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• Lovejoy - Complete Series 6 | DVD | (18/04/2005) from £40.48   |  Saving you £-10.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Golden Globe winner Ian McShane stars as a lovable rogue antiques dealer Lovejoy in this final series of the popular BBC TV drama. The curtain finally comes down on Lovejoy's dodgy dealings with stories set across ten episodes. Includes appearances from guest stars such as Christopher Fairbanks John Bardon Martin Jarvis Frank Finlay Gavin Richards Phil Cornwell and Julia Sawalha. Episodes comprise: 1. Fair Exchange 2. Day of Reckoning 3. Somewhere Over the Rainbow 4. Do

• Bad Girls - Series One | DVD | (18/06/2001) from £24.99   |  Saving you £15.00 (60.02%)   |  RRP £39.99

  If the concept of a TV drama set in a woman's prison was one potentially fraught with cliché, the critical and commercial success of Bad Girls is a testament to fine writing, performance and production. With no preamble or scene setting, Series 1 immediately plunges the viewer into the world of Larkhall Prison, its inmates and staff. This approach leaves the characters to reveal themselves at varying pace, with each episode bringing new details about their life on the outside. Given the nature of the setting, it is unsurprising that the show is an ensemble, female-dominated piece. Simone Lahbib, Mandana Jones and Debra Stephenson are all excellent in the three key roles, with impressive support throughout the cast. Male characters are generally relegated to the sidelines, with the exception of sleazy warden Jim Fenner (played with skin crawling accuracy by Jack Ellis). The sexual realities of the environment are handled realistically and sensitively, and not for nothing is the word "uncut" splashed across the cover: there are some quite disturbing scenes, especially in the earlier episodes. On the DVD: The DVD enhances the show's attempts to capture the atmosphere of prison, with sharp contrast between light and darkness and the constant barracking, cat-calling and snide asides sounding crisp, clear and suitably nasty. Of the impressive 70 minutes of extra features much will only be of real interest to absolute devotees. A documentary examining work on the forthcoming third series may go into admirable detail, but how much interest a costume truck can actually be is perhaps debatable. The footage itself is a little unpolished, but does provide the cast members with an opportunity to reveal themselves, as does the extensive interview section. Not only do the main actors give valuable insights into their characters, but it is also interesting to see how the process has influenced their opinions on the prison system. A feature on a book signing in London certainly puts the show into an audience context, but the collection of outtakes (presented in a, supposedly intentionally, amateurish and tacky manner by Lahbib) is at best superfluous. There is more than a hint of trying to find material to fill the space, but overall this is an impressive effort. --Phil Udell

• Burnside - The Complete Series | DVD | (09/09/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Christopher Ellison reprises his role as Frank Burnside, one of The Bill's best-loved characters, in this grittier, post-watershed spin-off first aired in 2000. Having built his reputation on good detective work - combined with his unique approach of putting suspects' heads down the toilet and making their lives hell - Burnside is back on familiar form heading a crack unit in the National Crime Squad, Britain's equivalent of the FBI. In a series of hard-hitting investigations tackling big-l...

• Bad Girls - Series 3 | DVD | (25/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Separated from their homes children and lovers the female inmates of HMP Larkhalls continue to struggle with the harsh reality of life in this hidden world. Bad Girls Series 3 doesn't shy away from the cruelties and tense relationships inside the prison but also captures the warmth and humour the women need to survive the system. This DVD release features all 16 episodes across 5 discs.

• The Georgian House | DVD | (24/05/2010) from £9.34   |  Saving you £0.41 (5.41%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Eerie, unsettling and one of the key children's TV productions of the 1970s, The Georgian House was written by acclaimed author Jill Laurimore with noted producer/writer Harry Moore (The Clifton House Mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and produced by the renowned Leonard White (The Avengers, Armchair Theatre). Cult children's television actor Spencer Banks (Timeslip, Tightrope) stars alongside Jack Watson (Sky, Arthur of the Britons) in a series that The Stage lauded as visually rich, sumptuously produced [and] a quality production.Though made as a seven-episode series, unfortunately only a few episodes are now known to exist - two in original transmission format and one on home video held in private hands. Long sought by archive TV collectors, this release includes all three remaining episodes of The Georgian House - episodes one, three and seven.Two students, Abbie and Dan, take a holiday job in a museum that 200 years ago was the home of the Leadbetter family. The pair are drawn to an African carving which suddenly emits a voice summoning them back in time to 1772. Dan is transformed into a kitchen boy and Abbie becomes a member of the Leadbetter household. They soon realise they have a task to fulfil before they can return to their own time - helping a black servant with strange powers who is about to be sent back to the misery of the sugar plantations...

• Bad Girls - Series 5 | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £18.99   |  Saving you £31.00 (163.24%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Bad Girls is about a closed world governed by petty rules and harsh punishments. Where women prisoners and officers are thrown together in intense physical and emotional relationships. Left outside their homes their partners and their children. And inside they must negiotiate their position in the prisoners' hierarchy and.... make new sexual choices.... Features all 16 episodes from Series 5.

• 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

• Stay Lucky - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (03/06/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Dennis Waterman stars as Thomas Gynn a London gangland refugee who's headed north to escape old demons and try to start life afresh in this popular light-hearted Yorkshire Television drama series. Ian McNeice Susan George and Leslie Ash join the regular cast for this fourth series while a stellar guest cast includes Peter Capaldi Frances de la Tour Tim Healy Rula Lenska and Tom Wilkinson. On being released from a brief spell in Her Majesty's care Thomas finds that his significant other Sally Hardcastle has now left the area with another man and is pregnant. Consoled by his friends Pippa and Lively he sets about making another fresh start; earning money is his top priority and his new projects include a bar and a steam museum. But life still has plenty to throw at Thomas Gynn - including gun-toting Italians and the joys of a Hungarian prison cell...

• Teachers - Series 3 | DVD | (24/09/2007) from £13.98   |  Saving you £18.00 (150.13%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Kurt Brian Penny Matt and Lindsay are the teachers no parent would want teaching their kids and they're back for a new 13 part series that sees them making friends falling out trying to figure out the opposite sex smoking in the playground and dealing with lippy pupils. It's business as usual for the young teachers specialising in immaturity rather than the traditional subjects. Brian and Kurt are still dreaming of getting laid and they've met their match with new biology teacher Lindsay - she can drink a pint in 1.3 seconds she likes curry and she can out-blunt any of the boys! Back in the photocopier room Matt (married with kids) and Penny have managed to find the perfect work/play balance and are enjoying some extra curricular activity of their own. And what of everyone's favourite teacher who quit teaching to go travelling in the last series? Andrew Lincoln returns as Simon and he doesn't receive the welcome he had hoped for when he surprises his old mates.