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• Sapphire and Steel - Complete Series | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £35.00   |  Saving you £4.99 (14.26%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Set in a world in which the future and past collide and time overturns reality Sapphire and Steel captures your consciousness and takes you to altered states. Eerie frightening forces are at work and Sapphire and Steel have been assigned... Only Sapphire and Steel (Joanna Lumley and David McCallum) can stop the strange events and restore natural order to the universe. Two superhuman agents assigned to safeguard the structure of Time - using their uncanny powers they protect the present from invading evils of the past and future.

• Benidorm - Series 10 | DVD | (07/05/2018) from £10.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Romance is in the air at the Solana as the big day arrives for Joyce and Monty. Billy and Sheron are keen to make their 25th wedding anniversary holiday a romantic one, whilst Loretta and Eddie eagerly speculate about the arrival of Rob with a mysterious friend from South America. Jacqueline is the new owner of Blow & Go, Liam tries to keep the peace and has Kenneth finally fallen in love? Joey is back with work mate Callum and quickly rekindles his relationship with Sam. Pauline returns with Noreen in search of inspiration as a fledgling novelist and Monty bags the new Entertainments Manager job, but his star signing, washed up entertainer Sammy Valentino quickly gets him in hot water, meanwhile stalwarts Mateo & Lesley try to keep things running smoothly. A stellar guest cast includes Nigel Havers, Mark Heap, The Chuckle Brothers, Hale & Pace, Bobby Ball, James Lance, Claire Sweeney, Layton Williams and surprise performances from Tony Hadley & Holly Johnson, guaranteeing yet another hilarious series of Benidorm. Includes the 10-year documentary special.

• The Cedar Tree - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (16/09/2013) from £11.59   |  Saving you £18.40 (158.76%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Created by Upstairs, Downstairs' Alfred Shaughnessy, this major series charts the fortunes of a fictional aristocratic family, the Bournes of Larkfield Manor, through the turbulent years leading up to the Second World War - an upheaval that would change their world forever. A huge success for ITV, The Cedar Tree picked up the reigns for classy period drama from Upstairs Downstairs and is the precursor to today's highly popular costume dramas such as Cranford and Downton Abbey. As storm clou...

• Timeslip: The Complete Series | DVD | (27/06/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.22

  This groundbreaking ATV children's drama memorably blends hard science and fantasy in its tale of two teenagers who discover the existence of a 'time barrier' enabling them to travel to different periods and locations from World War Two to the Antarctica of the future.Devised by The Tomorrow People's Ruth Boswell, Timeslip was unabashedly intelligent and often prescient in its theme of the use and abuse of science. Well remembered to this day as a benchmark of 1970s drama, this set contains all 26 episodes.Three children have vanished from the tiny Midlands village of St Oswald. First to disappear is local girl Sarah, then Simon Randall and Liz Skinner, who are on holiday with Liz's parents. Only Commander Traynor, an apparent stranger to the area, can offer some idea of where they are and that idea is so incredible and horrifying that the Skinners cannot believe it...

• Blake's 7 - Series 2 | DVD | (17/01/2005) from £16.79   |  Saving you £33.20 (197.74%)   |  RRP £49.99

  In the third century of the second calendar after the chaos of the intergalactic wars a powerful dictatorship has risen to dynamic proportions and engulfed most of the populated worlds. Liberty has become a crime punishable by death and the majority of the population lives in a drug-induced state of docility. This tyrannical authority fulfils George Orwell's prophecy of 1984 to its most terrifying extremes. This government is known as the Federation. Each world has its share of rebe

• Sapphire And Steel - Assignments 1-3 | DVD | (12/08/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  One of the oddest shows ever mounted for mainstream UK television, Sapphire & Steel was one of ITV's many short-lived attempts at grabbing the sci-fi cult status of the BBC's Doctor Who. Ex-Man From U.N.C.L.E. David McCallum and ex-Avenger Joanna Lumley play human-looking incarnations of the eponymous substances, mysterious investigators working at the behest of an apparent God of Order and zipping about TARDIS-like to cope with anomalies in the time-stream that manifest as apparent supernatural forces in remote English locales like an isolated farmhouse (Adventure One), a deserted rural railway station (Adventure Two) and a high-rise block of flats (Adventure Three). McCallum and Lumley play their "medium atomic weights" with blank style and a few touches of baffled humour, not to mention visual flair in the case of Lumley's blue fashions and occasional glowing eyes. But the lengthy serial format, strictly limited guest casts and claustrophobic confinement to studio floor sets tend to mean individual serials straggle on with a great deal of repetition, providing longeurs as six or eight-part stories seem to take forever to get moving and then resolve. Shot on video, with a few strange 1970s effects (evil follow-spots, floating pillows), this remains prime cult material, though it's hard to sit still for more than one episode at a time. It will take an extremely devoted fan to get through all three adventures in under six months. On the DVD: Sapphire & Steel on disc has to be reckoned a disappointment when compared with the wealth of extra material included on the Gerry Anderson or Doctor Who DVDs. This set stretches only to a few press releases and a TV Times article from the launch of the series that tries hard to build up a mystique about the show which it would take some years to actually acquire. There are basic bios of the two stars, and some unresonant stills. Image quality-wise, this looks much the same as previous VHS releases: shot on video, with only a few tiny film inserts for Adventure Three (on the roof of a London building), the series' transfer to DVD is plagued by artefacting of various kinds (some of which can just about be passed off as visual effects), but then again so were the original transmissions. The pristine look is especially unfortunate in exposing the extremely ordinary trickery as far less terrifying than the onscreen characters make them out to be. --Kim Newman

