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Spanish romantic drama in which a couple have their relationship put to the test when they must live apart in separate countries. Alex (Natalia Tena) and Sergi (David Verdaguer) are enjoying their time together in Barcelona when Alex is offered a job in Los Angeles. With Sergi's own work commitments confining him to stay in Barcelona, Alex decides to take up the position and moves out to Los Angeles. The pair take a leap of faith in the..
Meeting the other half’s family can be nerve-racking for anyone. But for DJ and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock), the first encounter with the family of his French artist girlfriend Marion (Academy Award nominee Julie Delpy, who also writes and directs) may be even more of an ordeal than he had originally imagined, in this hilariously quirky follow-up to 2 Days in Paris. The arrival of Marion’s sausage-smuggling father (Delpy’s real-life ..
Meeting the other half's family can be nerve-racking for anyone. But for DJ and journalist Mingus (Chris Rock), the first encounter with the family of his French artist girlfriend Marion (Academy Award nominee Julie Delpy, who also writes and directs) may be even more of an ordeal than he had originally imagined, in this hilariously quirky follow-up 2 Days in Paris. The arrival of Marion's sausage-smuggling father (Delpy's real-life fat..
Spinning off from the legendary television pop show Six-Five Special, this star-studded, song-filled feature centres on an aspiring young singer taking her first step towards fame when she catches the 'Six-Five Special' to London. To her surprise, she finds the train packed with an array of '50s showbiz talent and, as the musical artistes rehearse en route, she gets a ringside seat to performances by Lonnie Donegan, Cleo Laine and Johnn..
Every subsequent and the original instalment of the famous 1964 'World in Action' special directed by Michael Apted that looked at the lives of seven-year-olds from a variety of social backgrounds. With extraordinary ambition, the show set out to study the extent to which children's backgrounds influenced their future prospects, with Apted returning to visit the participants at seven-year intervals to see how they were getting on. The p..
Every subsequent and the original instalment of the famous 1964 'World in Action' special directed by Michael Apted that looked at the lives of seven-year-olds from a variety of social backgrounds. With extraordinary ambition, the show set out to study the extent to which children's backgrounds influenced their future prospects, with Apted returning to visit the participants at seven-year intervals to see how they were getting on. The p..
Richard Johnson and Claire Bloom star in this classic romantic drama written and directed by Val Guest. The film follows Dr Steven Monk (Johnson) as he desperately tries to save his marriage while working tirelessly to prevent a smallpox epidemic after a patient of his is diagnosed with the infectious disease...
Wedding's can be a fraught affair at the best of times, but when Ted Simcock (David Jason) - the father of the groom, and the bride's mother, Liz Rodenhurst (Nicola Pagett - Upstairs Downstairs) make it a day to remember for all the wrong reasons, it sparks a chain of events that changes the lives of the snobbish Rodenhursts and working-class Simcocks forever. Adapted for the screen from his own novels by David Nobbs (The Fall and Rise ..
Husband and wife team and Royal Shakespeare Company players Dame Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in this BAFTA award-winning ITV series, originally broadcast between November 1981 and February 1984. She plays Laura, who is thirty-seven and unmarried. He plays Mike, also single. When the pair are introduced at a party, their initial awkward relationship soon blooms into romance. Over the course of four series, Mike and Laura fall fo..
All six episodes of the TV drama starring Arthur Lowe as a maths teacher at a boy's preparatory school, the 'Dad's Army' star's final major role before his death in April 1982. A.J. Wentworth (Lowe) has no shortage of problems to deal with in his capacity as Mathematics Master at Burgrove Preparatory School. As well as an unruly class of children to deal with, Wentworth is continually at loggerheads with the school's headmaster, Reveren..
Granada's acclaimed ten-part adaptation of Stan Barstow's classic trilogy is a landmark in television drama. Following the emotional development of its protagonist over a period of 15 years, A Kind of Loving features powerful performances from Clive Wood as Vic, Joanne Whalley - in her first major television role - as Ingrid, and Susan Penhaligon as Donna. This faithful and sensitive adaptation was originally screened in 1982 and was o..
Creator of some of Gainsborough Pictures' best-known melodramas. Leslie Arliss was well chosen to helm this atmospheric thriller, made in 1947. Boasting cinematography by Oscar winner Georges Perinal and an early film role for Kieron Moore. A Man About the House is adapted from the novel of the same name by noted English writer and composer Francis Brett Young. It is featured here in a brand-new High-Definition transfer from the origina..
