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• Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete First Series | DVD | (19/09/2005) from £8.92   |  Saving you £22.33 (291.51%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Landmark British drama series' first season set in turn-of-the-century England chronicles life among the residents of 165 Eaton Place. This is the first series of the classic British drama Upstairs Downstairs. It is obvious in this first season that the budgets are low with the sets sparse and 'bloopers' often not being edited out. Contributer's to the series include renowned author Fay Weldon. Episodes comprise: 1. On Trial 2. The Mistress and the Maids

• Midsomer Murders Collection 7 - 10 DVD Boxset | DVD | (01/03/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Beneath the tranquil surface of sleepy village life in the idyllic English county of Midsomer exist dark secrets scandals and downright evil. John Nettles stars as the humorous thoughtful and methodical Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby. Episodes Comprise: 1. Midsomer Life 2. Left For Dead 3. The Magician's Nephew 4. Days Of Misrule 5. The Dogleg Murders 6. Secrets And Spies 7. The Black Book 8. The Glitch 9. Small Mercies 10. The Creeper

• Derailed | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £5.98   |  Saving you £0.01 (0.17%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A train rockets across Eastern Europe. On board are agent Kristoff (Van Damme) and Galina a beautiful high-tech thief. Holding the passengers hostage are a band of terrorists who have come to steal the bioweapon on board. With the train off course and on a collision course for danger Kristoff becomes a one-man army taking on the terrorists and trying to save the lives of everyone on board.

• Ricky Zoom: Zoom into Christmas | DVD | (01/11/2021) from £5.09   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Ricky helps to bring Christmas magic to Wheelford when he saves SantaCycle after a crash landing! Join the Bike Buddies as they rescue Christmas and have fun on other adventures! Episode List: SantaCycle Down Shining! Steel Awesome Meets Vroomboy The Gold Ticket Rush Toot's Invisible Friend Maxwell Gets a Little Help Trike Trials Ruled by Ricky Problem at Windshield Point Super Awesome Magnet

• Checkmate | DVD | (29/10/2018) from £13.79   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Six people are thrown together during an elaborate bank heist where any move can alter the outcome. Is it coincidence, or are they merely pawns in a much bigger game.

• Don't Wait Up - Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (02/06/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Two doctors estranged from their spouses become roommates...they also happen to be father and son! Can they share an apartment without driving each other crazy? Watch as father and son learn to tolerate one another's idiosyncrasies in this sophisticated and popular comedy series..

• Spaced: Complete Series 2 | DVD | (11/03/2002) from £7.67   |  Saving you £12.32 (61.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The second series of Spaced finds the gang at 23 Meteor Street a little older, but definitely none the wiser. Tim's career is hampered by severe hang-ups over The Phantom Menace. Daisy's career is just plain non-existent. There is still a spark of sexual tension between them, but it's overshadowed by Brian and Twist getting it on. Propelling the seven-episode series arc is the threat of Marsha discovering that none of the relationships are what they seem, Mike's increasing jealousy and a new love interest for Tim. That's the basis for a never-ending stream of in-jokes and references that easily match the quality of the first series. Tim has a Return of the Jedi flashback, then déjà vu in reliving the end of The Empire Strikes Back. There are spoofs of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Robocop, The Sixth Sense and comedy rival The Royle Family. There are guest spots from Bill Bailey, Peter (voice of Darth Maul) Serafinowicz and The League of Gentlemen's Mark Gatiss and Reece Shearsmith. Every episode is packed with highlights, but this series' guaranteed geek pant-wetting moments have to be the mock gun battles, slagging off Babylon 5 and learning that "The second rule of Robot Club is: no smoking." Jessica Stevenson won a British Comedy Award for this year. It deserved a whole lot more.--Paul Tonks On the DVD: There's a chaotic but highly enthusiastic commentary from the director and cast, including of course Simon Pegg and Jessica Stevenson, who also talk about some deleted scenes and why they were removed. There's an outtakes blooper reel, as well as a selection of raw location footage and a self-explanatory clip, "Daisy Does Elvis". The most useful feature, though, is the subtitle "Homage-o-Meter" facility, which displays all the movie references throughout the series. --Mark Walker

• Fun At The Funeral Parlour | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £19.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring many of The Fast Show's finest this series was created and scripted by Rhys Thomas one of the writers behind Swiss Toni - Rhys also played alongside the titular car dealer as his long-suffering apprentice Paul. Welsh funeral directors Ivor Arwell Percy and Gwynne Thomas run a family business that should be doomed to failure. For a start the boss and father of the clan Ivor is scared of dead bodies and socially inept to such a degree that his wife ran o

