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When evolutionary zoologist Nick Cutter discovers prehistoric creatures alive and well in the present day the natural world is turned on its head and humanity faces a threat to its very existence.

Unexplained anomalies are ripping holes in the fabric of time, allowing creatures from the very earliest stages of Earth's development to roam the modern world. Cutter and his team struggle to keep the looming disaster secret while dealing with savage dinosaurs and other deadly foes. Cutter also has to deal with a deeply personal dilemma - he discovers that his wife Helen, missing believed dead for eight years, has actually been travelling in the past; now she is back with possible answers to the riddle of the anomalies, but is it an answer she is willing to share?

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A South Pacific island's dormant volcano unexpectedly erupts in fury. Among those imperiled by the Carl Foreman/Stirling Silliphant script are wildcat oil driller Paul Newman, hotel baron William Holden and Jacqueline Bisset, a PR executive who must choose between them.

Which familiar faces will survive when there's no such thing as safe ground? Watch - and watch out-for yourself. As the lava flows, so also flows rare and rousing screen excitement!

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In "Mission: Impossible: Series 2", Peter Graves returns as veteran agent Jim Phelps, the leader of a crack team of operatives for the Impossible Missions Force (IMF). As the mastermind, Phelps spearheads dangerous assignments with global stakes.

Under a cloak of absolute secrecy the IMF team strikes against cold-blooded assassins, fanatical cults and rogue military leaders. This collectible set includes all 16 episodes of the series' final breath taking season, as the challenges take the IMF team to the ends of the Earth... and beyond!

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Critically acclaimed ITV drama series 'Unforgotten' starring Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar returns for a second series.

The story begins with the discovery of a body; this time the perfectly preserved remains of a middle-aged man found in a sealed suitcase in the silt of the River Lea in North East London. As Cassie and Sunny begin the complicated task of trying to identify the victim, we will meet four unconnected people who we suspect are linked in some way to the victim...

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Christmas in Holmfi rth is always full of festive fun, as these cracking Christmas Specials spectacularly show.

Here we see Compo feeling a little frosty, having trouble scraping enough together to buy his beloved Nora the perfect present - could Auntie Wainwright have the answer? Howard has a problem too: he's got a present to give to Pearl, and keep from Marina, all at the same time. But the lack of wise men is more than made up for with a surplus of Santas. There's one on the rooftops, four on the doorstep, and one very sozzled one, enjoying a silent night locked in a pub. That's what you call a very merry Holmfirth Christmas.

Episodes Comprise:
- Christmas Special 1986: Merry Christmas, Father Christmas
- Christmas Special 1988: Crums
- Christmas Special 1989: What's Santa Brought For Nora Then?
- Christmas Special 1990: Barry's Christmas

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When the body of a young man is discovered in a derelict building, DCI Cassie Stuart (Nicola Walker) - one of the Met's smartest detectives - is called in to investigate with her partner, DI Sunil Khan (Sanjeev Bhaskar).

Jimmy Sullivan was a homeless boy, murdered in 1976 when the building was a hostel. His diary implicates four suspects; a clergyman, an eminent entrepreneur, a community worker and a wheelchair-bound husband caring for his wife. Each has a secret to hide. As their lies unravel, the people they love most begin to wonder what else they might be capable of. Nothing in this case is black and white. Can you ever really know the people closest to you? What secrets have they buried?

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Holmfirth, in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales, is home to our three favourite overgrown schoolboys Foggy, Compo and Clegg. Life here for most people drifts along at a gentle pace, but never for our inimitable trio - there's always a drama waiting to become a crisis.

But that's hardly surprising, when you consider all the dangers involved in attempting to find out the size of Nora Batty's feet, trying to make money selling junk food to the inhabitants of the local health farm, and taking charge of Ivy's cafe for the afternoon. Oh yes, there's trouble around every corner in this beautiful, sleepy town.

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Life drifts by at a slow and hazy pace here in the beautiful village of Holmfirth, in the verdant Yorkshire Dales - home to our three favorite over-sixties school boys, Compo, Foggy and Clegg.

Engaged in a multitude of activities that men of a younger age would consider themselves too old for, our retired (but not retiring) trio continues to get themselves into all sorts of fixes, over field and down dale and even into distant hills. And as their endless summer rolls gently on, many an astonishing schemes born, as we see Foggy enter emergency rescue business, Clegg embark on old Yorkshire ghost-hunt and Compo launch headlong into most perilous pursuit – to have his photo taken in Nora Batty’s bedroom.

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It is a full house for the Hardcastles when Sandy and Harry return from Canada and move in. Jean is already imagining the pitter patter of tiny feet and, somewhat prematurely, arranges for cots to be delivered - much to the distress of Lionel.

Meanwhile Sandy is convinced that Harry has a death wish when he applies to join the armed response unit in order to gain a promotion and Alistair starts to behave rather peculiarly. Just when everything is starting to settle down the doorbell rings. Jean answers it and finds a young man who has travelled all the way from Africa to see his father, Lionel!

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IMF missions are on a need-to-know basis... and you need to know that "Mission: Impossible: Series 1"! The spy show that revived the classic series stars Peter Graves in the reprisal of his role as Jim Phelps, brilliant leader of the Impossible Missions Force.

This collectible 5-disc set includes all 19 thrilling episodes that put Jim and his new team on call to save the world... one pulse-pounding mission at a time. Do you accept this mission?

The unruly schoolgirls of St. Trinian's are more interested in men and mischief than homework and hockey. But greater trouble beckons at the school when the arrival of Princess Fatima of Makyad coincides with the return of recently expelled Arabella Fritton, who has kidnap on her mind.

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Welcome to Holmfirth, a breathtakingly beautiful village in the heart of the West Yorkshire Dales, home to our three favourite idiosyncratic, retired gentlemen, as well as the BBC's longest running comedy series.

Here we meet these one-time school chums - Compo, Clegg and Foggy - long since left school, but now enjoying a mischievous second childhood, devising and executing a multitude of (grey) hair brained schemes. Which is just what you'd expect from Britain's oldest, if not wisest adolescents. Helped by a supporting band of formidable wives, hen-pecked husbands, sexually-charged mistresses, inventors, pigeon fanciers and balding lotharios, our three heroes are never far from one adventure or another. And when the likes of a Christmas celebration in the middle of a sweltering hot summer, the installation of a new bell for the cafe door, and the retrieval of a wandering ferret from its new-found home in Nora Batty's house, as always, there's plenty of room for disaster too.

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Leaving a notorious trail of arson behind them, the St. Trinian's schoolgirls are always on the move. Their headmistress is more than 'just friends' with the Minister of School. Armed with a government grant, she re-houses her girls in yet another home - Halimgwell Grange.

What she doesn't know is that the Great Train Robbers have got there before her. And left £2.5 million hidden under the ballroom stage...

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The fourth form monsters latest trick is their best ever - they've burned down St. Trinian's! As the school stands trial, the police breathe a sigh of relief but miraculously the judges infatuation with Rosalie, the beautiful blonde of the sixth form, means the school is freed.

And with them go the most glamorous sixth formers ever seen in gym slips. For authority it means a new reign of terror, as with gleeful anticipation the girls of St. Trinians regroup.

With their Headmistress under lock and key in her Majesties prison, the St. Trinian's girl's find themselves under the protection of the Army. However, when the sixth form take a fancy to winning a trip to Italy through fair means or foul, the Army discovers this is one battle they can't win.