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• Dune--Special TV Edition | DVD | (23/10/2000) from £15.05   |  Saving you £4.94 (32.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Dune: Special TV Edition is an extended US network television version prepared in 1988 from David Lynch's 1984 film of Frank Herbert's classic science fiction novel, Dune. The original cinema release of this complex tale of interplanetary intrigue was heavily shortened and this 176-minute TV edition should not to be confused with Lynch's still unreleased three-hour-plus "Director's Cut". In fact Lynch disowned this TV version, replacing his director's credit with the infamous pseudonym Alan Smithee and his screenplay credit with the name Judas Booth (a combination of two notorious traitors). What the network did was add 35 minutes, about 15 minutes in the first two thirds, which in the cinema cut is in any case superbly paced, and around 20 into the final 40. This latter material does help balance the frenetic rush of the cinema cut, restoring important scenes such as Paul Atreides' fight with Jamis, a Fremen funeral and Jessica Atreides' taking the "Water of Life". What primarily alienated Lynch was the imposition of a folksy, sometimes laughable narration, as well as the replacement of the original prologue with a far longer sequence explaining the Dune universe via pre-production paintings. This TV edit is a travesty of what, in the "Director's Cut" at least, is probably a great film, and is really only worth seeing to get a glimpse of the material Lynch was forced to remove. The unconnected mini-series, Frank Herbert's Dune (2000) does a far better job of telling a more complete version of the story. On the DVD: There is a fold-out colour booklet which contains a wealth of stills, a reproduction of the original cinema poster and a worthwhile essay on the original film that avoids any discussion of the TV version it accompanies. On the disc there is only the original theatrical trailer. The superb cinematography is ruined by the panned and scanned 4:3 image, which is grainy and has poor colour fidelity. It is also soft, lacking detail and washed-out, probably a result of being converted from American NTSC TV format video rather than coming directly from an original film print. Certainly the DVD of the cinema version looks far better. The audio is thin mono, completely failing to do justice to how fantastic a post-Star Wars 40-million-dollar science fiction epic should sound. --Gary S Dalkin

• The Professionals Mk II | DVD | (19/02/2018) from £30.74   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Long-awaited, long-overdue: The Professionals as you have never seen them before. Bodie and Doyle need little by way of introduction, but if the series had at all escaped you since its debut in 1977 their boss George Cowley, head of CI5, couldn't put it more succinctly than his opening gambit: anarchy, acts of terror, crimes against the public. To combat it I've got special men experts from the army, the police, from every service. These are The Professionals . Featuring the perfect ensemble cast of Martin Shaw, Gordon Jackson (completely against type here) and the much-missed Lewis Collins, the series ran for 57 action-packed episodes and made an immediate impact on British and then international audiences which has sustained 35 years. But the series has never looked this good. Painstakingly restored from the camera-original negatives the series could have been made yesterday. No matter how many times you have seen The Professionals, this is a new experience, like seeing it for the first time. Features: Brand-new, High Definition restorations of all 13 episodes in series two from the camera-original negatives Brand-new 5.1 tracks from original sound elements Remastered original as-broadcast mono tracks Remastered music-only tracks featuring Laurie Johnson's original scores HD photo galleries featuring hundreds of rare and previously unseen images All episodes are presented in their original production order PDF material featuring scripts and memorabilia Archive footage featuring additional material, advert break bumpers, US sales trailer and more English HOH subtitles

• Twilight Triple Pack | Blu Ray | (11/07/2011) from £31.03   |  Saving you £0.96 (3.09%)   |  RRP £31.99

  Experience the passion romance and action that has made The Twilight Saga a global box office smash hit in this 3 disc set. Twilight adds a dangerous twist to the classic story of star-crossed lovers as we first meet 17 year old Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) and the mysterious Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson) - a boy who's hiding a dark secret: he's a vampire. In The Twilight Saga: New Moon Bella finds her loyalties tested as she is drawn into the world of the werewolves the ancestral enemies of the vampires through her friendship with Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner). In The Twilight Saga: Eclipse Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger and in the midst of it all she is forced to choose between her love for Edward and her friendship with Jacob. With her graduation approaching Bella is confronted with the most important decision of her life.

• Rude Boy | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Up-and-coming DJ Julius dreams of becoming the biggest Jamaican Dancehall star ever. Desperate to turn his dream into a reality he agrees to act as a drug mule for Jamaican crime lord Crown and his violent sidekick Gargon. In exchange they will supply him with a clean passport and visa. Arriving in L.A. Julius hooks up with drug kingpin and record label boss Biggs and takes a job as Biggs' main hitman. His dreams soon become a nightmare involving guns drugs and murderous double-dealings when he finds himself caught in the crossfire between Jamaican Yardies and LA gangbangers!

