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• The Avengers : The Definitive Dossier 1968 (Box Set 1) | DVD | (16/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Invasion of the Earthmen: Steed has a close escape and Tara has a close encounter. Investigating the disappearance of a fellow agent Steed and Tara find the Alpha Academy brought to their attention: what's the secret behind this sinister school where spacemen walk and boa-constrictors provide security? Our heroes must see themselves clear to keeping an eye on the pupils... The Curious Case of the Countless Clues: Steed helps a friend and Tara has a break. Has a friend of Steed's really committed murder? The evidence against him is strong and only the flimsiest of alibis stands between the man and prison. A gang of extortionists have been using a cunning scheme to get valuable works of art: if Steed's not careful he'll find it's not just the paintings which are being framed... Split! Steed studies handwriting and Tara is nearly in two minds. People are being assassinated by foreign agent Kartovski who is somehow able to reach his victims without them suspecting anything. But this isn't the only neat trick the killer is managing - for John Steed shot him in 1963! Tara and Steed begin the search for a dead man... Get-a-Way! Steed drinks a spy's health and Tara looks at lizards. An assassination campaign by three Russian agents is thought to have been nipped in the bud when they're captured and imprisoned in an inescapable facility. From which they promptly escape. Having learned he's on the hitlist Steed sets out to find the merciless killers who can seemingly vanish at will... Have Guns - Will Haggle: Steed hunts for a special gun and Tara hunts with one. Trampolining raiders steal a consignment of secret rifle the FF70 and an investigating Steed discovers an upcoming auction and a very interested party. Meanwhile Tara has been captured by murderous people who want her to help them with their sight tests... Wildest Dream

• An American Werewolf in London - 3-Disc-Special Edition (4K Ultra HD) (+ Blu-ray 2D) (+ Bonus-Blu-ray) (Gabz Artwork) | Blu Ray | (07/05/2021) from £49.94   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pie In The Sky - Series 5 - Part 1 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After being shot on duty DI Crabbe decides to retires from the police force to set up his own restaurant 'Pie In The Sky'. While he would much rather be left to his own devices in the kitchen he is constantly called back on duty by his needy ex-boss Chief Constable Fisher (Malcolm Sinclair).

• Leon the Pig Farmer | DVD | (15/07/2002) from £8.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (77.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Hailed as "genre-breaking stuff" on its release in 1992, this is the tale of a London estate agent who find he's the son of a Yorkshire pig farmer.

• The Further Adventures of the Musketeers | DVD | (23/05/2016) from £10.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (172.88%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Romance, action, betrayal, suspensethis timeless BBC adaptation of The Three Musketeers has it all. In 1620s France, the young, poor and unfailingly ambitious d'Artagnan (BAFTA-nominee Joss Ackland) leaves his humble village and treks to Paris on a quest to join the Musketeers of the Guard. At first, he's ridiculed, abused, and scornedbut after he impresses the three high-estesteemed musketeers in the land, they take him under their wing. With Porthos (Brian Blessed, Z Cars), Athos (Jeremy Young), and Aramis (John Woodvine) at his side, d'Artagnan sharpens his skills as a swordsman and, more often than not, is forced to put them to the test. The gang becomes entangled in a web of lies, love, violence and deceit among the French royalty, treacherous territory where even one wrong move could land them in prisonor worse. Over the course of ten thrilling, masterfully-crafted episodes, this series from the heyday of the BBC's classic Sunday serial (Telegraph) traces through Alexander Dumas' masterwork with stylebringing 17th century France to life in all its swashbuckling, chivalric, captivating glory.

