Granada International Productions Limited.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tony and Brenda Last and their son, John Andrew, live an idyllic life in the huge Victorian house that is the symbol of Tony's family pride. The chance arrival of a penniless scrounger irrevocably shatters the gentle balance of their lives.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 293 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Paul Slippery is an anxiety-ridden British doctor suffering from all those symptoms and more. His wife has embarked on a new career and perhaps an extramarital affair or two. His three oversexed sons mock him without mercy. And at work he's tangled in red tape and tormented by a flaky colleague.
4) Henry VIII
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This tale of Henry VIII depicts the sexual intrigue, betrayal and rivalry that existed within his Court, in a reign hallmarked by political and religious upheaval, violence and corruption.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It never occurs to Trevor that dishy blondes don't usually sell jazz records door-to-door. He orders a set of Bix Beiderbecke LPs but receives the wrong items. While trying to locate the missing music, he and his girlfriend, Jill, stumble upon black market goods in a church basement, secret meetings in a parking lot. They find corruption at the highest levels. Helping them out are a couple of friends, an overzealous police officer, an elderly snoop,...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 678 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Though he waited nearly 60 years to become king, and reigned for only nine, Edward VII changed the British monarchy forever. Derided by his mother, Queen Victoria, as frivolous and untrustworthy, Edward was in fact a skillful, determined diplomat who longed to be useful to his country. This miniseries dramatizes his life from frustrated prince and inveterate philanderer to loving father and respected statesman.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 9 hr., 58 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the 1890's, Detective William Murdoch adopts modern techniques like 'finger marks' and forensics to track Toronto's most sinister killers. Though derided by his skeptical boss, Murdoch finds friends and allies in a lovely pathologist and an eager-to-learn constable. Along the way they cross paths with some of the era's most famous figures, including Nikola Tesla, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Prince Alfred.
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 228 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
True commitment: Kavanagh is frustrated with the case of a young man who changes his story when he is charged with the stabbing death of a Patriotic Front protester.
Men of substance: Forced to replace an ailing prosecutor, Kavanagh finds more than meets the eye in an international drug smuggling case.
The Burning deck: Kavanagh is up against his friend and sometime adversary Eleanor Harker, each defending clients on an arson charge in a naval court-matial....
11) Bonekickers
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Gillian Magwilde leads an intrepid team of archaeologists as they come across mud, blood, and death-defying adventure when they start digging. A blend of modern forensics with historical mysteries.
12) Affairs of the heart: Series one :classic tales of love and loss based on the fiction of Henry James
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 351 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Romantic tales from the late Victorian high society of love and loss. These unfold from the country houses of England to the drawing rooms of New York, from the palazzos of Venice to the art studios of London. Scoundrels and schemers collide with ingénues and admirers in the terribly intricate affairs of the heart.