• Upstairs Downstairs - The Complete Fourth Series | DVD | (28/08/2006) from £12.53   |  Saving you £17.46 (139.35%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The complete fourth series of the outstanding Emmy Award-winning Upstairs Downstairs. Episodes Comprise: 1. A Patriotic Offering 2. News from the Front 3. The Beastly Hun 4. Women shall not Weep 5. Tug of War 6. Home Fires 7. If You Were the Only Girl in the World 8. The Glorious Dead 9. Another Year 10. The Hero's Farewell 11. Missing Believed Killed 12. Facing Fearful Odds 13. Peace out of Pain

• The Fast Show - The Last Fast Show Ever - Part 1 | DVD | (04/12/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The success of The Fast Show has always relied on the number of sketches devoted to your favourite characters. While this, the last ever series, suffers a little for the loss of Caroline Aherne (presumably busy with The Royle Family?), and from the fact that those sketches based on a single catch-phrase or joke--Jessie's Diets, "Which was nice", and even the cough-prone Bob Fleming--seem to be running out of steam, the show's more rounded creations are all back and still going strong. Swiss Tony has emerged from therapy a new man, Colin Hunt gets the sack from his beloved office job and Ralph struggles on with his unrequited love for handyman Ted. There are new characters: a ragged, Charlton Heston-like astronaut who runs into different situations screaming, "What year is this? Who is the President?!", and a cynical, middle-aged woman who meets every note of human kindness she encounters with a sarcastic "Hah!", are particular standouts. However, as always, the series works best when the regular characters collide with contemporary phenomena, so here we have Indecisive Dave being phoned by a friend who's appearing on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?; the "Suits You!" tailors harassing an incognito Johnny Depp; the cheeky criminal stealing a child's Pokémon cards; John Actor playing hard-nosed interior designer Laurence Lewellyn Monkfish in Changing Monkfish; the send-up of recent gangster Brit flicks A Right Royal Barrel of Cockney Monkeys (populated entirely by pseudo-cockney public schoolboys); and a sketch in which Channel 9's gardening presenter is assisted by a topless woman. Nice Dimmocks! --Paul Philpott

• Fast Show Live and Farewell Tour Live double pack | DVD | (04/12/2006) from £10.35   |  Saving you £9.64 (48.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Featuring The Fast Show: Farewell Tour and The Fast Show: Live! The Fast Show - Farewell Tour: In October and November 2002 The Fast Show favourites took to the stage.... to rapturous applause. This sell-out tour represented the final outing for a host of favourite characters from the 'suit you' tailors to a musical incarnation of Ted and Ralph to the office joker Colin Hunt. The Fast Show - Live: The sell out stage show based on the hit TV series filmed at the Apollo theatre in 1998. ""Aaaah the theatre! Gielgud Richardson Rodney Bewes - the thrill of the spotlight the gasp of the audience. But who would have expected to see these chaps - Arthur Atkinson Brilliant Suit You Jazz Club Rowley Birkin Swiss Toni Jesse Ted and Ralph (in a musical!) and all the other Fast Show fellows in a ripping stage show? And who would hve expected to find me the 13th Duke of Wybourne in the Royal box with a magnum of fizzy a box of Havanas and a clutch of the finest fillies from the chorus line..."" Bingo!

• The Sherlock Holmes Collection (23 Disc Box Set) | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £159.99

  The Sherlock Holmes Collection is a comprehensive box set containing all 36 hour-long episodes plus the five feature-length specials of Granada TV's classic series starring Jeremy Brett. Originally screened in 1984, the series ran intermittently until the mid-1990s, when the leading actor's chronically failing health forced a final end (he died in 1995). Still hailed by many as the definitive Holmes, Brett presented the great detective as a solitary, nervous and depressive personality whose brilliant flashes of inspiration were interrupted by long bouts of introspection and drug-induced lethargy. In the later feature-length episodes, the actor's own ill-health added a poignant extra dimension that both deepened and darkened his portrayal of Holmes. In a welcome departure from earlier adaptations, Dr Watson (originally played by David Burke, then by Edward Hardwicke) is a thoroughly sensible, pragmatic--if rather unimaginative--companion, not at all the bumbling sidekick made famous by Nigel Bruce in the Basil Rathbone era. Aside from impeccable central casting--bolstered by a host of distinguished thespian guest stars--and scripts that remain remarkably faithful to Conan Doyle's original stories, the series also boasts lavish period production design and a haunting music score from Patrick Gowers. Although latterly they both err too far on the side of melodrama, overall both the series and Jeremy Brett's tour de force performances are likely to remain unsurpassed. On the DVD: The Sherlock Holmes Collection DVD box set might be complete, but the individual discs themselves are disappointingly spartan, with no additional features of any kind nor any attempt to clean up the rather scratchy 4:3 picture quality or the dull mono sound. --Mark Walker

