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• Fortunes Of War (Three Discs) (DVD) | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  The Balkans 1939. British professor Guy Pringle (Kenneth Branagh) arrives in Romania with his new bride Harriet (Emma Thompson) and becomes enmeshed in the politics of anti-fascism. Despite Harriet's serious misgivings Guy's social circle soon includes members of the British Secret Service who want to involve him in dangerous missions and a downtrodden prince who zeroes in on Guy's generous nature and winds up living with the Pringles. Thus the stage is set for this mesmerizing story of marriage tested by accidental betrayal callous insensitivity and a world in upheaval. Based upon the autobiographical novels of best-selling author Olivia Manning and set in places as far-flung as Bucharest Athens and Cairo Fortunes of War is majestic in both its scope and its vision.

• Maigret - the Complete Series | DVD | (10/09/2007) from £18.05   |  Saving you £11.94 (66.15%)   |  RRP £29.99

  Based on the mystery novels of Georges Simenon One of the best-selling authors of all time Georges Simenon is most famous for his more than 100 novels and short stories featuring Chief Inspector Maigret of the Paris police. Concerned more with why than who Maigret's profound perception of the realities of human behavior and extraordinary psychological insight make him one of fiction's most interesting and unique sleuths. Michael Gambon brings the timeless tantalizing exploits of George Simenon's legendary detective to life in twelve episodes of mystery and intrigue. From Montmartre to the remote French countryside Maigret encounters the dark side of the human psyche. Yet he manages to maintain both compassion and a sense of humor as he explores the complex motives that lie behind every crime.

• Harnessing Peacocks | DVD | (04/07/2011) from £8.64   |  Saving you £4.35 (50.35%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Sir John Mills Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in a Cornish seaside town. Based on Mary Wesley's bestselling novel Harnessing Peacocks is adapted by the multi-award-winning Andrew Davies (The Way We Live Now Bridget Jones' Diary). As a teenager the beautiful Hebe was disowned by her family after becoming pregnant by a masked stranger during a fiesta in the Italian town of Lucca. Twelve years on she has established herself in an unattractive terraced street in Penzance. Her official profession is part-time cook catering to rich old ladies who value her personal attention. But Hebe has another source of income: she is a prostitute with a very limited set of wealthy male clients - her peacocks. The income from her dual role enables her to send her illegitimate son Silas to boarding school. Then a mysterious figure enters the network of discreetly intersecting relationships that exists between Hebe her clients and their families. And he is certain that he recognises her...

• Mary Wesley's Harnessing Peacocks | DVD | (30/06/2003) from £4.98   |  Saving you £2.01 (40.36%)   |  RRP £6.99

  She is the mistress of several eligible men; he is the lover from her past... Based on the novel by Mary Wesley.

• Frederick Forsyth Collection (Exclusive to Amazon.co.uk) | DVD | (20/07/2009) from £16.49   |  Saving you £8.50 (51.55%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Frederick Forsyth Collection: A Casualty Of War / Just Another Secret / Prime And Extreme Prejudice / A Little Piece Of Sunshine / Death Has A Bad Reputation / The Price Of The Bride

• A Fine Romance - Series 1 | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the vaults of British television comes a comedy gem starring two consummate actors who were also a couple in real life: Dame Judi Dench and her husband Michael Williams. They play a pair of middle-aged dating-game dropouts as wary of romance as they are perfect for each other. Laura a brainy translator and Mike a shy landscape gardener are introduced by Laura's glamorous younger sister who is intent on finding a mate for her spinsterish sibling. Awkward and rumpled Mike

• The Bill - Volume 7 | DVD | (02/09/2013) from £27.52   |  Saving you £22.47 (81.65%)   |  RRP £49.99

  The Bill went from strength to strength in 1988 when it was restructured into the half-hour format that stormed to the top of the ITV ratings, and the show remained a Top Ten UK drama for over two decades - becoming the longest-running police procedural drama ever screened on British television. Starring fan favourites Sgt. Cryer (Eric Richard), WPC Ackland (Trudie Goodwin), DS Ted Roach (Tony Scannell), DC Lines (Kevin Lloyd) and the ever irascible DI Burnside (Christopher Ellison), this se...

