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• Andromeda - Season 2 - Vol. 1 | DVD | (03/03/2003) from £17.85   |  Saving you £7.14 (40.00%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second series of Andromeda unveils a change in approach. A new traditionally heroic title theme, accompanied by rousing voice-over is one noticeable difference. Another is Kevin Sorbo's even shorter haircut. But it's back to the gore and violence that marked the cliffhanging finale of the first year with "The Widening Gyre", where many perils are resolved while others are revealed. An all-too-short deadline is also imposed on Dylan's Commonwealth dream (confirming the show's additional two-series renewal), when it's confirmed how long it will be before the travelling Magog arrive. "Exit Strategies" is all about inner demons. Poor Harper is left with a very real internal problem that leads him to contemplate the unthinkable. Rommie is wrestling with an alternate physical self. Rev is battling his religious conscience against his very survival. With so much B-plot, you could almost overlook the main story that sees the Maru crash land on an ice world--if the dazzling FX would let you that is. Beka gets an overdue share of romantic attention in "A Heart for Falsehood Framed". A sacred gem is the nub of a diplomatic dispute. In typically unpredictable fashion, the plot contrives to see all interested parties caught up in a multi-layered game of switching fakes. Some new angles appear in "Pitiless as the Sun". In case anyone's forgotten, Trance is given opportunity to thicken the mystery surrounding exactly what she is. This occurs as we meet a brand-new adversary, the unsavoury Pyrians. Xenophobia, drug addiction and slavery are all scrutinised in this episode--enough plot for an X-File. This is funny since Cigarette-Smoking Man William B Davis guest stars. Hunting for a once-glorious leader who would benefit Dylan's cause, the Maru and crew make a "Last Call at the Broken Hammer", a run-down bar in the middle of a wasteland. There are lots of twists in a mystery of hidden identities and agendas amongst the bar's patrons. Watch out for Gordon Woolvett's real-life wife among them. Another welcome sight in this episode is a change of wardrobe for the regulars, who have been sweating it out in the same gear for far too long. --Paul Tonks

• Xena: Warrior Princess - The Complete TV Series | DVD | (13/12/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £289.99

  First aired in 1995 Xena: Warrior Princess boasts a loyal (and vocal) cult following. Strap on your breast plate and follow the adventures of the charismatic and highly-skilled female warrior from ancient times! This set is available exclusively on the internet; each limited edition box set is individually numbered and features all 133 episodes! 1. Sins of the Past 2. Chariots of War 3. Dreamworker 4.Cradle of Hope 5.The Path Not Taken 6. The Reckoning 7. The Titans 8. Prometheus 9. Death in Chains 10. Hooves & Harlots 11. The Black Wolf 12. Beware Greeks Bearing Gifts 13. Athens City Academy of the Performing Bards 14. A Fistful of Dinars 15. Warrior... Princess 16. Mortal Beloved 17. The Royal Couple of Thieves 18. The Prodigal 19. Altared States 20. Ties That Bind 21. The Greater Good 22. Callisto 23. Death Mask 24. Is There A Doctor in the House? 25. Orphan of War 26. Remember Nothing 27. The Giant Killer 28. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun 29. Return of Callisto 30. Warrior... Princess... Tramp 31. Intimate Stranger 32. Ten Little Warlords 33. A Solstice Carol 34. The Xena Scrolls 35. Here She Comes... Miss Amphipolis 36. Destiny (1) 37. The Quest (2) 38. A Necessary Evil 39. A Day in the Life 40. For Him The Bell Tolls 41. The Execution 42. Blind Faith 43. Ulysses 44. The Price 45. The Lost Mariner 46. A Comedy of Eros 47. The Furies 48. Been There Done That 49. The Dirty Half Dozen 50. The Deliverer 51. Gabrielle's Hope 52. The Debt (1) 53. The Debt (2) 54. The King of Assassins 55. Warrior... Priestess... Tramp 56. The Quill Is Mightier 57. Maternal Instincts 58. The Bitter Suite 59. One Against An Army 60. Forgiven 61. King Con 62. When In Rome... 63. Forget Me Not 64. Fins Femmes and Gems 65. Tsunami 66. Vanishing Act 67. Sacrifice (1) 68. Sacrifice (2) 69. Adventures in the Sin Trade (1) 70. Adventures in the Sin Trade (2) 71. A Family Affair 72. In Sickness and In Hell 73. A Good Day 74. A Tale of Two Muses 75. Locked Up and Tied Down 76. Crusader 77. Past Imperfect 78. The Key To The Kingdom 79. Daughter of Pomira 80. If The Shoe Fits... 81. Paradise Found 82. Devi 83. Between The Lines 84. The Way 85. The Play's The Thing 86. The Convert 87. Takes One To Know One 88. Endgame 89. The Ides of March 90. Deja Vu All Over Again 91. Fallen Angel 92. Chakram 93. Succession 94. Animal Attraction 95. Them Bones Them Bones 96. Purity 97. Back in the Bottle 98. Little Problems 99. Seeds of Faith 100. Lyre Lyre Hearts on Fire 101. Punch Lines 102. God Fearing Child 103. Eternal Bonds 104. Amphipolis Under Siege 105. Married with Fishsticks 106. Lifeblood 107. Kindred Spirits 108. Antony & Cleopatra 109. Looking Death in the Eye 110. Livia 111. Eve 112. Motherhood 113. Coming Home 114. The Haunting of Amphipolis 115. Heart of Darkness 116. Who's Gurkhan? 117. Legacy 118. The Abyss 119. The Rheingold (1) 120. The Ring (2) 121. Return of the Valkyrie (3) 122. Old Ares Had A Farm 123. Dangerous Prey 124. The God You Know 125. You Are There 126. Path of Vengeance 127. To Helicon and Back 128. Send in the Clones 129. The Last of the Centaurs 130. When Fates Collide 131. Many Happy Returns 132. Soul Possession 133. Friend in Need

