"Actor: Arthur Lowe"

• Tommy Cooper at ITV | DVD | (21/11/2022) from £37.97   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With his uniquely chaotic blend of fluffed magic and lame jokes, Tommy Cooper was a constant and instantly recognisable presence on television for four decades. A firm favourite with the public, his variety shows were always eagerly awaited - Eric Sykes hailed Tommy Cooper as the funniest man in the world , so it's hardly surprising that it was noted he only had to walk on stage to cause hysterics ! Cooper appeared in many series and specials on television over four decades and this special set contains all the existing shows he made for the ITV regions. They feature a veritable galaxy of guest stars, including Richard Briers, Arthur Lowe, Warren Mitchell, June Whitfield, Patricia Hayes, Bernard Cribbins, Patrick Cargill, Michael Bentine, Thora Hird, Diana Dors, Eric Sykes, Liz Fraser and Ronnies Barker and Corbett!

• Dad's Army - Series 7 | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Vintage comedy by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As Walmington-on-Sea trembles at the thought of a mighty Nazi invasion the indefatigable Captain Mainwaring and his eager Home Guard are ready and waiting - regardless that some of them are so old they can hardly stand up... Winner of 3 Writers Guild awards and a BAFTA. Episodes Comprise: 1. Everybody's Trucking 2. Man of Action 3. Gorilla Warfare 4. The Godiva Affair 5. The Captain's Car 6. Turkey Dinner

• Dad's Army - Series 9 | DVD | (21/05/2007) from £9.99   |  Saving you £3.00 (30.03%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Vintage comedy by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As Walmington-on-Sea trembles at the thought of a mighty Nazi invasion the indefatigable Captain Mainwaring and his eager Home Guard are ready and waiting - regardless that some of them are so old they can hardly stand up... Episodes Comprise: 1. Wake-Up Walmington 2. The Making of Private Pike 3. Knights of Madness 4. The Miser's Hoard 5. Number Engaged 6. Never Too Old

• A.J. Wentworth BA - The Complete Series | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £8.33   |  Saving you £4.66 (55.94%)   |  RRP £12.99

  In his final TV role, Arthur Lowe (Dad's Army, Pardon the Expression) plays a popular but old-fashioned mathematics master attempting and largely failing to keep order among the unruly boys of Form IIIA at Burgrove Preparatory School, in the fictional rural town of Wilminister. Set in the 1940s, A. J. Wentworth, B.A. skillfully adapts the writings of H.F. Ellis which first appeared in diary form in Punch and later in The New Yorker, before being published in book form; the character of the beleaguered schoolmaster, played to perfection by Lowe, was inspired by Ellis's own experiences as a teacher.The mild-mannered, accident-prone Mr. Wentworth shows an unceasing dedication to the school and its reputation. But he has two major adversaries to deal with: Burgrove's headmaster, the snobbish Reverend R. G. Saunders (Harry Andrews), better known as 'Squid' by the pupils, and the formidable, frequently combative Matron (Marion Mathie Lucia)...

• Dad's Army - Series 5 | DVD | (23/01/2006) from £4.39   |  Saving you £11.60 (264.24%)   |  RRP £15.99

  ""Don't panic! Don't Panic!"" the hapless homeguard of Walmington-On-Sea have returned for series 5 of Dad's Army. Episodes comprise: 1. Asleep in the Deep 2. Keep Young and Beautiful 3. A Soldier's Farewell 4. Getting the Bird 5. The Desperate Drive of Lance Corporal Jones 6. If the Cap Fits... 7. The King Was in His Counting House 8. All is Safely Gathered In 9. When Did You Last See Your Money? 10. Brain Versus Brawn 11. A Brush Wit

• Pardon the Expression - The Complete Series | DVD | (12/12/2011) from £22.98   |  Saving you £9.00 (42.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  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.

• David Copperfield | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A superb BBC adaptation of 'David Copperfield' one of Charles Dickens' best-loved and indeed most autobiographical of novels.

