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The Comedy of Errors
A star cast including Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Roger Rees, Francesca Annis and Nickolas Grace features in a joyfully exuberant Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of Shakespeare s best-loved comedies. Conceived by Trevor Nunn, this musical presentation at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is a carefree romp in which collapsing chairs, squirting soda siphons, funky wigs, uncompromising couplets and outrageous puns abound. The production features music by composer Guy Woolfenden, who received an Olivier Award for Best New Musical for the show s London production, and dance routines by world-renowned choreographer Gillian Lynne; Francesca Annis won a BAFTA award for her role as Luciana. The play itself is a comedy of mistaken identities involving two sets of twins. With their twin servants, they are separated in a shipwreck and thrown together by chance, and the plot twists and turns in total confusion! -
Keep It In The Family - Complete Series 3
A resounding success over five series, this Thames comedy created by sitcom veteran Brian Cooke (Man About the House) is set in the delightfully chaotic home of Dudley and Muriel Rush, whose daughters, Jacqui and Susan, satisfy a hankering for freedom by moving into the family's vacant basement flat. Dudley, a gifted cartoonist but an inveterate procrastinator, finds it hard to concentrate amid the ever-increasing number of distractions to the despair of his long-suffering boss, Duncan. But at least he can still keep an eye on his wayward daughters, and their visitors! Starring Robert Gillespie, Stacy Dorning and Pauline Yates, this third series sees Jacqui contemplating marriage, Susan passing her driving test, and Muriel attempting to play matchmaker for hapless bachelor Duncan... -
Thats My Boy - Series 5
Sitcom legend Mollie Sugden (Are You Being Served?) stars as Ida Willis, a fear-inspiring housekeeper who’s been unwittingly sent to work for the grown-up son she gave up for adoption as a baby. Since discovering that Dr. Robert Price is her boy, Ida’s been making her maternal presence sharply felt, giving both Robert s model wife Angie and adoptive mother Mrs. Price a run for their money. Written by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton (You’re Only Young Twice), That’s My Boy was a long-running hit for Yorkshire Television. In this fifth series, the ever-determined Ida attempts to stop the building of a bypass, copes with the sudden disappearance of her brother, Wilfred, and manages to disrupt Robert’s talk to the Young Wives Group. Angie’s new career in commercials also gets off to a bad start, and there’s consternation for Robert when he sees the contents of Ida’s medicine chest... -
Edgar Wallace Mysteries - Volume 2
Uno degli scrittori di romanzi polizieschi di maggior successo del ventesimo secolo, i thriller di Edgar Wallace sono stati ampiamente adattati per il cinema e la televisione, il più memorabile dei quali è la serie Edgar Wallace Mysteries, realizzata ai Merton Park Studios durante la prima metà degli anni '60. Una serie noir, che aggiorna alcune delle storie dell'autore ad ambientazioni più contemporanee, mescolando elementi classici del B-movie con un'atmosfera distintamente britannica. A lungo atteso e molto ricercato, tutti i 47 film usciranno in sette volumi su DVD. Come caratteristiche speciali, includeranno anche i sette distinti thriller di Edgar Wallace realizzati dalla Independent Artists Ltd tra il 1959 e il 1961.Questa serie include interpretazioni di alto livello di Michael Caine, Alfred Burke, Barry Foster, Hazel Court, Patrick Magee, Bernard Archard, Michael Gough, Jack Watling, Harry H. Corbett e Bernard Lee, con sceneggiature di Robert Banks Stewart (Callan), il co-creatore di Man in a Suitcase Richard Harris, Philip Mackie (The Naked Civil Servant), Lukas Heller (The Dirty Dozen) e Roger Marshall (The Sweeney). Tra i registi noti ci sono Sidney Hayers (The Avengers), Robert Tronson (Armchair Thriller) e Quentin Lawrence (Catweazle). Una registrazione del memorabile tema musicale della serie, Man of Mystery, ha anche generato una Top Five UK hit per The Shadows. -
Undermind - The Complete Series
Crime drama meets science fiction in this chilling and intriguing ABC series. Undermind, first broadcast in 1965 and starring Rosemary Nicols (Department S), Jeremy Kemp (Z Cars) and Jeremy Wilkin (UFO), is released here for the first time in any format.Detective Sergeant Frank Heriot is healthy, happily married, and has a good job. So what has made him cold and remote towards his family? And why is he suddenly plagued by terrible headaches? Is he mentally ill or is something far more sinister affecting his mind? Gradually, the answer becomes clear: Frank is the victim of an unknown force seeking to undermine public confidence in the people and institutions that form the backbone of the British Establishment. Doctors, teachers, scientists, clergymen and writers and are all among its targets; its ultimate aim is anarchy. Where will the mysterious menace strike next? It could be the man who sits next to you on the bus. It could be you... -
