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• Baywatch - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (18/10/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Sun, beach and sea...and not to mention bikini-clad babes and sexy six-pack action! The world's favourite lifeguards return for more adventures, drama and fun in this 6-disc DVD box set!

• Macho Callahan | Blu Ray | (21/09/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The X Files: Season 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £14.93   |  Saving you £20.06 (134.36%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Season Two, the 1994-95 run, of The X Files was the one where creator Chris Carter, having had a surprise hit when he expected a one-season wonder, started trying to make sense of all the storylines he had thrown into the pile in the first year. Moreover, he had to cope with Gillian Anderson's maternity leave by having Scully get abducted by aliens (back then, a pretty fresh device) for a few episodes and come back strangely altered. The season also inaugurated the tradition of opening ("Little Green Men") and closing ("Anasazi") with the show's worst episodes, both pot-boiling attempts to keep the alien infiltration/government conspiracy balls up in the air while seeming to offer narrative forward-thrusts or revelations. But it's also a show noticeably surer of itself than Season One, with its stars reading from the same page in terms of their characters' relationship and attitudes to the wondrous. Scully's no-longer-workable scepticism finally starts to erode in the face of Mulder's increasingly cracked belief. There are fewer marking-time leftover-monster-of-the-week shows--although we do get a human fluke ("The Host"), vampires ("3"), an invisible rapist ("Excelsius Dei") voodoo ("Fresh Bones")--and the flying-saucer stories at last seem to be going somewhere. The powerful two-episode run ("Duane Barry", "Ascension") features Steve Railsback as Mulder's possible future, an FBI agent burned out after a UFO abduction who has become a hostage-taking terrorist, which climaxes with Scully's disappearance into the light. The standout episode is also a stand-alone--"Humbug"--the first and still most successful of the show's self-parodies (written by Darin Morgan, who had played the Flukeman in "The Host"), in which the agents investigate a murder in a circus freakshow, allowing the actors to make fun of the mannerisms they have earnestly built up in a run of solemn, even somnolent, explorations of the murk. Other worthy efforts: "Aubrey", about genetic memory; "Irresistible", a rare (and creepy) straight psycho-chiller with little paranormal content; and "The Calusari", a good ghost/mystery. Rising deputy characters include Nicholas Lea as the perfidious Krycek and Brian Thompson as the shapeshifting alien bounty hunters. Notable guest stars: Charles Martin Smith, C.C.H. Pounder, Leland Orser, Terry O'Quinn, Bruce Weitz, Daniel Benzali, John Savage, Vincent Schiavelli, Tony Shalhoub. --Kim Newman

• Alias: Complete Season 1 | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £17.94   |  Saving you £27.05 (150.78%)   |  RRP £44.99

  Created by JJ Abrams, Alias plays like a cross between Buffy the Vampire Slayer and James Bond. Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner) is a super (and super-sexy) spy, fighting nefarious villains and working for the good guys--or so she thinks. Recruited as a college freshman for espionage work, Sydney found her true calling with SD-6, a secret division of the CIA. When her hunky doctor-boyfriend proposes to her, she decides to let him in on the truth she's not supposed to tell anyone: she's not a grad student with a demanding job for an international bank, but a secret agent who constantly puts her life on the line for the free world. But when SD-6 discovers her security breach, her fiancé is brutally assassinated, and Sydney suddenly finds herself face-to-face with the truth: she's been working for the bad guys. Deciding to become a double agent for the CIA and bring down the evildoers, Sydney gets one more surprise--her estranged father (Victor Garber) is also working for SD-6, and the CIA as well. Welcome to the family, Syd! Confused? This is all just the first episode. With its double-edged tension (how long can Syd play double agent?) and one heck of a MacGuffin (the dreaded Rambaldi device, the mythic creation of a Renaissance genius), the show leads its viewers from episode to episode with visceral, compelling action, not to mention the nascent romance between Syd and her CIA handler, Vaughn (Michael Vartan), and her clashes with her heretofore distant father. Sharp, smart and always suspenseful, Alias' centre was held by the gorgeous Garner, a stellar action heroine and an even better actress who could pull off Sydney's exotic undercover missions and conflicted emotions with equal dexterity. By the end of this first series, which concludes with a breathtaking cliffhanger, you'll be seduced into Alias' world with, happily, no desire to escape. --Mark Englehart

