Alan Plater
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
BFS Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In England in 1940, shipyard worker Joe Maddison felt depressed and past his prime because he was too old to serve in World War II. Shocked when his wife leaves him for a sailor, Joe and his friend Harry decide they need a new challenge and volunteer to join the Home Guard which is headed by local pharmacist Mr. Simpson. This decision will lead Joe on a journey of self-discovery, involving lessons in friendship, bravery, and love.
Publisher
Distributed by Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (154 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne have settled into domestic bliss when a barkeep gives Trevor a jazz tape. Only it's not jazz after all, but a top-secret conversation about dumping nuclear waste into the scenic Yorkshire Dales. Soon Trevor and Jill are pursued by those who want the tape back.
Publisher
British Broadcasting Corp
Pub. Date
[2004], c1995
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (148 min.; 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Oliver, a university lecturer with an obsession for anagrams and crosswords, has been a question-setter for "Mastermind". When made redundant by the new Vice-Chancellor of the New University (his former Polytechnic) in a general restructuring of the university, Oliver decides to use his new-found freedom to search for his favourite crossword compiler, known only by the pseudonym of "Aristotle". When he locates "Aristotle's" Welsh home, he is horrified...
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (450 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspector Robert Lewis and his partner, the enigmatic detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the idyllic Oxford countryside and colleges in five new thrillers, forcing the pair to revisit the past and to reconsider the future.
Series
Complete Inspector Lewis volume disc 1-4
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (ca. 350 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. Lewis barely makes it out of the airport before falling into his first murder investigation. But even if he solves the case, will his new boss still move him from the front lines to a training...
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (630 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oxford's Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, works with his brilliant, but brooding partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. The two try to find a link between a murder in Oxford's Bodleian Library; a burglary gone wrong leads from underground amateur boxing to the now-defunct East German Secret Police; the suicide of Hathaway's old friend test his relationship with Lewis; a case of rape and murder causes Lewis to...
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 255 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, and his brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway, return to the streets of Cambridge and the halls of Oxford University with three brand new mysteries to unravel. In Whom the gods would destroy, Detectives Lewis and Hathaway are thrown into a delicate murder case that implicates one of Oxford University's most prominent figures--college Principal Sefton Lim--when an...