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• The Final Programme (Cult Classics) | DVD | (20/02/2023) from £8.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Jon Finch heads an impressive cast as the flamboyant anti-hero in this dystopian, darkly humorous sci-fi thriller from cult director Robert Fuest. The Final Programme is based on Michael Moorcock's acclaimed 1968 novel of the same name and has been newly restored.In a far-off future, mankind is in a state of decay. But a group of scientists believe they have found the means to move humanity on to its next level in the creation of an ideal, self-replicating - and thus immortal - human being. Jerry Cornelius, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and playboy adventurer, is vital to the project's success: his recently deceased father devised the formula of this 'final programme'. However, the formula is captured on a microfilm hidden in the vaults of the family's mansion, and jealously guarded by Jerry's drug-addicted, psychopathic brother, Frank...Part of the STUDIOCANAL Cult Classics collection and featuring an exclusive set of art cards.Product FeaturesNEW Interview with Jenny RunacreNEW Kim Newman on Fuest & The Final ProgrammeItalian title sequenceTrailers

• The Amazing Mr Blunden (Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (09/12/2019) from £14.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The mysterious but kindly solicitor Mr Blunden visits Mrs Allen and her young children, offering her the position of caretaker at a derelict country mansion. More surprises are in store when the children encounter the ghosts of two former young residents and find themselves transported back in time to help their new friends right a 100-year-old wrong. The Amazing Mr Blunden is another nostalgic family classic from The Railway Children Director, Lionel Jeffries. SPECIAL FEATURES Brand new scan and restoration A new audio commentary with Actors Madeline Smith, Rosalyn Landor, Stuart Lock and Marc Granger A new interview with Madeline Smith A new interview with Rosalyn Landor Mark Gatiss on The Amazing Mr Blunden a new interview 2014 archive BFI Q&A with Madeline Smith, Rosalyn Landor and Stuart Lock Reversible sleeve with new artwork by Rich Davies and original artwork Optional English Subtitles for the Hard of Hearing LIMITED EDITION CONTENTS ˜The Ghosts' the original out -of-print source novel by Antonia Barber specially reproduced for this release Rigid slipcase with new artwork by Rich Davies Soft cover book with new essays by Kevin Lyons and Kim Newman Reversible poster with new and original artwork

• Tales Out Of School - Four Plays by David Leland | Blu Ray | (04/07/2011) from £28.55   |  Saving you £1.44 (5.04%)   |  RRP £29.99

  These four television films originally screened by Channel 4 in 1983 brought the emerging writing talent of former actor David Leland to national attention. He would subsequently win a BAFTA Award for his directorial debut Wish You Were Here and an Emmy Award for his contribution to Band of Brothers and work on screenplays for Mona Lisa and Personal Services. Featuring early roles for Tim Roth and Jim Broadbent the plays form a scathing portrait of British society in the early 1980s focusing in particular on the polarisation of attitudes towards the role and methods of education in an increasingly fragmented society. Without overtly offering solutions Leland s plays depict - often with unnerving acuity and foresight - the experience of individuals within systems that have become inadequate in dealing with the fallout of social breakdown. Of the four plays presented here Made in Britain directed by Alan Clarke (Scum) inevitably aroused the strongest controversy with Tim Roth s astonishing portrayal of a nihilistic racist teenage skinhead captured by Chris Menges innovative cinematography; the screenplay won Leland the Prix Italia in 1983. Birth Of A Nation: Featuring Jim Broadbent the play dramatises the conflict between old authoritarian teaching methods and the more relaxed approach of progressive educationalists. Flying Into The Wind: Graham Crowden stars in a play depicting the battle between parents who want to home-educate their children and the local education authority. R.H.I.N.O.: The harrowing story of Angela a disenfranchised young black girl living in 1980s London and her encounters with a well-meaning but often ineffectual social system. Made In Britain: Directed by Alan Clarke Tim Roth makes his TV debut as a hate-filled teenage skinhead on a self-destructive campaign destined to lead to permanent incarceration.

• Up The Chastity Belt | DVD | (14/02/2011) from £9.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (60.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A funny thing happened to Lurkalot serf to Sir Coward de Custard on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour...

