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British Film Forever - 2007 (4 discs)
Seven episodes celebrating our wonderful film history and it's genres. Hosted by celeb's
Quality: 8.5/10
Gangsters Guns and Getaways
Hardship Humour and Heroes
Loving Longing and Leg-overs
Corsets Cleavage and Country Houses
Magic Murder and Monsters
Bullets Bombs and Bridges
Sauce Satire and Silliness
Chillers - 1990-1992 (3 discs)
The Cat Brought It In; Sauce For The Goose; Old Folks At Home; The Thrill Seeker; The Day Of Reckoning; Puzzle; Slowly Slowly In The Wind; A Curious Suicide; A Bird Poised To Fly; The Stuff Of Madness; Under A Dark Angel's Eye; Something You Have To Live With
Twelve chilling stories based on the Patricia Highsmith short stories, introduced by Anthony Perkins
Quality: 7-8/10, 3 discs, 12 episodes
Game, Set & Match - 1988 (3 discs)
1. Game Set & Match - Berlin 1988, parts 1-5
2. Game Set & Match - Mexico 1988, parts 1-5
3. Game Set & Match - London, parts 1-3
Quality: 8/10, very good / x13 parts on x3 discs
Bernard Samson is an ageing British spy, who was once at the top of his game. He led his own spy team in East Germany from Berlin. Everything changed when he lost a team member and he's been blaming himself for it ever since. He now works behind the desk with a team of young highly educated spies, who've never seen a day of action. When evidence of a Russian mole within their ranks appear, he's asked once again to return to Berlin and use his experience and old contacts to help catch the traitor
Stars: Ian Holm, Michael Culver, Michael Degen, Anthony Bate, Amanda Donohoe, Gail Harrison, Frederick Treves
Ghosts - 1995 (3 discs)
Six ghost stories from BBC's Screen Two series, 1995
Three Miles Up
Blood and Water
The Shadowy Third
The Chemistry Lesson
Massage
I'll Be Watching You
Quality: circa 7.5-8/10
Stars: Paul Rhys, Moira Brooker, Douglas Henshall, Anita Dobson, Tim Pigott-Smith, Samantha Bond, Derrick O'connor, Cheryl Campbell, Alan Cumming
The Mind Beyond - 1976 (x3 disc set, 6 episodes)
BBC 2 Playhouse - "The Mind Beyond"
Six brilliantly bizarre tales of the Supernatural - great quality tv series. This is unmissable stuff!
Disc 1: For The Love Of A Good Woman; The Daedalus Equations
Disc 2: Stones; The Man With The Power
Disc 3: The Double Echo (time-coding onscreen throughout); Meriel, The Ghost Girl
Stars collectively: Geoffrey Bayldon, Donald Pleasence, John Bluthal, Johnny Briggs, Willie Jonah, Janet Street-Porter, Richard Butler, Richard Pasco, Judy Parfitt, John Wells, T.P. McKenna, Michael Bryant, Megs Jenkins, Peter Sallis, Jeremy Kemp, Anthony Bate, Gerry Cowper, Diana Fairfax, William Lucas
Quality: 8-8.5/10, UK tv
Leap In The Dark - Supernatural Series Volume 2 (3 discs)
Another set of these brilliantly innovate programmes. This later batch of investigations are all dramatised films, real life cases of supernatural occurences, and are both intriguing and cracking fun to watch!
Quality very good, circa 8/10
1. In The Mind's Eye - 1977
2. Jack Be Nimble - 1980
3. Room For Inward Light - 1980
4. To Kill A King - 1980
5. Poor Jenny - 1980
6. The Living Grave - 1980
Stars include: Diane Collett, Jack Be Nimble, Sally Baxter, Brian Blessed,
Carole Hawkins, John Carlin, Emma Jacobs, Lesley Dunlop
Leap In The Dark - Supernatural Series 1973-77 Volume 1 (3 discs)
Fantastic, rare time-capsule series investigating real life cases of the Supernatural. Amazing stuff. Quality: 7-8/10
1. Pilot (9th Jan 1973) (S1)
2. The Vandy Case (10th Oct 1973) Written by Anne Owen (S2)
3. Dream Me a Winner (14th Jan 1977) Written by Colin Godman (S3)
4. 2. The Fetch (21st Jan 1977) Written by Anne Owen (S3)
5. The Ghost of Ardachie Lodge (28th Jan 1977, time-coded) Written by Colin Godman (S3)
6. Undercurrents (4th Feb 1977) (S3)
7. Parlour Games (11th Feb 1977) Written by Anne Owen (S3
No Hiding Place - Set No. 1 (3 discs)
Remnants of this rare UK tv Detective Series: Set No.1
Disc 1: Beware of the Weepers - 1963 / Operation Tiptoe - 1963
Disc 2: Dead Ringer - 1961 / Ask Me If I Killed Her - 1966
Disc 3: Victim of the Dark - 1960/ The Widower - 1961
Tales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of half-way house between Dixon of Dock Green and 'Z' Cars. The detectives are still 1950's style with good elocution and an authoritative manner
Stars: Raymond Francis, Eric Lander
Quality: 6-7.5/10, variable, from various sources
No Hiding Place Set No. 2 ( 3 discs)
More remnants of this rare UK tv Detective Series: Set No.2
Disc 4: A Home Posting - 1966; The Common Murder - 1962 (1st two parts only)
Disc 5: Lockhart Finds A Note - 1959; A Bird To Watch The Marbles - 1963
Disc 6: Smokey - 1965; Expert With Salt - 1963
Tales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of half-way house between Dixon of Dock Green and 'Z' Cars. The detectives are still 1950's style with good elocution and an authoritative manner
Stars: Raymond Francis, Eric Lander
Quality: 6-7.5/10, variable, from various sources
Spy Trap - 1972/1975 (3 discs)
Spy Trap was a BBC drama that ran from 1972 to 1975, set around a British counter-espionage organisation
Casts include: Paul Daneman, Julian Glover, Tom Adams, Prentis Hancock, Michael Gwynn, Pamela Brown, Gabrielle Blunt
Directors: Valerie Hanson, Julia Smith, Ken Hannam
Quality: 8/10, variable but very good
Episodes as listed below
Disc 1 / Series 3
To Kill A Unicorn; Truth Won't Out; April Sixty-Seven;
The Melioidosis Report; The Merrin Memoirs
Disc 2 / Series 3
Look For The Ugly; The Cornet and the Beast; A Nice Place To Live;
With Friends Like You; Distant Relations
Disc 3 / Part of Series 1
Check Point episodes 1-4