2005 is going to be a good year for SciFi, thanks in part to all the great TV releases on DVD. Here's what you can look forward to in the coming months.

March 22:

The Pretender: The Complete First Season—In this 1996-2000 series, Michael T. Weiss plays a genius who can take on any professional role at will, allowing him to help others. But he’s being chased by people from The Centre, a mysterious think tank where he grew up, and where his powers were not being used for good. The DVD includes 21 episodes and a couple of featurettes.

March 29:

The Lone Gunmen: The Complete Series—This short-lived 2001 spinoff of “The X-Files” starred lovable peripheral characters the Lone Gunmen. These five geeky conspiracy-chasers, over 13 episodes, meet up with supersmart chimpanzees, a plot to fly a plane into the World Trade Center, a Nazi war criminal (sort of), a car that runs on water, a man abducted by aliens, and golfers. Cult TV at its finest!

April 5:

The Greatest American Hero: Season Two—In the second season of this campy 1981-1983 series, Ralph (William Katt) and his friends continue their adventures with the suit and cape aliens provided for him. Ralph gets to pitch in the World Series, prevents a world war, gets amnesia, battles voodoo and bikers, joins the circus and in general, just continues the mayhem. His students, who appeared prominently in the first season, don’t get to help out quite as much this year.

April 12:

Space Ghost Coast to Coast: Volume Three—What can we say about Space Ghost? You have to experience him to understand. Let’s just say that Jay Leno and David Letterman have nothing to compare to the animated talk-show trivialities and shenanigans of Brak, Zorak, Space Ghost and friends. In season three, we get 24 episodes along with some spiffy special features, including interviews with Jon Stewart and David Cross.

May 3:

Star Trek: Enterprise: The Complete First Season—The last “Star Trek” franchise begins its mission with Captain Archer (Scott Bakula) in command. The first season in 2001 was set in the “Trek” universe 100 years after the events in “Star Trek: First Contact,” but before Kirk and company started their five-year mission. This season introduces the Klingons, Ferengi and the Suliban, among others, and features an appearance of vacation planet Risa. Also, there’s lots of interaction between humans and Vulcans.

May 10:

Quantum Leap: The Complete Third Season—Although some have complained that the music from the 1989-1993 series was changed for the DVD versions, watching the third season of Sam Beckett’s adventures is still great fun. He continues to leap from body to body, trying to get home to his own time period. No extras on this DVD

July 26:

Third Rock from the Sun: Season One—SciFi comedy is not that prevalent in the U.S., but this 1996-2001 comedy took a stab at it, featuring a family of aliens who have come to Earth to study humans. Since they’ve taken on human form, they find themselves experiencing human emotions, but don’t really understand them. Stars John Lithgow, French Stewart and Jane Curtin. It’s really more comedy than SciFi, but still lots of fun.

September 6:

Lost: The Complete First Season—ABC’s new hit show will get a DVD release just before the second season starts. So if you missed any part of the excitement, grab this immediately and experience those surprising flashbacks, the character development and the mystery all over again. We get the shivers just thinking about what’s going to happen next! What is the significance of that lottery number, anyway?