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In 1714 Parliament offer a £20,000 prize for anyone who can provide an accurate means of measuring longitude at sea. John Harrison (Michael Gambon) flies in the face of popular opinion by saying that the stars do not provide the answer, and provides his own solution with the invention of a mechanical clock. However, it takes Harrison forty years to prove his theory, and he is eventually forgotten in the mists of time. Centuries later, Robert Gould (Jeremy Irons) attempts to restore Harrison's reputation by tracking down and repairing the four clocks he originally constructed.
Rikki Fulton and the Scotch & Wry gang produced shows packed full of hilarious sketches and outrageous characters. Here are the pick of those shows, priceless moments of genuine lunacy, hilarity and comic brilliance. Fulton's magnificent, memorable character Reverend IM Jolly with his Last Call, full of doom and gloom, takes centre stage, but all the favourite characters are also here: Supercop ("Alright Sterling, oot the car"), Dirty Dickie Dandruff, whose recipes from his Delicat' Messin' will make more than just your mouth water; as well as Ida Closeshave, Bonnie Prince Charlie and loads more wonderfully scripted and hilariously acted sketches. This definitive collection of Scotch & Wry moments spans the years 1978 to 1992 and features all the very best bits from Scotland's best-loved sketch show.
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All ten episodes from the fifth season of the award-winning US TV series in which Larry David has it all - career, happy marriage, friends, beautiful home - but always finds that in spite of his seemingly perfect existence, his day-to-day life can, and generally does, turn into a sequence of misfortunes. Episodes comprise: 'The Larry David Sandwich', 'The Bowtie', 'The Christ Nail', 'Kamikaze Bingo', 'Lewis Needs a Kidney', 'The Smoking Jacket', 'The Seder', 'The Ski Lift', 'The Korean Bookie' and 'The End'.
Step through the stargate with SG-1, a team of soldiers and scientists, as they travel instantaneously to other planets to explore, forge alliances, defuse crises, establish trade, investigate ancient mysteries and defend Earth from such hostile forces as the Goa'uld and the Replicators. Episodes comprise: 'Collateral Damage', 'Ripple Effect' and 'Stronghold'.
At the Bayview Retirement Village the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort...but not if Tom (Graham Crowden) and Diana (Stephanie Cole) have anything to do with it! Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff; in the hilariously cynical BAFTA-nominated comedy series that won Stephanie Cole a British Comedy Award in 1992.
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Meet the United States' secret and most beautiful weapon in the fight against tyranny: Wonder Woman. Season One of WONDER WOMAN (the Pilot Movie and 13 regular episodes) retains the World War II era of the super heroine's early comic book adventures. Also captured is the exuberant tone of a comic book come to screen life as the warrior princess, empowered by her sense of a woman's worth and by the mysterious substance Feminum that's found only on her remote native isle, battles a succession of Nazi baddies. Former Miss USA Lynda Carter stars as the heroine who hides her identity behind the oversized glasses of a War Department secretary. When duty and danger call, she transforms and the wonders never cease.
All 23 episodes from the second season of the 1970s series set in the 1870s, starring David Carradine as Kwai Chang Caine, a half-Chinese, half-American Shaolin priest and humble man of peace now living in the Wild West. Episodes are: 'The Well', 'The Assassin', 'The Chalice', 'The Brujo', 'The Spirit Helper', 'The Squaw Man', 'The Salamander', 'The Tong', 'The Soldier', 'The Hoots', 'The Elixir', 'The Gunman', 'Empty Pages of a Dead Book', 'A Dream Within a Dream', 'The Way of Violence Has No Mind', 'In Uncertain Bondage', 'Night of the Owls, Day of the Doves', 'Crossties', 'The Passion of Chen Yi', 'The Arrogant Dragon', 'The Nature of Evil', 'The Cenotaph (Part 1)' and 'The Cenotaph (Part 2)'.
Drama based on the gothic romance by Daphne Du Maurier. Emilia Fox stars as the second wife of recently widowed aristocrat Max de Winter, whose first wife, the eponymous Rebecca, was - from all accounts - a beautiful socialite adored by the Manderley housekeeper Mrs Danvers (Diana Rigg, who won an Emmy for her performance). An innocent, shy young middle class girl half her husband's age, the new Mrs de Winter finds herself lost and alone in a world where social graces and accomplishments are everything. But unfortunately for her, she soon discovers that the bitterness and resentment of Mrs Danvers is the least of her troubles...
