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• Intimate Games | DVD | (22/09/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When hapless college tutor Professor Gottlieb (George Baker The Ruth Rendell Mysteries) instructs his class of horny pupils to research a project on sexual fantasies he gets more than he bargained for. From double entendres to delightful stripteases the young men and women are soon playing the most intimate of games! This classic British sex comedy features a perfect mixture of familiar acting faces such as Ian Hendry Hugh Lloyd Queenie Watts and a raunchy roll call of naughty 1970s stars including Anna Bergman Suzy Mandel and an early un-credited appearance by supersexstar Mary Millington.

• For Maddie With Love: The Complete Series | DVD | (29/07/2019) from £29.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Hard-hitting and unsentimental, For Maddie With Love is the story of a woman who knows she is dying and, in doing so, rediscovers the love she has for her husband and family. Showcasing memorable performances from Nyree Dawn Porter and Ian Hendry and an affecting, stylishly minimalist design ethic, this daytime afternoon drama which ran twice-weekly through much of 1980 became compulsive viewing due to its powerful take on terminal illness, self-determined euthanasia and the aftermath of a death in the family. This set contains all 48 episodes from both series of this classic drama. Special feature Limited edition booklet by archive television historian Billy Smart.

• Last Train From Gun Hill | Blu Ray | (07/01/2022) from £30.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Kirk Douglas and Anthony Quinn headline this suspenseful western which follows U.S. Marshal Matt Morgan (Douglas) on the trail of his wife's killer. Adding a dark twist to the tale-the suspect's father is Morgan's long-time friend, cattle baron Craig Beldon (Quinn). Morgan is determined to capture the killer and take him away by the 9:00 train, against all odds. Directed by John Sturges (Gunfight at the O.K. Corral), one of the greatest filmmakers of the Western genre.

• The Sweeney - The Complete Series 1 | Blu Ray | (10/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £49.99

  Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best '70s drama series can be, The Sweeney is one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo', Detective Sergeant Carter, this benchmark television series is now available on Blu-ray in a stunning level of quality not previously seen. The Sweeney has never looked this good.

• Criterion Collection: Repulsion | Blu Ray | (28/07/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• The Internecine Project | DVD | (18/11/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Powerful international business associates have recommended Robert Elliot (James Coburn) as a special advisor to the White House. But there's a problem. Elliot has a very dirty past. He's been running a business espionage ring - and if the truth ever came out Elliot would be finished. Now everyone working for Elliot must die to ensure their silence. Everyone and Elliot can't be implicated in the murders. Somehow they must be convinced to kill each other - and all in one single bloody night...

• Soap Box - Volume One | DVD | (31/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  Loved by millions, soap operas have become a regular part of people's lives. A staple part of British television culture over the last fifty years, our devoted interest in the dramatic, funny and sometimes tragic situations of characters we've come to know and love always keeps us coming back for more.So meet some old friends and rediscover some classic moments in a three disc set that contains episodes of Coronation Street, Emmerdale Farm, The Cedar Tree, For Maddie With Love, General Hospital, Parkin's Patch and more!

• The New Avengers: The Complete Series - Episodes 1-26 | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Sometimes dismissed as a pale descendant of a great original, The New Avengers deserves a second look and is perhaps best considered as a largely successful attempt to re-imagine its predecessor for 1970s audiences. Patrick McNee was never the most convincing of action heroes, and the decision to make his John Steed the supervisor and mentor of two younger agents was a sensible one--Steed's virtues are style, wisdom and fortitude rather than physical prowess. Gareth Hunt's Gambit has an unattractively smug side, but has also a louche charm. Joanna Lumley's Purdey is one of the most attractive heroines of genre television, astonishingly leggy and beautiful. Those who only know her later incarnation as Patsy in Absolutely Fabulous will understand now why such a fuss is made over her. The script team overlaps heavily with that of the original series; the new show has the same quirkiness, only occasionally varying it with a rather darker leCarrésque complexity or sudden outbreaks of Hammer Horror. If it lacks some of the sheer style of the original, that is a reflection of its period--the 1970s were less visually imaginative than the 60s. Tightly plotted, imaginatively cast with interesting guest stars, it is only with The Avengers that The New Avengers suffers by comparison. --Roz Kaveney

• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1965 (Box Set 2) | DVD | (03/06/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Swingingly stylish adventures with super spies John Steed and Mrs Peel! Flashback to the Sixties with the coolest duo in crimefighting! Episode titles include: The Murder Market: In which Steed gets a wife and Emma gets buried. A surfeit of H2O: In which Steed plans a boat trip and Emma gets very wet. The Hour That Never Was: In which Steed has to face the music and Emma disappears. Dial A Deadly Number: In which Steed plays Bulls and Bears and Emma has no option. Man-Eater Of Surrey Green: In which Steed kills a climber and Emma becomes a vegetable. Two's A Crowd: In which Steed is single-minded and Emma sees double.

• Cooper | DVD | (29/09/2008) from £10.78   |  Saving you £4.21 (28.10%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tommy Cooper's comedy was timeless a true original who was everyone's favourite clown. Wearing his trademark Fez he delighted millions with bungled magic tricks and hilarious sketeches.

