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• Moody And Pegg - Series 1 | DVD | (15/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Moody And Pegg: Series 1 (2 Discs)

• Moody and Pegg - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (27/06/2011) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Feuding flatmates Daphne Pegg and Roland Moody are reunited in the second series of this cleverly scripted bittersweet comedy-drama. Starring Judy Cornwell (Keeping Up Appearances) and Derek Waring (Z Cars) Moody and Pegg chronicles the fraught yet occasionally mutually beneficial relationship between two very different people trying to live under the same roof after a rogue estate agent leases the same flat to both of them. Series Two first aired in 1975 and is again scripted by noted screenwriters Julia Jones and Donald Churchill. Disillusioned civil servant Daphne and recently divorced antiques dealer Roland find themselves thrown together once more following a quarrel that had almost put paid to their unorthodox flat-sharing arrangement. With both their romances having gone sour they have decided to bury the hatchet. But you can't keep a good hatchet down...

• The New Avengers: The Complete Series - Episodes 1-26 | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for 1970s audiences. Patrick McNee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one--Steed's virtues are style, wisdom and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but has also a louche charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful. Those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will understand now why such a fuss is made over her. The script team overlaps heavily with that of the original series; the new show has the same quirkiness, only occasionally varying it with a rather darker leCarrésque complexity or sudden outbreaks of Hammer Horror. If it lacks some of the sheer style of the original, that is a reflection of its period--the 1970s were less visually imaginative than the 60s. Tightly plotted, imaginatively cast with interesting guest stars, it is only with The Avengers that The New Avengers suffers by comparison. --Roz Kaveney

• Don't Rock the Boat | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This Thames sitcom from the creators of The Good Life and Ever Decreasing Circles chronicles the adventures of a widower who runs a riverside boatyard with his two grown-up sons - and the ructions that ensue when he decides to remarry. Running for two series Don't Rock the Boat stars Nigel Davenport as handsome young-at-heart Jack Hoxton and Sheila White as Dixie - the glamorous girl who puts the zing back into his life! Until the marriage of Jack and Dixie Jack and his sons Les and Billy had run a perfectly well-ordered resoundingly all-male establishment. But the arrival of Dixie a former conjurer's assistant and chorus girl has changed all that. And that fact that the boys now have a stepmother who's barely older than they are can only further complicate the situation...