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An Audience with Freddie Starr (1996)
$15.00A celebrity audience pays tribute to the inimitable Freddie Starr, one of Britain’s zaniest comedians.
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Farewell to the King (1989)
$15.00An American soldier who escapes the execution of his comrades by Japanese soldiers in Borneo during WWII becomes the leader of a personal empire among the headhunters in this war story told in the style of Joseph Conrad and Rudyard Kipling. The American is reluctant to rejoin the fight against the Japanese on the urging of a British commando team but conducts a war of vengeance when the Japanese attack his adopted people.
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Empire of the Sun (1987)
$15.00Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all foreigners into prison camps. Jamie is captured with an American sailor named Basie, who looks out for him while they are in the camp together. Even though he is separated from his parents and in a hostile environment, Jamie maintains his dignity and youthful spirits, providing a beacon of hope for the others held captive with him.
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Burke & Wills (1985)
$15.00A story based on true events about two explorers on a doomed journey trying to cross Australia on foot in the 19 century.
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Chariots of Fire (1981)
$15.00The true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
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Don’t Wait Up
$30.00Two doctors, estranged from their spouses, become roommates…but they also happen to be father and son! Can they share an apartment without driving each other crazy? No, but they do it anyway…. Tom Latimer is a young and hard working general practitioner who has managed to survive an expensive and nasty divorce. Now he lives in an apartment while his ex lives in their beautiful home. And things get worse for Tom when his father, dermatologist Toby Latimer, arrives at Tom’s place with the news that he and Tom’s mother will also be getting divorced” and that he’s moving in! It’s shades of The Odd Couple as father and son must learn to tolerate one another’s idiosyncracies.
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The Glittering Prizes
$60.00The Glittering Prizes is a British television drama about the changing lives of a group of Cambridge students, starting in 1952 and following them through to middle age in the 1970s. It was first broadcast on BBC2 in 1976.
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Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
$60.00Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and Churchill was played by Robert Hardy.
Hardy’s brilliant performance as Churchill won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award in 1982. He reprised the role in The Sittaford Mystery, Bomber Harris and War and Remembrance and at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in 1995 when he quoted a number of Churchill’s wartime speeches in character.
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The Charmer
$45.00The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, the smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce’s would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her.
It was made by London Weekend Television for ITV, and based on the 1953 novel Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton, the second work in the Gorse Trilogy.
The series was repeated in February and March 1990. ITV3 also repeated the series in full at 01:45am from 5 September 2009. Narrative repeats were on Mondays from 7 September 2009 at 10:05am.
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Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple (2020)
Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple (2020)
$15.00British writer Agatha Christie (1890-1976) published her first novel in 1920, in which the eccentric Belgian private sleuth Hercule Poirot made his debut. Later, in 1927, the first short story starring the gentle spinster Miss Jane Marple appeared. A fascinating journey through popular culture in search of the footprints of two of the most charismatic characters in crime and mystery literature.
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