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• Maigret - Series 2 - Episodes 4 To 6 | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Michael Gambon plays the extraordinary Belgian detective Inspector Maigret in this television adaptation of the novels by George Simenon. Intuitive intelligent and creative with a genius for human nature Maigret is like no other detective as he cunningly investigates crime and the human psyche. Episode titles: Maigret's Boyhood Friend Maigret and the Minister Maigret and the Maid.

• Spanish Rose | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £5.97   |  Saving you £-1.98 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Jack Davis a tough outspoken cop on the Miami Customs Warrant and Entry Team (W.E.T) sees his fellow team member and best friend Phil die in a massive explosion following a fierce gun battle and high-speed chase. Though Jack did the right thing he is wrongly blamed for Phil's death.

• 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

• Carry On Girls | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £14.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Carry On Girls was the last really successful instalment of the epic series of British film comedies. It's studded with gems of cameo performances and a tremendously innuendo-laden Talbot Rothwell script that is easily the equal of any of its predecessors. The setting, a beauty contest to raise the profile of the dismal resort Fircombe-on-Sea, is ripe for politically incorrect activity of the sort that could only be conducted by Sid James at the height of his lecherous powers. Enter Bernard Bresslaw in a corset, Wendy Richard as Ida Downs, Barbara Windsor as Miss Easy Rider and a host of other semi-clad lovelies and watch as the whole thing rises to a slapstick climax of frisky old colonels, bikinis, bosoms and itching powder. In the smaller roles, Joan Hickson (BBC television's Miss Marple) is hilarious as an elderly woman who believes she is a man-magnet and the always under-used Patsy Rowlands excels as the downtrodden mayor's wife, a worm who finally turns. But in many ways this is June Whitfield's film. As the terrifying reactionary councillor Mrs Prodworthy, with a butch lesbian sidekick, she plots the downfall of her male colleagues with classic lines. "Rosemary, get the candle", she orders as Patsy Rowlands requests initiation into the cause. Margaret Thatcher never sounded so ominous. On the DVD: Like most of the other DVD Carry On releases, this one is presented in 4:3 format with a mono soundtrack. All right, you don't really need anything more sophisticated to recreate the cosy ritual of Carry On watching in your living room. And the print is good and sharp. But apart from the usual scene index, the lack of extras reflects a disappointingly unimaginative approach to celebrating a genre of film comedy that, for all its low budget reputation, provided a showcase for the cream of a whole generation of British comic actors. They deserve better.--Piers Ford

• Stephen Sondheim - Follies In Concert | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After first being performed in 1971 the magic was recreated 14 years later by an unparalleled gathering of stage and screen luminaries - Carol Burnett Mandy Patinkin Elaine Stritch Lee Remick and George Hearn. Our journey begins days before the show during the rehearsals and ends in a glittering finale. Tracks include 'Broadway Baby' 'One More Kiss' and 'Losing My Mind'.

• Don't Forget The Motorcity | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £24.15   |  Saving you £0.84 (3.48%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Motorcity reunion came about from Ian Levine's love of The Motown Sound. By the age of fourteen he'd collected every British Motown release. After a huge run of hits in the 1980's he went to Detroit and Los Angeles and recorded over a hundred different artists who were signed to Motown in the 60's and 70's; a staggering total of over eight hundred songs. Sadly over half these artists are no longer with us but priceless footage remains much of it never seen before the release of this DVD. This priceless footage captures the magic of a long gone era - music to make your feet tap your hair tingle your fingers snap and a feel good factor like driving down to the beach on a warm summer's day. Sit back press play and enter the spirit of the Detroit Sound.

• 13 Conversations About One Thing | DVD | (26/09/2005) from £18.31   |  Saving you £-4.06 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Director Jill Sprecher's critically acclaimed film assembles an all-star ensemble cast in a fresh and whimsical look at the invisible everyday and destiny shaping miracles that we've come to call ""fate."" In five distinct New York tales the lives of seemingly disparate characters: a public defender (Matthew McConaughey) whose life suddenly mirrors that of the criminals he prosecutes; a college professor (John Turturro) facing a poignant crossroads an envious businessman (Alan A

• Guilty? | DVD | (10/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Directed by Edmund T Greville a 1956 Gibraltar production based on Michael Gilbert's novel Death Has Deep Roots. Convinced that a wartime resistance heroine is innocent of a murder charge Nap Rumbold (John Justin) a solicitor / private detective travels to France searching for evidence to clear her name. Aided by the glamorous police agent (Barbara Laage) they also expose a counterfeit ring. Also stars Sydney Tafler and Norman Wooland in this well acted drama.

