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A real classic 29 February 2004
Barry Letts - filmography
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The Invisible Man
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Jonathan Adams, Michael Sheard, Frank Middlemass
Director: Brian Lighthill
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A sinister man swathed in bandages arrives at a lonely village in the countryside, unravells his disguise and reveals his terrible secret. This 1984 BBC television adaptation of the classic H.G. Wells novel, about a scientist who discovers the secret of invisibility and is slowly driven mad when he ..read more »
 
58%
from 199 members
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Jane Eyre
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Zelah Clarke, Judy Cornwell, Timothy Dalton
Director: Julian Amyes
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1983 BBC mini-series adapted from Charlotte Brontė's classic novel. Young orphan Jane Eyre (Zelah Clarke) becomes the governess at Thornfield Hall, the mansion of the mysterious Mr Rochester (Timothy Dalton). The two fall for each other but there are strange goings-on in the house and the reason ..read more »
67%
from 897 members
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Beau Geste
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Anthony Calf, Jonathan Morris, Benedict Taylor
Director: Douglas Camfield
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BBC television adaptation of the classic novel about three adopted brothers who join the French Foreign Legion. The Geste brothers are adopted by the wealthy Lady Brandon (Wendy Williams), but over time her financial situation deteriorates until she is forced to consider selling her famous Blue ..read more »
40%
from 624 members
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Sense And Sensibility
on DVD
(1981)
Starring: Tracey Childs, Irene Richard, Diana Fairfax
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A BBC adaptation of Jane Austen's famous novel. Sisters Elinor (Irene Richard) and Marianne (Tracey Childs) Dashwood lose their family fortune to spiteful relatives, and are forced to seek out suitable husbands in order to survive. While Marianne falls for the heartless John Willoughby (Peter ..read more »
60%
from 797 members
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The Old Curiosity Shop
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Colin Jeavons, Trevor Peacock, Granville Saxton
Director: Julian Amyes
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1970s BBC costume drama based on the novel by Charles Dickens. Natalie Ogle stars as thirteen-year-old Nell Trent, or 'Little Nell', who lives in the shabby antique shop owned by her ailing grandfather (Sebastian Shaw). However, grandfather is heavily in debt to his wicked landlord, Mr Quilp (..read more »
55%
from 234 members
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Lorna Doone
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1976)
Starring: Emily Richard, John Sommerville, Patrick Troughton
Director: Joan Craft
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All five episodes of the TV series, adapted from R.D. Blackmore's classic novel, originally broadcast by the BBC in 1976. John Ridd (John Somerville) is a young West Country yeoman whose father has been murdered by the local Doone clan - an aristocratic family whose evil streak is perhaps best ..read more »
47%
from 27 members
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Doctor Who - Robot
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Tom Baker
Director: Christopher Barry
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The newly regenerated Doctor (Tom Baker), assisted by Sarah, Harry and the Brigadier, has to track down the theft of the components for a powerful new laser gun, and the death of a prominent politician. Sarah investigates the mysterious Think Tank, where it becomes clear that robot K-1 is being ..read more »
72%
from 1,311 member
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Doctor Who - U.N.I.T Files
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker
Director: Barry Letts, Paddy Russell
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The Third Doctor faces ravenous prehistoric monsters in deserted London, while the Fourth Doctor battles robot duplicates in a strange village - but are the forces of UNIT friends or foes? Find out in these classic adventures!
