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• Ballet Shoes - The Complete Series (BBC) | DVD | (09/10/2017) from £8.03   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Every Child's Dream Can Come True! Sylvia Brown is guardian to three young girls, Pauline, Petrova, and Posy Fossil. Money is tight for Sylvia, who opens her home to provide board to three others; a retired English professor, a garage owner, and a dance teacher. The later, Theo Dane, has the girls accepted into her school by the formidable Madame and the children help to raise some money through a stage show. All 6 episodes from The classic BBC series starring Angela Thorne, Jane Slaughter, Elizabeth Morgan, Sarah Prince, Barbara Lott, and Terence Skelton. Includes subtitles for the hard of hearing.

• The Pillow Book | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £10.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, Drowning by Numbers) continues to delight and disturb us with his talent for combining storytelling with optic artistry. The Pillow Book is divided into 10 chapters (consistent with Greenaway's love of numbers and lists) and is shot to be viewed like a book, complete with tantalising illustrations and footnotes (subtitles) and using television's "screen-in-screen" technology. As a child in Japan, Nagiko's father celebrates her birthday retelling the Japanese creation myth and writing on her flesh in beautiful calligraphy, while her aunt reads a list of "beautiful things" from a 10th-century pillow book. As she gets older, Nagiko (Vivian Wu) looks for a lover with calligraphy skills to continue the annual ritual. She is initially thrilled when she encounters Jerome (Ewan McGregor), a bisexual translator who can speak and write several languages, but soon realises that although he is a magnificent lover, his penmanship is less than acceptable. When Nagiko dismisses the enamoured Jerome, he suggests she use his flesh as the pages which to present her own pillow book. The film, complete with a musical score as international as the languages used in the narration, is visually hypnotic and truly an immense "work of art". --Michele Goodson

• 2 Point 4 Children | DVD | (24/01/2005) from £29.69   |  Saving you £-12.70 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The complete first series of familial mishaps with the dysfunctional Porter family! On the Surface the Porters are a normal family - indeed even the series' title 2 Point 4 Children the fabled average family size alludes to their normality (as well as the fact that the husband/father is still a bit of a child himself). Yet though the individual members - central-heating engineer Ben; his wife catering worker Bill; and their teenage children David and Jenny - are unexceptional t

• Sorry! - Series 1 | DVD | (02/07/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (166.94%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ronnie Corbett (The Two Ronnies) plays Timothy Lumsden a part specially written for him and has turned him into one of the best-loved comic figures on British television. Barbara Lott plays his domineering mother to perfection and his long-suffering father is portrayed by William Moore. Marguerite Hardiman features as Timothys sister Muriel. The problem is a delicate one as Tim still lives at home with his parents. His father who has long since retreated into a world of h

• My Parents Are Aliens - Best Of | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-9.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Terrific fun for all the family with My Parents are Aliens featuring 6 amazing episodes! Simply out of this world entertainment!

• Sorry! - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (17/05/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Ronnie Corbett stars as put-upon Timothy Lumsden a 41 year old man who has yet to leave home due to his domineering mother... Episodes Comprise: 1. For Love Or Mummy 2. Buttons 3. The Godfather 4. Bachelor Seeks Anywhere 5. Does Your Mother Know You're Out? 6. Curse Of The Mummy 7. Cromer Or Bust! 8. Perchance To Dream 9. Sons And Lovers 10. Great Expectations 11. The Next Best Man 12. Could Do Better

• Sorry - Series 3 | DVD | (02/08/2010) from £11.87   |  Saving you £4.12 (34.71%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Ronnie Corbett (The Two Ronnies) plays Timothy Lumsden a part specially written for him and has turned him into one of the best-loved comic figures on British television. Barbara Lott plays his domineering mother to perfection and his long-suffering father is portrayed by William Moore. Marguerite Hardiman features as Timothys sister Muriel. The problem is a delicate one as Tim still lives at home with his parents. His father who has long since retreated into a world of his own is not a threat to Timothy but his mother the domineering interfering kind has to be viewed more seriously.The trouble is that she simply refuses to recognise the fact that her son is no longer a little boy but rather a grown man despite his diminutive stature with perfectly normal if persistently thwarted drives and instincts. And not wishing to offend his mother Timothy usually suffers her seemingly well-meaning intentions. It is obvious that she rules not only the house but also Timothy through a campaign of sustained yet subtle (and often hilarious) psychological terror tactics!

