Winner of two BAFTAs - this sequel to Porridge sees Norman Stanley Fletcher released from jail having served 3 years 8 months and 4 days. Following his release from Slade after numerous spells in prison and at the age of 45 Fletcher tries to stick to the straight and narrow but it isn't easy! Life in the outside world is just not the same as it used to be...
First introduced in sketches for the BBC's legendary radio comedy show Take It From Here The Glums were reanimated for television by original writers Frank Muir and Denis Norden in this hilarious classic comedy. Jimmy Edwards reprised his classic role as the bad-tempered beer-swilling Pa Glum with Ian Lavender as his brainless son Ron and Patricia Brake as Ron's long-term and long-suffering fiance Eth; scripts were based on those of the original radio sketches. This set consists of all eight episodes along with the remaining short sketches that were used in Bruce Forsyth's Big Night.
A powerful tale of love, loyalty and betrayal set in early 1980s Edinburgh.;The story centres on John Joseph McCann (Jo Jo,) a thief with attitude, and those nearest and dearest to him: Lorraine a would be Marilyn Monroe look-alike who falls in love with him, and Clare, his sharp young lawyer. Jo Jo 's love of crime started when he was a child, when he pilfered cash boxes for his father. He's been in and out of prison ever since. He lives in a housing estate with his mother and sister at a time when, virtually overnight, hard drugs followed by AIDS arrive in housing estates across the UK. As drug dealing becomes rife in the city, Jo Jo is tempted into a new line of business. Set against a backdrop of events which defined the early 1980s Looking After Jo Jo is the compelling story of one man's struggle to survive.;Robert Carlyle (The Full Monty, Hamish Macbeth) leads the cast in this character-led BBC drama alongside Kevin McKidd, a fellow Trainspotting alum, and Jenny McCrindle.
Penned by Last of the Summer Wine creator Roy Clarke Mann's Best Friends stars Barry Stanton as the inheritor of a rambling old house along with its menagerie of strange animals... and even stranger humans! Also starring the scourge of HMP Slade Fulton MacKay with fellow Porridge veteran Patricia Brake BAFTA winner Liz Smith and Carry On stalwart Bernard Bresslaw this delightfully offbeat sitcom is made available here for the first time. When Henry Mann inherits The Laurels he also inherits its assorted resident oddballs who include ill-tempered alcoholic Duncan blonde temptress Dolly Delights and several Chinese waiters. Then comes the arrival of retired Water Board official Hamish James Ordway a nosey parker and colossal fusspot with a flair for what he euphemistically calls 'organisation' - and Mann offers him free accommodation at The Laurels in returning for straightening out the chaos prevailing within...
John Nettles stars as Chief Inspector Barnaby in this feature-length episode of the acclaimed crime series. When a portrait of Jonathan Lowrie a wealthy royalist who was killed by a Roundhead musketeer is slashed at the Aspern Tallow museum Barnaby and Sergeant Troy are called in to investigate. A series of strange events follows and soon the detectives are investigating much more than an act of vandalism.
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