• Barbara Currie's Fun Yoga For Kids | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £12.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.08%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of the unexpected trends in the yoga mania that is sweeping the country is the demand--and popularity--of yoga for kids. Established expert and popular yoga instructor Barbara Currie's Fun Yoga for Kids isn't just capitalising on the interest, but instead offers a genuine, sound introduction aimed at children--and that includes the kid in everyone. While the set, graphics, animation and format are all kid-friendly, the key to this programme's success is that Currie resists turning it into a pantomime. With precise and concise instructions she takes the kids straight into saluting Sammy the Sun, a core yoga sequence. The difference between this and adult yoga is that the holds in positions are not as long. With Colin the Cobra's Forest of Secrets as the setting, the 50-minute session flies through about a posture every two minutes. The postures are renamed after animals such as Willy the Warrior Warthog (warrior position), Tallulah the Toucan (triangle position), Billy the Bear and Freddie the Flamingo (balancing positions), Geri the Giraffe (twist). By featuring real kids rather than perfect models or trained actors, the responses are endearingly imperfect, spontaneous, and genuine. All in all it's a fantastic introduction for parents and kids, with no chance of anyone getting bored. On the DVD: Fun Yoga for Kids on disc offers each posture itemised scene by scene making it simple to choose favourites, repeat, or adapt for shorter sessions. --Lorna V

• Oh Doctor Beeching - Complete Series 2 | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The trials and tribulations of the staff at Hatley railway station who are all wondering if Dr Beeching will close them down.... This release features all 10 episodes from the second series. Episode listing: 1. No Milk For The Minister 2. Father's Day 3. The Gravy Train 4. The Van 5. Lucky Strike 6. Love Is A Very Splendid Thing 7. Action Stations 8. A Bowl In The Hand 9. A Pregnant Pause 10. Ton Up

• Rodgers And Hammerstein Collection - The Sound Of Music/The King And I/State Fair/Carousel/Oklahoma/South Pacific | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £28.94   |  Saving you £21.05 (72.74%)   |  RRP £49.99

  This fantastic Collector's Edition tin boxed set features six timeless classics from Rodgers and Hammerstein: Titles Comprise; 1. The Sound Of Music 2. The King And I 3. State Fair 4. Carousel 5. Oaklahoma 6. South Pacific For individual synopses please refer to the individual films.

• Coronation Street - 1978 | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £0.86 (6.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Coronation Street was first broadcast in December of 1960 and since then has gone from strength to strength in establishing itself as the nation's favourite soap opera. With a more light hearted slant on the genre Coronation Street has always drawn viewers from across the generations and its longevity is tribute to it's across the board appeal. On this DVD we take a look back to 1978 and eight classic episodes from that year.

• Barbara Dickson - Into The Light | DVD | (03/03/2008) from £12.25   |  Saving you £4.74 (38.69%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Barbara Dickson was born in Dunfermline Scotland. Her singing career started in folk clubs around her native Fife in the sixties exposing her to a rich combination of traditional and contemporary music. 2008 will see Barbara celebrating 40 years as a professional musician. As a multi-million selling recording artist with an equally impressive Olivier award-winning acting career Barbara Dickson has firmly established herself as one of the most versatile performers in the UK. Into The Light is Barbara Dickson's debut DVD specifically filmed for release as a DVD. The concert took place in early November at the Spilsby Theatre in Spilsby Lincolnshire in front of a specially invited audience. The concert featured songs from across the career of Barbara Dickson including Another Suitcase Another Hall Caravan and I Know Him So Well alongside newer material from both Full Circle and Time And Tide. Tracklist: 1. In The Bleak Midwinter/Here Comes The Sun 2. Don't Think Twice Its Alright 3. Lowlands Of Holland 4. Donal Og 5. Another Suitcase In Another Hall 6. The Sky Above The Roof 7. Millworker 8. Love Hurts 9. The Great Silkie Of Sule Skerry 10. The Water is Wide (O Waly Waly) 11. The Right Moment 12. Caravans 13. Fine Flowers in the Valley 14. The Times They Are A-changing 15. Westron Wynd/Corpus Christi Carol 16. Easy Terms 17. The Witch Of The Westmerlands 18. I Know Him So Well 19. Enskay Love Song

• 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

• Worzel Gummidge - The Return Of Dolly Clothes-Peg / Worzel Revolt / Worzel's Birthday | DVD | (01/09/2001) from £4.90   |  Saving you £1.09 (22.24%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Episodes are: 'The Return Of Dolly Clothes-Peg' 'Worzel In Revolt' and 'Worzel's Birthday'.