• Angel - Complete DVD Collection | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £109.90   |  Saving you £30.09 (27.38%)   |  RRP £139.99

  Every episode from all 5 seasons of the action-packed adventures of Angel Investigations in a single supremely collectible box set! The vampire Angel leaves Sunnydale for Los Angeles where he uses his powers to help people. Meanwhile spoiled Cordelia is trying to make her way in the City of Angels - and her path is destined to cross with Buffy's true love!

• Atm | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £4.29   |  Saving you £11.70 (272.73%)   |  RRP £15.99

  What should be a routine stop off turns into a desperate struggle for survival when an unknown man appears outside. Realising they are trapped and with the wintry temperatures dipping below freezing and sunrise still hours away they have no choice but to play the man's deadly game of cat-and-mouse... Written by Chris Sparling (Buried) this tense and gripping thriller is sure to give you nightmares!

• Bad Girls - Series 2 | DVD | (01/10/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Few television dramas of recent years have managed to combine quality and popularity as successfully as Bad Girls. Series two of the women's-prison drama offers essentially more of the same, but the formula is so well honed that it would be churlish to complain. The main characters and storylines are still there, with the relationship that began between Nikki and Helen (Mandana Jones and Simone Lahbib) at the end of the first series brought eloquently and stylishly to centre stage--a result of both superb writing and performance. The show is given fresh impetus by the constant introduction of new characters. The resulting plot lines see the growing influence of the superb Yyvonne, the unhinged prison officer Di and a new wing governor Karen Betts added to the equation, all with explosive results. The mixture of humour and drama is, as ever, played to perfection.On the DVD: Having set an impressive standard with the DVD release of series one, Bad Girls continues to lead the field for television drama releases. Again the packaging of the four-disc set is handy but extremely stylish and comes with a whole series of extras. The documentary this time follows the cast on a promotional trip to South Africa and there are two galleries of photographs, deleted scenes, production and cast notes and a mass of outtakes that beg the question how they ever actually managed to make one programme, let alone the 13 included here, without the whole cast convulsing with laughter. --Phil Udell

• Silver Dream Racer | DVD | (13/02/2006) from £29.90   |  Saving you £-14.91 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Two professional motorcycle racers (a cossetted professional and a hotheaded privateer) competing in the world motorcycle championships find themselves at odds in a more personal type of competition: they both love the same woman...

• Starsky And Hutch - The Complete Second Season | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Starsky & Hutch: The Complete Second Season proves the 1970s series, in its sophomore year, both codified its earliest strengths while continuing to evolve into a sharper, wittier and often darker show. Contributing to those improvements were the stars themselves: David Soul (who plays maverick police detective, intellectual and health nut Ken Hutchinson) and Paul Michael Glaser (as Hutch's more impulsive, junk-food-junkie partner Dave Starsky), each of whom directed exemplary episodes in the second series. The series' creators also struck a more entertaining balance between the comic and dramatic possibilities inherent in Starsky and Hutch's bluntly honest, fraternal relationship. A number of stories placed the guys in intentionally funny undercover situations: as garish gamblers in the two-part opener "The Las Vegas Strangler"; entertainment directors (named Hack and Zack) on a luxury cruise ship in "Murder at Sea"; gigolo-like dance aficionados in the playfully-titled "Tap Dancing Her Way Right Back into Your Hearts"; and, most amusingly, stunt men in "Murder on Stage 17". Those are all good shows, and the duo often bicker within them, to great comic effect, like an old married couple. But it's the relentlessly tougher episodes that prove each character's mettle and demonstrate the depth of Starsky and Hutch's mutual trust. Among these is the powerful "Gillian", in which Starsky discovers Hutch's classy new girlfriend is a prostitute and breaks the news to his shattered friend. Somewhat lighter but just as revealing is "Little Girl Lost", starring a young Kristy McNichol as an orphaned street urchin whom Hutch, lately in a misanthropic, anti-Christmas mood, takes into his home. Glaser's directorial debut, the harrowing "Bloodbath", gives Soul a lot of room for an intensely physical and psychological performance as Hutch scurries to find his kidnapped partner. Soul returns the favour with "Survival", in which Starsky desperately seeks his missing pal, trapped and slowly dying beneath a car wreck. All in all, a very good series, with (of course) Antonio Fargas still sharp as sidekick Huggy Bear. --Tom Keogh

• 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.