• Thunderbirds | Blu Ray | (15/09/2008) from £27.08   |  Saving you £7.91 (29.21%)   |  RRP £34.99

  When evil threatens International Rescue blasts-off to sort things out. Somewhere in the Pacific the rescue organisation is always on the lookout for trouble. The founder and co-ordinator of the group is astronaut Jeff Tracy whose sons serve as pilots of the group's five super-secret craft - the Thunderbirds. As the Tracys work for the good of mankind they must try to stop the villainy of The Hood who is determined to undermine the organisation and learn the secrets of the Thunderbirds aircraft. Thunderbirds delivers high-flying action and adventure through the imaginative use of Gerry Anderson's Supermarionation and the special effects of Academy Award' winner Derek Meddings.

• The Matchmaker | DVD | (07/02/2011) from £9.66   |  Saving you £-3.67 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The most successful matchmaker in Ireland is about to hit a brick wall. Janeane Garofalo stars as Marcy Tizard an election campaigner sent to Ireland to trace the relatives of her charge Senator John McGlory in an effort to emphasize his Irishness to the voters. Marcy lands in a remote Irish town during its annual matchmaking festival. Men are at every corner but love is nowhere in sight. Until she meets a man even more cynical than herself!

• Tales From the Hood I & II (2-disc Blu-ray Set) | Blu Ray | (02/11/2020) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Horror meets the hood in Rusty Cundieff's politicallycharged horrorcomedy anthology series. Stories of abuse, corruption and racism towards the AfricanAmerican community are given the horror film treatment, as an eccentric funeral director attempts to deter a gang of drug dealers from a life of crime. Executiveproduced by Spike Lee, this cult horror favourite is presented alongside its 2018 sequel, which reunites the original creative team for more tales of terror.

• Transformers Armada - Metamorphosis | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £9.24   |  Saving you £-3.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When a new breed of small transformers the Mini Cons are discovered to provide an immeasurable source of power the Decepticons and Autobots go head to head with the fate of Earth hanging in the balance...

• 3 Gerry Anderson Classics - Supermarionation - Joe 90 / Captain Scarlet / Stingray | DVD | (20/10/2003) from £7.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (125.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Featuring nineteen episodes taken from the Jerry Anderson collection including Captain Scarlet Joe 90 and the Stingray adventure series.

• Lone Wolf McQuade | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £18.21   |  Saving you £-5.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Chuck Norris is Lone Wolf McQuade a legendary Texas Ranger feared by outlaws and respected by other lawmen. When McQuade uncovers a gun smuggling operation led by an American gangster the action explodes with McQuade wreaking havoc on all those who come between him and the law...

• The X Files: Season 3 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Focused lightning bolts, stigmata, possession, and ancient curses become secondary in Season 3 of The X-Files as more episodes are devoted to pursuing the increasingly complex story threads. "The Blessing Way" is an explosive start, introducing the Syndicate's well-manicured man (John Neville), while Scully's sister Melissa is shot and Mulder experiences Twin Peaks-like prophetic visions. We learn of medical records of millions, including Scully, who have been experimented upon ("Paper Clip"): the fast-paced train-bound two-parter "Nisei" and "731" suggests the experiments are about alien hybridisation. Krycek turns out to be hosting an alien in the next double-act, "Piper Maru" and "Apocrypha", in which Skinner is shot by Melissa's killer. Two great one-offs outside the arc are "Clyde Bruckman's "Final Repose", a bittersweet tale of foreseeing death (featuring an Emmy-winning performance from Peter Boyle) and Jose Chung's "From Outer Space", a spoof of alien conspiracy theories through an author's investigations into abductees. --Paul Tonks

• Supercar: The Complete Series | Blu Ray | (11/04/2022) from £49.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's much-loved Supermarionation series has been remastered in High Definition from original 35mm film elements for this Blu-ray edition! Intrepid pilot Mike Mercury takes to the skies in his fantastical, jet-powered Supercar! With Professor Popkiss manning the console, and the eccentric Dr Beaker providing his customary blend of erudition and genius, the stage is set for a classic adventure series that blends action, humour and charm in equal measure!

