Selected Edited & Introduced by David Stuart Davies The Best of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of twenty of the very best tales from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fifty-six short stories featuring the arch sleuth Basing his selection around the author's own twelve personal favourites David Stuart Davies has added a further eight sparkling stories to Conan Doyle's Baker Street Dozen' creating a unique volume which distils the pure essence of the world's most famous detective Within these pages the reader will encounter the greatest collection of villains & the weirdest & most puzzling mysteries ever seen in print & there at the centre in a London swathed in eddies of fog & illuminated by gaslight is to be found the remarkable character of Sherlock Holmes & his staunch companion Doctor John H Watson Few will be able to resist this invitation to step aboard the waiting hansom cab & rattle off along cobbled streets into unimagined dangers & intrigues ...

The Thames carried him away from her but would it bring him home? Twelve-year-old Eliza Bragg has known little in life but the cold comfortless banks of the Thames Living above her uncle's chandlery she has grown accustomed to a life of penury & servitude her only comfort the love & protection of her older brother Bart But one day Bart accidentally kills a man & is forced to flee to New Zealand Alone barefoot beaten down & at the mercy of her cruel uncle Eliza realises that her very survival is at stake ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Sally Phillips Fiona Allen Doon Mackichan et al flex their unique brand of absurdist post-feminist humour in the hit comedy series SMACK THE PONY This & Best Of& collection contains all the funniest sketches from series 1 & 2 Age Rating 15 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Arguably the greatest comedian to have emerged in post-war Britain Spike Milligan came into television from the seminal radio comedy The Goons Spike’s TV output was to lose none of that show’s anarchic surreal & devastatingly funny humour as his series Q (1968-1980) & There’s A Lot Of It About (1982) broke every known television & comedy rule in sketch after sketch of nonsensical brilliance This compilation captures the highlights of those series including such classic sketches as The Eurovision Joke Contest Spike as the singing Viking Maiden insects auditioning for a David Attenborough series & much more assorted lunacy from the world of an indisputable comic genius Some remember him from The Goons some through his army autobiographies or his poems but it is his work on television that has stamped Spike Milligan’s surreal chaotic & devastatingly funny humour on the nation’s imagination This compilation features classic moments such as The Lost Forever in the Bermuda Triangle Holiday the Eurovision Joke Contest Michael Parkinson at the Soldierama Massage Parlour Spike as the singing Viking Maiden & loads more assorted lunacy from the world of an indisputable comic genius ...

Second volume of the Star Wars Insider featuring content previously printed in the " Star Wars Insider" magazine Each volume brings together a collection of the best of the official " Star Wars Insider "magazine content celebrating the complete Star Wars experience from movies to books videogames to comic books & more! Featuring rare cast & crew interviews & exclusive behind the scenes pictures this is an essential read for Star Wars fans of all ages ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Join Len Goodman in this special feature length DVD as he celebrates his time as a judge on Strictly Come Dancing by looking back at some of his favourite & most memorable Strictly Come Dancing routines Len relives some of the best funniest & most exciting dances as well as treating fans to a unique look behind the scenes of one of BBC One’s most popular & enduring programmes
Includes: Jake Wood & Janette Manrara’s Salsa Abbey Clancy & Alja Skorjanec’s American Smooth Caroline Flack & Pasha Kovalev’s Charleston Ann Widdecombe & Anton Du Beke’s Samba Russell Grant & Flavia Cacace’s Jive Any many more! The Best of Strictly Come Dancing
- Len’s Grand Finale is a must-watch for all Strictly fans featuring some of the most celebrated routines that have been performed on the show since the very beginning Len splits the routines into different categories Categories that really sum up Strictly for Len whether it’s themed dances show dances or just dances that made him smile Len ends the programme with an emotional farewell to those people closest to him on the show & reveals for the first time his favourite ever Strictly routine Goodman’s Greatest! Any idea what that is? Well you’ll just have to wait & see

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THE KIDS IN THE HALL the Canadian quintet of comedians consisting of Dave Foley Kevin Mc Donald Bruce Mc Culloch Mark Mc Kinney & Scott Thompson delivered up hilarious & surreal sketch comedy Their dry absurdist wit combined with their penchant for performing in drag demonstrates a strong comic affinity with the legendary MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS ...

Disc 11 Everybody's Goin' to the Love-In
- Bob Brady & The Con Chords 2 It's The Beat
- Major Lance 3 Breakin' Down the Walls

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From 1971 to 1987 & over the course of 12 series & eight specials The Two Ronnies became one of the great British television comedy shows Millions of viewers lapped up the sketches of doctors& surgeries middle-class parties government ministry broadcasts as well as the regular news headlines Ronnie Corbett monologues Ronnie Barker word-play sketches & fabulous comic songs This selection features some of the best of these including " The Short-Sighted Optician" " The Ministry for Sex Equality" " The Plumstead Ladies Male Voice Choir" & " News at Ton" ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Compilation of some of the most-cherished sketches from Ronnie Barker & Ronnie Corbett&s sixteen years as a television comedy duo

Includes:: & The Vagabond Lover& & Swedish Made Simple& & Mastermind& & & St Botolph&s Country Dance Team&

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