I'm definitely going to have to check it out. Saying that it is better than the X-Files is definitely a bold claim as that's probably my all-time favorite show :). Unfortunately, Netflix doesn't have it but I see Amazon has the complete series on DVD for a little over $30. It may not match the laserdiscs in terms of quality but you can't beat the price. Doesn't look like it has made it to blu-ray...

It is a shame that they cut it short at three seasons. If it was anything like the X-Files, quality would have still been ramping up. These days there is much more opportunity for a cancelled tv series to find a 2nd life elsewhere but that just wasn't the case then. I love the X-files but they let the whole alien conspiracy storyline drag on way too long. Chris Carter obviously didn't have a plan for that for 9 seasons...or 11 for that matter. The monster of the week stories were almost always wonderful but as time went on, the alien conspiracy storyline got more and more convoluted. I always though both types of episodes were important to the formula of the X-Files but they needed a new storyline or a different angle for that aspect of it.

I do wish they had let The Lone Gunmen spinoff series go on a while longer. I loved those characters and the show wasn't bad. Chuck wasn't around then but in retrospect it kind of reminds me of a cross between Chuck and The X-Files.