This light-hearted series, aimed at teenage viewers, charts the unsteady progress of Mike and Pete, two 16-year-old school-leavers who are suddenly forced to ponder the bewildering but urgent question: what are they going to do for a living?
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In his final TV role, Arthur Lowe (Dad’s Army, Pardon the Expression) plays a popular but old-fashioned mathematics master attempting and largely failing to keep order among the unruly boys of Form IIIA at Burgrove Preparatory School, in the
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As quintessentially 70s as Spangles, the Chopper bike and massive flares, ≤ce of Wands introduced a new kind of hero to children’s television: Tarot, a cool magician with psychic powers and a knack for unearthing strange goings on. For three
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"Just my luck - we’re in the middle of a national crisis and my nose has swollen up repulsively."Adapted from Sue Townsend’s bestselling novels, these hit series chronicle the everyday traumas and emotional upheavals of the legendary
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The world is full of adventure! Golden-Globe winner Gene Barry (Burke’s Law, War of the Worlds) stars as the debonair film star and jet-setting, multi-millionaire businessman Gene Bradley. With an eye for the ladies and a nose for trouble, his
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Jack Vincent, an aristocrat forced by circumstances to become a smuggler, is caught and transported on the HMS Success to a penal colony on Norfolk Island, off the New Zealand coast. Unhappily for Vincent, the ship’s captain is none other than
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Developed for television by Ted Willis (Dixon of Dock Green), The Adventures of Black Beauty was one of the most successful television series ever made. A quality production, its mix of charm, period detail and mild peril thrilled viewers the world
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Richard Greene stars as television’s most famous Robin Hood in ITV's first smash-hit series from the very early days of British commercial television. First seen in 1955, The Adventures of Robin Hood ran for 143 episodes and its worldwide
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Unseen on television for many years, this is the definitive television version of Daniel Defoe’s classic adventure story of a young Englishman’s sole quest for survival on a desert island. Filmed extensively on location in the Canary
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Famed character actor (and one of Doctor Who’s first companions) William Russell stars in the popular and well-remembered series The Adventures of Sir Lancelot. The classic and inspirational stories of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round
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Marius Goring, one of British cinema’s most gifted and versatile actors, brings his remarkable talents to the role of the enigmatic adventurer risking his life to save innocent French aristocrats from the guillotine during Robespierre’s
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After Henry is a BAFTA-nominated comedy that follows the comfortable middle-class lives of three women… except that, for one of them, life isn't all that comfortable. Sarah has been left pretty well provided-for by her late husband, but she
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BAFTA-nominated comedy After Henry follows the comfortable middle-class lives of three women; except that, for one of them, life isn't all that comfortable... Sarah has been left well provided for by her late husband but, unfortunately, she has also
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BAFTA-nominated comedy After Henry follows the comfortable middle-class lives of three women – except that, for one of them, life isn’t all that comfortable... Sarah has been left well provided for by her late husband but, unfortunately,
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BAFTA-nominated comedy Aft er Henry follows the comfortable middle-class lives of three women – except that, for one of them, life isn’t all that comfortable. Sarah has been left well provided for by her late husband, but she has also
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BAFTA-nominated actress Maureen Lipman stars as Jane Lucas, author of a problem page in a glossy magazine and radio Agony Aunt. A huge hit for ITV in the late 70s and early 80s, Agony lasted for three series, with a sequel made fifteen years later.
