A broadcasting legend and one of the most recognisable faces on British television, Alan Whicker worked his own brand of quietly incisive journalism for over fifty years. A consummate interviewer with a famously affable, urbane style, his popular, award-winning documentaries continue to be a significant influence to this day. This ongoing series of releases will showcase every programme that Whicker made for ITV, in chronological order. Subjects of his scrutiny in this volume first broadcast in 1969 include cryogenics, media stardom, swinging singles, wage slavery, old age and more as well as an unforgettable encounter with the infamous Haitian dictator Papa Doc Duvalier. Editions Included: Immortality Inc. Micromedia Inc. Swingles Inc. Papa Doc: The Black Sheep Tenderlovingcare Inc. Bodysnatchers Inc. Happy-Happy Inc. Carl Gustav Von Rosen: Pugnacious Pacifist
All 18 episodes from the first season of the US crime drama based on the action film series. The show follows veteran LAPD Detective Roger Murtaugh (Damon Wayans) as he returns to his job after a heart attack to find that he's been partnered with ex-Navy SEAL Martin Riggs (Clayne Crawford), who has just transferred from El Paso, Texas after the death of his wife. Although Murtaugh tries his best to maintain a low stress level his new, slightly unhinged partner seems to have other ideas. The episodes are: 'Pilot', 'Surf N Turf', 'Best Buds', 'There Goes the Neighborhood', 'Spilt Milk', 'Ties That Bind', 'Fashion Police', 'Can I Get a Witness?', 'Jingle Bell Glock', 'Homebodies', 'Lawmen', 'Brotherly Love', 'The Seal Is Broken', 'The Murtaugh File', 'As Good As It Getz', 'Unnecessary Roughness', 'A Problem Like Maria' and 'Commencement'.
Starring Nicholas Lyndhurst Clive Francis and Michael Percival The Piglet Files is the sitcom that truly lifts the lid on the shadowy world of espionage during the early '90s - with quite startling results. Electronics lecturer Peter Chapman (Lyndhurst) may have fantasised about a James Bond lifestyle but disillusion quickly sets in when he finds himself coerced into working for M15 only to find his spymasters are a collection of misinformed bungling incompetents. Nevertheless as gadgets expert Piglet Puma and Panther were sadly already in use he uses all his skill to combat not only the Soviet agents who are his bosses are convinced as active as ever but a still greater menace: the French secret service! Peter's toughest challenge however seems to be dealing with wife Sarah's suspicions about her husband's increasingly strange activities...
Documentary about Donald Campbell's record-breaking achievements on both land and water. In July 1964, Campbell became the fastest man on Earth as he travelled around Lake Eyre at 403.10 mph in the Bluebird CN7. In December of the same year he broke the water speed record reaching 276.33 mph on Lake Dumbleyung in the Bluebird K7. To this day, Campbell remains the only person to ever set both land and water records in the same year and this documentary examines and celebrates his success.
Everyone deserves their day in court. In fact some people deserve more than one. Take the attorneys of Crane Poole & Schmidt whose unquestionable legal brilliance is matched only by the outrageous instability of their personal lives. It's a chaotic world where sexual harassment extortion kidnapping and attempted murder all come with the territory... and those are just the attorneys! Created by David E. Kelley (Ally McBeal The Practice Picket Fences) and featuring an Emmy Award-winning cast including William Shatner Candice Bergen and James Spader Season Two of Boston Legal is socially relevant wickedly funny and infectiously fresh... It's an open and shut case! Episodes Comprise: 1. The Black Widow 2. Schadenfreude 3. Finding Nimmo 4. A Whiff and a Prayer 5. Men to Boys 6. Witches of Mass Destruction 7. Truly Madly Deeply 8. The Ass Fat Jungle 9. Gone 10. Legal Deficits 11. The Cancer Man Can 12. Helping Hands 13. Too Much Information 14. Breast in Show 15. Smile 16. Live Big 17. ...There's Fire! 18. Shock and Owww! 19. Stick It 20. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang 21. Word Salad Days 22. Ivan the Incorrigible 23. Race Ipsa 24. Deep End of the Poole 25. Squid Pro Quo 26. Spring Fever 27. BL: Los Angeles
In 1962, Alfred Hitchcock and François Truffaut locked themselves away in Hollywood for a week to excavate the secrets behind the mise-en-scène in cinema. Based on the original recordings of this meeting - used to produce the mythical book Hitchcock / Truffaut - this film illustrates the greatest cinema lesson of all time and plummets us into the world of the creator of Psycho, The Birds, and Vertigo. Hitchcock's incredibly modern art is elucidated and explained by today's leading filmmakers: Martin Scorsese, David Fincher, Arnaud Desplechin, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, James Gray, Olivier Assayas, Richard Linklater, Peter Bogdanovich and Paul Schrader. Special Features BFI Q&A with director Kent Jones Interview between Kent Jones and Noah Baumbach Rope: Pro and Con Richard Linklater on François Truffaut An appreciation of Notorious Peter Bogdanovich remembers Hitchcock
This hugely endearing crime caper stars Charlie Drake as a mild-mannered locksmith whose talents land him in hot water when he's recruited by a criminal gang; Nyree Dawn Porter is the beautiful girl who spells his downfall, with Oscar winner George Sanders as rival crime boss 'the Guv'nor' opposite Dennis Price (Kind Hearts and Coronets' villainous aristocratic outcast). The Cracksman is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited t...