The Android Invasion: When the TARDIS lands in the sleepy English ..read more »
79%
from 257 members
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Doctor Who - Carnival Of Monsters
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Jon Pertwee
Director: Barry Letts
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Another adventure for everyone's favourite Time Lord. The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Jo find themselves arrested as stowaways after the TARDIS makes an unplanned arrival on the S.S. Bernice, en route to India in 1926. However, the ship is in fact trapped in a miniscope - the mechanical peepshow of ..read more »
68%
from 2,179 members
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Doctor Who - The Green Death
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Jon Pertwee
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Another adventure for everyone's favourite Time Lord. UNIT is called to a sleepy mining town in South Wales to investigate the mysterious death of a miner in an inactive pit. The Wholeweal environmental community believe that a local chemical company has something to do with the death, and when the ..read more »
71%
from 2,118 members
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Moonbase 3 - The Complete Series
(2 discs)
(1973)
Starring: Ralph Bates, Donald Houston
Director: Ken Hannam
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All six episodes from the cult 1970s sci-fi series. In 'Departure and Arrival' the new director of the moonbase, David Caulder, uncovers the truth behind an apparent bureaucratic slip which led to the former director's demise. 'Behemoth' sees Caulder investigate a series of unexplained murders. '..read more »
51%
from 299 members
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Doctor Who - Dalek War
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1973)
Starring: Katy Manning, Jon Pertwee, Tim Preece
Director: David Maloney, Paul Bernard
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12 classic episodes of the sci-fi adventure series, featuring Jon Pertwee as the third Doctor. Two six-part stories are included: 'Frontier in Space' (which marked Roger Delgado's final appearance in the role of The Master) and 'Planet of the Daleks', which boasts a colour-restored version of the ..read more »
77%
from 612 members
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Doctor Who - The Day Of The Daleks
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Jon Pertwee
Director: Paul Bernard
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Jon Pertwee stars as the time travelling Doctor, who once more finds the planet under threat. Trying to avert a war which will bring Earth under the domination of the Daleks and their ferocious slaves (the Ogrons), the Doctor fights one of the biggest challenges he has faced so far.
78%
from 335 members
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Doctor Who - Peladon Tales
(3 discs)
on DVD
(1972)
Starring: Sonny Caldinez, Katy Manning, Nina Thomas
Director: Lennie Mayne
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Two classic Doctor Who adventures set on the planet of Peladon, starring Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor, with Katy Manning as his companion in the first story and Elisabeth Sladen in the second. In the four-parter 'The Curse of Peladon' (1972), the Doctor (Pertwee) finally seems to have escaped ..read more »
76%
from 456 members
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Doctor Who - The Daemons
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Katy Manning, Jon Pertwee
Director: Christopher Barry
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Not seen since 1971, Jon Pertwee takes on the The Deamons, an evil force which lives on Devil's Hump, a sealed cavern which has not been open in over 200 years. Fully reconstructed and restored this is vintage Doctor Who in a five part series.
80%
from 254 members
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Doctor Who - Colony In Space
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Katy Manning, Jon Pertwee
Director: Michael E. Briant
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The Master (Roger Delgado) has stolen some top secret information giving details of one of the most destructive weapons in the known universe, and it is up to the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) to get that information back. The Doctor's quest takes him to the planet Uxarieus, where he becomes caught up in a ..read more »
76%
from 296 members
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Doctor Who - The Claws Of Axos
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Katy Manning, Jon Pertwee, Roger Delgado
Director: Michael Ferguson
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Another adventure for everyone's favourite Time Lord. The arrival on Earth of a UFO brings with it the Axons - golden-skinned aliens who offer the gift of Axonite to mankind. The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) is suspicious, especially when he discovers that his old enemy the Master (Roger Delgado) is on ..read more »
70%
from 1,644 member
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Doctor Who - Inferno
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Jon Pertwee
Director: Douglas Camfield
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Another adventure for everyone's favourite Time Lord. Still chafing at his exile to the planet Earth, the Doctor (Jon Pertwee) is called in to observe the Inferno drilling experiment of Professor Stahlman. Stahlman's search for a new form of energy goes horribly wrong when a green slime emitted ..read more »
73%
from 1,438 member
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Doctor Who - The Mind of Evil
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Jon Pertwee, Katy Manning, Nicholas Courtney
Director: Timothy Combe
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Another adventure for everyone's favourite Time Lord. The Doctor (Jon Pertwee) and Jo (Katy Manning) travel to Stangmoor prison to investigate a machine which can remove evil from the minds of criminals. However, the man behind the scheme - Professor Kellerman - is in fact the Doctor's arch-nemesis,..read more »
76%
from 13 members
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Charles Dickens Collection
(8 discs)
on DVD
Starring: Michael Hordern, Eric Porter, John Mills
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Eight BBC television adaptations of the classic novels of Charles Dickens. In 'Martin Chuzzlewit' (1994), old Mr Chuzzlewit (Paul Scofield) is on his death bed, and surrounded by his money-hungry family jostling for a position in his will. In 'Oliver Twist' (1985), Ben Rodska plays the orphan who ..read more »
69%
from 2,661 members
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...gle disc, features interesting behind the scenes footage, and the commentary by Barry Letts & Katy Manning is a real joy - informative and fun, especially Katy's honest an...
