'Back to You: Season One'

3 1/2 stars = Very good
Ratings explained

The first and only season of the Pittsburgh-set newsroom comedy starring Kelsey Grammer and Patricia Heaton comes to DVD ($39.98, Fox) with three unaired episodes and a bevy of features. Uniontown and McKeesport get shout-outs in the unaired episodes, one of which also includes a Post-Gazette local news section as a prop.

The 26-minute "Behind the Scenes" featurette describes the making of the series as well as the recasting of several characters. "This Just In" explores the value of local TV news anchors, who are variously described as "self-important in their small towns" and "basically performers" by the show's writers. A gag reel mostly just features the actors cracking up mid-take.

For a series that lasted just one season, the extras are particularly well-produced, although seeing the show again is a reminder of how unjustified its cancellation was, particularly considering that the sitcom that replaced it ("Do Not Disturb") already has failed.

-- Rob Owen, Post-Gazette TV editor

'The Sarah Silverman Program: Season Two, Volume One'

2 1/2 stars = Average
Ratings explained

Depending on how much you like the cutesy-voiced Sarah Silverman presenting plot lines so filthy they make "Superbad" look like "Snow White," "The Sarah Silverman Program" is either ingenious or annoying. Or flat-out disgusting.

It's difficult to summarize even a single episode in a family newspaper, so let's just say that while some of the shows in the season two, volume one DVD (Paramount, $26.99) succeed with clever Seinfeld-esque intersecting story twists ("Bored of the Rings"); some feel unnecessarily convoluted and forced ("Maid to Border").

But if you have the stomach for "The Sarah Silverman Program," the DVD will not disappoint. The extras vary in quality, but there's certainly no shortage of them in the two-DVD set, including audio commentary for many of the six episodes, a half-hour video of the cast's appearance at ComicCon, digital shorts, "Cookie Party" cartoons and several mini "Silverman Report" behind the scenes features.

-- Anya Sostek, Post-Gazette staff writer

'Quark: The Complete Series'

1 star = Awful
Ratings explained

Buck Henry, what were you thinking? The comic genius who can boast "Get Smart," "The Graduate" and "Catch-22" on his resume must have created "Quark" on an off day. A really, really off day. The 1977-78 space spoof, airing on the heels of the success of "Star Wars," starred Richard Benjamin as Adam Quark, commander of an intergalactic garbage scow and its rag-tag crew. I loved this show as a kid, but in rewatching its short run (eight episodes) on DVD ($19.94, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment), I can't imagine what I was thinking. Besides the stilted dialogue, the show featured plenty of flat double-entendres and special effects little better than "Land of the Lost." No extras pertaining to the show appear here. Could it be out of shame?

-- Karen Carlin, Post-Gazette staff writer

'You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown'

3 stars = Good
Ratings explained

Back in the 1972 election, the crucial issues were homework policies, recess and whether to conduct kindergarten graduation ceremonies with the little ones in caps and gowns.

No, we're not talking the Nixon-McGovern matchup. There was a vastly different campaign for president under way at the Peanuts gang's elementary school with Linus Van Pelt nominated to lead the ticket. In this newly released, remastered edition of the 1972 TV special, Charlie Brown is dumped from the race after very unscientific polling by Lucy determines the perennial loser would never make it as school president.

Besides the usual animated charm of Snoopy and other supporting players, the highlight of the story comes when typically conscientious candidate Linus has what in this century would surely be his "YouTube" moment: a speech that meanders into the topic of Halloween and the Great Pumpkin.

Two extras on the disc are a new feature about the making of the original TV special, including interviews with creator Charles Schulz's wife; and another Peanuts episode that finds the gang at summer camp, "He's a Bully, Charlie Brown."

A worthy -- and timely -- addition to any Peanuts fan's collection.

-- Joyce Gannon, Post-Gazette staff writer

• More TV on DVD: "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," season 8; "How I Met Your Mother," season 3; "Nash Bridges," season 1; "The Unit: Season 3."