The Comedy of Errors

A star cast including Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Roger Rees, Francesca Annis and Nickolas Grace features in a joyfully exuberant Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of Shakespeare s best-loved comedies. Conceived by Trevor Nunn, this musical presentation at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon is a carefree romp in which collapsing chairs, squirting soda siphons, funky wigs, uncompromising couplets and outrageous puns abound. The production features music by composer Guy Woolfenden, who received an Olivier Award for Best New Musical for the show s London production, and dance routines by world-renowned choreographer Gillian Lynne; Francesca Annis won a BAFTA award for her role as Luciana. The play itself is a comedy of mistaken identities involving two sets of twins. With their twin servants, they are separated in a shipwreck and thrown together by chance, and the plot twists and turns in total confusion!

Keep It In The Family - Seizoen 3 - Compleet

A resounding success over five series, this Thames comedy created by sitcom veteran Brian Cooke (Man About the House) is set in the delightfully chaotic home of Dudley and Muriel Rush, whose daughters, Jacqui and Susan, satisfy a hankering for freedom by moving into the family's vacant basement flat. Dudley, a gifted cartoonist but an inveterate procrastinator, finds it hard to concentrate amid the ever-increasing number of distractions to the despair of his long-suffering boss, Duncan. But at least he can still keep an eye on his wayward daughters, and their visitors! Starring Robert Gillespie, Stacy Dorning and Pauline Yates, this third series sees Jacqui contemplating marriage, Susan passing her driving test, and Muriel attempting to play matchmaker for hapless bachelor Duncan...

Man van de wereld - De Complete Serie

Zavvi - Het huis van de popcultuurMichael Strait is een ambitieuze fotojournalist wiens werk hem in alle hoeken van de maatschappij brengt - van de glamour van de catwalk tot politieke brandhaarden over de hele wereld. Met een oog voor problemen, geeft zijn job hem een vrijbrief om overal te gaan waar er een verhaal is - hij is echt een Man van de Wereld!

Look at Life - Volume 6: World Affairs

Look at Life was a regular series of short documentary films produced in the 1960s by the Special Features Division of the Rank Organisation and screened in their Odeon and Gaumont cinemas – replacing the circuit’s newsreel, Universal News, which had become largely irrelevant with the advent of television news broadcasts.

It Takes a Worried Man - Seizoen 2 - Compleet

It Takes a Worried Man hilariously charts the burgeoning mid-life crisis of Philip Roath – a thirty-something insurance salesman whose confidence is diminishing as rapidly as his hair and teeth.

Heartbeat - Complete Serie 14

Zavvi - Het huis van de popcultuurDe combinatie van misdaad en medische verhaallijnen, de charismatische vaste personages en de heerlijk nostalgische soundtrack van Heartbeat, dat zich afspeelt op het platteland van North Yorkshire in de jaren zestig, zorgde ervoor dat de serie twee decennia lang een vaste waarde was op de zondagavond. De serie ontving vele prestigieuze prijzen, waaronder die voor het beste drama in de piekuren en diverse prijzen voor ITV-programma van het jaar. Met een piek van 14 miljoen kijkers heeft Heartbeat een toegewijde aanhang verworven en blijft het wereldwijd op prime time kijken.

Thats My Boy - Series 5

Sitcom legend Mollie Sugden (Are You Being Served?) stars as Ida Willis, a fear-inspiring housekeeper who’s been unwittingly sent to work for the grown-up son she gave up for adoption as a baby. Since discovering that Dr. Robert Price is her boy, Ida’s been making her maternal presence sharply felt, giving both Robert s model wife Angie and adoptive mother Mrs. Price a run for their money. Written by Pam Valentine and Michael Ashton (You’re Only Young Twice), That’s My Boy was a long-running hit for Yorkshire Television. In this fifth series, the ever-determined Ida attempts to stop the building of a bypass, copes with the sudden disappearance of her brother, Wilfred, and manages to disrupt Robert’s talk to the Young Wives Group. Angie’s new career in commercials also gets off to a bad start, and there’s consternation for Robert when he sees the contents of Ida’s medicine chest...

Undermind - The Complete Series

Crime drama meets science fiction in this chilling and intriguing ABC series. Undermind, first broadcast in 1965 and starring Rosemary Nicols (Department S), Jeremy Kemp (Z Cars) and Jeremy Wilkin (UFO), is released here for the first time in any format.Detective Sergeant Frank Heriot is healthy, happily married, and has a good job. So what has made him cold and remote towards his family? And why is he suddenly plagued by terrible headaches? Is he mentally ill or is something far more sinister affecting his mind? Gradually, the answer becomes clear: Frank is the victim of an unknown force seeking to undermine public confidence in the people and institutions that form the backbone of the British Establishment. Doctors, teachers, scientists, clergymen and writers and are all among its targets; its ultimate aim is anarchy. Where will the mysterious menace strike next? It could be the man who sits next to you on the bus. It could be you...

