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• Mixed Blessings - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Created and written by Sid Green (Morecambe and Wise: Two of a Kind, The Strange World of Gurney Slade), Mixed Blessings stars Christopher Blake (That's My Boy) and Muriel Odunton as a mixed-race couple struggling to placate their disapproving and constantly bickering families. This popular and - for its time - provocative series also stars much-loved sitcom stalwarts Carmen Munro (The Fosters), and Joan Sanderson (Please Sir!).Series Two finds the ever-obliging newlyweds continuing to be torn between two sets of in-laws, as Thomas finally lands an engineering job, and Susan announces her pregnancy. Her news meets with typically mixed responses: fathers-in-law William and Edward seem dismayed, and even Matilda and Annie, who both welcome the event, find a reason to squabble. Thomas and Susan - who'd hoped a baby might just bring the two families together - are once again driven to despair...

• Mrs Thursday - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (30/09/2013) from £16.20   |  Saving you £23.79 (146.85%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Cheerful charlady Alice Thursday worked tirelessly for tycoon George Dunrich until the day he died. Now she's inherited control of her late employer's multi-million dollar empire - along with his Mayfair mansion and his Rolls. George always knew Alice could be trusted to manage his money wisely, and with the suave, principled Richard Hunter acting as her business adviser and confidant, the former Mrs Mop is able to negotiate the pitfalls of the corporate world with financial savvy and plenty ...

• Rita, Sue And Bob Too | DVD | (22/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  British films about sex are fairly rare, and mostly embarrassing: from the painfully anxious (Brief Encounter) to the hopelessly naff (the Carry On films). What a treat then is Rita, Sue and Bob Too, Alan Clarke's filming of a stage play by young Andrea Dunbar. It's an unsentimental, gleefully lewd comedy about shagging. Tagged for its cinema release in 1987 as "Thatcher's Britain with its knickers down", it even provoked a minor moral hullabaloo in the newspapers. Rita (Siobhan Finneran) and Sue (Michelle Holmes) are two giggly Bradford lasses stuck on a ramshackle housing estate. They keep themselves in fags by occasional baby-sitting for nouveau riche couple Bob (George Costigan) and Michelle (Lesley Sharp). Bob fancies himself rotten, but Michelle has ruled that sex is off the menu. So one night, driving Rita and Sue home, Bob detours to the Yorkshire moors and offers the girls a little something extra in his front seat. Rita and Sue decide to grab it while they can. Alan Clarke's cult following is founded on his bleak, brilliant films about violent young men (Scum, The Firm, Made in Britain). But Rita, Sue is a tribute to Clarkey's ribald sense of humour. It even sports a cameo from novelty pop-act Black Lace, performing their non-hit "Gang-Bang". Teenage debutantes Holmes and Finneran are terrific--just watch them dancing lustily around Bob's red leather sofa to Bananarama. In support, Clarke wisely cast skilled northern comedians like Patti Nicholls and Willie Ross, as Sue's foul-mouthed mum and dad. Amid the laughs, Clarke as usual doesn't stint from showing us the harsh, unlovely side of life. He shot the film on location at Bradford's Buttershaw estate, where Andrea Dunbar grew up and where, tragically, she died of a brain haemorrhage only a few years after the film's release. --Richard Kelly

• Tarka The Otter | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £12.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (18.20%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Based on the classic Henry Williamson book and set in the beautiful English countryside Tarka The Otter is the captivating story following the life of an otter. From Tarka's birth to his climactic confrontation with Deadlock the otterhound. Tarka's life is an unforgettable experience. Set in the 1920s when otter hunting was still legal in England Tarka must use his cunning and natural instincts to outwit not only man but man's best friend... Two years in the making Tarka The Otter is one of the best loved of all animal films. A delight for all ages.

• Tarka The Otter | DVD | (03/12/2001) from £11.42   |  Saving you £-1.43 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Really good feature films about animals are as rare as hen's teeth. Based on the classic novel by Henry Williamson, Tarka the Otter is one of the very best. This is one of those highly unusual films told almost entirely from an animal's point of view, yet which refrains from Disney-style sentimentality and anthropomorphism. Set in 1920s England, the film simply follows the life of an otter, and shot over a period of two years captures the glory of the English countryside with some magnificent cinematography. Drama comes not just from the daily struggle to survive, but from the ever present threat of human hunters, and from the vicious otter hound, Deadlock. With narration by Peter Ustinov and a screenplay by the naturalist and author Gerald Durrell Tarka the Otter is a British film classic. While a family film, it is a realistic portrayal of the countryside, and as such contains some scenes that young children and animal lovers may find upsetting. The only other notable feature to star an otter is Ring of Bright Water (1969), while The Bear (1988) is another rare movie to tell its tale from the animal's perspective. --Gary S Dalkin

• Nearest And Dearest - Series 4 | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Comedy greats Jimmy Jewel and Hilda Baker star as Eli Pledge and his sister Nellie in the classic award-winning comedy Nearest and Dearest. Eli - an aging lothario - and Nellie - virtuous to the last but in possession of a wonderfully flexible grip on the English language - inherit clapped out condiment company Pledge's Purer Pickles from their father. Much hilarity ensues amongst the malaproprisms bolshie workforce and none-too-subtle double entendres as the siblings try their best to run a profitable company in spite of one another. Episodes Comprise: 1. A Price On Your Head 2. A Young Man's Fancy 3. When You've Got To Go 4. When Love Walks In 5. An Open-And-Shut Case