Join the trio of lovable rogues in Series 13 and 14 of Last Of The Summer Wine.
Welcome to Holmfirth, a breathtakingly beautiful village in the heart of the Holme Valley, home to our favourite idiosyncratic retired gentlemen. As they amble about the countryside, these unlikely lads are now enjoying a mischievous second childhood, devising and executing a multitude of (grey) hare-brained schemes. Which is just what you'd expect from Britain's oldest, if not wisest adolescents, and their equally eccentric fellow townspeople. Helped by a supporting band of formidable wives, hen-pecked husbands, sexually-charged mistresses, inventors, pigeon fanciers and balding lotharios, our three heroes are never far from one adventure or another. It'll end in trouble - especially when the formidable Nora Batty finds out.
Welcome to Holmfirth, a breathtakingly beautiful village in the heart of the Holme Valley, home to our favourite idiosyncratic retired gentlemen. As they amble about the countryside, these unlikely lads are now enjoying a mischievous second childhood, devising and executing a multitude of (grey) hare-brained schemes. Which is just what you'd expect from Britain's oldest, if not wisest adolescents, and their equally eccentric fellow townspeople. Helped by a supporting band of formidable wives, hen-pecked husbands, sexually-charged mistresses, inventors, pigeon fanciers and balding lotharios, our three heroes are never far from one adventure or another. It'll end in trouble especially when the formidable Nora Batty finds out. Collecting the first ten series of one of the BBC's most popular and enduring comedies, the Early Years box set features 75 episodes, including memorable classics such as Forked Lightning where Clegg (Peter Sallis) has several extremely embarrassing accidents on his bicycle and And Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty Then? Where Compo (Bill Owen) finally gets to dance with Nora Batty, which ends after he steps on her foot.
There's comedy among the dustbins with this classic top-rated series from the late 60s/early 70s. Created by celebrated writer Jack Rosenthal ('The Evacuees') the series revolves around four misfits and their affectionately-named dustbin van - ""Thunderbird 3"". Rosenthal would go on to write the highly-successful comedy series 'The Lovers' and create one of ITV's most watched programmes - 'London's Burning'. 'The Dustbin Men's' working-class humour outraged Mary Whitehouse at the t
Hammer's To the Devil a Daughter was the last film made by the once great studio. Clearly ailing, Hammer again adapted a novel by Dennis Wheatley, the author behind one of their greatest successes, The Devil Rides Out (1967). Unfortunately for the studio, films such as Rosemary's Baby (1968) and The Exorcist (1973) had, in the intervening decade, radically changed horror cinema. With American star Richard Widmark echoing Gregory Peck's role in the far more polished The Omen (1976), the film seemed, rather than setting the pace as Hammer once had, to be very much jumping on the 1970's occult band-wagon. Christopher Lee is the satanic ex-communicated priest whose coven plan to incarnate the ancient demon Ashteroth, while a supernaturally beautiful Nastassja Kinski demonstrates the same willingness to disrobe as in Cat People (1982). Even so, this lacklustre, misogynistic film couldn't compete with Carrie and Suspiria (both also 1976) and Hammer thereafter concentrated on TV productions. Surprisingly, director Peter Sykes' next film, Jesus (1979), as well as being the most seen and internationally distributed film ever (with an audience of over two billion by 2000), is also the most faithful portrayal of Christ yet committed to celluloid. --Gary S. Dalkin
Life seems perfect for John Brennan (Russell Crowe) until his wife Lara (Elizabeth Banks) is arrested for a murder she says she didn't commit. Three years into her sentence John is struggling to hold his family together raising their son and teaching at college while he pursues every means available to prove her innocence. With the rejection of their final appeal Lara becomes suicidal and John decides there is only one possible bearable solution: to break his wife out of prison. Refusing to be deterred by impossible odds or his own inexperience John devises an elaborate escape plot with the help of an ex con (Liam Neeson) and plunges into a dangerous and unfamiliar world ultimately risking everything for the woman he loves.