• The Persuaders - Complete | DVD | (07/10/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Between heroic spells as the Saint and James Bond, Roger Moore was teamed with Tony Curtis in The Persuaders, a derivative but fun series about a couple of millionaire dilettante adventurers who swan around the world competing for the attention of beautiful women and getting involved in perplexing mysteries. Moore is Lord Brett Sinclair, an upper crust Brit of impeccable breeding, while Curtis is Danny Wilde, an up-from-the-streets self-made man whose trademark is a pair of brown gloves. The allegedly tasteful Brett and the crasser Danny both model a succession of garish early 70s fashions while their pursuits of duplicitous crumpet usually wind up with the women getting away and the heroes stuck with each other. Given all that, this may well be the most blatantly homoerotic of all the buddy television pairings (see the eponymous stars of Starsky and Hutch, Regan and Carter in The Sweeney, Bodie and Doyle of The Professionals) that ran ove! r the screen in the 70s, in which the male leads sublimated their feelings for each other by pulling out their guns and shooting at baddies. --Kim Newman

• Get Carter | DVD | (13/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Released in 1971 (the same year Straw Dogs and A Clockwork Orange hit the screens, which must make 71 the annus mirabilis for violent films set in Britain), Get Carter opens with gangsters leering over pornographic slides and ends on a filthy, slag-stained beach in Newcastle. It's a low-down and dirty movie from beginning to end, and possibly the grittiest and best film of its kind to come out of Britain. The granddaddy of Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels and all its ilk, director Mike Hodges' Get Carter offers revenge tragedy swinging-60s style, all nicotine-stained cinematography, shabby locations and the kind of killer catchphrases Vinnie Jones would die for ("You're a big man, but you're in bad shape. With me, it's a full-time job. Now behave yourself", says Michael Caine's deadpan anti-hero Carter before inflicting a few choice punches on Brian Mosley, aka Coronation Street's Alf Roberts, to name but one example from Hodges and Ted Lewis' exquisitely laconic script).Presenting the dark horse in his family of loveable Cockney geezer roles (Alfie, The Italian Job), Michael Caine plays the title role of Jack Carter, a man so hard he barely registers a flicker of regret watching a woman he has just had sex with plunge to her death. After taking the train up to Newcastle as the credits roll and Roy Budd's chunky bass-heavy theme tune plays, Carter returns to his hometown to attend his brother's funeral and investigate the circumstances of his death. Not that he's all that sentimental about family: he shaves nonchalantly over the open coffin, and shows affection to his niece Doreen (Petra Markham) by cramming a few notes in her hand and telling her to "be good and don't trust boys". Gradually, Carter unravels the skein of drugs, pornography and corruption tangled around his brother's death, which brings him up against supremely oleaginous kingpin Kinnear (played by the author of Look Back in Anger John Osborne) among others. A remake starring Sylvester Stallone is in the offing, but quite frankly it will be a 30-degree (Celsius) Christmas night in Newcastle before Hollywood could ever make something as assured, raw and immortal as this. --Leslie Felperin

• The Internecine Project | DVD | (25/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Internecine Project is a fantastic conspiracy-thriller based on the novel by Mort W. Elkind and starring the late James Coburn. Former secret agent Robert Elliot is to be promoted as a personal advisor to the President of the USA. However there are people who know of the corruption in his past life. His solution to the problem is to have them assassinated...

• Cubix - The Unfixable Robot | DVD | (13/10/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The complete first series of this hugely successful television series starring John Thaw as the legendary Jack Regan and Dennis Waterman as sidekick George Carter. This is first of four box sets featuring all 13 episodes from series 1. Most of these episodes are new to DVD and 2 episodes have never been previously released on any format. Episodes comprise: 1. Ringer 2. Jackpot 3. Thin Ice 4. Queen's Pawn 5. Jigsaw 6. Night Out 7. The Placer 8. Cover Story 9. Golden Boy 10. Stoppo Driver 11. Big Spender 12. Contact Breaker 13. Abduction

• Blood Letting | DVD | (03/12/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Chief Inspector Birkett (Ian Hendry) and Sergeant Saunders (Ronald Fraser) are called in to investigate the murder of a glamorous model. They discover that the murdered girl has led a chequered life and that her acquaintances include drug pushers. Jordan Barker (Jeremy Brett) and Hammond Barker (Peter Arne) are reluctant to help but when the police finally make an arrest another murder occurs in a seedy Soho Jazz caf. But are the two murders connected?

• Bitch, The / The Stud | DVD | (21/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Stud (1978): A waiter (Oliver Tobias) becomes manager of a hip discotheque by sleeping with his boss' insatiable wife (Joan Collins) but the life bores him and he returns to his East End roots... This look at the sexual cavortings of the super-rich revived Joan Collins' flagging career and paved the way for her success in the television series 'Dynasty'. The Bitch (1979): Joan Collins stars in the film version of her sister Jackie's novel about a rich woman who ha

• The Stud and The Bitch | DVD | (23/07/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  The Stud: A waiter (Oliver Tobias) becomes manager of a hip discotheque by sleeping with his boss' insatiable wife (Joan Collins) but the life bores him and he returns to his East End roots. This look at the sexual cavortings of the super-rich revived Joan Collins' flagging career and paved the way for her success in television's 'Dynasty'. The Bitch: Joan Collins stars in the film version of her sister Jackie's novel about a rich woman who has an ill-advised affair with a young gangster wanted by the Mafia. 'The Bitch' (1978)is a sequel to 'The Stud' also from a Jackie Collins novel.