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Review ITV DVD / Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons - Vol. 2 - Episodes 5 To 8 [VHS] [1967]
Actors & Directors
  • Cy Grant
  • Francis Matthews
  • Donald Gray
  • Ed Bishop
  • Jeremy Wilkin
Release date: 2001-09-17
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Gerry Anderson
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.25

Review Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons - Vol. 2 - Episodes 5 To 8 [VHS] [1967] / ITV DVD:


Review Paramount Home Entertainment / Star Trek The Next Generation - Q Continuum [VHS] [1990]
Actors & Directors
  • Marina Sirtis
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • LeVar Burton
  • Patrick Stewart
  • Brent Spiner
Release date: 1994-12-05
Run time: 266 min.
Creator: Gene Roddenberry
RRP: £24.99
Price: £9.95

Review Star Trek The Next Generation - Q Continuum [VHS] [1990] / Paramount Home Entertainment:

In 1987, some 20 years after the original series had ended, Star Trek: The Next Generation was launched into a decade renowned for its materialistic greed, but also for its hesitant steps towards a more unified world order. Creator Gene Roddenberry revised his vision of humanity's future accordingly, shifting the Trek timeline 80 years on and reinventing the new Starship Enterprise as an Ark-like exploration vessel full of families, schools, soothing recreational facilities and a maternally pacifying computer voice (Roddenberry's wife, Majel Barrett). The Next Generation crew were not soldiers, but scientists and diplomats. Unlike the fiercely individualistic Captain Kirk, Patrick Stewart's patrician Captain Jean-Luc Picard was a model team leader: no matter how desperate the crisis, he ensured that everyone got to sit round the Conference Room table and talk it over. And in a true late-1980s touch, a key member of the Bridge crew was psychoanalyst Counsellor Troi, always on hand to discuss everyone's feelings. Season Two saw the welcome introduction of the cybernetic horror that was the Borg. Originally a powerful symbol of technological misuse in an otherwise technologically utopian universe, ultimately their hive-like existence served to reinforce the message that everyone would be much happier as a team player. Even renegade super-entity Q (John De Lancie) relied on Picard as much as his fellow god-like playmates; Data followed Pinocchio and Spock in a quest to discard what made him an individual; and there was even an episode that rationalised why all aliens basically looked alike (we're all one big family). Even the slogan change to "Where no one has gone before" acknowledges that there's no "one" in a team. But for all its earnest political correctness and an over-reliance on "technobabble", good stories played by an appealing ensemble cast were at the heart of the show's success. [+]
After seven successful seasons, "All Good Things" finally came to an end. Until Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise, that is. -Paul Tonks.

Review Universal Studios / Thunderbirds [DVD] [2004] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC]
Actors & Directors
  • Bill Paxton
  • Anthony Edwards
  • Jonathan Frakes
  • Ben Kingsley
  • Debora Weston
  • Brady Corbet
Release date: 2004-12-21
Run time: 95 min.
Creator: William Osborne
Price: £3.31

Review Thunderbirds [DVD] [2004] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] / Universal Studios:

The deep love that young boys feel for planes, cars, and gadgets is the driving energy of Thunderbirds, a live-action movie based on the British puppet TV show of the 1960s. Bill Paxton (Near Dark, One False Move) plays Jeff Tracy, billionaire ex-astronaut, who's turned his family of heroic sons into a crack rescue squad, zooming to danger and saving people using super-sophisticated vehicles. The youngest boy (Brady Corbet) hasn't yet joined the team and resents every moment he's not in uniform-but he gets his chance when a malevolent villain called the Hood (Ben Kingsley, slumming a bit from Gandhi and Sexy Beast) traps the rest of the family on a crippled space station and turns the Thunderbird vehicles to his evil purposes. Expect bright colors, clumsy dialogue, and a less-than-thrilling plot, but many kids will enjoy the fantasy of a secret island, rocket ships, and flying cars. -Bret Fetzer.

Review Acorn Media / Lord Peter Wimsey - Murder Must Advertise [DVD] [1973]
Actors & Directors
  • Rodney Bennett
  • Ian Carmichael
Release date: 2002-12-27
Run time: 200 min.
Creator: Ian Carmichael
RRP: £19.99
Price: £19.59

Review Lord Peter Wimsey - Murder Must Advertise [DVD] [1973] / Acorn Media:


Review Alpha Video / Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Vol. 2 [DVD] [1955] [US Import]
Actors & Directors
  • Marius Goring
  • Peter O'Toole
  • Dennis Vance
  • David MacDonald
Release date: 2007-02-27
Run time: 104 min.
Creator: Peter O'Toole
Price: £2.76

Review Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Vol. 2 [DVD] [1955] [US Import] / Alpha Video:


