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• Dukes of Hazzard: Complete Season 1 | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £11.99   |  Saving you £19.00 (158.47%)   |  RRP £30.99

  The Dukes of Hazzard was part of America's redneck fetish in the mid-to-late 1970s, otherwise evident in popular songs, movies, and television shows highlighting fast cars, truckers, citizens' band radio, moonshine, irreverent hicks, and clueless lawmen. Created by writer-producer Gy Waldron and inspired by his own 1975 bootlegging comedy, Moonrunners, Dukes milked seven seasons of material from the tale of a Deep South family of reformed whiskey-makers and their running feud with a greedy impresario and his chief lackey, a buffoonish, venal sheriff. This three-disc set includes all 13 initial episodes of Dukes from 1979, a period fans fondly recall because some of the programs were shot on location in Covington, Georgia, rather than a Burbank backlot. Also noteworthy is that a couple of key characters, particularly Hazzard County's corrupt lawman, Roscoe P. Coltrane (James Best), hadn't gelled yet into permanent hayseed stereotypes and were arguably more interesting at the beginning. At the center of the action are Sheriff Coltrane's nemeses, cousins Bo Duke (John Schneider) and Luke Duke (Tom Wopat), a couple of wild boys buzzing through the backwoods in the "General Lee," a souped-up Dodge Charger. Bo and Luke are good at heart but have to behave themselves while on indefinite probation, complicating but not halting their efforts to vex Roscoe and his patron, diminutive bigwig Boss Hogg (Sorrell Booke). The enmity runs both ways: Roscoe and Boss Hogg, with the aid of witless Deputy Enos Strate (Sonny Shroyer), dream up ways of eliminating the Dukes--including their wise old Uncle Jesse (Denver Pyle)--but their efforts always backfire. While every episode is a variation on the previous one, predictability is a virtue in Dukes. The series pilot, "One Armed Bandits," finds Luke and Bo, with help from their sexy cousin, Daisy (Catherine Bach), diverting slot machines (smuggled into Hazzard County by Roscoe and Boss Hogg) to sundry watering holes where they can raise money for Bo's girlfriend's charity. In "Money to Burn," Boss Hogg tries to frame Bo and Luke for robbing an armored truck, while in "Deputy Dukes," the unarmed guys are forced by Roscoe to escort a deadly prisoner from one town to another. The Dukes hit back in "Daisy's Song," investigating a scam that took Daisy for $50 and implicates, of course, Boss Hogg and Roscoe. Yes, it's a show about rubes, car stunts, and a legacy of moonshine, but there's something comforting about it, in a tongue-in-cheek way. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• Bewitched - Season 3 | DVD | (24/07/2006) from £26.72   |  Saving you £8.27 (30.95%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Samantha Stephens a pretty typical America housewife who just happens to be a witch in this beloved comedy classic. Episodes Comprise: 1. Nobody's Perfect 2. The Moment of Truth 3. Witches and Warlocks are My Favorite Things 4. Accidental Twins 5. A Most Unusual Wood Nymph 6. Endora Moves in For a Spell 7. Twitch or Treat 8. Dangerous Diaper Dan 9. The Short Happy Circuit of Aunt Clara 10. I'd Rather Twitch Than Fight 11. Oedipus Hex 12. Sam'

• I Love Lucy - The Very Best Of (3 disc set) | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £11.95   |  Saving you £13.04 (109.12%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Collection of 18 episodes of the classic American sitcom following show business hopeful Lucy Ricardo (Lucille Ball) and her bandleader husband Ricky (Desi Arnaz).

• Bewitched - Season 1 | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Samantha Stephens a pretty typical America housewife who just happens to be a witch in this beloved comedy classic. Included in this magical DVD collection is the Emmy Award-winning series entire first season; 36 episodes (originally in black and white here colourised for DVD) that introduce one of the funniest ensemble casts in TV history. Dick York as Samantha's mortal husband Darin Agnes Moorehead as his witch of a mother-in-law Endora. Alice Pea

• Bewitched - Series 6 - Complete | DVD | (24/03/2008) from £24.28   |  Saving you £10.71 (30.60%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Episodes Comprise: 1: Sam and the Beanstalk 2: Samantha's Yoo Hoo Maid 3: Samantha's Caesar Salad 4: Samantha's Curious Cravings 5: And Something Makes Four 6: Naming Samantha's New Baby 7: To Trick-Or-Treat or Not to Trick-Or-Treat 8: A Bunny for Tabitha 9: Samantha's Secret Spell 10: Daddy Comes to Visit 11: Darrin the Warlock 12: Sam's Double Mother Trouble 13: You're So Agreeable 14: Santa Comes to Visit and Stays and Stays 15: Samantha's Better Halves 16: Samantha's Lost Weekend 17: The Phrase Is Familiar 18: Samantha's Secret Is Discovered 19: Tabatha's Very Own Samantha 20: Super Arthur 21: What Makes Darrin Run? 22: Serena Stops the Show 23: Just a Kid Again 24: The Generation Zap 25: Okay Who's the Wise Witch? 26: A Chance on Love 27: If the Shoe Pinches 28: Mona Sammi 29: Turn on That Old Charm 30: Make Love Not Hate

