"Director: Dick Clement"

• Porridge | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £5.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (66.78%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker). The new prison officer Beale makes Mackay (Fulton Mackay) look soft and what's more an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it. The breakout is set for the day of a morale-raising football match between a ""celebrity"" football team and the inmates of Slade. Everything is going to plan until Godber (Richard Beckinsale) is injured on th

• Astronauts - The Complete Series | DVD | (09/07/2012) from £7.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (150.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Two men, one woman and a dog are cooped up together in darkest space. Occupying a two-room 'sky-lab' on Britain's first manned space mission, they are under constant surveillance as they orbit the Earth - even on their visits to the lavatory. Tensions simmer, resentment builds and relationships become strained... and it's not long before they're ganging up on their earthbound American contact at Mission Control.Written by Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie, this hilarious comedy was inspired by and based upon actual conflicts documented by the astronauts of the NASA Skylab programme. Christopher Godwin is Mission Commander Malcolm Mattocks, Barrie Rutter is his truculent partner David Ackroyd, and Carmen du Sautoy is no-nonsense Science Officer Gentian Foster; Bruce Boa stars as their much-abused mission controller, Beadle.Astronauts was produced by Tony Charles and Douglas Argent (whose combined credits include Fawlty Towers and The New Statesman), with Dick Clement and Ian Le Frenais acting as script editors. This set contains both series, first aired between 1981 and 1983.

• Anyone for Denis? | DVD | (03/09/2018) from £12.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Written by actor, best-selling author and noted satirist John Wells and based on his and Richard Ingrams' hilarious Dear Bill letters for Private Eye Anyone for Denis? was a major West End hit in the early 1980s and remains an unequivocally high watermark of British farce. Starring Wells himself as the much-put-upon Denis and Angela Thorne in an arguably career-best performance as The Iron Lady, a remarkable supporting cast includes Robert Stephens, Joan Sanderson, Alfred Molina, Roy Kinnear, Nicky Henson and John Cater. This television adaptation for Thames Television one of the hits of the ITV network's 1982 Christmas season was directed award-winning writer/director (and comedy legend in his own right) Dick Clement. While Maggie is away at a Euro-Conference, Denis invites two of his drinking chums for a weekend of mischief at Chequers. Things start to go seriously wrong, however, when she returns unexpectedly and mistakes her husband's friends for EEC Commissioners!

• Otley - Limited Edition Blu Ray | Blu Ray | (19/03/2018) from £18.98   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  Gerry Otley (Tom Courtenay The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Billy Liar, 45 Years) is a charming scrounger who stumbles unwittingly into espionage, murder, espionage and double crossing as he is mistaken for a spy, kidnapped, and becomes romantically embroiled with a sexy foreign agent, played by Romy Schneider (Purple Noon, Ludwig, Death Watch). Adeptly balancing thrills and laughs, this Sixties comic spy thriller from writer-director Dick Clement (TV's The Likely Lads, Porridge, Auf Wiedersehen, Pet)is astellar addition to the British canon of post-Bond spy flicks. Features: High Definition remaster Original mono audio Audio commentary with director Dick Clement The Guardian Lecture with Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais (2008): archival audio recording of an interview conducted by Dick Fiddy at London's National Film Theatre New interview with actor Tom Courtenay (2018) New interview with actor Phyllida Law(2018) New interview with actor Freddie Jones (2018) Original theatrical trailer Image gallery: on-set and promotional photography New and improved English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing Limited edition exclusive booklet with a new essay by Laura Mayne, an overview of contemporary critical responses, and historic articles on the film World premiere on Blu-ray Limited Edition of 3,000 copies All extras subject to change

• Bullshot | DVD | (08/02/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Before there was Bond there was BULLSHOT! The dashing Captain Hugh Bullshot Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot Olympic athlete racing driver part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto van Bruno his wartime adversary. And of course win the heart of a jolly nice young lady. ...a terribly British comedy

• Water | DVD | (09/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  England wants the Island dumped.France wants it bombed America wants it wholesale And Michael Caine wants it.... on the rocks!