General Hospital - Volume 1
A huge success for ITV throughout the 1970s, General Hospital carried on in the tradition of Emergency - Ward 10 and other medical shows of the 1960s. This highly popular series offers a dramatic insight into life at a busy hospital, featuring both compelling medical storylines and those highlighting the often strained personal lives of the doctors, nurses and consultants. General Hospital initially ran for 270 half-hour episodes as a twice-weekly soap-style afternoon serial before being reformatted into a series of hour-long, self-contained dramas in 1975. Out of this first series, only a comparative handful remain in the archive and this set contains all episodes known to exist. -
The Arcata Promise
Once upon a time, in the small town of Arcata in California, a rich and successful actor made a promise to a young, attractive and vulnerable girl: I shall love you.Look after you. I don't want to hurt you or oppress you, or deny you in any way. But the promise was broken.After being constantly abused and assaulted, the girl left, and the actor fell into a self destructive spiral: drink, no friends, no work. Now, left alone in a shabby basement flat, he is haunted by that promise, the girl to whom he made it, and himself.Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins stars opposite Kate Nelligan in renowned playwright David Mercer's intense, harrowing screenplay, for which producer Peter Willes received a Silver Medal for Outstanding Creative Achievement from the Royal Television Society.First screened as part of ITV s Sunday Night Drama anthology, The Arcata Promise showcases a tour-de-force performance from one of the world's most significant and respected actors. -
Tempo - Volume 1
ITV's seminal arts programme, Tempo ran for eight years through a decade which saw a creative explosion within all aspects of the performing arts. Its fluid style of presentation allowed an almost open-ended remit, enabling it to cover subjects as diverse as cinema, music, dance, photography, writing - and much more besides. At a time when television was being criticised for dumbing down, Tempo - more than any other series - showed that ITV could indeed go highbrow whilst still remaining populist - a philosophy and outlook that was to continue into the 1970s and beyond with its successors Aquarius and The South Bank Show. Unseen for decades, this two-disc set contains interviews, reportage and features on Jacques Tati, Stan Tracey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Strasberg, Tom Jones, Orson Welles, Harold Pinter, Charles Eames, Jean Luc-Godard and more. -
Arthur Haynes - Volume 3
Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV s biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the world of a comedy genius. Lack of repeats ensured that subsequent generations were denied Haynes comedic brilliance - until now.Featuring wickedly funny scripts from Alf Garnett creator Johnny Speight, they invariably drew on the familiar class antagonism which he would hone to perfection on Till Death Us Do Part. Haynes robust working-class delivery was inspired never more so than in the character of Hobo Haynes, a belligerent, heavily decorated tramp fond of recounting tales of patriotic bravery whilst being up to me neck in muck and bullets. This third great collection of episodes, this time from 1962, returns him to his rightful place among the comedy greats. -
The Story of Film: An Odyssey (Limited Edition Steelbook)
Zavvi - La casa della cultura popLa storia del cinema: An Odyssey, scritto e diretto dal pluripremiato regista Mark Cousins, è la storia del cinema internazionale raccontata attraverso la storia dell'innovazione cinematografica.Cinque anni di lavoro, The Story of Film: An Odyssey copre sei continenti e 12 decenni, mostrando come i cineasti siano influenzati sia dagli eventi storici del loro tempo, sia gli uni dagli altri. Fornisce un tour guidato in tutto il mondo dei più grandi film mai realizzati; un racconto epico che inizia nei nickelodeon e finisce come un'industria digitale globalizzata da molti miliardi di dollari.Descritto come una lettera d'amore al cinema, Cousins visita i luoghi chiave della storia del cinema, da Hollywood a Mumbai, dalla Londra di Hitchcock al villaggio dove è stato girato Pather Panchali, e presenta interviste con registi e attori leggendari tra cui Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Gus van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Towne, Jane Campion e Claudia Cardinale. -