• Tightrope - The Complete Series | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Timeslip star Spencer Banks, John Savident (Coronation Street) and future BAFTA-winning producer and director David Munro star in a tense thriller for young viewers which brilliantly captures the paranoia of the Cold War. Created and written by Victor Pemberton, whose previous writing credits included Dr Who and Ace of Wands, Tightrope was first screened in 1972. All thirteen half-hour episodes have been transferred from the available film elements specifically for this release. Martin Clifford lives in a quiet English village and is busy studying for his 'A' levels when he suddenly finds himself at the centre of a dangerous international espionage plot. Beneath the outwardly calm surface of Redlow lies an intricate network of spies and counterspies, with the focus of attention the USAF base nearby - soon to become the communications centre for top-secret NATO exercises. Martin, commissioned by British Intelligence to help uncover enemy agents in the village, finds his life balanced precariously on a tightrope; one false move on either side, and he could fall to his death.

• Fraud Squad - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (18/05/2015) from £17.98   |  Saving you £24.00 (150.09%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A highly popular police procedural drama from the turn of the '70s and notable as one of the earliest British television dramas to feature a female detective in a leading role Fraud Squad features the work of Detective Inspector Gamble and his aide, Detective Sergeant Vicky Hicks: Metropolitan officers on the trail of the con-men and fraudsters who operate at all levels of society.Featuring guest appearances by Richard Vernon, George Baker, Dandy Nichols and Maigret star Rupert Davies among others, this second series showcases a further 13 episodes in which Gamble and Hicks hunt down the sharks and sometimes the minnows inhabiting the murky world of international fraud. Originally made in colour, only two episodes still exist in this state the remaining eleven are brand-new transfers from the monochrome telerecordings made for overseas sales.

• The Cedar Tree: Series 3 | DVD | (02/06/2014) from £19.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (100.05%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Devised by Upstairs Downstairs script editor Alfred Shaughnessy The Cedar Tree chronicles the shifting fortunes of a fictional aristocratic family the Bournes of Larkfield Manor through the turbulent years leading up to the Second World War. This third series begins in January 1938 as England stands on the cusp of a metamorphosis. Even for a traditional landowning family change has taken place: Arthur Bourne's elder daughter Elizabeth is now a qualified doctor with a sharpening awareness of social inequalities; her sister Victoria studying music at the Royal Academy is romantically involved with a young German Klaus von Heynig - offering a stark insight into developments in Central Europe; and the widowed Arthur is facing increasing financial pressure - and even the unthinkable prospect of losing Larkfield...

• Sapphire And Steel - Assignments 4-6 | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £40.99

  Starring Joanna Lumley and David McCallum Sapphire And Steel was one of the most enigmatic and acclaimed of all ITC-produced adventures. It continues to baffle and delight viewers twenty years later. Sapphire (Lumley) and Steel (McCallum) are the mysterious agents charged with protecting the Universe from the malevolent forces of Time with their uncanny powers. Assignment IV an evil amorphous entity uses photographs to move between time dimensions. It takes over a junkshop and entraps the inhabitants. A golden anniversary party where the guests are being killed off is the subject of Assignment V. Sapphire and Steel meet another element/detective Silver at an abandoned petrol station in Assignment VI and become embroiled in mystery.

• General Hospital: Series One | DVD | (20/08/2012) from £16.90   |  Saving you £23.09 (136.63%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A huge success for ITV throughout the 1970s, General Hospital carried on in the tradition of Emergency - Ward 10 and other medical shows of the 1960s. This highly popular series offers a dramatic insight into life at a busy hospital, featuring both compelling medical storylines and those highlighting the often strained personal lives of the doctors, nurses and consultants. General Hospital initially ran for 270 half-hour episodes as a twice-weekly soap-style afternoon serial before being reformatted into a series of hour-long, self-contained dramas in 1975. Out of this first series, only a comparative handful remain in the archive and this set contains all episodes known to exist.

• General Hospital - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (24/06/2013) from £33.30   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A