Leslie Arliss directs this classic British drama starring Kieron Moore and Dulcie Gray. The film follows Ellen (Gray) and Agnes (Margaret Johnston), two sisters who travel to Italy to stake their claim on some property they have inherited. When they arrive, they meet the caretaker Salvatore (Moore), whose family once owned the villa in question. Charmed by Salvatore, it isn't long before Agnes falls in love with him, but does he have ot..
American drama based on the play by Henrik Ibsen in which a successful and well-known architect struggles to account for his own actions throughout his life as his final hour draws closer. On his deathbed, Halvard Solness (Wallace Shawn) attempts to justify the way he has conducted himself in his time from the mistreatment of his employees to the manipulation of his wife. His redemption arrives, however, in the form of the young Hilde W..
In this gritty, darkly authentic detective thriller set in South Wales, Philip Madoc (The Life and Times of David Lloyd George) is the memorably charismatic Detective Chief Inspector Noel Bain - a man with a passion for defending the innocent, and an infallible instinct which even the sharpest criminal minds cannot match. Alongside the complex, frequently disturbing cases that come his way, widower Bain faces the challenges of caring fo..
Featuring gorgeous cinematography from Claude Friese-Greene, this stirring drama of romance and derring-do features an early film role for debonair Egyptian-born actor Alexandre D'Arcy, playing opposite Russian-British star Marguerite Allan. Initially released as a silent film with Pathecolor sequences in May 1929, A Romance of Seville was re-released in July 1930 without the stencil colouring but with new titles and a soundtrack showca..
Alec Guinness, Donald Houston, Moira Lister and Hugh Griffith star in this classic piece of BAFTA-nominated Welsh whimsy from Ealing Studios. Made during their golden, post-war period, A Run for Your Money was directed by Charles Frend and is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Dai Number 9 and his friend Twm win a newspaper contest: £100 each and a..
Alec Guinness, Donald Houston, Moira Lister and Hugh Griffith star in this classic piece of BAFTA-nominated Welsh whimsy from Ealing Studios. Made during their golden, post-war period, A Run for Your Money was directed by Charles Frend and is presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Dai Number 9 and his friend Twm win a newspaper contest: £100 each and a..
Starring sitcom legends David Jason and Richard Wilson, this sharply scripted series details the multifarious difficulties involved in 'Getting Things Done' – as experienced by young married couple Peter and Sheila Barnes. From trying to book a holiday to being a best man, life seems to hand Peter Barnes more than his fair share of frustration. The only certainty is that whatever it is he's trying to arrange, it will entail an encounter..
Oscar-winning actor Sandy Dennis gives an acclaimed performance alongside Ian McKellen in this thoughtful 1960s drama about the complications arising from a young woman's sexual awakening. Written by Margaret Drabble from her own novel The Millstone, A Touch of Love is featured here as a brand-new remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Rosamund, a determined but unworldly student, accidentally bec..
Oscar-winning actor Sandy Dennis gives an acclaimed performance alongside Ian McKellen in this thoughtful 1960s drama about the complications arising from a young woman's sexual awakening. Written by Margaret Drabble from her own novel The Millstone, A Touch of Love is featured here as a brand-new remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Rosamund, a determined but unworldly student, accidentally bec..
Virginia McKenna stars alongside Oscar winner Peter Finch in this acclaimed adaptation of Nevil Shute's moving novel. Winning multiple awards (including Bafta's for both McKenna and Finch), A Town Like Alice is features here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Jean Paget, an English woman taken prisoner by the Japanese, is among a group of women and children fo..
BAFTA Award-winning film based on Nevil Shute's bestselling novel. A group of British POW women are led through the Malayan jungle by the Japanese during World War II. As a group they come to terms with the hardships they have to endure and are befriended by an Australian prisoner who dreams of returning to his home town, Alice Springs...
A deliriously stylish journey through the mind of an outcast adolescent, A Trip to the Moon (Un viaje a la luna) is the first feature from Argentinean director Joaquin Cambre. Featuring memorable cinematography from Nicolás Trovato, this playfully exciting coming-of-age dramedy has gained great acclaim on the festival circuit. Tomas is a teenager with problems. Socially awkward and under constant pressure from his family, exam-related s..
A night in with ABC Television this specially curated programme compilation will transport you back to the 1960s. Hand-picked ABC archive gems hosted by David Hamilton, complete with vintage advert breaks re-create the viewing experience of sixty years ago!And in a packed line-up tonight, we present the following:HERE'S DAVID NIXON: Show 5, 27 October 1963 DIAL 999: Robbery with Violence, 27 July 1958 BIG NIGHT OUT: Series 2 Show 1,..
