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• Friends - Series 2 - Episodes 1-8 | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  Season 2: Unfortunately, Rachel's brave intention to announce her feelings is scuppered in the season opener "T.O.W. Ross' New Girlfriend". It doesn't matter how great her hair looks (a real-life accident when a friend cut it with a razor), or how many sneaky tricks she tries to separate them. Ultimately it takes a peculiar doppelganger to lure the new girl away in "T.O.W. Russ" (Schwimmer credited as "Snaro"). The Friends couldn't be happier to have the angst and tension relieved, and "T.O.W. Ross and Rachel ... You Know" is unsurprisingly an all-time fan favourite. This was straightforward compared to the other side of Ross' love life in "T.O.W. the Lesbian Wedding" though. Initiating another will-they/won't-they subplot was the introduction of Richard (Tom Selleck) as a new flame for Monica. Highlights for the other characters all centred on the Emmy-winning two-part "T.O. W. After the Super Bowl" with a stunning cameo list including Brooke Shields, Chris Isaak, Dan Castellaneta (Homer from The Simpsons), Jean-Claude Van Damme and Julia Roberts (whom Perry subsequently dated a short while). Another great highlight was Chandler and Joey's ineptitude in "T.O.W the Baby on the Bus", which also featured Chrissie Hynde giving Phoebe's "Smelly Cat" its best ever rendition on guitar. To leave viewers hanging, the year ended with Rachel in understandable uncertainty over "T.O.W. Barry and Mindy's Wedding" (her ex-fiancé and ex-best friend). --Paul Tonks

• Dark Prince - The Legend Of Dracula | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Medieval Transylvania. His homeland seized by marauding Turks his father cruelly buried alive Prince Vlad Dracula returns from exile on a mission of destiny and revenge. A fearless leader he vows to reclaim all that rightfully belongs to him and his people: no matter what the cost. On his quest he shows no mercy slaughtering common criminals corrupt noblemen and villainous clergy alike. As the stories of Vlad's unquenchable thirst for blood spread the legend of Dracula the Prince of Darkness is born...

• Most Valuable Primate | DVD | (14/09/2004) from £24.95   |  Saving you £-9.96 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Jack is a three year old chimpanzee who has been the subject of an experiment by Dr. Kendall to teach him sign language. When funding for the project is cut off by the impatient Dr. Peabody Jack is sold to a medical research lab. Afraid of what may happen to his simian friend Dr. Kendall breaks Jack out of the laboratory. However Jack is accidentally sent to Canada where in a strange twist of circumstance he establishes himself as a superb hockey player.

• Verdi: La Traviata -- Glyndebourne | DVD | (31/10/2000) from £13.60   |  Saving you £11.39 (83.75%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Performances of La Traviata stand or fall to an unusual extent on their principal soprano; the first thing that needs saying about this Glyndebourne performance is that Marie McLaughlin has all of the attributes needed for a role that is fundamentally a virtuoso one, no matter how emotionally involving it is as well. The point about Violetta is that she is, with absolute authenticity, all of the things she becomes in the course of the opera--the febrile socialite and yearning love of Act One, the quiet domesticated woman of Act Two who sacrifices her love for Alfredo to precisely the family values he has talked her into espousing, the dying penitent of Act Three. Walter McNeil is an impressive poetic Alfredo in whose successful courtship we can believe. He is also unusually good in Act Two, Scene Two where for once his public humiliation of Violetta is actually painful, which makes his repentance at her deathbed far more moving. Brent Ellis is solidly powerful as his father Germont--the duet in which he talks Violetta into renouncing his son and comes to value what he is destroying is one of the high points here, as it should be. Bernard Haitink conducts impressively. On the DVD: As (unfortunately) usual with Arthaus Musik, the DVD contains no extra features worth mentioning past the usual subtitles in German, English and French, relegating discussion of the opera's stormy history to the booklet. --Roz Kaveney

• Buck Privates Come Home/One Night in the Tropics | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £5.49   |  Saving you £4.50 (81.97%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Buck Privates: Bud and Lou enlist in the army in order to escape being hauled off to jail and soon find themselves in boot camp. To their dismay the company's drill instructor is none other than the cop who was all set to run them off to the hoosegow in the first place! The boys end up having a whale of a time getting under the skin of their humourless nemesis. One Night In The Tropics: Bud and Lou get mixed up in a ""Love Insurance"" scheme.

