Emmerdale 2013 - Disc 10

PhoneShop returns

PhoneShop, the E4 sitcom, has returned for a third series.

PhoneShop

Longmire - Disc 2

Longmire - Disc 2

Longmire

Bootsie and Snudge - Disc 4 & 5

Bootsie and Snudge, the early 1960's spinoff sitcom of The Army Game. Discs 4 and 5 containing the episodes from the 1961-1962 series.
Bootsie and Snudge

QI (Quite Interesting) - Disc 10

The new series of QI begins in about 12 days, so they decided to finally finish airing the episodes of the "J" series, which began nearly a year ago.

QI

EastEnders 2013 - Disc 7

An Actor's Life For Me + Brighton Belles

Two sitcoms from the early 90's.

An Actor's Life For Me starred John Gordon-Sinclair (Hot Metal, Your Cheatin' Heart, Nelson's Column, Loved By You, Mad About Alice), Gina McKee (Lenny Henry Show, Our Friends In The North, The Forsyte Saga, The Silence, Missing, Line Of Duty, Hebburn, Secret State, The Borgias) and Victor Spinetti (Two In Clover, Sweet Sixteen).

An Actor's Life For Me

Brighton Belles was the UK version of Hollywood's The Golden Girls. Starring Sheila Hancock (The Rag Trade, Gone To The Dogs, Gone To Seed, Dangerous Lady, Fortysomething, Bedtime, etc...), Wendy Craig (And Mother Makes Three/Five, Butterflies, Nanny, Laura And Disorder, The Royal, etc....), Sheila Gish (The First Churchills, Anna Karenina), Jean Boht (Bread). 

Brighton Belles

Astronauts

Astronauts is an early 80's British sitcom about a crew of 3 spending 6 months on a space station. Written by Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden of The Goodies and edited by the notable team of Dick Clement and Ian LaFrenais, it starred Christopher Godwin (Holding The Fort and more recently seen with appearances in Lead Balloon, My Family, After You've Gone, Waking The Dead), Carmen du Sautoy (The Citadel, Lost Empires, more recently seen in the final episode of the Worst Week of My Life), Barrie Rutter (Queenie's Castle, Coasting, Fat Friends) and Bruce Boa (Yanks Go Home, and many memorable appearances such as Gen. Rieekan in The Empire Strikes Back, the Colonel in Full Metal Jacket and Harry Hamilton in the Fawlty Towers episode Waldorf Salad.) The final episode of Astronauts aired 30 years ago tomorrow night.
Astronauts 

Starlings - Series 2

The extended family comedy-drama Starlings has returned for a second series. The way the series ended gives us a pretty good idea of what's coming in the next series. Written by Steve Edge and Matt King who are also among the large cast which includes:

Brendan Coyle (Downton Abbey, Lark Rise To Candleford, True Dare Kiss, The Thief Takers)

Lesley Sharp (Scott & Bailey, The Shadow Line, Afterlife, Bob & Rose, Clocking Off, Playing The Field, Common As Muck)

Steve Edge (Phoenix Nights, Mike Bassett Manager, I'm With Stupid, The Visit, The Cup, The Great Outdoors)

Matt King (Jekyll, Peep Show, Spirited, Whites)

Rebecca Night (Lark Rise To Candleford)

Alan Williams (Life Begins)

John Dagleish (Beaver Falls, Lark Rise To Candleford)

Ukweli Roach (Eternal Law)

Daniel Peacock and Una Stubbs each appear in several episodes

Starlings

Law & Order UK - Disc 4

Law & Order UK recently returned for a 7th series.

Law & Order UK

Run + Southcliffe + The Mill

Some recent drama from Channel 4. The usual stuff - street crime, people being attacked, people being shot, children being abused, people being murdered - everyday violence. Stuff that reminds you to bolt your doors and always keep a round in the chamber. 

Run 

Episode 1 review

IMDB listing  

Southcliffe

Southcliffe

The Mill

The Mill

Holby City - Series 14 Disc 11

The White Queen?

I received two e-mails today about this show which ended last night......which is pretty amazing since I'd be lucky to get 2 requests for it anyway, but I spent this nice summer day trying to get this to fit onto 1 disk. Lots of problems with these HD files and it's taking a PC all day just to convert a single file for some reason. I'll have it down to one disk eventually.

