vintage TV series include the first color season of the classic western Gunsmoke, Gunsmoke: The 12th Season, Part 1 (Paramount, $45.98), and Gunsmoke: The 12th Season, Part 2 (Paramount, $45.98), and The Bob Hope Show—The Specials: Thanks for the Memories (TimeLife, $55.98), which features 13 specials spanning five decades of star-studded USO shows.

This week’s overseas offering is one of the best, Midsomer Murders: Series 18 (Acorn Media, 597 min., $49.99, BD $59.99), which includes six full-length mysteries featuring the nonplused DCI John Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) and his capable assistant DS Charlie Nelson (Gwilym Lee) solve deliciously macabre murder mysteries in impossibly picturesque English villages.  Few mystery series manage to mix humor and murderous mayhem as effectively as the long-running and always charming Midsomer Murders.

Theatrical Movies

With a few notable exceptions (Finding Dory), sequels have had a hard time at the box office this year and this week we have two of this summer’s retread flops, one of which is quite a bit better than the other.  The R-rated comedy Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (Universal, “R,” 186 min., $29.98, BD $34.98) does recycle the premise of its 2014 progenitor, and it may be raunchy, and some of its jokes fall flat, but this film still has some laughs (and received a 62% positive rating on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes), and was actually one of 2016’s better sequels.

The same cannot be said of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows (Paramount, “PG-13,” 112 min., $29.99, BD $39.99), which is pretty much for TMNT completists and 12-year-old boys only.  This live-action CGI hybrid thing is beginning to wear pretty thin with the Turtles, and its deficiencies are well exposed in this overly-loud and simplistic rendering of the TMNT ethos.

This week’s most interesting offering, The Free State of Jones (Universal, “R,” 280 min., $29.99, BD $34.99), which narrates a little known story of the Civil War and Reconstruction.  This film was attacked from both the right (for its portrait of Reconstruction that mirrors current scholarship rather than the pro-South propaganda that was used to justify the evils of segregation) and the left (for a narrative that features a “white savior,” the defiant Mississippi farmer Newt Knight, who is played by Matthew McConaughey).  The Free State of Jones is far from a perfect film.  It does not have a smooth narrative flow, but at least Hollywood is at last attempting to tell true stories of the Civil War and Reconstruction Eras.

Anime

It’s a slow week for anime releases, though there are some choice items like One Piece: Season 8—Part 3 (Funimation, 275 min., $39.98), which includes episodes 481-492 of the long-running anime series based on the pirate manga by Eiichiro Oda that remains one of the most popular pop culture properties in Japan.

Also of interest are two new Blu-rays, one is a new edition of the classic 1983 anime movie Golgo 13: The Professional (Discotek, $29.95), which is the first high-def release of the film produced by TMS that featured the assassin hero of Takao Saito’s Golgo 13 manga, and the other is the first North American high-def edition of the fourth Rozen Maiden anime TV series, the Rozen Maiden: Zuruckspulen: Complete Collection (Sentai Filmworks, 325 min., BD $69.98), which collects the 13-episode 2013 series from Studio Dean that was released here on DVD in October of 2014.