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Review Playback / Quincy M.E. - Seasons 1 And 2
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Klugman
Release date: 2005-12-05
RRP: £34.99
Price: £14.45

Review Quincy M.E. - Seasons 1 And 2 / Playback:

When Jack Klugman played Oscar Madison in television's The Odd Couple, it seemed no role could better suit him—until he stepped into the shoes of Dr. Quincy, the stubborn, crusading medical examiner in the trailblazing series (1976-1983) that spawned the medical investigation genre and earned Klugman four Emmy nominations. Beginning with the first installment, "Go Fight City Hall-To the Death," the series' socially conscious, quick-paced, and mostly believable storylines are an engaging blend of mystery, sleuthing, sarcasm, and romance stirred together into an action-packed drama. Each episode, such as the award-winning show, "The Thigh Bone's Connected to the Knee Bone," probes contemporary issues and promotes justice while maintaining a healthy dose of humor. A strong supporting cast includes Robert Ito (as Quincy's loyal lab assistant, Sam) and John S. Ragin (as skeptical boss, Dr. Asten). Jamie Lee Curtis makes a cameo appearance in "Visitors in Paradise," while additional celebrity guests include Buddy Hackett, Donna Mills, Kim Cattrall, and June Lockhart. The picture and sound quality are solid and each story begins with a short onscreen synopsis and original airdate. The only deficit in an otherwise stellar effort is the noticeable lack of bonus material such as vintage interviews, a making-of featurette, or a well-deserved tribute to Klugman. [+]
(Ages 12 and older) -Lynn Gibson.

Review 2 Entertain Video / Footballers' Wives - The Complete Series 3
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Ash
  • Gillian Taylforth
  • Sarah Barrand
  • Ben Price
  • Laila Rouass
Release date: 2005-04-25
Run time: 442 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £17.98

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Fawlty Towers - Series 2 [1979] [1975]
Actors & Directors
  • Ballard Berkeley
  • Connie Booth
  • Prunella Scales
  • John Cleese
  • Andrew Sachs
Release date: 2001-10-08
Run time: 194 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.99

Review Fawlty Towers - Series 2 [1979] [1975] / 2 Entertain Video:

Often hailed as the greatest ever British sitcom, Fawlty Towers is closer to the more elaborate tradition of farce. Comprising two series made in 1975 and 1979, the total of just 12 episodes were painstakingly constructed by writers John Cleese and Connie Booth. Unlike most British farce, however, Fawlty Towers deals with the big themes-death, psychology, xenophobia and even sex-o-phobia (Basil's marriage to Sybil is the most sterile ever depicted in a sitcom). Basil's contempt for his guests is, of course, legendary. It takes little from patrons to unleash his sledgehammer sarcasm: "Rosewood, mahogany, teak? Sorry, I was wondering what you'd like your breakfast tray made out of," he sneers at a guest who dares request breakfast in bed. Like every Englishman, he wants to be king of his own castle and resents having to take in lodgers to maintain the place, especially the open-necked younger generation, whom he regards as sub-human. Mostly, though, Fawlty Towers is comedy of exasperation-who can forget the "damn good thrashing" Basil gives his clapped-out car, or the nervous breakdowns he almost suffers trying to make himself understood to Manuel? It's also comedy of embarrassment. The very fear of losing his dignity generally leads Basil into the most spectacularly undignified of predicaments. His inevitable misery is our sheer delight. -David StubbsSeries 2: Communication Problems The Psychiatrist Waldorf Salad The Kipper and the Corpse The Anniversary Basil the Rat.

Review Warner Home Video / Everybody Loves Raymond: Complete HBO Season 6
Actors & Directors
  • Doris Roberts
  • Patricia Heaton
  • Brad Garrett
  • Peter Boyle
  • Ray Romano
Release date: 2006-10-02
Run time: 570 min.
RRP: £34.99
Price: £14.33

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Review The F Word / Gordon Ramsays The F Word Christmas Special Uncensored Version
Release date: 2008-11-03
Run time: 45 min.
RRP: £4.99
Price: £3.63

Review Gordon Ramsays The F Word Christmas Special Uncensored Version / The F Word:


Review Network / Tales Of The Unexpected - The Complete Second Series
Actors & Directors
  • Joan Collins
  • Michael Gambon
  • Joseph Cotton
  • John Gielgud
Release date: 2006-07-24
Run time: 400 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.85

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Review MGM Entertainment / The Addams Family - Vol. 2 [1965]
Actors & Directors
  • Carolyn Jones
  • Ted Cassidy
  • John Astin
  • Jackie Coogan
  • Arthur Hiller
  • Stanley Z. Cherry
Release date: 2007-07-02
Run time: 524 min.
RRP: £29.99
Price: £10.48

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Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / That 70s Show - Series 3 - Complete
Actors & Directors
  • Laura Prepon
  • Ashton Kutcher
  • Topher Grace
  • Mila Kunis
  • Danny Masterson
Release date: 2006-02-27
RRP: £29.99
Price: £14.95

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Review Contender Entertainment Group / Echo Beach - Complete Series 1 [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Jason Donovan
  • Marcus Bentley
  • Edward Speleers
  • Martine McCutheon
  • Hugo Speer
Release date: 2008-03-24
Run time: 264 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £5.97

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Roman's Empire [2007]
Actors & Directors
  • Mathew Horne
  • Chris O'Dowd
  • Montserrat Lombard
  • Nicholas Burns
Release date: 2008-05-26
Run time: 180 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £7.92

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Review Acorn Media / The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Diana Kent
  • Sophia Myles
  • John Dallimore
  • Charles Dance
  • James D'Arcy
  • Stephen Whittaker
Release date: 2002-05-13
Run time: 200 min.
Creator: Martyn Hesford
RRP: £19.99
Price: £7.18

