"Director: Val Guest"

• The Arthur Askey Collection - Back Room Boy/Band Waggon/Bees In Paradise/King Arthur Was A Gentleman/Miss London Ltd/I Thank You | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £49.99   |  Saving you £-25.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A six disc collection from Arthur Askey including: Back Room Boy Band Waggon Bees In Paradise King Arthur Was A Gentleman Miss London Ltd I Thank Yo

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 - Vol. 6 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Dorzak: A spaceship lands on the moon. A beautiful young woman emerges from inside seeking medical attention for a colleague who was injured by a criminal that they had captured. The criminal turns out to be a man from Maya's home planet Psychon named Dorzac and persuades Maya that he was not responsible for the injury signalling the start of the troubles to come. Devil's Planet: Answering a distress signal Koenig and Blake Maine go to Entra. The first thing they see is a man being chased by three beautiful girls carrying long electric whips! Maine is killed and then Koenig imprisoned. Can he escape? The Immunity Syndrome: On a seemingly inhabitable planet a series of misfortunes befall Alpha's advance party. Tony Verdeschi is rendered insane by a piercing sound. The metal in the Eagle corrodes and the craft starts to fall apart. Two Alphans die after drinking spring water. Then a skeleton is found inside a geodetic structure with a video beside it explaining how any future visitors might survive. The Dorcons: A huge alien Dorcon ship materialises nearby. When the three leaders demand Maya be sent to them Koenig refuses. A leader comes aboard the spaceship and takes Maya and Alpha by force. But Koenig manages to come along too and using the power struggle between the three leaders tries to rescue Maya.

• Miss London Ltd | DVD | (19/02/2007) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-3.08 (-61.70%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Askey stars as a man trying to save his flagging escort agency. A new partner suggests getting some new girls in just in time for the soldiers' leave. The film also features the English singing favourite of the forties Anne Shelton.

• The Persuaders: The Complete Series (Repackaged) | DVD | (01/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  A 9 disc set featuring the complete collection (all 24 episodes ever produced) of the cult TV series featuring John Barry's classic theme tune! Upper crust Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and nouveau riche Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) two wealthy playboys from very different backgrounds are paired up by a stern judge who tasks them with becoming international crimestoppers.... Episodes Comprise: 1. Overture 2. The Gold Napoleon 3. Take Seven 4. Greensleeves 5. Powerswitch 6. The Time and the Place 7. Someone Like Me 8. Anyone Can Play 9. The Old the New and the Deadly 10. Angie Angie 11. Chain of Events 12. That's Me Over There 13. The Long Goodbye 14. The Man in the Middle 15. Element of Risk 16. A Home of One's Own 17. Five Miles to Midnight 18. Nuisance Value 19. The Morning After 20. Read and Destroy 21. A Death in the Family 22. The Ozerov Inheritance 23. To the Death Baby 24. Someone Waiting

• The Diamond Mercenaries | Blu Ray | (18/12/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In this edge-of-the-seat action drama, Telly Savalas (The Dirty Dozen, Kelly s Heroes and TVs Kojak) plays Harry Webb, a ruthless security mastermind for an international diamond syndicate trying to stop the disappearance of millions of dollars worth of gems from a South African mine. Life is cheap is this corner of Africa but Webb s deputy, Mike Bradley, (Peter Fonda, Easy rider) has begun to realise how bloodthirsty his boss really is. Never the less, hoping for a better life with his girlfriend Clare (played by Maud Adams, eye-catching bond girl Octopussy), Bradley unwillingly becomes involved in a desperate operation to plunder the mine. The raid is planned by a motley bunch of mercenaries including O.J. Simpson (The Naked Gun), Hugh O Brian (Game of Death, The Shootist) and the menacing Christopher Lee (the Star Wars series and The Lord Of The Rings), who quickly demonstrate by killing an innocent women how they can be as merciless as Webb. He will certainly stop enough nothing to protect the company and Bradley and Clare are going to be caught in the middle when the bullets start flying... Released in the U.S. as Killer Force.