A night in with ABC Television this specially curated programme compilation will transport you back to the 1960s. Hand-picked ABC archive gems hosted by David Hamilton, complete with vintage advert breaks re-create the viewing experience of sixty years ago!And in a packed line-up tonight, we present the following:HERE'S DAVID NIXON: Show 3, 13 October 1963 THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE: The Triumph of the Witch, 27 August 1967..
A night in with ABC Television this specially curated programme compilation will transport you back to the 1960s. Hand-picked ABC archive gems hosted by David Hamilton, complete with vintage advert breaks re-create the viewing experience of sixty years ago!And in a packed line-up tonight, we present the following:COUNTER ATTACK: Episode 4 - Secret Agent, 7 February 1960 HERE'S DAVID NIXON: Show 10, 1 December 1963 HULLABALOO: Show 1..
A night in with ABC Television this specially curated programme compilation will transport you back to the 1960s. Hand-picked ABC archive gems hosted by David Hamilton, complete with vintage advert breaks re-create the viewing experience of sixty years ago!And in a packed line-up tonight, we present the following:HERE'S DAVID NIXON: Show 9, 24 November 1963 COUNTER ATTACK: Episode 3 - Sealed Orders, 31 January 1960 DIAL 999: Death R..
A night in with ABC Television this specially curated programme compilation will transport you back to the 1960s. Hand-picked ABC archive gems hosted by David Hamilton, complete with vintage advert breaks re-create the viewing experience of sixty years ago!And in a packed line-up tonight, we present the following:THE LION THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE: What Lucy Found in the Wardrobe, 9 July 1967 HERES DAVID NIXON: Show 2, 6 October 19..
1930s drama following the political and romantic tensions that unfold as various factions jostle for control amidst the crumbling Ottoman Empire. It is 1908 and Sultan Abdul Hamid (Fritz Kortner), the official ruler of Turkey and its empire, finds his authority increasingly under threat from the Young Turk party. When Abdul falls in love with beautiful Viennese opera singer Therese (Adrienne Ames), who is engaged to Young Turk Talak (Jo..
All 12 episodes of the satirical comedy based on Mark Tavener's radio show, starring Stephen Fry and John Bird. Charles Prentiss (Fry) and Martin McCabe (Bird) are spin doctors extraordinaire who manage their own PR consultancy firm in London. Along with a crew of young executives learning the ropes of deceit and distraction, Prentiss and McCabe provide their services to many a celebrity seeking to gain or escape from attention as well ..
All surviving episodes - comprising the entire third and final season - of the 1970s ITV family drama series following the exploits of Tarot the Magician (Michael MacKenzie) and his assistant Lulli (Judy Loe), as they solve a series of mysteries, both natural and supernatural. Assisting them is Mr. Sweet, an antiquarian bookseller with a remarkable store of scientific knowledge. Episodes are: 'The Meddlers (Part 1)', 'The Meddlers (Part..
Every episode of the 1980s ITV sitcom starring Prunella Scales as Sarah France, a middle-aged, middle-class woman who finds herself sharing a house with her demanding mother Eleanor (Joan Sanderson) and prickly adolescent daughter Clare (Janine Wood) following the death of her husband Henry. An often volatile atmosphere prevails as the three generations of women try to find a way to cope with each other as best they can. Series 1 episod..
"My hope is that the viewer will go into Afterschool with an open mind and leave with a series of questions about this world and about this boy." Afterschool centres on the experience of Robert, a young American student at an elite East Coast preparatory school who accidentally captures on camera the tragic deaths of two female classmates. Their lives become memorialised as part of an audio-visual assignment intended to facilitate the c..
Biographical drama directed by Fergus O'Brien and starring Daniel Mays and Richard Gadd. Journalist Peter Wildeblood (Mays) was one of the first people in Britain to publicly declare his homosexuality. Living in the 1950s when homosexuality was illegal, Wildeblood and his partner Eddie McNally (Gadd) refused to conceal their relationship and were imprisoned for their love. Their case, along with the punishment of many others for their s..
An all-star cast feature in this stylish adaptation of Agatha Christie's quintessential murder mystery, produced and co-written by legendary B-movie mogul Harry Alan Towers. Directed by George Pollock (who had previously won great acclaim with the Miss Marple films starring Margaret Rutherford) and sporting the ultimate gimmick of a 60-second "Whodunnit Break" prior to the final reveal, Ten Little Indians is featured here as a High Defi..
