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A.D.A.M. - Sunday Night Theatre 1973
A man builds an automated and computerised house for his disabled wife. Unfortunately things go drastically wrong and the computer (Automated Domestic Appliance Monitor) starts to take on a life of it's own, becoming interested in his wife
Quality: 7.5/10 *time-coding onscreen throughout
Stars: Georgina Hale, Mark Jones, Madge Ryan, Anthony Jackson
Dir: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
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
Ball-Trap On The Cote Sauvage - 1989
Hilarious portrayal of bonkers Brits camping in France - an absolute must-see classic!
Quality: 8.5/10, missing the first couple of minutes of intro
Stars: Jack Shepherd, Zoë Wanamaker, Miranda Richardson, Michael Kitchen
Big Jim and the Figaro Club - 1979
1950's set sitcom about Big Jim and his gang of builders, the Figaro Club, who are looking to enjoy life in their seaside town while avoiding work at all costs
Quality: 6-7/10, 6 episodes
Stars: Bob Hoskins, Norman Rossington, David Beckett, Helen Keating
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
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
Bright Hair - 1997
Quality: 8/10 logo
Stars: Emilia Fox, James Purefoy, Oliver Milburn, Jim Carter, John Bowe
The Clothes In The Wardrobe - 1993
Margaret would really rather become a nun than a housewife, but the wedding is all arranged, the guests have begun to arrive, so what can be done?
Quality: 6.5/10, BBC Screen two
Stars: Jeanne Moreau, Joan Plowright, Julie Walters, Catherine Schel
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
Coast To Coast - 1987
An American Army deserter and a black British guy meet, find they share a love of classic Soul music and plan to start a mobile disco using an old ice-cream van. But trouble soon comes their way
Quality: 8/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Lenny Henry, John Shea, Peter Vaughan, Cherie Lunghi, Pete Postlethwaite
The Cormorant - 1993
Inheriting a remote house in Snowdonia seems like a dream come true, but the dream becomes a nightmare for a family who discover it's not the Cormorant that comes with the house, but vice versa
Quality: 8.5/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Helen Schlesinger, Thomas Williams
Daisies In December - 1995
A grumpy senior citizen dumped at a retirement home by his vacationing family finds love with a new acquaintance who hides a secret
Quality: 9/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Joss Ackland, Jean Simmons, Pippa Guard, Muriel Pavlow
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
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
The Dark Side Of The Sun - 1983 (UK tv series/2 discs)
Supernatural thriller series dealing with a mysterious secret society on the Greek island of Rhodes
Quality: 7/10, UK tv series on two discs
Stars: Peter Egan, Patrick Mower, Emily Richard, Christopher Scoular
The Devil's Crown - 1978 (3 discs)
From the Heyday of 1970's British historical drama, comes this lavish thirteen part TV series
Starring: Jane Lapotaire, Christopher Gable, Brian Cox, John Duttine, Lucy Gutteridge, Patrick Troughton, Michael Byrne, Charles Kay, Jack Shepherd, Lynsey Baxter
Quality: 8+/10, logo onscreen, 13 episodes over x3 dvd discs
Diagnosis: Murder - 1975
A psychiatrist plots to murder his wife so he can be with his mistress but his wife mysteriously disappears before he can carry out his plan
Quality: 8/10
Stars: Jon Finch, Judy Geeson, Christopher Lee, Jane Merrow, Tony Beckley, Dilys Hamlett
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
Do Not Disturb - 1991
When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writer Eleanor Mont, other forces start to stir
Quality: 8.5/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Frances Barber, Peter Capaldi, Éva Darlan
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
A young girl takes an eye-opening Summer job at a seaside hotel in Wales
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Elizabeth Edmonds, Sue Wallace, Geraldine Griffith, Karen Meagher, Maggie Wilkinson
The Endless Game - 1989
A British Agent comes back from retirement, after several of his former colleagues, including his former lover, are murdered. He must examine events from his own past to determine who killed them, and why
Quality: 8.5/10, UK/Italy (the abridged 2 hour tv film version)
Stars: Albert Finney, George Segal, Monica Guerritore, Ian Holm, Kristin Scott Thomas
Falling - 2005
Henry Kent meets a lonely writer in her rural retreat and offers to tend her garden, but ulterior motives abound. Recommended
Quality: 7.5+/10, UK tv
Stars: Michael Kitchen, Penelope Wilton, Micaiah Dring
Framed - 2009
When the National Gallery in London is flooded the Director, Quentin Lester, decides to transfer the entire collection to the Welsh caves where the collection was stored during World War II. Great little film
Director: Andy de Emmony
Quality: 8.5/10, UK tv drama
Stars: Trevor Eve, Eve Myles, Robert Pugh
The Flying Swan - 1965