The kingdom of Gormenghast rejoices when its ruler, Lord Sepulchrave (Ian Richardson), produces a son and heir: Titus, 77th Earl of Groan. However, scheming kitchen boy Steerpike (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) himself dreams of taking power, and sets about driving Sepulchrave insane. He also seduces Titus' sister, Lady Fuchsia, planning to seize the kingdom through her. It seems that Steerpike cannot fail in his plans - only the timid Titus himself, young and inexperienced, stands in his way...
Another three two-part episodes from the ITV drama series based on the crime novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson stars as the tenacious and stubborn Detective Chief Inspector Alan Banks, who unravels a string of disturbing murder mysteries aided by his feisty and ambitious young assistant, DS Annie Cabbot (Andrea Lowe). In this instalment the pair must investigate the kidnapping of an 11-year-old boy and the murder of a journalist discovered in a holiday chalet. Meanwhile DI Helen Morton (Caroline Catz) must lead a raid on the house of Banks' former neighbour. The episodes are: 'Wednesday's Child', 'Piece of My Heart' and 'Bad Boy'.
All episodes from all five seasons of the hard-hitting American detective drama following the investigations of Kojak (Telly Savalas), the bald, no-nonsense cop who is never without a lollipop in his hand. Season 1 episodes are: 'Siege of Terror', 'Web of Death', 'One for the Morgue', 'Knockover', 'Girl in the River', 'Requiem for a Cop', 'The Corrupter', 'Dark Sunday', 'Conspiracy of Fear', 'Cop in a Cage', 'Marker to a Dead Bookie', 'Last Rites for a Dead Priest', 'Death Is Not a Passing Grade', 'Die Before They Wake', 'Deliver Us Some Evil', 'Eighteen Hours of Fear', 'Before the Devil Knows', 'Dead On His Feet', 'Down a Long and Lonely River', 'Mojo', 'Therapy in Dynamite' and 'The Only Way Out'. Season 2 episodes are: 'The Chinatown Murders: Part 1', 'The Chinatown Murders: Part 2', 'Hush Now, Don't You Die', 'A Very Deadly Game', 'Wall Street Gunslinger', 'Slay Ride', 'Nursemaid', 'You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler', 'The Best Judge Money Can Buy', 'A Souvenir from Atlantic City', 'A Killing in the Second House', 'The Best War in Town', 'Cross Your Heart and Hope to Die', 'The Betrayal', 'Loser Takes All', 'Close Cover Before Killing', 'Acts of Desperate Men', 'Queen of the Gypsies', 'Night of the Piraeus', 'Elegy in an Asphalt Graveyard', 'The Goodluck Bomber', 'Unwanted Partners', 'Two-Four-Six for Two Hundred' and 'I Want to Report a Dream'. Season 3 episodes are: 'A Question of Answers', 'My Brother, My Enemy', 'Sweeter Than Life', 'Be Careful What You Pray For', 'Secret Snow, Deadly Snow', 'Life, Liberation and the Pursuit of Death', 'Out of the Frying Pan...', 'Over the Water', 'The Nicest Guys On the Block', 'No Immunity for Murder', 'A Long Way from Times Square', 'Money Back Guarantee', 'A House of Prayer, a Den of Thieves', 'How Cruel the Frost, How Bright the Stars', 'The Forgotten Room', 'On the Edge', 'A Wind from Corsica', 'Bad Dude', 'A Grave Too Soon', 'The Frame', 'Deadly Innocence', 'Justice Deferred' and 'Both Sides of the Law'. Season 4 episodes are: 'Birthday Party', 'A Summer Madness', 'Law Dance', 'Out of the Shadows', 'A Need to Know', 'An Unfair Trade', 'A Hair-Trigger Away', 'By Silence Betrayed', 'A Shield for Murder: Part 1', 'A Shield for Murder: Part 2', 'The Pride and the Princess', 'Black Thorn', 'Where Do You Go When You Have Nowhere to Go?', 'Dead Again', 'The Godson', 'The Condemned', 'When You Hear the Beep, Drop Dead', 'I Was Happy Where I Was', 'Kojak's Days: Part 1', 'Kojak's Days: Part 2', 'Monkey On a String', 'Kiss It All Goodbye', 'Lady in the Squad Room', 'Sister Maria' and 'Another Gypsy Queen'. Season 5 episodes are: 'The Queen of Hearts Is Wild', 'A Strange Kind of Love', 'Laid Off', 'Cry for the Kids', 'Once More from Birdland', 'Caper On a Quiet Street', 'Letters of Death', 'Tears for All Who Loved Her', 'The Summer of '69: Part 1', 'The Summer of '69: Part 2', 'Case Without a File', 'I Could Kill My Wife's Lawyer', 'Justice for All', 'Mouse', 'Chain of Custody', 'The Captain's Brother's Wife', 'No License to Kill', 'The Halls of Terror', 'May the Horse Be With You', 'Photo Must Credit Joe Paxton', '60 Miles to Hell' and 'In Full Command'.
