"Actor: Tony Robinson"

• Time Team Series 18 | DVD | (06/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Presented by Tony Robinson, this is Series 18 of Channel Four's popular archaeology show and includes the 200th episode.This time Tony and the experts take us to the following digs:1. Reservoir Rituals - Tottiford2. Saxon Death, Saxon Gold - Foxton3. Romans on the Range - High Ham4. Hitler's Island Fortress - Les Gellettes5. The Furnace in the Forest - Derwentcote6. Under the Gravestones - Castor7. The House of the White Queen - Groby8. Castles and Cannons - Mont Orguiel9. The Mystery of the Manor Moat - Llancaiach Fawr10. Search for the Domesday Mill - Buck MillThis three disc set contains all ten episodes of Series 18.

• Tony Robinson's Crime And Punishment | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £12.13   |  Saving you £3.86 (31.82%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Tony Robinson goes on a fascinating and sometimes bizarre journey to discover the origins of our laws and what we do to people when they break them. From trials by boiling water through the decapitation of a king to the emergence of our modern democracy it is a journey that starts two thousand years ago and remains unfinished today. We find out how the Normans created the first surveillance society how today's compensation culture was started by the Anglo Saxons and how a man whose body was kept in a London cupboard inspired us to stop stringing up people and start locking them up instead.

• Blitz Street | DVD | (31/05/2010) from £13.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (15.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In the 1940s Germany unleashed a ferocious bombing campaign on Britain designed to crush British morale. To mark the 70th anniversary of this key event in our island's history Tony Robinson presents a four-part science and history series which gives a flavour of what it must have been like to live under constant bombardment and examines why the Blitz failed. With the help of the Ministry of Defence a row of terraced houses Blitz Street has been built on a remote military base and subjected to a range of large-scale bombs and explosives similar to those used by the German air force the Luftwaffe. This series reveals the impact of real explosives on bricks and mortar and allows government scientists to study the power and mechanics of Second World War bombs for the first time with precise measurements of the blast waves and dangerous after-effects of flying shrapnel. High-speed cameras operating at 1 000 frames per second reveal the detail of each blast to explain how it could be that people had their clothes ripped from them or could end up lifted onto the roofs of their homes. Calling on eye-witness accounts from the Blitz the programme details the immense psychological damage caused to individuals caught up in the bombing raids and explores how in response to the Luftwaffe's assault Churchill rapidly reorganised and improved defences.

• Candyman III: Day of the Dead | Blu Ray | (26/09/2022) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  The Candyman is back, and he's hooked on revenge! As the Day of the Dead celebration approaches the barrio of East Los Angeles, the tortured ghost is intent upon bringing his family together in a bloody reunion beyond the grave. Challenged to confront the horrifying legend of her ancestor, Caroline must come face to face with the monster who has destroyed her past - and now wants to steal her future - in this third installment of the electrifying Candyman series.Product FeaturesAudio Commentary with Director/Co-Writer Turi Meyer and Producer/Co-Writer Al SeptienIsolated Score Selections featuring an Audio Interview with Composer Adam GorgoniOn The Hook - An Interview with Actor Tony ToddA Bloody Legacy - An Interview with Special Prosthetic Effects Designer Gary J. TunnicliffeDecay & Design - Interviews with Director of Photography Michael Wojciechowski and Production Designer Marc Greville-MorrisEnglish & German TrailersHome Video PromoHome Video TrailerStills Gallery

• Blackadder: Back and Forth | DVD | (15/10/2001) from £5.19   |  Saving you £4.80 (92.49%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It seemed a good idea at the time: to celebrate the end of the millennium by resurrecting Edmund Blackadder for a one-off special Blackadder: Back and Fourth. Unfortunately, those responsible for Back and Forth got the cart before the horse. The Blackadder television series worked by recasting the same characters in different times, thereby reinforcing the dynamic between Blackadder and the buffoons who ran his life (World War One generals, various idiot royalty) and the troglodytes whose lives he ran (Baldrick). Given that most of us feel most of the time like the people we work for are useless and the people that work for us are even more useless, Blackadder's concept had a huge appeal. A special feature looking at Blackadders through the ages might, therefore, have been a worthwhile enterprise. In Back and Forth, however, the character--a modern-day descendant of the Blackadder line--is merely briefly imposed on a variety of historical circumstances; he is no longer the victim of circumstances but the creator of them, and far less appealing for it. The script is lame and formulaic, and the conclusion unbelievably lazy. Okay, so it's a comedy, but if he really had returned to an England which had been conquered by France at the battle of Waterloo, shouldn't everyone there have been speaking French? On the DVD: There are three sound options Dolby 2.0 and 5.1, and DTS 5.1. The main feature has an easily negotiable scene selector, and there are two extra features; including a behind-the-scenes footage of the making of Back and Forth featuring interviews with co-writer Richard Curtis and the biggest gem on the whole DVD, a lost episode set in the time of Cromwell, far funnier than the dismal Back and Forth, especially for Stephen Fry's delightful blurring of the doomed Charles I and the future Charles III. --Andrew Mueller