L For Lester

L For Lester is a sitcom from 31 years ago starring Brian Murphy (Man About The House, George & Mildred, Last of the Summer Wine, The Cafe) with Hilda Braid (Citizen Smith, EastEnders), Linda Robson (Birds of a Feather, Shine On Harvey Moon), Amanda Barrie (Coronation Street, Bad Girls), James Cossins, etc. 

L For Lester

I uploaded a sample segment on youtube

click here to watch a sample of L For Lester

About 15 months ago I put Porterhouse Blue and the 3rd series of Sink Or Swim on a disk with series 1 of It Takes A Worried Man. I now have series 2 of Worried Man sitting here and Series 3 will be available in a couple months, so it will need a disk of its own, which is why Lester is paired up with those. Thanks to Mark the car guy in the E of E for digging this one up and sharing it.....along with some other items. I wonder if the Incredible Mr Tanner is out there somewhere?

All In Good Faith

All In Good Faith is a 1985-1988 comedy starring Richard Briers and Barbara Ferris (Eps 1-12) or Susan Jameson (Eps 13-18) with people like James Cossins (1-6) and Frank Middlemass (7-18).
Written by John Kane who also wrote Four Idle Hands, The Feathered Serpent, and many episodes of Me And My Girl, Terry And June, Never The Twain and is remembered as an actor for his roles as Oliver's co-worker Edgar in Rings On Their Fingers and as Dr. Andrew MacKenzie in Doctor On The Go.
All In Good Faith

Offspring - Disc 5

Offspring, the Australian drama-comedy, returned for a 4th series. 

Offspring

There's been a number of very good Australian comedy shows, but unfortunately the only one that seems to have made any impact here in the US is the 1984 - 1994 sitcom Mother & Son. I'm assuming it must have been picked up by some PBS stations or something. Garry McDonald starred as Arthur, but we haven't seen much of him since then. I recall him being in the excellent film Rabbit-Proof Fence and an episode of Bad Cop Bad Cop in 2002 and also in a recent episode of Rake as well as a 1999 episode of Halifax f.p. He was also in a mini-series I just posted last week: The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant. 
Anyway, Garry has been in the past two series of Offspring. 

  

Virgin Of The Secret Service

Virgin of the Secret Service is another of the many ITC action-adventure programs from the 60's, the Spring of 1968 to be precise. Starring Welsh actor Clinton Greyn in the title role, this appears to take place about 100 years ago in Edwardian times. They certainly had some fun with this. More of a drama-comedy. Originally produced on long lost-or-wiped video tapes, this is sourced from what looks like filmed safety copies or kinescopes intended for export. 

Virgin of the Secret Service 

Magic City

Magic City

Magic City

Emmerdale 2013 - Disc 9

Emmerdale 2013 - Disc 9 - the latest 7 1/3 hours from ITV's evening drama serial.

Coronation Street 2013 - Disc 7

Coronation Street 2013 - Disc 7

Skins - Disc 7

Skins returned for one last time. Bye bye.
Skins

The Dales

For the third summer, Ade Edmondson has returned to Yorkshire to host this travelogue about the working people and places of the scenic Yorkshire Dales.
The Dales

The Killing - Disk 4

The Killing - Disc 4 containing Season 3. United States knock-off version of Sweden's Forbrydelsen.
The Killing

Rain Shadow + The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant

Here's a couple of Australian drama's from the previous decade.

Rain Shadow  Rain Shadow

The Incredible Journey of Mary Bryant  Mary Bryant

Falling Skies - Disc 3

Falling Skies - Disc 3

Falling Skies

Continuum - Disc 2

Continuum - Disc 2

Continuum

Julie Walters Collection - Discs 5 - 6 - 7

Reid in Atlanta has kindly shared 10 titles included here, some quite rare as they are made-for-TV films that haven't been aired in many years. The Last of the Haussmans is a play that ran in the West End last year and on the night of the final performance it was shown live in many theaters around the UK. There will probably be a Disc 8 before too long.
IMDB Julie Walters
The Last Of The Haussmans

Puberty Blues + Please Like Me

Here's a couple of Australian things from the past year that have been on a back burner. They're both returning for 2nd series at some point. Puberty Blues is a drama. Please Like Me a comedy-drama.
Puberty Blues
Please Like Me