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Following the highly successful release of series one and two, Pegasus presents series three of the smash hit comedy Love Thy Neighbour. Attracting over 17 million viewers at its peak, this must see 70's Tv classic explores the relationship of Union Jack-waving socialist Eddie Booth and his Tory-supporting, West Indian neighbour, Bill. The battle between Eddie & Bill continues... - Director:
- Ronnie Baxter
- Cast:
- Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper
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Welcome to Grace Brothers, an ailing department store where the management are beginning to show signs of wear and the staff are clashing! The complete second series starring Mr. "I'm Free" Humphries, outrageously bouffant Mrs Slocombe, naive Miss Brahms, haughty Captain Peacock and the rest of the Grace Brothers staff.
Episodes Comprise:
1. The Clock
2. Cold Comfort
3. The Think Tank
4. Big Brother
5. Hoorah for the Holidays- Director:
- Harold Snoad
- Cast:
- Mollie Sugden, Trevor Bannister, Frank Thornton
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There's a fresh helping of high jinx and mishaps for Robin and Vicky as they continue the struggle to run their bistro business, occasionally helped (but mostly hindered) by Vicky's overbearing father and their disaster-prone, one-armed dishwasher Albert Riddle. This complete third series contains all 13 episodes, originally transmitted in 1978.
1. You Need Hands
Nicholls decides he needs a cabaret at the restaurant.
2. The Candidate
Nicholls runs as a candidate in the local elections.
3. Just Desserts
An old flame of Robin's turns up at the restaurant.
4. Away from All What?
Robin gets the mumps and a stand-in chef is needed.
5. England Expects
Nicholls holds his regimental reunion at the bistro.
6. Once Two is Three
Robin has the chance of opening a new restaurant in Brighton.
7. Dinner Date
An old girlfriend returns to recapture Nicholls' fancy...
8. Everything You Wish Yourself
Why does Nicholls want to know his daughter's vital statistics?
9. Be It Ever So Humble
There's a crisis when Albert resigns as a washer-upper.
10. Day Trippers
Robin and Vicky go on a picnic that is anything but peaceful.
11. The Long Distance Runner
Has Robin really decided to take up jogging?
12. At Harm's Length
Vicky thinks that her Uncle Sam is playing around with another woman.
13. The Happy Hen
Nicholls buys the premises next door to Robin's, planning to open an omelette house.- Director:
- Peter Frazer-Jones
- Cast:
- Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton
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Love thy neighbour takes a lighthearted look at the problem of colour through the eyes of a white couple, Eddie and Joan Booth, and a black couple, Bill and Barbie Reynolds, who move in next door. In the first series, Joan and Eddie Booth (Kate Williams and Jack Smethurst) get a shock when they meet their new neighbours, Barbie and Bill Reynolds (Nina Baden – Semper and Rudolph Walker – Eastenders). We then follow the hilarious attempts by Eddie to get one over on his new neighbours such as at the Saturday night dance down at the work's social club when he tries to prove he is as good at limbo as everyone else. - Director:
- Anthony Parker
- Cast:
- Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper
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At its peak in the mid 1970's, 'Love Thy Neighbour' attracted over 17 million viewers, an audience any modern day comedy show would be proud of. Step back in time into this comedy classic and follow the hapless antics of staunch socialist and professional bigot Eddie Booth.
Episode 1
Eddie Booth's prejudice towards his black neighbours, Bill and Barbie Reynolds, has not lessened during the few months since we last saw him. When bill and Barbie decide it is time to hold a housewarming, Eddie tries unsuccessfully to prevent his wife Joan from going, and does his best to sabotage the party.
Episode 2
Whilst Bill Reynolds holds the voodoo cult in great respect, he's definitely not a witch doctor and he certainly does not need to invoke black magic to obtain tickets for the match between West Ham and Manchester united, nor to persuade Eddie Booth to dance naked round an oak tree at midnight.
Episode 3
There is much jubilation at the departure of "Clarkey" the foreman of the factory where Eddie and his black neighbour Bill work. The management decide that it will serve their interests best if they promote their most idle, difficult, loudmouthed and bigoted troublemaker. The choice is obvious.
Episode 4
The rivalry between Eddie and Bill reaches boiling point when, in the grip of sale-fever, they try to outwit each other in a desperate attempt to be first in the queue for the bedroom suite that their respective wives have set their hearts on. Strategy and vigilance is everything, so who is caught napping?
