Telly Fan's Holiday Gift Guide
Buy.com and the rest and find a good selection but other great sources of brit-vids available both on the web and through catalog sales Brittania is a Anglo-themed catalog with a large selection of videos (1-800-778-7007). Another catalog, this one also accessible from the web, is Signals. if you want to get your videos straight from the source point ye browser towards BBCAmerica.com where they're going e-commerce mad selling everything from classic English foodstuffs to a complete line of videos. Between them you'll find yourself spoilt for choice, here's a sampling of what's available:
Comedy:
Keeping Up Appearances, Last of the Summer Wine, As Time Goes By, Benny Hill,
Tony Hancock, Kevin Turvey Investigates, Vicar of Dibley and The Young Ones
Drama:
All Creatures Great and Small, BallyKissAngel, Duchess of Duke Street,
Ivanhoe, Middlemarch, Poldark, Rhodes, Upstairs Downstairs.
Mystery:
Miss Marple, Gallowglass, Sherlock Holmes, Maigrait, The Avangers, The
Sandbaggers, Rumpole of the Baily
Sci-Fi
Doctor Who, Blake's Seven, Red Dwarf, HitchHikers Guide to the Galaxy
Other Stuff
Keith Floyd Uncorked, Two Fat Ladies, Sister Wendy, The Life of Birds
On the DVD front the selection is far smaller but gems are there for those willing to look. Start with A&E's Monty Python collection. Buy them separately or in the newly released boxed set and make a Python fan happier than a dead parrot buried in Spam. If they've already gotten the complete series top off their collection with the marvelous Life of Python two disc set or fill in their Python Movie collection with Holy Grail or Life of Brian. A&E has been excelling in the DVD field with stunning, though feature-light, releases of classic Avengers series and the newly arrived Prisoner Boxed Sets with are sure to warm the cockles of any cult telly fan's heart. Also from A&E are such fine dramas as Longitude starring Michael Gambon and Richard E Grant's Scarlet Pimpernel series.
Fan's of the classics will thank you all year long if they find The Pallisers, I Claudius, the Six Wives of Henry the VII
Comedy connoisseurs will petition cherubim and seraphim to rain sweetmeats and blessings upon you when they find you've given them The League of Gentlemen Series One (my choice as DVD of the year!), Dad's Army, or the afore mentioned Monty Python Discs while mystery aficionados will be gleeful when you hand them choice selections of Agatha Christie's Poirot, Ellis Peters Brother Cadfael, and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. And if you know anyone who hasn't yet bought the BBC's Walking With Dinosaurs set then fix
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