By 1984 Minder was an international television award winner and Series 5 arrives with great fanfare and chart-topping episodes. Relive the comic capers of the crafty Cockney Arthur Daley (George Cole) and his tough-talking sidekick Terry McCann (Dennis waterman). Disc 1 - Episodes 1 to 3. Goodbye Sailor. What Makes Shamy Run? A Number Of Old Wives' Tale. Disc 2 - Episodes 4 to 6. The Second Time Around. Second Hand Pose. The Long Ride Back To Scratchwood. Disc 3 - Episodes 7 to 8. Hypnotising Rita. The Balance Of Power.
The classic 8-part BBC series from 1980 arrives on DVD for the very first time. God's Wonderful Railway follows three generations of the Grant family working on the Great Western branch line. Split into three different stories : 'The Permanent Way' is told during the construction of the line in the reign of Queen Victoria, 'Clear Ahead' shows us the line operating during Edwardian times. The final part, 'Fire on the Line' shows us the Second World War and how the Grant family and the line fair in that troubled time. Features subtitles for the Hard of Hearing. Cast includes: June Brown (Eastenders), Gordon Kaye ('Allo 'Allo) and Gerard Kelly. Extras: On location with God's Wonderful Railway (24 minutes) - The Making of the Series. Blue Peter feature looking at the engines used in the filming of the series. (14mins)
Gemma Jones stars as Louisa Trotter a cook for the upperclass at a fancy hotel. Very similar in style to 'Upstairs Downstairs' this classic British TV series first aired in 1976.
Victoria Wood with All the Trimmings contains exactly what it says on the box. Harking back to the classic BBC Christmas comedy specials of yesteryear, the show features a star-studded cast: Alan Rickman, Richard E Grant, Michael Parkinson, Bob Monkhouse, Hugh Laurie, Angela Rippon, Roger Moore, Caroline Aherne, the list goes on. The show takes a typically idiosyncratic canter through a dream set of telly programmes for Christmas Day. Thus we get expertly played skits of A Christmas Carol (with Delia Smith as the cook); Brassed Off (in which Tony Blair solves the North/South divide by declaring everything The South); Brief Encounter (Parky as the station master, with a side order of drugs and lesbianism); a regency romantic drama (with the line "could you not stick your hand in your muff?") and lots more. What makes the production a true cut above, however, is the linking theme that takes a blatant pot shot at the modern BBC--or as Wood sees it--BBC Upmarket, BBC Downmarket, BBC Newmarket (for racing), BBC Makeover, BBC Takeover, etc. This is funny, cutting and achingly on the ball about the state of modern television.--Ian Watson
Set in London's East End, The 14 (aka The Wild Little Bunch aka Existence) is based on the true story of fourteen children who struggle against overwhelming pressures to stay together after the death of their single mother. Heading the cast is Oliver! star Jack Wild, who plays Reg - at 17 the eldest of the children, and committed to keeping his young family together after a promise he made to his mum; his mischievous siblings are portrayed by largely untrained juvenile actors. The 14 was the...
Who Do You Think You Are? follows the journeys of ten well known personalities as they explore their family trees, uncover their family history and discover fascinating and poignant facts about their ancestors that have been, until now, hidden in the annals of time.June Brown starts with a bare-knuckle boxer in London's East End and ends up in Algeria; J.K. Rowling finds herself on the French border with Germany in the disputed territory of Alsace Lorraine; Sebastian Coe is Jamaican bound to uncover a history of sugar and slaves; Larry Lamb discovers a fantastical fairground history and a lost relative; Emilia Fox explores a theatrical heritage and an engineering innovator; Alan Carr kicks off with stories of the soccer field before tracking down a missing soldier; Robin Gibb finds himself related to a poor boy turned military man and uses the Freedom of Information Act to get to the heart of a mid-wife's labour; Richard Madeley discovers what it is to be a Pilgrim; Len Goodman starts with a barrow boy before traveling to Poland and returning to the London of Karl Marx; and Tracey Emin explores workhouses, prisons and the craftwork of gypsies.
Doctor Who star John Pertwee is your host in this highly popular, light-hearted panel game which invites viewers to play detective pitting their wits against a panel of celebrity sleuths to solve a fictitious murder mystery. Devised by comedians Jeremy Lloyd and Lance Percival, the show's brilliantly original formula presents short dramas laden with clues and a few red herrings to be pieced together by the panellists who, having grilled the suspects, point the accusing finger at the likely felon... The star-studded guest panel for this volume includes Mollie Sugden, June Whitfield, Roy Plomley, Janet Brown, Magnus Pyke, Rodney Bewes and Victor Spinetti among many others.
First broadcast in 1976 this release features the second half of series 2. It's 1918 the guns are finally silent and the Great War in Europe is over. But at the Bentinck Hotel in London's St James the devastating effects of four years conflict are still plain to see. Home from the front at last Charlie Haslemere is on his last legs and when the inevitable happens Louisa decides on drastic action much to the displeasure of the hotel's staff. Louisa's life must go on and there a
Gemma Jones stars as Louisa Trotter a cook for the upperclass at a fancy hotel.
An innocent women is jailed for smuggling cocaine. During her sentence she is at the mercy of the warden and her inmates forcing her to find a way out...
Gemma Jones stars as Louisa Trotter a cook for the upperclass at a fancy hotel. Very similar in style to 'Upstairs Downstairs' this classic British TV series first aired in 1976.
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