• Mutant X - Series 2 | DVD | (30/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  'The X-Men'-like half human/half mutants are back for a second series of tongue-in-cheek adventures as they battle to protect their race against the shadowy forces of evil. Episodes comprise: 1. Past As Prologue 2. Power Play 3. Time Squared 4. Whose Woods Are These? 5. The Future Revealed 6. No Man Left Behind 7. Crossroads Of The Soul 8. Sign From Above 9. Body And Soul 10. Understudy 11. The Grift 12. At Destiny's End 13. Within These Walls 14. Hard Time 15. Under The Cloak Of War 16. Once Around 17. Final Judgment 18. Inferno 19. One Step Closer 20. Reality Check 21. Reawakening 22. Lest He Become

• Xena - Warrior Princess - 2.28 / 2.29 / 2.30 - Girls Just Wanna' Have Fun / Return Of The Callisto / Warrior | DVD | (02/10/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Xena--you gotta love her: after all, she could snap your neck just by straightening her knees. She sprang fully armed from producer Sam Raimi's head in March 1995, to flesh out an otherwise routine episode of the television series Hercules, a high-kicking, horse-riding, chakram-throwing ancient-Greek-warrior princess, who mustered armies the way some women shop for shoes, turning heroes against one another as gleefully as she laid waste to sweet little villages. Except that somewhere beneath that straight dark fringe and hard-boiled leather breastplate lurks doubts, feelings, even a soul. She was so popular on Hercules her spin-off was an instant certainty--and pretty soon the subtext of her own series was unfolding. Xena is on a journey from evil to good, but this can only be enabled by the companionship of bossy redhead scribe/bard, Gabrielle, her constant friend. Set in a lush New Zealand doubling for the pagan Mediterranean, as misruled by Ares, Aphrodite, Poseidon and the rest of the Mount Olympus gang, Xena: Warrior Princess recounts these exploits, as the duo confronts gods, monsters, warlords, idiots and anachronisms, as well as their own flaws and desires, at the hilarious and sometimes unsettling mythological crossroads where touchy-feely Californian feminism meets high-camp chop-socky pantheism seasoned with the Way of Peplum Tao. In the second series (first aired US 1996-97) Xena and Gabrielle (plus goofy sidekick the Joxer) meet the Fates, the (surprisingly Gothic) Bacchae, Ulysses, Cupid, Goliath, Santa Claus and (perhaps) the baby Jesus, as well as full-on Xena foe Julius Caesar and her former healer-mentor M'Lila. While filming this series, Xena actress Lucy Lawless was thrown by a horse on Tonight with Jay Leno, and injured: hence a sudden slew of swapped-body stories (Callisto, Autolycus and Gabrielle each have to mimic Xena for an episode), while domestic comedy and/or parody stories contribute to the medically advisable action-lite plotlines. Meanwhile, Callisto murders Gabrielle's hubby-to-be, and the narrative tension deepens. --Honey Glass

• Mutant X - Series 3 - Complete | DVD | (15/01/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £69.99

  The Complete Mutant X Series 3 brought to you in one boxset for the first time. Over 10 discs experience 22 complete and uncut episodes of the final series of this hit sci-fi show! Episodes Comprise: 1. Into The Moonless Night 2. Wages Of Sin 3. The Breed 4. Where Evil Dwells 5. The Taking Of The Crows 6. Shadow Of Darkness 7. The Hand Of God 8. Wasteland 9. No Exit 10. Brother's Keeper 11.

• Black Hole High - Vol. 1 | DVD | (26/07/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99