It's Friday so it's freebie time.

Here are a few to get you started but please check back a bit later for a round-up of Halloween freebies.

The fourth season of "Damages" premieres tonight on DirecTV (the show previously aired on FX). To celebrate the return of one of our favorite shows, we're giving away a DVD set of "Damages" Season 3, which just went on sale yesterday.

Season 3 borrowed from the Bernie Madoff scandal and featured amazing performances from guest stars Lily Tomlin, Martin Short, and Campbell Scott (as well as "Damages" regulars Glenn Close, Rose Byrne, Ted Danson, and Tate Donovan).

To win, send me an email with your name and mailing address. I'll draw a winner randomly from those entries. I'll take entries until midnight this Sunday (July 17).

If you don't win, the gorgeous Sony Home Pictures Entertainment set lists for $39.99, but you can usually get it a little cheaper than that (Amazon has it for $19.99 right now).

WINNER! Congratulations to Justin from Greenville! 

The DVD set of the fifth and final season of 'Friday Night Lights' hits stores today, a full ten days before the season airs on NBC.

Season 5 of the critically acclaimed but ratings-challenged drama already aired on DirecTV this winter. It's currently on the NBC schedule for a Friday, April 15 (8pm) debut.

But if you just can't wait those last ten days, head out to the store now and settle in for a marathon of all 13 episodes, back-to-back. If you call in sick for work tomorrow, you can get it done. I know you can do it. Because I believe in you. Clear eyes, full hearts, can't lose.
 

Chuck! Chuck! Chuck!

It's the complete second season of the clever NBC show.  That's 22 episodes in a six-disc set featuring the adventurs of Chuck, the nerd who becomes a spy.

Special features include a segment exploring the mythology of Chuck, webisodes, declassified scenes and a gag reel.

There's more but you don't need long explanations. You want Chuck, don't you?

Take him home for the holidays by sending an email by 5 tonight (12/24) with your address in the body. We'll pick, someone will win.

And whether you win or not, have a Merry Christmas.

Our penultimate giveaway is a late offering from NBC.

"Mercy" ran for one season (so you'll get he complete series), back when shows about nurses were all the rage. (Showtime's "Nurse Jackie" and TNT's "Hawthorne" survived that grand time.)

This show was about nurse Veronica Flanagan Callahan (Taylor Schilling), who returned to her hospital job after a tour in Iraq, so she was kind of damaged.

You'll get a five-disc set with 22 episodes, including a guest appearance by James Van Der Beek. Bonus features include interviews with the cast, a never-before-seen director's cut of the final episode and a gag reel.

Send an email by 7 tonight (12/23) with your address in the body and we'll show no mercy in our effort to get it to you. If you win the random drawing, that is.

You gotta admit it: We steal some good television from the Brits. Among our quality grabs: "Life on Mars," the short-lived ABC series.

But today we're offering the source material, the BBC version of "Life on Mars." You'll get 8 episodes of the show that chronicles the life of Sam Tyler, a police detective who gets hit by a car and wakes up in 1973. It takes him back to a time when police were, to put it bluntly, hard-drinking thugs, and that was fine with everybody. And let's not talk about the forensics tools.

With this collection, you'll also get audio commentary, an hour-long documentary with behind-the-scenes footage, a featurette on the show's composer, and an outtakes reels.

It's a neat little treat for your Anglophile friends or if you watched the American version, you can compare and contrast.

Send that email by 8 tonight (9/22) with your address in the body and our random drawing will show who's in for a bloody good time.

It didn't last very long, but we know there are some fans of NBC's series "Trauma."

So we're offering Season One, also known as the complete series, I suppose.

The show was about first responder paramedics in San Francisco who had to help in the most extreme conditions, like helicopter crashes or explosions. The executive producer was Peter Berg, who is also responsible for bringing us the sublime and perpetually overlooked "Friday Night Lights." This show has a different feel, but there were some good storylines.

And it's free!

You'll get 12 hours of viewing and special features: pilot commentary with executive producers and deleted scenes.

Why not be a first responder and send an email by 9 tonight (12/21) and put your address in the body so we can get it right out to you.

This one's for the true TV fan.

It's "Studio One Anthology," a collection of 17 restored dramas from The Golden Age of Television, in this case 1948-1956.

Culled from the Archive of American Television (a program of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences), the 6-disc collection includes "Twelve Angry Men," "Confessions of a Nervous Man," "1984," and "Wuthering Heights." The talent includes folks like Eddie Albert, Charlton Heston, Elizabeth Montgomery, Leslie Nielsen, Sal Mineo and Jack Lemmon.

The extras are pretty high brow too, including a 52-page book featuring work by Gore Vidal, and a Studio One historical overview and rediscovery featurette.

Studio One, by the by, ran for nine years on CBS.

This is a great gift, one that makes sense to add to your video library, and one you'd revisit time and again. And yet, we're giving it away!

Just send an email by 9 tonight (12/20) and we'll pick a winner, randomly.

Before "Law & Order" and "Matlock" and "The Practice" and the list could go on, there was "Perry Mason," starring Raymond Burr.

The 60s' classic featured the celebrated attorney (did he ever lose?) and his cracker jack team, secretary Della Street (excellent name!) played by Barbara Hale and his private eye Paul Drake (played by William Hopper). William Talman got to  play Hamilton Burger, the prosecutor who Perry routinely beat down; Ray Collins was Lt. Arthur Tragg.

We'll give you not one, but two collections: Season 4, Volume 2 and Season 5, Volume 2. That comes to seven discs and more than 22 hours of viewing. Or 27 episodes.

And you don't have to go to court to get them. Just send an email by 10 tonight (12/19) with your address in the body, please. We'll have a random drawing and someone will have a great time.

And that big man is "Cannon," as played by actor William Conrad. We're offering Season Two, Volume One.

Conrad played a tough L.A. private detective and you'll get 3 discs with 12 episodes full of blackmailers, murderers and thieves. Ten hours of good crime-fighting drama!

The special features are slim, just episodic promos, but you don't need a whole lot of commentary. This is meat and potatoes TV, folks.

Get your copy by sending an email by midnight (12/18) and you'll be entered in our random drawing.

This could be explosive!