Small screen adaptation of Agatha Christie's murder mystery. Lady Eileen Brent (Cheryl Campbell) turns sleuth when a dead body is found in her Marquis father's (John Gielgud) home. The house had been rented out for the weekend to a society couple, and it transpires that the victim was their foreign office chum, Gerry. Gerry had left a note for his step-sister in which he mentioned the Seven Dials, and the mystery deepens when his collea..
Collection of stage comedies from the 1930s. 'A Cuckoo In the Nest' (1933) follows two newlyweds who are forced to spend the night together at a crowded inn, with the only catch being that they aren't married to each other... 'Turkey Time' (1933) follows two friends who find themselves dealing with a series of unfortunate circumstances while trying their very best to be courteous...
Collection of stage comedies from the 1930s. 'A Cup of Kindness' (1934) follows the son and daughter of two quarrelling families as they announce their engagement. In 'Dirty Work' (1934), the staff of a jewellery store hire a private detective to track down a thief...
Collection of stage comedies from the 1930s. In 'Fighting Stock' (1935) a military man's fishing holiday is rudely interrupted by a fight breaking out among family members. In 'Foreign Affaires' (1935) a wealthy aristocrat works tirelessly to save his dwindling fortune...
Double bill of stage comedies from the 1930s. In 'Lady in Danger' (1934) English businessman Richard Dexter (Tom Walls) is given the task of protecting the Queen of Ardenberg (Yvonne Arnaud) after a military coup is staged in her country. While he hides her in his London apartment and country house, his fiancée is not impressed with their new living situation. In 'Pot Luck' (1936) a retired detective (Walls) takes on one last case and t..
Ken Hughes writes and directs this sequel which follows on from events in the 1966 film 'Alfie'. Alfie (Alan Price) is now a lorry driver picking up women all across Europe and falling for a magazine editor named Abby (Jill Townsend). While trying to win her affections, a mishap causes Alfie a great deal of embarrassment and forces him to revisit his past conquests. The cast also includes Joan Collins, Annie Ross and Paul Copley...
Ken Hughes writes and directs this sequel which follows on from events in the 1966 film 'Alfie'. Alfie (Alan Price) is now a lorry driver picking up women all across Europe and falling for a magazine editor named Abby (Jill Townsend). While trying to win her affections, a mishap causes Alfie a great deal of embarrassment and forces him to revisit his past conquests. The cast also includes Joan Collins, Annie Ross and Paul Copley...
Alfred Hitchcock directs the first of his classic British spy thrillers. While holidaying in the Swiss Alps with their daughter Betty, English couple Bob (Leslie Banks) and Jill Lawrence (Edna Best) are befriended by Frenchman Louis Bernard (Pierre Fresnay). When he is shot by international spies, Louis warns Jill with his dying breath that his killers intend to assassinate a leading diplomat in Britain. However, before Jill and Bob can..
Cyril Frankel directs this 1960s British comedy in which a trio of elderly women set out to defy society's expectations of them. Dora (Sybil Thorndike), Rosie (Kathleen Harrison) and Mabel (Estelle Winwood) become friendly at an old people's home, though they dislike being confined there. When they learn that plans are being made that will see the three of them separated, they decide that enough is enough and run away from the home. The..
Two friends – one a policeman and one a criminal – come into conflict in this tense, early '70s crime thriller starring Martin Potter, Julia Foster and Nicky Henson. With taut, gritty direction from Sidney Hayers and a hard-edged script from Z-Cars writer Allan Prior, All Coppers Are... is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Joe, Sue, and Barry meet a..
Two friends – one a policeman and one a criminal – come into conflict in this tense, early '70s crime thriller starring Martin Potter, Julia Foster and Nicky Henson. With taut, gritty direction from Sidney Hayers and a hard-edged script from Z-Cars writer Allan Prior, All Coppers Are... is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio. Joe, Sue, and Barry meet a..
In his first comedy series for ITV, Richard Briers stars as a beleaguered vicar who abandons the comforts of his affluent Oxfordshire parish for the more challenging climes of a run-down Midlands town. Also starring Barbara Ferris and Nigel Humphreys, this hugely engaging sitcom was penned by noted screenwriter John Kane and directed by multi-award winner John Howard Davies. When doubts begin to assail the Rev. Philip Lambe, he feels th..