• Time Team: Series 16 | DVD | (02/12/2013) from £13.11   |  Saving you £11.88 (90.62%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Tony Robinson and his legendary troop of archaeologists start on a real high in the 16th series of Time Time. Over the years finding even one Roman temple has eluded them. They're rare and they're often small lost in the shadows of other larger Roman structures could a bizarre shaped stone dug up on the third day at a site in Hertfordshire be the key to the whole site? The Team also have a very unusual wedding present waiting for them in County Durham and discover some shocking remains in a potting shed in Suffolk! Episodes Comprise: The Trouble with Temples - Friars Wash Hertfordshire The Wedding Present - Scargill County Durham Heroes' Hill - Knockdhu County Antrim Toga Town - Caerwent South Wales Blood Sweat and Beers - Risehill North Yorkshire Buried Bishops and Belfries - Salisbury Cathedral Anarchy in the UK - Radcot Oxfordshire Mystery of the Ice Cream Villa - Colworth Bedfordshire Hermit Harbour - Looe Cornwall Called to the Bar - Lincoln's Inn London Beacon of the Fens - Warboys The Fens The Hollow Way - Ulnaby County Durham Skeletons in the Shed - Blythburgh Suffolk

• Tony Robinson's Coast to Coast Series 1 | DVD | (05/06/2017) from £9.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Tony Robinson embarks on an epic coast to coast journey in the 6-part series. In 1973 the famous cartographer Alfred Wainwright published his book, A Coast to Coast Walk a pocket sized pictorial guide that traced a route from the West Coast of England to the East through the stunning scenery of three National parks the Lake District, the Yorkshire Dales and the North Yorkshire Moors. It is regarded as one of the best walks in the world. Now, with Wainwright's book as his guide Tony Robinson is walking the 192 miles of this iconic walk a route that winds its way from the ancient community of St Bees Head on the west coast across jaw-dropping countryside and picturesque villages, to the stunning seaside town of Robin Hood's Bay on the east. Each episode will cover approximately 30 miles of brilliant British countryside. Along the way Tony will take in the astonishing scenery and absorb all the history, heritage and hospitality of the region.

• Blackadder the Third (Remastered) | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £5.58   |  Saving you £10.41 (186.56%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Rowan Atkinson's irredeemably wicked Edmund Blackadder has moved forward in time from the court of Queen Elizabeth but a little down the social ladder. He's now butler to Hugh Laurie's congenitally stupid Prince Regent on the cusp of the 18th and 19th centuries, and if that wasn't bad enough he's still accompanied by Tony Robinson's dim-witted Baldrick, whose cunning plans never fail to make an impossible situation worse. Blackadder's desperate scheming and utter contempt for all he surveys hasn't changed, nor have the baroque complexities of the situations in which he becomes embroiled: from an anachronistic war of words with Dr Johnson (Robbie Coltrane relishing every syllable) to taking on the Scarlet Pimpernel at his own game, to fighting a duel with a psychopathic Duke of Wellington, Edmund's luck never seems to change. Richard Curtis and Ben Elton's sharp scripts have more fun with the period setting than ever before, as contemporary literary archetypes from Samuel Johnson to Jane Austen are ripe for lampooning. Howard Goodall's theme tune is updated to a glorious classical pastiche, while the extravagant costumes of the times hardly need altering to achieve the desired effect. The comedy is so good it seemed this could never be bettered, until Blackadder Goes Forth that is. --Mark Walker

• Never Smile at a Crocodile | DVD | (01/11/2012) from £4.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (40.08%)   |  RRP £6.99

  20 fun songs to sing and dance to. Join Tony, Emma and the boys and girls as they sing and dance to some of your favourite songs. Children will love the brilliant songs and will enjoy joining in with some of the dances!

