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• Are You Being Served? Series 1-5 Box Set | DVD | (17/07/2006) from £44.90   |  Saving you £15.09 (33.61%)   |  RRP £59.99

  ""I'm free!"" With these words just one unforgettable character among many in this classic TV sitcom was born. From the comedy pens of Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft (Dad's Army) came the DepartMental comedy madness that is Are You Being Served?. There's hilarity at Grace Brothers the High Street department store with a difference. Join in the fun as limp-wristed Mr Humphries and that blue-rinsed batle axe Mrs Slocombe lead the outrageous department store staff through the first five series of outrageously funny episodes! Series 1: 1. Are You Being Served? (Pilot Episode) 2. Dear Sexy Knickers 3. Our Figures Are Slipping 4. Camping In 5. His And Hers 6. Diamonds Are A Man's Best Friend Series 2: 1. The Clock 2. Cold Comfort 3. The Think Tank 4. Big Brother 5. Hoorah For The Holidays Series 3: 1. The Hand Of Fate 2. Coffee Morning 3. Up Captain Peacock 4. Cold Store 5. Wedding Bells 6. German Week 7. Shoulder To Shoulder 8. New Look 9. Christmas Crackers Series 4: 1. No Sale 2. Top Hat and Tails 3. Forward Mr. Grainger 4. Fire Practice 5. Fifty Years On 6. Oh What a Tangled Web 7. The Father Christmas Affair (1976 Christmas Special episode) Series 5: 1. Mrs. Slocombe Expects 2. A Change Is as Good as a Rest 3. Founder's Day 4. The Old Order Changes 5. Take-Over 6. Goodbye Mr. Grainger 7. It Pays to Advertise

• The Agatha Christie Collection | DVD | (25/09/2006) from £69.89   |  Saving you £-29.90 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Murder On The Orient Express: The first of several lavish Christie adaptations from producers John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin introducing Albert Finney as the first screen Hercule Poirot. This 1974 production of Agatha Christie's 1934 classic is a judicious mixture of mystery murder and nostalgia. Which member of the all-star cast onboard the luxurious train perforated the no-good American tycoon with a dagger twelve times? Was it Ingrid Bergman's shy Swedish missionary; or Vanessa Redgrave's English rose; Sean Connery as an Indian Army Colonel: Michael York or Jacqueline Bisset; perhaps Lauren Bacall; Anthony Perkins or John Gielgud as the victim's impassive butler. Finney spreads unease among them with subdued wit and finesse. Arguably the most successful screen adaptation of a Christie novel in addition to Bergman's Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 'Murder On The Orient Express' achieved nominations for Best Actor Screenplay Photography Costume Design and Music Score. (Dir. Sidney Lumet 1974) Death On The Nile: Peter Ustinov makes his debut as Agatha Christie's brilliant Belgian detective Hercule Poirot in this lavish and star-studded follow-up to Murder On The Orient Express:. As Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board and every elegant passenger becomes a prime suspect. Can Poirot identify the killer and motive before the ship of clues reaches the end of its murderous journey? Bette Davis David Niven Angela Lansbury Maggie Smith Mia Farrow George Kennedy Olivia Hussey Simon MacCorkindale Jane Birkin Jack Warden and Lois Chiles co-star in this sumptuous Oscar-winning classic adapted by Anthony Shaffer (Sleuth) and filmed on location throughout exotic Egypt. (Dir. John Guillermin 1978) The Mirror Crack'd: Mirror mirror on the wall who is the murderer among them all? The year is 1953. The small English village of St. Mary Mead home to Miss Jane Marple is delighted when a big American movie company arrives to make a movie telling of the relationship between Jane Grey and Elisabeth I starring the famous actresses Marina Rudd and Lola Brewster. Marina arrives with her husband Jason and when she discovers that Lola is going to be in the movie with her she hits the roof as Lola and Marina loathe each other on sight. Marina has been getting death threats and at a party at the manor house Heather Babcock after boring Marina with a long story drinks a cocktail made for Marina and dies from poisoning. Everybody believes that Marina is the target but the police officer investigating the case Inspector Craddock isn't sure so he asks Miss Marple his aunt to investigate... (Dir. Guy Hamilton 1980) Evil Under The Sun: Evil is everywhere. Even in paradise... Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Blatt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show stopping a book and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern another guest in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead strangled and Poirot must find out who it is.... (Dir. Guy Hamilton 1982)

• Murder On The Orient Express | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £7.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Just the name "Orient Express" conjures up images of a bygone era. Add an all-star cast (including Sean Connery, Ingrid Bergman, Jacqueline Bisset and Lauren Bacall, to name a few) and Agatha Christie's delicious plot and how can you go wrong? Particularly if you add in Albert Finney as Christie's delightfully pernickety sleuth, Hercule Poirot. Someone has knocked off nasty Richard Widmark on this train trip and, to Poirot's puzzlement, everyone seems to have a motive--just the set-up for a terrific whodunit. Though it seems like an ensemble film, director Sidney Lumet gives each of his stars their own solo and each makes the most of it. Bergman went so far as to win an Oscar for her role. But the real scene-stealer is the ever-reliable Finney as the eccentric detective who never misses a trick. --Marshall Fine

• Are You Being Served? - Series 7 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  There's hilarity at Grace Brothers the High Street department store with a difference. Join in the fun as limp-wristed Mr Humphries and that blue-rinsed batle axe Mrs Slocombe lead the outrageous department store staff through a seventh series of outrageously funny episodes! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Junior 2. String Stuff This Insurance 3. The Apartment 4. Mrs. Slocombe Senior Person 5. The Hero 6. Anything You Can Do 7. The Agent 8. The Punch And Judy Affair

• Are You Being Served - Series 8 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £9.42   |  Saving you £6.57 (69.75%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The eighth series of Classic BBC sitcom Are You Being Served.

