Based on the best-selling anthologies of Victorian and Edwardian detective fi ction, The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes features the world-famous consulting detective's fictional rivals in the fog-shrouded crime capital of London. Set in the three decades before the Great War, each story dealt with an individual and perplexing case (and a different detective). This top-flight, BAFTA-winning series attracted an incredible array of talent, including John Neville, Robert Stephens, Peter Vaughan, Roy Dotrice, Donald Pleasence, Ronald Hines, Peter Barkworth and Donald Sinden. This set contains the 13 high quality episodes that made up the complete first series
Enjoy an hour with one of the funniest men in Britain with Freddie Starr's moving comedy express special. Great sporting moments with the show Biz Eleven where Dracula Quasimodo Tarzan and Ray Charles are among the famous players. After 'Rocky' meet 'Schmocky' who challenges Frank Bruno for the title. In the Elvis Presley show Freddie brings you Mick Jagger David Bowie Johnny cash and Demis Roussos. Singing stars Lon Satton and maggie Scott will delight you Anna Dawson and Jim Barrett join Freddie in sketches and twelve sensational dancers will dazzle you.
Volume 1 includes: 'The Tale of Peter Rabbit & Benjamin Bunny' 'The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies & Mrs. Tittlemouse' and 'The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddleduck'.
Oscar winner John Madden (Prime Suspect, Shakespeare in Love) directs Annabelle Apsion (Shameless) and David Morrissey (Red Riding) in this disturbing, compelling drama which tells the story of a woman coming to terms with the trauma of being married to a mass-murderer. Drawing on a remarkable pool of talent that in-cludes Ted Childs executive producer of Inspector Morse and Lewis and multi-award-winning screenwriter Jer-emy Brock (The Last King of Scotland), The Widowmaker earned a BAFTA nomination for Best Single Drama in 1991.Kathy, a young mother, arrives home to find her house surrounded by police and reporters; she is then told that her husband has been arrested for a series of murders in the local community. How could she have loved a man capable of committing such crimes? Why hadn't she recognised the signs of the madness that was de-veloping? Did she, in any way, provoke his actions? While coping with press intrusion, police questioning and her shocked family and friends, Kathy is haunted by the past in her harrowing search for the truth.
During a traumatic accident whilst on a deep-sea dive in the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, Olive, a gifted, young marine-biologist discovers an unearthly creature. Loosing her dream job, Olive smuggles the creature home, intent on studying it in her basement, unbeknownst to her devoted boyfriend Matt. Whilst struggling to re-adjust to landlocked life and recover from her recent trauma, Olive begins to realize that she and the creature share a symbiotic bond that drives her to carry out its sinister will. Plagued by gruesome nightmares, her fractured memories of what happened during the accident in the depths of the ocean begin to unravel and reveal an eldritch horror far older and malevolent than she could ever imagine, one which she has unwittingly set free. Olive's obsession leads to madness as her discovery consumes her entire humanity, with deadly results for those around her.
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser Ebenezer Scrooge who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one Christmas Eve. We are proud to bring you two versions of this holiday classic.
Mr. Hill's last TV work taped and aired before his death with outdoor scenes taped in New York City. Highlights of this show include ""A Streetcar Named Desire"" (a Tennessee Williams takeoff) and a spoof of ""Ask Dr. Ruth"" (where he impersonated Dr. Ruth Westheimer and Roseanne).
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