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Manny Cohen and Patrick Kelly are unlikely partners in a back-street tailoring business in Whitechapel, in London's East End. Coat-maker Manny is Jewish, while Patrick - who takes care of the trousers - is an Irish Catholic still yearning for his homeland.

The two try hard to put their religious and cultural differences aside in the interests of making a living but mutual misunderstanding all too easily gets the better of them. That's why Father Ryan and Rabbi Levy are usually around to intervene and offer spiritual guidance...'Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width' grew out of a single production for ITV's long-running Armchair Theatre anthology series. Written by the celebrated team of Vince Powell and Harry Driver (Bless This House, Nearest and Dearest) and drawing heavily upon the writers' own backgrounds and experiences, this hugely popular series stars John Bluthal and Joe Lynch as the ever-warring Cohen and Kelly, with Cyril Shaps as Rabbi Levy and Eamon Kelly as Father Ryan; Roy Marsden, David Kossoff, Roy Barraclough and the legendary George Best are among the special guests. Although the series no longer exists in its entirety, this set contains every remaining episode of Series Three to Six, originally screened between 1969 and 1971, and the 1968 Christmas Special.

John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Emma Peel (Diana Rigg) return in glorious colour as the incorrigible secret agents extraordinaire. Together they continue to defeat criminal masterminds and solve unfathomable mysteries in the original cult TV series 'The Avengers'.

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Double bill of British film dramas from the 1930s.

The Last Journey (1935)

Film train driver Bob Holt (Julien Mitchell) is distraught with his up coming compulsory retirement and also believes his wife is having an affair with his fireman. The day arrives for his final journey and aboard his train are various passengers with their own problems. Bob suffers a mental breakdown and drives the train at high speed ignoring all signals. Great train sequences, a must for train fans.
Return of a Stranger (1937)
A young chemist (Griffith Jones) elopes with the bosses daughter, (Rosalyn Boulter) a murder is committed in their hotel and the chemist is suspected of the murder. He flees the country and years later, now a successful scientist returns to try and clear his name. Lots of train sequences and a good old fashioned melodrama make for an entertaining film. An interesting part played by Ellis Jeffries as the old Lady Wall, her only film role.

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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 clear blue sky? In this series, Arthur C.

Clarke, author of '2001: A Space Odyssey' investigates these and many other intriguing mysteries. This much sought-after show debunks myths and legends about some of the planet's strangest phenomena, presenting us with fascinating truths about humanity and the world in which we live.

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Jarrow-born Alan Plater was one of Britain's most cherished playwrights. Equally at home either adapting existing works or crafting his own stories, the pinnacle of his prolific output is arguably the highly successful 'Beiderbecke' trilogy starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn.

Plater excelled in the creation of credible, engagingly ordinary characters embroiled in drama and intrigue, with a dry humour, class consciousness and frequent acknowledgement of the north-south divide, his skilful dialogue has been described as combining 'The voice of 'Coronation Street' with the spirit of Chekhov'. The winner of three BAFTA Awards, he received a CBE in 2005 and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. This anthology celebrates the diversity of Alan Plater's work for ITV, with a collection of single plays and classic episodes featuring outstanding performances by Helen Mirren, Kenneth Branagh, James Bolam, Alison Steadman, Michael Gambon, Dennis Waterman and Ray Brooks, among many others.

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Returning to Scotland for the first time in years stirs up uneasy memories for Adam Snow (Douglas Henshall).

He longs for the beautiful Alice (Louise Lombard), wife of his client, and faces the realisation that he has barely been present for his fragile brother Hugo (Cal MacAnich), who is suffering a mental breakdown. While visiting Alice, Adam develops a fascination for a formerly majestic mansion nearby, Raven's End. Seeing this as a chance to be closer to Alice, as well as to his brother, he decides to buy Raven's End and to finally put down roots.While working on the renovation and secretly planning a new life with Alice, Adam is plagued by haunting dreams, visions and visits from a ghostly child. Fearing he may be suffering from the same fate as his brother, Adam is determined to untangle the truth and excise the spirit from his life. But his coming to Raven's End has set in motion a chain of sinister events linked to his past and a painful secret to which Adam's family holds the key.

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Following the death of her father, Alice (Ruth Wilson) returns home for the first time in 15 years, to claim the tenancy of the family farm she believes is rightfully hers.

Once there, she encounters her older brother Joe (Mark Stanley), a man she barely recognises, worn down by years of struggling to keep the farm going whilst caring for their sick father (Sean Bean). Joe is thrown by Alice's sudden arrival, angered by her claim and finds her presence increasingly difficult to deal with. Battling to regain control in a fraught situation, Alice must confront traumatic memories and family betrayals to find a way to restore the farm and salvage the bond with her brother before both are irrevocably lost.

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The original scripts. A brilliant new cast.

For the first time in 50 years, three lost episodes of 'Dad's Army' can be seen again! Britain's favourite sitcom, 'Dad's Army' ran for eighty episodes over nearly ten years and is rarely far from our screens - but three of those episodes were lost many years ago and haven't been seen since 1969. Now, using Jimmy Perry and David Croft's original scripts, those three episodes have been recreated as faithfully as possible to mark the 50th anniversary of their original broadcast. Featuring a brilliant new cast that includes Kevin McNally as Captain Mainwaring, Robert Bathurst as Sergeant Wilson, Kevin Eldon as Lance Corporal Jones, David Hayman as Private Frazer, Mathew Horne as Private Walker, Timothy West as Private Godfrey and Tom Rosenthal as Private Pike, these three lost episodes can now be enjoyed again in this critically-acclaimed comedy classic!

