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• The West Wing - Season 2 Part 2 (Episodes 12 To 22) | DVD | (28/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The second series of The West Wing, Aaron Sorkin's relentlessly erudite drama about life behind the scenes at the White House, continues here with the emphasis on President Bartlet's multiple sclerosis, a condition that he has hitherto concealed from the American electorate and most of his staff. Tensions grow between himself and the First Lady (Stockard Channing) as she realises, in the episode "Third State of the Union" that he intends to run for a second term in office. It becomes clear to Bartlet (Martin Sheen) that he must go public with his MS, and his staff are forced to come to terms with this, as well as deal with the usual plethora of domestic and international incidents, which apparently preclude any of them from having any sort of private lives, least of all love lives. These include crises in Haiti and Columbia, an obstinate filibuster and a Surgeon General's excessively frank remarks about the drugs situation. Thankfully, the splendid Lord John Marbury (Roger Rees) is on hand to make chief of staff Leo McGarry's life more of a misery in "The Drop-In". These episodes, though occasionally marred by a sentimental soundtrack and an earnest and wishfully high regard for the Presidential office, are masterclasses in drama and dialogue, ranging from the wittily staccato to the magnificently grave, capturing authentically the hectic pace of political intrigue and the often vain efforts of decent, brilliant people to do the right thing. "Two Cathedrals", which features flashbacks to Bartlet's schooldays and his thunderous denunciation of God following a funeral, is perhaps the greatest West Wing episode of all. On the DVD: The West Wing, Series 2 Part 2 features no extras, though the transfer is immaculate. --David Stubbs

• And Mother Makes Five - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  BAFTA winner Wendy Craig stars with Richard Coleman Robin Davies and Oscar winner David Parfitt in this hit Thames sitcom – sequel to the highly popular And Mother Makes Three.

• The Santa Claus Brothers | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £2.98   |  Saving you £12.01 (403.02%)   |  RRP £14.99

  At 150 years old Mel Darryl and Roy have a lot of growing up to do. The time has come for Santa to decide who is going to take over the reigns of the big sleigh but it's clear to him that the triplets are more interested in monkey business than the family business! So with the help of Snorkel his right-hand elf Santa and his wife Ms Claus decide to teach the triplets the true meaning of Christmas. Little does Santa know that Snorkel plans to overthrow the whole family and gain

• Gideon's Way - The Complete Series | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The complete series of the 1960's police drama featuring the character Commander George Gideon based on the novels by John Creasey. This rarely seen series is presented here with all 26 episodes being complete and uncut. Episodes comprise: 1. State Visit 2. The V Men 3. The Firebug 4. The Big Fix 5. The Housekeeper 6. The Lady-Killer 7. To Catch A Tiger 8. Big Fish Little Fish 9. The White Rat 10. How To Retire Without Really Working 11. Subway To Revenge 12. The Great Pla

• The West Wing - Season 1 Part 2 | DVD | (22/07/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in The White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funny and moving of recent American TV series. In its first series, The West Wing established the cast of characters who comprise the White House staff. There's Chief of Staff Leo McGarry (John Spencer), a recovering alcoholic whose efforts to be the cornerstone of the administration contribute to the break up of his marriage. CJ (Alison Janney) is the formidable press spokeswoman embroiled in a tentative on-off relationship with Timothy Busfield's reporter. Brilliant but grumpy communications deputy Toby Ziegler, Rob Lowe's brilliant but faintly nerdy Sam Seaborn and brilliant but smart-alecky Josh Lynam make up the rest of the inner circle. Initially, the series' creators had intended to keep the President off-screen. Wisely, however, they went with Martin Sheen's Jed Bartlet, whose eccentric volatility, caution, humour and strength in a crisis make for such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. --David Stubbs

• And Mother Makes Five - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (01/10/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  BAFTA winner Wendy Craig stars with Richard Coleman, Robin Davies and Oscar winner David Parfitt in this highly popular sequel to Thames' hit sitcom And Mother Makes Three. Co-written by Wendy Craig and produced by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones, the series charts the ongoing tribulations of Sally Harrison - a well-meaning, deeply loving but scatterbrained mother of two rambunctious young sons, now sharing her life with second husband David Redway, an antiquarian bookseller, and stepdaugh...

• Blonde | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  A biopic of Marilyn Monroe.

• Julius Caesar | DVD | (11/04/2005) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Worshipped By His People - Feared By His Enemies - Betrayed By His Friends Julius Caesar is the epic story of the legendary leader who single handedly changed the course of Greco-Roman history and earned his place in history as one of the greatest politicians generals and orators to have ever lived. From his early years in Rome through his assent to power and prominence this lavish international production reveals the conspiracy and intrigue lurking behind the Emperor's mas

• Her Bridal Night | DVD | (21/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Brigitte Bardot plays Chouchou a successful model infatuated with Michel the editor of a fashion magazine but Michel seems unaware of her interest in him. The harder Chouchou tries to make herself noticed the less Michel seems to understand until she takes drastic measures by making him chase her through the woods while she wears sheer lingerie which leaves little to the imagination.

• Minutemen - We Jam Econo | DVD | (10/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A feature-length documentary looking at the story of The Minutemen the San Pedro hardcore band that helped form the alternative punk movement. Through interviews with members Mike Watt (bass) and George Hurley (drums) the band's story is revealed. Commentary from other performers such as Flea Greg Ginn and Henry Rollins illuminates the band's place in the Southern California music scene and their contribution to music. Concert footage and old interview footage show Watt Hurley and departed singer/guitarist D. Boon who died in an automobile accident in 1985.