• Magic Town | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £5.55   |  Saving you £4.44 (80.00%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rip Smith (Stewart) discovers a town statistically identical to the entire country so he and his assistants go there to run polls easily and cheaply. When he meets local civic cruader Mary Peterman (Wyman) romantic involvement follows and things start to change rapidly...

• Darlin' - Limited 2-Disc SteelBook (4K UHD + Blu-Ray) | Blu Ray | (29/11/2019) from £36.50   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Falcon Strikes Back | DVD | (23/04/2012) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When the Falcon (Tom Conway) is expertly framed for the murder of a bank messenger and the theft of a fortune in War Bonds, there's only one thing to do - get out of town fast!Tracking the real crooks to a mountain resort hotel, The Falcon and his trusty sidekick Goldie (Cliff Edwards) find themselves suddenly surrounded by suspicious characters. The Falcon sets out to investigate a mysterious German refugee (Andre Charlot) and a hotel manageress (Harriet Hilliard) with a shady past, - while Goldie finds himself promoted to house detective and picks a fight with the hot-tempered puppeteer (Edgar Kennedy) performing at the hotel!As the Falcon's investigations continue, something very strange happens. Someone starts killing the criminals...

• The Fifteen Streets | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £6.05   |  Saving you £1.94 (32.07%)   |  RRP £7.99

  a powerful drama set against the harsh and turbulent background of poverty and class distinction in Tyneside at the beginning of the century. A young docker John O'Brien falls deeply in love with Mary Llewellyn the daughter of a local shipbuilder. Their love unites them but the fifteen streets which separate poverty from wealth threaten to stand in their way.

• Drive Hard | Blu Ray | (26/05/2014) from £7.65   |  Saving you £10.34 (135.16%)   |  RRP £17.99

  A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.

• The Doctors - 30 Years Of Time Travel And Beyond | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £10.99

  The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond is a Doctor Who documentary directed by Bill Baggs, the independent producer behind Who-related video series Auton (1997-9), P.R.O.B.E. (1995-6) and The Stranger (1992-5). Amateurish production values include captions being cropped at the sides of the screen and microphones wandering fully into shot. But it's worth putting up with these for the many interviews, including those with Jon Pertwee, Colin Baker and Sylvester McCoy. The highlight among the ex-Doctors being Peter Davidson talking in very good humour with Mark Strickson (Turlough). Other interviewees include Wendy Padbury (Zoe), Nicholas Courtney (The Brigadier), Caroline John (Liz Shaw), Louise Jameson (Leela) and Sophie Aldred (Ace) reminiscing affectionately with McCoy at one of the locations for their Who adventure "Survival" (1989). Also offering their views are producers Philip Hinchcliffe (1974-7) and John Nathan-Turner (1980-9), director David Moloney, Shaun Sutton of BBC Drama, writers Pip and Jane Baker and various others. Included are some previously unpublished stills and colour location filming footage from "The Smugglers" (1966), "The Abdominal Snowman" (1967), "The Daemons" (1971) and "Shada" (1979). Covering the entire 26-year history of Doctor Who in 66 minutes means this is far from comprehensive, but for fans it is fascinating stuff elevated by the genuine love almost everyone involved clearly feels for the show. On the DVD: The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond has production values far removed from the exceptionally well presented official BBC Doctor Who titles. The only extra is 12 minutes of silent colour location filming footage of very variable quality, selections from which are included in the main programme. In the documentary itself the sound is perfectly acceptable mono. Unfortunately the picture appears to have been transferred from a damaged video master and there is an almost constant horizontal tearing across the centre of the screen, varying from slight but noticeable to so extreme it makes the feature all but unwatchable. The packaging incorrectly names the director as Bill Braggs and describes the programme as giving an insight into "the design of the Ice Warrior and Cybermen models" featured in the last series. It doesn't.--Gary S. Dalkin

• Midsomer Murders - Death And Dust | DVD | (06/08/2007) from £4.70   |  Saving you £12.29 (261.49%)   |  RRP £16.99