• Space: 1999 - Vol. 4 - Episodes 13-16 | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on an astounding first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds, and ran for two seasons from 1975-77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. Those circumstances: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from Earth orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course, the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propelling it out of Earth orbit and flying through space without regard to physical law. In "Earthbound", aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Space: 1999 - Vol. 6 - Episodes 21-24 | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on an astounding first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds, and ran for two seasons from 1975-77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. Those circumstances: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from Earth orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course, the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propelling it out of Earth orbit and flying through space without regard to physical law. In "Earthbound", aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense - The Complete Collection | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This fantastic box set features all 13 feature-length movies from the Hammer House Of Mystery And Suspense series of films. Featuring: 1.Czech Mate 2.The Sweet Scent Of Death 3.A Distant Scream 4.The Late Nancy Irving 5.In Possession 6.Black Carrion 7.Last Video And Testament 8.Mark Of The Devil 9.The Corvini Inheritance 10.Paint Me A Murder 11.Child's Play 12.And The Wall Came Tumbling Down 13.Tennis Court

• Space: 1999 - Vol. 5 - Episodes 17-20 | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  When it was made there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on a first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds and ran for two seasons from 1975-77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm, which causes the moon to break away from Earth orbit and travel endlessly through space. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for the premise of the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propelling it out of Earth orbit and flying through space without regard to any physical laws. And in "Earthbound" aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are valid complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena the crew encounter on their journey through the Galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Abominable Snowman, The / X The Unknown | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £23.99

  A double bill of vintage horrors from Hammer Studio: Val Guest directs Nigel Kneale's script of The Abominable Snowman (1957) while Leslie Norman directs Jimmy Sangster's Quatermass-inspired X The Unknown (1956).

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Metamorph: Koenig goes to rescue two captured pilots from the planet Psychon but comes to meet Mentor a man lording over a world of virtual zombies who work for him as miners. Koenig believes he is capable of defeating Mentor and preventing him using a biological computer that feeds on the minds and bodies of his slaves. The Exiles: Travelling through space are fifty cylinder-shaped objects. When Koenig recovers one inside is a young man named Cantar. This is the mark of the trouble to come as Cantar and his wife force their way into the power station and use its energy to transport them to their own planet from which they were exiled. One Moment of Humanity: Zamara a striking alien woman materialises aboard Moonbase and takes two people back to her own planet. However Zamara and her accomplice Zarl are in fact super-androids developed by successive generations of self-reproducing computers and want to wipe out the humans who invented them. All That Glisters: After scanning a planet which contains Milgonite a rare mineral vital to Alpha's life support system the Alphans are eager to visit it. However by the time that they discover that there is no Milgonite only a deceptive lethal drug it is too late. The deadly rock is already aboard Alpha.

• Space: 1999 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on a first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds--an astounding amount--and ran for two seasons from 1975 to 77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. Those circumstances are: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from its orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propel it out of orbit and sent it flying through space without regard for any physical laws. In "Earthbound", aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Space: 1999 | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £45.99

  For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on a first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds, an astounding amount, and ran for two seasons from 1975-77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. The moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from Earth's orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course the show is not without its detractors, and has been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticized the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway," which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propelling it out of Earth's orbit and flying through space without regard to any physical laws. In "Earthbound," aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the Galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Space: 1999 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (30/04/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  For the time, there had never been a more lavishly produced science fiction TV series than Space: 1999, which was British-made on a first-season budget of 3.25 million pounds--an astounding amount--and ran for two seasons from 1975 to 77. What keeps fans enthralled after all these years has only partly to do with the first-rate production values, the plausibly constructed spaceship models and expert special effects. The tone of the show is one of scientific dispassion, setting it apart from its TV SF predecessors such as Star Trek in which the mood is more generally convivial. Our heroes here are in dire circumstances that require cool heads as a survival trait. Those circumstances are: the moon and the 311 crew members of Moonbase Alpha experience a cataclysm that causes the moon to break away from its orbit and travel endlessly through space, making our heroes into unintentional explorers. No TV series has created a more palpable feel of hard science fiction than this. Of course the show is not without its detractors, having been soundly lambasted for its many scientific errors. No less august a figure than Isaac Asimov criticised the show for its premise in the opening episode "Breakaway", which had nuclear explosions on the "dark side of the moon" somehow propel it out of orbit and sent it flying through space without regard for any physical laws. In "Earthbound", aliens travelling to Earth state it will take them 75 years to reach their destination, making one wonder why it didn't take the moon that long to encounter the aliens. While these are serious complaints, fans tend to remember the scientific seriousness of the series and the sense of awe created by the many strange creatures and phenomena they encounter on their journey through the galaxy. --Jim Gay, Amazon.com

