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• The Crow Road | DVD | (04/08/2008) from £9.09   |  Saving you £-2.09 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.00

  This award winning four part BBC series is an adaptation of Iain Banks' acclaimed novel. It all begins when History student Prentice returns home to attend his grandmother's funeral. As the McHoan the family gathers together to mark the solemn occasion old disagreements continue to fester and old acquaintances are renewed. Following the unexpected death of another close relative Prentice begins to question the past: why did his Uncle Rory suddenly disappear and where did he go? Reading his Uncle Rory's unpublished novel may provide the answers he is seeking but it also unearths some dark family secrets he didn't bargain for. Episodes Comprise: Prentice: When Prentice McHoan's grandmother dies he returns to his family home in Lochgair for the funeral. It's not long before old feuds resurface along with some old familiar faces. After meeting his Aunty Janice he begins to question the mysterious disappearance of his uncle Rory and decides to discover the truth. Kenneth: Prentice continues to lust after Verity but will she return his affections? A childhood secret that links Kenneth Rory Lachlan and Fergus is revealed. As he reads Rory's book Prentice discovers the truth about his aunt Fiona's marriage. Some match boxes and a journalist could explain where Rory has been. There is some devastating news for the McHoan family. Fergus: The McHoan family continues to mourn and the details of the accident are disclosed. Prentice manages to find more extracts from Rory's manuscript. The truth about how Lachlan lost an eye is revealed. Prentice becomes closer to Ashley when Verity and Lewis make a shock announcement. There is more evidence of marital discord for Fiona and Fergus. Rory: Prentice moves into an expensive Glasgow flat and continues his search for Rory. When he inadvertently discovers the truth about his Aunt Fiona's death his own life may be at risk. An inherited gift helps Prentice to solve the mystery surrounding Rory's disappearance.

• Housewife 49 | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £3.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (225.56%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Award winning writer and performer Victoria Wood (Dinnerladies Acorn Antiques Pat and Margaret) has written and stars in her first ITV drama for 25 years set in a wartime northern English town. Housewife 49 is based on the real diary of a Lancashire housewife and follows Nella Last's struggles to recover from a nervous breakdown a difficult marriage and the realisation that her two sons are now grown up and no longer need her. Nella joins the local Women's Voluntary Service run by Mrs Waite (Stephanie Cole - Doc Martin Back Home Tenko) and Mrs Lord (Marcia Warren - The All Together Murder In Suburbia ) and the companionship and sense of purpose she finds there gives her the joy and energy that is missing from her difficult marriage. As her relationship with her husband goes through painful changes Barrow suffers its own blitz and Nella happily ensconced with her WVS chums Nella realises war is not the stuff of newsreels there are no heroics no Vera Lynn. Its about a woman in her kitchen scribbling on bits of paper with a stubby pencil trying to find the courage to face up to what she really is.

• Foyle's War - the Complete Third Series | DVD | (11/06/2007) from £21.43   |  Saving you £8.56 (39.94%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Michael Kitchen returns as the dogged detective chief inspector for four new cases in Foyle's War Series 3. Also staring Honeysuckle Weeks as Foyle's snappy young driver Samantha ""Sam"" Stewart and Anthony Howell as his physically and emotionally wounded assistant Detective Sergeant Paul Milner. Episodes Comprise: 1. The French Drop 2. Enemy Fire 3. They Fought In the Fields 4. War of Nerves

• Victoria Wood: Wood Work, A Celebration | DVD | (22/08/2016) from £16.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (66.71%)   |  RRP £24.99

  As one of Britain's best-loved and most talented writer/performers, Victoria Wood's career spanned forty years and numerous awards including five BAFTAs. This Lancashire-born singer-songwriter, screenwriter, actor and director blazed a trail and inspired an entire generation of female comedy performers; her body of work will influence comedy for years to come. Wood's astute observational humour was embodied in an engagingly flawed and uniquely British cast of characters; her warmth and universal appeal saw her embraced by all sections of the viewing public in a way that few performers have been or are ever likely to be. This set celebrates Victoria Wood's unforgettable legacy with the following shows: SCREENPLAYS Three bittersweet plays including the highly acclaimed Talent. WOOD AND WALTERS The complete series BAFTA-nominated comedy, including the pilot show. AN AUDIENCE WITH VICTORIA WOOD BAFTA-winning stand-up from 1988. HOUSEWIFE, 49 BAFTA-winning drama in this moving portrait of an ordinary woman during wartime. SPECIAL FEATURES: Julie Walters and Friends: an award-winning one-off special featuring sketches written by and co-starring Victoria Wood Archive interviews

• Wessex Tales | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Wessex Tales

• The Crow Road | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-0.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Seven years ago Rory McHoan set out to visit his brother Kenneth. He never got there. And despite exhaustive police investigation it was as if he had vanished from the face of the earth. Rory's nephew Prentice takes on the task of uncovering the truth about his missing uncle's disappearance. But with only Rory's inaccessible computer disks and a ghost at his shoulder there are discoveries to be made about himself before he can exhume the dark secrets that lie buried in his family

• Foyle's War - Series Five - Complete | DVD | (28/04/2008) from £20.23   |  Saving you £4.76 (23.53%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Michael Kitchen (Alibi) returns as Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the fifth and final series of the hugely popular series Foyle's War. This triple DVD set containing the final series of this hugely popular drama

• Catherine Cookson - The Dwelling Place | DVD | (23/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Set in rural Northumberland during the 1830's this Catherine Cookson series tells of Cissie Brodie's struggle to keep the family intact when the sudden death of her parents causes them to be evicted from their cottage...

