Dynasty: Season Four, Vol. 1

Ever climbing to the top of the ratings heap -- thanks largely to the introduction of the magnificently malevolent Alexis Carrington Colby ( Joan Collins ) in its second season -- Dynasty serves up even more soap opera skullduggery for its third year on the air. New to the proceedings is mysterious stranger Michael Torrance (Gordon Thomson), who by his own admission turns out to be Adam Carrington, long-lost son of Alexis and her former husband Blake Carrington ( John Forsythe ). Kidnapped in infancy...

On the second release for the Sequence Records imprint under the Virgin/Ultra canopy, Babu , acclaimed DJ for crews the Beat Junkies and Dilated Peoples , steps out solo with his own mix CD. Featuring new tracks and mixes of De la Soul , Pete Rock , the Visionaries , Quasimoto , Jurassic 5 , Dilated Peoples, and Big Daddy Kane just for starters, this collection exceeds the expectations of most mixes and comes through with a listenable compilation packaged with a loose but lovable duck theme. Though...

Quantum Leap fans will feel just a whiff of the familiar when they dip into this mid-‘60s TV treasure from veteran producer Irwin Allen . Allen sold the series to 20th Century Fox on the basis of an irresistible pitch: In constructing a show around time-travelers, he'd be able to keep costs down and guarantee lavish production values by using stock footage gleaned from Fox's extensive feature-film backlog. Allen himself wrote and directed the pilot, "Rendezvous with Yesterday," in which the completion...