TAKE A GOOD LOOK: DEFINITIVE COLLECTION: Nothing on network TV today is half as bonkers as this inexplicable ABC quiz show from 1959-1961. Genius comedy producer-host Ernie Kovacs exploited the infant videotape medium like nobody else. Here the mustached maven presents surreal vignette "clues" to the mystery identity of his guests (seen in recent headlines) _ except that his pretaped gags are far too bizarre to be deciphered even by his clever panelists. They include comedy kingpin Carl Reiner, Kovacs' singer-wife Edie Adams and debonair actor Cesar Romero of "Batman"-Joker fame, plus loopy celeb Zsa Zsa Gabor (and her dog). The show's absurdity is also its charm, right down to cigar aficionado Kovacs' legendary blackout commercials for Dutch Masters. List price: $70 for 49 crisp black-and-white episodes, plus printed history essay, Shout.
MAN WITH A CAMERA Pre-movie stardom, Charles Bronson starred as a two-fisted city photographer in ABC's 1958 black-and-white crime half-hour, still a satisfying time-killer, with guests who include cult faves Harry Dean Stanton, Lawrence Tierney, Angie Dickinson; $15 DVD+digital, Mill Creek.
