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• Jammin' With The Blues Greats | DVD | (22/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £8.99

  Don't let the cheesy title put you off, because Jammin' with the Blues Greats, essentially a roadshow headed up by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, is quality stuff, managing to convey all the virtues of the music without sacrificing one ounce of the atmosphere of what must have been an extraordinary gig. It's pretty much impossible to identify any one contributor as outshining the others, given that there are as many takes on the music here as there are practitioners, but it's worth noting Mayall's ongoing commitment to the form as the Bluesbreakers deliver "An Eye for an Eye", "Room to Move" and several other tunes. Buddy Guy and Junior Wells get a couple of numbers ("Messin' with the Kid" is wonderful), BB King gets three and Etta James just one. However, despite everyone getting the opportunity to cut loose on the finale ("CC Rider Jam"), the whole circus is totally upstaged by the 83-year-old Sippie Wallace, who is gently led onstage, leans on the piano and sings "Shorty George" with the kind of conviction that makes everyone else look like upstarts. On the DVD: Jammin' with the Blues Greats is presented in 4:3 aspect ratio and has only one extra feature, a John Mayall discography. --Roger Thomas

• Merlin - The Complete Collection - Series One to Five | DVD | (28/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  In a land of myth and a time of magic... the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young man. His name... Merlin. Swords Sorcery and swashbuckling adventure rule in the hit BBC series Merlin. The Complete Collection brings together all five series on DVD as we follow the young warlock; Merlin (Colin Morgan) as he attempts to fulfil his destiny at the side of the once and future king; Arthur (Bradley James). Featuring a stellar cast including Angel Coulby Katie McGrath Anthony Head Richard Wilson and John Hurt as the voice of the Dragon the Complete Collection tells the epic story of the golden age of Camelot. With superb action sequences and stunning CGI captivating the imagination as never-before-seen. Special Features: Making of Merlin Series Documentaries Out-Takes Cast and Crew Audio Commentaries Deleted Scenes Wallpapers Series 2: Secrets and Magic Photo Galleries

• Inspector Morse - The Complete Series (33 Disc Box Set) | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £199.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and storylines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep down, sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whately's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter said he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford

• Merlin - Series 2 Vol.2 | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (48.29%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Merlin: Season 2 Vol.2

• Merlin - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (05/10/2009) from £14.95   |  Saving you £10.04 (67.16%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set in the mythical city of Camelot in a time before history began this epic magical and adventure-packed adaptation of the much loved tale follows the young Merlin's enthralling encounters with the young Prince Arthur. The mythical city of Camelot in a time before history began is a fantastical realm of legendary beasts and mysterious peoples. In this dangerous world magic has been banned by the ruthless tyrant Uther Pendragon. Merlin a young man gifted with extraordinary magical powers arrives at the gates of Camelot as a young man sent by his mother to start a new life. Though bright-eyed with wonder the young sorcerer quickly makes enemies including the heir to Uther's crown the headstrong Prince Arthur. Guided by Uther's wise physician Gaius Merlin is soon using his talents not just to survive but also to unlock Camelot's mystical secrets. And as he does so he discovers that his destiny and that of the kingdom's young leader in waiting Arthur are inextricably linked. Episode One: Merlin a young country boy arrives at the great city of Camelot to find a young man at the gallows - the result of King Uther outlawing magic in his kingdom. As Merlin makes his way to find Gaius the Court Physician he begins to realise that the world he has entered is full of danger. Episode Two: Valiant arrives in Camelot intent on winning the infamous sword tournament. As a disgruntled Merlin gets to grips with his arduous duties as Arthur's new servant he notices the fighter has an unfair advantage. Episode Three: As a magical plague takes a deathly grip on Camelot Merlin takes pity on Gwen whose father is dying with the disease. Evading a curfew Merlin risks his life to deliver a magical power to cure her father. However his pleasure soon turns to shock as Gwen is arrested for using magic. Episode Four: Suspecting it is poisoned Merlin drinks from Prince Arthur's cup. He falls into a com and can only be saved from certain death by a flower that grows deep within the forest of Balor. Arthur is ready to defy the King and embark on the quest but is he prepared for the trials and danger he will encounter? Episode Five: A great fighter by the name of Lancelot arrives in Camelot but despite his bravery and skill his ambition to be a knight is thwarted by his low birth - only Arthur and Merlin appear to recognise his true worth. Meanwhile a terrifying winged beast approaches Camelot leaving the kingdom in desperate need of a hero. Episode Six: When a physician the scarred Edwin saves the dying Morgana and impresses Uther with his skills he is soon supplanting Gaius's position in the court. But soon Merlin and Gaius make shocking discoveries about this mysterious stranger. Episode 7: When Arthur becomes besotted with a mysterious girl he could lose more than just his heart. Episode 8: A young druid boy on the run in Camelot is condemned to death by Uther but Merlin Arthur and Morgana feel compelled to help him. Episode 9: A mysterious Black Knight crashes his horse in through a window to challenge the knights of Camelot to single combat. Episode 10: Merlin's village is under attack from a ruthless group of bandits but can Merlin Arthur Morgana and Gwen save them? Episode 11: When Arthur kills a unicorn - a prize beast - his knights celebrate but the prince has inadvertently brought a curse upon Camelot. Episode 12: When Gwen's father is arrested by Uther for helping a sorcerer Morgana reveals a surprising side of her character. Episode 13: As Arthur's life hangs in the balance Merlin is the only one who can save him - but at what price?

