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Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (ca. 650 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The stars play a pair of middle-aged, dating game dropouts as wary of romance as they are perfect for each other. Through rocky unsettling times, the pair lurch their way to companionship, friendship, and finally love. Contains all 26 episodes of this British comedy classic.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cleanin': With Saffy gone on holiday, Patsy and Eddy have the house to themselves. Book Clubbin': Eddy and Patsy's little book club meets to discuss their latest selection. Panickin': Eddy installs a panic room and gets locked inside it. Huntin', shootin', fishin': Eddy is doing some Royal PR so she and Pats decide to travel down to the country to see how the other half live. Birthin': Saffy has gone into labour, ruining Patsy's expensive outfit when...
63) The hanging gale
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 205 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.
Publisher
BFS
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (660 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
England in the early 1900s. Christina is sent to live with her domineering, crippled Uncle Russell and her cousins Mark and William at Flambards, a rambling, decaying mansion. Life at Flambards is a conflict of cultures, with Mark and his father clinging to a traditionalist obsession for horses, whilst William dreams of a career in the new technology of aviation. When Christina arrives, her presence generates a changing pattern of events and relationships....
Publisher
Ambrose Video Pub
Pub. Date
[2000 or 2001]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (173 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
King Leontes unjustly accuses his wife Hermione of adultery with King Polixenes. He imprisons Hermione, who falls into a swoon he believes is death, and orders her infant daughter to be abandoned on the shore. Sixteen years later, their daughter falls in love with Polixenes's son and when they come to Leontes' kingdom, her identity is revealed. Leontes and Polixenes become friends again, and Hermione is found to be alive after all.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (309 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The trials and tribulations of Major Sinclair Yeates, a retired English army officer who becomes a justice of the peace in Ireland during Ireland's independence from Britain. Based on the classic Anglo-Irish stories penned by Somerville and Ross.
67) Millions
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The United Kingdom decides to convert to the Euro in seven days. For the Irish criminal world, it's the biggest opportunity as there ever was. When a railway heist goes wrong and an enormous bag of money falls from the sky into the hands of Damian and Anthony, there's only one thing the two can do, spend it like there's no tomorrow. But Damian and Anthony have differing views on what to do with the money. What they both discover is that money can...
68) Keeping mum
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007], c2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
69) My left foot
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This is the portrayal of legendary Irishman Christy Brown who, despite crippling cerebral palsy, learned to use his one controllable extremity -- his left foot -- to become an accomplished artist and writer."--Container.
Publisher
Westlake Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Palfrey, an elegant, genteel widow, came from Scotland to London to take up residence at the Claremont Hotel. Though she had high hopes for the cosmopolitan pleasures of living in a big city, she is soon filled with a sense of uneasiness and gloom.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008], 2006
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 84 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A look at what happened when Mr. Rochester met and married his first wife, and how she became the madwoman locked in the attic. A prequel to Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre. Includes biography of Jean Rhys and cast filmographies.
72) Case histories.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (347 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective Jackson Brodie takes on the case of a girl who disappeared 30 years ago, helps a crime novelist who becomes involved in a road rage incident, investigates the mystery of a novelist's holiday in Russia, and looks for another missing girl after being released from jail.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dr. Finlay survived World War II and now in the aftermath is has been serving in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He returns to the small town of Tannochbrae in Scotland expecting to resume life as it was. However, while his irascible colleague Dr. Cameron is unchanged, everything else has been affected by the war. His fiancee has decided not to wait for him, he must deal with new colleagues and even the arrangements of the practice are overturned as...
Publisher
Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
Recently widowed and well-to-do Laura Henderson needs a diversion to see her through war torn London. On a whim she buys the derelict Windmill theatre in the West End and persuades impresario Vivian Van Damm to run it. The two don't seem to get along at all. Although their idea of a non-stop revue is at first a success, other theatres begin to copy the idea and disaster looms. Laura suggests they put nudes in the show, but Van Damm points out that...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's much-loved heroine is back on the case two versions of her 1961 novel. First program: The Pale Horse (2010): Miss Marple takes on a spooky murder case at an inn run by three modern-day witches. Bonus program: an earlier adaptation of The Pale Horse (1996).
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A moving, intimate, funny, and true-to-life look at the colorful stories of midwifery and families in East London in the '50s. Based on the bestselling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth. When Jenny Lee first arrives in Poplar, she knows nothing about hardship, poverty, and life itself. But Jenny is brought up to speed fast once she joins a team of midwives who provide care to the poorest women.
Publisher
Denon
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Special music ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Track List: Ballade; My Heart Will Go On ( Theme to Titanic); Sous les ciel de Paris (The Sky of Paris); Autumn in Venice; Granada; Marino Waltz; Kirmesliebe; Yeux Noires; Send in the Clowns; True Love; Moon River from Breakfast at Tiffany's; Edelweiss from The Sound of Music; Lost Heroes; The Blue Danube Waltz; Greensleeves; Adagio (Albinoni); Internezz (mascagni); Lullaby (Brahms)
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 196 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young woman's world suddenly turns tragic when, pregnant after a brief affair, her family forces her to marry a violent, drunken widower and banishes her to remote County Kerry.
Publisher
2 entertain/BBC Video
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
8 videodiscs (745 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The complete series of the British television sensation. Take a journey around Little Britain, a small and surreal parallel universe peopled by over-the-top eccentrics, lunatics and social misfits. Its the breathtaking debris of modern society. Meet Vicky Pollard, the gloriously incoherent trailer trash teenager. Emily Howard, the world's least convincing transvestite. Then there's Andy, sitting all day in his wheelchair painstakingly looked after...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gideon Warner is a hugely successful public relations consultant, giving advice about hair, clothes, and social activities to the wealthy. Despite his success he has become disheartened about his business circles and more concerned over his family.
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