Two episodes of this partially lost sequel to 'The Royalty', follows day to day happenings in an hotel. Time-coding onscreen
Episodes: Trial Run + Double Trouble
Quality: circa 7/10, UK tv series
Stars: Margaret Lockwood, Julia Lockwood, Molly Urquhart, Hugh McDermott
Fair Game - 1994
Set in 1970 during the World Cup and Parliamentary elections about a couple hiking across England. The girl meets a rich Italian with an expensive sportscar, and of course there are parallels to how this all relates to soccer and politics. Funny, nostalgic and highly recommended
Quality: 8.5/10, UK tv film
Stars: Lena Headey, Julian Kerridge, Massimo Bellinzoni, Prunella Scales
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
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 Gorge: The Wednesday Play - 1968
A teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge
Quality: 9/10, UK tv
Stars: Billy Hamon, Constance Chapman, Reg Lye
Dir: Christopher Marahan
The Haunting Of Helen Walker - 1995
A TV production of Henry James' classic, Turn Of The Screw
Quality: 7/10, slight motion delay but watchable, you'll need to manually switch to 4:3 aspect for the correct screen size on playback
Stars: Valerie Bertinelli, Diana Rigg, Florence Hoath, Michael Gough
Have I Got News For You: The Pirate Video - 1997
A feature-length exclusive-to-video tape edition with the guys from Men Behaving Badly. Absolutely bloody hilarious!!
Quality: 8.5/10 (it's about an hour long)
Stars: Angus Deayton, Ian Hislop, Paul Merton, Martin Clues, Neil Morrissey
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
Heavy Weather - 1995
At Blandings (Sudeley) Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. A cracking P. G. Wodehouse adaptation
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Peter O'Toole, Judy Parfitt, Richard Briers, Roy Hudd
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
The Hound Of London - 1993
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson have to solve the murder of an actress in this rare television film. Includes Patrick Macnee bonus: One Foot In The Past: Bosham
Quality: 7/10 (UK)
Stars: Patrick Macnee, John Scott-Paget, Colin Skinner, Jack Macreath
The Incredible Robert Baldick: Never Come Night - 1972
A one-off UK tv short film (possibly a pilot for a series never furthered) about an aristocratic Victorian investigator who deals with supernatural mysteries, travelling from place to place in his personal railway train! 'A very stylish and literate film and one wonders why no more were ever made'
Quality: 7.5/10, UK BBC tv short film
Stars: Robert Hardy, Julian Holloway, John Rhys-Davies
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
Inspector Morley, Late Of Scotland Yard Investigates - 1952
Seven episodes from the 1950's British Crime series
Stars: Todd Slaughter, Patrick Barr
Quality: 6-7/10, central time-coding throughout two episodes :
Murder At Scotland Yard
The Red Flame
Murder At The Grange
Reilly At Bay
Dark Passage
The Case Of The Green Eye
The Case Of The Wise Monkeys
The Insurance Man - 1986
A young man working in a dye factory in Prague, notices a skin-rash growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body so he attempts to secure compensation from his former employers
Quality: 7.5/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Trevor Peacock, Alan MacNaughtan, Teddy Turner, Vivian Pickles, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Day-Lewis, Geoffrey Palmer
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
Killing Time - 1970
Sinister murders are committed at Douglas Willet's lodging house. This is absolutely brilliant, do not pass it by, ok!
Quality: 8.5/10, UK (One of two surviving eps from the Menace tv series)
Stars: George Cole, Annette Crosbie, Margery Withers, Patrick Durkin
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
Life After Life - 1990
A 70 year old man gets shunted into a retirement home and finds himself sharing his new world with two mystic sisters
Quality: 8/10, BBC Screen Tw
Stars: George Cole, Mary Wimbush, William Fox, Leslie Phillips
Memento Mori - 1992
A group of Elderlys start to receive distressing anonymous phone calls, the caller giving only one message; 'remember you must die'. A macabre tale with a killer cast!
Quality: 7/10, BBC Screen Two
Stars: Maggie Smith, Michael Hordern, Renée Asherson, Stephanie Cole, Thora Hird
Man With A Mission - 1970
Michael Grant was sent on a mission to kill - but when his victim is no longer an enemy, the hunter becomes the hunted
Quality: 8/10, UK tv (no time-coding), MENACE tv series episode
Stars: Robert Lang, Robert Urquhart, Alethea Charlton
Dir: Raymond Menmuir
May We Borrow Your Husband? - 1986
Adaptation of a story by Graham Greene. A middle-aged writer becomes involved with a newly-married young woman staying in the same hotel
Quality: 7/10, UK tv
Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Charlotte Attenborough, Simon Shepherd
Dir: Bob Mahoney
The Lorelei - 1990
A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague. A brilliantly weird tale.