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Created by Norman Hudis, who scripted the earliest 'Carry On' films, this popular sitcom reunited Hudis with some of the films' most charismatic and best-loved stars, including Hattie Jacques, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, and their future co-stars Bernard Bresslaw and Norman Rossington.

Enjoying a highly popular run in the early 1960's, 'Our House' centres on the comic interactions between the contrasting characters who share a large house together. They include a librarian who transforms into a foghorn outside the hushed confines of her workplace (Hattie Jacques); an easy-going oddball employed by the local rates office (Charles Hawtrey); a woman with a slightly alarming employment record (Joan Sims); and a law student (Norman Rossington) in thrall to his overbearing father. Deryck Guyler (Please Sir!) and Roy Hudd guest-star. Of the 39 original episodes, only three survive in the archive. Unseen for over fifty years what remains of 'Our House' are essential viewing for all 'Carry On' aficionados and lovers of vintage British comedy.

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A dramatic interpretation of the epic race to the South Pole one of the greatest adventure stories of the Twentieth Century.

Englishman, Captain Robert Falcon Scott (Martin Shaw), and rival explorer, Norwegian, Roald Amundsen (Sverre Anker Ousdal), undertake an awesome and dangerous 1,500 mile trek across the desolate frozen wastes of Antarctica, to be the first to plant their countiy's flag at the Pole. Amundsen won the race, but it was Scott who was to reap the glory. After the bitter disappointment of coming second, all five members of the British polar team perished on the return journey. The tragedy turned Scott into a national hero, hailed as an inspiration to succeeding generations. With a screenplay by award-winning dramatist Trevor Griffiths, 'The Last Place on Earth' is a powerful and frank account of the race for the pole. Based on true stories.

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This third collection of Dixon of Dock Green features the complete 22nd series of the much-loved policing drama, the last series ever made.

Featuring some of the strongest writing in the series' history, having been a fixture on TV screens since 1955, it drew to a close in the spring of 1976 with head held high, its badge of service untarnished. This final series finds Sgt. George Dixon (Jack Warner) operating from the back office as Collator for Dock Green, tracking, guiding and advising on events in the criminal underworld as they impacted on the otherwise peaceful manor' of Dock Green. Meanwhile on the front line, Detective Sgt. Alan Bruton (Richard Heffer), is ably supported by the likes of DC Len Clayton (Ben Howard), Sgt. Johnny Wills (Nicholas Donnelly), DS Mike Brewer (Gregory De Polnay) and PC Harry Dunne (Stephen Marsh) all of whom can be seen or heard in a unique collection of original interviews which are also featured on this release. From lost girls to missing heirs; from burgling masterminds to a violinist with a talent for more than just music; and lastly to one final story that resonates long after it is over, these episodes of 'Dixon of Dock Green' capture the essence of what is without doubt 'a force' to be reckoned with.

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Based on Peter Rock's novel 'My Abandonment', 'Leave No Trace' revolves around a teenage girl (Thomasin McKenzie) and her father (Ben Foster) who have lived undetected for years in Forest Park, a vast wood on the edge of Portland, Oregon.

A chance encounter leads to their discovery and removal from the park and into the charge of a social service agency. They try to adapt to their new surroundings until a sudden decision sets them on a perilous journey into the wilderness seeking complete independence and forcing them to confront their conflicting desire to be part of a community or a fierce need to live apart.

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Set against the stunning backdrop of the Scottish highlands, Edie tells the inspirational story of Edith Moore (Sheila Hancock), who at the age of eighty-three embarks on the gruelling climb to the top of Mount Suilven.

A recent widow, Edie leaves her home behind in the hopes of recapturing the magic from her youth, but what she discovers is much more than that. Through an unlikely friendship with young local Jonny (Kevin Guthrie), Edie learns just how strong and resilient she can be, and in doing so, finds herself. Join 'Edie' on a journey of self-discovery and heart, as she fulfils the adventure of a lifetime.

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From 1968 to 1970 the BBC's comedy series "Oh Brother!", which starred Derek Nimmo as the well-meaning but accident-prone Brother Dominic, regularly entertained over twelve million viewers.

Joining in the mayhem at Mountacres Priory are the benign Prior, Father Anselm, who has his work cut out maintaining peace in the Priory (Sir Felix Aylmer), the long-suffering Master of Novices, Father Bernard (Colin Gordon), and later in the series the bumptious Father Matthew (Derek Francis) who finds it more difficult than anyone to endure daily monastic life with Brother Dominic. Now for the first time all eight surviving episodes of this classic comedy series are available in this special digitally remastered video collection. Hilarious highlights include: the opening episode from September 1968 entitled 'The Voice of the Turtle', in which the Fathers attempt to withdraw Dominic from the choir; the unexpected arrival of the lenient Bishop Collins in 'By the Fleshpots'; Dominic's appearance on Late Night Review and subsequent trip to Rome in 'A Fool Returneth'; his strict supervision of a vow of abstinence in 'A Stone for Stumbling'; and attempts to find an Auntie for Father Matthew in the memorable final episode 'The Fullness of His Days'.

"The Post" tells the incredible true story of the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post's Katharine Graham (Meryl Streep) and editor Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks) as they strive to expose a massive cover-up of devastating government secrets, risking their careers and very freedom in a fight for the truth.