The trio find themselves in more scrapes and adventures in this the fifth and sixth series of the long running BBC sit-com Last Of The Summer Wine. Series 5 - Episode Listing: 1. Full Steam Behind 2. The Flag And It's Snags 3. The Flag And Further Snags 4. Deep In The Heart Of Yorkshire 5. Earnshaw Strikes Back 6. Here We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder 7. Here We Go Again Into The Wild Blue Yonder 8. And A Dewhurst Up A Fir Tree 9. Whoops Series 6 - Episode Listing: 1. In The Service Of Humanity 2. Car And Garter 3. The Odd Dog Men 4. A Bicycle Made For Three 5. One Of The Last Few Places Unexplored By Man 6. Serenade For Tight Jeans And Metal Detector 7. From Wellies To Wet Suit 8. All Mod Conned
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker). The new prison officer Beale makes Mackay (Fulton Mackay) look soft and what's more an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it. The breakout is set for the day of a morale-raising football match between a ""celebrity"" football team and the inmates of Slade. Everything is going to plan until Godber (Richard Beckinsale) is injured on th
Christmas in Holmfi rth is always full of festive fun as these cracking Christmas Specials spectacularly show. Here we see Compo feeling a little frosty having trouble scraping enough together to buy his beloved Nora the perfect present – could Auntie Wainwright have the answer? Howard has a problem too: he’s got a present to give to Pearl and keep from Marina all at the same time. But the lack of wise men is more than made up for with a surplus of Santas. There’s one on the rooftops four on the doorstep and one very sozzled one enjoying a silent night locked in a pub. That’s what you call a very merry Holmfi rth Christmas.
Series 3 and 4 featuring the trio of lovable rogues. Episodes Comprise: 1. The Man From Oswestry 2. Mending Stuart's Leg 3. The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper 4. Cheering Up Gordon 5. The Kink In Foggy's Niblick 6. Going To Gordon's Wedding 7. Isometrics And After 9. Ferret Come Home 10. Getting On Sydney's Wire 11. Jubilee 12. Flower Power Cut 13. Who's Made A Bit Of A Splash In Wales Then? 14. Greenfingers 15. A Merry Heatwave 16. The Bandit From Stoke-On-Trent
Disc jockey, flyboy, con-man, compulsive fibber... Kit Curran is all of these and worse! A perfect storm of self-obsession and general apathy, Kit reigns as the undisputed king of small-time Radio Newtown; but sparks start to fly when a new boss arrives and Kit finds that his days of egocentric scheming may soon be numbered! A creative force in comedy for four decades, BAFTA-winning writer/director/novelist/comedian Andy Hamilton has scored numerous successes in television, radio and film in shows such as Drop the Dead Donkey, Shelley, Old Harry's Game and What We Did On Our Holiday. Following his work on Shelley and Smith & Jones in the early 1980s, Hamilton crafted one of television all-time-great likeable rogue characters in Kit Curran an inventively delusional narcissist, played to perfection by BAFTA-nominee Denis Lawson. This set contains all twelve episodes from both series.
The trio find themselves in more scrapes and adventures in this the seventh and eighth series of the long running sit-com Last Of The Summer Wine.
All 28 episodes from the first four series of Roy Clarke's long-running BBC sitcom set in the Yorkshire Dales. Series 1 episodes are: 'Short Back and Palais Glide', 'Inventor of the 40-Foot Ferret', 'Paté and Chips', 'Spring Fever', 'The New Mobile Trio' and 'Hail Smiling Morn Or Thereabouts'. Series 2 episodes are: 'Forked Lightning', 'Who's That Dancing With Nora Batty Then?', 'The Changing Face of Rural Blamire', 'Some Enchanted Evening', 'A Quiet Drink', 'Ballad for Wind Instruments and Canoe' and 'Northern Flying Circus'. Series 3 episodes are: 'The Man from Oswestry', 'Mending Stuart's Leg', 'The Great Boarding House Bathroom Caper', 'Cheering Up Gordon', 'The Kink in Foggy's Niblick', 'Going to Gordon's Wedding' and 'Isometrics and After'. Series 4 episodes are: 'Ferret Come Home', 'Getting On With Sidney's Wire', 'Jubilee', 'Flower Power Cut', 'Who Made a Bit of a Splash in Wales Then?', 'Greenfingers', 'A Merry Heatwave' and 'The Bandit from Stoke-On-Trent'.
