"Actor: Pam Ferris"

• Rosemary and Thyme Complete Series | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £64.99

  Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris star as two gardening enthusiasts Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme who put their green fingers to good use solving crime. After meeting by chance the women discover that they share a passion for gardening. Rosemary has a vast knowledge of plants and is a tutor at a university of horticulture - until she is fired. Laura is an ex-policewoman and at a crossroads in her life since her marriage has ended and she has to leave her home and beloved garden. Together the women set up as roving gardeners and find more than weeds growing among the plants. This special boxed set contains all three series and takes us travelling from the gardens of England to the Italian Riviera the South of France and southern Spain.

• The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £7.39   |  Saving you £8.60 (116.37%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""I wished to tell the truth for truth always conveys its own morality."" This is the fantastic BBC adaptation of Anne Bronte's novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall When Helen Graham becomes the new tenant of the dark decaying Wildfell Halt her independent spirit and radical views set her apart from the staid rural community around her. Gilbert Markham a young farmer finds himself powerfully drawn to her and a series of dramatic events brings them closer toge

• Classic Girls Collection - Pollyanna/Railway Children/Ballet Shoes | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £13.98   |  Saving you £13.00 (108.42%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Titles Comprise: 1. Pollyanna 2. Railway Children 3. Ballet Shoes

• Nativity 2 | Blu Ray | (18/11/2013) from £6.86   |  Saving you £1.44 (20.99%)   |  RRP £8.30

  This Christmas, the pupils of St. Bernadette's are heading to Wales to compete in the National choir contest; 'A song for Christmas'. Under the stars on one magical night the sparkle and shine of Christmas once again comes to life in Nativity 2.

• Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit | DVD | (24/03/2003) from £24.82   |  Saving you £-4.83 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jeanette Winterson's semi-autobiographical novel Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit transfers wonderfully to the screen in this BBC adaptation (with a screenplay by Winterson). Jess is the adopted daughter of evangelical Christians living in the northwest of England in the 1960s. Her mother wants Jess to be a missionary, but when she falls in love with Melanie, Jess begins to realise that there is more to life than church. When Jess' mother begins to suspect the girls of "unnatural passions" she tries to destroy their relationship with the help of Pastor Finch (Kenneth Cranham) and his congregation. But their efforts--including a terrifying attempt at exorcism--only push Jess further away. Jess eventually understands that the only way to survive is to escape, and she sets her sights on a place at Oxford. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is both a broad comedy and a moving coming-of-age story. Charlotte Coleman is perfect as the teenage Jess, attempting to reconcile her religious devotion and her adolescent passion, but the film belongs to Geraldine McEwan as Jess' mother. McEwan obviously relishes Winterson's script, and she creates a character both monstrous, ridiculous and surprisingly sympathetic. It's a difficult role to carry off, but McEwan succeeds. Her performance is the high-point of this award-winning, provocative film. --Simon Leake, Amazon.com

• The Rector's Wife | DVD | (05/07/2010) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the bestselling novel by Joanna Trollope this is the four-part adaptation by Hugh Whitemore (A Dance to the Music of Time). Anna Bouverie (Lindsay Duncan) chafes at her limited life as a vicar's wife in a small English town. When her husband Peter (Jonathan Coy) is passed over for a promotion and her daughter is bullied at school Anna gets a job at a supermarket in another town - a small act of independence that sets off gossip domestic fights and worse. When Anna meets another man who seems to understand her frustrations she is soon tempted into an affair. Also featuring Prunella Scales and Pam Ferriss this is a rich and dramatic portrait of a woman trapped by the way the world sees her and her struggle to find some kind of freedom.

• Rosemary And Thyme | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £14.23   |  Saving you £10.76 (43.10%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme meet when Rosemary leaves her position as a lecturer in horticulture and Laura who is recently divorced is looking for a challenge in life. Both women are keen gardeners although they are from different ends of the horticultural spectrum. Laura adheres to gardening folklore while Rosemary likes to take a more scientific approach. Rosemary is used to being in charge although Laura is determined to have her say and do what she wants. However their garde