• Anyone For Denis? | DVD | (19/04/2010) from £12.10   |  Saving you £3.89 (32.15%)   |  RRP £15.99

  While Maggie is away at a Euro Conference Denis invites two of his drinking friends for a weekend at Chequers. Things start to go badly wrong when Maggie returns home unexpectedly and mistakes Denis' friends for EEC Commissioners. Denis' weekend is ruined by the ensuing confusion. Angela Thorne (To The Manor Born) & John Wells (The Kenny Everett Television Show That Was The Week That Was The Secret Police Mans Other Ball) star as Margaret and Denis Thatcher in Thames Television's special production of the hilarious farce which first enthralled audiences at London's Whitehall Theatre. Directed by Dick Clement whose writing credits include Auf Wiedersehen Pet Porridge and The Likely Lads Anyone For Denis? is based on the regular 'Dear Bill' letters published in satirical magazine Private Eye.

• The Likely Lads | DVD | (24/12/2007) from £4.49   |  Saving you £15.50 (345.21%)   |  RRP £19.99

  One of the best British sitcoms of all-time, The Likely Lads focuses on the friendship between two working-class men, James Bolam and Rodney Bewes, living in the north east of England.Bob (Bewes) is the 'sensible' one, doing his best to get on with his job and 'better' himself. Terry (Bolam) is the 'irresponsible' one, intent on living life to the full. He's forever getting himself (and Terry) into trouble of one kind or another...Episodes Comprise:1. Entente Cordiale2. Double Date3. Older Women Are More Experienced4. The Suitor5. The Last Of The Big Spenders6. Rocker7. Goodbye To All That

• Elton John - To Russia With Elton | DVD | (15/03/2004) from £10.48   |  Saving you £4.51 (43.03%)   |  RRP £14.99

  In 1979 Elton John became the first Western pop act to play in the Soviet Union. The flamboyant Watford-born superstar came to a population repressed by decades of harsh living under totalitarian rule with little exposure to music and dancing of any kind; initially subdued the audience were soon brought to their feet John's charisma and energy... Containing extended footage of his Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) concert along with behind the scenes interviews tour footage and pers

• Water | DVD | (08/03/2010) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (32.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

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• Bullshot | DVD | (26/03/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Before there was Bond there was BULLSHOT! The dashing Captain Hugh ""Bullshot"" Crummond - WWI ace fighter pilot Olympic athlete racing driver part-time sleuth and all round spiffing chap - must save the world from the dastardly Count Otto van Bruno his wartime adversary. And of course win the heart of a jolly nice young lady. ...a terribly British comedy

• Water | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Michael Caine stars as Baxter Thwaites the laid-back Governor of the sleepy British island colony of Cascara. But when American oil drillers accidentally strike a gusher of ultra-delicious mineral water the forgotten Caribbean outpost becomes a global hotbed of political and economic chaos. Will Thwaites his hot-blooded wife (Brenda Vaccaro) a singing rebel (Billy Connolly) a sexy activist (Valerie Perrine) a corporate weasel (Dennis Dugan) a Rasta DJ (Jimmie Walker) a Texas billionaire (Fred Gwynne) Cuban advisers arrogant Frenchmen or U.S. 'peacekeepers' seize control of this suddenly popular paradise or is true independence just something in the water?Leonard Rossiter Dick Shawn and Alfred Molina co-star in this hilarious all-star satire in the tradition of The Mouse That Roared featuring special appearances by George Harrison Ringo Starr and Eric Clapton.

• Rising Damp / Porridge / George And Mildred / Bless This House | DVD | (18/10/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  This fantastic TV Classic Comedy Box Set will provide a feast of laughter with movie versions of some of the most popular sitcoms ever made. The set comprises movie versions of Rising Damp Porridge George and Mildred Bless This House and Please Sir.