5) Eyes. Right up there with “Rockford Files,” “Moonlighting” and “Veronica Mars” as one of the best private-eye series ever aired. Created by John McNamera, who earlier created “Profit” (alongside “Angel” creator David Greenwalt). Genuinely funny. Great characters. Nine episodes shot. Only five aired, earlier this year.

6) Mission: Impossible. A highly addictive cold war adventure hourlong about a supersecret squad of black ops agents who foil with elaborate ruses high-level mobsters and Iron Curtain communists. The series, which ran from 1966 to 1973, exists in one of those “Brazil” universes; the Impossible Missions Force hadn’t quite figured out microcassette recorders and VCRs, but employed technology that still doesn’t exist in 2005 (like tiny telescopes that can enhance the resolution of videotape images – and those famous pull-off masks that can make anyone look exactly like anyone else). The fifth season might be especially fun to own: Not only was it Leonard Nimoy’s second year, but a 26-yar-old mustache-free Sam Elliott (“The Big Lebowski,” “Hulk”) and a 24-year-old Leslie Ann Warren (“The Limey”) both joined the IMF. (And it’s eerily appropriate that J.J. Abrams wound up directing the third “Impossible” movie, since no other series more resembles “Alias.”)

7) My So-Called Life. The teen adventures of Angela Chase, Brian Krakow and Rayanne Graff has already been issued on DVD, but the show cries out for a reissue. Used DVD copies (the ones containing all 19 episodes) are going for between $198 and $250. New sets are now going for $320 to $350.

8) Pasadena. In 2001, after Mike White wrote on “Freaks and Geeks” - but before he wrote the screenplays for “Orange County,” “The Good Girl” and “School of Rock” - he created a darkly comedic primetime soap about a publishing dynasty with criminal ties. It was easily 100 times smarter and funnier than “Desperate Housewives.” Thirteen hours were shot; Fox only aired four, two of them less than a month after 9/11. It starred Alison Lohman (“Matchstick Men,” “Big Fish”), Natasha Gregson Wagner (“High Fidelity,” “The 4400”), Balthazar Getty (“Lost Highway”), Mark Valley (“Keen Eddie,” “Boston Legal”), Martin Donovan (“The Opposite of Sex”), Dana Delany (“China Beach”), Chris Marquette (“Joan of Arcadia”), Nicole Paggi (“Hope & Faith”) and Philip Baker Hall (“In Good Company,” “The Amityville Horror”).

9) Relativity. The series the great Jason Katims created between his writing stint on “My So-Called Life” and his creation of “Roswell,” it was about two L.A. families – one blue-collar and Jewish, the other not – that intersect when their twentysomething kids meet and connect in Italy. It starred Kimberly Williams (“According to Jim”), David Conrad (“Miss Match”), Jane Adams (“Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind”), Poppy Montgomery (“Without A Trace”), Lisa Edelstein (“House”), Devon Gummersall (“My So-Called Life,” “Roswell,” “The L Word”) and Richard Schiff (“The West Wing”). Seventeen episodes aired in 1996 and 1997.

10) The Tick. Long before he created the peepee demon on “Angel,” Ben Edlund created a comic book, a Saturday-morning cartoon series and a live action sitcom, all about a strange, slow-witted superman. There were supervillains and sidekicks and other superheroes, and it’s all very entertaining. The entire live-action series has been on DVD for a spell, but none of the 36 animated half hours that ran on Fox between 1994 and 1996.