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Review Clear Vision Ltd / Wycliffe - Vol. 5 - Lost Contact / Trojan Horse [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Helen Masters
  • Jimmy Yuill
  • Patrick Lau
  • Martyn Friend
  • Jack Shepherd
Release date: 1999-03-01
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £19.99

Review Wycliffe - Vol. 5 - Lost Contact / Trojan Horse [1994] / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / Taggart - Vol. 35 - A Fistful Of Chips
Actors & Directors
  • Alan Macmillan
  • Blythe Duff
  • James MacPherson
Release date: 2003-06-02
Run time: 99 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Taggart - Vol. 35 - A Fistful Of Chips / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Acorn Media / Father Brown - The Hammer Of God And Other Stories [1974]
Actors & Directors
  • Peter Jeffries
  • Robert Tronson
  • Kenneth More
  • Dennis Burgess
Release date: 2003-08-11
Run time: 260 min.
RRP: £19.99
Price: £9.99

Review Father Brown - The Hammer Of God And Other Stories [1974] / Acorn Media:


Review ITV DVD / Inspector Morse - Remorseful Day [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Gold
  • Jesse Birdsall
  • John Thaw
  • Anna Wilson-Jones
  • Paul Freeman
  • Kevin Whately
Release date: 2000-11-20
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £4.12

Review Inspector Morse - Remorseful Day [1987] / ITV DVD:

In Inspector Morse no crimes are ever committed on Oxford's notorious Blackbird Leys estate, instead they all happen in country manor houses or within the walls of the ancient colleges. The series provides all the period cosiness of an Agatha Christie costume drama but in an apparently modern setting. Morse is a contemporary detective with all the nostalgic appeal of Poirot or Sherlock Holmes. John Thaw's Chief Inspector is the antithesis of his previous detective role, The Sweeney's hard-nosed Jack Regan: Morse the irascible opera lover is an anachronistic throwback, driving a classic car, listening to Wagner on LP, quaffing real ale in country pubs or single malt at home, and quoting poetry whenever occasion arises (at least once or twice an episode). His much put-upon sidekick Segeant Lewis (Kevin Whateley) is the bemused ordinary copper who acts as a foil for his artistic and academic passions, and not incidentally allows the writers to explain any possibly obscure or learned references to the TV audience. With plots of crossword puzzle-like intricacy, top-drawer thespian guest stars, loving views of quintessentially English Tourist Board Oxfordshire countryside, and literate screenplays from such luminaries as Malcom Bradbury, the show was a sure-fire hit across middle England. In 1994, after four successful series, John Thaw moved on to other projects (initially, the disastrous A Year In Provence) but always left the door open for more Morse. "The Remorseful Day" is, however, positively his final appearance. The story opens dramatically with a montage of kinky sex and murder, before settling down into a leisurely exploration of leads that might or might not be red herrings. More murders follow, naturally, as the story adds yet more twists. [+]
But this time things are different: Morse, on the very eve of retirement, is gravely ill. Convalescing at home he consoles himself with birdwatching and a newly acquired CD player, but he is more than usually irritable and relations with Lewis, who is impatiently awaiting his own promotion to Inspector, are strained. Could Morse himself be the murderer? Certainly, Chief Superintendent Strange (James Grout) is worried. The ultimate resolution of the case takes second place to the show's finale, which will however be no surprise to anyone who has read Colin Dexter's novel. This is a poignant and dignified end to the casebook of a much-loved detective. -Mark Walker.

Review Clear Vision Ltd / Taggart - Vol. 41 - Falling In Love
Actors & Directors
  • Colin McCredie
  • James MacPherson
  • Blythe Duff
  • Robert Robertson
  • John Michie
  • Danny Hiller
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £24.99

Review Taggart - Vol. 41 - Falling In Love / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review BBC / Agatha Christie's Miss Marple - A Pocketful Of Rye [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Fabia Drake
  • Timothy West
  • Clive Merrison
  • Guy Slater
  • Rachel Bell
  • Joan Hickson
Release date: 2000-07-10
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.50

Review Agatha Christie's Miss Marple - A Pocketful Of Rye [1985] / BBC:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / Wycliffe - Vol. 6 - Four And Twenty Blackbirds / Happy Families
Actors & Directors
  • Jack Shepherd
  • Jimmy Yuill
  • Steve Goldie
  • Helen Masters
Release date: 1999-03-29
Run time: 100 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £24.99

Review Wycliffe - Vol. 6 - Four And Twenty Blackbirds / Happy Families / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Cinema Club / Cracker - True Romance [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Clive Russell
  • Robbie Coltrane
  • Tim Fywell
  • Kieran O'Brien
  • Geraldine Somerville
  • Barbara Flynn
Release date: 2002-08-05
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Cracker - True Romance [1995] / Cinema Club:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / Taggart - Vol. 37 - Ghost Rider
Actors & Directors
  • James MacPherson
  • Michael Brayshaw
  • Blythe Duff
Release date: 2003-06-02
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £7.95

Review Taggart - Vol. 37 - Ghost Rider / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Granada Media / Cracker- The Big Crunch / Men Should Weep [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Julian Jarrold
  • Jean Stewart (III)
  • Simon Cellan Jones
  • Ian Mercer
  • Charles McDougall
  • Michael Winterbottom
  • Amelia Bullmore
Release date: 2000-08-07
Run time: 297 min.
Price: £14.99

