Meet the magician with a gift for solving impossible crimes. Working from his home in a converted windmill, Jonathan Creek is the unsung genius who creates baffling tricks for a top illusionist. Gradually he is drawn into a world of macabre murders and miraculous events for which there would appear to be no rational explanation - a world where only his unique flair for lateral thinking can shed light on the most impenetrable mysteries. This boxset includes series 1-5, three Christmas specials and three standalone specials packaged together for the first time. This is 15+ years of Jonathan Creek content. BONUS FEATURES: SERIES 1: Long Hair & Duffel Coat Audio commentary (1 episode) Screen test SERIES 4: Video profiles Deleted Scenes Hot Stuff pop video THE GRINNING MAN - Behind the Scenes Deleted Scenes THE SPECIALS: The Grinning Man The Judas Tree The Clue of the Savant's Thumb CHRISTMAS SPECIALS: Black Canary Satan's Chimney Daemons' Roost
Relive the gang's glorious return with this video and DVD that unites the original cast members: Jimmy Nail (Oz) Timothy Spall (Barry) Kevin Whately (Neville) Tim Healy (Dennis) Pat Roach (Bomber) and Christopher Fairbank (Moxey) plus newcomer Noel Clarke (Wyman) who plays the son of the sadly late Wayne. The last 15 years have been kinder to some of the lads than others. One drives a Bentley another a taxi. Marriages have come and gone. But when Oz turns up with an irresistible
Benidorm returns for an 7th Series! Exploiting the working class stereotype of the popular Spanish tourist destination Benidorm, the television series features an ensemble cast. Set primarily in the Solana all-inclusive resort hotel, Benidorm follows regulars and first-time holiday makers on their holidays abroad. Despite their disparate backgrounds they all have one thing in common-a quest for getting value for money. Expect guest appearance, sun, sea and shenanigans! actors Elsie Kelly, Crissy Rock and Johnny Vegas will return but the Garveys will be leaving the cast .
Britain's favourite brickies reunite for their final adventure... but will Thailand ever recover? Following a narrow escape from a British Embassy in Africa besieged by rioters the lads relocate to the Australian Embassy in Laos for their next job. After all their adventures one by one the boys start realising there's more to life than being part of their gang - a feeling brought into sharp focus after a letter arrives from Bomber telling them he's swapping his trowel for a settled
According to legend, the dark, forbidding edifice of Daemons' Roost was once home to a sorcerer named Jacob Surtees, who harnessed the powers of Hell to subjugate his victims. Living there today is the veteran film director Nathan Clore, whose output of schlock horror movies in the Seventies generated its own brand of terror among cinema audiences. His health now failing, he has summoned home his stepdaughter Alison, to share with her, finally, the dreadful truth about what happened to her family there when she was just a child. Were her mother and sisters really killed by demonic forces? And what is the macabre background to the seemingly impossible death of her husband Stephen's first wife - in a locked room murder that became known as the Striped Unicorn Affair? The chilling solution to it all is one that will tragically resonate with events in Jonathan Creek's own distant past
A nine-disc set featuring 17 television adaptations of stories by the Queen of Crime and multi award-winning writer Ruth Rendell. This unique boxset includes three of Inspector Wexfords best mystery stories - Simisola Road Rage and Harm Done. The stories feature actors of the highest calibre: Colin Firth Peter Egan Leslie Phillips Sylvia Syms Amanda Redman Keith Barron Ronald Pickup Susannah York and Jerome Flynn.
Hot from winning the National TV Award for Best Comedy, Benidorm is back! It’s time for more fun and frolics in the sun for some Solana regulars and some new faces too!After the passing of her beloved husband Mel, Madge finds herself on her uppers, and Mick and Janice are going to have to help her get back on her feet. Gavin is in residence poolside at The Solana but this year without Troy, who had to remain in the UK to take care of his dying father, so Gavin has brought his outrageous employee Kenneth with him. The Solana has a new bartender too in the form of Les, who is delighted to find out that Janey has no objections to him coming to work dressed as a woman. Meanwhile Les’ son Liam enjoys his first taste of holiday romance when he falls for new holidaymaker Natalie, much to the irritation of her fellow traveller Sam. So pull up a sun lounger, slap on the sun lotion and get ready to watch the action around Britain’s favourite pool.
Tamsin Greig and Michael Landes star in this romantic comedy drama penned by sitcom legend David Renwick. Love Soup looks at what happens when your first love is a distant memory but you haven't yet found the one. Dealing with the parallel lives of a perfectly matched couple who have yet to meet each other the comedy-drama follows their hopes fears and dating disasters as they try to remain sane in a world from which they each feel increasingly excluded. Tamsin Greig (Green Wing) plays Alice Chenery an account manager for a perfume company in a London department store struggling to maintain a flat in Brighton she cannot afford. Michael Landes who has starred in The Wonder Years and The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air plays Gil Raymond a successful American comedy writer who has fled his home country in search of artistic integrity and a lasting relationship.
The boys are off to Cuba to drink rum smoke cigars dance the rumba and live 'la vida dulce'! After a job in Russia goes badly wrong and with the help of serendipity and exaggeration the boys are in Havana Cuba rebuilding parts of the British Embassy following hurricane damage. A requisite in the law states that only British Nationals may work on the repair and construction of British diplomatic buildings: enter the 'Magnificent Seven'!
