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Second Thoughts - Complete Series 3
Faith (Lynda Bellingham - At Home with the Braithwaites) and Bill (James Bolam - The Likely Lads) are middle-aged divorcees attempting to maintain a relationship despite the forces that threaten to pull it apart. These include constant interference from Bill s scheming ex-wife and work colleague, Liza (Belinda Lang - 2point4 Children), and the activities of Faith s teenage children - the football-obsessed Joe, and demanding daughter Hannah (Julia Sawalha - Absolutely Fabulous). Nobody said it would be easy... Running for five highly successful series, this LWT comedy series - based on scripts for the original BBC Radio 4 series - was inspired by the real-life relationship of husband-and-wife writing team Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. With bittersweet storylines and memorable performances from a star cast, Second Thoughts was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 90s. -
It Takes A Worried Man - Complete Series 1
Philip Roath is thirty-five. An insurance salesman whose confidence is diminishing as rapidly as his hair and teeth, he’s lazy, self-centred, guilt-ridden and insecure. With an overdraft to support, a boss who vainly tries to get him to work for his salary, an ex-wife who rings periodically to remind him of his inadequacies, and an analyst whose problems dwarf his own, he’s altogether a bit worried…It Takes a Worried Man traces Roath’s uphill struggle to come to terms with his lot. Created by Peter Tilbury – who also stars as the unfortunate Roath – the series built upon the resounding success of Tilbury’s Shelly and Sorry, I’m a Stranger Here Myself, once again showcasing Tilbury’s gift for adroit and keenly observed comic dialogue. This set comprises the complete first series. -
Pardon the Expression - The Complete Series
A spin-off from Coronation Street, this sitcom follows the mixed fortunes of former Weatherfield boutique owner Leonard Swindley (Arthur Lowe). In his new position as assistant manager at a Dobson and Hawks chain store, the punctilious but ambitious Mr. Swindley seizes upon every opportunity to scale the social heights – arranging everything from intimate dinner parties to glittering charity galas and swinging teenage boutiques.Featuring scripts from an award-winning team that included Coronation Street contributors Harry Driver and Vince Powell, as well as noted playwright Jack Rosenthal, Pardon the Expression helped to define the type of comic role for which BAFTA winner Arthur Lowe would be most fondly remembered: that of the pompous, quietly floundering buffoon. Betty Driver – soon to be installed behind the bar of the Rover's Return – also stars as canteen manageress Mrs. Edgeley, with Dad's Army favourites John Le Mesurier and John Laurie, and Coronation Street stars Julie Goodyear and Amanda Barrie also making appearances.Special Features:A Christmas special, planned for broadcast over the 1965 holiday, but never shown and unseen until now. -
Tales from Europe: The Singing Ringing Tree and The Tinderbox
The Singing Ringing TreeTo win the love of a beautiful but conceited princess, the prince sets out to search for the Singing Ringing Tree which she deeply craves. He finds it in an enchanted garden which is ruled by an evil dwarf. The dwarf gives him the tree, subject to one condition – the prince must win the princess' love before nightfall. If he should fail, he will be transformed into a bear... and this comes to pass.By a ruse, the bear carries off the unfeeling princess to the enchanted garden where, stripped of her beauty and power, she slowly learns compassion. She wins the affection of the animals, falls in love with the bear and, at last, her beauty is restored. The dwarf sees his plans thwarted and entices the princess out of the magic kingdom. But she has seen through his evil game. Not flinching from hardship and danger, she returns to the enchanted garden and frees her prince.This special-edition DVD features the original German version with English subtitles together with the English narrated version. Both versions have been prepared using remastered transfers.Special Features:English narrated versionOriginal German version with English subtitlesInterview with a PrincessMusic-only trackStills galleriesThe TinderboxBased on the fairytale by Hans Christian Andersen, 'The Tinderbox' tells the story of a poor soldier who meets a witch on his return from battle. The witch promises him gold if he recovers an old tinderbox from a hollow tree. After a quarrel he makes off with the gold without handing over the tinderbox and sets himself up in a neighbouring town. His generosity enables the town to flourish but when his fortune dwindles he is left only with the friendship of the poor and the tinderbox.He uses the tinderbox to summon three hounds who are ready to grant his wishes... -
