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Richard Burton stars as Henry VIII in this historical drama, with Genevieve Bujold playing his tragic wife, Anne Boleyn.

Amidst the splendour of the Tudor court, Henry and Anne's tempestuous marriage mirrors the political and religious intrigues that threaten to divide the kingdom, as Henry grows ever more desperate for a male heir to continue his line.

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Professor Norman Taylor (Peter Wyngarde) seemingly has it all - a great job, the envy of his colleagues, the perfect wife and a healthy skepticism when it comes to all things supernatural.

However, over the course of a weekend, Taylor discovers that his wife Tansy (Janet Blair) is a witch and that she has been practicing witchcraft ever since their honeymoon - apparently in an effort to protect him from jealous colleagues and assist his rise within the department. Despite her anguished protestations and warnings, he insists on destroying all the magic paraphernalia in the house and tries to carry on as normal, turning a blind eye to the possibility that his wife and her black magic could in some way have been behind his success. That is until the very next day when things in his life start going badly wrong...

"Blackadder Rides Again" an hour documentary produced to mark the 25th anniversary with filming locations in Northumberland, Cheltenham and California. Narrated by John Sergeant, Directed and Produced by Matt O'Casey.

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The fourth and final series of 'Blackadder', set on the battlefields of World War One.

1. Captain Cook

When General Haig (Geoffrey Palmer) unveils his new strategy to move his drinks cabinet six inches closer to Berlin, Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) volunteers to be Official War Artist.
2. Corporal Punishment
Orders for Operation Insanity arrive and Blackadder breaches regulations by eating the messenger. Can the Flanders Pigeon Murderer avoid the firing squad?
3. Major Star
The Russian Revolution produces two more appalling results: an offensive by Germany and a really offensive Charlie Chaplin impression by Baldrick (Tony Robinson).
4. Private Plane
German machine guns in front, British firing squads behind - the only way out is up-tiddly-up-up...
5. General Hospital
The secret of the Great Plan is out. Ordered to find a spy in the hospital, Blackadder spots a man with a strong German accent, a beautiful nurse and a chance for three weeks in bed.
6. Goodbyeee
Millions have died but the troops have advanced no further than an asthmatic ant with some heavy shopping. Now at last the final big push looms...

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Many great dynasties, strong and brave, have played a part in shaping Britain's heritage. The Blackadders are not one of them.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol

After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.
The Cavalier Years
Sir Edmund Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) must protect, and later rescue, King Charles I (Stephen Fry) from the Roundheads.

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Written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, and starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson and Hugh Laurie. England, 1760-1815. Six more brilliantly funny instalments from the annals of the Blackadder family, whose fortunes have rather plummeted with the advent of the Regency period.

Edmund Blackadder, butler to the Prince Regent, veers from calamity to disaster with very little in the way of constructive help from his imbecilic Lord and master and Baldrick, of whom the least said the better!

1. Dish and Dishonesty
Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) takes on the task of saving his master from bankruptcy. Unfortunately, attempts at interfering in the democratic process don't quite go according to plan as Baldrick (Tony Robinson) is accidentally elevated to the House of Lords.
2. Ink and Incapability
When "thick as a whale omelette" Prince George is approached by Dr. Johnson (Robbie Coltrane) with a view to patronising his new dictionary, Blackadder is, at first, unimpressed. But as Johnson's enthusiasm for a novel by a certain "Gertrude Perkins" becomes clear, the royal butler's attitude changes. However, he hasn't bargained for the monumentally brainless Baldrick.
3. Nob and Nobility
With Francophilia and Scarlet Pimpernalia sweeping England following the French Revolution, Blackadder's intense dislike for anything Gallic seems somewhat out of place. But the lure of pecuniary advantage can do strange things to a man's principles. Meanwhile the Prince Regent (Hugh Laurie) has terrible trouble getting his trousers on.
4. Sense and Senility
With anarchists lurking everywhere, Blackadder suggests that it might be opportune for his master to make a speech sympathetic to the proletariat. But when they hire two actors to give Prince George some oratorical training, the "mouse-brained" Baldrick apparently discovers an extravagant plot to murder the Prince, who is wearing some very large trousers indeed.
5. Amy and Amiability
Penury stalks the corridors of the Royal Palace, and the only answer is a marriage of financial convenience for the Prince Regent. Unfortunately, that idea backfires and Blackadder is forced into a highwayman's life with dogs-body, Baldrick as his trusty steed.
6. Duel and Duality
After a night of debauchery with the Duke of Wellington's two neices, the Prince Regent is challenged to a duel by the big-nosed general. During a momentary lapse into semi-coherence, Baldrick thinks of a plan.

