British Broadcasting Corporation. Television Service
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (345 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The tale of the Trojan War has fascinated and intrigued people for thousands of years. But is there any truth to Homer's epic poem. Michael Wood brings to life the heroes and the romance of the Bronze Age in this award winning archaeological story.
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 172 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Suave, sophisticated Detective Inspector Lynley and his prickly, plebian sidekick Detective Sergeant Havers are back with two new gripping mysteries in this sixth and final series. But with Lynley struggling to cope with his wife's death -- and Havers struggling with her partner's heavy drinking -- will they be able to focus on solving crime?
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
12 videodiscs (ca. 29 hrs., 30 mins.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Two sisters, Evangeline and Beatrice, have established a fashion house that creates a sensation in the London of the Roaring Twenties. The sisters and the House of Eliott face changing times, cutthroat competition and romance as they survive in the world of fashion. But the world of haute couture is shrinking. In order to survive, can the House of Eliott realize that ready-to-wear is fashion's future?
7) Luther: 2
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
John Luther, the near-genius detective struggling with his own demons, returns with two distinctive, thrilling crime stories. Devastated by the brutal murder of his wife, John Luther returns to policing in a different world. His old unit has gone and he's working in the newly created Serious and Serial unit, headed by former police complaints officer Martin Schenk. Luther quickly gathers together his team, rescuing his old partner Detective Justin...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (355 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Season Two continues to follow Jenny and the other midwives as they deal with all the problems the neighborhood of Poplar has to throw at them. A fascinating portrayal of birth, life, death and a community on the brink of huge social change, Call the Midwife offers a gripping insight into a way of life that is so drastically different from how we live now.
Series
George Smiley novels volume 5
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (324 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
George Smiley, intelligence agent, must find the double agent "mole" planted in the top ranks of British Intelligence, before the mole betrays them all.
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The Song of Lunch is based on Christopher Reid's narrative poem following the story of an unnamed book editor who is meeting his former love 15 years after their break-up for a nostalgic lunch at the Soho restaurant they used to frequent. The woman is now living a glamorous life in Paris, married to a world-renowned writer. The unnamed editor has failed in his writing career, detests his mundane publishing job and regrets the end of their love affair....
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 176 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Gently evil: Called to a crime scene at a working-class boarding house, Gently and Bacchus find a woman horribly beaten to death, her eyes covered discreetly with a handkerchief. The victim also carried her daughter's birth certificate, with the name of the child's father crossed out and "satan" penciled in. Following this lead, Gently and Bacchus probe the twisted secrets of a family that seems to harbor pure evil.
Peace & love: When nuclear submarines...
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (179 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
[1983 special] James returns from service in the R.A.F. where he and his partner Siegfried try to start up the veterinary practice where they left off. [1985 special] Siegfried discusses the accelerating rate of scientific progress, while James sticks to the tried and trusted remedies.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (240 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Can Judge John Deed's unrelenting idealism lead to ultimate justice? Or is his rebellious nature doing more harm than good? In two nail-biting double episodes, the eponymous judge is sent to the Hague as the British representative at the International Criminal Court, where he must try a young soldier for war crimes in Iraq. Instead he uncovers nefarious reasons for bringing him to trial.
15) MI-5: Volume 3
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (ca. 600 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tom has been branded a traitor and has disappeared, while Harry is in the hospital, seriously wounded. There's dissension in the ranks as Danny and Zoe are determined to clear Tom's name and an enemy they never thought possible has put the entire service at risk. An enigmatic agent, Adam Carter, has been recruited from MI-6 to help pick up the broken pieces, but with his track record nobody will be safe.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (354 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Actor Martin Shaw stars as the principled detective George Gently in these four feature-length mysteries. These dramas unfold against the beautiful backdrop of rural Britain during the tumultuous 1960s. Based on the long-running series of books by Alan Hunter
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 178 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A former Scotland Yard sleuth now tracking murders in Britain?s North Country, George Gently (Tony nominee Martin Shaw) is an old-time copper in the rapidly changing 1960s. In these two feature-length mysteries, Gentry and Bacchus investigate the suspicious death of an ex-informant facing a seemingly hopeless future, as well as the murder of a young woman poised on the brink of an exciting new chapter in her life.
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 356 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Deed must deal with corruption within the jury, the suspected murder of a barrister, and a case connected to a lucrative government deal with a foreign country during which finalizing the contract seems to some more important than seeing justice is done. Subsequent episodes raise other important questions of justice: a man with the mental age of 13 on trial for murder; the uncovering of a massive mortgage fraud perpetrated by lawyers with the connivance...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs ( 363 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
While Cambridge police detectives interview witnesses who may or may not tell the truth, 'Sam' extracts revealing truths from calcified bones, decomposed and charred bodies, tell-tale bruises and overlooked fingerprints. Brace yourself for twists and turns in four gripping episodes: the suspicious drowning of a six-year-old girl, the apparently ritual killing of a young man, a death in police custody, and the fiery murder of a refugee's business partner....