Review The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby [2001] / Acorn Media:

This 2000 television adaptation confirms Nicholas Nickleby's place among television dramatists' favourite Dickens novels. It has all the vital ingredients: a sensitive, intelligent young hero cast by circumstances in the role of everyman whose fortitude is tested at every turn; romance; danger; one of Dickens' richest braces of characters; and a sense of humanity that is, at times, overwhelming. Condensing all this into three hours is no mean achievement. Martyn Edward Hesford's screenplay maintains an impressive balance between dramatic tension and allowing the characters the space they need to reveal their essential qualities. Only in the last 30 minutes does it become something of a gallop to the finishing post. True, the horrors of the boarding school could be more horrific; the grime of Victorian London and its toothless inhabitants could be grimier and less cosmetic. But as always with a superior production of a Dickens novel, the richness and depth of the drama outweigh such minor quibbles. As for the cast, James D'Arcy's Nicholas is pitch-perfect: part cipher for the injustices and despair he encounters, part emblem for the triumph of goodness, an innocent whose eyes are quickly forced open to the darker realities of life. These darker realities are congealed in Charles Dance's relentlessly chilling, heartless Ralph Nickleby. This is a deceptively complex performance; even as we cheer the gathering forces which finally extinguish his increasingly desperate power, the awful tragedy of his end still elicits a discomforting ounce of sympathy. [+]
Gregor Fisher as the one-eyed Squeers and Pam Ferris as his fearsomely lascivious wife are outstanding in an ensemble of fine character actors. And Lee Ingleby's Smike gives our tear ducts a good workout while steering just the right side of sentimentality. On the DVD: Nicholas Nickleby is presented in widescreen format with Dolby Digital soundtrack, and has all the technical qualities you might expect from the DVD release of a modern television production. Extras include cast filmographies, a Dickens biography and a list of his work, all of which add to the disc's merits as a literary educational tool. -Piers Ford.

Review Playback / Hi-De-Hi! - Series 3 & 4 [1982] [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Shane
  • Felix Bowness
  • Ruth Madoc
  • Jeffrey Holland
Release date: 2004-04-05
Run time: 420 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.50

Review Hi-De-Hi! - Series 3 & 4 [1982] [1980] / Playback:


Review 2 Entertain Video / The Worst Christmas Of My Life (Worst Week Of My Life BBC Series 3)
Actors & Directors
  • Alison Steadman
  • Ben Miller
  • Sarah Alexander
Release date: 2007-11-26
Run time: 88 min.
RRP: £15.99
Price: £10.49

Review The Worst Christmas Of My Life (Worst Week Of My Life BBC Series 3) / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Demand Media Limited / The Russian Revolution In Colour
Release date: 2008-04-28
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £7.96

Review The Russian Revolution In Colour / Demand Media Limited:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Diagnosis Murder Season 2 [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Barry Van Dyke
  • Charlie Schlatter
  • Dick Van Dyke
  • Michael Tucci
  • Victoria Rowell
Release date: 2009-02-09
RRP: £24.99
Price: £17.99

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Review ITV DVD / Cold Feet - The Complete Collection of ColdFeet
Actors & Directors
  • Nigel Cole
  • Mark Mylod
  • Fay Ripley
  • Hermione Norris
  • James Nesbitt
  • Declan Lowney
  • John Thomson
  • Helen Baxendale
Release date: 2006-03-20
Run time: 999 min.
RRP: £69.99
Price: £29.99

Review Cold Feet - The Complete Collection of ColdFeet / ITV DVD:


Review 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment / M*A*S*H - Season Eleven (Collector's Edition) [1982]
Actors & Directors
  • Loretta Swit
  • Harry Morgan
  • Alan Alda
  • Mike Farrell
  • David Ogden Stiers
Release date: 2006-05-29
RRP: £29.99
Price: £16.14

Review M*A*S*H - Season Eleven (Collector's Edition) [1982] / 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment:


Review Acorn Media / Inspector Lynley Mysteries : Complete BBC Series 2 [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Nathaniel Parker
  • Sharon Small
Release date: 2008-08-04
Run time: 352 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £6.68

Review Inspector Lynley Mysteries : Complete BBC Series 2 [2003] / Acorn Media:


Review Dan Cruickshank / Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture [2008]
Release date: 2008-05-19
Run time: 400 min.
RRP: £24.99
Price: £13.22

Review Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture [2008] / Dan Cruickshank:


Review Sony Bmg / Warren Mitchell - The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Warren Mitchell
  • Robert Garofalo
Release date: 2008-04-28
Run time: 85 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £5.97

Review Warren Mitchell - The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf [1994] / Sony Bmg:


Models & Brands:
Quincy M.E. - Seasons 1 And 2, Footballers' Wives - The Complete Series 3, Fawlty Towers - Series 2 [1979] [1975], Everybody Loves Raymond: Complete HBO Season 6, Gordon Ramsays The F Word Christmas Special Uncensored Version, Tales Of The Unexpected - The Complete Second Series, The Addams Family - Vol. 2 [1965], That 70s Show - Series 3 - Complete, Echo Beach - Complete Series 1 [2007], Roman's Empire [2007], The Life And Adventures Of Nicholas Nickleby [2001], Hi-De-Hi! - Series 3 & 4 [1982] [1980], The Worst Christmas Of My Life (Worst Week Of My Life BBC Series 3), The Russian Revolution In Colour, Diagnosis Murder Season 2 [1994], Cold Feet - The Complete Collection of ColdFeet, M*A*S*H - Season Eleven (Collector's Edition) [1982], Inspector Lynley Mysteries : Complete BBC Series 2 [2003], Dan Cruickshank's Adventures in Architecture [2008], Warren Mitchell - The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf [1994]

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