Summary: As the enormously popular mystery series returns, World War II is over, but the Cold War simmers in 1946 London. DCS Christopher Foyle has retired from police work when Britain's secret intelligence service compels him to join its ranks. Reunited with his former colleague, newlywed Sam Wainwright, Foyle faces new--but no less deadly--threats in the world of spies and counterintelligence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by RLJ Entertainment 2013

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FOY

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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2010

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LOO

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOW

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOW

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD DOW NOT RATED

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Downton 2015

Summary: The sons of the Phelan family - two farmers, a schoolteacher, and a priest - are torn between nonviolent protest and bloody revolt during the Irish potato famine of the 1840s. Real-life brothers Joe, Mark, Paul, and Stephen McGann star as the Phelans.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2005

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HAN

Summary: Set in West Yorkshire's Calder Valley, police sergeant Catherine Cawood leads her officers in investigating a possible string of serial killings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 2018

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HAP

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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV NO

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2018

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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COR

Summary: Friendless, orphaned Jane Eyre takes a job as governess to a lively French girl. In time, she finds herself in love with the child's guardian. When she saves him from a fire, she finds that there are many secrets to learn ... secrets that could destroy her happiness.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2007

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JAN

Summary: The well-meaning Jim Hacker, a newly appointed Cabinet Minister, battles career civil servant Sir Humphrey Appleby.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV YES

Summary: 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 LIT

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV KNO

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INS

Summary: Vexed follows two mismatched police detectives as they banter and bicker their way through London's toughest cases.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV VEX

Summary: The stars play a pair of middle-aged, dating game dropouts as wary of romance as they are perfect for each other. Through rocky unsettling times, the pair lurch their way to companionship, friendship, and finally love. Contains all 26 episodes of this British comedy classic.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2004

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FIN

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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2011

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOC

Summary: "From the fields of Pakistan through the docks of Hamburg to the halls of London's power elite, this epic drama crosses continents and cultures to portray the dark and dangerous world of international drug smuggling. The intersecting stories of vivid characters-- a British minister with a drug-addicted daughter, the wife of a German businessman whose husband is arrested for drug trafficking,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2001

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TRA

Summary: Chronicles the Jewish experience from ancient times to the present day through a cast of historical characters, vivid storytelling, location photography, and more.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV STO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STO NOT RATED

Summary: Presents the lives and loves of a family of cousins from 1939 to present. Begins with a funeral, and uses the reminiscences of those gathered to fill in details in the lives of several different family members.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2006

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CAM

Summary: In the first series, Ben Coulter wakes up with a hangover and blood on his hands after a one-night stand. Lying beside him, fatally stabbed, is the body of a woman. A nightmare begins that changes Ben's life forever, as damning evidence emerges to incriminate him in a murder that he has no recollection of committing. While in prison awaiting his trial, Ben must endure terrifying forms of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Entertainment & Multimedia 2012

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CRI

Summary: Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PAR

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2007

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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV HUS

Summary: 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.

Format: moving image

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 VIC