Jason Watkins
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Gentle comedy starring John Cleese and Alison Steadman as widow and her old flame, whose rekindled romance is disrupted when her 50-year-old son moves back in. He announces that he's left his wife, his kids and his good job at the bank, and come home in an attempt to find his lost happiness again. And in a blink, to Edith's dismay and Phil's fury, all dreams are on hold.
2) Des
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (145 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows the investigation into Scottish serial killer Dennis Nilsen after a body is discovered near his home.
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (29 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
It’s 1988, but the staff of London’s Grace Brothers department store seem to be stuck in another era. Mr Rumbold hasn’t realised he needs to plug his computer in to make it work, Captain Peacock doesn’t know his Levi’s from his Lee’s, and if Mr Grainger were any more relaxed he’d need a defibrillator. The original ARE YOU BEING SERVED? was a hit around the world, running for ten series from 1972 to ‘85. Written by National Television...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional duties and rescue a young woman who believed his seductive...
5) The trick
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story of world-renowned Professor Philip Jones; Director of Climate Research at the University of East Anglia, who back in 2009 found himself at the eye of an international media storm and the victim of cyberterrorism.
Pub. Date
2019, Ã2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Edith and Phil are retired and in love. When she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on twelve, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (178 mins.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Transferred to Bath from London and looking to make good, ambitious DCI Lauren McDonald found the first task handed her was to see if she couldn't gently nudge her new assistant -- aging, colorless desk jockey DS Dodds -- into retirement. The mismatched pair would prove surprisingly able in cracking the hardest cases, in this clever ITV offering.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fiona Maye is a High Court judge in London ruling with wisdom and kindness over ethically complicated cases of family law. Fiona is tasked with ruling on the case of Adam, an exceptional boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion. He is three months from his eighteenth birthday and legally still a child. Fiona visits Adam in the hospital and it has an extreme emotional impact on them both.
Author
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Description
"The #1 national bestselling, award-winning author of Life after Life transports us to the dazzling London of the Roaring Twenties in a whirlwind tale of corruption, seduction, and debts that have come due. 1926, and in a country still recovering from the Great War, London has become the focus for a delirious new nightlife. In the clubs of Soho, peers of the realm rub shoulders with starlets, foreign dignitaries with gangsters, and girls sell dances...
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (7 hrs.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down. So much so, that the usual teasing at the hands of Bellamy provokes Fogg into undertaking a wager--to travel around the world in eighty days. Fogg is accompanied...
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Series
Trollied volume 9
Description
As Lou works out her notice period, things between Gavin and Cheryl are at rock bottom. Desperate to make amends and with the wedding imminent, Gavin must make a decision regarding his future at Valco.
Author
Series
Trollied volume 1
Description
As the cash tills ring, it's another busy Christmas Eve at Valco Warrington. Gavin is delighted! Not only does it look like Valco are going to smash the all-time highest takings record, but he's also found a kindred spirit in new star employee Tim.
Author
Series
Trollied volume 8
Description
After Lou learns of Gavin's devious plan to set her up to fail, Gavin is mortified and sets about throwing everything he's got into making Lou a "capable supermarket night manager!" But with Cheryl hugely suspicious, is it too little too late?
Author
Series
Trollied volume 2
Description
As the doors open on a new year, Valco has rolled out a new uniform. Cheryl is delighted to see that Gavin has turned a real corner when it comes to coping with change.
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Series
Trollied volume 5
Description
It's a big day for Valco Warrington: the launch of Valco 24. As Gavin struggles to hand over the keys to Lou, Sue is stunned to learn that Linda has volunteered to work a night shift-until she meets hot new night worker Craig.
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Trollied volume 7
Description
Arriving to an evacuated Valco, Gavin is horrified to learn that there's been a fire in the store on the night shift. As Cheryl questions Lou's ability, Gavin starts to seriously reflect on his actions.
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Series
Trollied volume 3
Description
With the launch of 24 hour opening imminent, Gavin is forced to interview for a new night manager. He's less than impressed and when scatty, shambolic candidate Lou crashes into his office it might be the final straw.
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Series
Trollied volume 6
Description
Gavin and Cheryl are stunned when Gavin's mother, Lillian pays a surprise visit. As Gavin proudly gives her "the tour" it soon becomes clear that she doesn't exactly share Gavin's passion for all things supermarket or his outlook on anything really.
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Series
Trollied volume 4
Description
After Gavin and Cheryl's wedding venue cancels, Gavin is left in charge of the wedding plans, a decision Cheryl soon comes to seriously regret. It's also Lou's induction and with Gavin's mind on other matters, Katie is left to show Lou the ropes.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (547 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
During the period between 1964 and 1977: the royal family mourns the passing of Winston Churchill; the United Kingdom ushers in a new prime minister, the Labour Party's Harold Wilson whom Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth hear might be a Soviet spy; survives the Aberfan disaster; observes the Apollo 11 moon landing; and plans for the Investiture of Prince Charles. While Princess Margaret and Lord Snowdon visit the USA, the queen, at the bidding of...