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Rare British Tv Films
A.D.A.M. - 1973
Quality: 7/10 *flashing timecoding onscreen throughout*
Stars: Willoughby Gray, Georgina Hale, Anthony Jackson
Anybody's Nightmare - 2001
Based on the true story of music teacher Shelia Bowler, who was accused of murdering her elderly aunt in 1982
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Patricia Routledge, Georgina Sutcliffe, Thomas Arnold
Arthur's Hallowed Ground - 1984
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Jimmy Jewel, Michael Elphick, David Swift, Vas Blackwood, Bernard Gallagher
Billy Bunter Of Grey Friars School
Quality: 5/10 (poor quality but all there is/region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Gerald Campion, Jack Melford, Julian Yardley
The Blue Boy - 1994
Marie is an insecure housewife whose husband is having an affair. The two of them take a holiday to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck they end up at the hotel Joe uses for his other activities. An eerie tale of love and deception
Quality: 7.5/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Emma Thompson, Adrian Dunbar, Eleanor Bron
Bright Hair - 1997
Quality: 8/10 logo
Stars: Emilia Fox, James Purefoy, Oliver Milburn, Jim Carter, John Bowe
Chillers - 1990-1992 Volumes 1-3 (x3 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 stories based on Patricia Highsmith short stories, introduced by Anthony Perkins
Quality: 7-8/10, x3 discs, 12 episodes
Close Relations - 1998
Many hidden secrets and desires come to light amongst the various Hammond Family members following the near-fatal heart attack of Gordon Hammond.
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Amanda Redman, Kate Buffery, Honeysuckle Weeks
Cor Blimey! - 2000
Dramatisation of the love affair between Sidney James and Barbara Windsor, played out against the backdrop of the Carry-Ons during the 60s and 70's. Great for Christmas!
Quality: 8.5/10, logo
Stars: Jacqueline Defferary, Geoffrey Hutchings, David McAlister, Samantha Spiro
Diagnosis: Murder - 1975
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Jon Finch, Judy Geeson, Christopher Lee, Jane Merrow, Tony Beckley, Dilys Hamlett
The Day Britain Stopped - 2003
One day in the near future, a rail strike, traffic congestion and a mid-air plane collision bring the UK's transport system to a halt, in this superb docu-drama
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Tim Pigott-Smith, Eric Carte, Andrew Shield
Diamonds On Wheels - 1973
Kids get mixed up with jewel thieves and stolen jewels in a 24-hour road rally - great cars!
Quality: 8.5/10 (region free dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Patrick Allen, George Sewell, Deek Newark, Dudley Sutton, Barry Jackson, Patrick Holt
The Enchanted Castle - 1979
Rare Children's adventure series set in a haunted Castle
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Candida Beveridge, Georgia Slowe, Simon Sheard, Diane Mercer
Experience Preferred...But Not Essential - 1982
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Elizabeth Edmonds, Sue Wallace, Geraldine Griffith, Karen Meagher, Maggie Wilkinson
The Grimleys - 1997 TV Pilot
Early 70's era TV comedy. Audio a bit noisy, video is good, VHS transfer
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Samantha Janus, Jack Dee, James Bradshaw, Nigel Planer, Noddy Holder, Alvin Stardust
The Haunting Of Helen Walker - 1995
A UK/US tv remake of Henry James' classic, Turn Of The Screw
Quality: 7.5/10, slight video fault but watchable, good audio
Stars: Valerie Bertinelli, Diana Rigg, Florence Hoath, Michael Gough
The Heat Of The Day - 1989
WWII spy drama about an intelligence agent using a girl, who's boyfriend is a spy, for his own devices
Quality: 7.5/10, UK tv
Stars: Michael Gambon, Patricia Hodge, Michael York, Imelda Staunton
Hunting Venus - 1999
Former pop-star turned con artist Simon Delancey is kidnapped by two fans of his eighties band the Venus Hunters, and blackmailed to re-form the band for one final show
Quality: 8/10 (a few a/v problems due to weather interference from the original broadcast recording/region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Martin Clunes, Neil Morrissey, Jane Horrocks, Mark Williams, Ben Miller
Jack The Ripper - 1973 (x3 Disc Set)
7-7.5/10 time-coding onscreen some of the time but not too distracting
Stars: Stratford John, Frank Windsor
(Please note: this is not included in the buy x3 get a 4th free)
Jamaica Inn - 1983
The respected Squire of a village is also the leader of a band of smugglers and wreckers who will stop at nothing the capture valuable cargoes
