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tf o a. .;,:: I­ o >- ?: Wonder Woman: Complete First Season * * ~ Warner Bros., $39.98 A campy delight, "Wonder Woman" sets the tone right away with its theme song: "In her satin tights, fighting for her rights, and the old Red, White and Blue!" The pilot and 13 episodes are true to the comic books (down to the World War II setting) and Lynda Carter was perfect casting - she's wholesome and sexy at the same time. Extras include Carter's commentary and a documentary. Cold Mountain / NAMBLA. The minimal extras The English Patient include brief comments from creators Trey Parker and Matt **Miramax,/*** $29.99 each Stone. Both of these sweeping epic Blazing Saddles: films use war as a setting for romantic tales ("Cold 30th Anniversary Mountain" takes place during the Civil War, "English" during ***Warner Bros., $19.97 World War I1). And the best element of both is their music. Both this Western spoof and the Gabriel Yared composed both brilliant "Young Frankenstein" scores, with a delicate but came out in 1974, making this stirring approach for "English the peak year for Mel Brooks. Patient" and a more spare style "Blazing" is cruder and not as for "Mountain." But the best funny, but it's the template for "Cold Mountain" music comes every send-up that followed - from the songs overseen by T­ lots of jokes, the more obvious Bone Burnett and featuring the better. Plus you can't go cast member Jack White and wrong with Madeline Kahn. bluegrass star Alison Krauss. Extras include commentary by Among the extras: a 90-minute Brooks and the pilot episode concert film/ staged reading. from the proposed TV spinoff "Black Bart." South Park: Complete **1Fourth/, Season The Times Paramount, $49.99 of Harvey Milk

It never has the New*** Yorker,'/' $29.95 sustained brilliance of This documentary about the "The assassinated California Simpsons," but politician Harvey Milk gets a every episode 20th anniversary edition of 'South Park" stuffed with three hours of is guaranteed extras. Other titles worth to have something truly checking out this week include offensive and truly funny (often reality show "Boy Meets Boy: at the same time). This season Season One" (Bravo, $39.95) they introduce Timmy, tackle and Ang Lee's breakthrough hit attention-deficit disorder and "The Wedding Banquet" make Cartman a member of (MGM, $14.95).