Box Sets Worth Parting With Your Hard Earned For!!!! (29 titles)
These are the Box Sets that I have scrimped for, saved for, stolen, and borrowed to never to return them! In my humble opinion there 'aint a duff'n in this list, but then again that's just my opinion!!! I know nuffin'! I've supported Wolverhampton Wanderers for nigh on 50 years and yet still know nuffin', about football at least, but you may enjoy these Box Sets!
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The Beiderbecke Collection Complete
As far as I am concerned ITV has produced little of any note over the years. The exceptions being Spitting Image, The New Statesman and Rising Damp. This little gem is one of those exceptions, a brilliant cast brilliantly acted, Trevor, Jill, Big Al and Little Norm take a bow! Gently takes you back to a time when everything didn't have to contain gallons of blood and guts and graphic sex, not that I'm against blood and guts and graphic sex, and who knows you may even become a jazz buff, the theme tune certainly sticks in your mind.
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The Beiderbecke Collection Complete
(4 discs)
Starring: James Bolam, Barbara Flynn, Dudley Sutton
Director: David Reynolds, Frank W. Smith, Alan Bell
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In THE BEIDERBECKE AFFAIR, Trevor and Jill are school teachers who enter a complex world of mysterious intrigue. THE BEIDERBECKE CONNECTION tells of more unlikely adventures of the two schoolteachers. THE BEIDERBECKE TAPES is another story of Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinborne who enter a world of ..read more »
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A Fistful Of Dollars
Not a Box Set on it's own, but I purchased this from HMV in a Special Edition Spaghetti Western Collection containing SE's of Fistful, For a Few Dollars More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly.
The only movie missing was Once Upon A Time In The West, probably the best western movie ever made, probably!
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A Fistful Of Dollars
on DVD
(1964)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Marianne Koch, John Wels
Director: Sergio Leone
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The first true spaghetti Western, A FISTFUL OF DOLLARS follows a nameless drifter who plays two feuding families off each other to his own benefit. As members of each family are planted in the ground, the gold in his pocket gets heavier and heavier. This violent remake of Akira Kurosawa's YOJIMBO ..read more »
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New Statesman, The - The Complete First Series
The New Statesman Complete.
Alan B'stard? Is he your MP?
From the Thatcher era Greed is Good school of Parliamentarianism. Just how does Rik Mayall do that thing with his fingers?
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New Statesman, The - The Complete First ...
(1987)
Starring: Rik Mayall, Michael Troughton, Marsha Fitzalan
Director: Geoffrey Sax
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This disc rounds up all seven episodes from the first series of this cutting satirical comedy about a morally bankrupt politician. Rik Mayall plays Alan B'Stard, who will stop at nothing in his quest for political power and financial gain.
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from 1,326 member
Black Books - The Complete Series 1
The Complete Black Books
Took me a while to get into this, and similar to hard drugs I am hooked, in a way sad they didn't do more but then glad they stopped before they got stale.
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Black Books - The Complete Series 1
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Dylan Moran, Bill Bailey, Tamsin Greig
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Series one of BLACK BOOKS follows the adventures of bookshop owner Bernard (Dylan Moran), his assistant Manny (Bill Bailey) and Fran (Tamsin Greig), who works in a new age shop next door. In this entertaining surreal comedy, Dylan Moran and Bill Bailey make a great double act, delivering the ..read more »
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from 12,860 members
Al Murray - Time Gentlemen Please - Series 1
So what if he's not particularly pc! Who gives a XXXX. Just takes patriotism to the limit. 'Where would we be without rules? FRANCE! Where would we be with too many rules? GERMANY!' Back off BRUSSELS!
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Al Murray - Time Gentlemen Please - Series 1
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Al Murray
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The multi-award winning and critically acclaimed comedian, Al Murray, mightily presides over the pumps as the inimitable Pub Landlord in this brilliantly observed and hilarious pub based sitcom. Watch the first six episodes of the first series of the hit show that debuted on Sky One and then ..read more »
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from 1,377 member
Smiley's People
Not quite up to T,T,S,S but gripping and watchable nevertheless!
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Smiley's People
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1982)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Mario Adorf, Eileen Atkins
Director: Simon Langton
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John Le Carre's follow up to the highly acclaimed TINKER, TAILER, SOLDIER, SPY sees shy espionage expert George Smiley coming out of retirement yet again to investigate enemy filtration in his old department. Alec Guinness reprises his superb, definitive nuanced role as Smiley in this masterful ..read more »
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from 2,913 members
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Lost count of how many times I have watched this, probably know the script better than the actors! Still watch the repeats on BBC 4 as well. Excellent TV, excellent cast and well acted, will have you gripped! 'There were 3 of them and Allaline?'
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Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Alec Guinness, Joss Ackland, Michael Aldridge
Director: John Irvin
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One of the UK's most popular TV programmes of all-time. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy is the story of a retired spy called back for one last job; to find the killer of a Soviet general who is also a British agent.
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Edge Of Darkness - The Complete Series
Worth watching just for the scenes with Joe Don Baker taking the two slabs of plutonium out of his briefcase and attempting a nuclear reaction, and Bob Peck going through his dead daughters belongings and sniffing her vibrator. Good stuff!
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Edge Of Darkness - The Complete Series
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1985)
Starring: Bob Peck, Joe Don Baker, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer
Director: Martin Campbell
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Police detective Ronnie Craven sets out to privately investigate the murder of his daughter, and finds himself embroiled in a top-secret government project involving nuclear contamination. Originally created for the BBC, this highly acclaimed production has won numerous British awards.
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from 3,612 members
Das Boot - The Mini Series
What submarine warfare was all about, dirty, sweaty, smelly, nasty and downright terryfying! Forget R Mitchum, C Gable et al in full uniform and clean in a submarine! Watch it with subtitles as it definitely loses something in being dubbed!
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Das Boot - The Mini Series
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1985)
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Regarded as one of the most accurate representations of Germany's U-Boat crew during World War II, this DVD consists of a digitally remastered version of the original classic.
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from 2,639 members
Baseball - 1846 To 2000
Even non-baseball people could watch this without being too bored.
Ken Burns filmaker supreme!
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Baseball - 1846 To 2000
(4 discs)
on DVD
(1994)
Director: Ken Burns
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Includes the first three episodes of the documentary series tracing the history of baseball. Covers the origins of baseball in 1846 up to the White Sox scandal of 1919.
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