• Blackadder the Fourth (Remastered) | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The final Blackadder series, which first appeared in 1990, was the most highly evolved of all of the Richard Curtis/Ben Elton-scripted excursions. Having contrived to attain the Crown at the end of the third series, Rowan Atkinson's Edmund Blackadder is now reduced to a mere Captaincy in the trenches during World War I, with these episodes finding him shooting messenger pigeons, grumbling about Charlie Chaplin and unscrupulously evading his patriotic duty to pile over the top and be slaughtered pointlessly. Hugh Laurie plays the upper class silly arse to the hilt while Baldrick, who has grown progressively more stupid throughout the four series, can barely muster the intelligence to move from the spot. Blackadder Goes Forth stoutly refused to the end to abandon its relish for broad, puerile scatological puns: "Captain Darling will pump you thoroughly in the debriefing room," growls Stephen Fry's General Melchett. However, Blackadder's cynicism is laced with genuine despair at the recent madness of World War I. The closing moments of the final episode, as Blackadder and co. finally receive their orders, are handled with sober poignancy and became a frequent fixture in Remembrance Day TV scheduling. --David Stubbs

• The Real Da Vinci Code | DVD | (15/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The recent phenomenal success of Dan Brown's Book The Da Vinci Code has once again brought The Holy Grail and it's myriad of hunters into the spotlight. It may be a novel but Brown has claimed that his book is based on research and that all the art architecture and secret societies he describes are real. It's a controversial claim because if based in truth The Da Vinci Code threatens to turn our view of history on its head. Millions of readers have been hooked but do its maj

• The Very Best Time Team Digs | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Channel 4's Time Team is the most popular and longest running history programme on television having completed over 150 digs at different locations both abroad and throughout the British Isles. This exclusive 3 disc box set features the very best of those digs as chosen by the team themselves. These include; the discovery of the huge Roman villa at Turkdean the Anglo-Saxon treasures uncovered at Braemore Time Team's adventures in the Caribbean an investigation into a crashed spitfire from World War 2 and the dig that no one will ever forget - the mysterious site at Llygadwy in Wales where the archaeology seemed just too good to be true. The Very Best Time Digs are introduced and reviewed by Tony and the Time Team.

• At Last Smith And Jones Vol.1 | DVD | (12/10/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  At Last Smith And Jones: Vol.1 (2 Discs)

• Big Top | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A colourful upbeat comedy set in and around a travelling circus Big Top stars Amanda Holden John Thomson Sophie Thompson Ruth Madoc Bruce Mackinnon and Tony Robinson What do you do when you've advertised a death-defying stunt that everyone has bought tickets to see and the performer is just a little bit too injured? How do you manage a group of people who are so jealous of each other that they are happy to sabotage their colleagues' performances? How do you hold onto your star acrobat when he is being chased by immigration officials? Fraught with problems and dealing with a cacophony of egos Ring Mistress Lizzie (Amanda Holden) must somehow keep the whole thing going.

• Blackadder: Complete Series 1 | DVD | (01/11/1999) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The classic first series of BlackAdder was slightly different to its successors--Ben Elton was not yet part of the writing team, and Shakespearean parody featured prominently. Rowan Atkinson was at his best as a would-be Machiavellian medieval intriguer while Brian Blessed plays his gloriously over the top blustering militarist father.The episodes collected here are: "The Foretelling", in which Richard III, played by Peter Cook in a brilliant parody of Olivier, wins Bosworth only to get in an unseemly argument about a horse; "Born to be King" in which Edmund, lumbered with providing bearded ladies, morris dancers and eunuchs for a festival, discovers some indiscreet love letters; "The Archbishop" in which after his father has the Archbishop of Canterbury killed, Edmund starts his intrigues again; "The Queen of Spain's Beard" in which Blackadder's father's international schemes call for Edmund to make a dynastic marriage to Miriam Margolyes as the Infanta of Spain, and Jim Broadbent plays a peculiarly irritating interpreter; "Witchsmeller Pursuivant" in which Edmund falls foul of the demonic witchsmeller, played with more gusto than is quite credible by Frank Finlay; and "The Black Seal", wherein Edmund assembles a group of villains as his personal retinue (Rik Mayall plays a mad prisoner).On the DVD: No extras here at all, aside from subtitles in English, SDH, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Italian, and chapter points within each episode. --Roz Kaveney

• Walking Through History - Series 2 | DVD | (08/09/2014) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tony Robinson presents this television series in which he journeys by foot across historical landscapes around Britain. He visits places including the Cornish coast, the Lake District and Stonehenge and along the way makes discoveries about each location's past.

