Acorn Media (Firm)
41) Poirot: Series 7
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 206 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie's beloved Belgian detective returns in these two feature-length mysteries from the hit series. Set amid the unparalleled elegance of the Art Deco era, these beautifully remastered adaptations star David Suchet as the peerless Hercule Poirot. With a little help from his friends, Captain Hastings, Chief Inspector Japp, and Miss Lemon, Poirot unravels the most tangled cases with flair and finesse.
42) Monarchy
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (approximately 776 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 viewer's guide (13 pages)
Language
English
Description
David Starkey examines the story of the English crown from the fall of Rome to the 1660s. Starkey covers nearly 250 years, from Charles II to Victoria. Replete with infidelities, betrayals, and rivalries, English history emerges as a compelling family saga.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (372 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these contemporary British television mysteries. Inspired by the novels of Caroline Graham, modern master of the English village mystery, the series stars Neil Dudgeon... as the capable Detective Chief Inspector John Barnaby, with Jason Hughes... as his earnest, efficient partner, Detective Sergeant Ben Jones"--Container. The mysteries: Barnaby and Jones investigate a group...
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (376 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Detective Inspector Mike Shepherd arrives on assignment in Brokenwood, a small town where memories -- and animosities -- run deep. He's an experienced cop with a 1971 "classic" car, a collection of country music cassettes, and an indeterminate number of ex-wives. The new woman in his life is his assistant, Detective Constable Kristin Sims a by-the-book investigator nearly twenty years younger than her boss's car, who quickly has to get used to his...
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (278 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sgt. Jack Driscoll had to leave Dublin fast when his affair with a senior officer's wife was discovered. But Jack's father, Gerry, comes to his son's aid. Recently retired from his post as Garda Sergeant in a small Connemara town, Gerry manages to 'swing it' so that Jack inherits the job. Jack's now on his own, in charge of hundreds of square miles of remote, beautiful rural Ireland.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (521 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Changing times, cutthroat competition, and romance flavor the dramatic conclusion. As the Roaring Twenties close, the market for haute couture is shrinking. In order to survive, can the House of Eliott realize that ready-to-wear is fashion's future? Title has been repackaged.
Beatrice and Evangeline Eliott, penniless orphans, find employment and romance in the world of London fashion design during the roaring twenties.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (254 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
On her first day on the job, rookie detective Anna Travis throws up at a crime scene and faints at a postmortem. Does she have what it takes to succeed in what's still mostly a man's world? Above Suspicion: For eight years, someone has been murdering women, following the same brutal ritual each time. The Red Dahlia: A young woman's body is found by the Thames, horribly mutilated and drained of blood.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Freshly promoted DI Anna Travis reunites with DCS James Langton to investigate the murder of a former police officer. The dead man was Langton's friend, and the detectives soon learn the case is much bigger than they first believed. A drug found at the scene has the chillingly accurate street name 'Drop Dead, ' and the notorious criminal behind the drug might be someone who no longer exists."--Container.
Physical Desc
9 videodiscs (approximately 18.5 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stunning gardens provide the backdrop for this British mystery series. From their former careers as a university plant biologist and a police officer, Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, professional gardeners and amateur sleuths, bring unique investigative talents to their horticultural and human mysteries. Locations include manor houses in the English countryside, London's Kew Gardens and Regent's Park, the French Riviera, Italy's Ligurian coast, a...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 286 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The newest additions to the sisterhood of British sleuths are attractive, sharp, and extremely entertaining. Meticulous and stubborn Kate teams up with street-smart Emma as bickering detectives in an upscale suburb.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 187 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + viewer's guide (20 pages ; 15 cm)
Language
English
Description
Art critic Waldemar Januszczak unravels the secrets behind eight masterpieces of European painting, searching out art experts, literary and artistic allusions, and historical records to expose long-held secrets within the gilded frames.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (387 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The mysterious affair at Styles: Poirot and Hastings tackle their first case together when a wealthy old woman is poisoned.
Dead man's folly: Fiction turns to fact when a girl is killed at a "murder hunt" devised by crime writer Ariadne Oliver, who calls upon Poirot to help.
The mirror crack'd from side to side: Miss Marple ponders a cast of suspicious characters when a villager dies at a party hosted by a movie star.
A Caribbean mystery: After...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (200 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It looks like a tragic accident when Victor Dean falls down the spiral staircase at Pym's Publicity Ltd. His replacement (Wimsey in disguise) sets out to find the truth which leads him to a drug ring operating through someone at the agency.
56) Jericho
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3 videodiscs (390 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jessica Raine stars as Annie Quaintain, a widowed mother of two who is forced to start a new life in the remote town of Jericho in rugged 1870s Yorkshire. To make ends meet, she takes in lodgers who work on the local railroad. When handsome worker Johnny Jackson shows up at her door, he brings with him a load of trouble that could threaten Annie's new life.
Follows the lives of the people in Jericho, an 1870s shanty town in the Yorkshire Dales built...
57) Vexed: Series 1
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (175 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Vexed follows two mismatched police detectives as they banter and bicker their way through London's toughest cases. Includes three episodes.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (approximately 15 3/4 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A retired English army officer becomes Resident Magistrate in 1900s West Ireland, attempting to befriend and bestow order on his eccentric community. Living in a ramshackle country house, Major Yeates strives to gain acceptance while at the same time fulfilling his mission to uphold the law.
60) Selling Hitler
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (256 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of one of the lost diaries of Adolf Hitler, and how they turned out to be fake. Includes five episodes and background on the aftermath of the Hitler Diaries.