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Everyone's favourite Essex girls return with this second series of 'Birds of a Feather' - one of the 1990s' most successful, long-running and memorable sitcoms. This release also features the feature-length Christmas Special from 1990. Created by legendary screenwriters Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran (The New Statesman, Shine on Harvey Moon), the series chronicles the misadventures of Sharon and Tracey (Pauline Quirke and Linda Robson) - North London-born sisters left to fend for themselves, both financially and emotionally, when their husbands are jailed for armed robbery. The girls have lived very different lives, Tracey enjoying the neo-Georgian splendour of 'Dalentrace' - the luxury home paid for by husband Darryl's criminal activities - while her sister had remained in an Edmonton tower block. Now, Sharon lives with Tracey, enjoying a few home comforts and offering some much-needed moral support - even if some of her habits prove a tad annoying. And if life in Chigwell sometimes seems a little dull, there are always the extra-marit al adventures of their man-eating Jewish neighbour, Dorien (Lesley Joseph), to keep them entertained... - Director:
- Nic Phillips
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- Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson, Lesley Joseph
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Now, BAFTA award winning Ross Kemp is back for a second series, which sees him travel to some of the most dangerous and desperate places in the world, to report back on the stories he cares about, stories he believes should have a wider audience. In this series Ross gets caught in the crossfire as he reports on the battle for Karachi, spending time with armed political militias who are fighting in the streets for votes. In South America he reports from President Chavez's oil rich Venezuela where murder and kidnapping are out of control. Closer to home, Ross is in Glasgow, meeting those for whom extreme poverty is a way of life in recession blighted Britain. In France, Ross explores the modern-day French Connection in Marseille. Ross delves into the underworld of post-Katrina New Orleans, the murder capital of the USA and finally, in Kenya and Tanzania he looks at the shocking wave of witch-hunt related murders that is sweeping through the remote rural communities. - Director:
- Rob Farquhar
- Cast:
- Ross Kemp, Steve Cyr, Greg Scott
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Join popular countryman Jack Hargreaves, as he embarks on a series of delightful expeditions through the English countryside. Enjoy his unrivalled knowledge of the simple life - from angling to horsing and nature to gardening - and reminisce about how things used to be when the countryside was still the sole preserve of country folk.
13. Bee-Skips / Pheasant Shooting
In the old days poorer countrymen used to make most things for themselves -including beehives made from straw and blackberry brambles. In October the well-to-do gather for pheasant shooting.
14. Tidal Mill / Ice Fishing
Before the days of steam, all the power available to British industry came from water mills. An old tidal mill from the Viking days has been restored.
15. Fly Casting / The Log Splitter
An artificial trout fly weighs no more than a postage stamp, yet the angler is able to throw it accurately for 30 yards. Experts demonstrate how this can be done.- Director:
- George Egan
- Cast:
- Jack Hargreaves
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Unbeknown to the passengers on board a cruise ship in the Caribbean, a mysterious vessel is approaching - on a collision course! Despite the attempts of the crew to avert disaster, the liner is lost with all hands down, except for seven survivors. They are saved when they clamber aboard a ghostly freighter, where they discover an even worse fate. They are now prisoners on a former wartime vessel. As this ship speeds towards an unknown destination, they realise that something is internet on destroying each one of them in a gruesome and terrifying way...It's not a ship, it's a killing machine! From an original story by Hollywood legend Jack Hill and starring none other than George Kennedy and Richard Crenna. - Director:
- Alvin Rakoff
- Cast:
- George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso
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In this ground-breaking documentary series, Ross Kemp investigates some of the extreme issues facing our planet today. Over four programmes, he visits Chicago, the destination of a drugs epidemic; the Congo, where mutilation and rape are used as weapons of war; Juarez, Mexico, the murder capital of the world and, finally, Haiti, a country trapped in a vicious cycle of disaster, poverty and crime.
Chicago
Ross travels to the scene of America's biggest heroin problem to investigate an epidemic that is destroying lives, families and entire communities and is now moving from the city's ghettos to its most affluent suburbs. Granted rare access into the city's secretive and highly lucrative drug underworld. Ross visits shooting galleries and witnesses gang members preparing wholesale consignments of heroin in underground 'stash houses'.
Congo
Heading to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Ross finds himself on the frontline of the deadliest yet least reported conflict since World War II. The savagery of the militia involved knows no bounds, with six million lives claimed so far. not to mention the rape and mutilation of an incomprehensible number of women.
Mexico
Reduced to a warzone. more than 3.000 people were gunned down in Juarez last year as the fight to take control of the drug trade between Mexico and US intensifies. Cartels run the city through a policy known as 'silver or lead' and Ross follows their bloody trail...
