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In his first leading sitcom role, Ronnie Corbett dons bowler hat, brolly and briefcase to play a quintessential suburban commuter on whom disaster fits more snugly than his pin-striped trousers! Created by comedy legends Barry Cryer, Eric Idle and Graham Chapman, 'No That's Me Over Here' sees

Ronnie battling the relentless forces of time while struggling to keep his place in a ruthless suburban status race. Bewildered by office politics, rapidly losing the fight to retain his non-fattening centre and belittled at every opportunity by his patronising neighbour, he's the kind of chap who gets dressed up only to be unceremoniously brought down.

Looking forward to bier killers, frauleins, high wages and no taxes, Dennis (Tim Healy), Neville (Kevin Whately) and Oz (Jimmy Nail) leave Newcastle for work on a building site in Dusseldorf, meeting up with fellow ex-pats Wayne (Gary Holton), Bomber (Pat Roach), Barry (Timothy Spall) and Moxey (Christopher Fairbank).

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This gentle, romantic sitcom stars the real-life partnership of Pauline Collins and John Alderton as a couple recounting the eventful earlier years of their marriage. Clara (Pauline Collins) and Charles Danby (John Alderton) revisit several key moments from their courtship and marriage of ten years.

Clara is now a successful children's author, while Charles, affectionately known as 'CD' ('Clever Drawers'), is an established actor. But life wasn't always this comfortable for the Danby's; early days saw the couple struggling to make ends meet as their fledgling careers seemed to founder, and Clara's choice of husband caused a little unease for her aristocratic family. However, the combination of Clara's oddly compelling logic and CD's eternal optimism saw them through those unsteadier times - and would they really have wished it otherwise?

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Young bachelor, Terry Scott lives with his mother at 33 Lobelia Avenue in Tooting. He passes his days dreaming of easy wealth - no hard work required. Simpleton, Hugh Lloyd is Terry's lodger.

When he's not hard at work at the local aircraft factory, he whiles away his free time getting haplessly roped into Terry's get-rich-quick schemes. This hilarious sitcom sees the unlikely twosome encounter all sorts of scrapes and mishaps as bully boy Terry pursues wealth and glory, with the kind but dim-witted Hugh trailing along behind.

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Salute the 50th Anniversary of the Army comedy that started them all - The Phil Silvers Show - with 18 classic episodes of the Emmy Award-winning series.

Re-enlist in some of TV's funniest moments with Sergeant Ernie Bilko (Phil Silvers) and his bumbling platoon as he schemes and swindles his way through his tour of duty at Fort Baxter.

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A highly successful crime show from the late 1950's, 'Shadow Squad' initially featured the adventures of Detective Vic Steele (Rex Garner) who, tired of being boxed in by rules and regulations, quit his job to form his own detective agency with the help of crafty Cockney Ginger Smart (George Moon)

and their stalwart cleaning lady, Mrs. Moggs (Kathleen Boutall). Steele subsequently disappeared on a mission to Australia and the running of the Squad was then taken up by ex-DI Don Carter (Peter Williams). Its longevity and popularity provided a training ground for key television writers of the 1960's and '70s, including BAFTA-nominated Julian Bond and 'Coronation Street' creator Tony Warren. 179 episodes were transmitted between 1957 and 1959, but only four now remain in the archive. These classic examples of a bygone age of television are featured on this set alongside the sole remaining episode of the 'Shadow Squad' spinoff 'Skyport', which features Ginger Smart as an airport security guard.

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Nutbourn College, the most established and respectable of boys' schools, is run by unyielding Headmaster Wetherby Pond. When a military mistake billets a girls' school to share the college's premises due to wartime restrictions, he is outraged.

However, he soon discovers he has met his match when he encounters the Headmistress of the girls' school in question, the formidable Muriel Whitchurch. Initially the two are hostile to one another, but with a staff of dazed, eccentric teachers and a student body whose mischief knows no bounds, they are forced to pull together. Then, just when they thought the situation couldn't get any more complicated, they discover they are faced with two troublesome visits on the same day; one from a group of parents, who must believe the school is only for girls, and one from the Ministry, who must be presented with an all boys establishment!