General Hospital - Volume 1

A huge success for ITV throughout the 1970s, General Hospital carried on in the tradition of Emergency - Ward 10 and other medical shows of the 1960s. This highly popular series offers a dramatic insight into life at a busy hospital, featuring both compelling medical storylines and those highlighting the often strained personal lives of the doctors, nurses and consultants. General Hospital initially ran for 270 half-hour episodes as a twice-weekly soap-style afternoon serial before being reformatted into a series of hour-long, self-contained dramas in 1975. Out of this first series, only a comparative handful remain in the archive and this set contains all episodes known to exist.

The Arcata Promise

Once upon a time, in the small town of Arcata in California, a rich and successful actor made a promise to a young, attractive and vulnerable girl: I shall love you.Look after you. I don't want to hurt you or oppress you, or deny you in any way. But the promise was broken.After being constantly abused and assaulted, the girl left, and the actor fell into a self destructive spiral: drink, no friends, no work. Now, left alone in a shabby basement flat, he is haunted by that promise, the girl to whom he made it, and himself.Oscar winner Anthony Hopkins stars opposite Kate Nelligan in renowned playwright David Mercer's intense, harrowing screenplay, for which producer Peter Willes received a Silver Medal for Outstanding Creative Achievement from the Royal Television Society.First screened as part of ITV s Sunday Night Drama anthology, The Arcata Promise showcases a tour-de-force performance from one of the world's most significant and respected actors.

Tempo - Volume 1

ITV's seminal arts programme, Tempo ran for eight years through a decade which saw a creative explosion within all aspects of the performing arts. Its fluid style of presentation allowed an almost open-ended remit, enabling it to cover subjects as diverse as cinema, music, dance, photography, writing - and much more besides. At a time when television was being criticised for dumbing down, Tempo - more than any other series - showed that ITV could indeed go highbrow whilst still remaining populist - a philosophy and outlook that was to continue into the 1970s and beyond with its successors Aquarius and The South Bank Show. Unseen for decades, this two-disc set contains interviews, reportage and features on Jacques Tati, Stan Tracey, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Lee Strasberg, Tom Jones, Orson Welles, Harold Pinter, Charles Eames, Jean Luc-Godard and more.

Mr. Rose - Complete Serie 3

Zavvi - Het huis van de popcultuurHet blijvende karakter van hoofdinspecteur Rose van Scotland Yard werd voor het eerst geïntroduceerd in The Odd Man en It's Dark Outside, Granada's cult misdaadserie uit de vroege jaren '60, en in dit vervolg komt de bijtende detective tevoorschijn uit een rusteloos pensioen om een nieuwe reeks zaken op zich te nemen.

Fraud Squad - Seizoen 1 - Compleet

A well-remembered police procedural drama from the late 1960s, Fraud Squad showcases the exploits of Detective Inspector Gamble and his aide, Detective Sergeant Vicky Hicks, Metropolitan officers on the trail of the con-men and fraudsters who operate at all levels of society – from boardroom to bingo hall.

New Scotland Yard - Seizoen 2 - Compleet

Starring John Woodvine as the highly experienced Detective Chief Superintendent Kingdom, New Scotland Yard presents an authentic portrayal of detective work in the increasingly violent London of the 1970s. With ex-Chief Superintendent Frank Williams (former head of the Yard’s Murder Squad) acting as adviser, this second series also includes appearances by Dennis Waterman, Don Henderson, Philip Madoc, George Baker and Michael Kitchen.

The Cedar Tree - De Complete Eerste Serie: Deel 1

The Cedar Tree, dat werd uitgezonden aan het eind van de heetste zomer sinds mensenheugenis, was een van die budgetvriendelijke programma's (zoals Emmerdale Farm) die de vroege namiddag op ITV verlevendigden voor huisvrouwen, eeuwige studenten, mensen zonder werk en kinderen die van school gingen. Net als bij Emmerdale Farm was het bereik groter dan het bereik en de serie werd een immens succes - 108 afleveringen van een half uur in twee series voordat het werd aangepast om op zondagavond een uur op primetime te kunnen draaien tijdens de laatste reeks in 1978.