In his first comedy series for ITV, Richard Briers stars as a beleaguered vicar who abandons the comforts of his affluent Oxfordshire parish for the more challenging climes of a run-down Midlands town. Co-starring Barbara Ferris, Frank Middlemass and T.P. McKenna, among others, this hugely engaging sitcom was penned by noted screenwriter (and Me and My Girl creator) John Kane, and directed by multi-award winner John Howard Davies. Hopin..
Part bawdy romp, part kitchen-sink drama, this box-office hit features then-rising star Victor Henry as a twenty-year-old window cleaner whose womanising is curtailed when he finds himself falling in love for the first time. Also starring Susan George and, in his film debut, Jack Shepherd, All Neat in Black Stockings' bold interlacing of sexual adventure, humour and tender love story instantly caught audiences' imaginations, its evocati..
Patrick McGoohan and Keith Michell star in this powerful psychological drama which deftly re-interprets Shakespeare's Othello via the beating, syncopated heart of East London's early-sixties jazz scene. Directed by Basil Dearden, All Night Long features outstanding performances from jazz legends Charlie Mingus, Dave Brubeck, Johnny Dankworth and Tubby Hayes. It is presented here in a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film..
The feature film inspired by Shakespeare's Othello. Paul Harris is happily married to Marti Stevens. Patrick McGoohan plays the film's funky Iago character, who covets Harris' job. McGoohan hopes to unnerve Harris by spreading rumours that Stevens has been unfaithful...
The complete TV series based on the novel by Vita Sackville-West. Wendy Hiller stars as the 85-year-old recently widowed Lady Slane. Relishing her new-found freedom after more than half a century of a restrictive marriage, Lady Slane decides to spend her time as she wishes, and with whom she wishes, despite the consternation of her family...
Till Death Us Do Part's Warren Mitchell heads an outstanding cast as an ambitious but none-too-bright salesman in this sharply scripted comedy of workplace deviousness and one-upmanship. Based on BAFTA nominee David Turner's 1962 stage hit Semi-Detached, All the Way Up is presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements in its as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio. Fred Midway will do anything to climb to the top of..
Spanish drama in which a lesbian couple living on a canal boat in London begin to contemplate starting a family. When Eva (Oona Chaplin) approaches Kat (Natalia Tena) with an urge to have a baby, Kat rejects the idea and struggles with the concept of leaving behind their untroubled lifestyle. However, when Eva becomes upset at Kat's dismissal of parenthood, Kat succumbs to agreeing to plan their family. Things are hurried along when Kat..
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 Makes Three sees Sally Harrison not only keeping an eye on sons Simon and Peter but also conducting an on-off romance with antiquarian bookseller David Redway; ...And Mother Makes Five hilario..
All six episodes of the TV adaptation of the long-running Daily Mirror comic strip created by Reg Smythe. Andy Capp (James Bolam) is an unemployed middle-aged man content to spend his time drinking, gambling and sitting in his armchair - often all at once - leaving his much-abused wife, Flo (Paula Tilbrook), to earn the money to keep him in comfort. Other characters from the comic strip to make an appearance include Andy's landlord, Jac..
An outstanding achievement for award-winning animators John Halas and Joy Batchelor, this landmark adaptation brilliantly conveys the horror and humour of George Orwell's scathing satire. To celebrate its 60th anniversary, the film is featured here in a new High Definition transfer made from original film elements. Inspired by the dream of Old Major, a prize boar, the overworked animals of Manor Farm rise up against their negligent, dru..
Britain's first animated feature film is an adaptation of George Orwell's classic novel, itself an allegory for the Russian revolution. Tired of the abuse they suffer at the hands of Farmer Jones, the animals on his farm decide to revolt, led by the pigs Snowball and Napoleon. Once Jones is ousted, the animals set up a new order, stating that all are equal. However, when Napoleon decides to increase his personal power, it begins to seem..
Ealing tragi-comedy set in post-war Dublin. Robert Beatty stars as Gulliver Sheils, an impoverished young daydreamer who harbours a fantasy of emigrating to Tahiti. To this end, he hatches the ingenious plan of loitering on a particularly dangerous street corner in the hope that he might be able to save a wealthy person from having a traffic accident, the idea being that said person might subsequently offer him a financial reward. Howev..
Ealing tragi-comedy set in post-war Dublin. Robert Beatty stars as Gulliver Sheils, an impoverished young daydreamer who harbours a fantasy of emigrating to Tahiti. To this end, he hatches the ingenious plan of loitering on a particularly dangerous street corner in the hope that he might be able to save a wealthy person from having a traffic accident, the idea being that said person might subsequently offer him a financial reward. Howev..
