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    The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten
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    The Life and Times of Lord Mountbatten

    Narrated by Lord Mountbatten himself, this is a positive feast of history and archive material, some of it part of Mountbatten’s personal collection. A masterpiece in history.

    $40.00
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    The Morecambe & Wise Show
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    The Morecambe & Wise Show

    Long-running BBC variety show presented by Britain’s best-loved comedy duo, Eric Morecambe and Ernie Wise. Based around irreverent stand-up routines, comedy sketches and comical song and dance numbers involving a stream of beleaguered guests, the series ran for nearly a decade from 1968 to 1977 and included sketches such as ‘Singin’ in the Rain’ and ‘The Breakfast Stripper’.

    $25.00 – $45.00
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    Dick Emery - The Thames Television Specials
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    Dick Emery – The Thames Television Specials

    Three hour-long television specials filmed for Thames Television during Dick Emery’s brief hiatus from his 15 successful years at the BBC. The shows feature all of Emery’s best-loved comic characters, including favourites such as Hettie the sex-starved spinster, Gaylord the bovver boy, camp Clarence with his catchphrase ‘Hello, honky-tonk!’, and busty middle-aged blonde Mandy (‘Ooh, you are awful!’). Guest stars include Lulu, Lynda Carter, Richard Todd, the Three Degrees, Gemma Craven and Beryl Reid.

    $25.00
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    Slinger's Day
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    Slinger’s Day

    Slinger’s Day is a British sitcom that aired for two seasons from 1986 to 1987, made by Thames Television for the ITV network. It was a continuation of Tripper’s Day, which had originally come to a natural end after Leonard Rossiter’s death, and, despite the overwhelmingly negative response it had drawn from reviewers and a section of the viewing public, was revived this time with Bruce Forsyth as a different character to Rossiter but fulfilling the same role, that of the manager of a London supermarket with largely incompetent staff.

    Like Tripper’s Day, it was created by Brian Cooke, however, in contrast to the previous series, Cooke only wrote two episodes of the twelve episodes, more than half of them being written by Vince Powell with others being written by Alex Shearer and Sorry! creators Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, and one episode written by the prolific Andrew Marshall and David Renwick.

    Slinger’s Day represented Forsyth’s only ever situation comedy acting role, and he remained more associated with stand-up routines and gameshows.

    $16.00
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    Hannay
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    Hannay

    Hannay was a 1988 spin-off from the 1978 film version of John Buchan’s novel The Thirty-Nine Steps which had starred Robert Powell as Richard Hannay.

    In the series, Powell reprised the role of Hannay, an Edwardian mining engineer from Rhodesia of Scottish origin. It features his adventures in pre-World War I Great Britain. These stories had little in common with John Buchan’s novels about the character, although some character names are taken from his other novels.

    There were two series, the first with six episodes, the second with seven. The combined 13 episodes ran for a total of 652 minutes.

    One episode, A Point of Honour, was based on a story of the same name by Dornford Yates that appeared in his 1914 book The Brother of Daphne, although Yates was not credited.

    Another episode used a plot device from the Leslie Charteris Saint story The Unblemished Bootlegger, from the 1933 book The Brighter Buccaneer, again uncredited.

    $24.00 – $32.00
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    Reilly, Ace of Spies
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    Reilly, Ace of Spies

    Reilly, Ace of Spies is a 1983 television miniseries dramatizing the life of Sidney Reilly, a Russian Jew who became one of the greatest spies ever to work for the British. Among his exploits, in the early 20th century, were the infiltration of the German General Staff in 1917 and a near-overthrow of the Bolsheviks in 1918. His reputation with women was as legendary as his genius for espionage.

    The mini series is written by Troy Kennedy Martin, and based on the 1967 book Ace of Spies by Robin Bruce Lockhart. Sam Neill stars as Sidney Reilly. The theme music is the Romance movement from Dmitri Shostakovich’s The Gadfly Suite.

    The miniseries was issued on DVD by A&E Home Video on 22 February 2005. Starting on 8 December 2008, the series was shown on digital channel UKTV History in the UK.

    There are twelve episodes, each approximately 50 minutes in length.

    $48.00
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