Review Warner Home Video / Friends - Series 1 - Episodes 1-8 [DVD] [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Courteney Cox
  • Lisa Kudrow
  • Jennifer Aniston
  • Matt LeBlanc
  • Matthew Perry
Release date: 2003-10-27
Run time: 174 min.
Creator: Marta Kauffman
RRP: £6.99
Price: £49.88

Review Friends - Series 1 - Episodes 1-8 [DVD] [1995] / Warner Home Video:

Season 1: When the first series of Friends debuted in September 1994, it was immediately obvious there would be no need for the show to find its feet. "The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate" was a confident introduction to the six lead characters, opening in the middle of an everyday conversation with the soon-to-be uncharacteristic line: "There's nothing to tell". In fact, the soap opera-style plot got complicated pretty quickly, with spoiled brat Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) moving on from her failed wedding to feelings toward nerdy/heartthrob Ross (David Schwimmer). However, no love life was more complicated than Joey's (Matt LeBlanc), with an endless stream of girlfriends that annoyed the hell out of wisecracking roommate Chandler (Matthew Perry), who only seemed to be able to connect with Janice (Maggie Wheeler), the shrillest voice in the city. Bouncing all manner of neuroses around them were Ross' obsessive sister Monica (Courteney Cox) and endearingly ditzy Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow). Premise established, Series 1 matured the characters by providing a monkey and a son for Ross. We met also meet Ross and Monica's parents Jack (Elliott Gould) and Judy (Christina Pickles), Chandler's mother (Morgan Fairchild) and Phoebe's twin sister Ursula (Kudrow, naturally). Fans loved cameos from George Clooney, Jay Leno and show creators Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane. But really the focus was on building to "T. O. [+]
W. Rachel Finds Out" that Ross is in love with her. -Paul Tonks.

Review Delta Visual Entertainment / The Lovejoy Collection - Vol. 22 [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Ian McShane
  • Diane Parish
  • Dudley Sutton
  • Caroline Langrishe
Release date: 2005-09-19
Run time: 150 min.
Creator: Dudley Sutton
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.07

Review The Lovejoy Collection - Vol. 22 [DVD] / Delta Visual Entertainment:


Review Warner Home Video / The Adventures Of Superman - Series 2 [DVD] [1953]
Actors & Directors
  • Noel Neill
  • John Hamilton
  • George Blair
  • Tommy Carr
  • George Reeves
  • Jack Larson
Release date: 2006-03-27
Creator: Noel Neill
RRP: £44.99
Price: £7.39

Review The Adventures Of Superman - Series 2 [DVD] [1953] / Warner Home Video:


Review Acorn Media / Midsomer Murders - Orchis Fatalis [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • John Hopkins
  • Peter Smith
  • John Nettles
Release date: 2006-04-03
Run time: 94 min.
Creator: John Hopkins
RRP: £16.99
Price: £5.37

Review Midsomer Murders - Orchis Fatalis [DVD] / Acorn Media:


Review Warner Home Video / Hustle : Complete BBC Series 1-3 Box Set [DVD]
Release date: 2007-04-23
Price: £44.99

Review Hustle : Complete BBC Series 1-3 Box Set [DVD] / Warner Home Video:


Review MGM Entertainment / Stargate Atlantis - Series 3 Vol.1 [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Torri Higginson
  • David Hewlett
  • Rachel Luttrell
  • Jason Momoa
  • Joe Flanigan
Release date: 2007-08-27
Run time: 166 min.
Creator: Robert C. Cooper
RRP: £19.99
Price: £2.67

Review Stargate Atlantis - Series 3 Vol.1 [DVD] / MGM Entertainment:


Review National Geographic Reflections On Elephants / National Geographic 21325:

capture the drama of Africa's largest free-roaming elephant herds on their timeless journey across the bush country of Northern Botswana

Review 2 Entertain Video / Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Thomas' Train And Other Stories [VHS]
Actors & Directors
  • Ringo Starr
  • Alec Baldwin
  • George Carlin
  • Michael Angelis
  • Michael Brandon
Release date: 1995-07-03
Run time: 100 min.
Creator: Lindsey Dillion-Massey
RRP: £9.99
Price: £12.00

Review Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Thomas' Train And Other Stories [VHS] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Robot Wars / Robot Wars - Hypnodisc [DVD]
Release date: 2003-03-24
RRP: £11.99
Price: £3.39

Review Robot Wars - Hypnodisc [DVD] / Robot Wars:


Review Warner Home Video / The West Wing: Complete Series 2 [VHS] [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Allison Janney
  • Martin Sheen
  • John Spencer
  • Rob Lowe
  • Bradley Whitford
Release date: 2003-10-20
Run time: 42 min.
Creator: Aaron Sorkin
RRP: £50.99
Price: £17.95

Review The West Wing: Complete Series 2 [VHS] [2001] / Warner Home Video:

