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• Callan - Series 1 - Part 1 Of 3 - Episodes 1 - 3 | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £6.98   |  Saving you £9.01 (129.08%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Introduced in "A Magnum for Schneider", the hour-long 1967 Armchair Theatre episode of Callan written by James Mitchell about a disillusioned British secret agent of the same name (starring Edward Woodward), went on to offer four popular (if downbeat) series, a spin-off movie remaking the original story and a some-years-later wrap-up play "Wet Job". Remembered for its very distinctive opening titles, with a swinging broken-light bulb and a memorable theme tune, the series adopted a Deighton-LeCarré approach to the grim, treacherous, grubby business of Cold War espionage and made a TV star of the intense Woodward as the sweaty, sometimes conscience-stricken, sometimes robotic Callan. Even in the 21st century this still seems as strong, its complex stories and impressive performances outweighing a low-budget mix of video and film in the production that makes it seem less "professional" than other shows of the time. A great deal of the series opener is devoted to bringing on new regulars. Theres a fresh Mr Hunter who, like Number Two on The Prisoner--with which Callan shares series editor George Markstein--was a title not a name, so several actors held the position over the course of the show. Theres also the trendily mulleted thug Cross (Patrick Mower), who would go spectacularly off the rails in the next series and a half. In a dramatic device that has long since fallen out of fashion in television, Callan episodes tend to wind up by leaving the audience to work out all the connections of the plot while Callan himself sits gloomily and ponders the wretchedness of his squalid world. --Kim Newman

• Blood On The Sun | DVD | (01/12/2003) from £8.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (88.99%)   |  RRP £16.99

  While much of the world watched the early success of 'Mein Kampf' and the bombing of Pearl Harbour was ten years in the future few were aware of the existence of an oriental 'Hitler' ... Baron Giichi Tankara. But the war had already started in Japan for James Condon American journalist and editor of the Japanese Chronicle whose intuition has led him to believe that major trouble was brewing. The role of Condon man of hard words and harder fists is just the kind of tough guy t

• Callan - Series 1 - Part 3 Of 3 - Episodes 7 - 9 | DVD | (03/09/2001) from £15.70   |  Saving you £0.29 (1.85%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Introduced in "A Magnum for Schneider", the hour-long 1967 Armchair Theatre episode written by James Mitchell about a disillusioned British secret agent Callan (Edward Woodward), went on to offer four popular (if downbeat) series, a spin-off movie remaking the original story and a some-years-later wrap-up play "Wet Job". Remembered for its very distinctive opening titles, with a swinging broken light bulb and a memorable theme tune, the series adopted a Deighton-LeCarré approach to the grim, treacherous, grubby business of Cold War espionage and made a TV star of the intense Woodward as the sweaty, sometimes conscience-stricken, sometimes robotic Callan. Even in the 21st century this still seems a strong show, its complex stories and impressive performances outweighing a low-budget mix of video and film in the production that makes it seem less "professional" than other shows of the time. In a dramatic device that has long since fallen out of fashion in television, Callan episodes tend to wind up by leaving the audience to work out all the connections of the plot while Callan himself sits gloomily and ponders the wretchedness of his squalid world. --Kim Newman

• Various Artists - Melody Ranch | DVD | (02/05/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Tracklist: 1. Introduction 2. Melody Ranch Cast - Camptown Races 3. Lorrie Collins - Young Love 4. Mac Wiseman - Wabash Cannonball 5. The Sons Of The Pioneers - Chant Of The Wanderer 6. Marilyn Tuttle & Rose Lee Maphis - I Forgot About Him 7. Les Anderson - The New Panhandle Rag 8. Tex Ritter - When You Leave Don't Slam The Door 9. The Collins Kids - Just Because 10. Jim Reeves - Mexican Joe 11. Tex Williams - What I Like About The West 12. Joe Maphis & Larry Collins - Under The Double Eagle 13. George Jones - You Got To Be My Baby 14. Jimmy C. Newman - A Sweet Kind Of Love 15. Johnny Cash - Give My Love To Rose 16. Doyle O'Dell - I Left My Gal In The Mountains 17. Gordon Terry - Wild Honey 18. Wanda Jackson - Cool Love 19. Johnny O'Neal - Rain Rain Rain 20. Smiley Burnette - The Yodelling Song 21. Jeannie Mack - Dirty Dishes 22. Les Anderson - The Silver Dew On The Blue Grass 23. The Entire Cast - Round Up 24. Johnny Cash & The Tennessee Two - Train Of Love 25. Patsy Cline - I've Loved And Lost Again 26. Dorothy Wright - Just A Closer Walk With Thee 27. Bobby Helms - Long Gone Daddy 28. Carl Perkins - Blue Suede Shoes 29. The Tuttles - Hey Good Lookin' 30. Fiddlin' Kate - Cowboy Swing

• Blood On The Sun | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

  While much of the world watched the early success of 'Mein Kampf' and the bombing of Pearl Harbour was ten years in the future few were aware of the existence of an oriental 'Hitler' ... Baron Giichi Tankara. But the war had already started in Japan for James Condon American journalist and editor of the Japanese Chronicle whose intuition has led him to believe that major trouble was brewing. The role of Condon man of hard words and harder fists is just the kind of tough guy t

• Horror Vision | DVD | (02/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

• Tarnation | DVD | (25/07/2005) from £5.70   |  Saving you £14.29 (250.70%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A man charts an unexpected relationship that develops with his mentally-ill mother in this documentary.

• Callan - Third Series | DVD | (03/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A