• Matilda / a Simple Wish | DVD | (18/07/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Matilda: Unfortunately for Matilda her father Harry (Danny DeVito) is a used car salesman who bamboozles innocent customers and her mother Zinnia (Rhea Perlman) lives for bingo and soap operas. Far from noticing what a special child Matilda is they barely notice her at all! They bundle Matilda off to Cruncham Hall a bleak school where students cower before the whip hand and fist of a hulking monster headmistress Miss Trunchball (Pam Ferris). But amid Crunchem's darkness Matilda discovers remarkable skills - including a very special talent that allows her to turn the table on the wicked grown ups in her world! A Simple Wish: The sweet-natured story of Murray a bumbling fairy godfather who has good intentions but not much else. Technically Murray is a fairy godmother--the only male member of the North American Fairy Godmother Association. After barely passing his godmother's exam he is sent to New York City to watch after Anabel a young girl who wishes that her father Oliver will land a part in a Broadway musical so that the family won't have to move to Nebraska. But when the district's previous godmother a nefarious spellcaster named Claudia arrives with her wacky sidekick Boots her plans to cripple Murray and Anabel's magical association and monopolize the wish market wreak havoc on the already unstable Murray. It's up to Murray and Anabel to pool their resources and get rid of Claudia and Boots once and for all.

• Dramarama - Volume 1 | DVD | (13/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A staple part of children's programming throughout the eighties, Dramarama provided an early showcase for some of Britain's most accomplished screenwriters, directors and performers. This unique anthology series presented a distinctive and eclectic mix of drama from whimsical comedy to surrealistic fantasy, from super-natural fable to hard-hitting contemporary realism. This first volume presents ten memorable screenplays from Thames Television, including the hugely popular Dodger, Bonzo and the Rest developed into a series the following year and the fantasy yarn Mr. Stabs, starring David Jason as the famously malevolent magician first seen in Ace of Wands. Featuring performances from such notables as Gary Oldman, Peter Capaldi, Patrick Malahide, and Susan Jameson this volume includes key examples of one of the best television shows of the 1980s.

• Gladiatress | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An exciting British comedy featuring the three leads from 'Smack The Pony': Fiona Allen Doon Mackichan and Sally Phillips. The year is 55 B.C. The Romans are cutting a bloody swathe through the European continent. Any nation daring to defy them is swiftly and brutally crushed into servitude. Mighty Gaul has just fallen and Rome has set its sights upon a small cold and rather damp island across the narrow waters of the Channel. Now with the Romans invading it is up to three sist

• Meantime | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meantime, made in 1983, was only Mike Leigh's second film to reach the big screen, though by now he was far from a novice director. Yet 10 years after his first movie, Bleak Moments (1971), he couldn't get funding for a single cinematic feature and was obliged to make films for television. Meantime, first shown on Channel 4, was given a limited theatrical release, heralding his eventual return to the cinema. The title is a double-edged pun. It suggests the waiting-around no-time-in-particular that the characters inhabit, but it's also Leigh's barbed comment on the mean-spirited politics of the Thatcher era, when millions of people were tossed on the scrapheap of unemployment. Leigh has sometimes been accused of caricaturing and being condescending to his characters, but Meantime is notable for wry compassion in its portrayal of a bunch of no-hopers stuck in their East End limbo. Not a lot happens. Mark (Phil Daniels) and his retarded brother Colin (Tim Roth) hang about the streets and pubs, banter with their skinhead mate Coxy (Gary Oldman), half-heartedly chat up local girls, bicker with their parents. Their aunt Barbara--who bettered herself and moved to the relative poshness of Chigwell--offers Colin a job helping her decorate, but he backs out of it. Nobody's going anywhere much. But the view's not totally forlorn. Leigh leaves us with a brief, unexpected moment of warmth and solidarity between the two brothers. On the DVD: It's paltry stuff. A so-called "trailer" proves to be a plug for other DVD releases in the same series. Otherwise it's just a scene menu, and English subtitles for the hard of hearing. The early 80s TV-quality images are badly shown up by the DVD's visual acuity. --Philip Kemp

• Children of Men - Steelbook - Universal 100th Anniversary Edition | Blu Ray | (18/02/2013) from £13.48   |  Saving you £6.51 (32.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  No children. No future. No hope. In the year 2027, eighteen years since the last baby was born, disillusioned Theo (Clive Owen) becomes an unlikely champion of the human race when he is asked by his former lover (Julianne Moore) to escort a young pregnant woman out of the country as quickly as possible. In a thrilling race against time, Theo will risk everything to deliver the miracle the whole world has been waiting for. Co-starring Michael Caine, filmmaker Alfonso Cuaron's highly acclaimed Children of Men received three Academy Award nominations, including Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography. Based on the novel by P.D. James.

