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• The Firechasers | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Explosive action scenes and a plot full of twists make this pilot for a never-completed series gripping viewing right up to its sensational conclusion. The Firechasers stars Chad Everett, Anjanette Comer and Keith Barron as a team on the trail of a crazed arsonist, with outstanding support from Roy Kinnear, Allan Cuthbertson and Rupert Davies. Made by the team who had worked on some of the best episodes of The Avengers, The Firechasers is scripted by Philip Levene, directed by Sidney Hayers and produced by Julian Wintle

• Mr Jerico | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £7.09   |  Saving you £2.90 (40.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This TV pilot stars Patrick Macnee as the charming con-man Dudley Jerico.

• 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