• A Very Peculiar Practice | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-15.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A satirical, surreal and acutely observed comedy-drama from the mid-1980s, A Very Peculiar Practice stars Peter Davison, who, following turns as a vet in All Creatures Great and Small and the Doctor in Doctor Who, here plays naïve Dr Stephen Daker, a profoundly nervous new addition to Lowlands University's medical practice. The distinctly eclectic team he meets is headed by the compassionate, incompetent, alcoholic and suicidal "Jock" McCannon (the gloriously theatrical Graham Crowden). Barbara Flynn is marvellous as the manipulative bisexual Dr Rose Marie, and David Troughton as Dr Bob Buzzard personifies the "greed-is-good" ethos of the era. The seven 50-minute episodes here form an overall arc following Daker from sheer terror through romance with behavioural psychologist Lyn Turtle (Amanda Hillwood), to ethical conflict with the sociopathic vice-chancellor (played with relish by John Bird). Increasingly surreal (from strange nuns to stranger dream sequences--the second, even better series was more bizarre still), the series launches an acidic assault on the Thatcherite asset-stripping mentality that was then laying waste not just British universities, but the entire nation. Written with an acute irony by Andrew Davies, whose move into more mainstream adaptations such as Pride and Prejudice (1995) was contemporary TV drama's greatest loss, A Very Peculiar Practice is a television landmark that, alongside The Singing Detective and Edge of Darkness, marks 1986 as one of the finest years in the history of the medium. --Gary S Dalkin

• Waiting For God - Series 3 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £7.98   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'If you're angry you know you're still alive!' The complete third series of the fondly remembered BBC sitcom Waiting for God in which Diana Trent (Stephanie Cole) a resident of the Bayview Retirement Home is determined not to grow old gracefully... Episodes Comprise: 1. The Funeral 2. Two Nasty Children 3. Looking For Work 4. Harvey's Fiancee 5. The Estate Agent 6. Scandal 7. Sabotage 8. Politics 9. Sleeping Pills 10. Great Aunt Diana

• Waiting For God - Series 4 | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £7.25   |  Saving you £12.74 (175.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  ""If you're angry you know you're still alive!"" The complete fourth series of the fondly remembered BBC sitcom Waiting for God in which Diana Trent (Stephanie Cole) a resident of the Bayview Retirement Home is determined not to grow old gracefully... Episodes Comprise: 1. Financial Difficulties 2. Living Together 3. Living In Miserable Sin 4. Shelves 5. The Seance 6. The Promotional Video 7. Adult Education 8. Sent To Coventry 9. Waterworks 10. The Conference 11. Another Christmas At Bayview (Special)

• Waiting For God - Series 2 | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £4.58   |  Saving you £15.41 (336.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  'If you're angry you know you're still alive!' The complete second series of the fondly remembered BBC sitcom Waiting for God. Episodes Comprise: 1. Counselling For The Dying 2. The Partition 3. Daisy Takes Charge 4. The Thief 5. Tell The Truth 6. The Hip Operation 7. Glamorous Grannies 8. Foreign Workers 9. Young People

• Possession | DVD | (30/01/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A pair of literary sleuths unearth the amorous secret of two Victorian poets only to find themselves falling under a passionate spell.

• Waiting For God - Series 5 | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £5.99   |  Saving you £14.00 (233.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Feeling old? You will be after a visit to the Bayview Retirement Village. The food is appalling the staff treat you like incontinent children and any show of independence is strictly frowned upon. Graham Crowden and Stephanie Cole star as two rebel inmates determined to live life to the full while they still can. Episodes Comprise: 1. After The Operation 2. The Bayview Conversation Society 3. A Royal Visit? 4. Diana's Diet 5. Trouble With Men 6. Harvey The Priest 7. Bungee Jumping 8. A Double Wedding

• The Little Prince | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (167.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Little Prince adapted from the poetic touching and much-loved allegory by the French pilot and explorer Antoine de Saint-Exupery is a feature-length tale of a pilot who crashes in the Sahara Desert and meets an enchanting young boy who comes from an Asteroid somewhere in outer-space. This ultimately sad but touching observation on life features some beautiful desert landscapes intergalactic flashbacks and great cameos from Gene Wilder and Bob Fosse.

