"Actor: Patricia Routledge"

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 1 | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £13.89   |  Saving you £9.09 (83.39%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Mystery buffs will find Hetty Wainthropp to be delightful and uniquely entertaining company. Hetty has just turned 60, but she is not about to "ride serene into the evening tide," as her doting husband so poetically puts it. "I'm not 60 and I never will be," Hetty proclaims. "I'm not a senior citizen." Hetty wants to matter, so she gets a job at her local Lancashire post office. But that wouldn't make for much of a miniseries. Before you can say "cheeky monkey," she has involved herself in a deadly case of pension-fund fraud, and made a splash on the front pages as a "Super Gran Sleuth." The redoubtable Patricia Routledge, best known as Hyacinth Bucket on the beloved Keeping Up Appearances), does lovely work as Hetty, who first appeared in David Cook's 1986 novel, Missing Persons (Cook co-wrote the six first-season episodes contained here). Hetty is not as quaint as Miss Marple, nor her cases as seamy as Jane Tennison's Prime Suspect mysteries. She is a formidable character in her own right, opening her own private detective agency, and recruiting a 17-year-old shoplifter (Dominic Monaghan from the Lord of the Rings trilogy) to be her "devoted sidekick." A rogue cop, a roving arsonist, and other unsavory characters are no match for the woman who won't rest until things add up. As one police inspector grudgingly admits, "She's an extraordinary woman. She's no Miss Marple, but..." But, indeed. --Donald Liebenson

• Victoria Regina | DVD | (25/03/2019) from £9.20   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  NOTICE: Polish Release, cover may contain Polish text/markings. The disk DOES NOT have English audio and subtitles.

• Hildegard Von Bingen In Portrait | DVD | (02/09/2003) from £21.59   |  Saving you £3.40 (15.75%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A profile on one of the first female composers Hildegard Von Bingen (1098-1179) whose story is known. She believed that music had the power to heal. Disc one contains a performance of Ordo Virtutum with ensemble Vox Animae. Disc two contains a dramatised account of Hildegard's life performed by Patricia Routledge.

• The Beggar's Opera | DVD | (23/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Created specially for television this Beggar's Opera captures the quality and satiric edge of the Hogarth engravings which influenced Gay's original version. The characters of this highly spirited comedy of London low-life thrived on thieving lechery and deceit: Peachum the receiver of stolen goods shops his clients when it suits him; Lockit the prison governor has corrupt links with Peachum; Macheath the highwayman has married Polly Peachum but is promised to Lucy Lockit; Jenn

• Girl Stroke Boy (UK Limited Edition) | Blu Ray | (17/01/2022) from £13.59   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Based on David Percival's acclaimed play Girlfriend, Girl Stroke Boy is a one-of-a-kind comedy which tells of two everyday, middle-class parents who are confounded when their son brings home his new partner: an elegant, confusingly androgynous West Indian (actor and pop star Peter Straker in a pioneering performance). Directed with an affectionate, light touch by Bob Kellet (Up Pompeii, Space: 1999) and featuring a superb cast, including Joan Greenwood (Mysterious Island, Kind Hearts and Coronets), Michael Hordern (The Missionary, Barry Lyndon), Patricia Routledge (To Sir, with Love), and Clive Francis (A Clockwork Orange), Girl Stroke Boy still packs a punch today thanks to Straker's flamboyant performance (British cinema's first gay leading role to be played by a black actor) and the prescient subject matter. Long out of circulation, this new, restored edition marks the film's worldwide Blu-ray premiere.

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 3 | DVD | (05/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Wainthropp Detective Agency is bustling. Hetty Wainthropp gets the really tough jobs that require a head and a heart. Her uncanny ability to blend in with her surroundings brings her into contact with people from all walks of life from marauding hooligans to high sociery brides.

• Hetty Wainthropp Investigates Collection: The Complete Series 1 - 4 | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  Unwilling to take on the burdens of retirement Hetty Wainthropp (Routledge) decides that she has a natural gift for detection and sets up in business as a private detective ably assisted by husband Robert (Benfield) and her teenage sidekick Geoffrey (Monaghan). Racing to crime scenes on public transport using her bus pass Hetty proves that she can match her wits with the best of them whether the case is a mysterious death a missing son or an alleged suicide. Nine disc set containing all four series of this hugely popular BBC title based on the novels by David Cook.

• Tales Of The Unexpected - Vol. 4 | DVD | (31/01/2006) from £7.50   |  Saving you £12.49 (166.53%)   |  RRP £19.99

• Tales Of The Unexpected - Series 8 - Complete | DVD | (07/07/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Roald Dahl's chillingly brilliant anthology series Tales of the Unexpected is back with series 8! Sinister and with a touch of the macabre Tales of the Unexpected holds at its heart a core of black humour that makes each story both compelling and surprising with a twist in each tale that delighted audiences throughout the country. Episodes Comprise: 1. People Don't Do Such Things 2. In The Cards 3. Nothin' Short Of Highway Robbery 4. Scrimshaw

• The Beggar's Opera - John Gay | DVD | (06/04/2009) from £28.12   |  Saving you £-22.13 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

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