• The Fast Show Live | DVD | (18/11/2002) from £6.23   |  Saving you £9.76 (156.66%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Recorded live at London's Hammersmith Apollo in 1998, The Fast Show Live features all of the original cast of the highly successful sketch series (Caroline Aherne excepted) including Paul Whitehouse, Simon Day, Charlie Higson and Arabella Weir and practically all of their myriad characters and catchphrases. This live show effectively marks a last hurrah for The Fast Show team, with routines like the Coughing Bob Fleming singalong reworked from the series. However, as a feat of inventive stage management and quick costume changing, they do manage to maintain the Fastness of the TV series live. It was the catchphrases which earned the series its immense popularity and they raise large, predictable cheers of recognition when wheeled out at the Apollo, from Unlucky Alf's opening "Oh, bugger!" to the "Suits you, sir!" of the intrusively camp boys in the menswear department. The show's reliance on these might have been annoying if it weren't for the fact that they were built on such esoteric, peripheral and complex sketch and character material. Who but the Fast Show team would have thought of taking the mickey out of bad European TV, even inventing their own mock-Esperanto to do so? Or similarly, lampooned all those old 1930s music hall comedians whose risque jokes are incomprehensible to modern audiences? These, mixed in with modern archetypes like Ron Manager or the endlessly poignant Ted and Ralph made The Fast Show at once comfortingly familiar yet endlessly surprising viewing. They were influential also: Colin Hunt is surely a crude prototype for The Office's David Brent. On the DVD The Fast Show Live has no special features on this edition, disappointingly. --David Stubbs

• Ted And Ralph | DVD | (01/06/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This hilarious spin-off from BBC's award-winning sketch-based comedy The Fast Show concludes Ted and Ralph's painfully repressed relationship as wealthy landowner Ralph continues his uncomfortable attempts at forging an intimate union with working class Irish estate manager Ted. However Ralph has to save his estate as he slips into bankruptcy and believes that a wife would help him out of the mire... Enter Wendy a lady who might not be all she appears. As Ralph's f

• Lady Godiva | DVD | (19/05/2008) from £3.09   |  Saving you £6.90 (223.30%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A new take on the medieval tale of the woman who defies her husband and rides naked through the streets for justice....

• Agony - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (17/08/2009) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (53.90%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Agony: Series 3

• Agony - Series 1 - Complete | DVD | (05/11/2007) from £8.98   |  Saving you £8.00 (114.45%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Jane Lucas an Agony Aunt with a call-in radio show has her own set of troubles with her very Jewish mother and her husband Laurence. Then there's the crazy lives of her station co-workers and the nice gay couple who live upstairs.

• Upstairs Downstairs - Series 5 - Episodes 9 To 16 | DVD | (18/08/2003) from £9.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (50.05%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Episodes 9-16 including: The Nine Days Wonder The Understanding Alberto Will Ye No Come Back Again Joke Over Noblesse Oblige All The Kings Horses and Whither Shall I Wander? An Emmy award-winning season of Upstairs Downstairs reaches its conclusion. It's the roaring twenties but there is a great deal of disillusionment in the air. Richard Bellamy is anxious to be appointed the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs and seeks out the rich and influential to help his cause. The General Strike of 1926 causes a further divide amongst the household and Hudson experiences difficulties in maintaining discipline. Amidst the political turbulence there is also social exuberance for some members of the upper class. Georgina strikes up a friendship with a wild society girl causing great distress to her family. Meanwhile James is experiencing the heartaches of unrequited love as Georgina doesn't recognise his strong feelings for her. Worst of all a massive blow is dealt to the whole household as tragedy strikes Eaton Place. James has unfortunately made a bad investment and is forced to sell Eaton Place to pay off creditors.

• The Fast Show: The Farewell Tour | DVD | (24/11/2003) from £3.69   |  Saving you £12.30 (333.33%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In October and November 2002 The Fast Show favourites took to the stage.... to rapturous applause. This sell-out tour represented the final outing for a host of favourite characters from the 'suit you' tailors to a musical incarnation of Ted and Ralph to the office joker Colin Hunt.

• Midsomer Murders - Midsomer Life | DVD | (06/10/2008) from £5.40   |  Saving you £11.59 (214.63%)   |  RRP £16.99

  The Midsomer Life magazine and the Morecroft Hotel in Midsomer Sonning become the latest setting for DCI Tom Barnaby and DS Ben Jones to solve a case.