• The Missionary | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Fallen women? Does it mean they've hurt their knees? After a decade of soul-saving in Africa Charles Fortescue is asked to minister to the ladies of the night in 1906 London. So Fortescue feeds them shelters them and not infrequently provides them a bed: his!A naive man of the cloth becomes a man of the sheets in this playfully naughty yet always tasteful comedy that stars Monty Python's Michael Palin (who also wrote the script) as Fortescue and features a colourful array of cockeyed characters: a blissful airhead (Phoebe Nicholls) a lusty mission sponsor (Maggie Smith) a bewildered butler (Michael Hordern) an earthy bishop (Denholm Elliott) a cantankerous John Bull (Trevor Howard) and more. Jolly good fun!

• The Innocent Sleep | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £6.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (30.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A political thriller about corruption. Alan Terry a young homeless man witnesses a murder. When he reports it to the police he finds out that the murder is being handled as a suicide and the investigating police officer is the murderer.

• The Beggar's Opera | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Created specially for television this Beggar's Opera captures the quality and satiric edge of the Hogarth engravings which influenced Gay's original version. The characters of this highly spirited comedy of London low-life thrived on thieving lechery and deceit: Peachum the receiver of stolen goods shops his clients when it suits him; Lockit the prison governor has corrupt links with Peachum; Macheath the highwayman has married Polly Peachum but is promised to Lucy Lockit; Jenn

• Crown Court - Volume 7 | DVD | (05/08/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  A television institution that lasted for over a decade, Crown Court was a much-loved courtroom drama which, although the cases were fictional, used 'real' jurors chosen from members of the public. Multiple endings were prepared for each story, dependent on whether the accused was found guilty or acquitted of the charges, giving each story a strength and energy which raised it far above that of normal courtroom dramas. This volume contains a further twelve stories in production order, ...

• For Maddie With Love: The Complete Series | DVD | (29/07/2019) from £29.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hard-hitting and unsentimental, For Maddie With Love is the story of a woman who knows she is dying and, in doing so, rediscovers the love she has for her husband and family. Showcasing memorable performances from Nyree Dawn Porter and Ian Hendry and an affecting, stylishly minimalist design ethic, this daytime afternoon drama which ran twice-weekly through much of 1980 became compulsive viewing due to its powerful take on terminal illness, self-determined euthanasia and the aftermath of a death in the family. This set contains all 48 episodes from both series of this classic drama. Special feature Limited edition booklet by archive television historian Billy Smart.

• Britannia Hospital | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A farce set in an old hospital that alarmingly resembles Britain at its most chaotic. Everything starts to go wrong when the medical administrators are faced with a threatened strike angry scenes and a Royal visit.

• The Planman | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Lawyer Jack Lennox (Robbie Coltrane) finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend and so stumbles upon the idea of devising the perfect crime himself... But when a plan for a theoretical bank raid is carried out to the letter Lennox finds himself drawn into an exciting and illegal sideline as a criminal mastermind. It's a dangerous double life - and the stakes are even higher than he realises. When his secret is discovered by Assistant Chief Constable Brian Richards (Neil Dudgeon) he offers Lennox a chance to win his freedom. Promising to hand over the top four criminal gangs in the UK he devises one final brilliant plan. But who can he trust and which side is he really on?

• Midsomer Murders - Ring Out Your Dead | DVD | (07/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The bellringers of Midsomer Wellow are preparing for the local Striking Competition which is due to be hosted at their church. Not everybody sees this as a great honour for the community - some of the villagers find the noise made by the ringers is the bane of their lives. When the bellringer and womaniser Greg Tutt is shot dead Barnaby and Troy are called in to investigate. But what is the motive for the murder; a jealous husband a disgruntled villager or a rival team from the com

• The Amazing Mr Blunden | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £50.00   |  Saving you £-44.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The Amazing Mr. Blunden