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1) Grantchester
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1953 and Sidney Chambers is vicar of Grantchester, a village just outside Cambridge, England. Sidney's is a quiet life. He tends to his flock, keeps up with his jazz collection, and does his best to contain his passion for beautiful heiress Amanda Kendall. But when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances, Sidney quickly finds that people confide things in a parish priest that they would never tell police.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 203 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oscar winner Judi Dench stars in this darkly humorous drama about a meek, middle-aged divorcee who suddenly begins to behave in ways that shock her ex and her grown daughter. Extras include biographies of star Judi Dench and writer Catherine Heath.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This 2 disc set includes season 7 and season 8 of 'A touch of Frost'. Award-winning British actor, David Jason, is Jack Frost, a no-nonsense detective whose unorthodox methods fuel the tension between him and others.
Series
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 100 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.
Description
When Muriel Harrap's lifeless body is found late one night in the elevator at Lawnside, a home for the elderly, everyone assumes she died of natural causes. But when another seemingly healthy woman dies, rumors of fraud and murder terrify the remaining residents.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on the true story of four brilliant young men at Cambridge University who are recuited to spy for Russia. They take huge personal risks to pass Britain's biggest secrets to Moscow.
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Award-winning British actor, David Jason, is Jack Frost, a no-nonsense detective whose unorthodox methods fuel the tension between him and his superiors. Includes: Appendix Man, One Man's Meat, Private Lives, and Keys to the Car.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (190 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This compilation contains all six episodes of the BBC's adaptation of a sci-fi fantasy about an unassuming Englishman and his outwardly average neighbor who is actually an alien from the vicinity of Betelgeuse.
9) Italy
Series
Publisher
Escapi New Media
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The richness of Italy and its people are evident in this video. Join traveler Megan McCormick as she explores the spectacular Italian Alps and the modern, cultural and gastronomic cities of the North; while Justine Shapiro looks beyond the image of the underdeveloped South, and explores Rome, Naples and countryside villages, before reaching the tip of Italy's toe in Aspromonte.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 312 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies is the odd man out in his small London police station. He cracks the tough cases anyway, with old-fashioned investigative work rather than violent confrontation.
11) Still she cries
Publisher
Lance Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Britain's most enigmatic criminal expert is back. Clinical psychologist Dr. Tony Hill enlists the help of one of his students in the reopened investigation of a serial killer. But when his best friend is brutally murdered, Tony finds more than just his judgment called into question.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (250 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Explores the world of invertebrates, detailing aspects of the life-cycles of numerous species around the world. Topics covered include their prehistoric colonisation of land from the sea, winged insects, the various uses of silk, relationships with plants and other animals and social structures.
13) Moby Dick
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
1 DVD (145 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Consumed by an insane rage, Captain Ahab has but one purpose in life--revenge on the great white whale who maimed and disfigured him.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 275 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On the job, Janine Lewis deals with drive-by executions, decomposed bodies, and abducted children. At home, she interviews nannies, schedules parent-teacher conferences, and bolts breakfast on the run. Such is the life of a Detective Chief Inspector on the Manchester police force who also happens to be a single mum raising four kids.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (ca. 294 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Formats
Description
Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two middle-aged women, make a fresh start by opening a gardening business. Mysteries grow around these two gardening sleuths as they dig up trouble on the job and use investigative skills to get to the bottom of things.
18) Coming home
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
c1998
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 202 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
England between the wars is the starting place for this epic tale of love, friendship and the discovery of womanhood. Judith Dunbar is left behind at boarding school by her parents and sister, who are posted overseas in the days leading up to World War II. She comes of age in a time of turbulence and danger, but finds comfort in the wealthy Carey-Lewis family, whose estate on the Cornish coast, Nancherrow, becomes her surrogate home.
Series
Midsomer murders. Set 8 volume 3
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2007]
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 "Ghosts of Christmas past," the Villiers family has gathered to celebrate Christmas exactly nine years after Ferdy Villiers suicide. When another member of the family dies mysteriously, Barnaby and Scott find they must investigate the past as well as the present.
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