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BAFTA-nominated actress Maureen Lipman stars as Jane Lucas, writer of a problem page in a glossy magazine and radio Agony Aunt. A huge hit for ITV in the late 70s and early 80s, Agony lasted three series and a sequel fifteen years later. Based on the
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BAFTA-nominated actress Maureen Lipman stars as Jane Lucas, writer for a problem page in a glossy magazine and radio agony aunt. A huge hit for ITV in the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, Agony lasted three series and produced a sequel fifteen
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1946. The war is over… but not for everyone. Demobbed pilot Jack Ruskin (Roy Marsden – The Sandbaggers) has developed a passion for aviation and he's determined to keep flying. Unable to find work with an established civilian airline,
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An early sitcom by legendary comedy writers Johnnie Mortimer and Brian Cooke, Alcock and Gander stars BAFTA-winner Beryl Reid as Marigold Alcock – a woman who has been saddled with her late husband’s less than flourishing business.From a
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"I'd say, it is decidedly average to be here?" An Audience with Billy Connolly is a true classic in every sense of the word! In the audience are Britain's finest from the theatre and music world, like Bob Hoskins, Joanna Lumley, Bob Geldof,
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Join Cliff and friends in this legendary An Audience With from 1999. As usual the audience is comprised celebrities but this time they not only ask questions but help with the singing - Bobby Davro, Les Dennis, Vincenza la Scoula, Elaine Page,
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"Hello Possums!" Unarguably Australia's greatest export, Housewife Superstar Dame Edna Everage takes time out of her busy schedule to answer questions about her life and voice her opinions to a star-studded audience on no less than three seperate
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Outstanding comedian and musician Dudley Moore regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with this hilarious edition of the long-running An Audience With series.Backed by his Trio, Dudley entertains his audience of celebrities (which include
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Comedian, actor, folk singer and TV presenter Jasper Carrott first came to national attention in 1975 with his Top Five hit Funky Moped/Magic Roundabout. Thirty-five years on, he remains one of Britain’s best-loved comic performers. His many
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Outstanding raconteur Kenneth Williams regales his spellbound audience in typical fashion with a long look back at his career - from his time entertaining troops in the army, his radio work (including the Hancock shows), his work in theatre and - of
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Screen legend Peter Ustinov displays his celebrated wit and humour in this 1988 ITV special. Ustinov has long been acknowledged the 'King of the Raconteurs' - his ability to hold an audience spellbound with humorous anecdotes honed to perfection
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The incomparable Victoria Wood (Acorn Antiques, dinnerladies) is the star of this special show that won two 1989 British Academy Film and Television Arts Awards - for Best Light Entertainment Programme and for Best Light Entertainment Performance.
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The final series of Thames’ highly popular sitcom ...And Mother Makes Three saw widow Sally Harrison (Wendy Craig – Butterflies) and widower David Redway finally getting spliced after a protracted on-off romance. This sequel series
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BAFTA winner Wendy Craig stars with Richard Coleman, Robin Davies and Oscar winner David Parfitt in this highly popular sequel to Thames’ hit sitcom And Mother Makes Three.Scripted by Wendy Craig and produced and directed by sitcom veteran
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BAFTA winner Wendy Craig stars with Richard Coleman, Robin Davies and Oscar winner David Parfitt in this highly popular sequel to Thames’ hit sitcom And Mother Makes Three.Co-written by Wendy Craig and produced by sitcom veteran Peter
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BAFTA winner Wendy Craig stars with Richard Coleman, Robin Davies and Oscar winner David Parfitt in this hit Thames sitcom – sequel to the highly popular And Mother Makes Three.Co-written by Craig, the series charts the ongoing tribulations of
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This duo of sparkling Thames comedies provided an early hit for BAFTA-winning comedienne Wendy Craig, showcasing her talents as a harassed, well-meaning but scatterbrained young widow doing her best to bring up two rambunctious sons....And Mother
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...And Mother Makes Three was an early hit for BAFTA-winning comedienne Wendy Craig (Butterflies, Not in Front of the Children), showcasing her talents as a harassed, slightly dotty single mother doing her best to bring up two rather challenging
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Andy Capp, the flat-capped cartoon-strip legend, became a television star as James Bolam brought the loveable Northern layabout to life in this hilarious Thames sitcom. With Bolam in the title role, fag an' all, the series also brings to life Flo,
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Gerald Middleton is a wealthy and cultured professor of medieval history who, at sixty, feels both an academic and emotional failure. His broken marriage to the monstrous Inge has produced three children from whom he is estranged. Dollie, his best
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This three-part drama sensitively portrays a teenage romance between an English boy and a Swedish girl. A joint Swedish-British production, Annika stars Jesse Birdsall and Christina Rigner alongside Bulman star Don Henderson, and was co-written by
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Once upon a time, in the small town of Arcata in California, a rich and successful actor made a promise to a young, attractive and vulnerable girl: "I shall love you. Look after you. I don't want to hurt you or oppress you, or deny you in any
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Armchair Cinema was one of the first projects undertaken by Thames Television’s Euston Films subsidiary. Based on the format of the hugely successful and influential Armchair Theatre, Armchair Cinema presented a series of individual film dramas
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Pioneering, immensely influential and often challenging, Armchair Theatre was ITV’s flagship drama anthology series. Bringing high-quality drama to the viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network’s potential to rival the BBC’s drama output, with diverse and powerful plays showcasing some of Britain’s most gifted writers.
