Based on the cult mystery novels by author, journalist and royal biographer Tim Heald, this quartet of light-hearted whodunits stars David Horovitch as a bungling but diligent Department of Trade investigator. Featuring guest performances from Patrick Troughton, John Le Mesurier, Glynis Barber, Peter Jeffrey and Elizabeth Spriggs, among many others, this set contains all four stories: Unbecoming Habits, Deadline, Let Sleeping Dogs Die and Just Desserts. John Steed, Simon Templar, Dick Barton... and Simon Bognor. Following in the footsteps of some illustrious predecessors, the principal agent of the Special Investigations Dept. of the Board of Trade ventures forth to take on wrongdoers wherever they may lurk! In Unbecoming Habits, he poses as a CID officer to investigate a friary suspected of passing agricultural secrets to the Soviets; Deadline sees him lowering journalistic standards as he goes undercover to probe the murder of a gossip columnist; in Let Sleeping Dogs Die he trails ruthless pedigree dog smugglers; Just Desserts finds him uncovering deadly intrigue in the world of haute cuisine. But will the assignments throw up more clues than Bognor can handle?
Featuring a regular cast that includes Jimmy Jewel, David Schofield, Sharon Duce, Jean Boht, Pamela Stephenson and Lynda Bellingham, Funny Man charts the mixed fortunes of an extended family of music-hall entertainers in search of their big break and was based on the experience of Jewel's father's company of players in the 1920s and '30s. The late 1920s is not the best time to be in the business of traditional variety entertainment, as audiences flock to the new cinemas opening in every town. But it is amid these inauspicious circumstances that the Gibsons - comedian Alec and his children Davey, Teddy and Kath, and an assortment of charismatic performers - make the move south from their native North East to try to break onto the London circuit. Encountering family tragedy, indifferent audiences and a constant shortage of funds, it's just as well that Alec Gibson is a tireless perfectionist, and a man who rarely accepts defeat...
The Cool School is an object lesson in how to build an art scene from scratch and what to avoid in the process. The film focuses on the seminal Ferus Gallery which groomed the LA art scene from a loose band of idealistic beatniks into a coterie of competitive often brilliant artists including Ed Kienholz Ed Ruscha Craig Kauffman Wallace Berman Ed Moses and Robert Irwin. The Ferus also served as launching point for New York imports Andy Warhol (hosting his first Soup Can show) Jasper Johns and Roy Lichtenstein as well as leading to the first Pop Art show and Marcel Duchamp's first retrospective. What was lost and gained is tied up in a complex web of egos passions money and art. This is how L.A. came of age.
In 1989 a TV drama series hit the screens that rocked the world of football. Cherie Lunghi stars as Gabriella Benson a woman executive raised on the game by an often absent father. When her mother dies he reaches out to her - by cutting a deal with the faltering Blackburn Rovers to have her replace their current corrupt manager making her the first ever female manager of a football team. Rampant sexism political incorrectness corruption drugs fistfights and foul play. Nudity in the locker room is the least of Gabriella's worries as she comes up against fierce resistance from the team and their trainer up-front and the constant risk of Boardroom backstabbing from behind. But with astute business skills and a keen eye for the game she has loved all her life Gabriella Benson is about to show her team and the world that she's got what it takes to be The Manageress.
A Brit. Asian film producer charges around the Queen of the London Suburbs peopled by a host of off-beat Ealing residents trying to get a film financed. As he is rejected and spurned his obsession grows. His life with his teenage son his Irish wife his formidable Indian mother their struggles with money and trying to be a family are all woven together in a series of mad-cap events.
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