The complete first season of the American fantasy TV show. This spin-off from 'The Vampire Diaries' follows the vampire Mikaelson siblings, Klaus (Joseph Morgan), Elijah (Daniel Gillies) and Rebekah (Claire Holt), as they battle to retake control of New Orleans, the city they helped build. After being chased out by his father, Klaus returns to proclaim himself king of the city but in order to do so he must remove his former protégé Marcel (Charles Michael Davis), who stands in his path to power. The episodes are: 'Always and Forever', 'House of the Rising Son', 'Tangled Up in Blue', 'Girl in New Orleans', 'Sinners and Saints', 'Fruit of the Poisoned Tree', 'Bloodletting', 'The River in Reverse', 'Reigning Pain in New Orleans', 'The Casket Girls', 'Après Moi Le Déluge', 'Dance Back from the Grave', 'Long Way Back from Hell', 'Le Grand Guignol', 'Farewell to Storyville', 'Moon over Bourbon Street', 'The Big Uneasy', 'An Unblinking Death', 'A Closer Walk With Thee', 'The Battle of New Orleans' and 'From a Cradle to a Grave'.
Based on the internationally bestselling Neapolitan novels by Elena Ferrante, the critically acclaimed global smash hit returns for a second season. Lila and Elena, now 16, are on the cusp of womanhood. Lila is just married but worries that she has lost her identity in taking her husband's name; Elena is a model student but acknowledges that while she no longer belongs in the neighbourhood she is yet to find her place in the outside world. During a holiday in Ischia, the two girls reconnect with their childhood acquaintance Nino, an encounter that will forever change the nature of their bond, propelling the girls onto two completely contrasting paths, threatening their close connection with jealousy and betrayal as they follow, lose and find each other again.
All 13 episodes from the fourth season of the historical crime drama set in late 19th-century Toronto. Yannick Bisson stars as Inspector William Murdoch, a dashing young detective who pioneers new scientific approaches to solving crime such as fingerprinting, forensic techniques and lie detector machines. Assisted by coroner Dr Julia Ogden (Helene Joy) and Constable George Crabtree (Jonny Harris), Murdoch employs these new-fangled methods - as well as his own unswerving instinct - to solve some of the city's most gruesome murders.
Spiral is back for another intriguing, gripping and critically acclaimed series about the imperfect people upholding law and order in Paris. Laure Berthaud returns early from maternity leave to help the team put a name to an anonymous murder victim identifiable only by use of his dismembered torso. Meanwhile, a high-profile trial involving a boy accused of murdering his own father tempts a jaded Joséphine. Magistrate Roban grows distracted and makes uncharacteristic mistakes.
All 13 episodes of the ultra-violent Japanese anime series. Lucy is part of a military genetic experiment, able to dismember victims with invisible arms known as 'vectors'. Lucy loses her memory in the process of her escape from the military compound and takes refuge with two sisters. Renamed Nyu, she still retains traces of her killer nature, shockingly revealed when the government send a team of commandos and another mutant assassin to bring her back...
Eight more episodes from the award-winning BBC series designed for children with learning and communication difficulties, based on the Makaton sign language system. In this instalment, Mr Tumble and Fisherman Tumble head off to a theme park, while Justin and his friends meet up with some British wildlife. The episodes are: 'Trip Away', 'Pony Trek', 'Rainy Day', 'Theme Park', 'Weekend', 'Wildlife', 'Zoo Keeper' and 'Sensory Garden'.