• And A Nightingale Sang | DVD | (06/11/2017) from £7.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Adapted by celebrated screenwriter Jack Rosenthal (Coronation Street) from C. F. Taylor's acclaimed play of the same name, And a Nightingale Sang struck a chord with audiences when it first aired for its bittersweet, sharply observant and humorous portrait of working-class family life on the British Home Front during World War Two. Despite air raid sirens, gas masks, ration books and whistling bombs punctuating their everyday lives, the Stott family remain stoic as they focus on keeping life as normal as possible. Helen Stott is the family's sensible 30-year-old daughter: a kindly yet self-deprecating girl who walks with a limp, whose life so far has not been very kind to her. Surprised to find love during the chaos of war, she falls for gentle soldier Norman. However, the course of true love runs less than smoothly Starring Phyllis Logan (Downton Abbey) as the pitiful Helen Stott, and Tom Watt (Eastenders) as the soldier who steals her heart. Helen's flirty younger sister Joyce is played by Pippa Hinchley (Coronation Street), who is attracted to every solider apart from her own husband (Stephen Tompkinson DCI Banks). John Woodvine (The Crown) also features as the Stott family's father, preferring to escape awkward family situations by banging out popular tunes on the piano than face conflict, and Oscar-nominee Joan Plowright (Enchanted April) as the devoutly Catholic family matriarch, who finds herself drawn to her priest. The DVD will also feature fascinating extras in the form of three real wartime public information films, giving insight into the unrivalled efforts on the British Home Front, from the Imperial War Museum: They Keep the Wheels Turning (1942), Britannia is a Woman (1940) and The New Britain (1940).

• An American Werewolf in London - 3-Disc Limited Special Edition (+ Blu-ray 2D + Bonus Blu-ray Red) | Blu Ray | (12/03/2021) from £40.03   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Pie In The Sky - The Complete Boxed Set Series 1-5 | DVD | (04/09/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £99.99

  Tales of crime and culinary wizardry are interwoven in this classic BBC series about a reluctant detective whose dream of turning restaurateur could be just within his grasp. Henry Crabbe has reached the end of his tetheras a plain clothes DU. After years of toiling in the force he is about to take early retirement. With a passion for food and a talent for cooking he is ready to fulfil his own personal dream - to buy his very own restaurant Pie In The Sky. However nothing is quite that simple. On the eve of his retirement he is suspended from duty. His boss the assistant Chief Constable now has him exactly where he wants him and is not going to allow him to live his dream in peace - Crabbe is free to indulge in his restaurant but always on call when cases need solving! This is the entire Pie In The Sky collection and this beautifully packaged boxed set features eight double DVDs. Series 1: 1. The Best Of Both Worlds 2. The Truth Will Out 3. An Innocent Man 4. Once A Copper 5. A Shot In The Dark 6. Undesirable Elements 7. Passion Fruit Fool 8. A Matter Of Taste 9. Who Only Stand And Wait 10. Endangered Species Series 2: 1. Hard Cheese 2. Brown Bread 3. The Policeman's Daughter 4. The One That Got Away 5. Dead Right 6. Black Pudding 7. Swan In His Pride 8. The Mild Bunch 9. The Mystery Of Pikey 10. Lemon Twist Series 3: 1. Money Talks 2. Game Pie 3. Irish Stew 4. Doggett's Coat And Badge 5. This Other Eden 6. Coddled Eggs Series 4: 1. Devils On Horseback (Part 1) 2. Devils On Horseback (Part 2) 3. Chinese Whispers 4. New Leaf 5. Breaking Bread 6. Gary's Cake Series 5: 1. Squashed Tomatoes 2. Ugly Customers 3. Pork Pies 4. Cutting The Mustard 5. Return Match 6. The Apprentice 7. In The Smoke 8. Smelling Of Roses

• Brunel's Great Britain | DVD | (01/04/2001) from £3.96   |  Saving you £6.03 (152.27%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Brunel was unqestionalby a genius yet many of the projects in which he was involved were dogged by bad luck. The SS Great Britain was no exception; nevertheless when launched in 1843 she was the largest and most advance ship afloat having all the features of a modern passenger liner. This detailed documentary details the long history of this famous vessel from 1843 to 1970 whereupon it was towed back to Brtain from the Falkland Islands...

• Pie In The Sky - Series 5 - Part 2 | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £20.98   |  Saving you £2.00 (11.12%)   |  RRP £19.99

  After being shot on duty DI Crabbe decides to retires from the police force to set up his own restaurant 'Pie In The Sky'. While he would much rather be left to his own devices in the kitchen he is constantly called back on duty by his needy ex-boss Chief Constable Fisher (Malcolm Sinclair).

• And A Nightingale Sang | DVD | (25/08/2003) from £14.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (6.74%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Set in Newcastle towards the end of World War 2 this romantic drama chronicles the sacrifices made by a blue-collar woman and her family. This is the story of the Stotts an eccentric family waging their personal battles against the terrifying backdrop of Britain during WW2.