Review Cracker- The Big Crunch / Men Should Weep [1993] / Granada Media:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / Taggart - Vol. 40 - Football Crazy
Actors & Directors
  • Ian Knox
  • James MacPherson
  • Blythe Duff
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 97 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £24.99

Review Taggart - Vol. 40 - Football Crazy / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / Taggart - Vol. 38 - Skin Deep
Actors & Directors
  • Blythe Duff
  • Michael Brayshaw
  • James MacPherson
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £22.49

Review Taggart - Vol. 38 - Skin Deep / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / Taggart - Vol. 39 - Wavelength
Actors & Directors
  • Danny Hiller
  • James MacPherson
  • Blythe Duff
Release date: 2003-09-08
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £24.49

Review Taggart - Vol. 39 - Wavelength / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Mosaic Movies / Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings Of Sherlock Holmes [2000]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles Dance
  • Sean Wightman
  • Robin Laing (II)
  • Paul Seed
  • Ian Richardson
  • Dolly Wells
Release date: 2000-06-12
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.98

Review Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings Of Sherlock Holmes [2000] / Mosaic Movies:


Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Brett
  • Edward Hardwicke
Release date: 2003-06-09
Price: £49.99

Review Sherlock Holmes / Cinema Club:


Review ITV DVD / Cadfael - St. Peter's Fair [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Graham Theakston
  • Anthony Green (II)
  • Sebastian Graham Jones
  • Derek Jacobi
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 76 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.64

Review Cadfael - St. Peter's Fair [1995] / ITV DVD:


Review ITV DVD / Cadfael - The Devil's Novice [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Anthony Green (II)
  • Sebastian Graham Jones
  • Graham Theakston
  • Derek Jacobi
Release date: 1997-08-18
Run time: 75 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £14.91

Review Cadfael - The Devil's Novice [1995] / ITV DVD:


Review Acorn Media / Midsomer Murders - Painted In Blood [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • John Nettles
  • Dinah Stabb
  • Daniel Casey
  • Jane Wymark
  • Sarah Hellings
  • Andrew Lancel
Release date: 2003-07-14
Run time: 100 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Midsomer Murders - Painted In Blood [1997] / Acorn Media:


Actors & Directors
  • James MacPherson
  • Danny Hiller
  • Blythe Duff
Release date: 2003-06-02
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £9.99

Review Taggart - Vol. 34 - For Their Sins / Clear Vision Ltd:


Review Granada Media / Sherlock Holmes - The Mazarin Stone / The Cardboard Box [1994]
Actors & Directors
  • Edward Hardwicke
  • Sarah Hellings
  • Gavin O'Herlihy
  • Jon Finch
  • Jeremy Brett
  • Peter Hammond
Release date: 1999-09-13
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.94

Review Sherlock Holmes - The Mazarin Stone / The Cardboard Box [1994] / Granada Media:

The Mazarin StoneThe ailing Jeremy Brett largely stepped aside for this 1996 radical reinvention of the Sir Arthur Conan Doyle story, which was based on a one-act play also written by Doyle and performed in 1921. Instead of Brett's Sherlock Holmes solving the crime, this time it is his brother, Mycroft (Charles Gray), ably assisted by Dr. John Watson (Edward Hardwicke). (Sherlock does show up from time to time in a dream-like refrain, thinking through some knotty problem in a moonlighted garden. ) The plot concerns the theft of a great, yellow diamond from Whitehall, worth a £100,000 or so. Despite the absence of Brett from the main proceedings, the episode is still fun to watch, if largely out of curiosity to see Mycroft in action. The Cardboard BoxControversial upon its first publication in 1893, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Cardboard Box" confronts some nasty consequences of adultery. In this Granada Television production of the story, Sherlock Holmes (Jeremy Brett) and Dr. Watson (Edward Hardwicke) link the grisly mailing of two severed human ears with a complicated love triangle between the Cushing sisters and a man who married one of them. Holmes, an expert in ears, naturally (having written two separate monographs on them), has no problem with the mystery of where they came from. [+]
But toward what end mortals pursue "this circle of misery, violence, and fear" is another question. In ill health at the time and near the end of his run as the famous detective, Brett nevertheless gives a focused, remarkable performance while Hardwicke lends strong support. -Tom Keogh, Amazon. com.

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Wycliffe - Vol. 5 - Lost Contact / Trojan Horse [1994], Taggart - Vol. 35 - A Fistful Of Chips, Father Brown - The Hammer Of God And Other Stories [1974], Inspector Morse - Remorseful Day [1987], Taggart - Vol. 41 - Falling In Love, Agatha Christie's Miss Marple - A Pocketful Of Rye [1985], Wycliffe - Vol. 6 - Four And Twenty Blackbirds / Happy Families, Cracker - True Romance [1995], Taggart - Vol. 37 - Ghost Rider, Cracker- The Big Crunch / Men Should Weep [1993], Taggart - Vol. 40 - Football Crazy, Taggart - Vol. 38 - Skin Deep, Taggart - Vol. 39 - Wavelength, Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings Of Sherlock Holmes [2000], Sherlock Holmes, Cadfael - St. Peter's Fair [1995], Cadfael - The Devil's Novice [1995], Midsomer Murders - Painted In Blood [1997], Taggart - Vol. 34 - For Their Sins, Sherlock Holmes - The Mazarin Stone / The Cardboard Box [1994]

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