Items Matching Tag 'Retro'

Parkin's Patch - The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Before HEARTBEAT there was PARKIN’S PATCH... A forerunner to Heartbeat, Parkin’s Patch chronicles the work of a police constable and his colleagues in a fictional village in the North Yorkshire Moors during the late 1960s. Available for the first time, this set contains all 26 episodes, boasting early appearances by Warren Clarke, Pauline Collins, Michael Elphick, Peter Sallis and James Grout;...

Animal Kwackers (DVD Details)
This immensely popular 1970s kids’ series introduced a new ensemble to the world of British pop… one brought to Earth by a flying saucer and entirely unhindered by musical differences or lip-sync issues! Meet the Animal Kwackers – Rory the Lion, Boots the Tiger, Bongo the Dog and Twang the Monkey. Britain’s answer to the Banana Splits – minus the psychedelia and the alarming camera angles –...

Tales From The Darkside: Season 2 Box Set (DVD Details)
Welcome to a world where the strange and the ordinary are brought together to tell wicked stories....with a twist. Welcome to Tales From The Darkside: Season 2. Featuring major stars from film and TV, these 24 spine-tingly stories of heart-stopping suspense and killer thrills promise to leave you dead-bolting the door and sleeping with the lights on for any nights to come. "Until next time,...

The Return Of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (DVD Details)
Renew your acquaintance with two of the very best secret agents, Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin, those smooth, stylish, self assured men from U.N.C.L.E. It has been fifteen years since this intrepid pair made international espionage an art at United Network Command for Law and Enforcement. Their nemesis THRUSH, has been inactive for years. But when THRUSH announces that it has captured an...

Sadie, It's Cold Outside: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Written by multi-award-winning playwright Jack Rosenthal – one of Britain's best-loved and most consistently successful screenwriters - Sadie, It's Cold Outside is a wry and sympathetic comedy starring Rosemary Leach and Bernard Hepton as Sadie and Norman Potter, a world-weary middle-aged couple lamenting their lost dreams in an exhausting, increasingly hostile world. When Sadie was a little...

My Old Man: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
Clive Dunn (Dad's Army) is Sam Cobbett, the geriatric hero of this hilarious sitcom which takes a look at the generation gap – and in particular, what happens when a wily, outspoken old curmudgeon ends up living under the same roof as his daughter and son-in-law. This second series also stars Priscilla Morgan, Edward Hardwicke and Jon Laurimore. Having been prised from his terraced house in...

Miss Jones and Son: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
Paula Wilcox (Man About the House) stars in this comedy series depicting the complicated life of Elizabeth Jones, a young woman bringing up her baby alone at a time when single mothers faced widespread disapproval and prejudice. Written by Richard Waring (And Mother Makes Three) and produced and directed by Peter Frazer-Jones (Man About the House, Robin’s Nest), Miss Jones and Son was the first...

Magic Ball (The): The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
THIS TITLE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 18 NOVEMBER 2012. Written and narrated by Eric Thompson (the driving force and voices behind the original Magic Roundabout), The Magic Ball was the first production from animation wizards Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall, who would go on to create such masterpieces as Danger Mouse, Count Duckula and Chorlton and the Wheelies. First broadcast on ITV in the...

Sergeant Cork: The Complete Series 3 (DVD Details)
THIS TITLE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 18 NOVEMBER 2012. In the melting pot of 1890s London, Sergeant Cork works for Scotland Yard’s newly formed Criminal Investigation Department, enthusiastically employing the pioneering techniques of the new science of forensics to tackle crimes born of poverty and deprivation, passion, vengeance and greed. Ably assisted by youthful detective Bob Marriott,...

Tyrant King (The): The Complete Series (DVD Details)
THIS TITLE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 11 NOVEMBER 2012. Directed by Mike Hodges (Get Carter, I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead), written by Ace of Wands creator Trevor Preston, and starring Philip Madoc, Murray Melvin and juvenile leads from the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, The Tyrant King follows three teenagers as they traverse London searching for an answer to a hidden secret. A quest...

Jokers Wild: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
THIS TITLE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 11 NOVEMBER 2012. Running for five highly successful years, Jokers Wild is a lively, rapidly paced panel game in which two teams of top comics compete for laughs from a studio audience. While team members delve into their repertoires for winning jokes based on topics drawn randomly from an oversized pack of cards, bonus points may be scored by opposing...

Red Letter Day: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
THIS TITLE WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE UNTIL 4 NOVEMBER 2012. It happens in almost everyone’s life. There is a special day – a day of unusual significance. A turning point in life, perhaps in career, romance or fortune; a day to remember. This anthology of plays, each as individual as the people and events portrayed, looks at seven such Red Letter Days. Ranging from the poignant to the surreal,...

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Series 4 (DVD Details)
As this ground-breaking action adventure series went into its final series, the unparalleled genius of producer Irwin Allen kicked into creative overdrive, resulting in some of the greatest science-fiction television of all time. From rampaging gorillas and diabolical puppet masters to time-travelling androids and interplanetary kidnappings, this is the show that defined the genre, setting new...

City/Secret Beneath the Sea - The Complete Series (DVD Details)
A highly popular sequel to ABC's smash-hit Pathfinders trilogy, the two Beneath the Sea series once again star Gerald Flood - this time as intrepid reporter Mark Bannerman. Created by cult favourite writer John Lucarotti (Doctor Who, The Avengers, Into the Labyrinth, Star Maidens) both series see scientific journalist Mark Bannerman and his assistant Peter Blake get into (and out of!) all...