• Greatest Ever Classic Horror Collection | DVD | (13/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  This Box Set contains the following films: An American Werewolf In London Dracula Mary Shelley's Frankenstein The Thing The Relic

• The Tripods - Series 1 | DVD | (19/03/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  In 1984 and 1985, The Tripods was the show that the BBC used to fill its traditional Saturday teatime Doctor Who slot. Adapted from the first two books in John Christopher's "Tripods" trilogy, the show frustratingly failed to deliver the final story that winds everything up. This release collects the first series of 13 episodes, which covers the first book (The White Mountains). In 2089, the human race lives a peaceful, agrarian existence in post-technological communities under the rule of the Tripods, vast alien machines that look like the Martians from War of the Worlds. In a small English village, teenage cousins Will (John Shackley) and Henry (Will Baker) are troubled as they near the age at which they will be "capped", fitted by the local Tripod with a metallic hairnet which will turn them into docile, uncreative, happy servants of the invaders. A wily vagrant tells the boys that far to the south, a community of uncapped freemen resists the Tripods, and they set off on a 13-episode journey that takes them to the coast, across the English Channel and down through France, with stop-offs in the impressive ruins of Paris, at a medieval-style chateau and on a vineyard in the Jura. Along the way, the lads fall in with "Bean Pole" (Ceri Seel), a gangling, bespectacled French rebel who is fascinated with the lost arts of machine-making, but at each of their stopovers there are temptations, mostly in the forms of appealing French girls, to settle down and become happy conformists, but in the end they do join up with the rebels, ready for a mission to the city of the Tripods that comes in Series Two. With production values significantly higher than Doctor Who at that time, the show conserves its effects and makes them count, with the Tripods only rarely intervening directly. Watched at a sitting, it seems padded and the three lead actors are variable, but taken in single-episode chunks it works quite well, with a subtly unsettling depiction of a backward world where everyone seems happy but actually isn't and actual villainy comes as a relief amidst the overwhelming niceness. The English and French locations are very well used, and the production design and costuming (lots of hats to cover the "caps") is imaginative without being panto-like. --Kim Newman

• Space Precinct - Vol. 9 And 10 | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This box set contains the following four sensational episodes from the sci-fi television series:; ; Hate Street: An outbreak of race-riots and hate crimes against Xyronite immigrants is being co-ordinated by Burl Flak, wanted for murder on Danae. Brogan and Haldane are assigned to find Flak and stop the killings, but their investigations are hampered by the appearance of Erika Brandt, a bounty hunter intent on claiming the price on Flak's head, who just happens to be one of Brogan's old flam...

• Hornblower - The Duchess And The Devil | DVD | (03/02/2003) from £6.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (30.40%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based freely on the classic novels by C.S. Forester, Hornblower is a series of TV films following the progress of a young officer through the ranks of the British navy during the Napoleonic Wars. The series greatest asset is the handsome and charismatic Ioan Gruffudd in the lead role, surely a major star in the making. For television films the production values are very good, though as Titanic, Waterworld and The Perfect Storm demonstrated, filming an aquatic adventure is a very expensive business, and it is clear that the Hornblower dramas simply make the best of comparatively small budgets. No more faithful to Forester's books than the 1951 Gregory Peck classic Captain Horatio Hornblower, the real inspiration seems to have come from the success of Sharpe, starring Sean Bean, which likewise featured a British hero in the Napoleonic Wars. Nevertheless, while rather more easy going than the real British navy of the time, the Hornblower saga delivers an entertaining adventure, greatly enhanced by the presence of such guest stars as Denis Lawson, Cheri Lunghi, Ronald Pickup and Anthony Sher. "The Duchess and the Devil" has Hornblower and his men taken prisoners of war.--Gary S Dalkin

