Summary: Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VENSummary: Never underestimate the inappropriate impulses of senior delinquents Clegg, Truly Alvin and their friends in beautiful Yorkshire Dales. Who else would rig a karate match to meat an annoyingly fit neighbor, resurrect Elvis Presley for a fan, meddle in romance with ₁Her₂ at the pizza parlor, and make career plans while heavily chained? What to do with a jewel thief who brags too much, a long-ago...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Compo is just as smitten with Nora as ever, so when Smiler becomes her lodger, Compo is left depressed. The trio tracks down one of Compo's old friends from school, hoping to cash in on an old debt. Foggy also has his inventor's cap back on this season. He creates a chair lift to get up the hills and a pole vault to help Compo hang a washing line for Nora, but as usual, his brilliant ideas lead...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: The picturesque Pennine village of Holmfirth in the Yorkshire Dales is the setting for this vintage comedy, which first began life in 1973. This is Bronte country - miles and miles of unspoiled moorland and a breathtaking backdrop to the antics of our aging delinquents and their demented friends.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: British comedy series followed elderly ne'er-do-wells Compo, Clegg, and Blamire as they found adventure and trouble while roaming the streets of their small Yorkshire town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: This season, the boys stage a stag night for the ages, have their wires crossed in a haunted wood, and flirt with the law in more way than one. In other misadventures, Clegg gets on the wrong track with a new bike, the roof caves in on Smiler₂s dating plans, and Howard₂s new car drives everyone mad. The group gets handsy reaching out to aliens, while Alvin and Howard nearly eat crow in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Uncork the aging effervescence of the Yorkshire Dale's famously merry men and women. Sometimes sober, sometimes not, they exercise a suit of armor to get rid of the squeaks, challenges a legless man to a bicycle race, and cross-dress with hilariously disastrous results. Barry misses his midlife crisis. Howard panics at a stern voice from on high. And someone's singing 'Happy Birthday' in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: The world's longest-running sitcom returns with more antics from everyone's favorite geriatrics! After seeing Seymour off, Compo and Clegg intend to take over his position as headmaster. Foggy returns from Bridlington, but Compo and Clegg keep missing him. Once Foggy finally reunites with Compo and Clegg, though, he loses them while out on a walk, leading him to come up with an idea to create...
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Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corporation 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: The year is 1976 and Compo, Clegg, and new man Foggy continue their gentle hijinks in the picturesque village of Pennine up in the Yorkshire Dales.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LASSummary: Comedy star Russ Abbot joins the cast as Hobbo, while Alvin, Entwistle, Clegg, and Truly bring us more attacks on the routine of life in the 31st season of Britain₂s longest-running comedy. As Hobbo begins to fit in with the rest of the community, in particular with Alvin and Entwistle, he begins to unearth the truth behind his own personal mystery. Adopted at birth, his desire to find his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019