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• The Leading Man | DVD | (05/01/2004) from £5.79   |  Saving you £7.20 (124.35%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Indecent. Immoral. Irresitible. It's the role he was born to play... Robin Grange a hotshot Hollywood actor positively dripping with charisma and sex-appeal is about to make his debut in London both on stage and between the sheets. The writer of his new play Felix Webb is loved by the critics and in love with the new leading lady the gorgeous Hilary planning to desert his wife Elena for her. Enter Robin Grange who quickly grasps Felix's dillemma and begins weaving a web

• The Likes of Sykes / Sykes - With the Lid Off / The Eric Sykes 1990 Show | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  By the early 1970s Oldham-born Eric Sykes had become one of TV's best-loved comedy performers. Following the phenomenal success of the Sykes series he spread his wings in a number of one-off shows and films. This set comprises three shows made for Thames between 1971 and 1982. Filled with Eric's warm observational humour and exploiting his keen eye for the absurd the shows reunite him with several comedy collaborators including fellow Plank star Tommy Cooper and long-term working partner friend and Sykes co-star Hattie Jacques; Diana Coupland (Bless This House) Glaswegian actor/comedian Chic Murray and Dandy Nichols ('Till Death Us So Part) are among the other guest stars with musical interludes from classical guitarist John Williams. Titles Comprise: Sykes - With The Lid Off: Eric dares to take the lid off the many and varied forms of theatrical entertainment with the help of Hattie Jacques Dilys Watling Leslie Noyes Philip Gilbert and dancers The Ladybirds. The Likes Of Sykes: Eric has a Walter Mitty-style dream that he will produce a star-studded spectacular on Broadway - but will his dreams die before his starry eyes? Diana Coupland and John Williams are Eric's special guests. The Eric Sykes 1990 Show: Eric makes a prediction: by 1990 celebrities will have to pay for their own TV shows. Starring in his vision of the future are Tommy Cooper Chic Murray Dandy Nichols Leslie Mitchell and classical guitarist John Williams.

• Bless This House - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-5.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Sid James plays Sid Abbott - Mr Average Married Man. A representative for a stationery firm. Sid's interest in life are the three C's: Chelsea Courage bitter and Crumpet and not necessarily in that order. In common with most married men however he finds these ambitions constatnly thwarted by his wife son and daughter also not necessarily in that order. Sid likes to think he is with it but in actual fact he would not know it if he saw it. Diana Coupland plays his attractive sensible level-headed wife. Sally Geeson is his 16-year old daughter Sally. She's in her last year at Grammar School and is the apple of Sid's eye. Robin Stewart plays Mike who is 19 and just left college. He is far too busy straightening out the affairs of the world to bother about a job. Episodes Comprise: 1. Money Is the Root Of... 2. And They Will Come Home 3. Who's Minding the Baby? 4. A Beef in His Bonnet 5. The Bells Are Ringing 6. The First 25 Years Are the Worst

• It Takes A Worried Man - The Complete Series 1 - | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £8.28   |  Saving you £4.71 (56.88%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Philip Roath is thirty-five. An insurance salesman whose confidence is diminishing as rapidly as his hair and teeth, he's lazy, self-centred, guilt-ridden and insecure. With an overdraft to support, a boss who vainly tries to get him to work for his salary, an ex-wife who rings periodically to remind him of his inadequacies, and an analyst whose problems dwarf his own, he's altogether a bit worried...It Takes a Worried Man traces Roath's uphill struggle to come to terms with his lot. Created by Peter Tilbury - who also stars as the unfortunate Roath - the series built upon the resounding success of Tilbury's Shelly and Sorry, I'm a Stranger Here Myself, once again showcasing Tilbury's gift for adroit and keenly observed comic dialogue. This set comprises the complete first series.

• Diana Krall - Live In Montreal | DVD | (29/11/2004) from £9.09   |  Saving you £5.90 (39.40%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Diana Krall: Live at the Montreux Jazz Festival is a portrait of an already-accomplished musician in the process of evolving into a great artist. Always a fine jazz pianist, an expressive singer, and a capable interpreter (mostly of the Great American Songbook), Krall spent little time developing an original voice prior to her marriage to Elvis Costello and her CD The Girl in the Other Room, which features multiple songwriting collaborations with Costello as well as more adventurous choices in cover material (Joni Mitchell's "Black Crow", Tom Waits's "Temptation"). That 2004 recording is the centerpiece of this concert; fully nine of the 13 selections here, including the Waits and Mitchell songs as well as five Costello-Krall compositions, were drawn from it. Purists may lament the lessening of the straight-ahead jazz element in Krall's music (indeed, with its simple major chords and countryish lilt, the original "Narrow Daylight" will inevitably invite comparisons to Norah Jones). But Krall and her excellent band still swing mightily (cf. an extended version of the standard "All or Nothing at All") and improvise like the seasoned jazz pros they are. It's a heady combination: Krall is at least as good an instrumentalist as her contemporaries; add to that her singing and now an interest in songwriting that reflects the influence of pop music as well as jazz, and you have a genuinely unique talent. --Sam Graham