7-49 UP
L'originale Seven Up è stato trasmesso nel 1964 come uno speciale una tantum di World in Action, con bambini selezionati da diversi ambienti e sfere sociali per parlare delle loro speranze e sogni per il futuro. Come membri della generazione che avrebbe guidato il paese nel 2000, cosa pensavano di diventare? Ispirato dall'interesse appassionato del fondatore di World In Action, Tim Hewat, sia per il detto gesuita Datemi il bambino fino a sette anni e vi mostrerò l'uomo , sia per il rigido sistema di classi della Gran Bretagna degli anni '60, Seven Up si è proposto di scoprire se le vite dei bambini fossero o meno predeterminate dal loro background.Il risultato è una televisione innovativa - il primo esempio di un programma che registra persone reali che vivono vite reali - e i film che ne sono seguiti hanno vinto una serie di premi. Il regista Michael Apted, che da allora si è trasferito a Hollywood per dirigere film, è tornato ogni sette anni per tracciare i progressi dei bambini nella vita. Nel corso degli ultimi cinque decenni, la serie ha documentato il gruppo mentre diventava adulto ed entrava nella mezza età, affrontando tutto ciò che la vita ha gettato su di loro nel mezzo.Questa versione del DVD è stata realizzata con la collaborazione del team di produzione di Up e contiene un'intervista approfondita con Michael Apted sia sulla serie di film che sul suo periodo come regista/produttore alla Granada, oltre a commenti specifici con il produttore Claire Lewis, il montatore Kim Horton e il cameraman George Jesse Turner. -
Second Thoughts: Complete Series 4
Starring James Bolam (The Likely Lads) and Lynda Bellingham (At Home with the Braithwaites), Second Thoughts explores love and marriage the second time around, and reveals that falling passionately in love in middle age is not the easiest of experiences when interfering teenagers, ex-wives and mortgage payments have a way of killing romance! Winning a Silver Medal at New York's International Film and TV Festival and running for five highly successful series, this bittersweet sitcom (based on scripts for the original BBC Radio 4 series) was inspired by the marriage of writers Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. Series Four sees Bill and Faith's on-off relationship enduring, despite unwanted advice from Faith's teenage children - football-mad Joe and demanding daughter Hannah - not to mention their builder. But will it withstand the continuing intervention of Bill's scheming ex-wife, Liza? -
For the Love of Ada: Complete Series 4
Walter and Ada Bingley are celebrating their first wedding anniversary, unaware that their friends and family are planning a surprise party for them... However, things start to go wrong early in the day when Walter's business partner Arthur almost lets slip the news of the party. The day continues to go downhill from there with the happy couple falling out over Ada's new blonde wig, Walter is losing the money he was using to buy Ada's present and then finding it has been spent on a new coat and Ada hearing that Walter has been knocked down by a car...and that's just the start of it. 'For The Love Of Ada' was spawned from the TV series of the same name, shown on ITV from 1970 to 1971. -
Romany Jones - Complete Series 2
On the Buses creators Ronald Chesney and Ronald Wolfe chart the hilarious misadventures of two couples living side by side under strained circumstances. Dad's Army star James Beck, Queenie Watts, Arthur Mullard and Jo Rowbottom take the lead roles in this comedy of bad manners and one-upmanship amidst the mud, pennilessness and outrageous fashion sense of a run-down 1970s caravan site. The characters of Wally and Lily Briggs proved so successful that they were subsequently spun off into their own series: Yus My Dear (also available from Network DVD).In this second hit series, the recently married and permanently skint Bert and Betty Jones resume their never-ending search for la dolce vita. But their carefree existence receives a jolt when Betty announces she's expecting a baby and there’s further upheaval when Betty and Lily finally rebel against their work-shy spouses, throwing Bert and Wally out of their caravans until they prove they can hold down decent jobs... -
Look Back in Anger
Judi Dench dirige Kenneth Branagh ed Emma Thompson nell'acclamata presentazione della Renaissance Theatre Company dell'opera storica di John Osborne, un'opera che ha portato la generazione degli 'Angry Young Men', rivoluzionando il teatro e avendo un effetto così profondo sul teatro che si sente ancora oggi.Una storia di personaggi disparati rinchiusi nella cruda miseria di un matrimonio autodistruttivo spinto verso il punto di crisi, Look Back in Anger presenta performance sorprendenti da entrambi i suoi celebri protagonisti. Il ruolo di Branagh come personaggio centrale, un laureato deluso della classe operaia che inveisce furiosamente contro la rispettabilità borghese, è stato salutato da Osborne come il miglior Jimmy Porter di sempre , mentre Thompson porta un'enorme simpatia e profondità al ruolo della sofferente Alison, apparentemente l'incarnazione di tutto ciò che Jimmy aborre. -