• Are You Being Served? - Series 9 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £7.31   |  Saving you £8.68 (118.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  An ailing department store where the management are beginning to show signs of wear and tear and the staff are clashing! The ninth series of this classic comedy finds Mr. Humphries Mrs.Slocombe Miss Brahms Captain Peacock Mr Rumbold and Mr Berry up to their necks in shop floor scandal and shenanigans as usual. Mr. Humphries is accused of stealing and his distinguished career could end in disgrace. When found guilty in a shop floor trial he' then dismissed but Mr Harman later finds the missing money at the back of the till! A handsome golf professional comes to the floor for a demonstration and accidentally hits Mrs. Slocombe on the head with a ball. Totally convinced she is a little girl Mrs. Slocombe wrecks havoc on the store as she cavorts around the department. Mrs Slocombe's cat is missing and in comforting her Mr. Humphries finds himself entangled more deeply than he would have liked. When Mrs Slocombe invents an aphrodisiac perfume Mrs. Peacock finds her husband's trousers in the wrong hands and there's a big misunderstanding. Plus all hell breaks loose when the staff's CB radio advert for Grace Brothers attracts a rush of truck drivers to the store. Finally what does the future hold for this shopping institution? It looks like bad news for Grace Brothers when there is interest in buying the store by the Japanese; so the staff take their problems to Number Ten where they contact President Reagan by phone and Mrs. Thatcher gets fashion tips from Mr. Humphries!

• Are You Being Served? - Series 5 | DVD | (05/06/2006) from £6.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (151.81%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Back again for another healthy portion Are You Being Served? features the limp-wristed Mr. Wilberforce Clayborne Humphries and that blue-rinsed battle-axe Mrs 'Betty' Slocombe leading the outrageous department store staff through a fifth series of outrageously funny episodes! Episodes Comprise: 1.Mrs. Slocombe Expects 2.A Change Is as Good as a Rest 3.Founder's Day 4.The Old Order Changes 5.Take-Over 6.Goodbye Mr. Grainger 7.It Pays to Advertise

• Agatha Christie's Murder On The Orient Express | DVD | (16/06/2003) from £13.13   |  Saving you £3.85 (37.97%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The first of several lavish Christie adaptations from producers John Brabourne and Richard Goodwin introducing Albert Finney as the first screen Hercule Poirot. This 1974 production of Agatha Christie's 1934 classic is a judicious mixture of mystery murder and nostalgia. Which member of the all-star cast onboard the luxurious train perforated the no-good American tycoon with a dagger twelve times? Was it Ingrid Bergman's shy Swedish missionary; or Vanessa Redgrave's English rose; Sean Connery as an Indian Army Colonel: Michael York or Jacqueline Bisset; perhaps Lauren Bacall; Anthony Perkins or John Gielgud as the victim's impassive butler. Finney spreads unease among them with subdued wit and finesse. Arguably the most successful screen adaptation of a Christie novel in addition to Bergman's Oscar for Best Supporting Actress 'Murder On The Orient Express' achieved nominations for Best Actor Screenplay Photography Costume Design and Music Score.

• Are You Being Served? - The Movie | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £14.84   |  Saving you £-0.85 (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Writers Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft managed something quite clever with this, the film version of the 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served?. The idea of this cheery collection of comedy stereotypes--the pompous one, the vulgar one, the camp one, the shifty one and so on--being confined within a department store was a master stroke, as it allowed any kind of situation to arise without the plot having to exceed the restrictions imposed by the set. How, then, to keep the same theme for the big screen without just offering the television series writ large? Simple: send the whole cast on holiday together but make sure they can't leave their hotel, a state of affairs contrived easily enough by throwing a guerilla uprising into the plot. So it is, then, that the staff of Grace Bros. descend on the Costa Plonka while the store is closed for refurbishment. There are all the usual jokes involving knickers, boobs, toilets and gay sex (sometimes all at once), adding up to a good slice of nostalgic fun for anyone who was there when lapels really were that wide. Incidentally, this item is worth having just for the wonderful Frank Langford caricatures on the cover. On the DVD: Are You Being Served? comes to the digital format with just one extra item, a trailer.--Roger Thomas

• The Servant | DVD | (25/02/2002) from £12.00   |  Saving you £1.99 (16.58%)   |  RRP £13.99