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Complete Season 1 | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Vampire-slayer Buffy Summers moves to Sunnydale, a Californian community located above the "Hellmouth", a phenomenon which explains the local graveyard's overpopulation of vampires and other supernatural beings. Angel, a mysterious loiterer, starts flirting with Buffy and gives her helpful tips on how to cope with the local nasties. However, he turns out to be a vampire, which complicates the future of their relationship. Buffy makes friends with school outcasts Willow, a computer nerd, and geeky Xander. But she excites the enmity of high-school princess Cordelia. The season's prime villain is the Master, a Nosferatu-looking vampire lurking under the town. Giles, Buffy's mentor, looks things up in books and demonstrates the exact same look of puzzlement actor Anthony Head used to demonstrate in those horrifying instant coffee ads. --Kim Newman

• Fresh Meat - Series 2 | DVD | (11/11/2013) from £13.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (66.72%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's a new term and the housemates are returning to Hartnell Avenue a little bit older but not much wiser. Kingsley (Joe Thomas) has a new image and Josie (Kimberley Nixon) is turning over a new leaf. JP's (Jack Whitehall) great friend Giles has transferred from Exeter. Vod (Zawe Ashton) is skint and tries out new ways to pay her debts back and Howard (Greg McHugh) is moonlighting in the local abattoir. Oregon (Charlotte Ritchie) finds true love and Paul Lamb the invisible flatmate has moved out so the group must find a replacement. Special Features: The story behind 'The Implodium Implodes'

• Children of the Corn Trilogy - Collector's Edition | Blu Ray | (08/02/2016) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  "CHILDREN OF THE CORN (1984) Released in 1984, and adapted from a popular Stephen King short story, the original CHILDREN OF THE CORN became one of the most successful of the author's page-to-screen adaptations. Starring a pre-TERMINATOR Linda Hamilton and Peter Horton (TV's THIRTYSOMETHING) as a travelling couple who unwittingly become trapped in the fictional town of Gatlin, Nebraska, and find themselves stalked by a creepy clan of young cultists. No adult is allowed to survive in Gatlin or else, their prophecy predicts, the harvest will collapse. Co-starring popular genre face Courtney Gains (THE 'BURBS) and given a malevolent mid-western touch by director Fritz Kiersch (TUFF TURF), CHILDREN OF THE CORN remains one of the most spine-tingling terror titles of the 1980s. CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: THE FINAL SACRIFICE (1993) Unsurprisingly, this blockbuster bout of bloodshed led to a franchise of fan favourite sequels - although it would take until 1993 for CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: THE FINAL SACRIFICE to rear its rural shocks. Once again set in Nebraska, this frightful follow-up has some members of a nearby town choosing to adopt the surviving adolescents from the previous pot-boiler. Unfortunately for them, a demonic entity out in the cornfields is planning to possess the supposedly sane school-kids so that a new crimson-caked celebration can begin. Featuring some malicious set pieces, and a script co-written by Gilbert Adler (producer of SUPERMAN RETURNS and VALKYRIE), CHILDREN OF THE CORN II: THE FINAL SACRIFICE carves up a thrilling entry into the winning franchise formula. CHILDREN OF THE CORN III: URBAN HARVEST (1995) Also re-mastered in HD for this very special set is CHILDREN OF THE CORN III: URBAN HARVEST (1995), the concluding episode in the series to see the light of a cinema screen. Perhaps the most potent of all the CHILDREN OF THE CORN sequels, this third instalment gave an early role to future Oscar winner Charlize Theron (MONSTER/ MAD MAX: FURY ROAD). With Nebraska cowering in fear at the thought of another child-led slice and dice revolution, two youngsters are adopted and taken to Chicago - where, it would seem, they are safe from any satanic influences! Alas, the opposite is true, and even big city life is revealed to be irrelevant to our clan of pint-sized psychopaths. Another winner, with a slow-burning sense of suspense and plenty of gory thrills and spills, CHILDREN OF THE CORN III: URBAN HARVEST is a spook-fest that more than deserves its BluRay reappraisal."

• Jokers Wild - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  "I was working in a pub when this hippy came in, jingling his bells. I said 'are you one of the flower children?'. He said 'no - I've got leprosy.'" Running for nine highly successful series, Jokers Wild was a lively, rapidly paced panel game in which two teams of top comics competed for laughs from the studio audience. While team members delved into their repertoires for winning jokes based on topics drawn randomly from an oversized pack of cards, bonus points could be scored by opposing team members if they interrupted mid-gag to complete a punchline. Hosted by comedy legend Barry Cryer, the show's line-up often read like a Who's Who? of British comedy talent - John Cleese, Bob Monkhouse, Arthur Askey, Eric Sykes and Sid James being just a few of the famous players over the course of its six-year run. This first series, featuring Les Dawson, Ted Ray, Charlie Chester, Jimmy Edwards, Alfred Marks and Roy Hudd, was originally screened in 1969. Contains all 19 episodes from series one. Also includes unscreened pilot episode, recorded in April 1969

• It Ain't Half Hot Mum - Series 7 | DVD | (24/08/2009) from £15.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.06%)   |  RRP £15.99

  It Ain't Half Mom: Season 7

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 1 | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Taken from the first television series this finds a former Army sergeant returning home to an economically depressed Gallowshields in Tyneside at the end of World War One. But this sergeant always lands on his feet...