  When Dr. Alan Delaney is killed in a hit and run accident Barnaby realises the real target was Delaney's senior partner Dr. James Kirkwood. Is the killer trying to prevent James from marrying the beautiful divorcee Delyth Mostyn? And how is his death linked to 30 000 which is missing from the surgery accounts? Barnaby and Jones must travel to Snowdonia to unravel the truth

• Midsomer Murders - Judgement Day | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £5.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (183.64%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Another Midsomer murder investigation for Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby...Preparations are well under way in Midsomer Mallow for the Perfect Village Competition. However when the body of local rouge Peter Drinkwater is found with a pitchfork protruding from his chest the village people are determined to keep it quiet. After all he was hardly popular in the village. Angry parents jealous husbands victims of crimes believed to have been perpetrated by the deceased and disgrun

• And The Ship Sails On | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Italian cinematic maestro Federico Fellini (La Dolce Vita 8 1/2) shows that even in his mid-sixties he had lost none of his power to shock entertain and amaze with And The Ship Sails On his haunting and majestic `comedy of arias'. Made in 1983 the film is set on the eve of the first world war but this matters little to the peacock parade of opera celebrities who cast off on a luxury liner to scatter the ashes of the world's greatest diva near her native adriatic island.

• Give 'Em Hell Malone | DVD | (17/05/2010) from £6.95   |  Saving you £9.04 (130.07%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hard to love... harder to kill. Give 'Em Hell Malone tells the tale of a tough Private Detective named Malone (Thomas Jane). Malone is tasked with getting a mysterious briefcase. Along the way he runs into various gangsters and people of the criminal element who also want the briefcase. Bad news for them since Malone is renowned for his brutal brand of justice!

• Midsomer Murders - King's Crystal | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £5.75   |  Saving you £11.24 (195.48%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Nothing is as it seems behind the well-trimmed hedges of the picturesque cottages in the idyllic English county of Midsomer. Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life exist dark secrets scandals and downright evil. John Nettles stars as the humorous thoughtful and methodical Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. The village of Midsomer Magna is devastated by the closure of the King's Crystal glassware factory. The closure comes after the seemingly accidental death of co-owner Alan King. The factory workers are jobless and left with no financial security begin to rail against the accountant Peter Baxter and the remaining co-owner Charles King about their redundancies. When Baxter's body is found in the water meadows stabbed to death with a Masonic dagger Jones suggests suicide but the pathologist Dr. Bullard and Barnaby suspect foul play.

• Midsomer Murders 15th Anniversary Crystal Collection | DVD | (07/05/2012) from £27.95   |  Saving you £72.04 (257.75%)   |  RRP £99.99

  To celebrate 15 years of Midsomer Murders on ITV, this set features the highest rating episode of each series, including the Pilot Episode - The Killings at Badger's Drift.Featured Episodes:The Killings at Badger's DriftWritten in BloodStrangler's WoodDead Man's ElevenDestroying AngelRing Out Your DeadA Tale of Two HamletsThe Maid in SplendourSauce for the GooseVixen's RunThey Seek Him HereLeft for DeadSecrets and SpiesFit for MurderDark Secrets

• Big Girl's Blouse | DVD | (29/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Fast Forward sketch series ran for four years and featured some of the strongest comic performers ever to appear on Australian TV. Comediennes Jane Turner Gina Riley & Magda Szubanski stood out with their wonderful sketches mimicking the TV industry and other aspects of Australian life. In 1994 Jane Gina and Magda joined together to star in write and produce the landmark sketch comedy series Big Girls Blouse. It was through this series that viewers were first introduced to the characters of Kath Kim and Sharon. The rest as 'they' say is history. It's a truly brilliant series and this 2 disc set is a chance to see where the phenomenon that is Kath & Kim began.

• Flesh For The Beast | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £9.21   |  Saving you £-3.22 (-53.80%)   |  RRP £5.99

  At the turn of the century a notorious occultist named Alfred Fischer conjures up a brothel full of ravenous demons in a bizare ritual. Taking the form of beautiful women the beasts desire a steady diet of fresh prey that only a human servant can provide. Almost a century after Fischer meets his mysterious end a team of para-psychologists investigate his manor for signs of restless spirits. In no time they are besieged by sexy demons a mad man with a secret past and a horde of sl

• Real Racks | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-9.29 (-62.00%)   |  RRP £14.99