Haiti
Finally. Ross travels to Haiti, which, in January last year, was hit by one of the worst natural disasters of modern times. The international community pledged more than ten billion dollars to help rebuild the country, yet only a fraction of the aid arrived and, today, its plight is as desperate as ever. One year on and Ross is shocked to find more than a million Haitians homeless, crime rampant and Haiti in the grip of a cholera epidemic.- Director:
- Southan Morris
- Cast:
- Ross Kemp, Greg Scott
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Join popular countryman Jack Hargreaves, as he embarks on a series of delightful expeditions through the English countryside. Enjoy his unrivalled knowledge of the simple life - from angling to horsing and nature to gardening - and reminisce about how things used to be when the countryside was still the sole preserve of country folk.
10. Lambing / Mayfly
On the Dorset hills, the shepherd has set up a maternity ward for two thousand ewes. In the chalk stream, the elegant lace-winged fly is hatching by the million to live its life of only forty-eight hours. The trout are feasting.
11. Mole Catcher / High School Horse
The skilful old man has been summoned because the moles have invaded the pasture. Silent and alone, he manipulates his traps. The once noble art of Haute Ecole produces the modern dressage horse.
12. Rake Maker / Stage Coach
In the yard he shares with his chickens, the old craftsman makes wooden hay-rakes with the tools his father taught him to use when Queen Victoria was dying.- Director:
- George Egan
- Cast:
- Jack Hargreaves
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Join popular countryman Jack Hargreaves, as he embarks on a series of delightful expeditions through the English countryside. Enjoy his unrivalled knowledge of the simple life - from angling to horsing and nature to gardening - and reminisce about how things used to be when the countryside was still the sole preserve of country folk.
7. Market Day / Minnow Trap / Lobster Boat
A day in the life of the small-farm folk, who see very few people all week and almost everybody they know on Market Day. It's hard and dangerous work for the inshore men as they seek the most expensive fish that comes out of the sea.
8. Iron Ponds / Lobster Breeding
A lobster has its skeleton on the outside and cannot grow unless it keeps changing it, which can be witnessed at a research station built in the shadow of a Roman lighthouse.
9. Romney Marsh / Pumpkins
From earliest days the marshland has been preserved by defences against the sea.- Director:
- George Egan
- Cast:
- Jack Hargreaves
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Ross Kemp's hard-hitting documentary on deforestation, poverty and crime in the Amazon rainforest. Ross Kemp travels to South America to investigate how oil companies are destroying large tracts of the Amazon rainforest in a desire to satisfy the planet's energy needs; how bitter turf wars are being fought over cattle ranching and soy plantations; how the global demand for cocaine wreaks its own local destruction and how the rise in the price of gold has lead to people tearing up the rainforest just to earn a living. Ross talks to ranchers, tribal people, environmentalists and scientists as he explores the link between deforestation and the impact of local degradation, poverty and crime. From the noxious fumes of a lagoon of dumped crude oil to a mining town where child prostitution is rife or a raid on an illegal logging plant, he walks the often alarming frontline between the daily struggle for survival and the environmental concerns of the planet. - Director:
- Southan Morris
- Cast:
- Ross Kemp
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It's 1957, the year that Prime Minister Harold MacMillan told the British people that they'd "never had it so good", and for many in Grantchester, that's just how it feels! Will Davenport has settled into his role as the vicar of Grantchester, preaching to a packed church. His best friend, Detective Inspector Geordie Keating, has come to accept his wife Cathy's commitment to her job - just about. Mrs C happily juggles her roles as the vicarage housekeeper and being a well-to-do married woman, and after a trip to Marrakech, even Leonard has managed to carve out some happiness with Daniel. It's as if the world of Grantchester has returned to an idyllic state - a metaphorical Garden of Eden. And Will believes that everyone can get close to their own Eden through good works and a proactive attitude. But - as Geordie knows - trouble always finds a way: Every Eden has its snakes...From a student's misadventure at one of the female-only colleges, a hit-and-run that leads them to a secret garden, a murder in a cinema, a death at a drug trial to a dangerously oppressive convent - Will's faith will be thoroughly tested as he and Geordie are reminded once more that there's darkness lurking in their little corner of Cambridgeshire... - Director:
- Gordon Anderson
- Cast:
- Robson Green, Tom Brittney, Al Weaver
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In these two hard-hitting, emotional and revealing programmes, Ross Kemp offers a fascinating insight into life on both sides of the divided Middle East. Ross Kemp follows up his Bafta-nominated programmes on Helmand and Kenya - by journeying to the Middle East where the bitter conflict has cost tens of thousands of lives and forced millions to live in fear and misery. Ross visits Gaza one year on from Operation Cast Lead, a massive Israeli military assault on the Gaza Strip that saw as many as 1,400 Palestinians die, thousands of homes destroyed, and much of Gaza's infrastructure obliterated. He then travels to Israel and discovers a country divided, one that is surrounded by enemies and living under the constant fear of rocket attacks and suicide bombs from groups dedicated to its destruction. Given extraordinary and unprecedented access to those committed to the conflict and the communities caught in the crossfire, Ross Kemp meets tunnel smugglers, suicide bombers, West Bank settlers, families who have lost children - as well as journalists who have followed the evolving conflict and politicians trying to end the suffering and violence through diplomacy. - Director:
- Olly Lambert
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- Ross Kemp
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Join popular countryman Jack Hargreaves, as he embarks on a series of delightful expeditions through the English countryside. Enjoy his unrivalled knowledge of the simple life - from angling to horsing and nature to gardening - and reminisce about how things used to be when the countryside was still the sole preserve of country folk.
