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Review Imc Vision / Murder Rooms - The Photographer's Chair
Actors & Directors
  • Paul Marcus
  • Charles Edwards
  • Simon Chandler
  • Roger Lloyd-Pack
  • Ian Richardson
  • Henry Goodman
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £3.98

Review Murder Rooms - The Photographer's Chair / Imc Vision:


Review ITV DVD / Inspector Morse - Who Killed Harry Field? - Series 5 - Episode 3 [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • John Thaw
  • Freddie Jones
  • Geraldine James
  • John Castle
  • Kevin Whately
  • Colin Gregg
Release date: 1999-08-09
Run time: 104 min.
RRP: £9.99
Price: £2.34

Review Inspector Morse - Who Killed Harry Field? - Series 5 - Episode 3 [1987] / ITV DVD:

When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and storylines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world-and with his colleagues in the police force-most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to the next. And he is scarred-more deeply than he would ever admit-by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep down, sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. [+]
It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! - Piers Ford.

Review Cinema Club / Cracker - Brotherly Love [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Charles McDougall
  • Michael Winterbottom
  • Ian Mercer
  • Julian Jarrold
  • Jean Stewart (III)
  • Simon Cellan Jones
  • Amelia Bullmore
Release date: 2002-08-05
Run time: 148 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Cracker - Brotherly Love [1993] / Cinema Club:


Review Carlton Home Entertainment / The Turnaround [1995]
Actors & Directors
  • Clive Owen
  • Matthew Marsh
  • Suri Krishnamma
  • Rowena King
  • John Salthouse
  • Bill Paterson
Release date: 1996-09-09
Run time: 75 min.
Price: £12.99

Review The Turnaround [1995] / Carlton Home Entertainment:


Review Granada Media / Sherlock Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles [1988]
Actors & Directors
  • Jeremy Brett
  • Fiona Gillies
  • Raymond Adamson
  • Edward Hardwicke
  • William Ilkley
  • Brian Mills
Release date: 1998-09-07
Run time: 101 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Sherlock Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles [1988] / Granada Media:

This nearly two-hour-long Granada Television production of the most popular Sherlock Holmes tale-adapted from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's 1902 novel-stars series regular Jeremy Brett as the Baker Street detective and Edward Hardwicke as his close ally, Dr. John Watson. A thrilling blend of detective yarn and Gothic horror, The Hound concerns the apparent return of an old curse upon the Baskerville family in the terrifying form of a gigantic killer hound. Fans of Hardwicke get an opportunity to see his Watson on a solo mission for part of this story, though Brett-easily the best of all screen actors to play the sleuth-is never far from the narrative. The supporting cast is very good and the beast itself, revealed in a famously terrifying finale, is indeed a spooky revelation. -Tom Keogh.

Review Granada Media / Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The King Of Clubs / The Dream [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • David Suchet
  • Edward Bennett
  • Penny Rye
  • Philip Jackson
  • Pauline Moran
  • Hugh Fraser
Release date: 2000-01-17
Run time: 95 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £3.23

Review Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The King Of Clubs / The Dream [1989] / Granada Media:


Actors & Directors
  • Antonia Bird
  • John Thaw
  • Sean Bean
  • Danny Boyle
  • Diana Quick
  • Jim Broadbent
  • Kevin Whately
Release date: 2000-01-26
Run time: 205 min.
Price: £19.99

Review Inspector Morse - Absolute Conviction / Cherubim And Seraphim [1987] / Carlton Visual Entertainment Ltd:

