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Series
Inspector Morse. Set 7 volume no. 2
Publisher
Distributed by Carlton International Media Ltd
Pub. Date
2002, c1991
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 570 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Commander Clare Blake is the highest-ranking female officer in new Scotland Yard. Letting her personal life bleed into her career, she gets too close to her cases, making her vulnerable to those who wish to take her down. Special features included.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (388 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows two women working as spies for England in Nazi-occupied France. Liz is an Englishwoman who is recruited by a British intelligence agency during the height of World War II. Since the Armed Forces have been reduced by German counter-intelligence activities, it has become imperative to gather civilian volunteers to work with the resistance forces in occupied France. She and other agents will be trained and deployed by Col. James Cadogan who needs...
4) Demob
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 312 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
As World War II ends, thousands of British soldiers get 'demobbed', demobilized and sent back into civilian life. Among them are Captain Ian Deasey and Lance Corporal Dick Dobson. Deasey and Dobson have had a 'good war,' much of it spent entertaining the troops with their bawdy stage routines. But after serving four years in the North African desert, they find it hard to adjust to peacetime London and long for the stage lights once more.
Publisher
Distributed by Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (411 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adaptations of short stories by A.E. Coppard and H.E. Bates. Set against the English countryside during the post-World War I period. Reveals the timeless and constant qualities of the British landscape and its people.
6) The shiralee
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fiercely independent man reluctantly takes his daughter on the road with him to the Australian outback while he looks for work.
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a local solicitor falls to his death, the detectives wonder whether it was suicide or murder. The a neighbor notorious for scams perishes in a truly bizarre manner. Barnaby begins to suspect the strange deaths are linked by an elaborate fraud.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 487 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dying day: Antony Skipling becomes convinced that someone is trying to kill him after he listens to a cassette left behind by a stranger. The limbo connection: Mark Omney is forced into desperate actions after his wife mysteriously disappears. Rachel in danger: Ten-year-old Rachel travels from Scotland to London to visit her father but she does not know that the man who meets her is not who he seems. The victim: When his daughter is kidnapped, Vincent...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. In this episode, at a family gathering, thrice-married baronet Freddy Butler keels over dead, leaving an estate worth killing for.
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a December night in 1963, 13-year-old Alison Carter took her dog for a walk, and was never seen again. For newly-promoted Detective Inspector George Bennett, the case launched a superstar career. Bennett's obsession with the case turned up enough evidence to hang his suspect even though her body was never found. Filmmaker Catherine Heathcote turns her camera to Bennett and struggles to understand why questions from forty years ago have different...
11) Above suspicion
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 137 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On her first day on the job, rookie detective Anna Travis throws up at a crime scene and faints at a postmortem. Does she have what it takes to succeed in what's still mostly a man's world? Above Suspicion (pilot): For eight years, someone has been murdering women, following the same brutal ritual each time.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (344 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Clad in tweed and puffing on a pipe, Detective Inspector Purbright pursues the evildoers of Flaxborough with a doggedness that belies his polite conversation and mild manner. Although the quiet country town appears all gentility, beneath the surface lies a darker world of deception, intrigue, treachery, and infidelity.
14) William & Mary
Publisher
Distributed by Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (559 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
William Shawcross is looking for love, but few women are excited at the prospect of dating an undertaker. Wiliam sees Mary on a dating service video and is captivated - only she is too busy bringing babies into the world as a midwife to date someone whose job it is to see them out.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (5hrs. 22min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of lively and rebellious Elizabeth Bennet, one of five unmarried daughters living in the countryside of nineteenth-century England, in a world where an advantageous marriage is a woman's sole occupation.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (492 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this lighthearted British mystery series, DI Henry Crabbe looks forward to retiring and opening his dream restaurant, but his accountant wife is not sure they can afford it and his police boss still wants his help in solving crimes. The former detective turned restaurateur struggles to balance his passion for cooking with his knack for catching criminals. Contains 10 episodes.
18) Porterhouse blue
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in a fictional, all-male Cambridge college, this movie aims it's barbs at aristocrats, politicians, and TV reporters as well as academics. From Brian Eastman, the producer of Poirot, Rosemary & Thyme, and Traffik.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (488 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. in container.
Description
"After 25 years in the force, Detective Inspector Henry Crabbe has lost his appetite for the job. He plans to take early retirement and open his dream restaurant, Pie in the Sky. But his accountant wife, Margaret, doesn't think the numbers add up. And his boss, ACC Fisher needs him around to handle those delicate cases at which he excels. Although craving retirement, Crabbe discovers that crime solving can be just as hard to resist as his signature...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (323 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dr. Martin Ellingham is brilliant, dedicated, and highly efficient. He's also brusque, abrasive, and terrified of blood. Once a successful London surgeon, he's now a GP in the idyllic Cornish fishing village of Portwenn, where he's every bit as eccentric as the villagers he serves.
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