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• The Grand: The Complete Series | DVD | (20/06/2016) from £41.92   |  Saving you £-1.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  An early success for Russell T. Davies, this peak-time drama series explores the 'upstairs-downstairs' lives of the management, staff and guests of a luxury Manchester hotel in the 1920s. Starring Susan Hampshire, Tim Healy and Mark McGann, The Grand's compelling storylines often encompass the darker side of inter-war life: as poverty and exploitation, covert prostitution and unenlightened attitudes loom large, life is not all it seems behind the hotel's elegant façade New Year's Eve, 1918. Owners John and Sarah Bannerman celebrate the reopening of their refurbished hotel and the return of demobbed son Stephen. But their joy is marred by a crisis that could lose them the hotel and one that can only be resolved with the financial muscle of John's brother, Marcus. Amoral and ruthless to the point of sadistic, with a barely concealed interest in Sarah, Marcus now holds a key stake in the business, making sibling rivalry and conflict inevitable. This complete set contains all eighteen episodes from both series.

• The Grand | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £7.20   |  Saving you £15.78 (374.82%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Grand charts the trials and tribulations of the Bannerman family as they re-open their hotel following the end of the First World War.