• Hammer Horror - The Early Classics | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Four Sided Triangle (Dir. Terence Fisher 1953): Murray stars as Dr. Bill Leggat who along with his childhood friends Lena and Robin creates a machine that can flawlessly replicate anything be it animate or inanimate. Undermining the trio's professional relationship is the sexual tension that has been brewing for years. Both men are attracted to Lena but on the eve of the public announcement of their invention Lena declares her love for Robin. Devastated Bill decides to clone Lena and names the clone who has all of Lena's feelings and memories Helen. Confident that Helen will love him Bill takes her on a holiday. However while away Bill's relationship with Helen does not go as planned causing Bill to resort to some shady experiments on Helen that will force her to love him. Produced by Hammer studios and directed by their most celebrated director Terence Fisher Four Sided Triangle was something of a precursor to many of their most famous films The Quatermass Xperiment (Dir. Val Guest 1955): A missile is launched by Professor Quatermass and his team but when it lands back in the English countryside two of the crew members have disappeared. The third who is barely alive undergoes a quite terrifying transformation which threatens Earth's very existence... Quatermass 2 (Dir. Val Guest 1957): Quatermass is intrigued by strange images on his radar. Thinking them to be meteorites he follows them to a village which on his arrival he finds has been completely destroyed... X The Unknown (Dir. Leslie Norman 1956): Penned by master horror screenwriter Jimmy Sangster and intelligently directed by Leslie (father of film critic Barry) Norman. The story sees a mysterious gelatinous monster which feeds off radioactivity terrorising a remote Scottish village.

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 - Vol. 4 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Seed of Destruction: Whilst exploring a bizarre asteroid Koenig is detained and replaced by a double. The fake Koenig returns to Moonbase with a crystal which is discovered will draw all the energy from Moonbase in order to revitalise its home the steroid where the real Koenig is still a prisoner. The Beta Cloud: After a cloud of space dust causes a mystery illness on Alpha an Eagle crew is sent to track the storm cloud. They return with a terrifying space creature which they discovered is their agent and wants the Moonbase life support system. Tony and Maya must fight to defeat the space creature. A Matter of Balance: When Koenig and Shermeen decide to explore an apparently lifeless planet Shermeen wanders into a temple and comes under the spell of a Vindrus. She wants to help Vindrus' doomed race but soon learns that for each Vindrus saved one Alphan will be doomed and that she is the first in line. Space Warp: Two crises strike the Alphans simultaneously. Koenig and Tony who are checking out a derelict spaceship in when Eagle One encounter a space warp and end up five light years away while Maya is stricken down by a fever and changes into a range of creatures. Before long she changes into a space animal and escapes to the moon surface. Koenig and Tony began to find a way back through.

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 - Vol. 3 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £9.98   |  Saving you £6.01 (60.22%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Brian The Brain: A spaceship approaching the Moon identifies itself as one of the four 'Swift' ships that left Earth in 1996 and disappeared. Inside there is no crew; just a lively computer named Brian the Brain. Once aboard it kidnaps Helena and Koenig. New Adam New Eve: A man appears claiming to be God and selects two couple to begin a new Earth. The couples (Helena with Tony Verdeschi and Koenig with Maya) are mismatched but using his powers 'God' makes it seem alright. However it is discovered that God is not God but instead Magus a cosmic magician. The AB Chrysalis: After regular bombardments by enormous electrical waves one more such wave could spell final destruction for Moonbase Alpha. Koenig visits the source of the bombardments a nearby planet and discovers a civilisation where people are in a chrysalis stage protected only by their computer which sees Moonbase as a threat to them and is therefore attacking it. Catacombs of the Moon: In the Catacombs of the Moon engineer Patrick Osgood is searching for titanium to save his wife's life in heart surgery and because it is vital to the Moonbase Alpha's life support system. Osgood fails to find any metal and takes his wife into the catacombs only to go missing. Koenig decides to release some titanium from the store but now must find the Osgoods.

