British Broadcasting Corporation.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 270 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Now that the Doctor and Clara have established a dynamic as a partnership of equals, they're relishing the fun and thrills that all of space and time has to offer. Tangling with ghosts, Vikings and the ultimate evil of the Daleks, they embark on their biggest adventures yet.
2) Cosmos
Physical Desc
7 videodiscs (715 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Host Carl Sagan takes viewers to the edge of the universe aboard the spaceship of the imagination in this 13-part series. Through beautiful special effects, viewers witness quasars, exploding galaxies, star clusters, supernovas, and pulsars. Returning to the solar system, viewers enter an astonishing recreation of the Alexandrian Library, seat of learning on Earth 2000 years ago.
In episode 2, Dr. Carl Sagan's cosmic calendar makes the 15-billion...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 336 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Childhood sweethearts Alan and Celia, both widowed and in their 70s, fall for each other all over again when they are reunited on the internet after nearly 60 years. Their relationship is a celebratory tale of the power of love at any age. But this is also a story about family, and with family comes baggage. Celia's respectable, head teacher daughter Caroline is juggling bringing up two boys and dealing with her husband's infidelity, while Alan's...
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The sordid story of a young country girl whose life is slowly engulfed in a murderous love triangle. Desperate to be together, Therese and her lover conspire to murder Therese's husband and initiate a deteriorating series of events that can only end in tragedy.
Physical Desc
1 videodiscs (210 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Reginald Perrin has a completely respectable career at Sunshine Desserts, a happy marriage and two less than satisfactory children. But the pressures of the rat race are beginning to push Reggie over the edge. The mere mention of his mother-in-law conjures the image of a hippopotamus, the word 'earwig' keeps creeping into his conversations, and his thoughts are repeatedly interrupted by outrageous fantasies involving his secretary and Reggie has to...
8) Connections
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (104 min. each) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
James Burke presents science as a detective story, illustrating the connections between events of the past and inventions of the future. Burke tracks through twelve thousand years of history for the clues that lead to eight great life-changing inventions-- the atom bomb, telecommunications, the computer, the production line, jet aircraft, plastics, rocketry and television.
Series
Doctor Who volume story 86
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After an encounter with the deadly Mandragora Helix, the Doctor and Sarah Jane land in 15th Century San Martino. In the midst of danger, secrecy and intrigue, they witness the flowering of the Italian Renaissance. However, the Doctor realizes that a third visitor has arrived with him in the TARDIS. It is a force with the power to wipe out human civilization forever. The Doctor has brought it to Earth, and only the Doctor can stop it.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 292 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the Bayview Retirement Village, the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort-- but not if Tom and Diana have anything to do with it! Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff in this BAFTA-nominated comedy series.
11) The last enemy
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (330 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Stephen Ezard is a reclusive, brilliant mathematician who returns home to England to attend his brother Michael's funeral. Michael was an aid worker killed by a landmine in Afghanistan. After years of working in near-isolation in China, Stephen struggles to reconcile his carefully controlled world with a brother he did not know, in a police-state London he does not recognize. He finds himself falling in love with his brother's widow and becoming the...
13) Henry V
Series
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Presents a dramatization of William Shakespeare's play entitled King Henry V.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Living in the depths of the New Guinean Rainforest are birds of unimaginable color and beauty. When Europeans first saw the plumes of these fabulous creatures in the sixteenth century, they believed they must be from heaven and called them Birds of Paradise. The people of New Guinea make even greater claims. They say the birds possess supernatural powers and magic. But to find these birds in New Guinea and to witness their extraordinary mating displays...
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) + 1 CD-ROM
Language
Español
Description
Basic Spanish vocabulary and conversation are presented in this color animated cartoon about a king, a queen, the Princess Sylvia, the gardener Jean who loves her, the villain Corvax, and an extraterrestrial visitor named Muzzy.
16) Elizabeth R
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dramatization of the life of Elizabeth, daughter of Henry VIII by Anne Boleyn. As a young woman, Elizabeth is faced with imprisonment and worse, but she prevails over vicious court intrigues and secures her claim to the throne. As Queen, she faces the continuing threat from Mary, Queen of Scots, an impending royal wedding that would unite England and France, and a palace insurrection involving a former court favorite.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Muzzy brings language to life for beginning to early intermediate learners, employing a natural immersion approach modeled on the way we all learn our first language. Children will learn about time, health and feelings, days of the week, people and places, the outdoors, transportation, what to wear, big, small and opposites, life at home, family and friends, and more.
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 audio disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
中文（繁體）
Description
Muzzy brings language to life for beginning to early intermediate learners, employing a natural immersion approach modeled on the way we all learn our first language. Children will learn about time, health and feelings, days of the week, people and places, the outdoors, transportation, what to wear, big, small and opposites, life at home, family and friends, and more.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
To Celia's dismay, Caroline takes on a challenging new headship role at a troubled state school and buys a rundown farmhouse nearby. Is there more to this big upheaval than she is letting on and will her move prompt her mother and Alan to finally find a place of their own? Meanwhile Gillian's struggling to adjust to new husband Robbie being around all day since he retired from the police.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 287 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
At the Bayview Retirement Village, the elderly are expected to grow old gracefully, enjoying their final years in peace, quiet and comfort-- but not if Tom and Diana have anything to do with it! Meet two elderly eccentrics who refuse to put up with the appalling food and condescending staff in this BAFTA-nominated comedy series.