"Actor: David Roper"

• Cowboys - The Complete Series 2 | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £10.98   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  If your kitchen should need repainting or your bathroom require renovation, you certainly wouldn't want to hire a highly dubious firm of contractors going by the name of Joe Jones Limited. Geyser, Wobbly Ron and Eric work for Joe because no-one else will employ them. And Joe has to employ Geyser, Wobbly Ron and Eric because no-one else will work for him...Oscar-winning scriptwriter and actor Colin Welland is aptly named plumber Geyser, David Kelly (Robin s Nest) is his terminally confused co-worker, and Roy Kinnear is the boss entirely unburdened by a conscience in this wickedly funny early '80s sitcom penned by Surgical Spirit creator Peter Learmouth. Series Two sees the hapless builders tackling cash flow problems, dodging the tax man, attempting to re-point a vertiginously placed 'curved wall', and causing mayhem in an operating theatre...

• This is Jinsy Series 2 | DVD | (15/05/2017) from £10.71   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  his Is Jinsy Series 2 takes you back to the extraordinary island of knitwear, folksong and hi-tech surveillance for a series of eight colourful new adventures. Join Arbiter Maven, his assistant, Sporall, repairwoman Soosan and legal advisor Trince as they attempt to control Jinsy s troublesome residents. From an invasion of ancient hair to a dangerous encounter with a tribe of wild accountants, from the mysterious scheming of arch-enemy The Speckled Pom-Pom to a quest for The Golden Woggle... the island is once again peopled with a host of British television s most popular stars as you ve never seen them before: Stephen Fry, Olivia Colman, Ben Miller, Sir Derek Jacobi, Rob Brydon, Dame Eileen Atkins, Greg Davies, Stephen Mangan, Jennifer Saunders, KT Tunstall, Phil Davis and Katy Brand.

• The Cuckoo Waltz - Series 2 - Complete | DVD | (10/08/2009) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Cuckoo Waltz: Series 2

• The Cuckoo Waltz: the Complete Series | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £33.92   |  Saving you £-3.93 (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Local news reporter Chris Hawthorne (David Roper) and his wife, Fliss (Diane Keen), live a simple but contented life with their twin babies and few material possessions, punctuated by occasional visits from Fliss's mum, Connie, and their eccentric neighbour, Austen Tweedale. All that changes, however, when they take in lodger Gavin Rumsey (Lewis Collins): newly single Gavin has soon filled the house with expensive furniture, flashy gadgets and a succession of decorative young 'temps' - and Chris and Fliss are left feeling distinctly squeezed out... All four series of this classic comedy are available here in one set, for the first time.

• The Cuckoo Waltz | DVD | (04/05/2009) from £13.99   |  Saving you £-1.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Fliss and Chris are a young happily-married couple whose whizz-kid friend Gavin moves in after splitting with his wife.

• The Cuckoo Waltz - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (22/08/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  David Roper and Diane Keen return in this hit Granada sitcom which follows the fortunes of local news reporter Chris Hawthorne and his wife Fliss. The young couple have always enjoyed life's more modest pleasures but face an uphill struggle to make ends meet on Chris's meagre salary especially now the twins have reached school age and lodger Gavin Rumsey has left. Enter suave new lodger Adrian Lockett; Fliss and Chris have just lost a life-long friend and gained a total stranger!

• The Cuckoo Waltz - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (21/03/2011) from £8.98   |  Saving you £6.00 (85.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Local news reporter Chris Hawthorne (David Roper - Eastenders) and his wife Fliss (Diane Keen - The Sandbaggers) had lived a frugal but contented life with their twin babies and few material possessions punctuated by occasional visits from Fliss' mum Connie and eccentric neighbour Austen Tweedale. All that changed however when they took in newly single lodger Gavin Rumsey (Lewis Collins - The Professionals). Having filled the house with expensive furniture flashy gadgets and a succession of decorative young temps his flamboyant lifestyle has left the hard-up Hawthornes feeling distinctly squeezed out...

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  Down Time is a strange attempt to mix concrete Northern social realism and Bruce-Willis-style cliffhanger thrills, with balls of fire billowing up empty lift shafts and so forth. Paul McGann plays an ex-police psychologist, retired through ill health, drafted in to dissuade miserable single mother Chrissy (Susan Lynch) from throwing herself and her child off the top of a tower block. He succeeds, though in so doing betrays some of the problems that caused him to quit his job. He then pursues Chrissy romantically, during the course of which he, she and her little boy become stuck in the tower block lift, which then starts ascending and descending at random when hoodlum squatters break into the control box and mess about with it for an idle laugh. With its bizarre and somewhat improbable scenario, its odd mix of whimsical light romance, grim-up-North-style melodrama and explosive stunt action, Down Time as a whole doesn't really come off. The behaviour of key characters borders on the arbitrary, the "yobs" who cause all the problems go curiously unpunished and the ending barely makes sense. However, the lengthy mid-sequence in which McGann rescues (and is rescued by) Chrissy from the perilously dangling lift is, though predictable in its outcome, gripping enough. --David Stubbs