• McCallum: The Complete Collection | DVD | (05/09/2016) from £29.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (66.69%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Too late, perhaps, for a cure. Too late for an early diagnosis to save the life of the poor wretch on the cold steel slab. But not too late to solve the puzzle, to right a wrong... To make a bit of difference in this bad, hard world. McCallum is a series unlike any other. This isn't a glossy cop show where the smiles dazzle more than the badges. This isn't a tale of heroes and villains, of extraordinary people. Just the entirely believable tales of a man in crisis, the dedicated team around him struggling to work with slashed budgets, and the mysteries of forensic pathology, where a spot of lateral thinking can mean the difference between a right and a wrong conclusion, and an over-looked point can result in the conviction of an innocent man. Set in the East End of London hunting ground of the notorious Jack the Ripper the series stars John Hannah (The Mummy / Four Weddings and a Funeral) in the title role of Dr. Iain McCallum, a motorcycling forensic pathologist with a passion for truth and more women problems than he can handle. Surrounding him are the dedicated St. Patrick's team of Angela Moloney, Sir Paddy Penfold, Fuzzy and Bobby... close friends at the sharp end, making up a formidable body of opposition to those determined to flaunt the law. Nominated for a BAFTA in 1996 and the 1997 BAFTA Award Scotland for Best Single Drama Starring BAFTA Film Award nominee John Hannah (The Mummy / Four Weddings and a Funeral) Also features Suzanna Hamilton (1984), Hugo Speer (The Full Monty), Eva Pope (Waterloo Road) and Nathaniel Parker (Stardust)

• You Rang My Lord - Series 4 | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Working class chancer Alf Stokes (Paul Shane) and James Twelvetrees (Jeffrey Holland) first meet as soldiers in the trenches in France during the First World War. They find the body of an officer and assuming that he's dead Alf robs him of his valuables. Then they find that the officer the Honourable Teddy Meldrum (Michael Knowles) is still alive so they carry him off to a field hospital. Ten years later James is working in the household of Teddy's brother Lord Meldrum (Donald

• Disaster Triple: Megafault/Ice Quake/Collision Earth | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  MegafaultIn West Virginia Charley Boomer Baxter sets off a series of massive mining detonations. Seconds later a gigantic earthquake rocks the North Atlantic. Within hours as government seismologist Dr. Amy Lane studies the ghostly landscape a gigantic aftershock hits. Barely escaping with their lives Amy and Boomer watch from a rescue helicopter as an enormous crack rushes towards the western horizon. Amy soon realizes that this earthquake has exposed a deep seismic fault that runs across the centre of the North American continent. Now Amy and Boomer together with the top government agencies must race to develop a plan to stop the crack that could potentially tear the world in half. Collision EarthWhen a massive comet strikes the Sun it knocks Mercury out of orbit and sends it hurtling towards Earth. But each day the now-magnetized planet gets closer it triggers gravitational chaos around the world: Flaming meteors crash into the ground. Automobiles are sucked into the sky. And the worst is still to come... Can a disgraced scientist (Kirk Acevedo of Fringe) and the lone surviving crewmember (Diane Farr of Californication and Numb3rs) on a crippled space shuttle stop this Extinction Level Event by re-activating the top-secret planetary defence system known as 'Project 7'? Ice QuakeIt's Christmas Eve in Alaska but the holiday season is in for a rude awakening: A massive ice shelf has collapsed in the Russian Arctic. Intense shockwaves are rocking the region. And military geologist Michael Webster (Brendan Fehr of Bones and Roswell) and his family's snowy wilderness hike to cut down a Christmas tree leaves them trapped by huge ice geysers giant avalanches and enormous cracks in the permafrost. But with the help of a hard-nosed Army Colonel (Victor Garber of Alias) and their own survival instincts can they now find a way to stop a monstrous methane explosion that threatens to destroy the entire planet? Jodelle Ferland (The Twilight Saga: Eclipse) Holly Dignard (Hellcats) Ryan Grantham (Diary of a Wimpy Kid) and Rob LaBelle (First Wave) co-star in this Syfy Original holiday hit based on the actual catastrophic climate science of Ice Quake!

• Lady On A Train | DVD | (16/08/2004) from £13.48   |  Saving you £-0.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Nikki Collins witnesses a murder the absence of a body undermines her credibility in the eyes of the police. Undeterred Nikki seeks the help of a popular crime fiction writer. Includes the famous songs: 'Silent Night Holy Night' 'Give Me A Little Kiss' and 'Night And Day'.