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TV on DVD:

“ER: The Complete Third Season” — The medical drama’s original stars, including George Clooney, Anthony Edwards and Julianna Margulies, are back for year three of life in a pressure-cooker emergency room. The six disc set has 22 episodes, with commentary on two and two background featurettes. DVD set, $49.98. (Warner Bros.)

“The Waltons: The Complete Second Season” — The world’s happiest dirt-poor family continues to make do on Walton’s Mountain during the Depression. Year two of the long-running drama starring Richard Thomas, Ralph Waite and Michael Learned comes to DVD in a five-disc set with 24 episodes. DVD set, $39.98. (Warner Bros.)

“Survivor: The Australian Outback” — Year two maintained the reality series’ ratings dominance as a new gang of 16 castaways duked it out for survival-of-the-network-fittest honors. The six-disc set has commentary by contestants and host Jeff Probst on six episodes, plus four featurettes. DVD set, $49.99. (Paramount.)

“Highway to Heaven: Season One” — After “Little House on the Prairie,” Michael Landon continued his wholesome TV run as a guardian angel dispensing hope and guidance to lost souls in this family series that debuted in 1984. The first 24 episodes are packed on seven discs, accompanied by a documentary about Landon. DVD set, $79.95. (A&E)

“The American Revolution” — A five-disc set presents a tremendous history lesson examining the battles, personalities and causes of the Revolutionary War. Besides tracing such key events as the Declaration of Independence and Cornwallis’ surrender, the set has “Biography” series installments on George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere and Benedict Arnold. DVD set, $69.95. (A&E)

“Quatermass” — John Mills stars in the 1979 British miniseries about a rocket scientist who uses brains over brawn to save humanity in a bleak future where a menace from space endangers the planet’s youth. The two-disc set has the four-hour series and a shortened theatrical version. DVD set, $39.95. (A&E)

Other new releases:

“The Assassination of Richard Nixon” — Sean Penn stars in the real-life story of a 1970s failure in business and marriage who sets out to kill President Nixon with an unnerving plot: Hijacking a jet and crashing it into the White House. DVD, $27.95. (New Line) Original theatrical review

“Undertow” — The quiet lives of a Southern teen (Jamie Bell), his younger brother and his dad (Dermot Mulroney) are thrown into turmoil by the arrival of his ne’er-do-well uncle (Josh Lucas). The DVD has deleted scenes, while Bell and director David Gordon Green offer commentary. DVD, 26.98. (MGM) Original theatrical review

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