• Saturday Morning Pictures - The Best Of The Children's Film Foundation - Vol. 2 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cup Fever Barton United's hopes of winning the Manchester junior football league receive a setback when their ground is taken over and used as a car park forcing the boys into action... Hide & Seek Keith absconds from school in the hope that his father will take him to Canada yet Keith's father seems more interested in robbing a bank...

• Undue Influence | DVD | (26/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! Things look bad for Laurel when her ex-husband's pretty new and much younger wife Melanie is murdered after the two have a fight. Her lawyer is frustrated because he knows Laurel is innocent but her lies keep her the number one suspect. Laurel has a secret which she is not prepared to reveal - that Melanie seduced Laurel's 16-year-old son and was pregnant to him. The son enraged that she would choose his father over him shot her. But will Laurel continue to take the blame for her son even to the chair?

• The Tomorrow People - A Rift In Time - The Complete Story | DVD | (28/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Rift In Time: The Complete Story - All Four Episodes. Episode 019: Vase of Mystery Episode 020: Turn of the Thumb Episode 021: From Little Acorns Episode 022: Rise of the Roman Empire

• Sexual Malice | DVD | (19/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Sex so hot, it's deadly", announces the tagline for Sexual Malice. Originally screened in 1994, this is a quintessential late-night TV movie. The well-worn plot concerns relationships inside and outside of marriage, with a twist obvious enough for the non-rocket scientists among us to have twigged well before the denouement. As for the sex scenes--there's little here that errs on the outré side of Dirty Dancing (interestingly enough, there's a secondary role for one Don Swayze), and the visuals are stylishly, almost tastefully done--Ashley Irwin's coffee-table funk adding the right musical enhancement. As the upwardly mobile accountant Christine Chandler, Diane Barton gives a creditable portrayal of a woman caught between the routine of marriage to the predictable Richard (stolidly dependable Edward Albert) and the excitement of an illicit affair with the passably seductive Quinn, played with a certain edge by Doug Jeffrey. The two subplots are wafer thin in narrative terms, but those who enjoy bump-and-grind under piers and in changing rooms will certainly stay the course. On the DVD: Sexual Malice comes to DVD in a 4:3 full frame print that's nonetheless a classy looking effort, and the stereo soundtrack is similarly pristine. There are detailed filmographies, a well-reproduced but oddly random photo gallery, and a trailer that manages to summarise a completely different scenario. As its closing voice-over proclaims, "Caught between a boring husband and a dangerous lover, a passionate woman can commit just about anything". Now you know.--Richard Whitehouse

• Vampire Clan | DVD | (18/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Based on the true story of the murder of a girls parents in Eustis Florida. Five teens in a vampire cult on the run are captured by police in New Orleans Los Angeles and tell their tale of how they got there....

• Black Fist | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £5.49   |  Saving you £-0.50 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Street fighter Leroy Fisk finds himself working for the Mafia taking part in illegal street fights in order to make a living. He plans to save up enough to buy a nightclub but he will have to deal with a crooked cop and find who ordered the murder of his wife and brother in law.

• Bob Le Flambeur / Un Flic | DVD | (04/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A double bill of Jean-Pierre Melville classics including 'Bob Le Flambeur' and the hardboiled thriller 'Un Flic'. Bob Le Flambeur (1955): Once a renowned criminal Bob the Gambler now contents himself with gambling frequenting casinos in the shady districts of Paris. He is convinced his gangster days are over - until he meets up with an old accomplice who has news which interests him. The casino at Deauville has a safe which is loaded with several hundred million francs. Short of cash Bob decides to plan one last great robbery. He recruits a number of former fellow criminals and plans the theft to the greatest detail. Unfortunately on the day of the robbery things rapidly begin to go wrong. Bob's luck appears to have taken an unexpected turn - for the better. Un Flic: Melville's last film returns to the genre in which he made the classic Le Samourai. A band of crooks carry out a bank robbery and then an incredible hold-up on a train. When he investigates the crimes Parisian detective Commissaire Coleman discovers that they were masterminded by his friend - the night club owner Simon abetted by his seductive girlfriend Cathy...

• The West Wing - Complete Seasons 1-3 (Amazon.co.uk Exclusive) | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  This box set containing the complete first three series of The West Wing is available exclusively from Amazon.co.uk. Aaron Sorkin's American political drama The West Wing, set in the White House, has won innumerable awards--and rightly so. Its depiction of a well-meaning Democrat administration has warmed the hearts of countless Americans. However, The West Wing is more than mere feel-good viewing for sentimental patriots. It is among the best-written, sharpest, funniest and moving US TV series of all time. Martin Sheen leads a strong ensemble cast: his Jed Bartlet is such an impressively plausible fictional President that polls once expressed a preference for Bartlet over the genuine incumbent. Handled incorrectly, The West Wing could have been turgid, didactic propaganda for The American Way. However, the writers are careful to show that, decent as this administration is, its achievements, though hard-won, are minimal. Moreover, the brisk, staccato-like, almost musical exchanges of dialogue, between Josh and his PA Donna, for instance, as they pace purposefully up and down the corridors are the show's abiding joy. --David Stubbs

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The Next Mutation - Volume 1 | DVD | (02/08/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Episodes comprise: East Meets West 1 / East Meets West 2 / East Meets West 3 / East Meets West 4 / East Meets West 5 / Staff Of Bu-Ki / Silver And Gold / Meet Dr Quese

• And Mother Makes Three: Series 4 | DVD | (19/07/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  ...And Mother Makes Three was an early hit for BAFTA-winning comedienne Wendy Craig (Butterflies Not in Front of the Children) showcasing her talents as a harassed slightly dotty young widow doing her best to bring up two rather challenging sons. This complete fourth series originally screened in 1973 finds Sally wondering if love really is better the second time around...