Purchase Diary 2016 – January

The Big Bang Theory: Season 8 (2014 – 2015)


Jan 8th – $9.99 @ Amazon.com

Running Time: 7h 59m

Price per Hour: $1.25

Hart of Dixie: Season 3 (2013 – 2014)


Jan 8th – $17.99 @ Amazon.com

Running Time: 15h 28m

Price per Hour: $1.16

Idiocracy (2006)


Jan 8th – $5.00 @ Amazon.com

Running Time: 1h 24m

Price per Hour: $3.57

Raising Hope: Season 3 (2012 – 2013)


Jan 8th – $14.99 @ Amazon.com

Running Time: 7h 56m

Price per Hour: $1.89

Fargo (1996)


Jan 13th – €7.97 @ Amazon.de

Running Time: 1h 38m

Price per Hour: €4.88

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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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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 2013 – June

Castle: Season 4 (2011 – 2012)


Jun 5th – €20.35 ($19.57) @ Amazon.com

Collection no. 12382 – 12386

Iron Sky (2012)


Jun 8th – €9.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1043

The Last Stand (2013)


Jun 8th – €12.99 @ Drogerie Müller

Collection no. 1044

Dredd (2012)


Jun 11th – €9.83 (£6.94) @ Amazon.co.uk

Collection no. 1045

New Girl: Season 1 (2011 – 2012)


Jun 11th – €17.06 (£12.89) @ Amazon.co.uk

Collection no. 12387 – 12389

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