Quality: 7/10 (slight movement blur/region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Jane Seymour, Patrick McGoohan, Billie Whitelaw, Trevor Eve
Life After Life - 1990
UK tv film about a 70 year old man gets put into a retirement home
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: George Cole, Mary Wimbush, William Fox, Leslie Phillips
Miss Morison's Ghosts - 1981
Quality: 8/10 (region free dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Wendy Hiller, Hannah Gordon, Niall Toibin, Antonia Pemberton
The Man Who Lost His Head - 2007
A curator from an English museum is asked to return a mystical Maori relic to New Zealand
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Martin Clunes, John Callen, Nicola Kawana, Gareth Reeves
Mother Love - 1989
Stunning late 80's drama involving madness and murder
Quality: 7.5/10, x2 discs
Stars: Diana Rigg, James Wilby, David McCallum, Fiona Gillies, Holly Aird, James Grout
Never Come Back - 1990
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Nathaniel Parker, James Fox, Jonathan Coy
Over Here - 1996
Quality: 8/10 (region free Euro PAL dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Samuel West, James Terry, Louise Brighton, Martin Clunes, Rebecca Charles
Precious Bane - 1989
Quality: 9/10 (region free Euro PAL format dvd-r disc only)
Stars: Janet McTeer, John Bowe, Clive Owen, Jane Wood, Jim Carter, John McEnery
Run A Crooked Mile - 1969
A key is the only evidence that Richard Stuart finds after witnessing a murder, before receiving a head injury. Two years later he returns to England to solve the mystery. He still has the key
Quality: 8.5/10 (ad break banners)
Stars: Louis Jordan, Mary Tyler Moore, Wilfred Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway
School Girl Chums - 1982 + St Ursula In Danger - 1983
Stars: Lalla Ward, Martin Benson, Barry Jackson, Katy Locker, Patsy Kensit, Charlotte Long, Sally Pickering
The Scorpio Letters - 1967
Joe Christopher, an American ex-cop living in London, helps out British Intelligence following a suicide which sets him on the trail of a blackmailer known only as Scorpio
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Alex Cord, Shirley Eaton, Laurence Naismith, Oscar Beregi
Shoot To Kill - 1990
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Jack Shepherd, David Calder, T.P.McKenna, George Shane
The Snow Goose - 1971
Set at the beginning of WWII in an Essex fishing village, a young orphan called Fritha helps a snow goose that has been wounded by a shotgun blast
Quality: 5/10, good audio, poor video
Stars: Richard Harris, Jenny Agutter, Graham Crowden, Freda Bamford
Thacker - 1992
Retired Army Office George Thacker retreats to the English countryside for peace and quiet but comes up against Witchcraft and a violent gang of thugs, in this black comedy thriller
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Leslie Phillips, Margaret Tyzack, Graham Crowden, Celia Imrie
West Country Tales - 1982/3 (x2 discs)
West Country Tales was an early 1980s supernatural drama series based on real-life experiences sent in by viewers in response to a BBC appeal. These two discs contain nine of the thirteen surviving episodes from the two series
Quality: 7/10 variable
Narration: Keith Barron, Jack Watson
Massive cast includes: Wendy Richard, Nanette Newman, Jenny Hanley, Anita Harris
Witchcraft - 1992
Drama series about a crew making a film about witchcraft. The director gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Peter McEnery, Alan Howard, Lisa Harrow, Judy Campbell, Clive Wood, Georgia Slowe
The Witches Of Pendle - 1976
Time-code and title are onscreen throughout. You'll need to adjust the colour on your tv
Quality: 6/10 poor print
Stars: David Boliver, Christine Buckley, Noel Cameron, Sarah Fowler, John Fielding
Wolfshead: The Legend Of Robin Hood - 1969 TV Pilot
Farmer, Robert of Loxley is working his land when a fellow Saxon runs through their property. Robert denies seeing the alleged poacher, and the fight, which ensues, is destined to seal his fate. TV Pilot for unmade series
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: David Warbeck, Kathleen Byron, Dan Meaden
The Woman In Black - 1989
1st TV movie version. Very scary indeed
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Adrian Rawlins, Bernard Hepton, David Daker, Pauline Moran, Steven Mackintosh
Worlds Beyond - 1986
Anthology of short supernatural films on one disc:
Serenade For Dead Lovers; The Black Tomb; The Barrington Case; The Eye Of Yemanja; Voice From The Gallows; Home; Captain Randolph; Suffer Little Children
Quality: 7/10
Stars include: Judi Bowker, Karen Black, Denholm Elliott, Connie Booth, David Warner