• Wish You Were Here | DVD | (10/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in Brighton in 1951, Wish You Were Here contrasts an England of post-war conformity with the free-spirited nature of a girl, Lynda, on the verge of womanhood, played by the then 17-year-old Emily Lloyd, giving one of the great screen debuts. Filled with youthful energy, good-natured yet delighting in shocking the prudish world around her, Lynda is innocently flirtatious and eager to discover sex. She can't quite understand why everyone disapproves so much, and the film expertly balances uproarious comedy with drama in what is essentially a complex character study. The second, darker half has shades of Lolita, with the excellent Tom Bell in the older man role, while Lynda herself in some ways anticipates Laura Dern's Rambling Rose (1991). Director David Leland also wrote the Brighton thriller, Mona Lisa (1986), and Personal Services (1987) based on the true story of the madam, Cynthia Payne. It is on Payne's own early memories, as told to Leland, that the fictional Wish You Were Here is partly based, while Leland went on to further explore female sexual awakening in The Land Girls (1997), again exploring female sexual awakening --Gary S. Dalkin

• 2 Point 4 Children - Series 3 | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Statistically the Porters may just be an ordinary family. But there's nothing average about this razor-sharp comedy an endearingly demented portrait of modern family life by Andrew Marshall writer of the Emmy-winning Alexei Sayle's Stuff. Head of the household is Ben a dedicated central-heating engineer and easy-going husband and father. His idea of helping in the house is to change TV channels provided the remote control is within easy reach. Mainstay of the household is Bill a

• Sorry - Series 5 | DVD | (20/06/2011) from £3.39   |  Saving you £12.60 (78.80%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Is the mild-mannered mummy’s boy any closer to the great escape? The wonderful Ronnie Corbett returns as the hilarious, eternally frustrated Timothy Lumsden. This is the complete fifth series of one of the most successful comedy series of the 1980s. Timmy doesn’t want to be a 40-something mummy’s boy – he dreams of being a lothario, an adventurer and a star player in the local amateur dramatics group – but he’s still not allowed out until he’s done his piano practice. No matter how many times Tim is knocked down by life, love, and his career, he gets to his feet and tries again. And, one day, he might just get the better of his mother’s underhand measures, blackmail and threats of a week-old jam roly-poly for tea. This fifth series finds Timothy rewarded for keeping quiet after witnessing an extra-marital affair; mouthing sweet words to a leading lady at the local theatre production and receiving some cryptic advice along with his great-uncle’s ashes. And, as Tim falls for narrowboat owning Fenella - could his greatest wish be about to come true? Episodes Comprise: The Primal Scene, So to Speak Every Clown Wants to Play Hamlet Bells for Uncle Barstable Natural Wastage My Family and Other Monsters It’s a Wonderful Life, Basically

• Sorry - Series 6 | DVD | (26/09/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (48.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Will his dream come true or will Mother make it a nightmare? In a role specially written for him, Ronnie Corbett is hilarious as the eternally frustrated Timothy Lumsden. One of the most successful comedy series of the 1980s, Sorry! confirmed Corbett as a British comic institution. There might not be a woman good enough for her son, but Phyllis is not about to give her tank top-wearing, forty-something son, Timothy an easy time. Timothy’s small rebellions, such as going out on his bath night, incite her full wrath and any attempts to speak his mind are met with the fiercest of rebukes – We are not at home to Mr Cheeky! Undaunted, Timothy, urged on by his sister Muriel and his friend Frank, continues to seek an escape from Stalag 27 Ravenscroft Avenue, with love as the spur to untie the granny knots on his mother’s apron strings. In this sixth series Timothy invites an escaped convict, a female mud wrestler and a French maid into the house and attends an assertiveness course leading to his girlfriend seeing him in a new light. As wedding bells beckon, could Timothy finally have made his escape? Everything has been taken care of to make sure the day runs smoothly – so what could possibly go wrong?