  For anyone interested in voyeurism, role playing, class envy and sexual humiliation, The Servant is an essential buy. Directed by Joseph Losey, scripted by Harold Pinter, it probes away remorselessly at areas other British film-makers would not go near. Dirk Bogarde, the golden boy of 50s British cinema, is transformed into a scheming, unctuous butler, Barrett. Hired by dapper young toff Tony (James Fox), he proceeds gradually to take over his master's life. In one scene, he seduces Tony's fiancée (Wendy Craig). Tony is soon slavering over the voluptuous but vaguely sinister Vera (Sarah Miles), whom he has been told is his butler's sister (in fact, she's Barrett's mistress). Gradually, the lines between master and servant are blurred. Tony becomes beholden to his butler's every whim.Nobody does queasy quite as well as Losey. The American-born director relishes the chance to disrupt the smooth workings of what seems a typical upper-class household. Compared to the bland comedies made at Pinewood in the late 50s, The Servant couldn't help but seem groundbreaking. Thanks to his performance, Bogarde, who'd starred in so many of those comedies, was at last taken seriously as more than a matinee idol. The critics adored the film, which was first released at around the time of the Profumo crisis. "Even if I make 10 better pictures in my lifetime", Losey observed, "I don't suppose one could expect to have such unanimous appreciation and approval again". --Geoffrey Macnab

• And Mother Makes Five - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £6.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (97.12%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The final series of Thames highly popular sitcom ...And Mother Makes Three saw widow Sally Harrison (Wendy Craig, Butterflies) and widower David Redway finally getting spliced after a protracted on-off romance. This sequel series hilariously charts Sally's ongoing tribulations, with the scatterbrained mum and her rambunctious teenaged sons Simon and Peter now sharing a home with antiquarian bookseller David and his daughter Jane. Co-starring Richard Coleman, Robin Davies (Catweazle) and future Oscar-winning producer David Parfitt (Shakespeare in Love), and featuring a number of episodes written by BAFTA winner Wendy Craig, ...And Mother Makes Five is produced and directed by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones.

• Lord Mountbatten - The Last Viceroy | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This magnificent series is based on Lord Louis Mountbatten's life during his years as Viceroy of India - the final years of the British Raj. Until the Second World War Mountbatten was no more than a name to the British public. He was the grandson of Queen Victoria nephew of the Tsar and cousin to the Prince of Wales. He became the chief British planner of the invasion of Normandy and then the supreme allied commander in Southeast Asia. Known as Mountbatten of Burma because he could

• Mistress Of Seduction 2 | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  By day the beautiful and sexy Samantha has a job as a Pr executive. Yet by night she indulges herself in erotic novels that spark lustful feelings beyond her wildest imagination...

• And Mother Makes Five - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £7.32   |  Saving you £5.67 (43.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  BAFTA winner Wendy Craig (Butterflies), stars with Richard Coleman, Robin Davies (Catweazle) and Oscar winner David Parfitt (Shakespeare in Love) in this highly popular sequel to Thames' hit sitcom And Mother Makes Three. Scripted by Wendy Craig and produced and directed by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones, the series charts the ongoing tribulations of Sally Harrison - the well-meaning, deeply loving but scatterbrained mother of two rambunctious teenaged sons, now sharing her life with second husband, antiquarian bookseller David Redway, and stepdaughter Jane. When the Redway family faces a spell of austerity, Sally rallies to the call with a vengeance. Yet, no matter how hard she works, it seems her efforts are always taken for granted. After taking some tips on the art of playing hard to get, she finds her bewildered brood finally start to sit up and take notice... but can calamity-prone Sally keep up the act?

• 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.

• Prom Night 2 - Hello Mary Lou | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-6.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In 1957 Mary Lou Maloney went up in flames. Now she's back. And she's burning mad. When Hamilton High's Prom Queen of 1957 Mary Lou Maloney is killed by her jilted boyfriend she comes back for revenge 30 years later. Bill Nordham is now the principle of Hamilton High and his son is about to attend the prom with Vicki Carpenter. However she is possessed by Mary Lou Maloney after opening a trunk in the school's basement. Now Bill must face the horror he left behind in 1957.

• 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...

• Superstition | DVD | (17/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on a true story this is a dark and supernatural tale of a young English nanny accused of witchcraft and murder. When young nanny Julie takes up her new position with a wealthy Italian couple things are not what she expected as she is sexually harassed by the husband. Suddenly the baby in her charge is found dead from a mysterious fire - thus begins a nightmare as she is branded a Witch by the press on her arrest. But the supernatural occurrences do not stop there and a series of further unexplained fires begin. Has she been possessed? Has she some rare uncontrollable telepathic abilities? With the help from her lawyer Gabreli and former psychiatrist Mother Frances they have to try to prove her innocence. In the final unveiling of the shattering events from Julie's past the terrible truth is revealed.

• Caged Fear | DVD | (27/01/2003) from £8.71   |  Saving you £-3.72 (-74.50%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A woman whose sister has been murdered shoots the mobster responsible. Later behind bars she becomes the subject of a mob contract. Hell hath no fury in the prison thriller.

• Prom Night | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  In a blood 'n' guts homage to the 70's slasher flick, "Prom Night" sees one girl's high school right of passage quickly descend in to a nightmarish game.