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• Spearhead - Series 3 | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £14.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (33.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The final series of this tough and gripping drama series about life in the British Army. Set at the end of a 2 year posting in Hong Kong 6 Platoon battle against refugees from China desperate to escape the communist regime . Whilst the officers see 'catching illegals' as a sport the squaddies question the morality of their actions.

• Spearhead | DVD | (10/11/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  First shown on ITV in 1978 the complete series 1 of Spearhead - all seven episodes are available on DVD for the first time. Hard-edged realisitc and powerful critically recognised for its portrayal of life 'from the soldier's point of view' Spearhead was an unflinching depiction of life in the British Army during the 1970's and has since been favourably compared to Soldier Soldier. A platoon of The Royal Wessex Rangers are in the command of NCO Jacko Jackson (Billington) a role usually reserved for officers. Against the backdrop of a tour of duty to Northern Ireland internal issues call into question his right and ability to command. This leaves Jackson having to prove himself to his men in the field and his commanding officer

• Prime Suspect 2 | DVD | (12/05/2003) from £9.70   |  Saving you £0.29 (2.90%)   |  RRP £9.99

  In the first Prime Suspect, Helen Mirren's ballsy woman Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennyson battled the boys club and their sexist barbs to prove herself in a chauvinist department. In Prime Suspect 2, she's assigned to head a racially charged murder investigation in a largely African/Caribbean neighbourhood. It's politics as usual in the image-conscious organization, so the superintendent adds to the team black Detective Robert Oswalde (Colin Salma), a sharp but hot-headed investigator who has just broken off an affair with Tennyson. Now Tennyson grapples with her own conflicted feelings while fighting political and public-relations battles both in the media and within the police system itself in the midst of investigating the labyrinthine case. Between the scant clues left to sift, a prime suspect on the verge of death himself and divisions in her own team that result in a devastating death, Tennyson soon begins to suspect she's been hung out to dry by the department. Screenwriter Allan Cubitt dives into the murky waters of volatile racial and social relations to create an even more complex and compelling mystery in Tennyson's second appearance and Mirren rises to the challenge to explore the contradictions of an uncompromising cop in a compromising position. --Sean Axmaker