Jon Scoffield directs this television adaptation of William Shakespeare's epic drama starring Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman as the titular characters...
Televised production of John Wells's stage farce about the private lives of Margaret Thatcher (Angela Thorne) and her husband Denis (Wells). After inviting two of his drinking buddies back to Chequers while his wife is away on business, Denis's weekend takes a sudden nosedive when Margaret returns home from her Euro summit early and mistakes her husband's friends for Euro commissioners...
Collection of 1970s horror films. In 'Death Line' (1972) an underground tunnel collapses in London in 1892, and those trapped under its rubble survive only by eating each other's flesh. Subsequent generations live on via similar means, but eventually only one remains. Forced out of hiding, the disease-ridden cannibal begins to look for his nutrition on the platform of the Russell Square Tube line. In 'Countess Dracula' (1971) Ingrid Pit..
Eight episodes from the hugely popular TV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 -1973. This selection of plays, broadcast between 1970 and 1973, features scripts by, among others, Fay Weldon and Colin Welland, and includes performances from Tom Bell, Billie Whitelaw, Richard Beckinsale, Peter Barkworth, Rita Tushingham and Beryl Reid. Episodes comprise: 'Say Goodnight to Your Grandma', 'Office Party', 'Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and ..
Eight more plays from the hugely popular ITV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 -1973. The series was broadcast on Sunday nights and featured original scripts dealing with issues of the day from a number of esteemed contemporary writers. This selection of plays features actors including John Thaw, Anton Rodgers, Kenneth Haigh, Bill Maynard and Susannah York. The episodes are: 'Wednesday's Child', 'Competition', 'The Left Overs', ..
Pioneering, enormously influential and often challenging, Armchair Theatre was ITV's flagship drama anthology series. Bringing high-quality contemporary drama to a wider viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network's potential to rival the BBC's drama output with diverse and powerful plays by some of Britain's most gifted writers. This set comprises twelve plays taken from the series' first incarnation, produced by ABC and..
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.This set comprises twelve plays featuring performances by some of the era’s most celebrated and accom..
Four plays from the popular TV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 to 1973. This selection of plays, broadcast between 1962 and 1969, includes performances from Clifford Evans, Pauline Yates, Ronald Hines and more. The plays are: 'Nothing to Pay' (1962), 'The Cherry On the Top' (1964), 'Light the Blue Touch Paper' (1966) and 'Edward the Confessor' (1969)...
Four plays from the popular TV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 to 1973. This selection of plays, broadcast between 1959 and 1967, includes performances from Barry Foster, Clive Morton, Lynn Redgrave and more. The plays are: 'Worm in the Bud' (1959), 'The Invasion' (1963), 'The Chocolate Tree' (1963) and 'What's Wrong With Humpty Dumpty?' (1967)...
Four plays from the popular TV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 to 1973. This selection of plays, broadcast between 1959 and 1966, includes performances from Harry H. Corbett, Kenneth Griffith, Patrick Allen and more. The plays are: 'The Bird, the Bear and the Actress' (1959), 'The Fishing Match' (1962), 'The Man Who Came to Die' (1965) and 'Dead Silence' (1966)...
Four plays from the popular TV drama anthology series that ran from 1956 to 1973. This selection of plays, broadcast between 1959 and 1965, includes performances from Rupert Davies, Leslie Phillips, Roger Livesey and more. The plays are: 'The Thought of Tomorrow' (1959), 'Toff and Fingers' (1960), 'Late Summer' (1963) and 'The Gong Game' (1965)...
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 theme tune (by Roxy Music's Andy Mackay), this haunting anthology series was an immediate success its eerie, disturbing and downright scary tales regularly attracting over 15 million viewers. ..
All 24 episodes of the fondly remembered 1970s series set in Britain 100 years after the departure of the Romans. Oliver Tobias stars as Arthur, chieftain of a Celtic tribe, fighting to unite other tribes against the Saxon invaders. Episodes comprise: 'Arthur is Dead', 'The Gift of Life', 'The Challenge', 'The Penitent Invader', 'People of the Plough', 'The Duel', 'The People', 'Rolf the Preacher', 'Enemies and Lovers', 'The Slave', 'Th..
A taut, noir-ish crime thriller produced by Primetime Emmy nominee and future Avengers lynchpin Julian Wintle, Assassin for Hire stars Sydney Tafler as a hitman who nurtures his younger brother's musical talent with blood money; Ronald Howard is the Scotland Yard inspector who doggedly pursues him using any means at his disposal. This early-fifties 'B'-movie gem is featured here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, i..
