A bumbling couple whose marriage was probably not conceived in heaven stumble into a wicked world as they celebrate their wedding anniversary. Forceful frustrated Mildred (Yootha Joyce) & her hen-pecked & harassed husband George (Brian Murphy) move with sublime innocence into the underworld of crooked businessmen shady casinos & tough crooks in which they also face temptation in the shape of a beautiful woman for George & champagne & roses for Mildred. ...

Horror legend George A. Romero (Night of the Living Dead Dawn of the Dead Day of the Dead Diary of the Dead) presents Deadtime Stories Volume 1. 3 frightening tales that will chill to the core: Valley of the Shadow A woman searches for her missing husband in the jungles of South America… & soon the hunters become the hunted. Wet A lonely potter finds a valuable jade box buried on the beach. Things become deadly when the box is opened… House Call In an earlier century a woman living on an isolated farm calls an elderly doctor out on a stormy night to make a house call on her strangely ailing son. What he finds when he gets there isnt listed in any medical books… ...

Spinning off from Man About The House George & Mildred features erstwhile landlords George & Mildred Roper 'moving up' into suburbia at 46 Peacock Crescent Hampton Wick. Mildred is in her element playing up to her posh neighbours but George is mightily unimpressed with the whole thing & is determined to ignore as much of it as he can though he has his hands full with both the neighbours & Mildred's awful relatives...
Includes: the following episodes: Moving On The Bad Penny...and Women Must Weep Baby Talk Your Money Or Your Life Where My Caravan Has Rested The Little Dog Laughed Best Foot Forward My Husband Next Door Family Planning
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George (Sid James) is a chauffeur-cum-dogsbody in the household of Colonel Maynard (John Le Mesurier) who can't recruit a housekeeper because George can't keep his hands to himself. George has a plan to get his cousin the vacancy but is caught unawares when Gabrielle Dragon (Peggy Mount) arrives & tells him firmly that she has been engaged & means to stay. Has George finally met his matchseries One
- Disc One 1. George Meets The Dragon 2. The Not So Tender Trap 3. The Unexpected Sport 4. Night Night Sleep Tight 5. The Royal Letter 6. Merry Christmas Series Two
- Disc Two 1. TV Conflict 2. Sunday Morning 3. The French Lesson 4. The Learner Driver 5. The Old Flame 6. Table Manners 7. Friendship Bureau Series Three
- Disc Three 1. The Reunion 2. Court Case 3. The TV Set 4. The Holiday 5. The 10.15 Train 6. Family Tree 7. Big Deal Series Four
- Disc Four 1. Backing Britain 2. The Football Match 3. Gabrielle's Birthday 4. Life Insurance 5. Floribunda Gabrielle 6. Love Is A Many Splendoured Thing



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George Best died November 2005 just 6 months before his 60th birthday. Widely regarded as a footballing genius & on of the greatest players to have ever graced the game this rare & insightful programme gives an up close & personal look at life & times of Best both on & the pitch by the people who knew him best. Signing for Manchester United at the age of 17 Bests career went from strength to strength going on to win the Football League Championship & European Cup as well as winning 37 caps for Irel&. In 1968 Best was named ' Footballer of The Year' by the Footballer Writers Association the youngest player to do so at the age of 21. He also won European Footballer of the Year. Ultimately it as his 'celebrity lifestyle' that started a steady decline in his career his extravagant lifestyle leading to problems with alcoholism & his demise in 2005. In this definitive & in depth programme George's father Dickie Best tells his son's story charting his Journey from sporting hero to alcoholic. Dickie provides a family's unique perspective on one of the rarest & most precarious football talents ever seen & one of the sport's first true International celebrities"ed as saying I was the one who took football off the back pages & put it on to page one. This programme features archive training & match footage as well as first time & exclusive access to the Best family's home cine footage & photos. It also features personal & intimate scenes from the actual funeral & extensive interviews with the Best family Including George's sister Barbara & brother-in-law Norman Mc Narry. ...

It’s Bad For Ya Carlin’s Emmy-nominated 14th & final HBO special of March 2008 features Carlin’s noted irreverent & unapologetic observations on topics ranging from death religion bureaucracy patriotism overprotected children & big business to the pungent examinations of modern language & the decrepit state of the American culture. Carlin once again comes up with an hour of brand new material that not only makes you laugh but makes you think. George Carlin will always remain part of the popular lexicon for his Seven Dirty Words routine & as a comedian who was never afraid to challenge his audience. ...

George Carlin returns to the stage in Life is Worth Losing his 13th live comedy st&-up special performed at the Beacon Theatre in New York City for HBO®. Carlin's spot-on observations on the deterioration of human behaviour include Americans' obsession with their two favourite addictions
- shopping & eating; his creative idea for The All-Suicide Channel a new reality TV network; & the glorious rebirth of the planet to its original pristine condition
- once the fires & floods destroy life as we know it. Life is Worth Losing
Includes:: A Modern Man Three Little Words The Suicide Guy Extreme Human Behavior The All-Suicide Channel Dumb Americans Pyramid of the Hopeless Autoerotic Asphyxia Posthumous Female Transplants Yeast Infection Excess: Fires & Floods Coast-to-Coast Emergency.


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George Carlin was one of the greatest & most influential st&-up comedians of all time. He appeared on The Tonight Show more than 130 times starred in an unprecedented 14 HBO Specials hosted the first Saturday Night Live & penned three New York Times bestselling books. This boxset collects together four of Carlin's legendary live stand up HBO specials
- available in the UK for the first time. Spanning the years 1977-1984 we find a younger Carlin at his most caustic & incendiary best. Taking no prisoners in front of sell out crowds America's first counter-culture comedian holds society's hypocrisies & idiocies up to the light. Titles Include: George Carlin: On Location
- March 5 1977 at the University of Southern California George Carlin: Again
- Celebrity Star Theater in Phoenix on July 23 1978 George Carlin: At Carnegie
- Taped before a sold-out house at New York City's Carnegie Hall George Carlin: On Campus
- Taped at UCLA on April 19 1984




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Growing up in New York City George Carlin was always the class clown. He went on to become one of the greatest comedians of all time with appeal that spans generations. His brand of provocative sociopolitical commentary & scathing comic style brought him four Grammy awards most recently in 2002. Carlin was the first-ever host of NBC's Saturday Night Live & has starred in fourteen HBO specials. Titles Comprise of: George Carlin in Concert: Playin' With Your Head George Carlin: What Am I Doing in New Jersey? George Carlin: Doin' It Again George Carlin: Live at the Paramount (aka Jammin' In New York) ...