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• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Three Gables / The Dying Detective | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £14.26   |  Saving you £-1.28 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  An old widow, Mrs Maberley (Mary Ellis), receives a suspicious offer of a large sum of money to move out of her depressing mansion and leave absolutely everything behind. Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) looks into this strange proposition and comes face to face with an enforcer and powerful pugilist (Steve Toussaint), who Holmes cuts down to size with verbal agility. Less lucky is Dr Watson (Edward Hardwicke), who goes a round with the oversized fellow after he catches him terrorising poor Mrs Maberley. This adaptation may, in all honesty, be an improvement on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's original story. As usual, Brett and Hardwicke are an exceptional team as Holmes and Watson. --Tom Keogh

• Funny Man - The Complete Series | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Featuring a regular cast that includes Jimmy Jewel, David Schofield, Sharon Duce, Jean Boht, Pamela Stephenson and Lynda Bellingham, Funny Man charts the mixed fortunes of an extended family of music-hall entertainers in search of their big break and was based on the experience of Jewel's father's company of players in the 1920s and '30s. The late 1920s is not the best time to be in the business of traditional variety entertainment, as audiences flock to the new cinemas opening in every town. But it is amid these inauspicious circumstances that the Gibsons - comedian Alec and his children Davey, Teddy and Kath, and an assortment of charismatic performers - make the move south from their native North East to try to break onto the London circuit. Encountering family tragedy, indifferent audiences and a constant shortage of funds, it's just as well that Alec Gibson is a tireless perfectionist, and a man who rarely accepts defeat...

• Inspector Morse - The Settling Of The Sun | DVD | (01/08/2007) from £7.80   |  Saving you £-2.81 (-56.30%)   |  RRP £4.99

  The tranquil cloisters of Oxford are shaken when a brutal murder of a Japanese student is discovered in what seems to be a ritual killing...

• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Eligible Bachelor | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £19.30   |  Saving you £-9.31 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A little over-extended as a two-hour movie, The Eligible Bachelor was one of several such feature-length productions made (late 1992) in Granada Television's long-running Sherlock Holmes series. Based on the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story The Adventure of the Noble Bachelor, this TV movie finds Holmes (the ailing Jeremy Brett, playing an increasingly darker and more neurotic detective) and Dr. Watson (Edward Hardwicke) called upon to help in a case involving the disappearance of Henrietta Doran (Paris Jefferson), fiancé of the noble Lord Robert St Simon (Simon Williams), who was last seen with a former lover of St Simon's, Flora Millar (Joanna McCallum). The unimaginative Scotland Yard instantly arrests Millar on suspicion of foul play, but it is Holmes who has to find the missing woman. Fans of the entire series might best enjoy this slightly clunky programme, though there is much of interest about Brett's performance to recommend it. --Tom Keogh

• Follyfoot - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Follyfoot was based on an idea by novelist Monica Dickens and starred Gillian Blake Steve Hodson and Christian Rodska as the trio of workers at a retirement home for old or unwanted horses.

• Inspector Morse - Service Of The Dead | DVD | (01/08/2007) from £6.73   |  Saving you £-1.74 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  A church warden is found dead in his vestry and Inspector Morse is put on the case but before long he has five murders to solve...