Bonsai
This romantic drama is based on Alejandro Zambra’s award-winning novel about a young writer who turns to his first romance for creative inspiration. Screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 2011, the second feature from Chilean director Cristián Jiménez draws upon Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past in its delicate, witty and poignant exploration of the relationship between life and fiction, and the search for authenticity.Julio, an aspiring but unproductive young writer, meets with Gazmuri, an established author seeking someone to type up the manuscript of his latest novel. Julio doesn’t get the job, but in an attempt to save face he leads his neighbour and lover, Blanca, to believe that he is still transcribing Gazmuri’s novel. In fact, Julio is writing his own version of the novel, entitled 'Bonsai'.In need of a plot, he recalls his relationship with Emilia, a bright fellow literature student who died eight years earlier; and as his memories of their youthful romance are shaped and refined, the writing of the novel unlocks a sequence of flashbacks in which reality and fiction, past and present intertwine... -
Thatcher: The Final Days
One of the most significant politicians of the 20th century, Margaret Thatcher took Britain out of the turbulent '70s and into a period of war, strikes and increasingly polarised social division. Loved and hated in equal measure, by the early 1990s the knives were out and she was ousted from power in one of the most dramatic episodes in British political history.Featuring a bravura performance from Sylvia Syms as Thatcher, this dramatised documentary features strong performances from John Wood, Trevor Bowen, Paul Daneman, Roland Oliver and Keith Drinkel as John Major. -
Codename Kyril - The Complete Series
Tra un cast illustre che include Joss Ackland, Peter Vaughan, Richard E. Grant e Denholm Elliott, Edward Woodward (Callan) recita al fianco di Ian Charleson (Chariots of Fire) in un thriller sulla guerra fredda teso e abilmente tramato. -
The Georgian House
Eerie, unsettling and one of the key children’s TV productions of the 1970s, The Georgian House was written by acclaimed author Jill Laurimore with noted producer/writer Harry Moore (The Clifton House Mystery, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) and produced by the renowned Leonard White (The Avengers, Armchair Theatre). Cult children’s television actor Spencer Banks (Timeslip, Tightrope) stars alongside Jack Watson (Sky, Arthur of the Britons) in a series that The Stage lauded as “visually rich, sumptuously produced [and] a quality production”. -
Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans
In New York’s Hudson Valley during the 1750s, woodsman, trapper and US cavalry scout Nat ‘Hawkeye’ Cutler (John Hart) and his Mohican friend, Chingachgook (Lon Chaney Jr.), are more than simply friends; they are blood brothers, whose bond of loyalty endures amid hard times, adventure and the cycles of hatred and violence that characterise the tough life of the northern frontier settlements. Wherever they can, Hawkeye and Chingachgook bravely endeavour to bring wrongdoers to justice and encourage harmony and understanding. -
The Jensen Code - The Complete Series
Sixteen-year-old Terry Connor is sent, along with a few of his friends, to an Outward Bound centre. On his first day at the centre Terry is taken pot-holing by the senior instructor, Alex. All goes well until, at 100 feet underground, Alex goes to search for the torch that Terry has dropped. -
Mr. Axelford's Angel
Boris J. Axelford is more machine than man in the way he runs his successful electronics business. That is, until the arrival of Angel Roper as his temporary secretary. Creating chaos and mayhem with her every move, Angel turns Mr. Axelford's ordered life upside down in a matter of minutes! -
Scorpion Tales - The Complete Series
A series of six individual plays, each linked by the scorpion-like twist in its denouement, Scorpion Tales features some of Britain’s most talented and renowned actors – including Trevor Howard, Geoffrey Palmer, Jack Shepherd, Don Henderson and Patrick Barr. -
Tales from Fat Tulips Garden / Fat Tulip Too
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Hale and Pace - Complete Series 2
Dopo uno speciale natalizio una tantum nel 1986, Hale e Pace sono diventati famosi con questa serie di successo fenomenale per la LWT. Un mix di stand-up e sketch dal ritmo serrato e occasionalmente famigerato che rimaneva appena al di sotto degli standard di Broadcasting, la serie vinse la Rosa d'Argento a Montreux e fece dei due ex insegnanti di educazione fisica uno degli spettacoli comici più imitati nella storia della televisione.