"Actor: John Rutland"

• One Foot In The Grave: Complete Series 1-6 | DVD | (29/10/2012) from £19.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  In Victor Meldrew, One Foot in the Grave brought us one of the greatest characters in the history of British situation comedy. David Renwick's multi-award winning creation spawned a catch phrase--"I don't believe it"--that vocalised the sentiments of the perennially disgruntled, the irritated or the plain bewildered. Victor is a superannuated security guard struggling to fill his premature retirement usefully, but he is frustrated at every turn. Coincidences, external forces and events and other people conspire against him. Somehow or other, he always gets the blame, leaving a trail of walking wounded in his wake, usually led by his long-suffering wife Margaret. This first series, originally transmitted in 1990, contains countless comic moments, many of them truly surreal. But Victor is never a one-dimensional target for our laughter. Indeed, as with the best comedy, we mock him at our peril. None of us get through life without our share of Meldrew moments. Thanks to Richard Wilson's performance--which rightly made him a major television star--he is a rounded human being who genuinely can't understand why he is constantly at odds with the world around him, despite his best efforts. And in Annette Crosbie as the increasingly enraged Margaret, he has the perfect screen partner. --Piers Ford

• The Complete One Foot In The Grave Boxset | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  Who would have thought retirement could be so chaotic? Certainly not querulous Victor Meldrew one of tree-lined suburbia's perennial complainers or his long suffering wife Margaret. When he's forced to take early retirement Victor suddenly has plenty of time on his hands to rage against the petty annoyances of life. But there's one thing to remember in the Meldrew household - whatever can go wrong always does and it usually spells disaster for Victor... The complete collection of the long running BBC1 sitcom One Foot In The Grave. For individual series episode listings please refer to the singular boxed sets.

• A Little Of What You Fancy | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £8.97   |  Saving you £4.02 (44.82%)   |  RRP £12.99

  The Music Hall was once the most popular form of entertainment in London. Bawdy raucous sentimental and energetic it produced a whole host of stars and some of the best-loved songs of all time. Filmed in the 1960s A Little Of What You Fancy is a loving tribute to the likes of Lily Morris Gus Elen and Ella Shields. Featuring original archive film of the stars plus rare prints portraits and photographs it traces what remains of the great Music Halls in 1960s London - and discovers the spirit of Music Hall still very much alive in places like The Players Theatre off the trand and MacDonalds in Hoxton. 1960s performances by Helen Shapiro singing Dont Dilly Dally and The Lambeth Walk and Sheila Bernette singing She Was Poor But She Was Honest Dear Old Pals and Covent Garden in the Morning are mixed with original recordings of Stanley Holloways I Live in Trafalgar Square and Lets All Go Down the Strand. Gus Elen is captured performing Its a Great Big Shame and Lily Morris is seen and heard lamenting Why am I Always the Bridesmaid? And these are just a few of the musical highlights in this glorious celebration of traditional Music Hall at its very best!

• Calculated Risk | DVD | (01/11/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A long stretch in prison after a string of failed jobs has not blunted the desire for Kip (John Rutland) to pull off one more job. And this time it's the big one. As soon as he is released Kip teams up with Steve (William Lucas) the brains behind several heists and together they plan the job that will set them up for life: breaking into a bank vault through the cellars of adjoining bombed-out houses. Their crew consists of Nodge (Terence Cooper) for the heavy work Dodo (Shay Gorman) to handle explosives and Ron (David Brierley) as the driver. When Simmie (Warren Mitchell) supplies the gang with plastic incendiaries they begin their stake out of the bank and work out the best times to begin the drilling and blasting their way into the vault. But just before the gang leaves Kip has a heart attack and has to drop out. Against his better judgement Steve who is strictly the organisation man agrees to go on the job in his place. Meanwhile things start to go wrong...