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I think the title says it all!
Mine is A-Z, but I'm getting tired of it and wanted some new ideas!

Well, at the moment I have them in two sections. One section has "modern shows" (1970's-current), and the other is "classic shows" (1950's-1960's). I also have two shelves entirely devoted to British shows.

Season sets alphabetically, then compilations alphabetically, then multi-show compilations alphabetically. I'm all about the chronological for other things (even TV movies and TV specials), but that doesn't work as well for TV shows.

Alphabetically by network and then alphabetically within the network.

I sort my tapes (yes, I know it is a DVD thread, but I only have 3 DVD'S and No Blu-Ray!) by year order.

My favorites are kept separate from the others, and those are separated by genre. And within genre, it's chronological. So it's quite complicated.

albert

Lots of stacks... And boxes, lots of boxes...

Look, I didn't expect a kind of Spanish Inquisition!


NOBODY EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!


Err... moving on...


Assuming I had all the shelf space I'd ever need (3000+ DVDs, 1000+ games, ~400 mangas, thousands of books!!,) I'd mainly do an alphabetical sort, but within a few different categories.

Anime - Ghibli would have it's own section, and then shared universe shows would be together - Star Blazers, Galaxy Express 999, and other Leiji-verse shows would all be together, as would Tenchi Muyo stuff, CLAMP, and so on. What few stand-alone anime movies I have that weren't already in the Ghibli section would either be mixed in with the main Anime section, or in a separate anime movie section.

Superhero shows - probably mixed with superhero movies, so Superman 1-IV and Superman Returns are with Superman: The Animated Adventures, Smallville and Lois & Clark.

Live-action shows possibly separated into sitcoms, drama/action (CSI, etc.), and sci-fi/fantasy. Again, linked things would be together - Tabitha would be with Bewitched instead of under "T".

Animated shows.

Theatrical shorts (like Woody Woodpecker, Looney Tunes, etc.,) would have their own section.

I've toyed with having a section just for TV movies and mini-series.

Finally, I think I'd pull out stuff like Saturday Night Live, Whose Line is it Anyway? and other sketch comedy shows, "reality" shows, non-fiction shows, and so on, and stick all of them in another section.

First off, I repackage all of my DVD's, so my shows have the nice spanning spine covers that looks really nice. Next, I just put them in alphabetical order. With one exception. Shows that are part of a "franchise" like comic books based shows or "Star Trek" or stuff like that gets put in a special grouping on top or in the "comic book media" section.

I have everything alphabetically. On one side of my room I have all my movies.... with one exception: DIsney has its own shelves. After Disney come the 'regular' movies. On the other side of my room are all the tv-shows and on some special shelves that hang on the wall I have some special boxsets and stuff.

Mine are mostly alphabetical, although I do not have all my TV shows placed together in the same area.

For the most part, I don't keep my TV shows with the other DVD's anymore.

My horror collection and my Disney DVD collection have special shelves in a somewhat special order (of sorts). And everything else is haphazardly arranged. The TV shows are the worst victims. They sit around on any random available space on any random available surface. Sometimes, my Fawlty Towers set will sit on my bed until I need to sleep- then it moves to my chair because I don't regularly sleep sitting up. My SpongeBob SquarePants seasons might be laying horizontally between the gaps in the CD shelves or on top of my alarm clock (which doesn't work) or on my clean clothes piles.

^ Hmm, you wouldn't be messy like I am, would you??

Shh, we'll keep it a secret... Oh wait, now the whole forum knows...


Anyway, I forgot some things. Someone mentioned separating out Disney shows, I forgot about that, although I am short on Disney shows at the moment. I would also stick Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows in their own category.

I'm not really sure how many Filmation titles I have, although I would eventually want all 6 of their live-action titles. I don't know if I would separate those or not, however.

I separate mine into "Complete Seasons" alphabetically and "Non-Completed Seasons" alphabetically. Then those shows that only were blessed with a 'Complete Series' release are stored alphabetically.

By studios. With me it's mostly tv shows from Warner Home Video (CartoonNetwork, HBO, WB, BBC) and Walt Disney Home Ent. (ABC, Disney, Buena Vista) anyway... and Frasier from Paramount. But that way it's nicely (and easily) organized, with matching spines.

After that chronologically.

alphabetically.

I arrange mine alphabetically, but also separate into two categories: renewed and cancelled/ended programming. Cancelled/ended shows go on top, renewed shows go on the bottom. This makes it easier to add to the collection without having to move everything. I also leave space at the end of each row for new additions. ::facepalm::

littlefuzzy wrote:^ Hmm, you wouldn't be messy like I am, would you??

Shh, we'll keep it a secret... Oh wait, now the whole forum knows...

You betcha.

My kitchen and bathroom are between 4 and 12 times neater than my bedroom. I lost a flashlight in there a week ago. Lost my fake-Fantasia DVD yesterday (I won't keep it with the other fakes / I found it minutes later- it was buried under stacks of random papers). Have lost a few slipcovers in there. I just don't have time to organize. And nowhere near enough shelves for all my CD's (at this point- mostly burns), DVD's, and a mountain of old VHS's (quite a few with no cases whatsoever, it would be much smarter to just throw them away but I keep hoping one day I'll have a VHS-to-DVD transferrer recorder burner thingy).

My room's as cluttered as my personality.

Actually I don't really have any special way of organizing my TV shows I mean, obviously I keep the shows I have multiple seasons of next to each other in chronological order, but other than that nothing special other than I keep all my amazon Nicktoons together.

One shelf is all tv shows in no particular order. The shelf below that is 80s tv shows and tv cartoons. Though, since I've been getting a lot of 80s tv lately, I'll have to rearrange things.

Spottedfeather wrote:One shelf is all tv shows in no particular order. The shelf below that is 80s tv shows and tv cartoons. Though, since I've been getting a lot of 80s tv lately, I'll have to rearrange things.

Do you have a link to your collection online that you'd be willing to share?(like DVDAF or something)

I love the 80s.