"<em>If you're interested in TV irreverence ... </em>sample<strong> ""Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman: The Complete Series.""</strong> In 1975, when the Norman Lear-produced soap opera was created, the broadcast networks rejected it as too controversial. And no wonder: ""Mary Hartman"" parodied pretty much everything there was to parody at the time, including the medium itself. (Nobody believed TV commercials like Louise Lasser's Mary.) A syndicated success, the show spawned the parody talk show ""Fernwood 2 Night."" It still has an edge. (Shout! Factory, $249.95)"
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