Second Thoughts - Complete Series 5
Con James Bolam (The Likely Lads) e Lynda Bellingham (At Home with the Braithwaites), Second Thoughts esplora l'amore e il matrimonio per la seconda volta, e rivela che innamorarsi appassionatamente nella mezza età non è la più facile delle esperienze quando adolescenti che interferiscono, ex-mogli e pagamenti di mutui hanno un modo per uccidere il romanticismo!Vincitrice di una medaglia d'argento all'International Film and TV Festival di New York e in onda per cinque serie di grande successo, questa sitcom agrodolce (basata sui copioni della serie originale della BBC Radio 4) è stata ispirata dal matrimonio degli scrittori della serie, Jan Etherington e Gavin Petrie.Nella quinta serie, Bill diventa quasi editore della rivista di stile in cui lavora, mentre la notizia della gravidanza dell'ex moglie Liza fa fare a tutti il gioco degli indovinelli; c'è il dolore per il figlio di Faith, Joe, e quando Faith e Liza finalmente si incontrano, Bill capisce che la sua vita non sarà più la stessa. -
Cowboys - Complete Series 2
Zavvi - La casa della cultura popSe la vostra cucina ha bisogno di essere ridipinta o il vostro bagno di essere rinnovato, non vorrete certo assumere una ditta di appaltatori molto dubbiosa che si chiama Joe Jones Limited. Geyser, Wobbly Ron ed Eric lavorano per Joe perché nessun altro li assume. E Joe deve assumere Geyser, Wobbly Ron ed Eric perché nessun altro lavorerà per lui...Lo sceneggiatore e attore premio Oscar Colin Welland è l'idraulico Geyser, David Kelly (Robin s Nest) è il suo collega confuso, e Roy Kinnear è il capo completamente privo di coscienza in questa divertente sitcom dei primi anni '80 scritta dal creatore di Surgical Spirit Peter Learmouth. La seconda serie vede gli sfortunati costruttori affrontare problemi di liquidità, evitare il fisco, tentare di rimettere a punto un muro curvo vertiginosamente posizionato, e causare il caos in una sala operatoria... -
Friendly Fire
This poignant television film tells the true story of Peg and Gene Mullen, the parents of an Iowa farm boy killed in the Vietnam War in 1970, charting their painful battle to uncover the truth about how their son died and their increasing engagement in the anti-War movement. In a departure from the more familiar roles of singer and comedienne, Carol Burnett stars as the mother whose despair gives way to activism, supported by the Oscar-nominated Ned Beatty, as husband Gene, and Oscar winner Timothy Hutton as surviving son, John. The winner of four Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Drama Special, Friendly Fire is based on the 1976 book of the same title by journalist Courtlandt Bryan, who conducted interviews with Peg Mullen and highlighted the family's ordeal in a series of articles for The New Yorker; Bryan shared the 1980 Peabody Award with the ABC network in recognition of the film's outstanding achievement. -
Lady Killers - The Complete First Series
This disturbing and compelling anthology series helps lay to rest the long-cherished idea that women are the gentler sex. Lady Killers presents dramatic reconstructions of seven infamous murder trials where in each case the defendant was female; if convicted, all faced the gallows.From the horrifying case of Victorian ‘baby farmer’ Amelia Dyer – suspected of strangling hundreds of infants in her care – to the trial and execution of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, Lady Killers looks at crimes which shocked and scandalised a nation, examining the individual’s motives and often brutal methods in depth. Introduced by Robert Morley, these dramas feature powerful performances from an outstanding cast which includes Elaine Paige, Joan Sims, Rita Tushingham, George Baker, Peter Sallis and Michael Kitchen, among others. -
The Larkins - Complete Series 5
Starring comedy icons Peggy Mount and David Kossoff in their best-known TV roles, this fifth series sees the Larkins saying goodbye to Sycamore Street, as hen-pecked but crafty Alf and his domineering wife Ada move to a nice little cafe nearby, which serves as both their new home and their new business; they even enlist former neighbour Hetty Prout as a kitchen hand, and take in a new lodger habitual rent-dodger Major Osbert Rigby-Soames (Retd.). As if they didn't have enough on their hands, they also find themselves in charge of troublesome teenage nephew George...This classic early ATV sitcom was created by Clapham-born Fred Robinson and based upon his youthful scripts for plays about a fictional Cockney family. With skilful comic playing and a script that ATV production controller Bill Ward described as the funniest he had ever read, The Larkins inspired great affection throughout its six-year run. First screened in 1963, these episodes have been transferred from the original film telerecordings specifically for this release. -