The second season of The West Wing takes up literally where the first season left off and, after a few moments of patriotic sentimentalism, maintains the series' astonishingly high standards in depicting the everyday life of the White House staff of a Democratic administration. The two-part opener covers the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt on President Bartlet (Martin Sheen), switching between the anxious wait on the injured and flashbacks to Bartlet's campaign for the Presidency. Other peaks in a series exceedingly short on lows include "Noel," the episode in which Alan Arkin's psychiatrist forces Josh Lynam to confront his post-traumatic stress disorder and the episodes in which President Bartlet, following a tragic car accident, rails angrily against God in Latin. Other new aspects include the introduction of Ainsley Hayes, a young Republican counsel hired after she beats communications deputy Sam Seaborn (Rob Lowe) in a TV debate ("Sam's getting his ass kicked by a girl!" crow his colleagues), as well as the revelation that the President has been suffering from multiple sclerosis. Tensions grow between him and the First Lady (Stockard Channing) as she realizes, in the episode "Third State of the Union," that he intends to run for a second term in office. It becomes clear to Bartlet that he must go public with his MS, and his staff is forced to come to terms with this, as well as deal with the usual plethora of domestic and international incidents, which apparently preclude any of them from having any sort of private lives. These include crises in Haiti and Columbia, an obstinate filibuster, and a Surgeon General's excessively frank remarks about the drug situation. Thankfully, the splendid Lord John Marbury (Roger Rees) is on hand to make chief of staff Leo McGarry's life more of a misery in "The Drop-In. " These episodes, though occasionally marred by a sentimental soundtrack and an earnest and wishfully high regard for the Presidential office, are master classes in drama and dialogue, ranging from the wittily staccato to the magnificently grave, capturing authentically the hectic pace of political intrigue and the often vain efforts of decent, brilliant people to do the right thing. The West Wing is one of the all-time great TV dramas. [+]
-David Stubbs.

Review Waterfall / Casting Cuties 4 (featuring Big Brother's Lea Walker) [DVD]
Release date: 2006-06-26
RRP: £15.99
Price: £5.00

Review Casting Cuties 4 (featuring Big Brother's Lea Walker) [DVD] / Waterfall:


Review 4dvd / Peep Show - Series 1-4 - Complete [DVD] [2003]
Actors & Directors
  • Rachel Blanchard
  • Matt King
  • Tristram Shapeero
  • Becky Martin
  • Olivia Colman
  • Jeremy Wooding
  • Robert Webb
  • David Mitchell
Release date: 2007-11-05
Run time: 720 min.
Creator: Robert Webb
RRP: £44.99
Price: £9.24

Review Peep Show - Series 1-4 - Complete [DVD] [2003] / 4dvd:


Review Acorn Media / Cribb - Vol. 1 - Swing, Swing Together [1980] [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • William Simons
  • David Waller
  • Alfie Curtis
  • Geoffrey Larder
  • Alan Dobie
Release date: 2004-06-14
Run time: 250 min.
Creator: Peter Eckersley
RRP: £19.99
Price: £12.99

Review Cribb - Vol. 1 - Swing, Swing Together [1980] [DVD] / Acorn Media:


Review E1 Entertainment / Andromeda - Season 4 - Vol. 3 [DVD]
Actors & Directors
  • Lexa Doig
  • Steve Bacic
  • Gordon Michael Woolvett
  • Lisa Ryder
  • Kevin Sorbo
Release date: 2005-05-02
Run time: 220 min.
Creator: Steve Bacic
RRP: £19.99
Price: £25.30

Review Andromeda - Season 4 - Vol. 3 [DVD] / E1 Entertainment:


Release date: 2005-09-19
Run time: 360 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £19.95

Review Doctor Finlay - Series 2 [DVD] / John Williams Productions:


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Captain Scarlet And The Mysterons - Vol. 2 - Episodes 5 To 8 [VHS] [1967], Star Trek The Next Generation - Q Continuum [VHS] [1990], Thunderbirds [DVD] [2004] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC], Lord Peter Wimsey - Murder Must Advertise [DVD] [1973], Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, Vol. 2 [DVD] [1955] [US Import], Friends - Series 1 - Episodes 1-8 [DVD] [1995], The Lovejoy Collection - Vol. 22 [DVD], The Adventures Of Superman - Series 2 [DVD] [1953], Midsomer Murders - Orchis Fatalis [DVD], Hustle : Complete BBC Series 1-3 Box Set [DVD], Stargate Atlantis - Series 3 Vol.1 [DVD], National Geographic Reflections On Elephants, Thomas The Tank Engine And Friends - Thomas' Train And Other Stories [VHS], Robot Wars - Hypnodisc [DVD], The West Wing: Complete Series 2 [VHS] [2001], Casting Cuties 4 (featuring Big Brother's Lea Walker) [DVD], Peep Show - Series 1-4 - Complete [DVD] [2003], Cribb - Vol. 1 - Swing, Swing Together [1980] [DVD], Andromeda - Season 4 - Vol. 3 [DVD], Doctor Finlay - Series 2 [DVD]

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