Philip Martin
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 294 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life as a private detective begins at 60 for this sprightly Lancashire housewife. Instead of winding down as her husband, Robert, expects, she₂s just getting started. Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. In these first six episodes, she finds an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey and puts her sensible pumps to the pavement in search of mysteries to solve.
Series
Agatha Christie Poirot the movie collection volume set 5
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Poirot travels from Istanbul to London on the famed Orient Express, and is embroiled in the murder of a wealthy businessman when the train becomes snowbound. Also includes special features.
Series
Hetty Wainthropp investigates volume ser. 3
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (441 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Life as a private detective begins at 60 for this sprightly Lancashire housewife. Instead of winding down as her husband, Robert, expects, she's just getting started. Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. In these first six episodes, she finds an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey and puts her sensible pumps to the pavement in search of mysteries to solve.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This series presents an intergalactic detective story, rich with mystery, unexpected twists and astonishing revelations that treats viewers to the latest and loftiest advances in cosmological thought in true down-to-earth Hawking fashion.
7) Birdsong
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France during World War I, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Series
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (229 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Charts Catherine the Great's tumultuous reign as the cunning and ambitious empress fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire and expands Russia's borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea.
15) The forger
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A second-generation petty thief arranges to get out of prison to spend time with his ailing son by taking on a job with his father to pay back the syndicate that arranged his release.
19) Hawking
Author
Language
English
Description
A drama documenting the life and work of the theoretical physicist Professor Stephen Hawking who, despite being diagnosed with motor neuron disease at the age of 21, has galvanized the scientific world with his ground-breaking work on the nature of the universe. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock)