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• All At Number 20: The Complete Series | DVD | (15/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This Thames comedy series stars BAFTA-nominated Maureen Lipman as a recently widowed woman who must not only deal with her grief but also find a way to make ends meet and keep her bank manager at bay; her co-stars include Martin Clunes Gary Waldhorn and Carol Hawkins. Running for two series All at No. 20 is co-produced by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones with scripts by novelist Alex Shearer and former Sez Les contributor Richard Ommanney. This set comprises both series. Sheila Haddon's husband died eighteen months ago sans life insurance leaving her with nothing but cherished memories and a hefty mortgage on 'No. 20'. Now Sheila and daughter Monica are faced with the awful prospect of having to sell their beloved family home. The soft-hearted but independent Sheila doesn't relish the thought of calling on the help of old family friend Richard Beamish – perhaps lodgers will prove the solution to her predicament?

• Tommy Cooper Collection | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £16.79   |  Saving you £33.20 (197.74%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Tommy Cooper's comedy was timeless a true original who was everyone's favourite clown. Wearing his trademark Fez he delighted millions with bungled magic tricks and hilarious sketeches.

• Man About The House - Series 1 | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £7.98   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  One of Thames TV's most successful sitcoms about the ups and downs of mixed flat-sharing. Three's A Crowd: Chrissy and Jo throw a farewell party for their flatmate who's getting engaged and moving out. Next morining they find Robin asleep in their bath. They're looking for a new flatmate and Robin is looking for somewhere to live so the girls ask Robin to stay. All they have to do then is to talk the Ropers into agreeing to the new arrangement... And Mother Makes Four:

• Never The Twain - Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (20/09/2010) from £12.13   |  Saving you £7.86 (64.80%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Oliver Smallbridge (Davies) and Simon Peel (Sinden) are antiques dealers. After a falling-out when they were business partners the pair are now bitter enemies... and also next-door neighbours at homes and at work. Engaged in a continuous game of one-upmanship both men are shocked when they find out that their offspring are in love and want to marry as soon as possible.

• Fresh Fields - Series 1 | DVD | (12/04/2010) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  William and Hester Field have been very happily married for twenty years. Their children have flown the nest and Hester thinks there should be a few things left to do between now and the pension book. With a renewed zest for life and a fresh dynamism in their relationship she insists that the couple take up a number of new pastimes and challenges - even if William sometimes lacks his wife's enthusiasm and seemingly boundless energy. Starring Anton Rodgers (May to September) as accountant William and Julia McKenzie (Cranford) as accomplished cook Hester Fresh Fields' wry gentle humour made it a firm favourite with viewers spawning an equally popular sequel - French Fields - and earning McKenzie a BAFTA nomination for Best Light Entertainment Performance. The series which aired between 1984 and 1986 was produced and directed by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones (George and Mildred After Henry). This release contains the complete first series originally screened in 1984.

• Miss Jones and Son - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (23/01/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Paula Wilcox (Man About the House) stars in this comedy series depicting the complicated life of Elizabeth Jones, a young woman bringing up her baby alone at a time when single mothers faced widespread disapproval and prejudice. Written by Richard Waring (And Mother Makes Three) and produced and directed by Peter Frazer-Jones (Man About the House, Robin's Nest), Miss Jones and Son was the first British sitcom to depict a single mother.In this second series, Elizabeth and former neighbour Geoffrey say their sad farewells, with new tenant David Laurence a thirty-something widower taking on the empty flat. Elizabeth takes an instant liking to her new neighbour, but the necessities of making ends meet threaten to sabotage the budding relationship; the moneymaking schemes that Elizabeth and her equally cash-strapped friend Rose try to implement include setting up a crche in Liz's flat, leaving David noticeably unimpressed...