• Asylum | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  One of the patients in an institution for the incurably insane was once its director, and a young psychiatrist (Robert Powell) has to figure out which one as they all tell him their stories. What better setting for a horror anthology? It's an inspired framing device, making this one of the better examples of the genre, even if screenwriter Robert Bloch at times resorts to gimmicks rather than invention. The first two stories are less than brilliant (the first is highlighted by dismembered body parts neatly wrapped in butcher paper wriggling back to life for revenge), but Charlotte Rampling and Britt Ekland are marvellous in the third tale, about a mentally unbalanced young woman and her dangerous best friend. Herbert Lom is also excellent in the final story as a scientist who carves an army of dolls he claims he can bring to life by sheer willpower. Director Roy Ward Baker (Quatermas and the Pit) builds momentum with each story until the dark and deliciously bloody climax. This Amicus Studios production looks visually dull compared to Hammer's gothic gloss, but it features a great British cast (including Patrick Magee and Hammer stalwart Peter Cushing), and ultimately Baker makes that gloomy look work for his increasingly creepy production. Amicus produced a series of horror anthologies, including the original 1972 Tales from the Crypt and The Torture Garden (also scripted by Bloch). --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Rings On Their Fingers - Series One | DVD | (21/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Take a step back in time to 1970s England. The full force of Women's Lib hadn't quite filtered through to suburbia; Margaret Thatcher had yet to take over Number 10; and while living together wasn't the sin it once was - and women were free to both work and run the home - a girl still wanted a ring on her finger. At least this girl did.Sandy has started dropping hints to Oliver that she would rather be married than go on living together, and thus begins a hit comedy series that would run for three hilarious series.With Oliver convinced that he must marry Sandy or lose her, the couple soon find themselves embroiled in a world of wedding plans, wedding gifts, honeymoons and coming home to realise that... they're married! Nothing is as simple as it should be when a couple happily living together suddenly find themselves with Rings on their Fingers.This release features the complete first series and the 1978 Christmas Special.

• Rings on Their Fingers - Series Two | DVD | (02/07/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following hot on the heels of the hilarious first series, where the hurdle between living together and marriage had to be overcome, the second series of Rings on their Fingers finds Sandy and Oliver facing the kinds of problems that many a married couple must face – but dealing with those problems in the way only Sandy and Oliver can, usually veering dangerously close to disaster. Rings on their Fingers, The Complete Series Two finds Sandy and Oliver for better or worse, in sickness and in health, building a life together – when they’re not accidentally knocking it down.

• Rings on Their Fingers Complete | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Take a step back in time to 1970s England. The full force of Women's Lib hadn't quite filtered through to suburbia; Margaret Thatcher had yet to take over Number 10; and while living together wasn't the sin it once was - and women were free to both work and run the home - a girl still wanted a ring on her finger. At least this girl did.Sandy has started dropping hints to Oliver that she would rather be married than go on living together, and thus begins a hit comedy series that would run for three hilarious series.From birthdays and anniversaries, through wedding plans - both on or off - old flats that need repair, new flats that need furnishing, holidays away and dinners at home; for Sandy and Oliver nothing is as simple as it should be when a couple living happily together suddenly find themselves with Rings on their Fingers.This release features the Complete Series One to Three and the 1978 Christmas Special.

• Rings on Their Fingers - Series Three | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sandy and Oliver, happily married and moved into their new flat, nevertheless find themselves grappling with a whole new world of challenges in Series Three of Rings on their Fingers.Not only the personal challenges of remembering birthdays and finding just the right gift; nor the fact that Sandy is now a stayat- home housewife and Oliver is trying to avoid temptations at the office; and not even the perils of the new apartment with its rules and regulations and tenants association. There's an even bigger challenge about to enter their relationship and it starts with a little innocent morning sickness.But one thing you can be sure of - as soon as you put Rings on their Fingers, life takes a turn for the hilariously unpredictable.