"Director: Sidney Lotterby"

• As Time Goes By - Series 9 | DVD | (21/08/2006) from £20.98   |  Saving you £-4.99 (-31.20%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Long ago Lionel a dashing young British Army officer met Jean a lovely student nurse and fell deeply in love. When Lionel was shipped off to fight in the Korean war the two lost touch. Now they meet again and slowly begin to rekindle their romance. Episodes Comprise: 1. Time To Settle Down 2. Another Proposal 3. The World Will Always Welcome Lovers (aka: The Wedding) 4. What Now? 5. You Must Remember This (Parts 1 & 2)

• Open All Hours - Series 1 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £4.87   |  Saving you £9.38 (259.83%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Already old-fashioned when the show was made, Open All Hours now seems like a glimpse into a much earlier world. Ronnie Barker stars as Arkwright, a tight-fisted middle-aged Doncaster shopkeeper, while David Jason as Arkwright's nephew Granville makes deliveries by bicycle in a manner more evocative of the 1930s than the 70s. Barker's relationship with Jason parallels his rapport with Richard Beckinsale in Porridge (1974-8), and while the pair may not be in prison, the confines of the small general dealer's shop often seem like that to Granville. Even though at 36 Jason was patently way too old for the supposedly teenage Granville, he and Barker made a great double act. The dry Northern humour centres mostly on money and sex, the latter interest in Arkwright's case being the buxom charms of Nurse Gladys Emmanuel, very well played by Lynda Baron. Like writer Roy Clarke's Last of the Summer Wine, the episodes are more amusing character sketches than stories, with the 1973 pilot and first regular episode "Full of Mysterious Promise" serving simply to introduce the players. In "A Mattress on Wheels", Arkwright is tempted to buy a van, and in "A Nice Cosy Little Disease" decides a fake illness will prompt Gladys Emmanuel to provide more than NHS standard TLC. "Beware of the Dog" is Arkwright's response to an attempted burglary, while when his best friend dies he plans a "Well Catered Funeral". Finally, in "Apples and Self Service", paranoia defeats Arkwright's attempts to move with the times. On the DVD: Open All Hours has a 4:3 picture that is exceptional for a 1970s sitcom, while the mono sound is excellent. Extras are a reasonably detailed text biography of series writer Roy Clarke, and, much more notably, a complete bonus episode, the 1973 series pilot. The picture quality of this is not up to that of the series proper, but it is perfectly fine for vintage BBC TV. --Gary S Dalkin

• As Time Goes By Series 1 & 2 | DVD | (17/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Long ago Lionel a dashing young British Army officer met Jean a lovely student nurse and fell deeply in love. When Lionel was shipped off to fight in the Korean war the two lost touch. Now they meet again and slowly begin to rekindle their romance. Episode titles: Series 1: 1. You Must Remember This 2. Getting To Know You - Again 3. The Copper Kettle 4. Surprise Surprise 5. Relationships 6. The Picnic Series 2: 1. White Hunter 2. A Weekend Away 3. Visiting Rocky 4. Why? 5. Misunderstandings 6. The Cruise 7. The Book Signing

• Porridge - Series 2 | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £4.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (160.32%)   |  RRP £12.99

  All the episodes from the second series of the classic TV comedy. Just Desserts Fletch is appalled - apparently there is a thief amongst his fellow inmates at Slade Prison! Somebody has lifted a 2lb tin of Pineapple chunks from his cell. Heartbreak HotelIt is just too ridiculous to be true: surely Godber could never attack anyone? But then he had just received a Dear John letter from his beloved Denise. Disturbing The PeaceIt should be good news that Mackay is go

• As Time Goes By - Series 2 | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £9.43   |  Saving you £6.56 (69.57%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Long ago Lionel a dashing young British Army officer met Jean a lovely student nurse and fell deeply in love. When Lionel was shipped off to fight in the Korean war the two lost touch. Now they meet again and slowly begin to rekindle their romance. Series 2: 1. White Hunter 2. A Weekend Away 3. Visiting Rocky 4. Why? 5. Misunderstandings 6. The Cruise 7. The Book Signing

• As Time Goes By - Series 4 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

• As time Goes By - A Romantic Selection | DVD | (05/02/2007) from £6.31   |  Saving you £9.68 (153.41%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Six 'romantic' episodes of the well-loved hit show As Time Goes By individually selected by the Director & Producer Sydney Lotterby.