Granada Television.
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A beautiful young woman seeks the help of Holmes and Watson when the mysterious benefactor who has been sending her a pearl each year since her father disappeared wants to meet her. Involved are a priceless hoard of Indian treasure and a murderer, whose trademark is "the sign of four."
2) 49 up
Series
Pub. Date
[2006?]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Inspired by the Jesuit saying, "Give me a child until he is 7 years old, and I will give you the man," in 1964 Granada Television commissioned a short documentary wherein producers profiled 14 7-year-old children, and loosely speculated on what sort of lives they might lead. It was meant and received as an indictment of the British class system, which seemed most inflexible in 1964. Almost as an afterthought, director Michael Apted--a researcher on...
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Intent on escaping the clutches of his indomitable Aunt Agatha and the perpetual threat of wedlock, Bertie once again flees his native England for New York accompanied, as ever, by the unflappable Jeeves. Yet even the waters of the Atlantic cannot keep the witless Wooster safe, and he is soon up to his ears in a frightful tangle of wayward cousins, stolen babies, unwanted engagements and even -- heaven forbid -- his domineering aunt.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Soon after England declared war on Germany in 1939, Lancashire housewife Nella Last began writing a diary as part of a public project. She was 49 and fearful that she wouldn't be able to cope with her son's enlistment and life alone with her domineering husband. Recounts her experience of wartime privations, but also her dawning sense of independence. Amid the hardships of food rations and air raids, Nella's volunteer work for the war effort fills...
11) Eleventh hour
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 283 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Professor Ian Hood is recruited by the British government as its on-call scientist/detective. Along with his female bodyguard, they take on such menaces as rogue cloners, ruthless polluters, and resurgent viruses. Includes four episodes.
13) Hard times
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (203 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Local MP and schoolmaster Thomas Gradgrind raises his children, Louisa and Tom, in the utilitarian fashion, stressing reason and fact and dismissing imagination and emotion. Under his influence, Louisa grows cold while Tom turns to a secret life of drinking and gambling. To be nearer her brother, Louisa accepts an offer of marriage from his boss, the self-made, self-important banker Josiah Bounderby, though she does not love him. But she soon finds...
14) Painted lady
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 198 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Maggie Sheridan is a semi-retired, former '60s rock singer. She seems resigned to a life lived on a crumbling country estate, ruminating about her past. Everything changes when a botched robbery leaves her friend Sir Charles Stafford dead and one of his prized pantings missing. Determined to retrieve the masterpiece and find the killer, Maggie plunges into the dark underworld of the art trade. Posing as a wealthy Polish countess, she sets off on a...
15) Doctor Zhivago
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (225 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
One of the world's most famous love stories and half a century of Russian history come to life in this adaptation of Pasternak's masterpiece. War and revolution bring poet and physician Yury Zhivago together with the beautiful Lara, his muse and all-consuming passion. But both are hunted, Yury by guilt over his betrayal of Tonya, his beloved wife, and Lara by fear of Komarovsky, the powerful man who means to have her any way he can.
Pub. Date
[2003], ©1992
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
For years a blackmailer has been preying on the weaknesses of others throughout London. When Holmes hears of the utter misery this mystery man is creating, he adopts a campaign to thwart his evil scheming. The campaign astonishes Dr. Watson by its strangness and finds that Holmes is falling in love.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 468 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The criminal psychologist returns in three more episodes: To Be A Somebody, The Big Crunch, and Men Should Weep. 'Fitz' combats personal crisis and professional challenges when racism, religion, and murder get in his way.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 300 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
This 2 disc set includes season 7 and season 8 of 'A touch of Frost'. Award-winning British actor, David Jason, is Jack Frost, a no-nonsense detective whose unorthodox methods fuel the tension between him and others.
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dramatization of a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The most eligible bachelor in London, Lord St. Simon, has just married a wealthy American woman. The young couple's wedding day turns to tragedy when an unwelcome guest arrives at the wedding breakfast and the bride disappears. Sherlock Holmes is plagued with terrible nightmares, which cause him to regard the plight of Lord St. Simon with contempt. Will Holmes take the case?