• Pat & Margaret | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £13.28   |  Saving you £2.71 (20.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Unexpected events occur over a long weekend when Pat a glamorous British born star of American soaps returns home to plug her auto biography on television and meets for the first time since they were teenagers Margaret her plain fat and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both sisters highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with their uncaring mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the current whereabouts of the long lost errant mother...

• Dreamchild | DVD | (26/01/2015) from £7.79   |  Saving you £5.20 (66.75%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Dreamchild is a 1985 British drama film written by Dennis Potter, directed by Gavin Millar and produced by Rick McCallum and Kenith Trodd. It stars Coral Browne, Ian Holm, Peter Gallagher, Nicola Cowper and Amelia Shankley and is a fictionalised account of Alice Liddell, the child who inspired Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Featuring the work of legendary puppet master Jim Henson. In 1932, Alice Liddell Hargreaves, age 80, travels to New York to attend a celebration of Lewis Carroll's centenary. Confused by American culture and unable to understand the huge popularity of the Alice books, Mrs. Hargreaves begins to remember details of the childhood events that led to the writing of the stories. Was shy Carroll actually in love with her?

• Complicity | DVD | (10/07/2000) from £17.29   |  Saving you £2.70 (15.62%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Based on the Iain Banks novel this gripping thriller is set in Scotland with a strong cast including the brilliant Johnny Lee Miller. Cameron Colley is a journalist who writes articles that takes the underdog's viewpoint. His motives are shared by a serial killer who commits murder on behalf of the underdog. The two stories then begin to fuse together...

• The Dwelling Place | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £14.20   |  Saving you £-1.22 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Set in rural Northumberland during the 1830's this Catherine Cookson series tells of Cissie Brodie's struggle to keep the family intact when the sudden death of her parents causes them to be evicted from their cottage...

• Scoop | DVD | (13/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Scoop

• A Murder Of Quality | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When George Smiley receives a mysterious letter from Stella Rode a teacher's wife at Carne School intimating that her husband is out to murder her he decides to phone the school only to find that Stella was killed the previous evening... Based on a novel by John Le Carre.

• Foyle's War - Invasion/Bad Blood | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £7.47   |  Saving you £17.52 (234.54%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Michael Kitchen returns as Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the fourth series of the hugely popular Foyle's War. It is 1942 and the US engineers have arrived in Britain bringing with thema host of new problems for Foyle and his team in Invasion. In Bad Blood Sam contracts a potentially fatal illness when a biological experiment goes wrong taking Foyle into the darkest most secretive areas of the war.

• My Friend Walter - The Complete Series | DVD | (24/01/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Ronald Pickup Prunella Scales and Don Henderson are among the cast of this fantasy adventure series with young actress Polly Grant giving an outstanding performance as a girl who sets out to save her family's farm with the help of a famous time-travelling ancestor. Adapted from the children s novel by Michael Morpurgo and directed by the BAFTA Award-winning Gavin Millar My Friend Walter originally screened in 1992 is available here for the first time on DVD. Bess Throckmorton a Devon farmer's daughter encounters an ancient bearded relative... and realises just how ancient he is when he reveals that he is the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh! Sir Walter is determined to escape the Tower of London his prison for nearly four hundred years to return to the Devon farm of his youth - the only place he was ever truly happy. He wants to rediscover his family too and persuades Bess to take him home with her. On the family farm Sir Walter revisits the joys of his childhood; he also learns that the farm is now endangered by the covetous schemes of the horrible Borrowbill brothers - and devises a scheme of his own to restore the family fortunes while avenging his cruel fate. Unfortunately a mischievous spirit's idea of helping out isn't quite what Bess had in mind!

• Catherine Cookson - Rags To Riches | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £29.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (33.34%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Catherine Cookson was born Catherine McMullen in 1906. Her life began in poverty and she grew up believing her real mother was her sister. In a life that could have been taken from any of her own novels Catherine aspired to achieve more than many of her time. From poverty to wealth she left the sadness behind to start a new life in Hastings where she was to meet her husband Tom Cookson. As a form of therapy Catherine began to write and never stopped and became one of the world's be

• Foyle's War - French Drop / Enemy Fire | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £12.96   |  Saving you £15.02 (150.65%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set during World War II Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) is a Detective Chief Superintendent who is refused his request of a transfer to join the war effort and remains on the home front. As the war rages in Europe Foyle finds his skills at detection in high demand as he battles against murder anti-Semitism mystery and betrayal on the south coast of England... Featuring the first 2 episodes of series 3.

• Foyle's War - They Fought / War Of Nerves | DVD | (07/03/2005) from £13.52   |  Saving you £11.47 (84.84%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Set during World War II Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) is a Detective Chief Superintendent who is refused his request of a transfer to join the war effort and remains on the home front. As the war rages in Europe Foyle finds his skills at detection in high demand as he battles against murder anti-Semitism mystery and betrayal on the south coast of England... Featuring the last 2 episodes of series 3.

• Foyles' War Series 4 Part 2 | DVD | (16/04/2007) from £12.12   |  Saving you £12.87 (106.19%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Michael Kitchen (Alibi) returns as Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle in the fourth chapter of this hugely popular series.