4. Sheep Shearing / Sea Bream
Rough and ready in their old van, the sheep shearing gang arrives on the downs from the other side of the world. They have a 12-month schedule that takes them round the globe.
5. Sweetheart Story / Tyring a Cart
Long ago, a wealthy man gave up everything for the girl he loved, but then he died. Today, their home is up for sale, and with it, all the relics of their romantic story.
6. Farm Sale / Fishing in a Gale / Forest Fire
When the first tractor was bought, the heavy horses and the paraphernalia were discarded in the old barn. Now, the collectors gather to see it uncovered.- Director:
- George Egan
- Cast:
- Jack Hargreaves
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All eyes are on US Air Force Flight 412 as it sets off to test a new radar system. At first the mission goes well as Captain Roy Bishop (David Soul) and his crew start their hazardous journey. However when three unidentified blips appear on the Airforce Base's screen, two Marine interceptors take off to follow them, and soon disappear. It is the start of a strange chain of events, which results in an unidentified agency taking command of Flight 412. Glenn Ford gives a convincing performance as Pete Moore who, despite being given orders from the top to ignore the incident, is determined to get to the bottom of the mystery. Bradford Dillman, Guy Stockwell and Robert F. Lyons also co-star in this truly gripping movie. - Director:
- Jud Taylor
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- Glenn Ford, Bradford Dillman, David Soul
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Paul Temple (1971)Paul Temple: The Complete Series
Stylish, cool, incisive - protective of his loving wife "Steve" - Paul Temple was an exemplary crime writer turned crime solver as played by Francis Matthews in the acclaimed and much loved TV series. Often filmed at glamorous locations throughout Europe,Temple operated like a cross-between Miss Marple and Poirot with the slick cutting-edge style of The Saint. The Complete Paul Temple Collection represents the surviving colour episodes of this rich series, along with the five final episodes, available only in black and white. The collection reveals a time capsule of 1970s fashion in clothes, cars, decor - and crime, presenting an unmissable collection of mysteries that must be solved; and there's only one crime writer who can do it! - Director:
- Philip Dudley
- Cast:
- Francis Matthews, Ros Drinkwater, June Ellis
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After two years off the air, this sixth and final series of the classic Alf Garnett comedy series was broadcast in 1992. It finds the miserly old whinger, having endured a lifetime of poverty, finally becoming rich. So is he is happy with his new-found wealth? Of course not, it's Alf! With just his Irish mate Michael and the devout Mrs Hollingbery for company, life is the same old uphill struggle for the curmudgeonly pensioner - only brightened by the news of Mrs Johnson running away with another woman! But, when he finally agrees to move an old wardrobe, Alf is amazed to find a large stash of banknotes. The old git is about to discover how the other half live - and, thankfully, there is plenty to moan about. Like the problems of being rich in a crime-ridden area, a visit from his batty old neighbour Min and finding out the Inland Revenue are even worse than the DHSS! - Director:
- Richard Boden
- Cast:
- Warren Mitchell, Carmel McSharry, James Ellis
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The award winning Ross Kemp on Gangs has arrived on DVD for the first time. From El Salvador to Cape Town, St Louis to Moscow, Ross tracks down the criminals that lay down their law, finds out what makes them tick and what is being done to control them.
Episodes Comprise:- El Salvador
- Cape Town
- St Louis
- Moscow- Director:
- Anthony Philipson
- Cast:
- Ross Kemp
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