The hilarious comedy series follows the wildly eccentric and entertainingly dysfunctional Bluth family. It's the story of a wealthy family that lost everything and the one son who had no choice but to keep them all together. It's Arrested Development the Emmy Award and Golden Globe - winning series starring one of the funniest ensembles in TV comedy who taught viewers the meaning of never nude spread a dangerous amount of misinformation about maritime law and reminded everyone that's why you always leave a note.
Naruto returns to the Hidden Leaf Village to find Sasuke frustrated with Naruto's sudden growth thirsting to fight to decide once and for all who the better ninja is. Kakashi stops the fight before the worst can happen but soon Orochimaru's henchmen arrive in the village to lure Sasuke to Orochimaru with the promise of greater power a promise Sasuke can't refuse. In order to retrieve Sasuke newly appointed chunin Shikamaru forms a squad of Genin including Naruto to pursue the terrifying Sound Ninja Four. Will they catch up before Orochimaru gets his hands on Sasuke? Let the chase begin!
Dambusters legend Richard Todd turned his talents to comedy to play a philandering travel agent with too many girlfriends for his own safety in this delightful romantic romp of 1961. Executive-produced by Todd and co-written by Oscar winner Frederic Raphael Don't Bother to Knock also features Golden Globe winner and Playboy sensation Elke Sommer June Thorburn John Le Mesurier and Nicole Maurey among a high-calibre international cast. The film is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Bill Ferguson's troubles begin when he mislays the key to his flat and a friend helpfully presents him with several more with his name and address attached. Sentimentally he gives one to each of the glamorous girls he meets on a continental holiday - all of whom turn up at his flat just as he is about to marry his British fiancée! Special Features: Original Theatrical Trailer Image Gallery Original Promotional PDF
Further Out of Town offers memorable snapshots of the British countryside from a bygone age. This brand-new series showcases digitally restored film sequences from Jack Hargeaves' hugely popular television series, introduced by his stepson, Simon Baddeley. Running for over twenty years, the original Out of Town programme saw Jack Hargreaves exploring country life in Britain, his easygoing presentation style and extensive knowledge and love of the countryside enthralling viewers of all generations. When the series ended, Jack saved from destruction many hours' worth of Out of Town film footage. It is this material much of it unseen for decades - that has been painstakingly restored and revisited to produce six new episodes of Further Out of Town, featured here. EPISODE 1. Garden Pests/Red Squirrels/Country Flowers EPISODE 2: Planting a Vine/Sheep Fair EPISODE 3: Southall Market/Fishing in the Hebrides/Peeler Crabs EPISODE 4: Andalusian Horses with Brassy Searle & Sons EPISODE 5: Mr Cuckoo/Sea Bream/Stocking a Motorway Lake EPISODE 6: Butterflies/North Wind Fishing/John Bass Lakes
The complete collection of The Great Adventures in one Box Set.