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1965 (Box Set 1) | DVD | (01/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Swingingly stylish adventures with super spies John Steed and Mrs Peel! Flashback to the Sixties with the coolest duo in crimefighting! The Town of No Return: Steed finds a town full of ghosts and Emma gets into a harness. The Gravediggers: Steed drives a train and Emma is tied to the tracks... The Cybernauts: Steed receives a deadly gift and Emma pockets it. Death at Bargain Prices: Steed fights in ladies underwear and Emma tries feinting. Castle De'ath: Steed becomes a strapping Jock and Emma lays a ghost. The Master Minds: Steed becomes a genius and Emma loses her mind.

• Planes, Trains and Automobiles | Blu Ray | (23/11/2021) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Fair Trade | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A Life for a Life The General's Son is in Prison The Agents Daughter is in Jeopardy The war on drugs has just turned personal. Filled with sizzling action and adventure FAIR TRADE is a powerful story of survival parental love and betrayal set against a backdrop of drug trafficking and the perilous South American jungle. A group of innocent college girls become pawns in a deadly game of death and destruction when a South American drug baron General Belmondon (Oliver Reed)

• The Wicker Man | Blu Ray | (21/09/2023) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• School Reunion - The 80s | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tracklist: 1. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth 2. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun 3. Bros - When Will I Be Famous? 4. Duran Duran - The Reflex 5. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon 6. Heaven 17 - Temptation 7. Kim Wilde - Kids In America 8. Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up 9. Erasure - Sometimes 10. Mel & Kim - Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend) 11. Baltimora - Tarzan Boy 12. T'Pau - China In Your Hand 13. Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms 14. Star

• Rumble Fish | Blu Ray | (02/03/2016) from £31.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The second of Francis Ford Coppola's films based on the popular juvenile novels of S.E. Hinton (the first being The Outsiders), Rumble Fish split critics into opposite camps: those who admired the film for its heavily stylised indulgence, and those who hated it for the very same reason. Whatever the response, it's clearly the work of a maverick director who isn't afraid to push the limits of his innovative talent. Filmed almost entirely in black and white with an occasional dash of color for symbolic effect, this tale of alienated youth centers on gang leader Rusty James (Matt Dillon) and his band of punk pals. Rusty's got a girlfriend (Diane Lane), an older brother named Motorcycle Boy (Mickey Rourke), and a drunken father (Dennis Hopper) who've all given up trying to straighten him out. He's best at making trouble, and he pursues that skill with an enthusiastic flair that eventually catches up with him. But it's not the whacked-out story here that matters--it's the uninhibited verve of Coppola's visual approach, which includes everything from time-lapse clouds to the kind of smoky streets and alleyways that could only exist in the movies. The supporting cast includes a host of fresh faces who went on to thriving careers, including Nicolas Cage, Christopher Penn, Vincent Spano, Laurence Fishburne, and musician Tom Waits. --Jeff Shannon

• A Monkey's Tale | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A Monkey's Tale is an action-packed animated adventure that tells the story of two tribes of monkeys the Laankos and the Woonkos long separated by fierce rivalry. One day a young Woonko Kom accidentally finds himself in the world of the Laankos where he discovers how similar the Laankos are to his own creed. Romance evil friendship comedy and tragedy lead finally to reconciliation in an uplifting family adventure.

• Mozart 22 - Die Zauberflote | DVD | (22/01/2007) from £19.05   |  Saving you £2.94 (15.43%)   |  RRP £21.99

  Part of the epach-making release of Mozart's complete operas on DVD, Pierre Audi's production of this blithe fable suggests an operatic Garden of Eden, enhanced by the primary-coloured, story-book designs of Karel Appel. The tale of two young men undergoing a rite of passage to win their perfect spouse inspired Mozart's most tuneful yet sublime score - superbly brought to life by Riccardo Muti and a distinguished cast of international soloists.