• Agatha Christie's Garden - Murder And Mystery In Devon | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £24.24   |  Saving you £-7.25 (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  Pam Ferris presents this hour long special to be broadcast on ITV1 about Agatha Christie's Greenway Garden. We discover the history of Greenway which provides a rare insight into the life of Agtha Christie including an exclusive interview with Christie's only grandson Matthew and also interviews with Janet Morgan - Agatha's biographer - and the Agatha Christie expert and crime writer Baroness PD James. Also featured is stunning footage of Greenway House Christie's magical place

• Matilda / Madeline | DVD | (27/10/2003) from £13.48   |  Saving you £4.51 (25.10%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Matilda: Unfortunately for Matilda her father Harry (Danny DeVito) is a used car salesman who bamboozles innocent customers and her mother Zinnia (Rhea Perlman) lives for bingo and soap operas. Far from noticing what a special child Matilda is they barely notice her at all! They bundle Matilda off to Cruncham Hall a bleak school where students cower before the whip hand and fist of a hulking monster headmistress Miss Trunchball (Pam Ferris). But amid Crunchem's darkness Ma

• Death To Smoochy | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Rainbow Randolph Smiley (Robin Williams) has it all - he's the clown star of the highest rating children's show on Kidnet and lives the celebrity champagne lifestyle. But there's something else Randolph has - a healthy taste for whisky and a weakness for taking bribes from parents who want their kids on the programme. His scheme works perfectly... until the Feds find out and Randolph is unceremoniously sacked! He is replaced Randolph by Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) whose stage persona is that of a big purple rhino named Smoochy! Sheldon believes he can do good with his show but it's not long before he gets an unsavoury behind-the-scenes look at the world of kids TV. Smoochy has even more to worry about as the now destitute Randolph will not sleep until Smoochy is dead!

• Rosemary And Thyme - Series 2 | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Laura Tyme is a former policewoman whose husband has abandoned her for a younger woman; Rosemary Boxer is a plant biology lecturer whose academic career is cut short. A sudden death brings them together and they discover their shared love of gardening and a natural inquisitiveness. Together they search for work as gardeners. However mysteries have a habit of following them around! Featuring all the episodes from series 2! Episodes comprise: 1. Memory of Water 2. Orpheus In

• Rosemary And Thyme - Series 3 | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Catch the two epsiodes 'Racquet Espanol' and 'Enter Two Gardeners' on this DVD box set before they are shown on TV! Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris star as the keen gardeners who turn their green fingers to crime detection in the third series of this hugely popular drama series. Laura Thyme is a former policewoman whose husband has abandoned her for a younger woman; Rosemary Boxer is a plant biology lecturer whose academic career is cut short. A sudden death brings them togeth

• The Tale of Pigling Bland and Other Stories | DVD | (18/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Beatrix Potter's enchanting adventures have delighted children of all ages for one hundred years. The escapades of Peter Rabbit and Mrs. Tittlemouse and other favourite characters come to life on screen in these stunning animated films... Volume 2 Includes: 'Tale of Pigling Bland' 'Tale of Samuel Whiskers' and 'The Tailor of Gloucester'.

• Meantime | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Meantime centres on a East End family the Pollacks - Mavis Frank and their sons Mark and Colin - and their experience of unemployment poverty and life in early 1980s Britain. When Colin comes under the influence of skinhead Coxy and when Mavis's better off sister Barbara offers Colin work family tensions erupt into conflict. Mike Leigh's first independent film for five years has a superb cast of rising stars including Gary Oldman Alfred Molina Tim Roth and Phil Daniels. First shown on television it is a memorable and closely observed account of life in Thatcher's Britain.

• Agatha Christie | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £33.99

  Agatha Christie's Garden: Murder And Mystery In Devon: Pam Ferris presents this hour long special to be broadcast on ITV1 about Agatha Christie's Greenway Garden. We discover the history of Greenway which provides a rare insight into the life of Agtha Christie including an exclusive interview with Christie's only grandson Matthew and also interviews with Janet Morgan - Agatha's biographer - and the Agatha Christie expert and crime writer Baroness PD James. Also featured is