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  • Michael Bentine's Potty Time - Series 1 [1973]Michael Bentine's Potty Time - Series 1 | DVD | (26/01/2004) from £8.28   |  Saving you £6.71 (81.04%)   |  RRP £14.99

    Long awaited release of the famous Thames children's series featuring Michael Bentine and his potty hand puppets.

  • Shadows - The Complete Third Series [DVD]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.

  • Bergerac - Series 5Bergerac - Series 5 | DVD | (03/09/2007) from £17.37   |  Saving you £7.62 (30.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

    Loved as much for his human failings as for his strengths Jim Bergerac of the Bureau des Etrangers is a reformed alcoholic and a tough professional with a rebellious streak. Series 5 finds him still with beautiful estate agent Susan Young (Louise Jameson) his most serious relationship since his marriage. Though when attractive jewel thief the 'Ice Maiden' Philippa Vale (Liza Goddard) turns up needing Jim's help again susan finds she has a rival who would be very happy to take t

  • Spyship [DVD]Spyship | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £25.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

    Enter a nightmarish world of political cover-ups of international consequence in the last decade of the Cold War in this six-part BBC drama. When an ordinary British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappears off the coast of Norway, journalist Martin Taylor (Tom Wilkinson) is determined to find out why. His father was on board, and is now missing. His investigations soon lead him to run up against the twin barriers of Royal Navy stonewalling and an impenetrable Soviet Polit...

  • Warrior Queen - The Complete Series [DVD]Warrior Queen - The Complete Series | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

    Boudicca, the widowed Queen of the Iceni tribe of East Anglia, to wrest power from the Romans in first-century Britain. Produced by Ruth Boswell (Timeslip, Tightrope, Shadows), Warrior Queen stars Sian Phillips as the fearless Celtic queen, Nigel Hawthorne as Catus Decianus, the rapacious Roman Procurator, and Michael Gothard as Druid priest Volthan. It is AD61. The Romans rule Britain. Prasutagus, King of the Iceni, is dying. In his will, he bequeaths one half of his kingdom to his two daughters; the other half is to be ceded to the Roman Emperor, Nero. Prasutagus's widow, Queen Boudicca, invites the Roman Procurator, Catus Decianus, to attend his burial. Catus Decianus, however, has no intention of attending 'this flea-bitten king's funeral'; instead, he arrives when it is over. It is an ominous sign...

  • The Little Matchgirl [DVD]The Little Matchgirl | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

    Twiggy. Roger Daltrey, Paul Daneman, Jimmy Jewel and Stratford Johns star in this Emmy-nominated musical adaptation of Hans Christian Anderson's poignant tale. One of the definitive Christmas stories, this well-loved version of The Little Matchgirl features the immortal festive hit Mistletoe and Wine, co-written by Jeremy Paul for the stage play, Scraps, on which this production is based.Christmastime brings little joy to the poor of Victorian London. Cold and hungry, with no gifts to exchange, they cannot afford to stop work, even on Christmas Day. Life is like that for the Little Matchgirl. She roams the streets selling matches for a penny a bundle, and those pennies have to keep her and her ragged father. They have known better times; but her mother, a singer in the music halls, died when the Matchgirl was very young, and life has since treated her harshly.Then, one day, she strikes one of her matches to keep warm and discovers in the flame a magic world. A world where she can go anywhere, and do anything... even fall in love.

  • Spoils Of War - Series 2Spoils Of War - Series 2 | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    England 1948 to 1950. The nation as a whole is picking itself up dusting itself off and starting all over again rebuilding businesses relationships and the political make-up of the country as a whole. Labour is in power with plans to nationalise key industries including the ironworks belonging to the wealthy Warrington family. For the working-class Haywards old class barriers are slowly disintegrating as they try to find their place in the new order of things. For Ros Warrington there's the question of her Catholicism and love for a man who cannot share her faith. That man Blake Hayward faces challenges of his own with the arrival from Berlin of his illegitimate child. Keir Hayward a steely-hearted communist finds that heart melting in the hands of a married woman. And what dark and dislocating plan does the newly arrived Richard Warrington have that will affect them all? One country two families finding their way in a post-war world. What awaits them is simply the spoils of war.

  • By The Sword Divided - Part 2By The Sword Divided - Part 2 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

    This classic BBC period drama series follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Lacey family living peacefully in their Arnescote castle until the onset of the English Civil War in 1640. The head of the family Sir Martin Lacey is unswervingly loyal to the King. However the family is torn apart when his eldest daughter Anne weds John Fletcher son of a merchant family who support the forces of Cromwell. Episodes comprise: Outrageous Fortune / A Sea Of Dangers / Ring Of

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