Maggie and Her - Complete Series 2
BAFTA-nominated Julia McKenzie (Fresh Fields) stars alongside veteran comedy battleaxe Irene Handl in this engaging and highly popular LWT sitcom. Maggie (McKenzie) is a schoolteacher who lives on her own in a flat in London. Pensioner Mrs. P. is her : the nosy next-door neighbour whose continual presence means that divorcee Maggie is never truly alone. In this second series, it seems Maggie's luck may have finally changed; she has a new boyfriend, and for once all seems to be going well. But, inevitably, Mrs. P. insists on offering advice ... -
Parkin's Patch - Volume One
A forerunner to Heartbeat, Parkin’s Patch chronicles the work of a police constable and his colleagues in a fictional village in the North Yorkshire Moors during the late 1960s. Available for the first time this set contains all 26 episodes, boasting early appearances by Warren Clarke, Pauline Collins, Michael Elphick, Peter Sallis and James Grout; among the production crew are multiple-award-winning directors Michael Apted (Enigma) and Stephen Frears (The Queen), while writers include Softly Softly and Z Cars contributors Robert Barr and Allan Prior, and Sweeney creator Ian Kennedy Martin. Looking in detail at the unit beat system of policing amid spectacular moorland locations, the series sees P.C. Moss Parkin (John Flanagan Softly Softly) and D.C. Ron Radley (Gareth Thomas Blake s 7) encountering cases ranging from petty pilfering to abduction, sheep rustling to missing persons. And while village policemen may enjoy certain perks, living within Fickley s close-knit community also involves a dangerous proximity to criminals for both Parkin and his wife, Beth... -
Mr. Rose - Complete Series 1
Scotland Yard s Chief Inspector Rose, portrayed by the charismatic William Mervyn (All Gas and Gaiters), was first introduced in The Odd Man and It’s Dark Outside, Granada s cult crime series of the early 60s, and this sequel sees the acerbic detective emerging from a restless retirement to take on a further series of cases. Gillian Lewis plays Rose’s beautiful secretary, Drusilla, and Donald Webster his enigmatic manservant, John; guest stars include Terence Alexander, Allan Cuthbertson, John Le Mesurier and Julie Goodyear. Retirement has afforded Mr. Rose the time not only to cultivate a cottage garden on the south coast, but also to write his memoirs. And it’s the impending publication of those memoirs that brings a number of figures crawling out of the woodwork and back into his life: criminals and former colleagues alike, who know that his vast personal collection of case files contains a wealth of incriminating detail. Time may have mellowed Rose a little, but he’s as sharp as ever, and now sets about a succession of new investigations with customary aplomb and evident relish. -
Backs to the Land - Complete Series 3
This popular Anglia sitcom focuses on the experiences of three very different Women's Land Army volunteers who find themselves in the Norfolk village of Clayfield, sharing a hasty education in agricultural matters, more than a few mishaps, and a little romance along the way. First screened in 1978, Backs to the Land features a memorable theme sung by Anne Shelton, one of Britain's most cherished wartime entertainers.In this series, official busybody Miss Rainbow sets out to prove that farmer Tom is prone to uncontrolled animal passions, while an archaeologist is convinced that Crabtree Farm holds the secret of Boudicca's missing treasure. Jenny has a visit from her pickpocket father, Tom's long-lost sister-in-law suddenly re-appears, and there's excitement when an escaped Italian prisoner of war ends up hiding out on the farm... -
Shelley - Complete Series 6
A long-running success for ITV lasting for ten series over thirteen years Shelley features a masterful performance by Hywel Bennett as the bone-idle graduate-philosopher, cast adrift on a sea of unemployment. This set contains the complete sixth series, also featuring Belinda Sinclair as girlfriend Fran, and Garfield Morgan (The Sweeney) as hall porter Desmond; Fulton McKay, Max Wall and Robert Raglan guest-star. It’s been months since Fran gave Shelley the elbow until he can prove himself, economically speaking. In this sixth and final series, his ceaseless battle with bureaucracy sees him staging a sit-in at the electricity board and spending a night in a police cell, while enduring loneliness, burglary, and a visit from his mother who’s on a mission to reconcile him with Fran. But most distressing of all... he has to live without his toaster! -
And Mother Makes Five - Complete Series 1
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.