Episode 5
The TUC Conference at Brighton provides Eddie with the ideal excuse for a week away from the wife. He is not too pleased though when Bill tells him that he will also be there attending the conference as a Conservative Party observer. However, the two decide to make the best of it when they find out that they are sharing the same small hotel with two attractive young ladies. Unfortunately, the simultaneous arrival of their wives, Joan and Barbie, and the two young ladies' husbands results in a swift change in the agenda.
Episode 6
Eddie is the last person in the world you would expect to be caught up in a wave of religious fervour. However, when a group of revivalists call on him one Sunday morning, he is quick to answer. At first, his wife Joan is pleased at the transformation in his character, but when his enthusiasm changes to fanaticism, she enlists the help of Bill and Barbie to bring him back down to earth.
Episode 7
When Eddie has to 'toe the Party line, it's more to do with the G.P.O than politics. Forced to share his telephone line with Bill and Barbie, it doesn't take long for Eddie to get his wires crossed. When he overhears Bill talking about a plan to hi-jack him, Eddie fears for his life and runs to the police for protection.
Episode 8
"Keeping up with the Reynolds" is starting to prove difficult for Eddie, especially when Bill rolls out his newly acquired status symbol. Not to be out done, Eddie invests in an automobile of his own, but it's not just the car that ends up on the scrap heap.- Director:
- Stuart Allen
- Cast:
- Jack Smethurst, Rudolph Walker, Nina Baden-Semper
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Throughout his years sharing a flat (in hit sitcom 'Man About the House'), cookery student Robin Tripp (Richard O'Sullivan) dreamed of opening a little place of his own. Now he has it and he calls it 'Robin's Nest'. He lives with his girlfriend, Vicky, played by Tessa Wyatt. They love each other but can't agree on one thing - he wants to get married and she doesn't. Tony Britton also appears as James Nicholls, Vicky's divorced father. He thoroughly disapproves of Robin and the fact that he's bedding his daughter without benefit of clergy. Since he owns both the Fulham flat that Robin and Vicky live in and the empty (restaurant underneath, he's well-placed to exert a bit of moral blackmail...particularly when Robin decides the empty restaurant would be an ideal place to open his own little bistro...
Episodes Comprise:
1. As Long as He Needs Me
2. The Seven Pound Fiddle
3. Ups and Downs
4. Three Times Table
5. Great Expectations
6. Love and Marriage- Director:
- Peter Frazer-Jones
- Cast:
- Richard O'Sullivan, Tessa Wyatt, Tony Britton
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Throughout his years sharing a flat (in hit sitcom Man About the House), cookery student Robin Tripp (Richard O'Sullivan) dreamed of opening a little place of his own. Now at last, his dream project - a restaurant called Robin's Nest - is about to become a reality. Now settled down, Robin lives with his girlfriend Vicky (Tessa Wyatt), but as much as they love each other, they still can't agree on one thing - he wants to get married and she doesn't. Throwing another spanner in the works is Vicky's divorced father James Nicholls (Tony Britton). He thoroughly disapproves of Robin and the fact that he's living in sin with his daughter. Since he owns both the Fulham flat that Robin and Vicky live in and the empty restaurant underneath, he's well-placed to exert a bit of moral blackmail - particularly when Robin decides the restaurant would make the ideal premises for his own little bistro.
Episodes Comprise:
1. Sleeping Partners
2. The Bistro Kids
3. A Little Competition
4. The Maternal Triangle
5. Piggy in the Middle
6. A Matter of Note
7. Oh Happy Day- Director:
- Peter Frazer-Jones
- Cast:
- Tony Britton, Tessa Wyatt, Richard O'Sullivan
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Hilarious high-jinks from the Grace Bros. team as they troop off to sunny Spain for the staff trip of a lifetime. Cheerfully they disgrace themselves on the Costa Plonka. Mr. Humphries is free while Captain Peacock wants everything under the sun from Miss Brahms. Mrs. Slocombe only hopes her pussy can survive as the comedy capers carry on abroad in the riotous screen version of the television comedy classic. - Director:
- Bob Kellett
- Cast:
- John Inman, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton
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Welcome to Grace Brothers, an ailing department store where the management are beginning to show signs of wear and the staff are clashing! The complete first series including the pilot episode starring Mr. "I'm Free" Humphries, outrageously bouffant Mrs Slocombe, naive Miss Brahms, haughty Captain Peacock and the rest of the Grace Brothers' staff.