• Blackadder's Christmas Carol | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £5.93   |  Saving you £0.06 (1.01%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Among the many films and TV shows which add a new twist to Charles Dickens' classic tale, Blackadder's Christmas Carol is the most ingenious. Made between Blackadder the Third (1987) and Blackadder Goes Forth (1989), the inspired concept is to recast the self-serving Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) in Dickens' Scrooge role, but rather than a misanthropic miser make him the most kind-hearted man in England. Tony Robinson's Baldrick is as moronic as ever, while Robbie Coltrane plays the Spirit of Christmas like a forerunner to his Hagrid in the Harry Potter movies, showing Edmund visions of past and future to not quite the desired effect. Hugh Laurie returns as the Prince Regent from Blackadder the Third and the entire court from Blackadder II (1986) is reassembled for japes involving a merry seasonal death warrant. Miranda Richardson is outrageously capricious as Elizabeth I, then takes the character a stage further in a decadent space opera future which also sees Patsy (Nursie) Byrne as an android. Though not quite as laugh-out-loud funny as the regular Blackadder series this is an excellent Yuletide special. On the DVD: Blackadder's Christmas Carol offers nothing extra on DVD other than the inclusion of optional subtitles. The sound is mono but crystal clear and the 4:3 image is good considering the source material is a TV studio production shot on video. --Gary S Dalkin

• Mrs Caldicot's Cabbage War | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  After the death of her bullying husband the not-so aged and downtrodden housewife Thelma Caldicot (Pauline Collins) is shipped off to the Twilight Years Rest Home by her money-grabbing son and manipulative daughter in-law. Appalled by the conditions Mrs Caldicot decides to taker matters into her own hands...

• Tony Robinsons Crime And Punishment | DVD | (17/10/2011) from £25.63   |  Saving you £-5.64 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Tony Robinson goes on a fascinating and sometimes bizarre journey to discover the origins of our laws and what we do to people when they break from them. From trials by boiling water, through the decapitation of a king, to the emergence of a modern democracy, it is a journey that starts two thousand years ago and remains unfinished today. We find out how the Normans created the first surveillance society, how today’s compensation culture was started by Anglo Saxons and how a man whose body was kept in a London cupboard inspired us to stop stringing people up and start locking them up instead. Throughout his historical journey, Tony plays the part of the accused, judge, jury and executioner and discovers the often strange circumstances from which the main tenants of modern English law emerged.

• Blackadder II (Remastered) | DVD | (25/07/2011) from £6.02   |  Saving you £9.97 (165.61%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Although now regarded as the opening salvo of a classic series, the original Blackadder series was not considered a great success, either among critics or many viewers, so a major rethink took place when it was recommissioned. On the writing front, future-Four Weddings And A Funeral scribe Richard Curtis was joined by Ben Elton, while the expensive War of the Roses-era sets were replaced by cosier Elizabethan ones. The most important change, however, was with Rowan Atkinson's eponymous character who, in the first series, had been a fairly weak-willed idiot but now emerged as the familiar Machiavellian fiend which would cement Atkinson's place in the pantheon of great British sitcom actors. Moreover, even if so many of the script's lines have been subsequently ripped off by lesser hands that it can't help but occasionally sound dated, the central performances of Atkinson, Tony Robinson (Baldrick), Tim McInnery (Lord Percy), Stephen Fry (Lord Melchett) and, of course, Miranda Richardson as the childishly psychotic Queen Elizabeth ("I love it when you get cross. Sometimes I think about having you executed just to see the expression on your face") remain note perfect. Yet the real pleasure for viewers may be in rediscovering the raft of excellent guest star performances--not least Tom "Doctor Who" Baker's berserk turn as a literally legless old sea dog given to guzzling his own urine long before the drinking water has run out. --Clark Collis