Following on from Marty Wilde's gold album in March this year and his sell-out UK tour this DVD was shot on the last night at The London Palladium May 27th 2007. It features special guests Hank Marvin Jet Harris Brian Bennett Bruce Welch and Kim and Roxanne Wilde. Tracklisting: DVD 1: 1. Endless Sleep 2. Little Girl 3. Rubber Ball 4. Nut Rocker 5. Sea of Love 6. Six Five Special 7. Freight Train (featuring Roxanne Wilde) 8. Puttin' on the Style 9. So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) (duet with Roxanne Wilde) 10. Scarlett O'Hara (performed by Jet Harris with The Wildcats) 11. Theme For Something Really Important (performed by Jet Harris with The Wildcats) 12. Diamonds (performed by Jet Harris with the Wildcats) 13. Like I've Never Been Gone 14. I Will 15. I'd Never Find Another You 16. Halfway To Paradise 17. Apron Strings 18. Do You Wanna Dance 19. Kids in America (featuring Kim Wilde) 20. Interval 21. Jezebel 22. Danny 23. It Doesn't Matter Anymore 24. Bad Boy (featuring original Wildcats Brian Bennett Brian 'Licorice' Locking and Big Jim Sullivan) 25. Tomorrow's Clown 26. Jesamine 27. Here Comes That Feeling (featuring Roxanne Wilde) 28. Something Stupid (duet with Roxanne Wilde) 29. Nights in White Satin (duet with Justin Hayward) 30. Only Sixteen 31. I Remember You 32. Summer Holiday (featuring Brian Bennett and Bruce Welch) 33. Move It (featuring Brian Bennett Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch) 34. Donna 35. A Teenager in Love 36. Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word (duet with Kim Wilde) 37. Are you Lonesome Tonight 38. Roll Over Beethoven DVD 2: Features interviews and photo gallery
Another great comdey series that charted in the top ten of Britain's Best Sitcom's. This DVD features both the Christmas specials transmitted on Christmas Eve in 1975 and 1976. No Way Out: In his innocence Godber is looking forward to Christmas but Fletch knows that if ""there's one big event around here it's not the coming of Our Lord it's the tunnelling of Tommy Slocombe"". And this Christmas he is determined to stay well clear of Tommy Slocombe his dodgy mates and the
All six episodes from the first series of the classic TV comedy. New Faces Old Hands: ""Twenty-three and you want to go straight? What kind of talk is that? You've got your whole life in front of you!"" It's Godber's first time in prison and Fletch is going to teach him the ways. The Hustler: Ives is such a loser that if Elizabeth Taylor had triplets he'd have been the one in the middle. But there's no way he's going to be left out of Fletch's gambling enterprise.
When enigmatic school master James Wallraven (Michael Redgrave, Time Without Pity) rents a small room adjacent to Wanda's (Bette Davis, The Nanny), an ageing cellist, he soon realises that the privacy he seeks is clearly unattainable. From there begins a parade of revolving doors through which the occupants of this seedy West London boarding house a sleazy young musician (Alexis Kanner, Goodbye Gemini), a snooping landlady (Kay Walsh, The Rainbow Jacket) all seemingly stuck in purgatories of their own making, desperately attempt to find their place in a tainted society. Featuring a pair of screen legends and based on the stage play The Cellist by Marion Hart, Connecting Rooms is presented on Blu-ray for the first time in the UK, and is accompanied by a wealth of archival extras, including a rare recording of Bette Davis in conversation, and two short films by director Franklin Gollings. Product Features 4K restoration Original mono audio The John Player Lecture with Bette Davis (1976): archival interview with the iconic performer, recorded at London's National Film Theatre Spotlight at the Fair (1951): documentary short directed by Franklin Gollings, taking a look at travelling fairs and the amusement park at Blackpool The Way to Wimbledon (1952): documentary short directed by Gollings and narrated by John Mills, focusing on the fifty weeks in a year when Wimbledon isn't hosting the world-famous tennis championships Image gallery: promotional and publicity material New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Laura Mayne, an archival production report on the making of the film, an archival interview with director Franklin Gollings, an overview of contemporary critical responses, new writing on the short films, and film credits UK premiere on Blu-ray Limited edition of 3,000 copies All extras subject to change
All the episodes from the second series of the classic TV comedy. Just Desserts Fletch is appalled - apparently there is a thief amongst his fellow inmates at Slade Prison! Somebody has lifted a 2lb tin of Pineapple chunks from his cell. Heartbreak HotelIt is just too ridiculous to be true: surely Godber could never attack anyone? But then he had just received a Dear John letter from his beloved Denise. Disturbing The PeaceIt should be good news that Mackay is go
Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsdale star in six more episodes as Fletcher and Godber continue their stretch at Slade prison under the watchful eyes of Barraclough and MacKay. This series features the arrival of the judge who sentenced Fletch and the episode with David Jason as old lag Blanco.... Includes the episodes: 'A Storm In A Teacup' 'Poetic Justice' 'Rough Justice' 'Pardon Me' 'A Test Of Character' 'Final Stretch'.
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