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With memorably unsettling opening credits and exceptional performances and direction, Armchair Thriller became a massive hit for Thames Television in the late 1970s and early 1980s. With its trademark ghoulish, razor-sharp cliff-hangers and iconic
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“I ONLY ARSKED!”A colossal success in its day, THE ARMY GAME features the humorous shenanigans of a mismatched bunch of National Service conscripts assigned to the Surplus Ordnance Department at Nether Hopping.The series - which ran for
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Do U.F.O.s or the Loch Ness Monster really exist? Did ancient civilisations possess unsuspected scientific know-how? Can we believe the reports of the Abominable Snowman or the Great Sea Serpent? How is it that fish, frogs and seeds can fall from a
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Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV’s biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the
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"A rich legacy of work that thoroughly deserves reappraisal" Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV's biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever
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Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV’s biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the
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Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV’s biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the
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Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV’s biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the world of a comedy genius. Lack of repeats ensured that subsequent generations were denied Haynes’ comedic brilliance – until now.
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Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV’s biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the world of a comedy genius. Lack of repeats ensured that subsequent generations were denied Haynes’ comedic brilliance - until now.
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With the roman withdrawal from Britain,the tribes have entered into a period of feudal warfare. Arthur is the war chieftain of a tribe of Celts who has his eye on the bigger picture - unifi cation of the tribes in the face of the Saxon threat.
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Accomplished actress Amanda Redman stars with Peter Davison, Lynda Bellingham and Sylvia Syms in the highly popular and critically acclaimed series following the fortunes of a lottery-winning but hilariously dysfunctional family. Originally
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This popular Anglia sitcom focuses on the experiences of three Women’s Land Army volunteers with very different backgrounds. Dizzy debutante Daphne Finch-Beauchamp, cheerful Cockney Jenny Dabb and sensible Jewish girl Shirley Bloom find
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This popular Anglia sitcom focuses on the experiences of three very different Women’s Land Army volunteers who find themselves in the Norfolk village of Clayfield, sharing a hasty education in agricultural matters, more than a few mishaps, and
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This popular Anglia sitcom focuses on the experiences of three very different Women’s Land Army volunteers who find themselves in the Norfolk village of Clayfield, sharing a hasty education in agricultural matters, more than a few mishaps, and
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Three documentaries commissioned by Lew Grade for ITV and directed by the acclaimed photographer David Bailey, one of the prime architects of the Swinging Sixties, form part of this unique DVD set.Born in the East End of London in 1938, David Bailey
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From the acclaimed writer Kay Mellor (Playing the Field, Fanny and Elvis, Fat Friends) comes a nail-biting and addictive, gritty series about the dark and seedy netherworld of prostitution. All three series of BAND OF GOLD are available here for the
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BAFTA-nominated Gwen Taylor is Barbara Liversidge, a blunt-talking, heftily opinionated and occasionally ranting 52-year-old Yorkshirewoman in this hit comedy series.Barbara is the lynchpin of a mildly dysfunctional family that includes Ted, (Sam
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Developed from a pilot screening in ITV’s 1995 Comedy Firsts season, this acclaimed sitcom cast Gwen Taylor as Barbara Liversidge, a blunt-talking, heftily opinionated, advice-giving and occasionally ranting 52-year-old Yorkshirewoman.Sam Kelly