Arthur Haynes - Volume 3

Reigning supreme for almost a decade as ITV s biggest comedian, Arthur Haynes was one of the most influential and popular comics that television has ever seen. His shows remained firmly in the top ten until his untimely death in 1966 robbed the world of a comedy genius. Lack of repeats ensured that subsequent generations were denied Haynes comedic brilliance - until now.Featuring wickedly funny scripts from Alf Garnett creator Johnny Speight, they invariably drew on the familiar class antagonism which he would hone to perfection on Till Death Us Do Part. Haynes robust working-class delivery was inspired never more so than in the character of Hobo Haynes, a belligerent, heavily decorated tramp fond of recounting tales of patriotic bravery whilst being up to me neck in muck and bullets. This third great collection of episodes, this time from 1962, returns him to his rightful place among the comedy greats.

The Story of Film: An Odyssey (Limited Edition Steelbook)

Zavvi - Het huis van de popcultuurHet verhaal van de film: An Odyssey, geschreven en geregisseerd door de bekroonde filmmaker Mark Cousins, is het verhaal van de internationale cinema verteld aan de hand van de geschiedenis van de cinematografische innovatie.Vijf jaar in de maak, The Story of Film: An Odyssey beslaat zes continenten en 12 decennia, en laat zien hoe filmmakers zowel door de historische gebeurtenissen van hun tijd, als door elkaar beïnvloed worden. Het biedt een wereldwijde rondleiding langs de grootste films die ooit zijn gemaakt; een episch verhaal dat begint in de nikkelstad en eindigt als een digitale industrie die miljarden dollars waard is.Omschreven als een liefdesbrief aan de film, bezoekt Cousins de belangrijkste plaatsen in de geschiedenis van de cinema; van Hollywood tot Mumbai; van Hitchcock's Londen tot het dorp waar Pather Panchali werd opgenomen, en bevat interviews met legendarische filmmakers en acteurs waaronder Stanley Donen, Kyoko Kagawa, Gus van Sant, Lars Von Trier, Claire Denis, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Towne, Jane Campion en Claudia Cardinale.

Bonsai

This romantic drama is based on Alejandro Zambra’s award-winning novel about a young writer who turns to his first romance for creative inspiration. Screened in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section in 2011, the second feature from Chilean director Cristián Jiménez draws upon Proust’s Remembrance of Things Past in its delicate, witty and poignant exploration of the relationship between life and fiction, and the search for authenticity.Julio, an aspiring but unproductive young writer, meets with Gazmuri, an established author seeking someone to type up the manuscript of his latest novel. Julio doesn’t get the job, but in an attempt to save face he leads his neighbour and lover, Blanca, to believe that he is still transcribing Gazmuri’s novel. In fact, Julio is writing his own version of the novel, entitled 'Bonsai'.In need of a plot, he recalls his relationship with Emilia, a bright fellow literature student who died eight years earlier; and as his memories of their youthful romance are shaped and refined, the writing of the novel unlocks a sequence of flashbacks in which reality and fiction, past and present intertwine...

And Mother Makes Five - Complete Series 2

BAFTA winner Wendy Craig (Butterflies), stars with Richard Coleman, Robin Davies (Catweazle) and Oscar winner David Parfitt (Shakespeare in Love) in this highly popular sequel to Thames' hit sitcom And Mother Makes Three.Scripted by Wendy Craig and produced and directed by sitcom veteran Peter Frazer-Jones, the series charts the ongoing tribulations of Sally Harrison - the well-meaning, deeply loving but scatterbrained mother of two rambunctious teenaged sons, now sharing her life with second husband, antiquarian bookseller David Redway, and stepdaughter Jane.When the Redway family faces a spell of austerity, Sally rallies to the call with a vengeance. Yet, no matter how hard she works, it seems her efforts are always taken for granted. After taking some tips on the art of playing hard to get, she finds her bewildered brood finally start to sit up and take notice... but can calamity-prone Sally keep up the act?

Armchair atre - Volume 3

Pioneering, enormously influential and often challenging, Armchair Theatre was ITV's flagship drama anthology series. Bringing high-quality contemporary drama to a wider viewing public, the series easily demonstrated the network's potential to rival the BBC's drama output with diverse and powerful plays by some of Britain's most gifted writers.This set comprises twelve plays taken from the series' first incarnation, produced by ABC and broadcast in the 1950s and '60s. An astonishing roll-call of writers includes J.B. Priestley, James Mitchell, Fay Weldon and Alun Owen; Patrick McGoohan, Stanley Baker, Billie Whitelaw, Colin Blakely, Judy Cornwell and Hugh Griffith are among the celebrated and accomplished actors appearing in groundbreaking dramas ranging from the playful to the poignant.