How many mutts does it take to turn a lonely girl?s life around? Just one, and his name is Winn-Dixie, after the supermarket where he and his new human pal first meet. In this all-around pleasant adaptation of the children?s book by Kate DiCamillo, director Wayne Wang takes an uncharacteristically sweet tack and young star AnnaSophia Robb makes a solid debut as the daughter of a minister (Jeff Daniels) and a mom who vamoosed when she was a toddler. Daniels teams with producer Trevor Albert for audio commentary, while Robb contributes separate commentary for selected scenes. The DVD also has a making-of featurette, a gag reel and a dog-training segment cleverly titled ?Diamond in the Ruff.?

Director, co-writer and star Stephen Chow takes viewers on a live-action Looney Tunes thrill ride in this comic-action hybrid of martial-arts tussles and Three Stooges mayhem. Chow plays a snivelling wannabe desperately trying to join the mob gang that runs things in a pre-communist revolution Chinese ghetto, where martial-arts heroes living incognito among the rabble step forward to duke it out with their oppressive slumlords. Chow joins some of his cast mates for commentary and contributes an interview. The DVD also features deleted footage, outtakes and bloopers, plus a behind-the-scenes featurette.

Year one of the song, dance and comedy show starring Kermit, Miss Piggy, Gonzo, Fozzie Bear and the rest of Jim Henson?s puppet gang comes to DVD. The four-disc set, cleverly packaged with a fuzzy green cover the colour of Kermit?s froggy hide, has 24 episodes, with guest stars including Ethel Merman, Vincent Price, Rita Moreno and Joel Grey. DVD extras include the original reel Henson used to pitch the idea. Also available is ?The Muppets? Wizard of Oz,? starring Ashanti as Dorothy and featuring Queen Latifah and Quentin Tarantino.

The season that asks, ?Who shot J.R.?? The prime-time soap opera set among a rich, spoiled and scheming Texas oil family ended its third year with one of the most-talked about cliffhangers in TV history as master conniver J.R. Ewing (Larry Hagman) found himself on the wrong end of a gun barrel. The five-disc set has 25 episodes, with commentary on two by co-stars Patrick Duffy and Linda Gray.

A batch of DVD sets pack three 1970s series that shared a rotating time slot as ?NBC?s Mystery Movie.? A pair of two-disc sets offer season three of ?Columbo,? starring Peter Falk as the rumpled detective, and the first year of ?McMillan & Wife,? with Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James as sleuthing spouses. Seasons one and two of ?McCloud,? starring Dennis Weaver as a country boy solving crimes in the big city, come in a three-disc set

The final year of the show that brought new meaning to teen alienation comes in a five-disc set with 18 episodes following the adventures of three high-schoolers from the skies and their human friends. DVD extras include commentary on four episodes by executive producer Jonathan Frakes (?Star Trek: The Next Generation?) and others.

William Katt returns as the bumbling superhero in the final year of the action-comedy show about a teacher who loses the instruction manual for the superpowers suit bestowed on him by aliens. The four-disc set has 13 episodes.