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In Teletubbies, Busy Day Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa Laa and Po giggle and romp their way through a day filled with Tubby toast, laughter and play. This video has the usual Tubby mix of music, repetition and movement, designed to stimulate children's imaginations, promote speech and increase confidence. Our young reviewers needed little encouragement to join in with the action on screen and when the voice trumpet called out parts of the body for the Tubbies to wash, they had plenty of time to think of the answer, shout it at the screen and perform the actions. All the familiar features of the series are here: reliable Noo-noo who cleans up when Po encounters difficulty with the Tubby custard machine, the gurgling sun and lots and lots of rabbits; and when the magic windmill turns, real children are shown having a busy day too, cleaning their teeth, going for a walk and getting ready for bed. Teletubbies, Busy Day is another delightful glimpse of life in Teletubby land that toddlers will want to see again and again and again. -Helen Baker Running time: 71 minutes approximately.

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Sesame Street - Sing Yourself Silly! (2 Entertain Video)

Release date: 1992-02-10
Run time: 60 min.
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £34.99

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Review Percy the Park Keeper / Percy The Park Keeper - After The Storm / One Snowy Night

Percy The Park Keeper - After The Storm / One Snowy Night (Percy the Park Keeper)

Release date: 2001-10-15
Run time: 80 min.
RRP: ~~£9.99~~
Price: £10.60

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Review 2 Entertain Video / Brum - Bumper Special - Seaside And 9 Other Stories

Brum - Bumper Special - Seaside And 9 Other Stories (2 Entertain Video)

Actors & Directors

Mark Powlett
Toyah Willcox

Release date: 1993-07-12
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £9.99

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Review Walt Disney Home Video / The Adventures Of Huck Finn (Disney) [1994]

The Adventures Of Huck Finn (Disney) [1994] (Walt Disney Home Video)

Actors & Directors

Jason Robards
Elijah Wood
Ron Perlman
Courtney B. Vance
Stephen Sommers
Robbie Coltrane

Release date: 1995-10-24
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: ~~£10.99~~
Price: £13.06

Review The Adventures Of Huck Finn (Disney) [1994] / Walt Disney Home Video:

Huckleberry Finn's age has been scaled down in this 1993 Disney film in order to accommodate star Elijah Wood's young years at the time. But that is not the only concession Mark Twain's great American novel must make to Disney revisionism. Wood's Huck, as adapted for the screen by writer-director Stephen Sommers, is all rascal and only nominally a philosopher, which takes a lot of the soul out of Twain's extraordinary story about Huck's enlightenment while travelling with the slave Jim (Courtney B. Vance) along the Mississippi river. Big chunks of the journey are also minimised in significance, and not just for the sake of storytelling economy. Jason Robards Jr and Robbie Coltrane brighten things up, but overall this is an unnecessarily simplified version of a literary classic. -Tom Keogh.

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Tots TV - Donkey Ride (Tots TV)

Release date: 1998-07-13
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £9.99

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Review Fremantle Home Entertainment / Chorlton And The Wheelies - Happiness Is Dragon Shaped [1976]

Chorlton And The Wheelies - Happiness Is Dragon Shaped [1976] (Fremantle Home Entertainment)

Actors & Directors

Joe Lynch
Chris Taylor (VI)

Release date: 2000-05-29
Run time: 56 min.
RRP: ~~£5.99~~
Price: £5.98

Review Chorlton And The Wheelies - Happiness Is Dragon Shaped [1976] / Fremantle Home Entertainment:

"Jump in we'll take you for a spin/And show you round the Wheelie World". For pretty much anyone between the ages of 25 and 40, merely the opening line of the theme to this crazed slice of cartoon bedlam will be enough to jog memories and pluck heartstrings. For everyone else, a brief synopsis is probably in order. Well, self-evidently there's Chorlton, the least intimidating dragon in television history, whose unexplained arrival among the Wheelies is a constant source of vexation to Fenella, a spectacularly ineffective witch with a base camp at Spout Hall (yes, it's a big kettle) and a cadre of mushroom-like toadies and "spikers" with whom she consorts to bring havoc to Wheelie World. Oh, and she also has a son, who only ever appears as a vast, disembodied foot. In short, Chorlton is a crown jewel for all fans of 70s children's TV at its most unapologetically demented. Happiness is Dragon Shaped, the first five-episode collection, opens with "Happiness is Hatched" (wherein, of course, Chorlton arrives fully formed in Wheelie World via an enormous egg), before proceeding into the titular segment, "Chorlton Says it with Flowers", "The Lost Wheelie" and "Chorlton and the Crimewave". Needless to say, the ever-apopleptic Fenella remains hysterical throughout. -Danny Leigh.

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Morph - The Amazing Adventures Of Morph [1980] (Entertainment UK Ltd.)

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