"Actor: James Bolam"

• Straight On Till Morning (Doubleplay) | Blu Ray | (29/01/2018) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ugly duckling Brenda Thompson (Rita Tushingham) leaves her Liverpool home hoping to find romance in London. She moves in with her work-mate Caroline (Katya Wyeth), but remains lonely and bewildered in the big city. While wandering alone one night she finds a scruffy dog and becomes infatuated with its handsome master. Brenda later confesses to the dog's owner, Peter (Shane Briant), that she has come to London because she wants a baby. He offers her a proposition if she will move in and cook, clean and tell him stories, he will give her what she wants. Brenda is confused but deeply in love with her mysterious partner. Before long, however, she is trapped in a nightmare world of paranoia and murder from which there seems to be no escape traight On Till Morning took its title from J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan and was directed by Peter Collinson, who had previously made Up the Junction and The Italian Job. Filmed in and around Earl's Court, London, this dark and disturbing thriller was released in 1972 and represented a bold new direction for Hammer. EXTRAS: Original trailer

• The Beiderbecke Collection | DVD | (10/11/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Beiderbecke Collection' is a charming mix of comedy and drama that has all the hallmarks of a classic detective thriller. Follow the exploits of jazz fan Trevor and his long-suffering girlfriend Jill as they find themselves embroiled in various mysteries which follow them to Amsterdam and Edinburgh and include dodgy businessmen black economies refugees and much much more.... This box set contains the following titles: 'The Beiderbecke Affair' 'The Beiderbecke Tapes' and 'The Beiderbecke Connection'.

• When The Boat Comes In - The Complete Boxed Set | DVD | (14/05/2007) from £84.95   |  Saving you £35.04 (41.25%)   |  RRP £119.99

  Ex-Sergeant Jack Ford returns home to Gallowshields on Tyneside after the end of World War One. It is a time of economic depression and Jack finds his home town gripped by decline and unemployment. Jack soon falls in with the Seaton family and is determined to make his mark on the world. Contains every episode made from all four series.

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 4 | DVD | (11/10/2004) from £49.99   |  Saving you £10.00 (20.00%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Jack Ford (James Bolam) returns to Gallowshields from New York having lost his money in the Wall Street crash. Will he have a fishy on his little dishy? Episodes titles: Back To Dear Old Blighty A Gift From Heaven A Medal For The Argentine Flies And Spiders Oh My Charming Billy Boy Friends Romans Countrymen The Bright Young Things Action! Comrades In Arms Roll Of Honour.

• Harold Shipman - Doctor Death | DVD | (15/07/2013) from £8.33   |  Saving you £4.66 (55.94%)   |  RRP £12.99

  James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death rate of his practice was investigated, it was discovered that he had given lethal doses of diamorphine to a vast number of his patients. He was put on trial where he was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 1 | DVD | (08/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Taken from the first television series this finds a former Army sergeant returning home to an economically depressed Gallowshields in Tyneside at the end of World War One. But this sergeant always lands on his feet...

• Grandpa In My Pocket | DVD | (01/10/2010) from £12.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Hi! This is me Jason Mason with my Grandpa. He's wearing his magic shrinking cap! That's why he's so small.

• Grandpa In My Pocket - Series 1 Vol. 4 | DVD | (05/09/2011) from £14.83   |  Saving you £-6.84 (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Hi! This is me Jason Mason with my Grandpa. He's wearing his magic shrinking cap! That's why he's so small.

• The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner | DVD | (14/04/2003) from £39.99   |  Saving you £-20.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Following the success of Karel Reisz's 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' Alan Sillitoe adapted another of his works for the screen this time a short story of a disillusioned teenager rebelling against the system to make Tony Richardson's 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner' one of the great British films of the 1960s. Newcomer Tom Courtenay is compelling as the sullen defiant Colin refusing to follow his dying father into a factory job railing against the capitalist bosses and preferring to make a living from petty thieving. Arrested for burglary and sent to borstal Colin discovers a talent for cross-country running earning him special treatment from the governor (Michael Redgrave) and the chance to redeem himself from anti-social tearaway to sports day hero. With Colin a favourite to win against a local public school tensions build as the day approaches...

• Second Thoughts - The Complete Third Series | DVD | (07/11/2011) from £8.28   |  Saving you £11.71 (141.43%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Faith (Lynda Bellingham - At Home with the Braithwaites) and Bill (James Bolam - The Likely Lads) are middle-aged divorcees attempting to maintain a relationship despite the forces that threaten to pull it apart. These include constant interference from Bill s scheming ex-wife and work colleague, Liza (Belinda Lang - 2point4 Children), and the activities of Faith s teenage children - the football-obsessed Joe, and demanding daughter Hannah (Julia Sawalha - Absolutely Fabulous). Nobody said it would be easy... Running for five highly successful series, this LWT comedy series - based on scripts for the original BBC Radio 4 series - was inspired by the real-life relationship of husband-and-wife writing team Jan Etherington and Gavin Petrie. With bittersweet storylines and memorable performances from a star cast, Second Thoughts was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 90s.

• Clockwork Mice | DVD | (10/03/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  The special relationship between a boy with a troubled past and a young teacher. Based on a screenplay by Rod Woodruff.

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 2 - Part 2 | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £17.03   |  Saving you £2.96 (17.38%)   |  RRP £19.99

  More from the classic BBC drama set on Tyneside at the end of the first world war starring James Bolam as the loveable rogue Jack Ford....