• Bewitched - Series 8 - Complete | DVD | (02/11/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £34.99

  The final magic season with the Stephens family! This season the family takes a tour of Europe where Samantha's head is in danger after she catches the eye and ire of Henry VIII and she reveals the Loch Ness Monster is really a former warlock. Esmeralda claims she made tower in Pisa lean Darrin is zapped to the top of the Eiffel Tower Tabitha zaps herself into the Punch and Judy TV show to chastise Punch Adam begins to show he has powers plus more magical misadventures for the last time on Morning Glory Circle!

• Bewitched - Series 1 Vols. 1-3 | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £22.99   |  Saving you £-8.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Elizabeth Montgomery stars as Samantha Stephens a pretty typical America housewife who just happens to be a witch in this beloved comedy classic. Included in this magical DVD collection is the Emmy Award-winning series entire first season; 36 episodes (originally in black and white here colourised for DVD) that introduce one of the funniest ensemble casts in TV history. Dick York as Samantha's mortal husband Darin Agnes Moorehead as his witch of a mother-in-law Endora. Alice Pearce as nosey neighbor Gladys Kravitz George Tobias as her oblivious husband Abner and Marion Lorne as dotty Aunt Clara. Join them and a who's who of '60s pop icon guest stars in this enchanting charming and hysterically funny look at the suburban lifestyles of the witch and famous.

• The Twilight Zone - Vol. 4 | DVD | (29/05/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  In 1959 screenwriter Rod Serling first opened the door to the "dimension of imagination" that is The Twilight Zone, a show quite unlike anything that had gone before, and better than much that has followed in its wake. This original and daring television series ran for five seasons from 1959 to 1964 and still looks as fresh as ever, particularly on DVD. What distinguished the series was the quality of the scripts, many of which were penned by Serling, but with significant contributions from veteran sci-fi authors and screenwriters such as Richard Matheson. Actors of the calibre of Robert Redford, Burgess Meredith, Lee Marvin and William Shatner gave some of their best small-screen performances, while an unforgettable main title theme by Bernard Herrmann and musical contributions from young turks such as Jerry Goldsmith underlined the show's attraction for great creative talent both behind and in front of the cameras.Volume 4 cherry-picks four of the show's more diverse episodes. In "Mr Dingle the Strong" (episode 55) alien visitors experiment on a hapless human, but instead of sinister X Files horror, Serling plays it for laughs. Despite the sparkling presence of Burgess Meredith (the closest the series came to a regular star), this one-joke plot demonstrates why the Zone only rarely ventured into comedy. "Two" (episode 66) pits a characteristically taciturn Charles Bronson against an even more stoical Elizabeth Montgomery, two soldiers from opposing sides who must rediscover themselves as the last man and woman and play Adam and Eve in a post-holocaust world. "A Passage for Trumpet" (episode 32) casts Jack Klugman (The Odd Couple, Quincy) as a downtrodden trumpeter who, in a jazz rewrite of It's a Wonderful Life, learns to value life. Nice. Finally, "The Four of Us are Dying" (episode 13) employs four different actors to play the same character, a "cheap little con-man" whose ability to change his features at will doesn't prevent his deserved comeuppance (more jazz here, this time in a wonderfully jagged underscore from Jerry Goldsmith).On the DVD: A neat animated menu with a winking eye guides the viewer "Inside the Twilight Zone", which consists of digests of background information on the individual episodes, as well as a general history of the show, season-by-season breakdown and a potted biography of Serling. --Mark Walker

• Lucy's Lost Episodes | DVD | (15/05/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Make Room for Daddy - Volume 1 | DVD | (15/02/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

• Annette Funicello Collection - Beach Blanket Bingo/Bikini Beach/Beach Party | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  This box set features the following films: Beach Party (Dir. William Asher) (1963): Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell (Bob Cummings) and his secretary Marianne (Dorothy Malone) are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee (Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello) don't have much sex but they sing battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones. Look for Vincent Price in a surprise cameo. Bikini Beach (Dir. William Asher) (1964): Millionaire Harvey Huntington Honeywagon III (Keenan Wynn) tries to prove to his colleague Vivian Clements (Martha Hyer) that his chimp Clyde is more intelligent than American teenagers. Meanwhile Dee Dee (Annette Funicello) is torn between Frankie (Frankie Avalon) and British recording star the Potato Bug (Avalon). Eric Von Zipper (Harvey Lembeck) shows up to aid Harvey's anti-teen campaign. Don Rickles plays Big Drag and Boris Karloff shows up in a gag bit part. Beach Blanket Bingo (Dir. William Asher) (1965): In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.