• It Takes a Worried Man - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £6.79   |  Saving you £6.20 (91.31%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Co-written by and starring Peter Tilbury, the BAFTA-nominated creator of Shelley, It Takes a Worried Man hilariously charts the burgeoning mid-life crisis of Philip Roath - a divorced thirty-something insurance salesman whose confidence is diminishing as rapidly as his hair and teeth. This third and final series sees Roath's relationship with girlfriend Liz taking an increasingly rocky path, and his despondency deepens as the prospect of redundancy rears its ugly head. While his boss - aka T...

• Carry On Teacher | DVD | (27/08/2001) from £6.66   |  Saving you £10.33 (155.11%)   |  RRP £16.99

  When Carry On Teacher was released in 1959, the series was still in its infancy but all the familiar constituent parts were already in place. Innuendo, naturally, reigns supreme and on the brink of the permissive 1960s it's surprising what Peter Rodgers and the gang were able to get away with. "Are you satisfied with your equipment, Miss Allcock?", child psychologist Leslie Phillips asks gym mistress Joan Sims. Naturally, it isn't five minutes before Miss Allcock's shorts have split, leading to a series of pants gags. And we're off. For Carry On fans, Teacher contains many of the funniest lines and certainly some of the best performances from the whole series. Kenneth Williams is still acting rather than giving his mannerisms a good work out. Hattie Jacques is establishing her gorgon-with-a-soft-centre-for-the-right-man persona and Charles Hawtrey's birdlike twitching makes him ideal as the precious music teacher. A youthful Carol White and Richard O'Sullivan are among the scheming pupils. But you don't have to be a diehard Carry On fan to appreciate the boisterous, sub-St Trinians comedy. And thanks to Ted Ray's poignant acting as the headmaster, there's a real moment of Mr Chips-style bathos at the very end. On the DVD: Carry On Teacher doesn't gain much from being presented in widescreen. Much of its appeal lies in its familiarity. All we ask for is a clear print--and in black and white this is diamond sharp--and decent sound quality. The whole thing fits like a comfortable old shoe. But apart from the scene index there are no extras on the disc. Given the cult status of the Carry On films, and the wealth of documentary material which has been made about them and their stars, you'd think something extra could have been offered with the DVD releases to make them a more worthwhile alternative to the video. --Piers Ford

• Doctor Who - Scream of the Shalka | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £7.69   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Bless This House | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The movie of the successful TV series in which two arguing families discover that their respective offsprings have been having a secret affair and plan to marry...

• Look-Back on 70s Telly - Issue 3 | DVD | (02/05/2013) from £13.98   |  Saving you £3.00 (25.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Back in the day when childrens' programmes were, by turns, fun, challenging, dramatic, spooky, hilarious and fantastic, tea-time programming was a staple part of the lives of millions of kids. Diverse and highly popular, it fired imaginations and was invariably an integral part of any worthwhile playground antics the next day.

• Killing Season | Blu Ray | (18/08/2014) from £8.08   |  Saving you £9.91 (122.65%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Sharing the screen for the first time in motion picture history Academy Award® winner Robert De Niro and two-time Oscar® nominee John Travolta star in the nail-biting Killing Season. Two veterans of the Bosnian War - one an American named Benjamin Ford (Robert De Niro) the other a former Serbian soldier Emil Kovac (John Travolta) - engage in a tense action-packed cat and mouse game against the backdrop of America's most forbidding and remote landscape - the Appalachian mountain wilderness.

• Whodunnit - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (04/06/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Doctor Who star Jon Pertwee is your host in this highly popular, light-hearted panel game where viewers are invited to play detective - pitting their wits against a panel of celebrities to solve a fictitious murder mystery.The show's brilliantly original formula, devised by comedians Lance Percival and Jeremy Lloyd, presented short dramas laden with clues and red herrings to be pieced together by the celebrity panellists, who would then question the characters involved and finally point the finger at the most likely suspect.Lively repartee is the order of the day, and joining Pertwee and his regular panellists Patrick Mower and Anouska Hempel in this third series is a veritable who's who of 1970s television: Honor Blackman, Diana Dors, Richard O'Sullivan, Paula Wilcox, Magnus Pyke, Jackie Collins, Wendy Craig, Liver Birds Polly James and Nerys Hughes, Derek Nimmo and Bond girl Julie Ege are among the guests trying to track down whodunnit. Also included is A Piece of Cake, a special Christmas mystery from 1974.