ITV Productions.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 293 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Slippery is an anxiety-ridden British doctor suffering from all those symptoms and more. His wife has embarked on a new career and perhaps an extramarital affair or two. His three oversexed sons mock him without mercy. And at work he's tangled in red tape and tormented by a flaky colleague.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A woman starts writing a diary as part of a public project, called Mass Observation, after England declares war on Germany. Nella Last, a housewife, kept a MO diary from 1939 until 1965.
3) Painted lady
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 198 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
4) Affairs of the heart: Series one :classic tales of love and loss based on the fiction of Henry James
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 351 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Romantic tales from the late Victorian high society of love and loss. These unfold from the country houses of England to the drawing rooms of New York, from the palazzos of Venice to the art studios of London. Scoundrels and schemers collide with ingénues and admirers in the terribly intricate affairs of the heart.
Series
Complete Inspector Lewis volume disc 1-4
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 350 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. Lewis barely makes it out of the airport before falling into his first murder investigation. But even if he solves the case, will his new boss still move him from the front lines to a training...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In Jane Austen's gentle parody of gothic fiction, romance novel addict Catherine Morland is invited to a medieval country house that appeals to her most lurid fantasies. She forms a close friendship with the younger son on the estate, Henry Tilney, but their budding romance is mysteriously cut short"--Container.
Publisher
KOCH Vision
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (354 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Meet six ordinary people with extraordinary lives. A married couple falling in love again after 40 years, two fighting sisters reunited by fate, a taxi driver with an unexpected friendship, and a wife and her lover all have their lives intertwine.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (approximately 600 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The protagonist of this 12-part British drama series was Detective Chief Jack Mowbray, played by Ross Kemp. When his district was invaded by an elusive serial killer, Mowbray was brow beaten by his boss, DCS Henderson (Kenneth Cranham), to catch the murderer yesterday, if not sooner. As the unknown villain continued to cut a bloody swath through the moors, the overworked Mowbray's personal life suffered mightily. Series 1 follows the hunt for a serial...
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
How far will Brendan go to get his revenge on Miranda? Convinced that Brendan is involved when people she loves begin turning up dead, Miranda realizes that the only way to beat her manipulative ex-lover is to turn the tables on him.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Jack Frost returns to seek out the unpleasant truth, often at great personal cost. This season Frost raids an illegal dogfighting ring, hoping to nab a local gangster, but the thug eludes him, and a brutal killing follows. Meanwhile, he is disturbed to find that someone is copying a series of unsolved crimes from years earlier, and Frost himself may be the killer's next victim. Most unexpected of all, love finally finds the aging detective,...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 280 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three episodes from the British detective series featuring Detective Inspector Jack Frost, a policeman who approaches his cases with a dry wit and sense of moral justice, as he hunts down criminals in Denton, England. In episode 1, DI Frost must deal with a desperate mother and solve a 20 year old missing persons case following the discovery of a teenage girl's remains. In episode 2, Frost tries to find out why a clown is dead and help find a man...
12) Stalag Luft
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In a spoof of the great wartime escape movies, arrogant RAF Officer James Forrester, who has 23 escape attempts to his name and zero escapes, plans the Big One, the escape of all 327 prisoners from a POW camp in Germany. The only problem is he expects them to escape all at once"--Container.
13) Time for murder
Publisher
Granada Television Ltd
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 309 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Each author gives the mystery genre his or her own twist, with results from humorous to the macabre. You will visit conventional English drawing rooms, a boy's prep school, a luxury health spa and a snowbound hotel.
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 225 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cordelia Gray is a young, aspiring private detective learning the ropes from her mentor, disgraced ex-policeman Bernie Pryde. But when Pryde's sudden suicide leaves Cordelia the sole proprietor of his ramshackle agency, she is forced to continue her education on the job with only Mrs. Sparshott, the agency's longtime secretary and Cordelia's new assistant on her team. Sacrifice: A prominent scientist hires Cordelia to investigate why his son suddenly...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (630 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend test his relationship with Lewis; a case of rape and murder causes Lewis to...