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Shakespeare, WilliamSummary: He's the most-watched sleuth in the history of PBS's Mystery! David Suchet stars as the dapper, diminutive Belgian who solves the most serpentine cases with the sharpest of minds and the driest of wits.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ITV Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PORSummary: Miss Marple returns to help solve mysteries with her keen powers of observation and her quiet common-sense analysis. A pocket full of rye: Who poisoned the wealthy businessman Rex rotescue? Miss Marple barely has time to ponder this question before her former maid Gladys turns up strangled on the Fortescue estate. Murder is Easy: Murder is easy, says elederly Miss Pinkerton to Miss Marple...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: Inspector Morse is a melancholy, enigmatic and romantic man who never uses his first name and who finds solace in real ale, classical music and difficult crosswords. Together with his able Sergeant Lewis, Morse uses his considerable intellect and passion for the truth and justice to investigate death and murder in the English university town of Oxford.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Begins by recapitulating the final scene of Henry IV, Part III with Edward IV being crowned king. In the background of the celebration, Richard jealously views the proceedings. Soon afterward, Edward IV is murdered, drowned in a vat of wine. Richard becomes king and, after proceeding with a succession of intrigues and duplicities, he finds his kingdom in dire peril, set upon by Henry Tudor and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RICSummary: An ordinary married couple gets caught up in international intrigue and discovers that they have a knack for crime solving in this charming detective series.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV AGASummary: Basil Rathbone portrays the deductive genius, Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce his mystified colleague, Dr. Watson in these fourteen classic films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY COMSummary: Agatha Christie's famous detective investigates a murder on a wealthy man's estate during the holiday season, a series of thefts at a hostel, a case of abduction and murder in France, and a murder that can only be solved by communicating with a single, silent witness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ITV Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Chronicles a half century of British upper-class life through the eyes of Nicholas Jenkins, from the 1920s to the 1960s. See how friendship, adultery, ambition, and failure play out in London's social, political, and artistic scenes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DANSummary: Agatha Christie's brilliant Belgian detective is on the case in the first series of the hit PBS mystery. Fan favorite David Suchet stars as the dapper sleuth who solves the thorniest of cases with his formidable intellect. Set in glittering 1930s Europe, these remastered adaptations capture every splendid detail of the Art Deco era.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ITV Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Death and dust: The impending marriage of a widowed doctor and a well-to-do divorcée motivates a murder of mistaken identity. Picture of innocence: In the midst of a "shooting war" between rival camera clubs, someone tries to frame Barnaby, and definitely not for a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: The show follows Margaret and Helen Schlegel, two intelligent, idealistic sisters living together in Edwardian London with their hypochondriac brother, Tibby. Their loving but interfering Aunt Juley tries to keep the siblings in line after the death of their parents, but a series of events push the sisters to lead unorthodox lives full of romance, tragedy, and drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2020
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HOWSummary: The entire Granada Television series, a collection of 41 thrilling episodes packed with mystery and suspense.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This 1953 classic spotlights the careers of W.S. Gilbert (Robert Morley, The African Queen), a barrister turned-comic-writer, and Arthur Sullivan (Maurice Evans, Planet Of The Apes), a classic composer (converted against his will) to light music, who together wrote fourteen operettas between 1871 and 1896, to great public acclaim, including H.M.S. Pinafore, The Pirates of Penzance and Iolanthe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS STOSummary: Amanda Price gets propelled into the scheming 19th century world of Pride and Prejudice while the book's Elizabeth Bennet is hurled into hers. As the plot unfolds, Amanda triggers new romantic twists and turns as she tries to help the Bennet sisters nab husbands and even manages to captivate the tantalizing Mr. Darcy. But what about Elizabeth, and what will become of one of the world's greatest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LSummary: From out of the shadows comes this final collection of hard-to-find noir classics: The Crimson Kimono (1959); The Lineup (1958); The Shadow in the Window (1956); The Long Haul (1957); Pickup Alley (1957); The Tijuana Story (1957); She Played with Fire (1957); The Case Against Brooklyn (1958); and Man on a String (1960).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: The story of the five Bennet sisters living in early 19th century England. Their mother is scheming to make prestigious marriages for them. Focuses on Elizabeth Bennet, who mistakenly finds the rich Mr. Darcy an oaf, even as he sets all the other fair maidens' hearts aflutter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Pride 2006Summary: A mini-series based on Thackeray's story of an amoral beauty determined to scheme and seduce her way into Britain's upper classes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2003
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VANSummary: 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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: Collection of four film adaptations of classic English literature. Includes a printed set of replica memorabilia from the lives of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2012
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLAShakespeare, William
Summary: Known as the greatest playwright of all time William Shakespeare has been immortalized in this deluxe 1448 page edition of his works.This Complete Library of Shakespeare is divided into three sections, Tragedies, Comedies & Histories with Sonnets.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Trident Press International 1999