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 - Vol. 5 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Bringers of Wonder (Part One): After crashing his Eagle Koenig is dragged from the wreckage unconscious. Meanwhile a faster-than-light-ship arrives on the Moon (the 'superswift'). One of the crew Guido announces that transport will soon be coming from Earth to rescue the Alphans but when Koenig regains consciousness he sees hideous aliens who plan to kill him. The Bringers of Wonder (Part Two): Having survived Koenig suggests that it could have been the brain machine which kept him from being deceived. Meanwhile the aliens are planning to manipulate three Alphans into blowing up the Moon's nuclear waste dumps to create energy. It is soon left to Maya Helena and Koenig to defeat the aliens. The Lambda Factor: A pretty young Alpha technician dies a horrible death. Maya discovers that a huge gaseous cloud is giving off Lambda waves which could give some people paranormal powers. Carolyn takes over the Commander Centre and Moonbase. Koenig must fight a mental battle against her to decide the future of Moonbase. The Seance Spectre: The planet Tora is sighted but is on a collision course with the Moon. A small group of angered Alphans use their laser guns to take over the Command Center made off-limits by Koenig. They hold a seance and claim Tora would be habitable. Koenig regains control but is faced with the ever-impending crash with Tora and the rebel opposition which could jeopardise things further.

• Space: 1999 - Series 2 - Vol. 2 | DVD | (12/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Journey To Where: Hopes are high when a message is received by neutrone transmission from Earth. But although the moon has been in outer space for only a few months it is 2120 AD on Earth. On the message is the technology which will allow the Alphans to return to Earth. However when Koenig Helena and Alan Carter decide to try it out they find themselves on Earth in 1339 during a Civil War. The Taybor: Taybor materialises on the Moon an interstellar trader with an excellent spaceship that travels through hyper-space. Koenig offers the entire Moon in exchange for the secret of Taybor's hyper-spacial travel. But Taybor wants Maya and when Koenig refuses Taybor kidnaps her. The Rules of Luton: Temporarily left on Luton a planet with lush vegetation Koenig and Maya explore. But when Koenig eats some flowers and Maya smells some flowers a thunderous voice booms out accusing them of murder. Their damage to the planet is unforgivable and they must face the consequences. The Mark of Archanon: A metallic cabinet long buried beneath the surface of the moon is recovered. Inside are Pasc and his son Etrec from the planet Archanon. Pasc was part of a team sent on a mission of goodwill but the hatred and violence on Earth was contagious. Pasc uses his new lease of life to make up for past misdeeds.

• Peter Cushing - The Peter Cushing Collection | DVD | (13/03/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This terrific box set features a profusion of Peter Cushing-led horror films. The Abominable Snowman (Dir. Val Guest 1957): The final film collaboration between director Val Guest and writer Nigel Kneale. Starring Forrest Tucker and Peter Cushing The Abominable Snowman tells of an expedition to the Himalayas to track down the mythical Yeti. A wonderfully atmospheric chiller from the heyday of the Hammer Studios. Island of Terror (Dir. Terence Fisher 1966): When oh when will scientists learn to stop playing with radiation? Island of Terror takes place on a remote island off the coast of Ireland. No phones no regular transport to and from the mainland but there is a well-equipped cancer research center where the well intentioned - but foolish! - scientists are irradiating lumps of tissue. The local constable finds a body with no bones in it ('No bones?' 'No bones!') and soon a team from London led by the ever-game Peter Cushing arrives to investigate. Let's hope that darned generator doesn't give out... Island of Terror isn't going to keep you awake at night but it is a lot of silly fun. Be warned though - whatever the evil menace is it can climb trees! The Blood Beast Terror (Dir. Vernon Sewell 1968): A Victorian English entomologist whose daughter happens to be a giant moth moves with her to a quiet village where he can begin work on an insect mate for her. His family problems worsen when his winged daughter starts killing people and drinking their blood. Frankenstein and the Monster from Hell (Dir. Terence Fisher 1974): Doctor Helder (Briant) is sent to an asylum for experimenting on cadavers. There he is rescued by Doctor Carl Victor (Cushing) the original Doctor Frankenstein now living under a new identity who learns that a new monster is set to walk the earth...