The horror returns as the restless spirits of Bedlam Heights wreak their terrible revenge on unsuspecting new inhabitants. A few months ago, Ellie (Lacey Turner) started having terrifying visions of the dead. Through the hospital where she works, she learns that a former patient, Jed, was treated for the exact same thing. If only she could track him down, surely he must know a way to make it stop. Arriving at his last known address - Bedlam Heights - she discovers a shocking truth. As the residents continue to be terrorised by the asylum's dark past, Ellie soon realises what lurks in the depths of Bedlam Heights is worse than anything she could ever have imagined. Special Features: The Making of Bedlam
Maigret Sets A Trap Montmartre, Paris. A serial killer is stalking the streets. Five women are dead and people are afraid to go out after dark. The newspapers are rife with speculation. And Chief Superintendent Maigret is without a lead and under great pressure Maigret's Dead Man One February morning, an agitated man calls the Police judiciaire asking for Maigret. He claims he's being followed by someone trying to kill him. Before Maigret can get the details he hangs up, calls back again from various cafés, until the calls finally stop. That night, his body is found, his face badly beaten, stabbed to death. Ridden with guilt for not having saved his dead man, Maigret is determined to find the murderer. Night at the Crossroads Maigret interrogates suspected murderer Carl Andersen for hours. But despite his best efforts, Andersen's story never slips he insists he's innocent. So why was the body of a diamond dealer found on his property, in his car, killed with his gun? And why did he and his mysterious sister Else try to run away? Maigret in Montmartre Arlette, a stripper from one of the area's seedy nightclubs, reports a conversation she overheard about an imminent murder. But it's not until Arlette is found strangled that her report is taken seriously. Features: Behind the scenes
In the melting pot of 1890s London, Sergeant Cork works for Scotland Yard's newly formed Criminal Investigation Department. Astute and years ahead of his time, he enthusiastically employs the pioneering techniques of modern forensic science to investigate crimes born of poverty and deprivation, passion, vengeance and greed, ably assisted by the youthful and equally dedicated Detective Bob Marriott.
David Mitchell and Robert Webb star as ambassadors based in the British embassy of the fictional Asian country Tazbekistan in this BBC comedy miniseries. The programme follows the daily lives of ambassador Davis (Mitchell) and his deputy Tilly (Webb) in their roles in the Tazbekistan embassy. But as they carry out their duties, the duo constantly find themselves in trouble with the natives including when Davis accidentally kills an ibex, the country's national animal, and when their Best of British festival fails to inspire the locals. The duo also encounter issues when they are asked to house blind dissident Amil Zarifi (Krystian Godlewski) and after a potential Tazbek Spring erupts during the president's platinum jubilee celebrations. The episodes are: 'The Rabbit Never Escapes', 'The Prince's Trousers' and 'The Tazbek Spring'.
Prepare for a rollercoaster ride of emotions following the life and death struggle to save irresistibly cute Orang-utan orphans at the Orang Jungle Hospital in the middle of Borneo. The presenters and crew spend a moving inspiring and involving week in the heart of the biggest Orang-utan rehabilitation centre providing a uniquely intimate and engaging look at the most entertaining of the great apes in one of the remotest corners of the world. They witness both success and failure as Orang-utans are helped to take the tentative first steps back into an independent life in the wild and join dangerous rescue missions as anti-poaching patrols follow up tip offs to track down orphaned babies intended for the cruel pet trade. The orphans are charming the animals' plight heartbreaking and the rescue cases gripping in these inspirational stories of human dedication.
William Hurt and Katherine Parkinson lead an all-star cast in the drama series set in a parallel present where the latest must-have gadget for a busy family is a Synth - a life-like humanoid.
All the episodes from the third series of the British documentary which sees restoration experts revive an array of antiques, ornaments and furniture from disrepair back to its former glory. A Louis Vuitton trunk, a torn portrait and an armchair with sentimental value are among many objects given a new lease of life.
Space the final frontier... A journey that boldly takes viewers where no man has gone before--deep into the minds and hearts of STAR TREK co-stars William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy. Mr. Nimoy's home was the host to this enlightening conversation between the two actor/directors about the beloved series and their involvement as part of the Starship Enterprise. Topics covered includes gossip on the original crew remembering past colleagues the fans behind the scenes stories and the legacies both men hope to leave behind. The depths of the friendship between these two legendary stars is clearly on display in this touching and insightful conversation.
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