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England 1558-1603.

The filthy genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface of the melting pot of history as Lord Edmund (Rowan Atkinson), arrogant peer-about-town, swaggers back with a big head and small beard in search of grace and favour from stark raving mad Queen Bess (Elspet Gray). Accompanied by a small rabble of be-ruffed riff-raff - bottom-breath Baldrick (Tony Robinson) and pea-brained Percy (Tim McInnerny) - the serpentine Lord Blackadder lower the whole tone of England's Golden Age.

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Sinister and with a touch of the macabre, Tales of the Unexpected has, at its heart, a core of black humour that makes each story compelling, with a twist k in each tale that delighted audiences throughout the country.

1. The Flypaper

A lonely schoolgirl is threatened by a strange man.
2. A Picture of a Place
Greedy antiques collector Merv thinks he has struck gold when he meets a widow whose farmhouse is crammed with rare items.
3. Proof of Guilt
Two men are in a locked room and one is shot dead. But is the case as clear cut as it seems?
4. Vengeance is Mine Inc.
A pair of unemployed graduates plan revenge on a newspaper columnist and in doing so, stumble upon a new business idea.
5. A Girl Can't Always Have Everything
Suzi and Pat are performers with a touring theatre. Money is always tight until the company gets a wealthy new backer...
6. Parson's Pleasure
A crooked antiques dealer poses as a man of the cloth to hunt for bargains.
7. The Stinker
Harold Tinker has spent his whole life tormented by the arrogant Jack Cutler.
8. I'll be Seeing You
Roland Trent is desperate to leave his bitchy wife for his near-blind mistress.
9. The Party
This Christmas could turn out to be the blackest yet for toy firm manager Henry Knox.

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Throughout the ages, men of flair, faculty and outstanding courage have contributed to England's glorious heritage.

Others, like the snivelling worm Edmund (Rowan Atkinson), Duke of Edinburgh (alias The Black Adder), the bitter and twisted son of a medieval king, have emerged from the dust of dodgy documents to claim their wrongful position in history.

Sinister and with a touch of the macabre, Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected has, at its heart, a core of black humour that makes each story compelling, with a twist in each tale that delighted audiences throughout the country.

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Although Roald Dahl is most famous for his children's books, including Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach, he was also an accomplished writer of adult fiction. His famous and sinister adult creation was the TV adaptation of Tales of the Unexpected.

First transmitted on ITV in 1979, its iconic title sequence and haunting theme tune (from prolific TV composer Ron Grainer) ensured that Tales of the Unexpected was memorable viewing. With each stand-alone episode featuring guest stars such as Oscar winners Sir John Gielgud (Arthur, Becket) and Jose Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac), Joan Collins (Dynasty), Peter Bowles (Rumpole of the Bailey) and Brian Blessed (Flash Gordon), the tales all have a twist to entertain and, more often than not, shock the viewer. Sometimes gory but always surprising, this set contains all nine episodes from the programme's first series.

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A third compelling collection that revisits the heyday of the supporting programme with a compendium of eerie and eccentric British short films presented for the first time in High Definition.

Settle in for a strange cinematic journey through uncanny stories, twists in the tale, low-budget weirdness and oodles of atmosphere.

Return to Glennascaul (1951)
An atmospheric, Academy Award-nominated tall tale, recounted with relish by Orson Welles one spooky Irish midnight not so long ago.
Strange Stories (1953)
Screen, stage and radio legends John Slater, Valentine Dyall and John Laurie excel in this eerie vintage miniportmanteau chiller.
Strange Experiences: Grandpa's Portrait (1955) / Old Silas (1956)
Two peculiar micro-budget episodes of unease from a long-forgotten television show.
Maze (1969)
An enigmatic meditation upon multiple mysterious London entanglements, with a groovy soundtrack by friends from the English prog rock group Family.
Skinflicker (1973)
Three dissidents plot to kidnap a government minister and document it on camera in this harrowing shocker which frighteningly foreshadows the 'found footage' horror genre.
COI: Broken Bottle / Don't Fool Around with Fireworks (1973)
Two horribly haunting Public Information Films from that dangerous decade: the 1970s.
The Terminal Game (1982)
A computer programmer investigates a colleague's suspicious death in this long-lost, ominously prescient tale of the perils of big corporations and new technology.
Wings of Death (1985)
Derek Jarman snapped up Dexter Fletcher for 'Caravaggio' after he saw his outstanding performance in this provocative painterly supporting subject, originally screened with 'A Nightmare on Elm Street'. Half myth, half allegorical, it's a story that crawls through reality and delusion.