• A Kind Of Loving | DVD | (25/06/2001) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-10.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Pity poor Vic (Alan Bates): when he begins a relationship with Ingrid (June Ritchie), a typist at the Lancashire factory where he works as a draughtsman; his life comes apart at the seams. Ingrid's gossiping, malicious friends are bad enough, but her mother Mrs Rothwell (the terrifying Thora Hird) is something else. Vic has to marry Ingrid-she's pregnant--and the only place for them to stay is chez Rothwell. There's a tenderness about A Kind of Loving which you don't find in the more abrasive "kitchen sink" films of the 60s. Vic is not a rebel like Arthur Seton in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning or a macho lunk like Richard Harris' rugby-league player in This Sporting Life. He's a likable, easygoing youngster who soon discovers that real-life love affairs are infinitely messier than he and his mates could ever have imagined. The acute, witty screenplay, adapted by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse from Stan Barstow's novel, shows how limited Vic and Ingrid's choices really are. They have no privacy or independence. Bounced into a marriage that neither necessarily wants, their romance quickly sours. Mrs Rothwell is truly the mother-in-law from Hell--a busybody and a tyrant. Look out for the Queen Victoria-like expression on her face when a drunken Vic throws up in her front room. Debut-feature director John Schlesinger captures the humour and the pathos in the young lovers' plight without ever making fun of them. --Geoffrey Macnab

• When The Boat Comes In - Series 2 - Part 3 | DVD | (19/04/2004) from £14.87   |  Saving you £5.12 (34.43%)   |  RRP £19.99

  More from the classic BBC drama set on Tyneside at the end of the first world war starring James Bolam as the loveable rogue Jack Ford....

• Second Thoughts - The Complete Series 1 | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £5.54   |  Saving you £10.71 (250.23%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This is the complete first series of the ITV comedy about two young-middle-aged divorcees with very different backgrounds trying to build - and cling to - a relationship despite the pressures pulling it apart. Starring the ever-excellent James Bolam cast as Bill Macgregor the art editor of a style magazine and Lynda Bellingham hitherto best known as Mum in the Oxo TV commercials cast as freelance illustrator Faith Grayshot. Episodes comprise: 1. Found and Lost 2. Match

• Dirty Tricks | DVD | (19/06/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  'Dirty Tricks' follows the hapless exploits of an unscrupulous English tutor at a seedy language school in Oxford. On the surface he is an eternal student: charming witty and accomplished. Beneath the facade however he displays a brilliant and ruthless talent for lying and manipulating everyone around him. Our 'hero' becomes friendly with wealthy couple Dennis and Karen Parsons but his initial feelings of bitterness regarding their success become complicated by a frenzied affair wit

• The Likely Lads | DVD | (22/04/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  Dating from 1976, The Likely Lads belongs to an often-reviled genre--the feature-length spin-off from the 1970s sitcom. However, these were often a great deal better than TV purists make them out to be. The Dad's Army film, for example, more than measures up to the original series, the first Steptoe and Son movie is as sublime as any 1960s kitchen sink drama and much funnier, while this incarnation of The Likely Lads reaches heights of hilarity not even scaled by the splendid sitcom from which it was derived. Starring Rodney Bewes as Bob and James Bolam as Terry, this is an aimless but endlessly entertaining saga that takes in a calamitous caravan holiday in drizzly Northumbria, a farcical escapade in a seaside guest house and innumerable minor capers in between. The real business here, however, is in Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais' script and characterisation. Most of their best work involves men in confinement of some sort (Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen Pet) and here it's Bob who finds himself timidly chafing at the clutches of domestic "bliss" as personified by wife Thelma (played magnificently and underratedly by Brigit Forsyth, avoiding all the usual battleaxe clichés). He's jealous of the footloose Terry, even though the latter is clearly frustrated at his rootless existence ("I've learned nothing. Y'know what it'll say on my gravestone? "None the Bloody Wiser"!"). Beyond a mere nostalgia-fest, this is vintage, essential Brit-comedy. On the DVD: The Likely Lads is presented in widescreen 1.78:1. Unfortunately, this comedic milestone comes only with the original trailer by way of extras. --David Stubbs

• The Likely Lads | DVD | (24/12/2007) from £4.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (345.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the best British sitcoms of all-time, The Likely Lads focuses on the friendship between two working-class men, James Bolam and Rodney Bewes, living in the north east of England.Bob (Bewes) is the 'sensible' one, doing his best to get on with his job and 'better' himself. Terry (Bolam) is the 'irresponsible' one, intent on living life to the full. He's forever getting himself (and Terry) into trouble of one kind or another...Episodes Comprise:1. Entente Cordiale2. Double Date3. Older Women Are More Experienced4. The Suitor5. The Last Of The Big Spenders6. Rocker7. Goodbye To All That

• Straight On Till Morning | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £10.35   |  Saving you £2.64 (25.51%)   |  RRP £12.99

  An ugly duckling (Rita Tushingham of A Taste of Honey Smashing Time) yearns to leave her drab Liverpool life and move to swinging London to find her ""Prince Charming."" But the big city holds some nasty surprises for the nave young woman when she becomes obsessed with a handsome young gigolo (Shane Briant of Demons of the Mind) who may be a depraved serial killer. Will this bizarre relationship have the storybook ending she's always dreamed of or can even the most beautiful o

• Grandpa In My Pocket - The Magic Of Christmas / Big Elf Little Elf | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Comedy drama featuring a Grandpa with a magical shrinking cap that only his grandson Jason knows about. When he puts the cap on Grandpa shrinks and creates comic mayhem, but somehow Grandpa and Jason always manage to save the day. Its teamwork.