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The Birling family are rich, pampered and complacent. It is 1912, and the shadow of the impending war has yet to fall across their lives.

As they sit down to dinner one night, celebrating the engagement of the eldest child, Sheila (Eileen Moore), to prosperous business man Gerald (Brian Worth), a knock at the door announces the arrival of a visitor who will change their lives forever.

All seven episodes from the second series of the medical sitcom from the pen of Eric 'Rising Damp' Chappell. In this series the ward is visited by a glamorous female film star, Figgis becomes obsessed with astrology, and Norman receives dancing lessons from his fellow patients.

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Lost Sitcoms revisits missing episodes of three classic comedies - Hancock's Half Hour ('The New Neighbour'), Steptoe and Son ('A Winter's Tale') and Till Death Us Do Part ('A Woman's Place is in the Home').

The scripts for these shows still exist but the original recordings are missing from the archives. BBC Comedy remade the shows on a stylised set, aiming to capture the spirit of the originals whilst bringing a new look and feel to the shows.

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Enjoying a holiday in the sun, Mr. (Jack Hulbert) and Mrs. (Constance Cummings) Fergusson are relaxing on board a chartered yacht off the coast of France - their only crew, the skipper-owner (Edward Rigby) and his adopted daughter (Odile Versois). On taking a turn around the deck, Mr.

Fergusson is rather put-out to discover a stowaway helping himself to the comforts of their dinghy. Though very charming, the stranger refuses to give any explanation for his presence - and the Fergussons soon find themselves involved in a rather more eventful sailing trip than they had expected!

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When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd) to drive to another airport.

The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.

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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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David Webb, a brilliant backroom boffin who is cripplingly shy and nervous in unfamiliar situations, has an ingenious scheme for converting his employer's factory to automation.

The project, however, requires more capital than the firm can provide, and to his horror Webb finds himself thrust aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth and heading inexorably to America, where he is expected to track down a famous industrialist and persuade him to finance the scheme...

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On a seaside holiday to Weston Super Mare, attractive Bristol secretary Shirley Freeman (Janette Scott) meets Dan Mackenzie (Ian Hendry) from her local paper. Dan and his partner Walter Carey (Ronald Fraser) persuade Shirley to enter a small time beauty contest which she wins.

Despite her success Shirley returns to her mundane office routine but is persuaded by Dan that she can make it as a Beauty Queen. Desperate to leave her humdrum existence Shirley packs in both her job and her fiance in pursuit of a life of glamour and celebrity in the bright lights of London. Increasingly smitten by her, can Dan persuade Shirley that he should be more than just her manager or will she sacrifice everything to succeed in the cut throat world of beauty contests?

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This collection is a tribute to the greatest British comedians of the 40s, 50s and 60s. Highlighting the classic moments in comedy these video's include rare concert festal extended television clips, renowned comedy scenes and seldom seen sitcoms.

The 1940s starring comedians such as Tommy Trinder, Jimmy Jewell, Jack Warner, Sandy Powell, Max Miller, George Formby, Terry-Thomas, Arthur Askey, Arthur Lucan and Kitty McShane, Flanagan and Allen, The Crazy Group, Naunton Wayne and Basil Radford and Stanley Holloway.
The 1950s features comedy greats Dick Emery, Thora Hird, Frankie Howerd, Sid James, Spike Milligan, Bob Monkhoose, Eric Morecambe, Peter Sellers and Terry-Thomas pins many more...
The 1960s starring much loved comedians Bob Monkhouse, The Two Ronnies, John Cleese, Tommy Cooper, Norman Wisdom, Wilfrid Brambell, Harry H, Corbett, Peter Cook, Dudley Moore, Marty Feldman, Tony Hancock, Sid James, Eric Morecamhe, Eric Sykes and Ernie Wise to name just a few!

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Fingers (George Cole) and his gang of criminals (including Sid James and Bernard Bresslaw) have the reputation for being the most dim-witted crooks London has ever seen.

Fingers, however, has a plan -to rob tight-fisted, loose-living millionaire and tax dodger Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) of his cash. The incompetent gang meet one failure after another and decide to change tack and kidnap Gordon's beloved daughter.

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"The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection" redresses this imbalance.

Featuring new transfers from the best available elements, in their correct aspect ratio, this multi-volume collection showcases a range of scarce films from both Basil Dean's and Michael Balcon's tenure as studio head, making them available once more to the general public.

The Ware Case (1938)
Spendthrift Sir Hubert enjoyed living the life of a lord - it was, after all, the only one for which he was fitted. But he ignored the entreaties of his desperate wife at his peril!
The Shiralee (1957)
A swagman (Peter Finch) looking for work in 1940's Australia suddenly finds himself carrying an extra burden - a 'shiralee' - in the form of his five-year-old daughter.
The House of the Spaniard (1936)
A man ignores a warning to stay away from a sinister house on marshland near Liverpool; when someone drowns close by, he finds the evidence doesn't add up...
The Beloved Vagabond (1936)
Maurice Chevalier stars as a poor aspiring architect who signs an agreement not to see his fiancée for two years, in order to save her father from financial ruin.

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The second version of John Buchan's classic thriller sees Kenneth More as the innocent man caught up in international intrigue. Richard Hannay meets a young nanny and takes her back to his flat. He soon learns she is not all that she seems to be and when she is murdered he becomes the prime suspect.

On the run from the police, he heads to Scotland and searches for the connection with the '39 steps'.

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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.

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Carry On Favourite Sidney James joins the team for the first time as the long-suffering Sergeant Wilkins, in charge of the sorriest bunch of Constables who ever fumbled with their truncheons.

There's nothing this collection of dim-witted buffoons in blue can't make a mess of, including dressing in drag to catch shoplifters! Sidney James is joined in this hilarious comedy by Kenneth Williams, Charles Hawtrey, Hattie Jacques and Joan Sims.

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Undeniably the King of Light Entertainment, Bruce Forsyth's career on television spanned a remarkable seven decades - from the London Palladium shows of the 1950's to over ten years worth of 'Strictly Come Dancing' from the mid-noughties.

An all-round entertainer and light comedian, Brucie was never better than in the run of shows he did in the mid 1960's with Morecambe and Wise's scriptwriters Sid Green and Dick Hills. Mixing music, dancing and comedy in the time-honoured tradition, ABC's 'The Bruce Forsyth Show' focused on laughter, glamour and big name guests, including Frankie Howerd, Cilla Black, Dudley Moore (and his trio), Tommy Cooper, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Diana Dors, Kathy Kirby, Julie Rogers, Harry Secombe, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones and more! This release contains every show that remains from this classic light entertainment series alongside the 1965 Christmas special and the incomplete Frankie Howerd edition from 1966.