Quality: 7/10, UK tv film (time-coding onscreen throughout, but don't let it put you off)
Stars: Amanda Redman, Michael Maloney, Ellie Haddington
The Man From The Pru - 1990
The story of a famous real-life murder case in which an employee of the Prudential Insurance Company was suspected of murdering his wife
Quality: 7/10, BBC Screen Two, some video interference
Stars: Jonathan Pryce, Anna Massey, Susannah York
Menace Unseen - 1988
A gripping three part tv mini series about a nuclear power industry conspiracy
Quality: 7.5/10, UK tv
Stars: Judi Bowker, Ian Ogilvy, John Sessions, Brenda Bruce
Minder On The Orient Express - 1985
Saving deceased gangster Jack South's daughter Nikki from an attack by hired thugs earns minder Terry McCann a trip for two across Europe, on the famous Orient Express
Quality: 7.5/10, tv film
Stars: Dennis Waterman, George Cole, Glynn Edwards, Honor Blackman, Patrick Malahide, Robert Beatty, Ralph Bates, Adam Faith, Amanda Pays
Mother Love (1989) 2xdvd set
Thrillingly dark late 80's drama involving madness, murder and betrayal
Quality: 8.5/10
Stars: Diana Rigg, James Wilby, David McCallum, Fiona Gillies, Holly Aird, James Grout
Natural Causes - 1988
Walter is an historical writer who hires a killer to murder his neurotic wife, planning to spend the rest of his life with his young secretary
Quality: 8/10, UK TV
Stars: George Cole, Prunella Scales, Leslie Ash, Benjamin Whitrow
Never Come Back - 1990
Shortly before World War II, a disillusioned journalist finds that the mystery woman he has been pursuing is a Nazi spy
Quality: 9/10
Stars: Nathaniel Parker, James Fox, Jonathan Coy
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
Miss Morison's Ghosts - 1981
The highly regarded and compelling true Victorian ghost story
Quality: 8/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Wendy Hiller, Hannah Gordon, Niall Toibin, Antonia Pemberton
Over Here - 1996
Wartime comedy drama about British RAF lads forced to share quarters and pretty much eveything else, with the US Airforce upon their arrival in the UK
Quality: 7.5/10
Stars: Samuel West, James Terry, Louise Brighton, Martin Clunes, Rebecca Charles
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
Precious Bane - 1989
In the early 19th century, a young woman with a harelip falls foul of her family's ambition and the superstitions of the local community, but meets a man who sees her in a different light
Quality: 9/10 (UK/Euro disc)
Stars: Janet McTeer, John Bowe, Clive Owen, Jane Wood, Jim Carter, John McEnery
Out Of This World - 1994 + Close Encounters - 1994
Out Of This World - 1994 (Sue Cook)/Horizon
Pilot episode presented by Sue Cook with Lyall Watson and Dr Susan Blackmore, featuring two witnesses who witnessed the ghost of a lady on Blue Hill Hill in Kent
Close Encounters: Horizon - 1994 (7/10 UK tv docs)
Have nearly four million Americans been abducted by aliens? A poll in 1994 claimed that one in forty of the US population are the victims of abduction by an alien race called 'The Greys'. In the last ten years, thousands of people, from around the world, have come forward to describe an experience that is astonishing in its detail and consistency
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
The Return - 1973
Royds wants to buy a property that has been empty for twenty years and has a sinister past. He insists on spending the night in the wedding chamber. He dies from fright during an apparently solitary night-time vigil. It transpires that he was the original owner of the house who murdered his wife twenty years previously
Quality: 7/10, UK tv short film
Stars: Peter Vaughan, Rosalie Crutchley
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
Poppyland - 1985
He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time
Dir: John Madden / BBC Screen Two
Quality: 6/10, rough copy but so good you have to get through it
Stars: Alan Howard, Phoebe Nicholls, John McEnery, Richard Wilson, Isla Blair
School Girl Chums - 1982 + St Ursula In Danger - 1983
Classic children's mystery stories set in the 1930's on this rare and unreleased double feature
Quality: 7.5/10
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
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
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
Strange - 2002-3 UK tv series + pilot
John Strange is an ex-priest who had dedicated his life to hunting down demons and the darker side of the church, a task which some of his former bosses stand in the way of
Quality: 7/10
Stars: Richard Coyle, Samantha Womack, Ian Richardson, Alastair Mackenzie