A hard-hitting psychological thriller, Assault stars Frank Finlay as a career policeman willing to employ unorthodox methods to catch a sleazy murderer and Suzy Kendall as a plucky teacher willing to put her life in jeopardy to help him do so. Tautly directed by Sidney Hayers, this controversial drama is remastered from original film elements and presented here as a brand-new High Definition transfer in its original 35mm camera negative..
The particularly brutal rape assault of a sixteen year-old schoolgirl in a wooded common provokes Det. Chief Supt. Velyan (Frank Finlay - Casanova) into employing unorthodox measures to catch the maniac. He listens intently to Doctor Greg Lomax's (James Laurenson - Spooks) rudimentary profiling technique in the hope that it will give him insight into the man's behaviour, which is obviously intensifying and escalating when a second schoo..
Two men, one woman and a dog are cooped up together in darkest space. Occupying a two-room 'sky-lab' on Britain's first manned space mission, they are under constant surveillance as they orbit the Earth - even on their visits to the lavatory. Tensions simmer, resentment builds and relationships become strained... and it's not long before they're plotting revenge upon their Earth-bound American contact at Mission Control. Written by Grae..
All 26 episodes from all four series of the popular ITV comedy drama. When 40-year-old Alison Braithwaite (Amanda Redman) wins £38 million on the lottery, she decides not to tell her family, opting instead to set up a business dedicated to helping others. However, Alison is not the only family member with a secret: her bank manager husband David (Peter Davison) is conducting an extramarital affair, one daughter is experimenting with les..
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis star as a pair of song and dance men recruited to the army. They soon discover that they are not well suited to military service. Slapstick moments include a now-famous soda syphon scen..
Charting the implosion of a middle-class family in the presence of an emotionally deprived, sexually provocative teenage girl, this controversial feature marks the big-screen debut of both future Hammer and Confessions... star Linda Hayden and BAFTA- and Emmy award-winning director Alastair Reid. Co-starring Ann Lynn, Diana Dors and Keith Barron, Baby Love is featured here as a brand-new High Definition remaster from original film eleme..
When her mother dies, her attractive young daughter hungry for love moves into the dead woman's house in a quest to seduce its tenants in her desperate search for love...
Theresa Russell and Art Garfunkel bring a fearless intensity to their roles in this dark psycho-sexual drama from multi-award-winning director Nicolas Roeg. Unflinchingly tracing the volatile relationship between two Americans in late '70s Vienna, Bad Timing proved highly controversial on its release in 1980, and remains one of Roeg's most divisive films. It is presented here in a High Definition transfer from original film elements in ..
The complete series of the gritty urban drama from writer Kay Mellor. When Gina Dixon (Ruth Gemmell) splits up from her husband, she finds herself falling further into debt and menaced by a local loan shark. When she meets single mother Carol (Cathy Tyson), who has no finacial problems, Gina soon discovers that she works as a prostitute and is slowly drawn into a world far outside her own experience. But when a brutal murder is committe..
Director Lance Comfort is one of British cinema's most prolific and versatile yet critically neglected figures, whose body of work – largely consisting of tightly scheduled B-movies – has undergone re-appraisal only relatively recently. Presented here in a brand-new transfer from the original film elements, this compelling and atmospheric crime drama showcases Comfort's typically innovative style, adopting a child's-eye view of a murder..
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 Kelly - Porridge, 'Allo 'Allo), her cab-driver husband of 35 years and a man who learned long ago to play second fiddle, neurotic daughter Linda and despised son-in-law Martin (Mark Benton); B..
Classic British drama directed by Lionel Jeffries. The film follows Baxter (Scott Jacoby), a young American schoolboy, who has recently moved to London with his uncaring socialite mother (Lynn Carlin). Essentially alone in a foreign land, Baxter struggles with a speech impediment which further separates him from his peers. Only through his relationship with his therapist (Patricia Neal) and a young couple (Jean-Pierre Cassel and Britt E..
Collection of episodes from the iconic television series starring David Hasselhoff as the mentor to a group of beautiful, aspiring lifeguards in Malibu, California. 'Nightmare Bay' is a two-part episode in which an underwater photographer is attacked and locals fear that a monstrous creature under the waves is responsible. Mitch (Hasselhoff) must get to the bottom of the mystery with the help of his fellow lifeguards. 'River of No Retur..
