Best cult TV on DVD: ''Freaks and Geeks'' and ''Strangers With Candy''

Unrated, 24 hrs., 1999-2000 (Shout! Factory
An eight-disc, 18-episode set complete with a snazzy full-size yearbook may seem excessive for a TV show that was canceled in the midst of its first season, but you know what? It's not. Freaks and Geeks (which told the story of circa-1980 stoners and sad sacks) was the greatest coming-of-age show ever and deserves every second of what may amount to the finest DVD treatment of the year. EXTRAS Twenty-nine commentary tracks, 60-plus deleted scenes and outtakes, and hundreds of painfully hilarious moments that recall the best and (mostly) worst times of the horror that was high school. —Dalton Ross