When Inspector Morse first appeared on television in 1987, nobody could have predicted that it would run into the next century, maintaining throughout a quality of scripts and storylines that raised the genre of the detective series to a new level. Much of its success can be attributed to John Thaw's total immersion in the role. Morse is a prickly character and not obviously easy to like. As a detective in Oxford with unfulfilled academic propensities, he is permanently excluded from a world of which he would dearly love to be a part. He is at odds with that world-and with his colleagues in the police force-most of the time. Passionate about opera and "proper beer", he is a cultural snob for whom vulgarity causes almost physical pain. As a result, he lives from one disillusionment to the next. And he is scarred-more deeply than he would ever admit-by past relationships. But he also has a naïve streak and, deep down, sensitivity, which makes him a fascinating challenge for women. At the heart of Morse's professional life is his awkward partnership with Detective Sergeant Lewis, the resolutely ordinary, worldly sidekick who manages to keep his boss in an almost permanent state of exasperation while retaining his grudging respect. [+]
It's a testament to Kevin Whateley's consistently excellent performance that from such unpromising material Lewis becomes as indispensable to the series as Barrington Pheloung's hypnotic, classic theme music. Morse's investigations do occasionally take him abroad to more exotic locations, but throughout 14 successful years of often gruesome murders, the city of Oxford itself became a central character in these brooding two-hour dramas: creator Colin Dexter stating he finally had to kill Morse off because he was giving Oxford a bad reputation as a dangerous place! - Piers Ford.

Review Warner Home Video / Agatha Christie's Murder With Mirrors [1985]
Actors & Directors
  • Helen Hayes
  • Bette Davis
  • Dick Lowry
  • Leo McKern
  • Liane Langland
  • John Mills
Release date: 2000-08-21
Run time: 94 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £9.92

Review Agatha Christie's Murder With Mirrors [1985] / Warner Home Video:


Review 2 Entertain Video / Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime - The Affair Of The Pink Pearl / The House Of Lurking Death [1983]
Actors & Directors
  • Tony Wharmby
  • John A. Davis (II)
Release date: 2001-06-18
Run time: 103 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £5.00

Review Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime - The Affair Of The Pink Pearl / The House Of Lurking Death [1983] / 2 Entertain Video:


Review Acorn Media / Lord Peter Wimsey - Strong Poison [1987]
Actors & Directors
  • Christopher Hodson
  • Harriet Walter
  • Richard Morant
  • Derek Royle
  • Michael A. Simpson
  • Edward Petherbridge
  • Paul Hastings
Release date: 2002-02-11
Run time: 165 min.
Price: £16.99

Review Lord Peter Wimsey - Strong Poison [1987] / Acorn Media:


Review Imc Vision / Murder Rooms - The Patient's Eyes [2001]
Actors & Directors
  • Tim Fywell
  • Ian Richardson
  • Katie Blake
  • Charles Edwards
  • Simon Quaterman
  • Simon Chandler
Release date: 2001-11-05
Run time: 90 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £9.90

Review Murder Rooms - The Patient's Eyes [2001] / Imc Vision:


Review Granada Media / Why Didn't They Ask Evans? [1980]
Actors & Directors
  • Leigh Lawson
  • John Davies
  • Tony Wharmby
  • James Warwick (II)
  • Francesca Annis
  • Connie Booth
  • John Gielgud
Release date: 2000-06-05
Run time: 144 min.
Price: £10.99

Review Why Didn't They Ask Evans? [1980] / Granada Media:


Review Cinema Club / Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Evil Under The Sun [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Philip Jackson
  • David Suchet
  • Pauline Moran
  • Brian Farnham
  • Hugh Fraser
Release date: 2003-07-14
Run time: 98 min.
Price: £5.99

Review Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Evil Under The Sun [1989] / Cinema Club:


Review Acorn Media / Midsomer Murders - Death In Chorus
Actors & Directors
  • John Nettles
Release date: 2006-10-09
Run time: 93 min.
RRP: £14.99
Price: £8.67

Review Midsomer Murders - Death In Chorus / Acorn Media:


Review Cinema Club / Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Dumb Witness [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Philip Jackson
  • David Suchet
  • Hugh Fraser
  • Edward Bennett
Release date: 2003-07-14
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £1.55

Review Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Dumb Witness [1989] / Cinema Club:


Review Granada Media / Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Cornish Mystery / The Disappearance Of Mr Davenheim [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • David Suchet
Release date: 2001-06-04
Run time: 99 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £4.67

Review Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Cornish Mystery / The Disappearance Of Mr Davenheim [1989] / Granada Media:


Review Acorn Media / Midsomer Murders - Death In Disguise [1997]
Actors & Directors
  • Stephen Moyer
  • Laura Howard
  • Jane Wymark
  • John Nettles
  • Baz Taylor
  • Daniel Casey
Release date: 2000-06-05
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £12.99
Price: £1.90