Alexander Armstrong stars as a reluctant and dangerously incompetent vet in this sharply-scripted BBC1 sitcom from Men Behaving Badly creator Simon Nye. Running for two series, Beast also stars Emma Pierson, Sylvestra Le Touzel and Smack the Pony's Doon Mackichan, along with an array of live animals. This complete set makes both series available for the first time. Nick is fortunate enough to have inherited a successful rural practice f..
All six stand alone episodes of the supernatural series from acclaimed 'Quatermass' writer Nigel Kneale. In 'Special Offer', Noreen (Pauline Quirk) is a clumsy shopgirl who becomes convinced that there is something sinister living behind the walls of the shop where she works. When she is fired after the manager believes she is responsible for all the damages that have been taking place, Noreen returns to the shop looking for revenge...o..
Film noir directed by David Miller and starring Ginger Rogers and Stanley Baker. Johnny Victor (Rogers) is soon to marry the wealthy financier Louis (Baker) once his divorce has finalised but her future plans take a drastic turn after she meets an old friend, Emile (Herbert Lom), to whom she offers a loan so that he can afford to pay his wife's medical bills. It later transpires that the money was borrowed to repay a debt to her future ..
Film noir directed by David Miller and starring Ginger Rogers and Stanley Baker. Johnny Victor (Rogers) is soon to marry the wealthy financier Louis (Baker) once his divorce has finalised but her future plans take a drastic turn after she meets an old friend, Emile (Herbert Lom), to whom she offers a loan so that he can afford to pay his wife's medical bills. It later transpires that the money was borrowed to repay a debt to her future ..
Michael Redgrave gives a striking performance as a distinguished surgeon fighting against the depersonalisation of progress in this engrossing medical drama from director Brian Desmond Hurst. Also featuring Niall MacGinnis, Tony Britton, Ian Bannen and Vanessa Redgrave in her film debut, Behind the Mask is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Backroom..
Michael Redgrave gives a striking performance as a distinguished surgeon fighting against the depersonalisation of progress in this engrossing medical drama from director Brian Desmond Hurst. Also featuring Niall MacGinnis, Tony Britton, Ian Bannen and Vanessa Redgrave in her film debut, Behind the Mask is featured here as a brand-new High Definition transfer from original film elements in its original theatrical aspect ratio.Backroom..
The French Alps provides the setting for this enduring thirteen part serial in which the friendship between Sebastien, an eight year old boy, and Belle, a huge Pyrenees dog, causes astonishment and spitefulness amongst the people of a frontier village near the Italian border. Episode 1: The Meeting: News comes to a small village in the French Alps that an enormous white dog is running wild in the mountains. Sebastien is determined that ..
The final 24 episodes of the long-running ITV comedy series. Famed for his trademark high-speed farce and buxom ladies, Benny Hill reigned supreme as the king of bawdy humour on British television for nearly four decades...
Collected episodes of two late '60s gang drama series. 'Spindoe' was a spinoff from an earlier Granada drama 'The Fellows'. At the end of that series, Alec Spindoe (Ray McAnally) had been sent to prison but here he is on the outside yet again. After his time inside, he attempts to pick up where he left off but a bigshot crime Czar and a private dick are dogging his every move. Features six one-hour episodes. 'Big Breadwinner Hog' follow..
All the episodes from the British television comedy in which Jeff Rawle stars as the eponymous hero in this series based on Keith Waterhouse's novel and the 1963 feature. Over imaginative and prone to flights of fancy, Billy deals with his mundane reality by dreaming of a new life as a successful comedy writer in London. Series 1 episodes are: 'Billy and the Party Spirit', 'Billy and the French Connection', 'Billy and the Lost Weekend',..
All ten Christmas specials from the long-running BBC sitcom starring Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson as Sharon and Tracey, two sisters who support each other while their husbands are doing time for armed robbery and are often joined by their neighbour, Dorien (Lesley Joseph), who loves to gossip and discuss her extramarital exploits. In these festive episodes they visit the likes of Majorca and Hollywood, and are joined by celebrity gue..
All 24 episodes from the first three series of the revived British sitcom starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph. Sisters Sharon (Quirke) and Tracey (Robson) reunite in Chigwell at a signing for new book 'Sixty Shades of Green' and, much to their surprise, the author turns out to be Dorien (Joseph). Series 1 episodes are: 'Gimme Shelter', 'Slave', 'Hot Stuff', 'Hearts for Sale', 'Tattoo You', 'Blinded By Love', 'Back to..