Episodes Comprise:
1. Are You Being Served? (Pilot Episode)
2. Dear Sexy Knickers
3. Our Figures are Slipping
4. Camping In
5. His and Hers
6. Diamonds are a Man's Best Friend- Director:
- Bernard Thompson
- Cast:
- Trevor Bannister, Mollie Sugden, Frank Thornton
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British Comedies of the 1930's: Vol.12 (1937)One Good Turn (1936) / Spring Handicap (1937)
The ebullient comedy films of the 1930's brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard. Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre, many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release. This ongoing collection showcases a wealth of rare features, each presented uncut...
One Good Turn (1936)
Leslie Fuller stars as a stall keeper who - along with his assistant and their horse - tries to save a musical show when it gets into trouble.
Spring Handicap (1937)
Will Fyffe plays a compulsive gambler and born loser who feels sure some money he's inherited will turn his luck to the better!- Director:
- Alfred J. Goulding
- Cast:
- Leslie Fuller, Georgie Harris, Hal Gordon
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Filmed in Rusholme, Manchester, for the great Mancunian Film Corporation, 'Cup-Tie Honeymoon' is a riotous post-war comedy from the North of England where the gags come quicker than the team's wingers! Joe Butler (Sandy Powell) is the soccer-mad son of the company chairman, who has to decide which team he will play for in a cup-tie: his school or his father's. If he makes the right decision he can also score with his dad's pretty secretary! Features an excellent supporting cast of Dan Young, Betty Jumel and Pat Phoenix, most of the film was shot on local streets and at Manchester City's Maine Road stadium. - Director:
- John E. Blakeley
- Cast:
- Sandy Powell, Dan Young, Betty Jumel
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Double bill of British wartime comedies directed by Oswald Mitchell.
Jailbirds (1940)Charles Hawtrey stars as Nick, a prisoner who escapes along with Bill (Albert Burdon) dressed in drag. Both get jobs in a bakery where they hide some stolen jewellery in a loaf Hawtry at his "campest" best.
Sailors Don't Care (1940)
Boat-building father and Son Nobby Clark (Edward Rigby, Tom Gamble) join the River Patrol service. They are 'vamped' by two nightclub girls who are spies. Manning a listening post on the ship 'Terrific' Joe and Nobby see a parachutist landing in the river with a time bomb in his hands....- Director:
- Oswald Mitchell
- Cast:
- Tom Gamble, Edward Rigby, Jean Gillie
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Reservist Tommy Smart (Tommy Trinder) has made his fortune selling army surplus and is not best pleased to be recalled to barracks for two weeks' compulsory training. Arriving with his trusty manservant, his dreams of a quiet life are shattered when he gets an ear-splitting welcome from his old enemy, Sergeant Thickpenny (Rufus Cruickshank), and the notorious RSM Brittain, who's already decided Tommy is an ''orrible little man'. The war might be over but with a mountain of spud-bashing to do and some highly irregular night manoeuvres to be carried out, it's just one skirmish after another around this highly active army base. But will Tommy make it back to civvy street in one piece? - Director:
- Maurice Elvey
- Cast:
- Tommy Trinder, Mary Parker, Dora Bryan
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British Comedies of the 1930's: Vol.11 (1939)Housemaster (1938) / Me and My Pal (1939)
The ebullient comedy films of the 1930's brought escape and laughter to millions of British cinemagoers, enabling veteran stars of the music-hall and theatre to reach out to a wider audience making household names of performers like Leslie Fuller, Hal Gordon, Bobby Howes, Ernest Lotinga and Gene Gerrard. Although comedy would prove to be the decade's most successful film genre, many of these classic early talkies have remained unseen since their original release. This ongoing collection showcases a wealth of rare features, each presented uncut...
Housemaster (1938)
The incoming headmaster of a venerable public school causes ructions when he unleashes a welter of red tape and puritanical 'reforms'.
Me and My Pal (1939)
A soft-headed driver is recruited by a racketeer who thinks he's just the kind of mug he could put to good use...- Director:
- Thomas Bentley
- Cast:
- Dave Willis, Patricia Kirkwood, George Moon
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When a wealthy newspaper proprietor passes away, his crooked business partner moves to secure the deceased's fortune by substituting a false will. But 'Corona' Flanagan (Bud Flanagan) is onto the fraudster, and his efforts to unmask the villain see him popping in and out of jail - which isn't all that bad, since the governor is an old friend of his - and dressing up as a Russian countess... - Director:
- John Baxter
- Cast:
- Bud Flanagan, Chesney Allen, Elsa Tee
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