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Odd man out
Features poems that look at the everyday classroom scene since grandads time with honesty, understanding and humour - often directly through the eyes of the main participants the pupils and teachers. School here are poems that look at the... at...
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Magpie
A hipper, trendier, more working class version of blue peter, magpie was transmitted live twice a week by thames television from 1968 to 1980. With its knack of tapping into the latest trends, the emphasis was firmly on fashion, music and fun and ...
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An evening with the royal ballet fonteyn and somes
Filmed on the stage of the royal opera house at covent garden, director paul czinners outstanding film showcases prima ballerina margot fonteyn in what was her first feature film. Partnered by michael somes, this film showcases acts from three of ...
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Armchair thriller the chelsea murders
When a barmaid and part-time model becomes a murderer s third victim in chelsea, the only apparent links are to a local reporter, mary, and three art graduates financing a film with local part-time jobs. As further terrifying and seemingly random ...
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Armchair thriller the limbo connection
Film writer mark omney arranges to meet his wife, clare, at their country cottage. But after treatment for food poisoning at a local clinic, clare vanishes. As mark follows the bizarre trail that might lead to her, he increasingly falls under susp...
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Bailey on...
Three documentaries commissioned by lew grade for itv between 1968 and 1971, and directed by the acclaimed photographer david bailey. Bailey was given unprecedented access to his subjects photographer cecil beaton, italian film director luchino ...
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Benny hill the benny hill annual 1985
Join comedy superstar benny hill in three more of his classic shows from the 1980s. known throughout the world for his combination of high-speed farce, risqu jokes and gorgeous ladies, it is these shows made for thames television that turn...
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Billy liar series 2
The second series of the spin-off television series of the 1963 classic film billy liar. This north england-set drama focuses on the walter mitty-esque protagonist, who dreams up a variety of adventurous situations to escape his drab everyday life.
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Bless this house complete series
This set features all 65 episodes of this smash-hit comedy series starring sid james as sid abbott, a successful travelling stationery salesman whose three main interests are chelsea, courage bitter, and crumpet. Unfortunately for him, his wife, s...
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Carbide and sorrel
A free-spirited, even anarchic east german comedy from 1963. In the summer of 1945, right after the end of wwii, factory worker kalle sets out from dresden for wittenberg to try and procure carbide, which is desperately needed for re-starting prod...
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Cottage to let
A stylish and assured film adaptation, with the original stage actors, of one of the first wartime stage thrillers about an unsuspecting inventor who is in danger of being kidnapped by a fifth columnist organisation. Leslie banks plays inventor jo...
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Elephant boy
Outstanding african wildlife photography and a touching performance by thirteen year-old sabu combine in this beautiful film from robert flaherty and zoltan korda, who shared the best director award at the 1937 venice film festival. little toom...
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Frost on sunday
One of the triumvirate of frost programmes that dominated itv weekends in the late 1960s and early 70s, frost on sunday concerned itself with the lighter end of the entertainment spectrum. made at a time when david frost was hosting a chat sho...
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Hadleigh series 4
Gerald harper stars as debonair young landowner james hadleigh. A unique character possessed of charm and a sharp intelligence, hadleigh is a man accustomed to total privilege and is the inheritor of the magnificent melford hall in his beloved nat...
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Hank williams the show he never gave
Hank williams remains one of the greatest figures of the county music world. Leaving a legacy of over 700 songs, performed more often than those of any other country composer, his unforced stage persona and heartfelt delivery formed a blueprint fo...
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Jack rosenthal at itv
One of britains greatest dramatists, the award-winning playwright jack rosenthal created some of the most critically-acclaimed and popular single plays of the last forty years. Instantly recognisable by their warmth and humour, rosenthals scripts ...
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Londons burning series 1
Blackwall fire stations blue watch take to the streets in the complete first season of the popular 1980s drama series. Viewers loved the quirky but human characters that put their lives on the line with every episode. This set features the origina...
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Londons burning series 8
This series was compulsive viewing and a mainstay of itvs sunday night scheduling during the late 1980s and 90s. The series emerged from the tv film written by the late, great jack rosenthal and followed a group of fire fighters belonging to blue ...
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Madame sousatzka
Sushila sen moves with husband and son manek from bengal to england. When her husband passes away, she has to struggle by herself to support her son, who is beginning to excel at playing the piano and is given tuition by russian immigrant madame s...