• The Forsyte Saga - Complete Series 1-7 Box Set | DVD | (23/08/2004) from £49.93   |  Saving you £20.06 (40.18%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The Forsyte Saga is often cited as the first television miniseries; it wasn't, but there's no question that it was a singular, powerful cultural phenomenon that deservedly got under the skin of European viewers in 1967. Today the 26-episode production, based on several novels and short stories by John Galsworthy, is a more timeless enterprise than many of the protracted British TV dramas that have followed. While it would be wrong to consider The Forsyte Saga high art, it's certainly a mesmerizing and inspired mix of theater, sprawling Victorian narrative, thinking man's soap opera, and some finely tuned, 1960s black-and-white production values that (especially when shot outdoors) are strikingly handsome. Above all, Forsyte is driven by its characters--perhaps to an extreme, though the two-generation storyline makes no apologies for creating compelling people whose capacity for short-sighted blundering, bursts of grace, and slow-brewing redemption make them recognizably human. Eric Porter towers over everything as Soames Forsyte, a humorless attorney whose guiding principles of measurable value cause great heartache but slowly evolve, leaving him a graying, good father, arts patron, and sympathetic repository of memory. From the cast of 150 or so, other standouts include Susan Hampshire as Soames's troubled daughter, Nyree Dawn Porter as the wife of two very different Forsyte men, and Kenneth More as the family's artistic black sheep. --Tom Keogh

• Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill - The Complete Series | DVD | (27/07/2009) from £6.99   |  Saving you £13.00 (185.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jennie - Lady Randolph Churchill: The Complete Series (2 Disc)

• Perfect Hero | DVD | (23/02/2009) from £26.99   |  Saving you £-7.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Starring: Nigel Havers, James Fox, Bernard Hepton, Barabara Leigh-Hunt, Joanna Lumley Based on the novel by Christopher Matthew. The complete ITV 6 part drama first broadcast in 1991 and available for the first time on DVD. Hugh Fleming (Havers) plays the part of an RAF bomber pilot who is shot down and although he survives suffers horrific burns and scarring. His life, once so full of promise, is now in sharp decline as his girlfriend abandons him and his RAF colleagues start to die off in the raging conflict whilst he lies helpless in a hospital bed. An eminent reconstructive surgeon Angus Meikle (James Fox), offers Fleming experimental plastic surgery offers to re-build his face. But can the psychological anguish that torments Fleming ever be truly healed? Based on the novel by Christopher Matthew inspired by the real life experience of Richard Hillary.

• Maigret - The Complete Series 1 And 2 | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £29.99

  An absolute must for fans of Georges Simenon's beloved sleuth, Inspector Jules Maigret, this four-volume Maigret Collection is the finest detective series from Granada Television since the late Jeremy Brett gave us his definitive portrayal of Sherlock Holmes in the 1980s. The masterful Michael Gambon is the latest in a long tradition of familiar leading men (from Jean Gabin to Richard Harris) who have played Simenon's blunt but humane, occasionally whimsical, and magnificently insightful investigator. Yet Gambon is perhaps uniquely suited to the part: a popular star with none of the baggage of a brand-name icon or the self-effacing obligations of a character actor. He captures perfectly Maigret's measured but hardly inscrutable presence in the eruptive underworld of Paris crime. Among the 12 episodes here is "Maigret and the Burglar's Wife", which does honour to Simenon's compassionate tale of a retiring thief whose accidental encounter with a corpse sets in motion one of Maigret's most intense psychological duels. The equally compelling "Maigret's Boyhood Friend" finds the detective on a case drawing suspicion to an old school chum, while "Maigret Sets a Trap" is a wonderful production of Simenon's puzzler about a serial killer whose patterns of motivation and action must be deciphered before he can be caught. --Tom Keogh

• A Fine Romance - The Complete Second Series | DVD | (17/04/2006) from £10.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (17.00%)   |  RRP £12.99