• After Henry - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (10/03/2008) from £8.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  After Henry follows the comfortable middle-class lives of three women; except that for one of them life isn't all that comfortable... Sarah has been left well provided for by her late husband but unfortunately she has also been left with a demanding mother and a prickly adolescent daughter who craves independence just as long as mother is there to clear up the mess... Episodes Comprise: 1. The Older Man 2. Phonecalls 3. The Teapot 4. Security 5. Romantic Complications 6. The Birthday

• Goldwyn - The Man And His Movies | DVD | (30/08/2004) from £21.17   |  Saving you £-5.18 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  From humble immigrant beginnings producer Samuel Goldwyn's tenacity and drive eventually yielded over 103 completed pictures with over 100 Academy Award nominations between them. Though he remained independent never working for a studio during his entire career Goldwyn's pictures frequently surpassed the quality and the talent of the major studios. Given unparalleled access to the Goldwyn archives Peter Jones and A. Scott Berg's celebrated Goldwyn biography - creates a vivid por

• Man About The House - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (20/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The complete third series of one of Thames TV's most successful sitcoms about the ups and downs of mixed flat-sharing. Episodes comprise: 1. Cuckoo In The Nest 2. Come Into My Parlour 3. I Won't Dance Don't Ask Me 4. Of Mice And Women 5. We Shall Not Be Moved 6. Three Of A Kind

• Indoor League | DVD | (13/08/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Cricketing legend Fred Trueman presents Indoor League - an antidote to the multi-million pound media sensation that modern day sports have become. Join Freddie as he enjoys his pipe and a pint of bitter whilst hosting the high-octane gladiatorial combat that is pub games - darts bar billiards skittles arm wrestling and shove ha'penny are all covered here. Indoor League lasted for 72 shows over four years and here's your chance to find out why! I

• George And Mildred - Series 1 | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George and Mildred was a spin-off from Johnny Mortimer and Brian Cookes successful 1970s sitcom Man About the House, and ran from 1976 to 1980. This release features the first six episodes. Starring the late, great Yootha Joyce as Mildred Roper, a sex-starved cockney housewife with pretensions to the middle classes, and Brian Murphy as George, her hopeless and incorrigible husband, this series sees them make the upward move to posh Middlesex suburbia, despite George being on supplementary benefit--mortgage conditions were evidently easier in 70s sitcomland. Their neighbours are snooty estate agent Jeffrey Fourmile, his wife Ann and son Tristram. Jeffrey is perturbed that the Ropers arrival will lower the tone of the neighbourhood ("Tristram will get nits!") as they stink up the street with their three-wheel car and cheap wartime furniture. Much mildly amusing comedy at the expense of the working/middle class divide ensues, with no double-entendre left unturned and some period gags to match the Ropers interior decor. Situations involving a local MP, Mildreds even snobbier sister and an unsightly caravan brought out the best in Joyce and Murphys excellent characters, while Nicholas Owen as Tristram was among the least annoying of child sitcom stars. --David Stubbs

• And Mother Makes Five - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (28/05/2012) from £6.59   |  Saving you £6.40 (97.12%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The final series of Thames highly popular sitcom ...And Mother Makes Three saw widow Sally Harrison (Wendy Craig, Butterflies) and widower David Redway finally getting spliced after a protracted on-off romance. This sequel series hilariously charts Sally's ongoing tribulations, with the scatterbrained mum and her rambunctious teenaged sons Simon and Peter now sharing a home with antiquarian bookseller David and his daughter Jane. Co-starring Richard Coleman, Robin Davies (Catweazle) and future Oscar-winning producer David Parfitt (Shakespeare in Love), and featuring a number of episodes written by BAFTA winner Wendy Craig, ...And Mother Makes Five is produced and directed by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones.

• George And Mildred - Series 2 | DVD | (30/01/2006) from £13.50   |  Saving you £-0.51 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  George and Mildred are the ultimate odd couple the popular landlord and landlady from Man About The House who became a household name with Thames Television in the 1970's and 80's. Mildred is vain snobbish and domineering; George is shy timid frigid and henpecked. Together they make a great partnership! Episodes comprise: 1. Jumle Pie 2. All Around The Clock 3. The Travelling Man 4. The Unkindest Cut Of All 5. The Right Way To Travel 6. The Dorothy Letters 7.

