Summary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLSummary: Crumbling country mansion Button House is home to restless spirits who've died there over the centuries. Each a product of their time, they're thrown together for eternity, resigned to squabble over mundane daily gripes. But their lives or rather afterlives are thrown into turmoil when young urban couple Alison and Mike unexpectedly inherit the peaceful derelict house and plan to turn it into a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHOSummary: A sitcom following the comedy chaos of an unlikely house-share between the struggling living and the restless dead. Resident ghosts and cash-strapped couple Mike and Alison face life-changing events at Button House, their crumbling, haunted, stately home. Alison and Mike are determined to get the best reviews from the guests at their luxury new B&B. However, buried secrets, booking mix-ups...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHOSummary: "With their guesthouse dream in ahses, Alison and Mike must find a new way to make money from their ailing estate, as a major revelation sees their plight become even more pressing. Meanwhile life (death) goes on for the Ghosts as they investigate Kitty's untimely demise, Food Club loses its appeal, Lady Button discovers hidden talents, and Robin makes a prediction that prompts the Ghosts to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHO1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV GHO
Summary: Alison and Mike are working hard to bring their new 'guest house' plans to fruition, when the peace is disrupted by an unexpected visitor who arrives with a life-changing revelation. Alison questions everything she thought she knew, and the ghosts react with varying degrees of fear, mistrust, and in some cases, delight. Meanwhile, Mike is more intent than ever to put Button House on the map...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: As the doors of crumbling country mansion Button House creak open once more, the haphazard house share between its living inhabitants and its restless dead is settling in a strange kind of daily routine. But cash-strapped Alison and Mike's plan to transform their unexpected inheritance into a bustling luxury hotel is still a distant dream. Could the exploitation of their troupe of ghostly...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents the story of the eugenics movement in the U.S., tracing its evolution from a force for human progress through the study of genetics to an anti-humanistic campaign for state-sponsored sterilization and the closing of the country's borders to peoples believed by some to be genetically inferior.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS 2018
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV EUGSummary: In Season Three, Ryan Wilder must lead the Bat Team in stopping the next wave of villains created by the weapons lost in the Gotham River during the finale. And she'll have to do it with Alice by her side! As a new generation of Rogues torment Gotham, Batwoman and Alice must work together to stop them a predicament that threatens to upend the team's existing dynamics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BATSummary: "They are The Unit, a covert Special Forces team operating outside the usual military chain of command, risking their lives on undercover missions at home and abroad. Their identities are highly classified, a secret that's also fiercely guarded by their wives. But despite the men's determination to protect their families from the dangers of the job, they've learned that the enemy they have...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UNISummary: Set in Glasgow, Scotland, Detective Chief Inspector Jim Taggart is a tough, sarcastic copper in the Maryhill Police Department.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BFS Video 2009
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TAGSummary: Don't panic! The British TV adaptation of Douglas Adams's cult science fiction book series follows the misadventures of Arthur Dent, sole survivor of the demolished planet Earth. Join Dent and interplanetary researcher Ford Prefect as they encounter bad alien poetry, a depressed robot, a two-headed spaceship thief, and the Restaurant at the End of the Universe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HITSummary: Tells the story of the most important expedition in American history, led by Captains Meriwether Lewis and William Clark. Includes the stories of the young army men, French-Canadian boatmen, Clark's African-American slave, and the Shoshone woman named Sacagawea who went with them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD 2004
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LEWSummary: Explores the high-pressure experiences of the first responders who are thrust into the most frightening, shocking and heart-stopping situations.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Twenty years ago, we were introduced to Penny Proud, a young African American girl navigating through her teens- in spite of larger-than-life situations. Penny's encounters with her friends, her over-protective parents and her too-hip granny spiral into adventures filled with hijinks, hilarity and heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD PROSummary: It's Raven's birthday and the Teen Titans are ready to celebrate, all except the birthday girl who dreads the day each year because she knows an awful secret surrounds her birth. Her worst fear comes true when a villain from the past crashes the party to deliver a fateful present: Raven's destiny is to destroy the world! Robin, Starfire, Cyborg, Beast Boy and Raven jump into battle to stop fate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TEESummary: The survivors encounter a terrifying new threat. Everything they thought they knew about survival in this post-apocalyptic world will be challenged.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: The cunning villain Blood Brother has his mind set on controlling the world, and it's up to the Teen Titans to stop him. There's one problem: only Cyborg is immune to Blood Brother's mind-controlling powers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TEESummary: The Teen Titans are back for another fun season of comedic mayhem! With epic staring contests to decide who does the laundry, a series of quests and battles to construct the perfect sandwich or fighting crime in Jump City, one thing is for sure. These Titans are always ready for an adventure, inside the house and out.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With the Whisperer War upon them, the collective communities must come together and possibly sacrifice all they have to find a way to silence the Whisperers once and for all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WALSummary: Never broadcast in the U.S., these episodes offer an enticing glimpse into lost stories that have achieved legendary status. The Crusade: The Doctor becomes caught up in the plans of Saladin and Richard the Lionheart. The Daleks' master plan: The Daleks plan to use the time destructor to conquer the universe. The Celestial toymaker: The TARDIS becomes trapped in a realm of deadly parlour games.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2004
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Unafraid to tackle big issues, spiked with sharp humor and filled with engaging characters, Everwood is a place and a series that rewards each visit you make.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD EVECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EVESummary: An aging actor, who long ago enjoyed a brush with fame, makes his living as an acting coach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV KOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Kominsky 2019Summary: Disc one: After a daring diamond heist, all fingers point to crime boss Jimmy Vincent, released from prison on the very day of the robbery. When teenagers find the two-week-old corpse of Dominic Sylvester, everyone in the Willesden constabulary dismisses it as the lonely death of a reclusive old man - everyone, that is, except Davies. Bunny Hopper is half of the almost-famous comedy team Bunny...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
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Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006