Every episode from the first seven seasons of the hugely popular BBC series about the wheeler-dealer Trotters, starring David Jason and Nicholas Lyndhurst. Episodes are: 'Big Brother', 'Cash and Curry', 'Go West Young Man', 'The Second Time Around', 'A Slow Bus to Chingford', 'The Russians are Coming', the 1981 Christmas Special 'Christmas Crackers', 'The Long Legs of the Law', 'Ashes to Ashes', 'A Losing Streak', 'No Greater Love', 'The Yellow Peril', 'It Never Rains...', 'A Touch of Glass', the two-part 1982 Chrsitmas special 'Diamonds are for Heather', 'Homesick', 'Healthy Competition', 'Friday the 14th', 'Yesterday Never Comes', 'May the Force be With You', 'Wanted', 'Who's a Pretty Boy?', the 1983 Christmas special 'Thicker Than Water', 'Happy Returns', 'Strained Relations', 'Hole in One', 'It's Only Rock and Roll', 'Sleeping Dogs Lie', 'Watching the Girls Go By', 'As One Door Closes', 'From Prussia With Love', 'The Miracle of Peckham', 'The Longest Night', 'Tea for Three', 'Video Nasty', 'Who Wants to be a Millionaire?', 'Yuppy Love', 'Danger UXD', 'Chain Gang', 'The Unlucky Winner is...', 'Sickness and Wealth', 'Little Problems', 'The Sky's the Limit', 'The Chance of a Lunchtime', 'Stage Fright', The Class of '62', 'He Ain't Heavy, He's My Uncle' and 'Three Men, a Woman and a Baby'.
All six seasons of the hugely popular mob drama series. The series focuses on Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and his family. Tony's got a dutiful wife (Edie Falco), a not-so-dutiful son (Robert Iler), a daughter named Meadow (Jamie Lynn Sigler), an uncle (Dominick Chianese) who's losing his marbles, a hot-headed nephew (Michael Imperioli), a not-too-secret mistress (Oksana Lada), and a shrink (Lorraine Bracco) to tell all his secrets to, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss whose troubles are wrapped up in both his 'families'.
Philadelphia Gordon, shipwrecked in 1890s Australia, is taken in by her Uncle Charles and Aunt Hester. Stopping off in the port of Echuca, Philadelphia meets the charismatic Brenton Edwards, who acquaints her with the pleasures of boating along the Murray River.
The complete anime series set in a remote future where humans co-exist with the Haibane, a mysterious race of angelic beings. Rakka, a young girl, finds herself hatching one morning from a giant cocoon. With no memory of her previous life, she struggles to adapt to her new existence as one of the Haibane. Episodes comprise: 'Cocoon, Dream of Falling, Old Home'; 'Town and Wall, Toga, Haibane-Renmei'; 'Temple, Communicator, Pancakes'; 'Trash Day, Clock Tower, Birds Flying Over the Walls'; 'Library, Abandoned Factory, The Beginning of the World'; 'End of Summer, Rain, Loss'; 'Scar, Illness, Arrival of Winter'; 'The Bird'; 'Well, Rebirth, Riddle'; 'Kuramori, 'Haibane of Abandoned Factory, Rakka's Job'; 'Parting, Darkness in the Heart, Irreplacable Thing'; 'Bell Nuts, Passing of the Year Festival, Reconciliation'; and 'Reki's World, Prayer, Epilogue'.
Every episode of the BBC sitcom starring Lee Mack and Tim Vine. Lee (Mack) shares a flat with his best friend, Tim (Vine), but their friendship is complicated by Lee's unrequited love for Tim's sister Lucy (Sally Bretton). The episodes are: 'Serious', 'Death', 'Aussie', 'Stress', 'Kid', 'Caretaker', 'Mortgage', 'Gay', 'The Librarian', 'Baby', 'Art', 'Dating', 'Gangster', 'Murder at Christmas', 'Pregnant', 'Winner', 'Amy', 'Party', 'Neighbour', 'Speech', 'Marriage', 'Absent Father Christmas', 'Drugs', 'Debbie', 'Movie', 'Dancing', 'Fireworks', 'Life On Mars Bars', 'Band', 'Dad's', 'Camping', 'Running', 'Experiment', 'Rabbit', 'Skiing', 'Therapy', 'Conference', 'Rachel', 'Play', 'Magic', 'Boat', 'The House', 'Mugging', 'Christening', 'Donor', 'Anna', 'Pointless', 'Alcohol', 'Surprise', 'Plane', 'Lucy' and 'Christmas Special'. |
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