• The Ruling Class | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on Peter Barnes' hit play this caustic hilarious and irreverent black comedy has rightly become a cult classic. The House of Gurney has a family problem - namely the 14th Earl of Gurney (Peter O' Toole) who thinks he is Jesus Christ and when restored to `normalcy' turns into Jack the Ripper. Unfortunately the young earl is also the sole heir to the family fortune so his relatives go to great lengths to trick him into siring a new heir. Then they can institutionalise him and

• Microbes and Men | DVD | (21/09/2015) from £10.15   |  Saving you £14.84 (146.21%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Until the 1840s, the practice of medicine had remained relatively unchanged since the days of Ancient Greece. Germ theory revolutionised the medical world however and in the next 60 years it was transformed into a modern science. This fascinating dramatic series follows the discoveries that changed the world forever, shifting from country to country as it travels the world in search of the scientific advances that saved countless lives. From Edward Jenner’s rural English practice to Louis Pasteur’s laboratories in the breweries and silk farms of France and on to Robert Koch’s surgery in Prussia, this BBC series brings to life the work and pressures of some of the best known scientists in history. Episodes cover Ignaz Semmelweis and the search for the cause of puerperal fever, Louis Pasteur and Robert Koch separately establishing the link between bacteria and disease and becoming bitter rivals; Pasteur’s discovery of vaccines; the hunt for the Cholera germ; the first successful use of a vaccine against rabies; and Paul Ehrlich and salvarsan, the first ‘miracle’ drug. Based on the book by Robert Reid and starring BAFTA winning actor Arthur Lowe (Dad’s Army), Frank Gillard, James Grout (Inspector Morse), Antonia Pemberton (A Passage to India) and Michael Gough (Batman, Sleepy Hollow), the series was nominated for two BAFTAs – Best Specialised Series and Best Actor.

• Tommy Cooper: The Complete LWT Series | DVD | (09/12/2019) from £21.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  With his uniquely chaotic blend of fluffed magic and lame jokes, Tommy Cooper was a constant and instantly recognisable presence on television for four decades. A firm favourite with the public, his variety shows were always eagerly awaited Eric Sykes hailed Tommy Cooper as the funniest man in the world , so it's hardly surprising that it was noted he only had to walk on stage to cause hysterics ! First transmitted fifty years ago, Cooper's series for London Weekend followed hot on the heels of his phenomenally successful three-year-run of Life With Cooper and set him firmly on the path to television superstardom through the 1970s and beyond. This classic sketch series features a veritable galaxy of guest stars: Ted Ray, Stubby Kaye, Richard Briers, Arthur Lowe, Joan Greenwood, Bernard Cribbins, Patrick Cargill, Tricia Noble, Vincent Price, Michael Bentine, Ronnie Barker, Thora Hird, Diana Dors, Ronnie Corbett, Liz Fraser and Eric Sykes! This release contains all thirteen episodes, complete and uncut.

• Dad's Army - The Complete Series 3 | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £4.96   |  Saving you £11.03 (222.38%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The complete collection of the third series of episodes (in colour) featuring the inept Captain Mainwaring (Arthur Lowe) and his unruly Home Guard platoon... Episodes comprise: 1. The Armoured Might Of Lance Corporal Jones 2. Battle School 3. The Lion Has Phones 4. The Bullet Is Not For Firing 5. Something Nasty In The Vault 6. Room At The Bottom 7. Big Guns 8. The Day The Balloon Went Up 9. War Dance 10. Menace From The Deep 11. Branded 12. Man Hunt 13. No Spring

• Mr Men - The Complete Original Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (03/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Here are all 28 original episodes of the Mr Men lovingly narrated by Arthur Lowe and broadcast between 1974 and 1985. Presented on one DVD these episodes will appeal to those children who have grown up with the Mr Men over the last 30 years as well as today's pre school children. With original artwork adapted by Adam Hargreaves.

• Philby, Burgess And Maclean | DVD | (21/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Ian Curteis' acclaimed play tells the story of the three Russian spies who penetrated the British Foreign office. The play covers the period from 1945 - the date of the Volkov Incident - to 1955 when Kim Philby was cleared of being the Third Man in the Burgess and Maclean spy scandal.