• Space Precinct - Vol. 1 - Double Duty / Protect And Survive | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £22.98   |  Saving you £-7.99 (-53.30%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Space Precinct is one of the oddest science-fiction shows ever. Launched at the same time as Babylon 5, and looking like a cross between that series and Blade Runner (1982), it is like B5 about a group of interplanetary peacekeepers on a space station around an alien planet. Except that, rather than any extrapolated SF future, an entire New York police unit has been transferred into space, lock, stock and two smoking raygun barrels. Produced by Gerry Anderson, the result seems too adult for children, too juvenile for adults. "Double Duty", the first episode, for example, involves our cop heroes hunting the alien monster that is slaughtering Demiter City's drug dealers, and the copious blood and one particular sexual reference suggest an adult show at odds with the nice children, cute aliens, comic relief robot and simplistic scenario. On the plus side, the special effects are especially lavish by TV standards, and the "Making of" documentary offers an interesting if brief introduction to modern SFX. Human actors wearing complex animatronic alien heads suggest aspects of Anderson's puppet shows (Stingray, Thunderbirds) meeting his live action series (UFO, Space 1999). Technically accomplished, Space Precinct is a genuine curiosity in search of a cult-audience. --Gary S. Dalkin

• Space Precinct - Vol. 1 And 2 | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Double Duty. A drug war is raging in Demeter City and a professional assassin is taking out the competition. The sole survivor of an attack on drug baron Oturi Nissim is a pretty alien girl Aleesha Amyas who is taken into protective custody. Suddenly the killer is loose in the Space Precinct House and Orrin is its first Victim...Protect And Survive Brogan's informant Slik Ostrasky is murdered by Tylan Gershom a smuggler of illegal Xyronite immigrants and the only witness is slimy Melazoid business executive Armand Loyster. Brogan and Haldane are assigned to offer Loyster protection until he can testify as Gershom's trial. But Gershom plans to ensure that Loyster never reaches the courtroom...Enforcer On Skall Street in Demeter City members of the infamous Hydra Gang are found dead - their hearts shredded but not a single mark in their bodies! Accompanied by an orphaned alien girl a new enforcer has taken over and the Skall Street traders soon discover that the Hydras have been replaced by something far worse. Flash: A new drug HE-11 (also known as 'Flash') has arrived on the street of Demeter causing spontaneous combustion in its users. While Brogan and Haldane visit Interchem the pharmaceutical company which originally developed the drug Orrin and Beezle run into trouble when Interchem's chief chemist Pola Vad Moonacki is kidnapped.

• An American Werewolf In London | HD DVD | (16/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  A macabre mix of humor and horror that shot director John Landis to fame. This classic horror/comedy tells the beastly tale of two American youths David and Jack (Naughton and Dunne) whose European adventure turns to terror after they are attacked by a werewolf. One of the travelers is killed but the other's fate is worse than death as every full moon now seems to bring out the beast in him.

• Space Precinct - Vol. 2 - Enforcer / Flash | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £27.99   |  Saving you £-13.00 (-86.70%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Enforcer: On Skall Street in Demeter City members of the infamous Hydra Gang are found dead - their hearts shredded but not a single mark in their bodies! Accompanied by an orphaned alien girl a new enforcer has taken over and the Skall Street traders soon discover that the Hydras have been replaced by something far worse. Flash: A new drug HE-11 (also known as Flash) has arrived on the street of Demeter causing spontaneous combustion in its users. While Brogan and Haldane visit Interchem the pharmaceutical company which originally developed the drug Orrin and Beezle run into trouble when Interchem's chief chemist Pola Vad Moonacki is kidnapped.

• Space Precinct - Vol. 3 And 4 | DVD | (05/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Snake: An alien extortionist and explosives expert known only as The Snake threatens the executives of Brett Interplanetary. Precinct 88 becomes a task force to track him down and Jane reunites with her old ECPF colleague Bill Gray. The Snake reveals his next target - The Princess an Omega Class tanker en route to Altor with two hundred million gallons of liquefied hydrogen! Body and Soul: Caught in the radiation field of Merlin's Asteroid a prototype spaceship created by recluse industrialist Alden Holmes returns to Altor after being lost in space for twenty years. Brogan finds a body on board opening an investigation into a homicide that took place two decades ago. As he tracks down the killer Brogan is haunted by the ghost in the machine..... Time To Kill: A routine sweep on a counterfeiting operation goes horribly wrong for the officers of Precinct 88 when they are suddenly attacked by a violent Cyborg and Took is caught in the crossfire. The Cyborg has Brogan marked for death and one by one Brogan's colleagues fall victim to the creature... Deadline: Brogan and Haldane discover a capsule containing the body of a Tarn male. The autopsy reveals that the Tarn is missing vital organs removed with surgical precision... and Brogan and Haldane find themselves on the trail of organ leggers from Danae - vicious killers who murder for profit and target Brogan as their next donor.