Summary: A collection of tales which range from comic to tragic, but most often having a wicked sense of humor and filled with unexpected twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWISummary: 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"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Five warned his family (so, so many times) that using his powers to escape from Vanya's 2019 apocalypse was risky. Well, he was right--the time jump scatters the siblings in time in and around Dallas, Texas. Over a three-year period. Starting in 1960. Some, having been stuck in the past for years, have built lives and moved on, certain they're the only ones who survived. Five is the last to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UMBCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV UMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV UMBSummary: Inspector Alleyn has the upper crust contacts and manners, but like more modern detectives, he's a bona fide cop. Offers elegant country house settings, complex cases, and a detective who works for Scotland Yard. Agatha Troy is the Inspector's independent and insightful lady friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2004
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV INSCameron, Dove
Summary: The offspring of Disney villains get a chance of redemption when they are freedon from the forbidden Isle of the Lost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertaiment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DESThompson, Paul Matthew
Summary: The hilariously mismatched detective duo of Luella Shakespeare and grumpy Frank Hathaway return for ten more episodes of the hit mystery/comedy- drama set in beautiful Stratford-upon-Avon. One might think the birthplace of William Shakespeare would be safe from fraud, extortion, vice, identity theft, and ransom, but they would be wrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: A silver-tongued swindler cons the people of River City, Iowa, into buying expensive musical instruments and uniforms for a planned boys' marching band. His scam is complicated by his feelings for the local librarian, who is also the only person in town who knows anything about music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MUSSummary: On May Day in a small community, the residents go about their everyday business as they wait for the traditional pagan parade to begin. When the newly crowned May Queen, the highlight of the event, does not show up, townsfolk grow suspicious that someone among them has kidnapped her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MAYSummary: Ties into the huge Adventure Time: Islands television event, the mini-series airing on Cartoon Network this winter where Finn meets other humans and an important member of his family for the first time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ADVSummary: The Teen Titans are back and they're giving viewers a look at what life is really like as a teen super hero. It's a mad dash when Robin and the gang go up against sinister speedster Lady Legasus; a #1 fan brings his magic mojo to Titans Tower; and, the secret tongue of Pig Latin unleashes a legion of trouble.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TEESummary: Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Australia's red heart with all of its precarious beauty, the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Ralph, Jason
Summary: Follows grad student Quentin Coldwater and others after they are chosen to attend Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy in upstate New York to hone their powers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAGRalph, Jason
Summary: Follows grad student Quentin Coldwater and others after they are chosen to attend Brakebills University for Magical Pedagogy in upstate New York to hone their powers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2016
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MAGSummary: Janet is seconded from a case of psychological abuse in the armed services to head up a Royal Commission into gun crime. Conscripting solicitors Richard and Lina, and the ambitious Owen Ramsey, Janet trades the rarefied atmosphere of mahogany courtrooms, wigs, and gowns for plain clothes and a community hall. There, she and her team focus on the murder of 25-year-old Hani Akvan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JANSummary: "From suspected ghosts to the torrid world of Shakespearian escorts, not to mention the fiendish passions and bitter rivalries of ballroom dancing, it's business as usual for the debt-laden ex-policeman and his much more credible partner-in-crime. And the pair also have demons of their own to wrestle with - Lu joins a slimming club and clashes with her sister, while Frank finds himself on the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: Private investigators Frank Hathaway and Luella Shakespeare continue their work investigating murder, kidnap, blackmail and infidelity in the English town of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SHASummary: 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 PARSummary: Six made-for-TV movies chronicling the life of the Walton family from the late 1940s to the late 1960s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Worshipped as a national savior, Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson masterminded the naval victories that thwarted Napoleon's plans to invade Britain. Yet, in the midst of public adulation, rumors swirled about his private life. Nelson took a friend's wife as a mistress and even fathered a child by her in secret. Seen through the eyes of four people close to him: his wife, who feels bitter and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008