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• Timeslip | DVD | (21/12/2020) from £59.92   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  All 26 episodes from the 1970 children's series originally dreamed up by Ruth Boswell ('Tomorrow People'), in which two fifteen-year-olds, Liz (Cheryl Burfield) and Simon (Spencer Banks), travel through time. In 'The Wrong End of Time' (6 episodes), Liz and Simon travel back through time to a World War 2 naval base, where they are arrested on suspicion of spying. In 'The Time of the Ice Box' (6 episodes), Liz and Simon try to get back to the present, but instead they find themselves in an Arctic wasteland in the year 1990, where scientists in an underground research base try to involve them in a series of bizarre and destructive experiments. 'The Year of the Burn Up' (8 episodes) is a prescient portrayal of global warming. The children return to 1990 (but a different version as they have successfully managed to alter the past). They find the world ruled by the Technocrats, a scientifically advanced elite with a masterplan to reshape the world - but can they stop their destructive scheme that could bring about the end of the world? In the last of the four storylines, 'The Day of the Clone' (6 episodes), the children return to the present day, but Liz is immediately kidnapped and Simon sets off to find her. His search leads him through the time barrier back to the government research centre, where he finds Liz, and the children uncover masterplans for the 'Ice Box' and the 'Burn Up' they fought so hard to destroy.

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Complete | DVD | (14/08/2017) from £27.15   |  Saving you £-2.16 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Hetty Wainthropp, a sprightly, intelligent pensioner, wakes on her 60th birthday and decides to become a private investigator. Armed with just her handbag and lots of gritty northern common sense, she proves she can easily outwit the professionals. Although she walks, takes the bus or occasionally borrows a scooter to get to the crime scene, with sidekick Geoffrey a teenager she caught shoplifting husband Robert and her steely determination, how can she fail? This boxed set follows Hetty and her Wainthropp Detective Agency from its humble beginnings, charting its progress as it grows into a highly successful and thriving business.

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 2 | DVD | (06/03/2006) from £33.73   |  Saving you £-8.74 (-35.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Patricia Routledge stars as Hetty Wainthrope in the second series of the BBC detective drama. Armed with little more than her pocketbook and her prodigious common-sense Hetty has proven that she can easily match wits with the best of them; even if she has to take the bus to get to the scene of a crime! Episodes Comprise: 1.Poison Pen 2.Lost Chords 3.Runaways 4.The Astral Plane 5.A Rose By Any Other Name 6.Woman Of The Year

• Timeslip - Series 1 To 4 | DVD | (19/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  'Timeslip' has a special hold on the memories of those children who saw it when it was first broadcast in the 70s however it has been long gone...until now! When a young girl vanishes near a derelict naval station in St Oswald a fantastic series of events is set in motion which sends teenagers Simon Randall and Liz Skinner backwards and forwards time. The Wrong End Of Time Teenager Sarah enters a private but deserted Ministry of Defence field. Hearing a strange noise she

• Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series One - Complete | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £12.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (38.49%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Horace Rumploe (Leo McKern) is a down-at-heel yet brilliant barrister. Fond of quoting Wordsworth he comes to the defence of shoplifting vicars overly amorous teachers and many others who pass through the doors of the Old Bailey. He is famed for always winning his cases but there is one person who he has never beaten - his wife ""She Who Must Be Obeyed""! This 2 DVD disc set contains all 6 episodes from Series 1 and for the first time is fully sub-titled.

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 4 | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The complete fourth series of the BBC detective drama based on the novels by David Cook starring Patricia Routledge as Hetty Wainthrope. Armed with little more than her pocketbook and her prodigious common-sense Hetty has proven that she can easily match wits with the best of them - even if she has to take the bus to get to the scene of a crime. Episodes are: 'Something to Treasure' 'Family Values' 'Digging for Dirt' 'Mind Over Muscle' 'Blood Relations' and 'For Love Nor Money'.

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 1 | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £13.89   |  Saving you £9.09 (83.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mystery buffs will find Hetty Wainthropp to be delightful and uniquely entertaining company. Hetty has just turned 60, but she is not about to "ride serene into the evening tide," as her doting husband so poetically puts it. "I'm not 60 and I never will be," Hetty proclaims. "I'm not a senior citizen." Hetty wants to matter, so she gets a job at her local Lancashire post office. But that wouldn't make for much of a miniseries. Before you can say "cheeky monkey," she has involved herself in a deadly case of pension-fund fraud, and made a splash on the front pages as a "Super Gran Sleuth." The redoubtable Patricia Routledge, best known as Hyacinth Bucket on the beloved Keeping Up Appearances), does lovely work as Hetty, who first appeared in David Cook's 1986 novel, Missing Persons (Cook co-wrote the six first-season episodes contained here). Hetty is not as quaint as Miss Marple, nor her cases as seamy as Jane Tennison's Prime Suspect mysteries. She is a formidable character in her own right, opening her own private detective agency, and recruiting a 17-year-old shoplifter (Dominic Monaghan from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) to be her "devoted sidekick." A rogue cop, a roving arsonist, and other unsavory characters are no match for the woman who won't rest until things add up. As one police inspector grudgingly admits, "She's an extraordinary woman. She's no Miss Marple, but..." But, indeed. --Donald Liebenson

• The Brothers - Complete Collection: Series 1 -7 (BBC) 27 DVD BOXSET | DVD | (16/10/2017) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 3 | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Wainthropp Detective Agency is bustling. Hetty Wainthropp gets the really tough jobs that require a head and a heart. Her uncanny ability to blend in with her surroundings brings her into contact with people from all walks of life from marauding hooligans to high sociery brides.

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Collection: The Complete Series 1 - 4 | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Unwilling to take on the burdens of retirement Hetty Wainthropp (Routledge) decides that she has a natural gift for detection and sets up in business as a private detective ably assisted by husband Robert (Benfield) and her teenage sidekick Geoffrey (Monaghan). Racing to crime scenes on public transport using her bus pass Hetty proves that she can match her wits with the best of them whether the case is a mysterious death a missing son or an alleged suicide. Nine disc set containing all four series of this hugely popular BBC title based on the novels by David Cook.