BBC Video (Firm)
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (30 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's a wonderful day for Spot. He is spending the day with Grandma and Grandpa and they are taking him to the carnival! And there's an extra special surprise in store. Spot and his friends get to ride in the carnival parade on an actual fire engine! But when the float with the carnival's band gets a flat tire, who will save the day? Find out in this marvelous adventure! Includes the complete half-hour Grandparents special plus two bonus episodes!...
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (461 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A contemporary take on the classic Arthur Conan Doyle stories, Sherlock is a thrilling, funny, fast-paced adventure series set in present-day London. The iconic details from Conan Doyle's original books remain: they live at the same address, have the same names, and, somewhere out there, Moriarty is waiting for them. And so across three thrilling, scary, action-packed, and highly modern adventures, Sherlock and John navigate a maze of cryptic clues...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 345 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant, co-creators of The Office and Extras help their friend, Karl Pilkington complete tasks from his bucket list, except the experience is never as easy or as fun as it seems. Gervais and Merchant find ways to arrange a few surprises along the way to keep things interesting. In the end, Pilkington ends up visiting more places and suffering more detours than he did in the first season. Find out what happens when an idiot...
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (353 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Journey across China from the peaks of the Himalayas to the barren steppe, the sub-Arctic to the tropical islands, through deserts both searingly hot and mind-numbingly cold and see a dazzling array of mysterious, beautiful, wild and rare creatures.
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (174 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A three-part documentary series celebrates Queen Elizabeth II's 60 years as Head of State of the United Kingdom and Head of the Commonwealth. For the first time in modern history a Monarch reaches her Diamond Jubilee. To mark the occasion presented is a definitive analysis of The Queen's reign, and more.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young woman is unconscious, bleeding from a head wound. Hiding in the cellar is her husband, ready to wield a knife at anyone who tries to enter, desperate to protect his secret. What happens next leaves one of the officers dead, the other fighting for her career and Inspector Banks with a chilling murder investigation that will test him to the limit. The beauty and tranquility of England's Yorkshire Dales provides a striking and contrasting backdrop...
8) Middlemarch
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (420 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One double-sided disc contains episodes 1-3 on side A (200 min.) and episodes 4-6 on side B (220 min.). Based on George Elliot's novel, Middlemarch is set in early nineteenth century England and charts the impact of the Industrial Revolution on the town as it divides its population into two opposing factions: the conservatives and the liberals.
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
"Tidal seas--The sun and moon move billions of tons of water with every turn of the tide. The strongest tides empty entire bays, smash trees on riverbanks, and strand sea creatures on suddenly dry land. Weaker tides controlthe movements of huge numbers of fish, coaxing schools of giant stingrays through astounding underwater arches. And as the water recedes, the tide can create unbelievable landscapes--like a sparkling world of salt crystals inhabited...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (247 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jonathan, played by Daniel Day-Lewis, is the ungainly, neglected eldest son of a family living in the Black Country. His younger brother Harold is everything he is not. Despite the favoritism shown to Harold, the two boys build a close friendship that lasts a lifetime and ends in tragedy.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A three-part series exploring the reign of Queen Victoria through her husband Albert, the Prince Consort, and the lives of her children. By telling the stories of the personal relationships between Victoria, her husband, and their nine children, it looks for a fresh understanding of the longest reigning Queen and the nature of the British monarchy.
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (739 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Awkwright, the brown-coated, stuttering, northern shopkeeper, is forced to open his corner shop for as long as the law will permit. But he still finds time for his passions-- parting unsuspecting customers from their hard-earned cash, and his tireless pursuit of nurse Gladys Emmanuel.
Pub. Date
2005, c2000-2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (346 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this collection of final classic episodes, Alistair and Judith prepare for their wedding. Harry gets an offer to start a new life in Canada, but will Sandy be a part of it? A mystery woman and a surprise reappearance ensure things won't be dull.
17) Have his carcase
Series
Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries volume 7
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (200 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this, the second of Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, Harriet Vane the mystery writer, cleared of murder through the efforts of Lord Peter Wimsey, seeks solace in the country. Walking along a barren beach she stumbles across the body of a bearded young man with his throat cut. From the moment she photographs the corpse, which soon disappears with the tide, she is puzzled by a mystery that might have been suicide, murder or a political...
18) Strong poison
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the first of Dorothy L. Sayers's famous Harriet Vane mystery series, amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey falls in love with Harriet Vane, the mystery writer as she stands in the dock of Old Bailey. Harriet Vane is on trial for the diabolically clever murder of her fiancé. Not only does Wimsey believe in her innocence, he fall is love with her at first sight. Can he save her from the gallows and will he win her hand?
19) Top of the lake
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 360 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A pregnant 12 year-old girl who won't reveal who the father is, walks chest deep into the freezing waters of a New Zealand lake and disappears. Robin Griffin is called in to investigate and becomes more and more obsessed. As she searches, she slowly begins to realize that finding the girl is tantamount to finding herself, a self she has kept well hidden. A powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness, where the dream of paradise attracts...