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Man at the top complete series 1
Man at the top, originally screened in the early 1970s, takes up the continuing story of joe lampton, the aggressively ambitious anti-hero of john braine s bestselling novel room at the top, its award-winning film adaptation of 1958, and 1965 sequ...
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Paul robeson collection
Actor, athlete, singer and civil rights activist, paul robeson was a true renaissance man who could sing and talk in more than 20 languages. He is best known in cinematic circles for the films he made in britain in the 1930s. This collection compr...
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Ready when you are, mr. mcgill
Scripted by jack rosenthal as part of granadas red letter day series, depicting a special day in one characters life, ready when you are, mr. Mcgill tells the story of a film extra who gets a chance for the big break in his career - two crucial li...
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Robin of sherwood complete
All the episodes from all three series of robin of sherwood, one of the landmark television series of the 1980s and, for many, the definitive treatment of the robin hood legend. It stars first michael praed and then jason connery as the eponymous ...
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Rock rock rock
Teenager dori tuesday weld has one ambition in life - to buy a dress for the forthcoming high-school prom. But shes not going to get very far if she keeps spending her pocket money playing elvis records on the jukebox. Events take a suprising tu...
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Seven years in tibet nieter, 1956
The story of austrian mountain-climber heinrich harrer who, in 1939, at the outbreak of wwii, was captured and interred in an indian p.o.w. Camp. Harrer escapes from the prison with several other men and, at great peril, crosses the jungles of ind...
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The architects
Shot in 1990, this portrayal of life in east berlin offers a snapshot of what life was like just before the wall came down and communism gave way to capitalism. The film follows the fortunes of architect daniel brenner as he attempts to design a t...
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The buster keaton chronicles
A collection of films starring one of the very greatest film comedians ever, buster keaton. Features one week, the saphead, convict 13, the scarecrow, neighbors, the haunted house, the goat, the boat, the playhouse, the paleface, cops, my wife s r...
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The death of adolf hitler
Frank finlay delivers an unforgettable performance as the leader of the nazis in this tv film made for lwt which recreates hitlers final days in his berlin bunker, haunted by delusions such as being in the vienna sewers of his youth and needing to...
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The doombolt chase complete series
Peter vaughan fox and ewen solon maigret star in this six-part adventure series, written by dr who contributor don houghton and aimed at a teenage audience. The doombolt chase combines science fiction and naval intrigue, with location filming,...
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The ghoul hunter, 1933
An eminent egyptologist has purchased a precious stone stolen from an egyptian tomb. A great believer in the ancient gods of the people whose history he studies, when he is buried he has the stone entombed with him in the hope that it will appease...
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The larkins series 3
Meet the larkins - the put-upon but crafty alf his domineering wife ada son eddie daughter joyce and her american ex-gi husband jeff a barely employable writer of stories for cowboy comic the bullet. They all live in a state that falls somewha...
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The man in the iron mask newell, 1977
This double emmy-nominated film rendition of alexandre dumas perennial favourite features strong performances from both richard chamberlain in a dual role both as the king of france and his imprisoned twin and patrick mcgoohan as the scheming f...
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The stanley baxter television set
Legendary scottish comedian stanley baxter is fondly remembered for his irreverent, risqu humour and wickedly funny impressions. No target was safe from baxter s sharply observed spoofs, and the lavish hollywood-style production of his shows made...
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The stranger welles, 1946
The chilling tale of a postwar nazi hunt that gave orson welles his first chance to direct in four years following citizen kane. Welles responded to the challenge by bringing the film in on time and within budget. It was his biggest commercial suc...
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Thick as thieves tv, 1974
Having served a three-year jail sentence, small-time house burglar george dobbs bob hoskins is released from prison one day earlier than expected. But when he arrives back at his fulham terraced house, it is his best friend and fellow crook, sta...
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Things to come special edition
A restored version of william cameron menzies sci-fi classic things to come, a pro-science fantasy film, showcasing the hopes and predictions of h.g. Wells, who worked closely on the script. Beginning in the then future of 1940 with the second wo...
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Three films by somerset maugham trio, encore and quartet
Three sets of adaptations of somerset maughams short stories, all introduced by maugham himself and featuring a host of famous acting talent. Features quartet annakin, crabtree, french and smart, 1948 , trio annakin and french, 1950 and encor...
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Robin of sherwood series 1 and 2
A benchmark of quality television drama in the 1980s, the bafta-winning robin of sherwood is presented here for the first time in high definition. michael praed stars as robin of loxley in richard carpenters influential and highly acclaimed re-...