"Actor: Todd Bridges"

• Tupac - Resurrection | DVD | (13/09/2004) from £8.98   |  Saving you £7.01 (78.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The first authorised documentary about the life of rap artist Tupac Shakur.

• High School USA | DVD | (13/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Welcome to High School USA where students get an outrageous education- both in and out of the classroom! This is the story of a confrontation between Beau Middleton and Jay Jay Manners who have declared war on each other with a series of pranks and dirty tricks.

• Roots - Original Series - 25th Anniversary Edition | DVD | (23/12/2002) from £13.66   |  Saving you £7.33 (53.66%)   |  RRP £20.99

  Based on Alex Haley's bestseller, the 1977 TV mini-series Roots told the harrowing story of one man's ancestors, commencing with African warrior Kunta Kinte, captured, transported to America, stripped of his dignity, his rights, and even his name. He tries but fails to escape before accepting he can never return to Africa. He marries and bears a daughter, Kizzy, who is callously sold, then raped by her new "master". However, her son, Chicken George, a resourceful dab hand with gamecocks, lives long enough to see his own children attain a liberty of sorts following the Civil War. Roots is told in the same, accessible televisual language as The Waltons or Bonanza, yet it is never bland or evasive. It leaves no doubt as to the torment and abuse suffered by blacks, and although the series' conclusion is fictionally satisfying, for many of the black characters their only hope lies in generations yet unborn. It is sturdy enough drama but its greatest, most revolutionary effects were social. It persuaded American audiences to regard their history from a black perspective, and to see how--against odds far more desperate than those the pilgrims faced--Africans laid claim to their status as free African-Americans. Roots was massively popular, triggering a craze for genealogy and paving the way for series like 1979's Holocaust, which similarly raised the public's awareness of the slaughter of the Jews under Hitler. Most importantly, Roots changed forever the way black people were depicted on American TV. On the DVD: Roots is presented in 1:33:1 format and is visually extremely well-preserved. Extra features include a "Roots Family Tree", a copious, informative audio commentary featuring members of cast and crew, and a documentary, "Remembering Roots". Although this consists only of interviews, these convey the extraordinary emotional grip this project had on those who took part in it.--David Stubbs

• Diff'rent Strokes - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £34.99   |  Saving you £-10.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Whatchoo talkin' 'bout Willis? When pint-sized Gary Coleman uttered that phrase to his TV brother played by Todd Bridges audiences were hooked and a star was born. But the show's popularity was based on more than the rise of the diminutive wisecracking Coleman. Diff'rent Strokes was a pop culture phenomenon that broke through cultural barriers as well. The story of two African-American kids from Harlem who move to Park Avenue to live with a wealthy white widower (Conrad Bain) and his precocious teenage daughter (Dana Plato) not only gave audiences lots to laugh about but gave them something to talk about. Along with their no-nonsense housekeeper (Charlotte Rae) this group was anything but average - but they reflected the changing face of the American family and brought issues of race and class into households across the nation.

• The Darkling | DVD | (27/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  A man is offered anything he wants for the sum total of his soul. But the price is too much when his daughter's life is at stake.

• Dawn of the Living Dead | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Renee Summers has just been released from a mental institution when her fiancee and psychiatrist Jeffrey Morgan buys her a secluded cabin to rest before she faces her friends and family. Renee soon befriends her only neighbour Michael Richards who is not all that he seems to be. She also uncovers a deadly secret! The former tenants of the cabin a mayan family were butchered to death and dumped in an unmarked grave.

• Flat Out | DVD | (11/11/2002) from £3.75   |  Saving you £6.24 (62.50%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A tragic accident paralyses professional motorcycle road racer Shaun Powell from the chest down thus ending his promising racing career. Yet when he is inspired by the child safety wheels of a kids toy motorcycle he realises that he may well ride again. When both his wife and his mechanic refuse to get involved in this 'madness' he turns to his (rather strange) neighbour for help. After he has completed this invention Shaun is determined to compete at the highest level....

• Dawn Of The Living Dead | DVD | (30/05/2005) from £6.77   |  Saving you £9.22 (57.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Renee Summers has just been released from a mental institution when her fiancee and psychiatrist Jeffrey Morgan buys her a secluded cabin to rest before she faces her friends and family. Renee soon befriends her only neighbour Michael Richards who is not all that he seems to be. She also uncovers a deadly secret! The former tenants of the cabin a mayan family were butchered to death and dumped in an unmarked grave.