Edith and Phil are retired and in love. And when she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on 12, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce. All they wanted was a quiet retirement filled with sea and sand. It's just a shame about the son.
Slap on the sun lotion reserve the best pool lounger and get ready for another series of fun and frolics at the all-inclusive Solana resort in Benidorm! The regulars are all back and are joined by a host of new holiday makers as the action centres around a new baby a romantic proposal first love fighting cheating a wedding pregnancy and memory loss! And that's just a week's worth of fun in the sun!
First broadcast in 1983 with its second series airing in 1986, Auf Wiedersehen Pet was an unlikely comedy hit about a group of British labourers forced to work in Germany during the recession. Scripted by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, (previously responsible for Porridge and The Likely Lads) its main players are likeable stereotypes from all over England: Barry (Timothy Spall), the bumbling, haplessly pretentious Brummie; gentle West Country giant Bomber (Pat Roach); amiable Scouse Moxey (Christopher Fairbank); and the three Geordies, nervous Neville (Kevin Whately), loudmouth xenophobic lummox Oz (Jimmy Nail) and put-upon Dennis (Tim Healy), the reluctant gaffer of the mob. The second series saw the lads reunited to work for a dubious entrepreneur called Ally Fraser to whom Dennis owes money, and the location varying from Spain to Derbyshire. Gary Holton (cheeky cockney Wayne) died during the making of the series and Clement and La Frenais farmed out several episodes to other writers like Stan Hey, but the characters were well established by this point and the comedy held up. An episode in which the gang upset the locals of a stuffy country pub with their very presence is particularly memorable. A belated third series followed in 2002.--David Stubbs
Set in 1960 in Greenock the hub of the Clyde's shipbuilding industry. Three friends are about to leave school - they are about to be released into a wilderness of a town that seems to offer them nothing. Wonderful acting witty dialogue nostalgic footage of Greenock Endearing characters and some hilarious classroom scenes combine to create a realistic gritty often harrowing and sometimes funny portrayal of school life in 1960's Scotland. Leaving is one of the prestigious films screened under the BBC2 Screen Two banner. Released for the first time on DVD it was originally broadcast in 1988. Written by Daniel Boyle who went on to write Hamish McBeth Inspector Morse Taggart Rebus and Lewis TV dramas.
The entire four series of Bugs spread over 13 discs! Series 1:Helicopter pilot Ed en route with a government agent and a highly sensitive package realises that his passenger and cargo may be very valuable when he is engaged in a deadly aerial dogfight with another helicopter. Ed shoots his aggressor down and later discovers that the package is a revolutionary satellite-jamming device - SACROS - developed by the government at their intelligence base The Hive. The adventure i
Stephen Fry plays Peter Kingdom the country solicitor standing up for the little guy. Although he has a large and varied case load some funny some sad. Peter uses the law to care for his clients and those around him. Big-hearted and slightly eccentric Peter appears to be content but his life is overshadowed by the mysterious disappearance of his brother. Fry stars alongside a distinguished cast including Hermione Norris Celia Imrie Phillida Law Tony Slattery Richard Wilson Joss Ackland and newcomer Karl Davies..
In Pontyberry, the fictional town in the South Wales Valleys, a 40-something divorce is trying to juggle the demands of family life. With her son Luke in prison, her teenage daughter Emma who refuses to do what’s best for her and her little boy Ben who still needs his mam, Stella doesn’t want for distractions. But when Emma reveals some shocking news, Stella’s world gets tipped upside down. She’s not on her own though because Stella’s world is peopled with a selection of odd-ball friends and relatives always ready to help her out, from ex-husband Karl and his vacuous girlfriend Nadine, to love-lorn lollipop man Alan and her best friend Paula – the functioning alcoholic undertaker. And then of course, there’s the gorgeous Sean… DVD Extras Behind the Scenes
Features the complete thirty-nine episodes from the ground-breaking comedy series.
The Spa is no ordinary health club. Staffed by an array of improbable, intimidating and entertaining characters, it's an experience not to be missed. In charge of the daily routine is manageress Alison Crabbe (BAFTA and Comedy Award-Winning Rebecca Front), a formidable woman who barely attempts to conceal her dislike for her team - or indeed, The Spa's customers. Alison has a vision for The Spa - a vision that she feels would be much easier to achieve were it not for the irritating presence of unfit pensioners, scatty receptionists and new age therapists. In reality, it's Alison herself who's the main barrier to The Spa's success, but somehow she manages to get away with it. Probably thanks to the rest of her staff being either equally incompetent or too wrapped up in their own worlds to notice. Special Features: Staff Diaries
This is the complete box set of all four series of the popular hit comedic television show Benidorm, set in Spain, which depicts the lives of working class people on their holidays abroad to this tourist magnet destination, whether they're first timers or regulars, with amusing results.
Eccentric inventor Professor Branestawm fights the forces of evil in this comedy adventure film based on Norman Hunter's iconic children's books. Armed with a multitude of crazy inventions and alongside his eccentric allies Colonel Dedshott Mrs Flittersnoop and young apprentice Connie Branestawm the original mad professor takes on scheming businessman Mr Bullimore and officious local councillor Harold Haggerstone to try and stop their plans to bulldoze his workshop to make way for a giant munitions factory right in the middle of town.
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