For the Love of Ada: The Complete Series 3 (DVD Details)
Irene Handl and Wilfred Pickles star as two senior citizens who fall in love in this gentle sitcom, written by Vince Powell and Harry Driver (Nearest and Dearest, Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width). Produced by Ronnie Baxter and boasting theme music by Ron Grainer, this release contains the complete third series, also featuring appearances by Mollie Sugden, Edwin Richfield and Harold Goodwin....

Pathfinders in Space Trilogy (The) (DVD Details)
One of ITV's earliest dramas written specifically for children and a precursor to the development of Doctor Who, Sydney Newman's Pathfinders series is one of the most eagerly awaited archive television releases of all time. Over three series the Pathfinders journeyed to the Moon and other worlds, proving tremendously successful with the viewing public and even getting into the regional top ten...

Children of the Stones: The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Children of the Stones was an undisputed landmark in children's television. Jeremy Burnham and Trevor Ray's groundbreaking fantasy series, starring Iain Cuthbertson and Gareth Thomas and filmed largely in Avebury in Wiltshire, combined scientific fact and fiction with pagan mythology and rural folklore in its portrayal of a village held captive by the sinister power of its Neolithic stone circle....

Morecambe and Wise: Two of a Kind - The Complete Series 1 (DVD Details)
Eric's the one with the glasses... Morecambe and Wise, described as 'the most illustrious, and the best-loved, double act that Britain has ever produced', first achieved their phenomenal television success in the early 1960s with this long-running hit series for ATV. Showcasing their mildly anarchic humour, impeccable sense of timing and keen eye for the absurd in a feast of uproarious sketches...

Armchair Theatre: Volume 2 (DVD Details)
Armchair Theatre was ITV’s flagship drama anthology series. Initially screened between 1956 and 1973, it was hugely popular, with viewing figures occasionally reaching twenty million, and became a byword for quality in televised drama. Pioneering, immensely influential and sometimes challenging in its content, the series consistently drew upon a wide range of talent. Armchair Theatre became a...

Look at Life: Volume 3 - Science (DVD Details)
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. Marvellously concise and beautifully shot, these 'slice of life' colour...

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: Series 3 Box Set (7 Discs) (DVD Details)
As the SSRN Seaview's ongoing mission continues, her crew boldly defends the free world from the enemies of mankind, battling sinister foreign powers, deadly sea creatures, deranged scientists bent on world domination and the imminent threat of nuclear doomsday. The brainchild of Irwin Allen, Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea was years ahead of its time, reflecting the key social and political...

Kojak: Season 4 (DVD Details)
A bald New York City detective cop, Lt. Theo Kojak, is primarily best-known for his no-nonsense capacity of bringing criminals and sending them to justice, in a calmly and quietly matter. He also had the knack of licking lollipops and using his popular catch-phrase, 'Who Loves Ya, Baby?' At work in the New York Precinct, prior to loading up several cases on the scene of the crime, he frequently...

Michael Bentine's Potty Time: Series 3 (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
The pages of the great Potty Encyclopaedia are opened once again with thirteen classic episodes of this marvellously madcap puppet series a favourite of children and adults alike. Created, written and presented by the multi-talented ex-Goon Michael Bentine, Potty Time ran for seven years and was voted into 71st place in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Kids TV Shows poll. Watch re-enactments of some of...

The Upchat Collection (The Upchat Line / The Upchat Connection) - Complete Series Set (DVD Details)
Sit-com favourites John Alderton and Robin Nedwell share the role of a homeless writer with a highly appropriate pen-name. Along with his many pseudonyms, the roguishly charming Mike Upchat has a rare ability to pass himself off as the character which best fits any given situation. And since Mike lives out of a left-luggage locker in Marylebone Station, that situation will often require his...

The Strange World of Gurney Slade - The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Both firmly of its time and spectacularly ahead of it, The Strange World of Gurney Slade is to television comedy what The Prisoner has become to television drama - brilliantly inventive, startlingly surreal and unlike anything previously seen on television. Anthony Newley stars as an actor who walks off the set of a banal sit-com and into a fantasy world of his own imagination. In this surreal...

Dramarama: Spooky - The Complete Series (DVD Details)
Providing a showcase for some of Britain’s most accomplished screenwriters, Dramarama was an acclaimed 1980s anthology series which became a staple part of children’s television viewing and is still widely remembered today. Spooky aired shortly before the main series was broadcast, exploring the supernatural vein that would appear throughout Dramarama’s run. These outstanding screenplays...

Rawhide: Season 3 (8 Discs) (DVD Details)
Head 'em up and move 'em out! Academy Award-winner Clint Eastwood is back in the saddle as ramrod Rowdy Yates in the third action packed series of classic TV Western, Rawhide. Hit the Sedalia Trail with Gil Favor (Eric Fleming), Rowdy and their hard-driving gang of drovers as they take on murderous outlaws, crooked ranchers and renegade soldiers in this rousing eight-disc DVD set, jam-packed...

Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
The SSRN Seaview, the world's most technologically advanced submarine, is back and more powerful than ever - now housing the spectacular Flying Sub! Climb aboard with Admiral Nelson (Richard Basehart), Captain Crane (David Hedison) and their crew as they brave hostile waters and explore uncharted depths, protecting the world from sinister foreign agents, deadly sea creatures and evil scientists...

Land Of The Giants: The Complete Series 2 (DVD Details)
The crew and passengers of the crashed spacecraft Spindrift return for the second and final instalment of Irwin Allen's legendary sci-fi series, Land of the Giants. Captain Steve Burton (Gary Conway) leads the team of survivors as they continue to fight for survival on the hostile giant planet where they are stranded. With the totalitarian government's Special Investigations Department out to...

The Arthur Haynes Show: Volume 1 (2 Discs) (DVD Details)
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...