  From the vaults of British television comes a comedy gem starring two consummate actors who were also a couple in real life: Dame Judi Dench and her husband Michael Williams. They play a pair of middle-aged dating-game dropouts as wary of romance as they are perfect for each other. Laura a brainy translator and Mike a shy landscape gardener are introduced by Laura's glamorous younger sister who is intent on finding a mate for her spinsterish sibling. Awkward and rumpled Mike

• Maigret - Series 1 - Episodes 1 To 3 | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Michael Gambon plays the extraordinary Belgian Detective Inspector Maigret in this television adaptation of the novels by George Simenon. Inuitive intelligent and creative with a genius for human nature Maigret is like no other detective as he cunningly investigates crime and the human psyche. Episode titles: The Patience Of Maigret Maigret And The Burglar's Wife Maigret Goes To School.

• The Henry James Collection | DVD | (03/09/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £28.35

  The Henry James Collection features three rich and dramatic adaptations, as compelling and engaging as the novels themselves.The Golden Bowl: Superbly adapted for the screen by Jack Pulman (I, Claudius), Maggie's marriage to the Italian Prince is a marriage of love but also of convenience. When the prince's former mistress joins them, drawing close to Maggie's wealthy father, a chance reflection redirects the lives of those who have touched The Golden Bowl. The Portrait of a Lady: Also adapted by Jack Pulman , on the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves her married sisters for Europe, stubborn, independent, and in the company of her eccentric Aunt Lydia. Adopted and gifted great wealth by the family, Isabel's confident but blinkered views on life and love will have great impact on the lives of those she is closest to.The Spoils of Poynton: The House of Poynton holds many treasures for Adele Gereth - treasures that are about to be lost to her son and his intended marriage to a most unsuitable woman. On meeting the young Fleda Vetch, Adele is convinced she has found the saviour of her possessions; but her plans may not work out as she wished.

• Portrait of a Lady | DVD | (20/02/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  In this powerful, dramatic filming of the Henry James classic, superbly adapted for the screen by Jack Pulman (I, Claudius), Suzanne Neve stars as the young Isabel Archer. On the death of her father, Isabel refuses the hand of Mr. Goodwood and leaves her married sisters for Europe, stubborn, independent, and in the company of her rich eccentric Aunt Lydia (Beatrix Lehmann).Welcomed into the bosom of her aunt's family, she is soon befriended by her cousin Ralph (Richard Chamberlain) who respects and admires her spirit. Ralph persuades his father, on the aged man's deathbed, to divert half his fortune to Isabel, while he watches to see what she makes of her now fully-funded freedom.The choices she makes, both good and bad, will have a deep and long-lasting impact on those around her, arousing much passion and weighted with much grief. In his book 'The Realists', acclaimed author C.P. Snow described this production as a supreme television achievement, aesthetically and in all other ways. As gripping as it is compelling, it is not hard to see why.

• Maigret - Series 1 - Episodes 4 To 6 | DVD | (09/02/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Michael Gambon plays the extraordinary Belgian detective Inspector Maigret in this television adaptation of the novels by George Simenon. Intuitive intelligent and creative with a genius for human nature Maigret is like no other detective as he cunningly investigates crime and the human psyche. Episode titles: Maigret And The Mad Woman Maigret On Home Ground Maigret Sets A Trap.

• Herman's Hermits - Listen People | DVD | (07/09/2009) from £16.99   |  Saving you £-2.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Herman's Hermits: Listen People

• Frederick Forsyth Presents: A Little Piece Of Sunshine | DVD | (29/06/2009) from £6.43   |  Saving you £1.56 (24.26%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Frederick Forsyth: A Little Piece Of Sunshine

• Rumpole Of The Bailey - Series 7 | DVD | (14/06/2004) from £19.18   |  Saving you £8.80 (54.35%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Leo Mc Kern stars as the eccentric bibulous Old Bailey defence lawyer Horace Rumpole in the magnificent and hugely popular series penned by the barrister-playwright John Mortimer. This double DVD includes all the episodes from the seventh and final series of 'Rumpole Of The Bailey'. Episodes Featured Rumpole and the Children of the Devil Rumpole and the Miscarriage of Justice Rumpole and the Eternal Triangle Rumpole and the Reform of Joby Jonson Rumpole and the Family Pride Rumpole on Trial