• The X Files: Complete Seasons 1-9 | Blu Ray | (07/12/2015) from £80.99   |  Saving you £-4.48 (N/A%)   |  RRP £76.51

  Now for the first time on Blu-ray™, the original nine exhilarating, groundbreaking seasons of The X-Files, along with exclusive special features, can be yours to own. Although they begin as reluctant partners, FBI special agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully (Golden Globe® Winners David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson* ) ultimately form a powerful bond as they struggle to unravel deadly conspiracies and solve paranormal mysteries. With over 23 hours of extras, including documentaries, and commentary by creator Chris Carter and the production team as well as special effects sequences and deleted scenes this collection, which includes space for the upcoming The X-Files Event Series in 2016, is a must-have for any fan of the truth!

• Human Nature | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When Lila (Arquette) starts puberty something goes wrong and begins to grow a covering of thick hair all over her body. Unable to cope with this she moves to a secluded forest and becomes a best selling author. However at the age of thirty lila craves for male company and sets out to get back into society where she finds Puff (Ifans) a man raised by animals in the jungle...

• Bonjour Tristesse | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An amoral French girl and her playboy father discover the dark side of passion in this sizzling 1958 adaptation of Francoise Sagan's notorious bestseller. Jean Seberg is Cecile the spoiled 17-year-old daughter of Raymond (David Nevin) a wealthy Parisian widower vacationing in a sumptuous villas on the French Rivera. Their shallow pleasure-seeking existence is threatened when Raymond decides to marry Cecil's straitlaced godmother Anne.(Deborah Kerr) who disapproves of the teen

• Ghost Whisperer - Season 5 | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £15.59   |  Saving you £15.40 (98.78%)   |  RRP £30.99

  In the hit CBS drama Ghost Whisperer Melinda Gordon (Jennifer Love Hewitt) has chilling heart-stopping amusing and emotional encounters with ghosts and those they haunt. At the tense intersection of the Living and the Dead there is a mind-bending mystery that puts Melinda in lethal jeopardy - but also brings hope and miracles. Melinda's husband Jim (David Conrad) is now a practicing physician at Grandview's haunted hospital. With the spirit world growing stronger Melinda and Jim must find a way to balance their romance and the challenges of the churning spirit world. Melinda comes to understand that her unique gift is a responsibility that must be honoured to help souls in need - alive or dead - find perfect closure. Episodes Comprise: 1. Birthday Presence 2. See No Evil 3. Till Death Do Us Start 4. Do Over 5. Cause for Alarm 6. Head Over Heels 7. Devil's Bargain 8. Dead Listing 9. Lost in the Shadows 10. Excessive Forces 11. Dead Air 12. Blessings in Disguise 13. Living Nightmare 14. Dead to Me 15. Implosion 16. Old Sins Cast Long Shadows 17. On Thin Ice 18. Dead Eye 19. Lethal Combination 20. Blood Money 21. Dead Ringer 22. The Children's Parade

• Missing in Action | DVD | (18/09/2000) from £5.78   |  Saving you £7.21 (124.74%)   |  RRP £12.99

  American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam - and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering fast-paced action-adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs. Aided by a beautiful State Department official (Lenore Kasdorf) and a former Army buddy (M. Emmet Walsh) Braddock amasses top-secret in

