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• Grange Hill : BBC TV Series 5 & 6 Boxed Set | DVD | (19/11/2018) from £15.65   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A new year, new pupils and a new set of challenges for the staff and children at Grange Hill as lack of funding affects them all in one way or another. This boxed set features all 34 episodes from series 5 and 6, originally broadcast in 1982 and 1983. Grange Hill series 5 - It's a new term at Grange Hill & new pupils including Zammo McGuire, Roland Browning, Annette Firman & Fay Lucas start at the school; Gripper Stebson quickly finds himself a new victim. Jonah Jones & Zammo create havoc with stink bombs, much to the amusement of the boys. The offer of sex education lessons causes a mixture of mirth, embarrassment and consternation to both pupils and parents alike. An accusation of impropriety rocks the school and Stebson's bullying culminates in a tragic accident. These are just some of the issues dealt with by head teacher, Mrs McClusky, as the term unfolds at Grange Hill. Grange Hill Series 6 - A school trip to St Albans takes a potentially dangerous turn when Annette Firman & Julie Marchant foolishly accept a lift from strangers. Romance blossoms for Claire Scott & Stewpot as they get caught necking in a cupboard. Despite recent events, Gripper Stebson's bullying escalates into racism that results in his suspension from the school. Mr McGuffey, often a quiet champion of satirical subversion, is suspended by Mrs McClusky leading the pupils to organise a rally for his return.

• Man Down - Series 1 | DVD | (17/11/2014) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Greg Davies acclaimed stand-up comedian Mr Gilbert in the hit TV series and film The Inbetweeners and BAFTA-nominated star of Cuckoo writes and stars in this new series which also features 2010 Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer winner Roisin Conaty (Impractical Jokers) Rik Mayall (The Young Ones) Deirdre Mullins (Whitechapel) 2013 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Mike Wozniak (Live At The Electric) Gwyneth Powell (Grange Hill) and Jeany Spark (Wallander). This new sitcom introduces Dan (Greg Davies) a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life. Crushing character flaws an unwanted teaching job uniquely dysfunctional friends and a willfully insane Dad conspire to keep this Man Down. Dan’s world is at near collapse his girlfriend Naomi (Deidre Mullins) is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks while his best friends are Jo (Rosin Conaty) who has what can only be described as the loosest of grasp on reality and Brian (Mike Wozniak) a straight-laced financial adviser who is regularly dumbfounded by the complete idiocy of his two friends. To compound matters Dan’s listless teaching career sees him begrudgingly teach a version of the same lesson every day inexplicably popular with all but one of the pupils with his only highlight coming in the form of Miss Lipsey (Jeany Spark) a head mistress who views Dan with a mixture of pity and despair. Tormented daily by his father (Rik Mayall) whose driving motivation in life seems to be to ensure his son is humiliated at every turn not to mention regularly physically attacked does so while keeping it almost completely under the radar of his wife and Dan’s mum (Gwyneth Powell).

• Back To The Secret Garden | DVD | (06/01/2003) from £8.33   |  Saving you £-5.08 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  Twelve-year old Lizzie has come to Misselthwaite Manor now a home for young war orphans run by housekeeper Martha and there she meets fellow orphans Robert Stephen and Geraldine. Endlessly curious full of spark and life Lizzie soon learns about the secret garden and wants to find out more. But Martha is fearful of its mysteries and has forbidden any of the children from venturing inside- a strictly observed rule that Lizzie is determined to break! With a stolen key in her hand she enters the garden and discovers that something once so beautiful has starved of love and is dying from neglect- but how does she restore it to it's former splendour?