• Vintage Classics Ealing Comedy Collection | DVD | (23/10/2017) from £29.39   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Collection of five classic British comedies. In 'Kind Hearts and Coronets' (1949) an embittered aristocrat sets out to murder the eight heirs that stand between him and succession to the family title. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) holds no love for the family he counts as relations, the D'Ascoynes. The D'Ascoynes cast his mother out when she decided to marry a commoner, Louis's father, and on her death refused to allow her to be buried in the family vault. An outraged Louis vows revenge and begins working his way into the trust of the family to provide him with the opportunity to bump off the male heirs (all played by Alec Guinness) one by one. However, complications arise when he becomes romantically entangled with one of the widows of his victims, Edith D'Ascoyne (Valerie Hobson). Will Louis be able to stay the course and murder his way to a dukedom? In 'Passport to Pimlico' (1949) an unexploded bomb goes off in Pimlico, uncovering documents which reveal that this part of London in fact belongs to Burgundy in France. An autonomous state is set up in a spirit of optimism, but the petty squabbles of everyday life soon shatter the utopian vision of a non-restrictive nation. In 'Whisky Galore!' (1949), set during the Second World War, the inhabitants of a small Hebridean island are wilting under a chronic shortage of whisky. When a ship is wrecked on the shore, it is discovered to contain 50,000 cases of malt, which are promptly appropriated by the men of the island. All is well until an English Home Guard commander - determined to see the whisky restored to its rightful owners - calls in Her Majesty's Customs, and the islanders make frantic attempts to hide their treasured alcoholic booty! In 'The Man in the White Suite' (1951) Sidney Stratton (Guinness) is a laboratory cleaner in a textile factory who invents a material that will neither wear out nor become dirty. Initially hailed as a great discovery, Sidney's astonishing invention is suffocated by the management when they realise that if it never wears out, people will only ever have to purchase one suit of clothing. Finally, in 'The Ladykillers' (1955) a group of bank robbers struggle to silence the eccentric old lady who discovers their crime. Mrs Wilberforce (Katie Johnson) lives alone in King's Cross with her parrots. She has been led to believe that the group of men renting rooms from her, Professor Marcus (Guinness), the Major (Cecil Parker), Louis (Herbert Lom), Harry (Peter Sellers) and One-Round (Danny Green), are classical musicians. However, when one of the group's cases gets caught in the door and opens to reveal, not a musical instrument, but a plethora of banknotes, the virtuous Mrs Wilberforce vows to go to the police with the identities of the men. The criminals agree that the old lady has to be killed to silence her, but will this be as straightforward as it sounds?

• Dad's Army - Series 6 | DVD | (08/05/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Vintage comedy by Jimmy Perry and David Croft. As Walmington-on-Sea trembles at the thought of a mighty Nazi invasion the indefatigable Captain Mainwaring and his eager Home Guard are ready and waiting - regardless that some of them are so old they can hardly stand up... Starring Arthur Lowe John Le Mesurier and Clive Dunn. Winner of 3 Writers Guild awards and a BAFTA. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Deadly Attachment 2. My British Buddy 3. The Royal Train 4. We Knows Our Onions

• Mr Men And Little Miss Collection - Vols. 1, 2 And 3 | DVD | (21/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Mr Men & Little Miss DVD collection is made up of the Mr Men & Little Miss Collection Volumes 1 2 and 3. It features one hundred and forty six classic stories on twelve discs including the twenty eight original episodes of the Mr Men narrated by Arthur Lowe which were broadcast by BBC television in two series all thirteen episodes of the complete original TV series of Little Miss narrated by Pauline Collins and John Alderton and the Mr Men Christmas Special 'The Christmas Lette

• Wagner | DVD | (09/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Even now Richard Wagner (1813-83) remains an enigma. His was a rags-to-riches saga with a fairy tale ending. He was loved yet hated admired yet despised a villain yet a hero who was worshipped a man whose fame and exploits were the gossip of Europe. Above all he was an incurable romantic whose love affair with Liszt's illegitimate daughter rivals that of Romeo and Juliet in excitement and drama. But he was also a dangerous political revolutionary whose influence penetrated the

• Dad's Army - Series 4 | DVD | (08/08/2005) from £6.24   |  Saving you £9.75 (156.25%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler If you think we're on the run. We are the boys who will stop your little game We are the boys who will make you think again. So who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler If you think old England's done. Mr. Brown goes off to town on the 8:21. But he comes home each evening and he's ready with his gun. So who do you think you are kidding Mr. Hitler If you think old England's done. The hapless homeguard of Walmington-On-Sea

• No Sex Please, We're British | DVD | (20/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Available for the first time on DVD! A nervous bank clerk has to cope with a flood of pornographic mail under the suspicious eye of his puritanical boss.

• The Galton And Simpson Playhouse - The Complete Series | DVD | (19/01/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The Galton And Simpson Playhouse: The Complete Series