• Meet John Doe | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  In protest at the corruption and hypocrisy he sees all around him an unemployed man calling himself John Doe has written to the New Bulletin newspaper pledging to throw himself from the top of City Hall on Christmas Eve. Written by a discharged journalist as a publicity stunt and as a parting shot at the paper's new editor the premise of the letter unexpectedly fires the imagination of the bulletin's readers and the wider American public. Its real author Ann Mitchell (Barbara Stanwyck) is rehired and now needs to find someone to play the part of the fictional John Doe... Meet John Doe is often held to be part of a thematic trilogy that includes Mister Deeds Goes To Town and Mister Smith Goes To Washington. It explores a recurring notion in Capra's work that of the universal everyman exploited by a corrupt and powerful establishment. The film's reflections on corporate control of both the media and of ordinary people's lives is still as resonant as ever.

• Anatomy | DVD | (23/04/2001) from £9.77   |  Saving you £10.22 (104.61%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A medical horror movie from Germany, Anatomy is every bit as slick as its Hollywood equivalents (most notably Coma) but cuts a lot deeper thanks to its connections with a Gothic past. Brilliant medical student Paula Haller (Franka Potente) is accepted into a prestigious summer anatomy course at Heidelberg University and gradually learns that many of her teachers and classmates are members of the Antihippocratic League. This secret society carries out unethical vivisection experiments on live human specimens and has been active in the medical profession since the 16th century with a special peak during the Third Reich. Director-writer Stefan Ruzowitsky plays some distinctive and personal games as the heroine uncovers the conspiracy, then learns that her own family is intimately connected with the League. In gruesome but delicate horror scenes, kidnapped human specimens awake anaesthetised to the sound of easy-listening music as masked students dissect them alive to create the impressive, grotesque and beautifully preserved cutaway specimens used in the anatomy classes. Potente, the star of Run, Lola Run, has a very different role as the serious but passionate heroine and her character is affected by the revelations of the plot in a way that deepens the movie beyond the terrific suspense mechanisms of its lady-in-peril climax, in which Paula's medical knowledge and personal grit enable her to fight back. A great moment has the heroine forced to instruct her non-medical student boyfriend (Sebastian Blomberg) how to administer a simple but crucial intravenous injection to save her life, while the plausible villain turns out to be a renegade even by the standards of his secret society. On the DVD: An extremely high-quality DVD, this offers a pristine widescreen transfer (1:2.35) of the film (enhanced for 16:9 TVs); soundtracks in German, Spanish and English with optional subtitles in English, German and a dozen other languages; a full-length commentary in German by Ruzovitsky, with English subtitles; a couple of deleted scenes, with director commentary; on-set interviews with the cast and crew and a snippets of behind-the-scenes footage; a music video by co-star Anna Loos, shot on the set of the film; trailers; filmographies; and a neat animated menu. --Kim Newman

• Carry On Cabby | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £7.44   |  Saving you £8.55 (114.92%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The seventh entry in the Carry On series and the first not to feature Kenneth Williams. Charlie (Sid James) owner of the Speedee Cabs company finds he has some serious competition when his wife Peggy (Hattie Jacques) sets up a rival firm consisting only of glamorous female drivers. Cabbies driven to distraction include Charles Hawtrey Kenneth Connor and Jim Dale (in his first Carry On appearance).

• Space: 1999 - Series 1 | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £84.99

  Featured episodes include: Breakaway A Matter Of Life & Death Black Sun Ring Around The Moon Earthbound Another Time Another Place Missing Link Guardian of Piri Force Of Life Alpha Child The Last Sunset Voyager's Return

• Shivers | DVD | (17/07/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  BEING TERRIFIED IS JUST THE BEGINNING... Initially reviled in its native land (some critics took exception to the fact the film was largely funded by the Canadian taxpayer), Shivers is an intensely claustrophobic, subversive masterpiece and an essential entry in the oeuvre of one of the horror genre s most gifted auteurs. Some 40 years after its release, it still retains its power to shock. Starliner Island is an idyllic community. Cut off from the rest of the world, the luxury apartment block affords its occupants the chance to escape from the hustle and bustle of the big city. But this isolation is to prove fatal when a new breed of parasite a combination of aphrodisiac and venereal disease which arouses sexual aggression in its hosts is let loose in the building, resulting in an orgy terror and mayhem. Known under a host of alternate titles such as The Parasite Murdersand They Came From Within!, Shivers is the startling debut full-length feature from director David Cronenberg which anticipates the body-horror concerns of his later films such as The Fly and Videodrome.