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• Coronation Street - Best of 1970-1979 | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £34.62   |  Saving you £5.37 (15.51%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Collection of 80 episodes from Britain's longest-running television soap covering the whole of the 1970s with eight landmark episodes selected from each year featuring favourite characters such as Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) Ena Sharples (Violet Carson) Bet Lynch (Julie Goodyear) Hilda Ogden (Jean Alexander) Ken Barlow (William Roache) Mike Baldwin (Johnny Briggs) Deirdre (Anne Kirkbride) and Vera Duckworth (Elizabeth Dawn).

• Shadows - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (03/10/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Atmospheric, superbly scripted and filled with the unexpected, this remarkable anthology series offers spine-tingling psychological and supernatural tales for younger viewers. Strongly remembered to this day, Shadows is one of the quintessential children's drama series of the 1970s.Producer Pamela Lonsdale - renowned for many landmark children's series - assembled an outstanding team of writers for this third series, including Fay Weldon and Joan Aiken, and Liverpool Poet Brian Patten; performers include Joan Greenwood, Clive Swift, Bryan Pringle, Ronald Hines and June Brown.This series also includes The Boy Merlin - the screenplay which was developed into the memorable children's series of 1979.

• Jimi Hendrix Story | DVD | (11/09/2000) from £8.60   |  Saving you £5.39 (62.67%)   |  RRP £13.99

  If any artist deserved a hagiography it was Hendrix, and Joe Boyd's 1973 "authorised" tribute The Jimi Hendrix Story adequately sanctifies the legend. Perversely for a documentary, it achieves this simply by well-chosen concert footage rather than through the insights of the various talking heads. Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Lou Reed and Germaine Greer are all wheeled out to wax lyrical about their days with Jimi--but nothing is more eloquent than watching and listening to him play. From "Hey Joe" in grainy black and white on Ready Steady Go, classic footage of Monterey, Woodstock (yes, "The Star-Spangled Banner") and the Isle of White festivals, to an acoustic 12-string rendition of "Hear My Train a' Comin'", Hendrix the musician speaks for himself. But if Hendrix the musician shines through, this is not the most insightful profile of Hendrix the man: the circumstances surrounding his death, for example, are hardly touched upon (girlfriend at the time Monika Dannemann gets only a few seconds screen time). Interview footage with Hendrix himself plus some occasionally rambling and incoherent comments from such intimates as his father, army buddies, ex-girlfriends (including Linda Keith, who "discovered" him in New York and brought him to England) and fellow musicians all take second place to the music itself. The most sensible quote comes from Little Richard, who proves once and for all that he's utterly bonkers, when he says of Jimi's music: "At times he made my big toes shoot up into my boot." On the DVD: This is a dual-layer disc, with a widescreen (1.85:1) print on one side and a standard (4:3) ratio version on the other--although watching in widescreen is redundant, as the film is shot in 4:3 anyway. There are no extras other than a theatrical trailer (despite being advertised as such a menu and scene access surely don't count as "special features": what use is a disc without them?) --Mark Walker

• Keep on Burning - The Story of Northern Soul | DVD | (10/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Keep on Burning tells the fascinating story of the world's most enduring underground music movement: Northern Soul! Featuring interviews with key DJ's, journalists and promoters, including soul radio pioneer Tony Blackburn, this new documentary was filmed on location at Manchester's iconic Twisted Wheel and London's 100 Club Wigan Casino founder Russ Winstanley and Blue and Soul music journalist Tony Cummings recount the artists, records and stories which have made Northern Soul a way of life for its aficionados. With contributions from record label executives' Tim Brown (Goldmine), Ady Croasdell (Kent), Dave McAleer (Pye/RCA) and Neil Rushton (Inferno), Keep on Burning reveals a unique insight into the music phenomenon that came of age in the clubs of Northern England in the mid-seventies. Featuring archive Northern Soul performances and Granada's 1977 TV documentary This England with an exclusive interview and commentary by its BAFTA award winning director Tony Palmer, Keep On Burning is the ultimate story of those who decided to Keep The Faith. Special Features: This England: Tony Palmers 1977 Seminal Documentary on the Wigan Casino Optional Introduction by Tony Palmer Full Uncut Intwerview with Tony Palmer