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Developed from a pilot screening in ITV's 1995 Comedy Firsts season, this acclaimed sitcom cast Gwen Taylor as Barbara Liversidge, a blunt-talking, heftily opinionated, advice-giving, occasionally ranting Yorkshirewoman.Sam Kelly (Porridge, 'Allo
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Steve Forrest stars as John Mannering in THE BARON. The first ITC series to be made in colour, THE BARON is another of the exciting, cult television classics produced by the company throughout the 1960s. Antiques dealer John Mannering (known as The
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Edward Woodward and Jane Wymark star in a light-hearted drama tracing the unlikely romance between two seemingly mismatched runaways.The bass player is George Mangham, a world-weary, out-of-work jazz musician. The blonde is Terry, a beautiful,
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Baywatch was the global TV phenomenon of the Nineties. At its peak this glossy beach soap was watched by over one billion people in one hundred and forty countries worldwide, with people soaking themselves in the drama of Malibu beach life and taking
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Baywatch was the global TV phenomenon of the Nineties. At its peak this glossy beach soap was watched by over one billion people in one hundred and forty countries worldwide, with people soaking themselves in the drama of Malibu beach life and taking
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Baywatch was the global TV phenomenon of the Nineties. At its peak this glossy beach soap was watched by over one billion people in one hundred and forty countries worldwide, with people soaking up the drama of Malibu beach life and taking to the
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Baywatch was the global TV phenomenon of the Nineties. At its peak this glossy beach soap was watched by over one billion people in one hundred and forty countries worldwide, with people soaking themselves in the drama of Malibu beach life and taking
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Baywatch was the global TV phenomenon of the Nineties. At its peak this glossy beach soap was watched by over one billion people in one hundred and forty countries worldwide, with people soaking themselves in the drama of Malibu beach life and taking
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Baywatch was the global TV phenomenon of the Nineties. At its peak this glossy beach soap was watched by over one billion people in one hundred and forty countries worldwide, with viewers soaking themselves in the drama of Malibu beach life and
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By the mid-eighties Jeremy Beadle had become Britain’s master practical joker, and over many hilarious and unforgettable series Beadle’s About set up unsuspecting members of the public for some of the most outrageous, ingenious and deftly
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Creator of some of the most outstanding television plays made in the last fifty years, Nigel Kneale (Quatermass, Nineteen Eighty-Four, The Year of the Sex Olympics) created, in Beasts, an anthology of six plays designed to showcase the breadth of his
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It’s been 21 years since the public’s imagination was first hooked on The Beiderbecke Affair - the initial instalment in what was to become Alan Plater’s award winning trilogy of comedy-thrillers starring James Bolam and Barbara
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The French Alps provides the setting for this thirteen part serial in which the friendship between Sebastian, an eight year old boy, and Belle, a huge Pyronees dog causes astonishment and spitefullness amongst the people of a frontier village near
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Join comedy superstar Benny Hill in more than thirty of his classic shows made throughout the 1970s. Known throughout the world for his combination of high-speed farce, risqué jokes and gorgeous ladies, it is these shows – made for Thames
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"It's The Lad, himself – Benny Hill!" Join comedy superstar Benny Hill in all of the classic shows he made throughout the 1980s! Known throughout the world for his combination of high-speed farce, risque jokes and gorgeous ladies,
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Peter Egan (Ever Decreasing Circles, Home Again) is Hogarth (a.k.a. Hog) - ruthlessly ambitious, flash and violent - who has his eye set on being king of London's criminal underworld. As a new player on the scene Lennox, (Timothy West - Bleak House,
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From its origin as a single play in ITVís Storyboard series (presented here as a special feature), The Bill began as three hour-long series before being relaunched and reformatted into the long-running, regular weekly ratings hit that it has now
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