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Return once more to the heyday of the supporting programme with a second cornucopia of eerie, eccentric and edgy short films.

This strange cinematic journey traverses uncanny stories, twists in the tale, low-budget weirdness, stylish spectacle, peculiar public information, monstrous music and provocative experiment - all with oodles of atmosphere, and in High Definition too.

Quiz-Crime No.1 (1943)
Can you beat master sleuth Detective Inspector Frost at his own game? Take his vintage whodunit test, in the case of the golfing-holiday murder and the affair of the slain showgirl.
Quiz-Crime No.2 (1944)
'Everyone likes a detective story', chuckles the Detective Inspector. But can you crack the cases of kidnap in the Soho backstreets and a bloodily botched boarding house murder?
The Three Children (1946)
The public information film takes an eerie turn in this disquieting child-peril frightener crafted to unsettle neglectful post-war parents.
Escape from Broadmoor (1948)
An insane killer is on the run (John Le Mesurier in an edgy early role) in this weird, torn-from-the-headlines thriller by John Gilling.
Mingaloo (1958)
A clockwork dog with a sinister secret haunts the dreams of all who see it. What is the nightmarish answer to its riddle?
Jack the Ripper with Screaming Lord Sutch (1961)
Joe Meek-produced rock'n'roll and tasteless Hammer-inspired theatrics collide in a bloodcurdling proto-music video.
The Face of Darkness (1976)
A politician (Lennard Pearce) out to reinstate the death penalty stirs a malignant medieval spirit.
The Dumb Waiter (1979)
A woman (Geraldine James) receives a mysterious phone call, beginning a night of knife-edge terror in this debut shocker from the director of cult favourite 'Vampire's Kiss'.
Hangman (1985)
Industrial accidents are presented with graphic glee by a mysterious masked executioner, who seems to enjoy his work, in a video nasty-era public information film like no other.
The Mark of Lilith (1986)
Black lesbian filmmaker Zena (Pamela Lofton) becomes involved with Lillia (Susan Franklyn), a white undead wraith, in a radical dismantling of the cinematic vampire mythos.

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This compelling collection revisits the heyday of the supporting programme with a compendium of eerie and eccentric British short films presented for the first time in High Definition.

Settle in for a strange cinematic journey through uncanny stories, twists in the tale, low-budget weirdness and oodles of atmosphere.

Lock Your Door (1949)
Master storyteller Algernon Blackwood relates his own tale of an elderly spinster overcome by ghostly voices and a creeping sense of horror in a remote country cottage.
The Reformation of St. Jules (1949)
There's something strange in the sky as sci-fi and religious revelation collide - and only legendary Weird Fiction writer Algernon Blackwood can suggest an explanation.
The Tell-Tale Heart (1953)
Stanley Baker gives a virtuoso performance by candlelight as Edgar Allan Poe recounting his classic tale of horror.
Death Was a Passenger (1958)
A chance encounter with an enigmatic nun on a train evokes eerie, half-forgotten memories of a perilous wartime escape attempt in occupied France.
Portrait of a Matador (1958)
An artist becomes unhealthily obsessed with his painting of a dead bullfighter in this bizarre tale of romance, intrigue, insanity and auto-suggestion.
Twenty-Nine (1969)
Promiscuous young man Baird (Alexis Kanner) wakes up in a strange flat, wearing clothes that don't fit, with a hangover and a half-remembered memory of a visit to a strip club. What happened last night?
The Sex Victims (1973)
The bizarre sight of a naked woman on horseback leads an unwary truck driver into a supernatural spiral of pursuit and destruction in rural England.
The Lake (1978)
The tranquil stillness of a romantic picnic for young lovers Tony (Gene Foad) and Barbara (Julie Peasgood) is threatened by echoes of the horrific violence that happened nearby in this hauntingly evocative ghost story from Lindsey Vickers (The Appointment).
The Errand (1980)
A soldier at an elite military institution is sent on a strange and increasingly nightmarish mission in this full-on fever-dream thriller from long-time Pete Walker collaborator David McGillivray (House of Whipcord).

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First published in 1977 at the height of the punk era, UK sci-fi comic 2000AD was violent, antiauthoritarian, darkly funny and distinctly British.

With such iconic characters as Strontium Dog, Nemesis and Judge Dredd, it became the anarchic underdog that forever changed the face of the international comics industry. Offering a comprehensive overview of the comic's history, Future Shock! takes a funny, moving and passionate look at the various highs and lows of how a band of talented eccentrics came together to create a visionary and extraordinary publication that still remains a game-changer more than 40 years later.