ITV (Firm)
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 5 hours) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The seedy underbelly of London is the backdrop of this police drama. Prostitution, extortion, pedophilia, mutilation, rape, and murder are the chief concerns of the vice unit of London's Metropolitan Police, who patrol a violent area where life is cheap and young flesh even cheaper.
2) Mobile
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (206 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Police are baffled as cell phone users are being shot in the middle of their conversations and mobile phone towers are being blown-up throughout England. This four-part thriller reveals a terrorist plot with a ruthless millionaire in the middle of it.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's 1963. JFK has been assassinated. The world has changed... and tremors are being felt even all the way in Ballarat. Jean Blake is still adjusting to life after her husband Lucien's disappearance eight months earlier, when she's unexpectedly drawn into the investigation of a pair of bizarre murders. Both cases seem linked to a series of newspaper articles recently published in The Courier and Ballarat's most infamous unsolved mysteries. No one...
4) The 39 steps
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wrongfully accused of murder, Richard Hannay finds himself on a roller coaster action adventure full of excitement, drama, danger, fun, and romance as he attempts to save the nation from invasion. On the run from spies and the police, the last thing he expected was to be stuck with Victoria Sinclair, an opinionated suffragette, but their mutual loathing turns to romance as they find themselves facing death together.
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
p2010, c2000
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (529 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. The killings at Badger's Drift: The death of an elderly woman and the persistence of her lifelong friend draw Barnaby into a case that reveals the sordid side of this quaint village. Written in blood: Investigating the brutal murder of a Midsomer Worthy writer, Barnaby discovers that the victim had been living a fictitious life....
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 280 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Episode 1. DI Frost must deal with a desperate mother and solve a 20 year old missing persons case following the discovery of a teenage girl's remains. Episode 2. The Heal family are appalled to see the man whose lorry killed three of their members some years earlier is driving a bus. Because the lorry 's mechanism was faulty he was acquitted of dangerous driving but the Heals are not happy and Andy Heal goes to the bus depot for a confrontation....
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 300 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 "The straw woman," when a curate dies tragically at a festival revival, some villagers of Midsomer Parva suspect black magic. Barnaby and Scott unravel a centuries-old mystery, complicated by Scott's attraction to a schoolteacher who has been branded a witch by the village. In "The Maid in Splendour," unrequited love, secret...
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 400 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets. Second sight: A mysterious death brings Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby and his young assistant Sergeant Dan Scott to Midsomer Mere, where villagers claim psychic powers. Hidden depths: Barnaby and Scott face a bizarre crime scene when a local oenophile gets killed by a combination of catapult, croquet, and Chateau Lafite. Sauce for the goose: After a visitor dies while touring...
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (287 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Wanting a fresh start after a broken relationship and a stressful job in the UK, Dr. Ruby Walker takes a job in India. Although she applied to work at a new urban clinic, Ruby ends up at the overcrowded and underfunded Good Karma Hospital run by the formidable Dr. Lydia Fonseca. As she adjusts to her new life in rural india, Ruby slowly realizes that the hospital may be more than the rundown medical outpost it appears to be.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Oxford's favorite detectives Lewis and Hathaway return for the eighth and final series of the hit series. Investigating the city's most complex and intriguing crimes, Lewis clashes with the new Chief Superintendent, who questions his traditional approach. Will Lewis decide to call time on his policing career? Meanwhile, Hathaway is forced to confront his past.
14) Holding
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (191 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Duneen is a small remote town at the tip of West Cork, Ireland, where nothing ever happens until human remains are found buried deep on a local farm. For the first time, local Police Sergeant PJ Collins has to solve a genuine crime. As a lifetime's worth of small-town secrets starts to be unearthed, the residents' dark pasts begin to unravel, alongside PJ's inner turmoil.
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (292 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Based on author and naturalist Gerald Durrell's much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels, The Durrells sees impoverished but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to leave 1930s England in hopes of a better life for her children. As Louisa relocates her reluctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun, the Durrells face a whole new set of challenges as they meet new friends, rivals, lovers, and animals.
16) A confession
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"When 22 year old Sian O'Callaghan goes missing after a Friday night out with friends, Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher ... quickly realizes that this is no ordinary missing persons case. A prime suspect is identified but when Fulcher questions him about Sian's whereabouts it sets both men on a journey which will change their lives forever as well as reveal the fate of Sian and another local girl, Becky Godden-Edwards. In this fight to get justice...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs ( 360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
Pub. Date
2017
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (360 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Great Paxford's inspirational band of women return for more incredible stories from the home front as they deal with imminent threat during the Battle of Britain. As the nation finds itself increasingly beleaguered, relationships, friendships, and loyalties within the community will be tested as never before. The women find they must heighten their efforts to boost morale amidst the chaos and uncertainty enveloping the village.
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 400 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. The green man: Troy passes his inspector's exam and is moving on, but not before one more challenging case with Barnaby in Midsomer Worthy. Bad tidings: Dan Scott, Barnaby's new partner, gets a baptism by fire with a case in Midsomer Mallow that implicates Cully and her old schoolmates. The Fisher King: Barnaby and Scott...