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• The Forsyte Saga - Complete Series 1-7 Box Set | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £49.93   |  Saving you £20.06 (40.18%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The Forsyte Saga is often cited as the first television miniseries; it wasn't, but there's no question that it was a singular, powerful cultural phenomenon that deservedly got under the skin of European viewers in 1967. Today the 26-episode production, based on several novels and short stories by John Galsworthy, is a more timeless enterprise than many of the protracted British TV dramas that have followed. While it would be wrong to consider The Forsyte Saga high art, it's certainly a mesmerizing and inspired mix of theater, sprawling Victorian narrative, thinking man's soap opera, and some finely tuned, 1960s black-and-white production values that (especially when shot outdoors) are strikingly handsome. Above all, Forsyte is driven by its characters--perhaps to an extreme, though the two-generation storyline makes no apologies for creating compelling people whose capacity for short-sighted blundering, bursts of grace, and slow-brewing redemption make them recognizably human. Eric Porter towers over everything as Soames Forsyte, a humorless attorney whose guiding principles of measurable value cause great heartache but slowly evolve, leaving him a graying, good father, arts patron, and sympathetic repository of memory. From the cast of 150 or so, other standouts include Susan Hampshire as Soames's troubled daughter, Nyree Dawn Porter as the wife of two very different Forsyte men, and Kenneth More as the family's artistic black sheep. --Tom Keogh

• Martin Lawrence - Live - Runteldat | DVD | (12/07/2004) from £9.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Box office star and hit comedian Martin Lawrence returns to his roots in this live stand-up show that sees him bring his unique brand of cynical humour to the stage. Lawrence joins such comedy legends as Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy in cementing the perfect live stand-up routine in this 90 minute show casting his scathing opinion over many aspects of contemporary life. Lawrence's passionate style of comedy tells it how it is and offers a hilarious insight into what people are real

• Billy the Kid | DVD | (31/12/2018) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Brian Boitano & Friends | DVD | (25/10/2004) from £26.98   |  Saving you £-1.99 (-8.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In a breathtaking exhibition of figure-skating magic Olympic gold medal winner Brian Boitano Tonya Harding and a dazzling collection of renowned ice skaters perform an extraordinary selection of free-skating routines from the tour of Olympic and world figure-skating champions.