The last few holiday seasons have produced a few killer complete series TV sets that are designed to not only milk the last remaining dollars out of a show already completely released on DVD but really make someone's holiday extra special. Some of our favorite of year's past include the full box sets for Six Feet Under (designed to look like a grave stone), Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Sex and the City. The X-Files and Angel are releasing complete season sets this holiday season but one of the coolest ones by far is the complete series collection for Everybody Loves Raymond which just arrived in our offices this week. Designed to look like a house (the most appropriate design for a show about the hilarity of suburban life with your parents across the street), the Raymond box set would bring any fan of the show to tears if they found it under the Christmas tree this year. With all 210 episodes of the 15-times Emmy-winning series and hours of special features, Everybody Loves Raymond: The Complete Series could be the number one item on the list for the TV fan in your family this year.

The box set for Everybody Loves Raymond includes a special bonus for fans who like to buy their TV on DVD in bulk - a reproduction of the 40-page series finale script that has been autographed by all ten of the episode writers. It's a great collector's item for Raymond fans. The rest of the special features are imports from the previous one-season-at-a-time releases including 39 audio commentaries with series creator Phil Rosenthal, Ray Romano, and the show's cast and writers. Fans will also find bloopers, deleted scenes, a Late Show with David Letterman appearance with Romano that was actually the inspiration for the series, "The First Six Years Retrospective", behind-the-scenes interviews, and two Museum of Television & Radio panel discussions with series creator Phil Rosenthal and the show's cast and writers. As for technical transfers, all nine seasons of Raymond look fantastic, as most HBO Home Video DVD releases do. You may be able to catch Raymond regularly in repeats, but even on the best cable picture it wouldn't look this good.

The complete series set for Everybody Loves Raymond comes with a hefty pricetag (it will run you over $200) but it's worth it for the hardcore fans of the show. Now you can have approximately 103 hours of one of the best sitcoms of the last few decades, a show that was must-see TV and top-ten rated for almost a full decade and went out at the top of its game. When Everybody Loves Raymond went off the air, it had won 10 acting awards (four for Doris Roberts, three for Brad Garrett, two for Patricia Heaton, one for Ray Romano, and a stunning zero for Peter Boyle) and had been named the best comedy on the air twice. Any serious comedy TV fan should have at least a season of two in their collection. Why not go for the whole thing?