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The Birling family are rich, pampered and complacent. It is 1912, and the shadow of the impending war has yet to fall across their lives.

As they sit down to dinner one night, celebrating the engagement of the eldest child, Sheila (Eileen Moore), to prosperous business man Gerald (Brian Worth), a knock at the door announces the arrival of a visitor who will change their lives forever.

All seven episodes from the second series of the medical sitcom from the pen of Eric 'Rising Damp' Chappell. In this series the ward is visited by a glamorous female film star, Figgis becomes obsessed with astrology, and Norman receives dancing lessons from his fellow patients.

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Lost Sitcoms revisits missing episodes of three classic comedies - Hancock's Half Hour ('The New Neighbour'), Steptoe and Son ('A Winter's Tale') and Till Death Us Do Part ('A Woman's Place is in the Home').

The scripts for these shows still exist but the original recordings are missing from the archives. BBC Comedy remade the shows on a stylised set, aiming to capture the spirit of the originals whilst bringing a new look and feel to the shows.

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Enjoying a holiday in the sun, Mr. (Jack Hulbert) and Mrs. (Constance Cummings) Fergusson are relaxing on board a chartered yacht off the coast of France - their only crew, the skipper-owner (Edward Rigby) and his adopted daughter (Odile Versois). On taking a turn around the deck, Mr.

Fergusson is rather put-out to discover a stowaway helping himself to the comforts of their dinghy. Though very charming, the stranger refuses to give any explanation for his presence - and the Fergussons soon find themselves involved in a rather more eventful sailing trip than they had expected!

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When heavy fog prevents any flights from leaving London Airport, a group of passengers are put on a bus driven by Percy Lamb (Frankie Howerd) to drive to another airport.

The fog is that heavy Percy doesn't know where he is going or that he is carrying stolen gold bullion that the robbers and police are relentlessly pursuing.

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This third collection of Dixon of Dock Green features the complete 22nd series of the much-loved policing drama, the last series ever made.

Featuring some of the strongest writing in the series' history, having been a fixture on TV screens since 1955, it drew to a close in the spring of 1976 with head held high, its badge of service untarnished. This final series finds Sgt. George Dixon (Jack Warner) operating from the back office as Collator for Dock Green, tracking, guiding and advising on events in the criminal underworld as they impacted on the otherwise peaceful manor' of Dock Green. Meanwhile on the front line, Detective Sgt. Alan Bruton (Richard Heffer), is ably supported by the likes of DC Len Clayton (Ben Howard), Sgt. Johnny Wills (Nicholas Donnelly), DS Mike Brewer (Gregory De Polnay) and PC Harry Dunne (Stephen Marsh) all of whom can be seen or heard in a unique collection of original interviews which are also featured on this release. From lost girls to missing heirs; from burgling masterminds to a violinist with a talent for more than just music; and lastly to one final story that resonates long after it is over, these episodes of 'Dixon of Dock Green' capture the essence of what is without doubt 'a force' to be reckoned with.

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David Webb, a brilliant backroom boffin who is cripplingly shy and nervous in unfamiliar situations, has an ingenious scheme for converting his employer's factory to automation.

The project, however, requires more capital than the firm can provide, and to his horror Webb finds himself thrust aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth and heading inexorably to America, where he is expected to track down a famous industrialist and persuade him to finance the scheme...

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On a seaside holiday to Weston Super Mare, attractive Bristol secretary Shirley Freeman (Janette Scott) meets Dan Mackenzie (Ian Hendry) from her local paper. Dan and his partner Walter Carey (Ronald Fraser) persuade Shirley to enter a small time beauty contest which she wins.

Despite her success Shirley returns to her mundane office routine but is persuaded by Dan that she can make it as a Beauty Queen. Desperate to leave her humdrum existence Shirley packs in both her job and her fiance in pursuit of a life of glamour and celebrity in the bright lights of London. Increasingly smitten by her, can Dan persuade Shirley that he should be more than just her manager or will she sacrifice everything to succeed in the cut throat world of beauty contests?