Purchase Diary 2015 – September to December

Butter (2011)


Sep 19th – €3.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1218

Auf Achse: The Complete Series (1980 – 1996)
(Auf Achse: Die komplette Serie)


Sep 19th – €29.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 13014 – 13025

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)


Sep 19th – €12.90 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1219

Two Night Stand (2014)


Sep 19th – €9.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1220

Dumb and Dumber To (2014)


Sep 24th – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1221

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Purchase Diary 2014 – October / November

Community: Season 5 (2014)


Oct 2nd – €11.55 ($19.99) @ Amazon.com

Collection no. 12780 – 12781

2 Broke Girls: Season 3 (2013 – 2014)


Oct 7th – €22.01 (£16.11) @ Amazon.co.uk

Collection no. 12782 – 12784

Anchorman: The Legend Continues (2013)


Oct 18th – €9.99 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 1179

Michael Mittermeier: Blackout (2014)


Oct 18th – €12.90 @ Media Markt

Collection no. 20034

20 Years Mittermeier (1999 – 2006)


Oct 24th – €7.68 @ Amazon.de

Collection no. 20035 – 20037

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Purchase Diary 2014 – January / February

The Big Bang Theory: Season 6 (2012 – 2013)


Jan 4th – €1.66 ($7.99) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12605 – 12607

How I Met Your Mother: Season 8 (2012 – 2013)


Jan 4th – €1.93 ($9.96) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12608 – 12610

Justified: Season 3 (2012)


Jan 4th – €1.94 ($9.99) @ Amazon.com (paid partially via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12611 – 12613

Night Court: Season 2 (1984 – 1985)


Jan 7th – €0.00 ($11.99) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12614 – 12616

Night Court: Season 3 (1985 – 1986)


Jan 7th – €0.00 ($11.49) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

Collection no. 12617 – 12619

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TV Junkie: A History

I watched a lot of TV shows over the years. And when I say a lot, I mean A LOT. And I watched accross the board.

Keep in mind that I’m only 35 years old.

I watched The Guiding Light for two years straight (it’s a soap opera whose German title was the Springfield Story). I watched medical shows like Trapper John M.D. and lawyer shows like L.A. Law. I watched the 80s action shows from MacGuyver to Riptide. I even watched Love Boat every weekday on one of the first private channels in Germany: Sat.1. I got up at 6am on every Saturday morning to watch Rawhide (Tausend Meilen Staub, lit. “A Thousand Miles of Dust”) with a very young and pre-Fistful Clint Eastwood. I knew who Daniel Boone was around the same time I met the Cartwrights as well as the men from the Shiloh Ranch.

And last weekend I binge-watched the first Netflix show House of Cards (Big recommendation! Kevin Spacey is a brilliant Magnificent Bastard!) and I got curious as to how many shows I watched intently over the past two and a half decades.

With the help of the list on the German site Wunschliste.de I created a list of “my” shows.

I only counted live-action fiction shows, no animated shows may they be Saturday morning cartoons like Yogi Bear or Scooby-Doo or evening shows like The Simpsons or South Park. No scripted reality (which I’m avoiding to 99% anyway with the exception of Comic Book Men). In this list are only shows which I followed for more than a year unless the show itself didn’t last that long.

And the answer was: 244 246 247. Two hundred and fourty four six seven different shows I watched with active interest since I’ve started watching television. And the worst thing is: Of most of these shows I watched 90% or more episodes at least once.

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Purchase Diary 2012 – October

Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe (2011)


04 Oct – €7.27 (£3.92) @ Amazon.co.uk

U.S. Marshals (1998)


11 Oct – €4.80 (£2.98) @ Amazon.co.uk

Bond 50 (1962 – 2008)


11 Oct – €111.51 (£89.23) @ Amazon.co.uk

Leverage: Season 4 (2011)


11 Oct – €0.00 ($24.28) @ Amazon.com (paid via gift certificate)

UHF (1989)


11 Oct – €6.04 (£3.96) @ Amazon.co.uk

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