Summary: Based on the unforgettable Open University and Television for Schools programs of the 1970s. Through a series of gloriously deadpan experiments, we observe a colony of ants build an igloo, receive a telephone call from a brain, discover why ghosts can't whistle, and reveal the largest number in the world. Science has never been so silly.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOOSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOWSummary: As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2015Summary: Set in West Yorkshire's Calder Valley, police sergeant Catherine Cawood leads her officers in investigating a possible string of serial killings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: DI Vivienne Deering returns to work from bereavement leave after her husband's death, but only Viv's impulsive subordinate, DC Dinah Kowalska, knows the brutal truth of what really happened to him. Then in her first week back, a bomb blast at a funeral plunges Deering and her team headfirst into a gang war inflamed by a crime family matriarch who is just as ferocious as Deering herself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NOSummary: Crime investigations against a stunning seaside backdrop are at the heart of this drama series following a high-flying solicitor who returns to live and work in the small town she escaped as a teenager. As coroner, Jane Kennedy's job is the investigate sudden or unexplained deaths in the beautiful seaside community.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CORSummary: The well-meaning Jim Hacker, a newly appointed Cabinet Minister, battles career civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YESSummary: With the second season comes a host of new characters as well as returning favorites. Unconvincing transvestite Emily Howard has a new friend, Vicky Pollard is still butchering the English language, and an assortment of new oddities are on exhibit.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: Vexed follows two mismatched police detectives as they banter and bicker their way through London's toughest cases.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "When a strange message pod turns up at UNIT HQ, the Doctor and his assistant Jo suddenly involved in another dangerous mission for the Time Lords. The TARDIS takes them to Skybase One above the inhospitable Solos. It is the 30th century and the planet is about to gain independence from Earth's glorious empire. But someone on Solos has other plans and, alarmingly, the natives are slowly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Alan Partidge is the hilariously unprofessional host of the cheesiest television talk show imaginable. Self-absorbed and cursed with an ABBA fixation, Alan confronts an endless parade of C-list celebrities week after week with mounting frustration and antagonism.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KNOSummary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who find solace in real ale, classical music, and difficult crosswords. Together with his able sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford. (Cherubim & seraphim) While Morse goes on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSSummary: Strapped for cash after a spell in Las Vegas, the expert tricksters are confronted by some risky situations. They devise and execute more devious schemes to replenish their coffers by depriving some nasty characters of their ill-gotten gains.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUSSummary: A hard-hitting police drama set in the vice unit of the Metropolitan Police, based in the heart of London's West End. Prostitution, pornography and murder are all part of the workload for the vice team as they investigate the capital's darker secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MPI Home Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VICSummary: In this season, the team loses Mickey Bricks to an overseas sabbatical, so it's time for someone else to lead the gang. Danny steps up to the plate, but can the others convince him that the team needs another member-- especially when it comes in the form of street kid Billy Bond? There are, as always, plenty of marks who are greedy, rude, or simply nasty enough to be parted from their cash....
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUSSummary: England, 1925. The TARDIS materializes on a quiet railway platform where the Doctor, Tegan, Adric and Nyssa soon discover they are expected at an afternoon cricket match. And when the time travelers are invited to stay at Cranleigh Hall for a fancy dress ball, it isn't long before they uncover a terrible family secret. Who is murdering the servants and why? A rare flower may hold the answer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: The TARDIS arrives by accident in the middle of Terminal One at Heathrow Airport. One of the supersonic Concordes has disappeared midair, and the Doctor, Tegan and Nyssa soon become involved in a hunt for the missing airplane. But what connects its disappearance to prehistoric Earth, and why is a mysterious sorcerer so interested in the Doctor's TARDIS? A flight through time will reveal all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Exiled to Earth and now working for UNIT as their scientific advisor, the Doctor is summoned to an underground research center at Wenley Moor to investigate a series of inexplicable power losses. Initially suspecting sabotage, he soon discovers that the nearby cave system conceals a colony of an ancient race called the Silurians. Awaking from a hibernation which has lasted millions of years,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2008
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: For starters, Annie is trapped in Purgatory and fears she will be condemned to Hell until Mitchell crosses into the afterlife to save her. And George and Nina battle challenges of their own when they conceive a baby while transformed as werewolves. Meanwhile, having committed the Box Tunnel massacre in Season 2, Mitchell finds the net closing in on him from this world and the nrxt. And with a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed in the USA and Canada by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BEISummary: Danger, betrayal, and revenge fly fast and furious as Lovejoy grapples with dud checks, intriguing riddles, and charges of aggravated burglary. He has many close calls that are hitting ever more closer to home, especially when Tinker goes missing; Charlotte gets kidnapped; and a man claiming to be Charlie Gimbert's father appears.
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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 LOVSummary: This sitcom follows the exploits of Lister, a deep-space miner who emerges from stasis 3 million years in the future to find that his only companions are Rimmer, a hologram of his dead bunkmate, Cat, a humanoid who evolved from his pet cat, and Holly, the ship's computer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REDSummary: Twelve years ago, a brother and sister were thrown off a 100 foot bridge but the sister miraculously survived. Will Boyd be able to bring her closure? Eve is in a new relationship but suspects the man is keeping secrets from her. Her suspicions aroused, she performs a DNA test that matches that from a 13-year old murder case. With stunning visual effects, brilliant performances and brilliant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WAKSummary: Follows three housemates as they do their best to live their lives as normally as possible despite their strange and dark secrets. Lovable George battles with his double identity as a mild mannered hospital porter who for one night of the month turns into a flesh hungry werewolf, Mitchell is a good looking and confident vampire trying to go cold turkey from his blood sucking urges and recently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Americas 2010