• Inspector Morse - Disc 15 And 16 - Masonic Mysteries / Second Time Around | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £7.42   |  Saving you £7.57 (102.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and story lines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world--and with his colleagues in the police force--most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to another. And he is scarred--more deeply than he would ever admit--by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep-down sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material, Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! --Piers Ford

• Merlin Vol.2 | DVD | (09/02/2009) from £9.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (50.10%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Episodes Comprise: Episode 7: When Arthur becomes besotted with a mysterious girl he could lose more than just his heart. Episode 8: A young druid boy on the run in Camelot is condemned to death by Uther but Merlin Arthur and Morgana feel compelled to help him. Episode 9: A mysterious Black Knight crashes his horse in through a window to challenge the knights of Camelot to single combat. Episode 10: Merlin's village is under attack from a ruthless group of bandits but can Merlin Arthur Morgana and Gwen save them? Episode 11: When Arthur kills a unicorn - a prize beast - his knights celebrate but the prince has inadvertently brought a curse upon Camelot. Episode 12: When Gwen's father is arrested by Uther for helping a sorcerer Morgana reveals a surprising side of her character. Episode 13: As Arthur's life hangs in the balance Merlin is the only one who can save him - but at what price?

• Merlin Complete BBC Series 5 | Blu Ray | (21/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Merlin returns to BBC One for its fifth series starring Colin Morgan Bradley James and Richard Wilson.

• Agatha Christie's Evil Under The Sun | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £6.99   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Blatt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show stopping a book and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern another guest in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead strangled and Poirot must find out who it is....

• Merlin - Series 3 - Volume 2 | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Merlin: Series 3 - Volume 2 Box Set (3 Discs)

• Merlin - Series 2 Vol.1 | DVD | (23/11/2009) from £8.63   |  Saving you £11.36 (131.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Merlin: Season 2 - Vol. 1

• Merlin: The Complete Collection | DVD | (14/08/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In a land of myth and a time of magic... the destiny of a great kingdom rests on the shoulders of a young man. His name... Merlin. Swords, sorcery and swashbuckling adventure rule in the hit series Merlin! This complete collection brings together all five series, as we follow the young warlock Merlin (Colin Morgan) as he attempts to fulfil his destiny at the side of the future King Arthur (Bradley James). Featuring a stellar cast including Angel Coulby, Katie McGrath, Anthony Head, Richard Wilson, and John Hurt as the voice of the Dragon, this collection tells the epic story of the golden age of Camelot! SPECIAL FEATURES: Making of Merlin documentaries Out-takes Cast & crew audio commentaries Deleted scenes Wallpapers Series 2: Secrets & Magic Photo galleries

• Equus | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A film adaptation of the play by Peter Shaffer, Equus stars Richard Burton as Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist who takes on an unusual case: a young stable boy (Peter Firth) who, in frenzy, has blinded six horses. Their sessions reveal that the boy has a quasi-religious fetish for horses and he rides them in the dead of night, experiencing an ecstasy unlike anything Dysart has ever known. Dysart begins to question: Is the pursuit of normalcy worth the loss of individual passions? Equus features a lot of hokum--its therapy scenes are absurd crescendos of revelation and insights--but its central question has substance, the direction is energetic, and the performances are powerful; Burton, handsome and haggard, brings a complex self-loathing to his role. It also features Jenny Agutter and Joan Plowright. --Bret Fetzer

• Independence Day | DVD | (26/02/2001) from £4.94   |  Saving you £18.05 (365.38%)   |  RRP £22.99

  In Independence Day, a scientist played by Jeff Goldblum once actually had a fistfight with a man (Bill Pullman) who is now president of the United States. That same president, late in the film, personally flies a jet fighter to deliver a payload of missiles against an attack by extraterrestrials. Independence Day is the kind of movie so giddy with its own outrageousness that one doesn't even blink at such howlers in the plot. Directed by Roland Emmerich, Independence Day is a pastiche of conventions from flying-saucer movies from the 1940s and 1950s, replete with icky monsters and bizarre coincidences that create convenient shortcuts in the story. (Such as the way the girlfriend of one of the film's heroes--played by Will Smith--just happens to run across the president's injured wife, who are then both rescued by Smith's character who somehow runs across them in alien-ravaged Los Angeles County.) The movie is just sheer fun, aided by a cast that knows how to balance the retro requirements of the genre with a more contemporary feel. --Tom Keogh

• Tigerland | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £4.87   |  Saving you £14.38 (398.34%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Director Joel Schumacher's acclaimed story of a group of young US infantry men in 1971, in training for Viet Nam, at a time when not even many of the soldiers themselves believed in what they were doing.

• Agatha Christie's Evil Under The Sun | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A star-studded cast heads this Agatha Christie story about the efforts of Hercule Poirot (Peter Ustinov) to fathom the mysterious death of a capricious star in a Mediterranean resort hotel...

• A Family At War - Series 2 | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £79.99

  Featuring all the episodes from series 2 of A Family At War.

• Hugh Grant | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £13.72   |  Saving you £9.26 (86.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hugh Grant stars in this satire of American identity, in which the President becomes a guest judge on the reality TV show.

• Merlin - Vol. 1 | DVD | (24/11/2008) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The legend of Merlin is given a modern re-telling in this fantasy which follows the friendship of young Merlin and King Arthur.

• The Beiderbecke Collection | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Beiderbecke Collection' is a charming mix of comedy and drama that has all the hallmarks of a classic detective thriller. Follow the exploits of jazz fan Trevor and his long-suffering girlfriend Jill as they find themselves embroiled in various mysteries which follow them to Amsterdam and Edinburgh and include dodgy businessmen black economies refugees and much much more.... This box set contains the following titles: 'The Beiderbecke Affair' 'The Beiderbecke Tapes' and 'The Beiderbecke Connection'.