Adrian Shergold
1) Early Doors
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (175 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Comedy set in The Grapes, an old-fashioned Manchester pub where the daily life of the locals - among them jack-the-lads Joe and Duffy, beer-bellied landlord Ken and his police officer cronies Phil and Nige, miserable old git Tommy and single mum Janice - revolves around love, loneliness and blocked urinals. The regulars rib each other and discuss the minutiae of everyday life, each bringing their own faults and foibles with them to the bar.
2) Vera: Set 1
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (355 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Vera Stanhope, a caustic, disheveled investigator, solves murders in Northumberland, England.
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (95 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Albert Pierrepoint (Timothy Spall) finds great success as Britain's most famous public executioner and his notoriety rises to a new level after he is selected to hang Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials. The experience changes him, and he begins to question the morality of his vocation at the same time that abolitionists begin a campaign to end hanging.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (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.
6) Persuasion
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
At the age of nineteen, Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne's family were against the match and persuaded her to break off the engagement. Now twenty-seven, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She has never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea having made his fortune and reputation, she can only watch as every eligible young...
7) Vera: Set 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 370 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Follows a solitary, obsessed, cantankerous investigator-- who happens to be pure genius at her job.
10) Persuasion
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Anne Elliot fell deeply in love with handsome young naval officer Frederick Wentworth at the age of nineteen. But with neither fortune nor rank to recommend him, Anne was persuaded to break off her engagement. Eight years later, Anne has lived to regret her decision. She never stopped loving Wentworth, and when he returns from sea with rank and fortune, she can only watch as every eligible young woman in the district falls at his feet. Can Frederick...