• The X Files: Season 2 | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Season Two, the 1994-95 run, of The X Files was the one where creator Chris Carter, having had a surprise hit when he expected a one-season wonder, started trying to make sense of all the storylines he had thrown into the pile in the first year. Moreover, he had to cope with Gillian Anderson's maternity leave by having Scully get abducted by aliens (back then, a pretty fresh device) for a few episodes and come back strangely altered. The season also inaugurated the tradition of opening ("Little Green Men") and closing ("Anasazi") with the show's worst episodes, both pot-boiling attempts to keep the alien infiltration/government conspiracy balls up in the air while seeming to offer narrative forward-thrusts or revelations.But it's also a show noticeably surer of itself than Season One, with its stars reading from the same page in terms of their characters' relationship and attitudes to the wondrous. Scully's no-longer-workable scepticism finally starts to erode in the face of Mulder's increasingly cracked belief. There are fewer marking-time leftover-monster-of-the-week shows--although we do get a human fluke ("The Host"), vampires ("3"), an invisible rapist ("Excelsius Dei") voodoo ("Fresh Bones")--and the flying-saucer stories at last seem to be going somewhere. The powerful two-episode run ("Duane Barry", "Ascension") features Steve Railsback as Mulder's possible future, an FBI agent burned out after a UFO abduction who has become a hostage-taking terrorist, which climaxes with Scully's disappearance into the light. The standout episode is also a stand-alone--"Humbug"--the first and still most successful of the show's self-parodies (written by Darin Morgan, who had played the Flukeman in "The Host"), in which the agents investigate a murder in a circus freakshow, allowing the actors to make fun of the mannerisms they have earnestly built up in a run of solemn, even somnolent, explorations of the murk. Other worthy efforts: "Aubrey", about genetic memory; "Irresistible", a rare (and creepy) straight psycho-chiller with little paranormal content; and "The Calusari", a good ghost/mystery. Rising deputy characters include Nicholas Lea as the perfidious Krycek and Brian Thompson as the shapeshifting alien bounty hunters. Notable guest stars: Charles Martin Smith, C.C.H. Pounder, Leland Orser, Terry O'Quinn, Bruce Weitz, Daniel Benzali, John Savage, Vincent Schiavelli, Tony Shalhoub. --Kim NewmanOn the DVD: The individual episode discs have a small selection of deleted scenes, foreign language clips and behind-the-scenes footage, but the bulk of the extra material is on the final disc. There's not a lot to get to grips with, but what there is consists of a 14-minute documentary about the making of Season Two, with contributions from Chris Carter, various directors, writers and actors (but not the two principals); Carter talking briefly about each episode in turn; a series of short TV spots and pieces about the show's FX and secondary characters; and three very short behind-the-scenes glimpses, one of which has the self-explanatory title "Gillian eats a cricket". There's also a DVD-ROM utility with Web links and a game. --Mark Walker

• Kung Fu: The Legend Continues: The Complete First Season | DVD | (27/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Prince And The Showgirl | DVD | (07/05/2001) from £6.33   |  Saving you £7.66 (121.01%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) was Marilyn Monroe's only British-made film and scores highly for curiosity value. There's something rather outrageous about this iconic American star playing a second-rate hoofer living in a theatrical boarding house in Brixton. Monroe herself is predictably good and touching as Elsie Marina, plucked from the chorus to entertain the Regent of Carpathia for the evening and ultimately smoothing his rough edges. There is, however, a rather uphill feeling all the way. The making of the movie was by all accounts a troubled experience for everybody concerned. Monroe, increasingly unreliable and exasperating, had an unsympathetic director in Laurence Olivier, also playing the Regent Charles, who hardly had the patience for a star of her mercurial talents with her own ideas of professional behaviour. His own performance as the Balkan royal is hammy and mannered and there isn't even a damp squib of sexual chemistry between them. Terence Rattigan's script, based on his successful play, is far too wordy and stage-bound. But somehow Monroe effervesces through all this adversity, aided considerably by British character actor Richard Wattis and the great Sybil Thorndyke, who became her ally during the difficult filming. Not vintage Marilyn but fascinating all the same, and she looks fantastic. On the DVD: The Prince and the Showgirl is presented in 4:3 with an occasionally muffled, apparently mono, soundtrack, giving this DVD a rather dusty quality which is in keeping with the vintage British 1950s production values. Extras include a cast list, original trailer and newsreel footage of the announcement that Marilyn was to make the film with Olivier, referred to at that stage as The Sleeping Prince. --Piers Ford