• Fresh Fields: The Complete Second Series | DVD | (23/08/2010) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  William and Hester Field have been very happily married for twenty years. Their children have flown the nest and Hester thinks there are a few things left to do between now and the pension book. With a renewed zest for life and a fresh dynamism in their relationship she insists that the couple take up a number of new pastimes and challenges - even if William sometimes lacks his wife's enthusiasm and seemingly boundless energy. Starring Anton Rodgers (May to September) as accountant William and Julia McKenzie (Cranford) as accomplished cook Hester Fresh Fields' wry gentle humour made it a firm favourite with viewers spawning an equally popular sequel - French Fields - and earning McKenzie a BAFTA nomination for Best Light Entertainment Performance. The series which aired between 1984 and 1986 was produced and directed by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones (George and Mildred After Henry). This release contains the complete second series originally screened in 1984.

• Indoor League - Volume 2 | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Cricketing legend Fred Trueman presents Indoor League - an antidote to the multi-million pound media sensation that modern-day sports have become. Join Freddie as he enjoys his pipe and a pint of bitter whilst hosting the high-octane gladiatorial combat that is pub games - darts, bar billiards, skittles, arm wrestling and shove ha'penny are all covered here. This fondly remembered series lasted for seventy-two shows over four years, and here's your chance to find out why! A peak-time ratings ...

• And Mother Makes Five - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (06/08/2012) from £7.32   |  Saving you £5.67 (43.60%)   |  RRP £12.99

  BAFTA winner Wendy Craig (Butterflies), stars with Richard Coleman, Robin Davies (Catweazle) and Oscar winner David Parfitt (Shakespeare in Love) in this highly popular sequel to Thames' hit sitcom And Mother Makes Three. Scripted by Wendy Craig and produced and directed by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones, the series charts the ongoing tribulations of Sally Harrison - the well-meaning, deeply loving but scatterbrained mother of two rambunctious teenaged sons, now sharing her life with second husband, antiquarian bookseller David Redway, and stepdaughter Jane. When the Redway family faces a spell of austerity, Sally rallies to the call with a vengeance. Yet, no matter how hard she works, it seems her efforts are always taken for granted. After taking some tips on the art of playing hard to get, she finds her bewildered brood finally start to sit up and take notice... but can calamity-prone Sally keep up the act?

• The Lost World Of Communism | DVD | (13/04/2009) from £16.16   |  Saving you £3.83 (19.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  1989 was a year of revolution: it marked the collapse of communism in Eastern and Central Europe and and an end to an entire way of life for millions of people behind the Iron Curtain. Beginning in Hungary the retreat from communism picked up speed over the summer when the Poles won an overwhelming victory in free elections over their pro-Soviet rulers. In the fall East Germany and Czechoslovakia achieved freedom with surprisingly little violence. Only Romania at the end of the year witnessed a savage battle in the capital and the summary execution of the most notorious of Eastern Europe's dictators Nicolae Ceausescu.

• And Mother Makes Five - The Complete Series 4 | DVD | (26/11/2012) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  BAFTA winner Wendy Craig stars with Richard Coleman Robin Davies and Oscar winner David Parfitt in this hit Thames sitcom – sequel to the highly popular And Mother Makes Three.

• Never The Twain - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (04/06/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-7.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Remarkably, the Johnny Mortimer-scripted series Never the Twain ran to over 50 episodes between 1981 and 1984 on ITV. It starred Donald Sinden as Simon Peel, a stuffy, upper-middle class antiques dealer who lives next door to Oliver Smallbridge (Windsor Davies of It Aint Half Hot, Mum fame), a working-class lad made good, also in the antiques trade. As the first series establishes, theirs is a prickly relationship, not just because theyre rivals in trade but also rivals for the affections of the middle-aged, comely Veronica. They are aghast when they discover their respective son and daughter plan to marry, coming on like the Capulets and Montagues of Middle England. Never the Twain is a pleasantly predictable antique of the sitcom variety, redeemed by Sinden and Davies gruff, blustery and persistent antagonism. It depicts a cosy, never-never world of "dirty weekends", huge suburban houses, borderline homophobic mirth and reliable puns on "genes" and "jeans"--the sort of series in which characters greet surprising news by spraying a mouthful of tea halfway across the room. Some will find it barely endurable, others a welcome reminder of a bygone televisual era before alternative comedy became the ubiquitous norm. This DVD contains an episode guide and picture gallery. --David Stubbs

• Robin's Nest - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Now a qualified chef Robin from ""Man About the House"" (1973) sets up home with his girlfriend and a business with his girlfriend's father.