Review Midsomer Murders - Death In Disguise [1997] / Acorn Media:

Based on Caroline Graham's novels and featuring the stolid crime-solving skills of Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby, Midsomer Murders made their television debut in 1997 and continue to keep viewers happy with that potent whodunnit ingredient: spectacularly bloody murders in the most tranquil rural settings the Shires have to offer. Midsomer is a vaguely defined area of villages and hamlets with charming names like Badger's Drift and Goodman's Land. It also has the highest number of violent deaths per capita outside the average war zone. Serial killings abound to test the nerve of Barnaby (John Nettles) and his sidekick Sergeant Troy (Daniel Casey), a dullard easily perplexed by a world which refuses to stick to his black and white view of things. Nettles is excellent; there's a hint of Bergerac still, now heavier of jowl and broader of beam, though the chasing is necessarily limited and the DCI enjoys the home comforts of an understanding wife and a spirited daughter. "Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it's always the same thing", he huffs. "Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide and murder. " Ain't it the truth? The murders are astonishing. Family feuds, jealousy, incest, industrial espionage, all erupt at regular intervals leaving a trail of bodies with throats slashed, limbs dismembered and blood absolutely everywhere. Rivers of sheer nastiness run deep beneath the superficially pastoral perfection of Midsomer. [+]
Thank goodness there are still men like dependable Barnaby to get to the bottom of things. Eventually. Sure of Barnaby's eventual success, Midsomer Murders make for a cosy, even comforting, couple of hours curled up in front of the television. And they make a great showcase for star turns from the great stable of British character actors, too, from Celia Imrie and Elizabeth Spriggs to Imelda Staunton and Duncan Preston, who invariably turn this whimsical stuff into the tastiest possible ham. -Piers Ford.

Review Granada Media / Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - How Does Your Garden Grow? / The Million Dollar Bond Robbery [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • Hugh Fraser
  • David Suchet
  • Pauline Moran
  • Philip Jackson
Release date: 2002-04-29
Run time: 102 min.
RRP: £10.99
Price: £1.50

Review Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - How Does Your Garden Grow? / The Million Dollar Bond Robbery [1989] / Granada Media:


Review Cinema Club / Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Yellow Iris / The Case Of The Missing Will [1989]
Actors & Directors
  • David Suchet
Release date: 2003-06-16
Run time: 101 min.
RRP: £5.99
Price: £5.00

Review Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Yellow Iris / The Case Of The Missing Will [1989] / Cinema Club:


Review Clear Vision Ltd / Taggart - Vol. 21 - Gingerbread [1993]
Actors & Directors
  • Harriet Buchan
  • Sarah Hellings
  • Iain Anders
  • Blythe Duff
  • Mark McManus
  • James MacPherson
Release date: 1998-02-02
Run time: 130 min.
Price: £12.99

Review Taggart - Vol. 21 - Gingerbread [1993] / Clear Vision Ltd:


Models & Brands:
Murder Rooms - The Photographer's Chair, Inspector Morse - Who Killed Harry Field? - Series 5 - Episode 3 [1987], Cracker - Brotherly Love [1993], The Turnaround [1995], Sherlock Holmes - The Hound Of The Baskervilles [1988], Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The King Of Clubs / The Dream [1989], Inspector Morse - Absolute Conviction / Cherubim And Seraphim [1987], Agatha Christie's Murder With Mirrors [1985], Agatha Christie's Partners In Crime - The Affair Of The Pink Pearl / The House Of Lurking Death [1983], Lord Peter Wimsey - Strong Poison [1987], Murder Rooms - The Patient's Eyes [2001], Why Didn't They Ask Evans? [1980], Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Evil Under The Sun [1989], Midsomer Murders - Death In Chorus, Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Dumb Witness [1989], Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - The Cornish Mystery / The Disappearance Of Mr Davenheim [1989], Midsomer Murders - Death In Disguise [1997], Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - How Does Your Garden Grow? / The Million Dollar Bond Robbery [1989], Poirot - Agatha Christie's Poirot - Yellow Iris / The Case Of The Missing Will [1989], Taggart - Vol. 21 - Gingerbread [1993]

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